| 100% | ACHEBE | 6 | Chinua who wrote "Things Fall Apart" |
| 78% | CHINUA | 6 | Achebe who wrote "Things Fall Apart" |
| 72% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” |
| 58% | ACHEBE | 6 | "Things Fall Apart" novelist Chinua ___ |
| 58% | ACHEBE | 6 | "Things Fall Apart" novelist Chinua __ |
| 58% | ACHEBE | 6 | "Things Fall Apart" author Chinua ___ |
| 57% | ACHEBE | 6 | Chinua, Nigerian novelist of Things Fall Apart |
| 54% | ACHEBE | 6 | Chinua, author of 1958 book Things Fall Apart |
| 51% | ACHEBE | 6 | Chinua —, author of 1958 novel Things Fall Apart |
| 49% | YAMS | 4 | Crop in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" |
| 47% | ANNE | 4 | Poet Spencer who wrote “White Things” |
| 47% | AMIS | 4 | Kingsley who wrote "Jake's Thing" |
| 46% | CAMUS | 5 | Albert who wrote "The Fall" |
| 46% | AFRICA | 6 | Continental setting for Half of a Yellow Sun and Things Fall Apart |
| 46% | YEATS | 5 | Poet whose work inspired the title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart |
| 46% | SENDAK | 6 | Maurice who wrote "Where the Wild Things Are" |
| 45% | TIM | 3 | O'Brien who wrote "The Things They Carried," 1990 |
| 45% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 45% | MAURICE | 7 | Author Sendak, who wrote Where The Wild Things Are |
| 44% | ACHEBE | 6 | "Things Fall Apart" novelist |
| 44% | SNOOKI | 6 | TV star who wrote the novel "A Shore Thing," informally |
| 44% | IBO | 3 | Nigerian people in "Things Fall Apart" |
| 43% | YAM | 3 | Crop item grown in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" |
| 43% | CROZIER | 7 | Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" |
| 43% | PROTAGORAS | 10 | Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" |
| 43% | APART | 5 | Things Fall ___ (Chinua Achebe novel) |
| 43% | CHINUA | 6 | ___ Achebe, "Things Fall Apart" author |
| 42% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 42% | ERTE | 4 | Designer who wrote "Things I Remember" |
| 41% | NOVAK | 5 | "The Office" actor B.J. who wrote the story collection "One More Thing" |