| 100% | HILO | 4 | City whose state's postal code is half its name |
| 53% | HILO | 4 | City whose first two letters are its state's postal abbreviation |
| 51% | ALBANY | 6 | Capital whose name ends in its state's postal code |
| 45% | WACO | 4 | U.S. city whose name is composed of two state abbreviations |
| 45% | NOLA | 4 | City nickname that includes its state's postal code |
| 44% | LIMAOHIO | 8 | U.S. city whose name is pronounced differently from its foreign namesake |
| 43% | OCALA | 5 | Florida city whose name ends with two state postal abbreviations |
| 41% | ORCA | 4 | Animal whose name consists of the postal codes of two states it passes in its migration |
| 40% | ARKANSAS | 8 | State whose name is its own abbreviation plus the name of another state |
| 40% | EXETER | 6 | City in Devon whose name contains the river on which it is situated |
| 40% | ILLINI | 6 | College team whose name is its home state minus two letters |
| 40% | PORT | 4 | Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin |
| 40% | ONE | 3 | Number of states whose last two letters are its own postal abbreviation |
| 40% | ORE | 3 | W. state whose largest city is named for a New England city |
| 38% | HILO | 4 | Hawaiian city whose name starts with Hawaii’s postal abbreviation |
| 38% | PENN | 4 | William —, Quaker writer who founded a NE American state, after whose father it is named |
| 38% | TANZANIA | 8 | East African nation whose name is a meld of its two former states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| 38% | STEELY | 6 | ___ Dan, "Do It Again" band whose name is inspired by William S. Burroughs' novel "Naked Lunch" |
| 37% | IND | 3 | St. whose name is part of its capital's name |
| 37% | OCALA | 5 | City whose name is derived from a Timucua Indian name |
| 37% | FLORENCE | 8 | City whose Italian name is Firenze |
| 37% | REO | 3 | Auto co. whose name was its founder's initials |
| 37% | CISCO | 5 | Fortune 100 company whose name is the last two syllables of the city near where it was founded |
| 37% | PLANO | 5 | City whose name is Spanish for "flat" |
| 36% | FRESNO | 6 | City whose name is Spanish for "ash tree" |
| 36% | LASVEGAS | 8 | City whose name is Spanish for "the meadows" |
| 36% | LIONEL | 6 | Classic toy company whose name is its founder's middle name |
| 36% | UCSB | 4 | Golden State school whose city is also its county |
| 36% | BASRA | 5 | City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS |
| 36% | BASRA | 5 | City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS |