| 100% | HILO | 4 | City with a seemingly contradictory two-syllable name |
| 53% | NOYES | 5 | Poet with a seemingly self-contradictory name |
| 50% | GLUESTICK | 9 | Craft shop item with a seemingly redundant name |
| 49% | ELI | 3 | Biblical patriarch with a two-syllable name |
| 48% | GARDENA | 7 | California city with a horticultural name |
| 48% | WALLAWALLA | 10 | Washington city with a repetitive name |
| 48% | MOAB | 4 | Utah city with a Biblical name |
| 48% | MONTEREY | 8 | California city with a cheesy name |
| 48% | OSHKOSH | 7 | Wisconsin city with a rhyming name |
| 48% | NAIROBI | 7 | Capital city with a Maasai name |
| 48% | SELMA | 5 | Southern city with a woman's name |
| 47% | UTICA | 5 | New York city with a name from antiquity |
| 47% | TARANTO | 7 | Italian city with a dance named after it |
| 47% | LIMA | 4 | Capital city with a bean named after it |
| 47% | MOAB | 4 | Utah city with a Biblical name (anagram of "ambo") |
| 47% | DELHI | 5 | Indian city with a similar name to the capital |
| 46% | MAI | 3 | Chiang ___ (Thai city with a name that means "New City") |
| 46% | MOAB | 4 | Utah city with a Biblical name near Arches National Park |
| 46% | ERIE | 4 | City on a lake with the same name |
| 46% | CAIRO | 5 | City with a metro population of over 20 million whose name means "Victorious" |
| 45% | DROZ | 4 | TV physician with a two-letter name |
| 45% | DRNO | 4 | Movie physician with a two-letter name |
| 45% | ANAPOLIS | 8 | Brazilian city with a similar name to a U.S. state capital |
| 44% | WACO | 4 | City with a radio station that has the same call letters as the city's name |
| 44% | LESHAN | 6 | Chinese city with a Buddha statue that’s more than two hundred feet tall |
| 43% | MAINE | 5 | Only state with a name that has only one syllable |
| 43% | TACOMA | 6 | Washington city with the same name as a Toyota truck |
| 43% | ERIE | 4 | Pennsylvania city with the same name as a Great Lake |
| 43% | BOBDENVER | 9 | "Gilligan's Island" actor with a city in his name |
| 43% | GOA | 3 | Indian state with a city named after Vasco da Gama |