| 100% | DELOREAN | 8 | DMC ___, iconic car with gull-wing doors that appeared as the time machine in the 1985 sci-fi film "Back to the Future" |
| 44% | DELOREAN | 8 | DMC ___, car model that was modified into a time machine in "Back to the Future" |
| 41% | SNACK | 5 | "___ to the Future," swap "Back" with a rhyming word to get a sci-fi film where Marty goes back in time to look for munchies |
| 40% | DELOREAN | 8 | Car that becomes a time machine in "Back to the Future" |
| 36% | DELOREAN | 8 | Wing-doored car make in Back to the Future |
| 32% | THEPOWEROFLOVE | 14 | No. 1 hit by Huey Lewis and the News that was featured in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" (4 wds.) |
| 32% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," 1985 sci-fi film starring Michael J. Fox with an oxymoronic title |
| 31% | DELOREAN | 8 | Back to the Future time machine |
| 31% | DELOREAN | 8 | Time-travel car from Back to the Future |
| 30% | FOX | 3 | Michael J —, actor who starred as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy |
| 30% | DARYL | 5 | 1985 sci-fi film featuring Barret Oliver in the title role as a cyborg |
| 30% | DOCBROWN | 8 | Inventor of the Back to the Future time machine |
| 29% | BROWN | 5 | Dr. Emmett "Doc" ___, eccentric scientist experimenting with time travel in "Back to the Future" |
| 28% | LEATHOMPSON | 11 | "Some Kind of Wonderful" actress who played Lorraine McFly in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | SPEEDOMETER | 11 | Gauge that must hit eighty-eight for the DeLorean to time-travel, in “Back to the Future” |
| 27% | DEEP | 4 | "___ Impact," 1998 sci-fi film starring Robert Duvall that was made in collaboration with astronomers such as Gene Shoemaker |
| 27% | DELOREAN | 8 | 1980s car featured in "Back to the Future" |
| 27% | BACK | 4 | "___ to the Future," sci-fi film franchise |
| 27% | BACK | 4 | "___ to the Future" (1985 time-travel film) |
| 27% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," 1985 sci-fi film starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd |
| 27% | UFO | 3 | Sci-fi film with Alex Sharp and Gillian Anderson about events at the Cincinnati Intl. Airport, released straight to video in 2018 |
| 27% | ROPE | 4 | 1948 Hitchcock film that appears to take place in real time |
| 27% | DAVID | 5 | & 2D Singer-actor who starred as Thomas Jerome Newton in 1976 sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth |
| 27% | GIGAWATTS | 9 | It takes 1.21 to time travel in Back to the Future |
| 27% | HUEY | 4 | Singer Lewis with a cameo in "Back to the Future" |
| 26% | ITINA | 5 | Memoir that was adapted as the film "What's Love Got to Do With It" |
| 26% | MARTY | 5 | ___ McFly, time-traveling teenager who is the protagonist in "Back to the Future" |
| 26% | MCFLY | 5 | Family name in Back to the Future |
| 26% | RED | 3 | ___ Hills Ranch, filming location for the sci-fi Western film "Back to the Future Part III" |