| 100% | PISTON | 6 | Engine component that has inspired Detroit's basketball team |
| 40% | PISTONS | 7 | Detroit's basketball team |
| 39% | PISTONS | 7 | Basketball team that moved from Fort Wayne to Detroit in 1957 |
| 34% | MAVERICKS | 9 | Dallas basketball team that's owned by 48-Across |
| 33% | CHAMBERS | 8 | Combustion __; engine components that burn fuel |
| 33% | CAREER | 6 | Barbie's employment path that has inspired many young girls |
| 32% | UCONN | 5 | Sch. whose women's basketball team has won four straight N.C.A.A. titles |
| 32% | WARRIORS | 8 | Basketball team that moved from Philadelphia to the Golden State's Bay Area in 1962 |
| 32% | HARLEM | 6 | ___ Globetrotters (exhibition basketball team that was actually founded on Chicago's South Side) |
| 31% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school whose men's basketball team has won a record 11 NCAA titles: Abbr. |
| 31% | LIONS | 5 | Detroit NFL team since 1930 that's never won a Super Bowl |
| 30% | ARGO | 4 | Ship that may have inspired Homer's "Odyssey" |
| 29% | LOCK | 4 | Pop and ___, street dance form that has inspired many hip hop dance styles |
| 29% | HAWKS | 5 | Basketball team that moved from St. Louis to Atlanta in 1968 |
| 29% | ROCKETS | 7 | Basketball team that moved from San Diego to Houston in 1971 |
| 29% | OWLS | 4 | Sports teams that have an ongoing rivalry with Houston's Cougars |
| 29% | PLOT | 4 | Story component that may have a twist or two |
| 29% | EAST | 4 | ___ Central Tigers, intercollegiate team based out of Oklahoma that's heavily inspired by tigers |
| 28% | CLIPPERS | 8 | Basketball team that moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984 |
| 28% | BAYLOR | 6 | Team that won the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament |
| 28% | CLIPPERS | 8 | Los Angeles basketball team that hasn't retired any numbers |
| 28% | SNL | 3 | Show that has featured David Spade and David S. Pumpkins |
| 28% | PISTONS | 7 | Detroit ___, NBA team that has won 189 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 28% | WEST | 4 | ___ Alabama Tigers, intercollegiate sports team based out of Livingston that's heavily inspired by tigers |
| 28% | LSU | 3 | ___ Tigers, intercollegiate sports team based out of Louisiana that's heavily inspired by tigers: Abbr. |
| 28% | GLIDERS | 7 | Aircraft that don't have engines |
| 28% | NETS | 4 | Brooklyn's basketball team |
| 28% | ERIE | 4 | Pennsylvania city that has a team in the Ontario Hockey League |
| 28% | TIGERS | 6 | Detroit team that 14-Across played for in 2008 |
| 28% | RIT | 3 | ___ Tigers, intercollegiate sports team based out of New York that's heavily inspired by tigers: Abbr. |