| 100% | PHILLISWHEATLEY | 15 | First Black published poet in the U.S. |
| 54% | PHILLISWHEATLEY | 15 | First published black woman poet in America |
| 54% | DAVIS | 5 | Benjamin ___, first black general in the U.S. Army |
| 53% | RPI | 3 | First private engineering school in the U.S. |
| 52% | ASHE | 4 | First Black man to win the U.S. Open |
| 50% | BRETON | 6 | Andre —, French poet who published the first Surrealist manifesto in 1924 |
| 50% | OBERLIN | 7 | First coeducational college in the U.S. |
| 50% | WASTELAND | 9 | The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 |
| 49% | CAR | 3 | One of 52 million in the U. S. |
| 48% | LASORDA | 7 | He managed the U.S. to its first Olympic gold in baseball |
| 48% | CARUSO | 6 | Performer in the first U.S. public radio broadcast, 1910 |
| 47% | OBAMA | 5 | First president not born in the continental U.S. |
| 47% | NCO | 3 | First-tier supervisor in the U.S.M.C. |
| 47% | NAGANO | 6 | Where the U.S. won the first gold medal in women's ice hockey |
| 47% | OREE | 4 | First Black player in the NHL |
| 46% | ATM | 3 | Device first deployed in the U.S. by Chemical Bank (1969) |
| 46% | SOVIET | 6 | The first "S" in U.S.S.R. |
| 46% | LAPD | 4 | First law enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) |
| 46% | MILEYCYRUS | 10 | "Party in the U.S.A." singer whose first TV series lead role was on Disney's "Hannah Montana": 2 wds. |
| 45% | LINCOLN | 7 | Abraham ___, 16th President of the U.S.A. and the first to sport a beard in office |
| 45% | AAVE | 4 | Dialect created by Black people in the U.S. |
| 44% | SOVIET | 6 | The first S in USSR |
| 44% | INC | 3 | Ltd., in the U.S. |
| 44% | ATM | 3 | Cashpoint, in the U.S. |
| 44% | AMER | 4 | Made in the U.S. |
| 44% | SEE | 3 | Word in the first line of the U.S. national anthem |
| 44% | ZOO | 3 | Philadelphia had the first one in the U.S. (1874) |
| 44% | IVES | 4 | First major publisher of board games in the U.S. |
| 44% | FUN | 3 | Pre-printed entry in the first published crossword |
| 44% | PBS | 3 | Network that airs "Sherlock" in the U.S. |