| 100% | MCCLURE | 7 | First explorer to find a route around the Americas |
| 48% | VASCODAGAMA | 11 | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route from Europe to India in the late 1400s: 3 wds. |
| 40% | ADAM | 4 | First man to find a barrier |
| 40% | AMUNDSEN | 8 | First explorer to reach the South Pole |
| 39% | DIAS | 4 | Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu who found a sailing route around Africa |
| 38% | AMUNDSEN | 8 | Roald __; first explorer to reach the South Pole |
| 38% | RESOLVE | 7 | To find the solution to a problem |
| 37% | DAGAMA | 6 | First European to find an ocean route to Asia |
| 36% | CLOVER | 6 | It's lucky to find a four-leaf one in the garden |
| 36% | ABCS | 4 | The alphabet, to a first-grader |
| 36% | FDR | 3 | First prez to appoint a woman to the cabinet |
| 36% | LAP | 3 | Trip around the track, to a race car driver |
| 36% | USA | 3 | First nation to put a man on the moon |
| 35% | DIAS | 4 | Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu, the first European to sail around the south of Africa |
| 35% | MARS | 4 | Where to find the first parts of the asterisked answers |
| 35% | GARTER | 6 | Band worn around the leg to keep up a stocking |
| 35% | HAYES | 5 | First president to have a telephone in the White House |
| 35% | BONO | 4 | First musician to be a ''Time'' Person of the Year |
| 35% | JOHNYOUNG | 9 | First person to fly solo around the Moon |
| 35% | HIROSHIMA | 9 | First city to fall to the A-bomb |
| 35% | ONEPIN | 6 | The first to go on a strike, usually |
| 35% | MAINSTREET | 10 | Where to find the only stoplight in a small town, typically |
| 35% | LEI | 3 | It's placed around the neck of a visitor to Hawaii |
| 35% | FILLMORE | 8 | First president to have a stove in the White House (1850s) |
| 35% | MAGELLAN | 8 | Explorer of a route across the Pacific in 1521 |
| 35% | WILEYPOST | 9 | First person to fly solo around the world (1933) |
| 35% | MOTOROLA | 8 | The first company to sell a cellphone, in 1973 |
| 35% | MIRABEL | 7 | The first Madrigal grandchild to not get a gift |
| 35% | TROT | 4 | The first to go off at a brisk pace |
| 35% | MENU | 4 | First thing a waiter brings to the table, usually |