| 100% | JAGR | 4 | Five-time N.H.L. scoring leader of the 1990s-'00s |
| 53% | JAGR | 4 | Jaromir ___, five-time N.H.L. scoring leader |
| 48% | ARTROSS | 7 | Eponym of the N.H.L.'s points leader award |
| 45% | KOBE | 4 | First name of the Lakers' all-time scoring leader |
| 43% | DOLE | 4 | Senate majority leader of the 1980s and 1990s |
| 42% | ESPO | 4 | Phil voted one of the hundred greatest N.H.L. players of all time, to fans |
| 40% | KARADZIC | 8 | Radovan __, leader of Bosnian Serbs in the 1990s |
| 40% | MESSIER | 7 | Mark of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | HOGUE | 5 | Benoit _____ of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | ORR | 3 | Bobby of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | TONI | 4 | Lydman of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | STU | 3 | Grimson of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | HOWE | 4 | Gordie of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | ILYA | 4 | Kovalchuk of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | LUC | 3 | Robitaille of the N.H.L. |
| 40% | BOBBYORR | 8 | N.H.L. defenseman who twice led the league in scoring |
| 39% | COACHK | 6 | Leader of five N.C.A.A. basketball championships for Duke, informally |
| 39% | OILERS | 6 | N.H.L. team with five championship-winning seasons in the 1980s |
| 39% | STASTNY | 7 | 1981 N.H.L. Rookie of the Year |
| 39% | TAMPA | 5 | Home of the N.H.L.'s Lightning |
| 39% | ORR | 3 | 1967 N.H.L. Rookie of the Year |
| 39% | SANJOSE | 7 | Home of the N.H.L.'s Sharks |
| 39% | ATLANTA | 7 | Home of the N.H.L.'s Thrashers |
| 39% | GORDIEHOWE | 10 | Six-time winner of the N.H.L.'s Art Ross Trophy, born in Saskatchewan |
| 38% | ELOI | 4 | One of the races in H.G Wells' "The Time Machine" |
| 38% | ELOI | 4 | One of the races from H.G Wells' "The Time Machine" |
| 38% | HARVEY | 6 | The Times of __ Milk, doc of gay rights leader |
| 38% | STPAUL | 6 | Home of the N.H.L.’s Minnesota Wild |
| 38% | MENCKEN | 7 | H L —, Baltimore-born writer; co-founder of magazine The American Mercury in 1924 |
| 38% | ELOI | 4 | One of the two races in H.G Wells' "The Time Machine" |