| 100% | FOUCAULT | 8 | French scientist who gave the gyroscope its name |
| 42% | LASALLE | 7 | Explorer who gave Louisiana its name |
| 40% | CROCODILE | 9 | Animal who gives its name to insincere tears |
| 40% | VETERAN | 7 | NY state town named after Green Bently, its first settler, who fought in the American Revolution and the French and Indian War |
| 39% | TED | 3 | Cinematic bear who gives himself the last name Clubber Lang |
| 39% | BIEBER | 6 | Singer who gave his name to a "fever" in the 2010s |
| 38% | LUGE | 4 | Olympic event that gets its name from the French word for “sled” |
| 38% | POTAUFEU | 8 | French dish named for the method used to cook it |
| 37% | TOMATOES | 8 | Love apples: an early name the French gave to __ |
| 36% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the topographic — level is named |
| 36% | AXIS | 4 | Name given to the countries who allied with Germany in the Second World War |
| 36% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |
| 36% | CROMAGNON | 9 | Prehistoric hominid named for the French cave where it was first discovered |
| 35% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Scientist and physicist Ernest ___ after whom the element Rf with atomic number 104 is named |
| 35% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic — level is named |
| 35% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie -, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic - level is named |
| 35% | SERENASLAM | 10 | Tennis feat named for the athlete who achieved it in 2003 and 2015 |
| 35% | CURIE | 5 | Marie and Pierre ___, Polish and French scientists who are known for their research on radioactivity and have an element named after them |
| 35% | MARIECURIE | 10 | Scientist and chemist after whom the element Cm with atomic number 96 is named: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the surveying instrument a topographic — level is named |
| 35% | PHNOMPENH | 9 | Asian capital named after the woman who supposedly founded it in the fourteenth century |
| 35% | TERMED | 6 | Given the name |
| 34% | JACKIEKENNEDY | 13 | First Lady who gave a 1962 TV tour of the White House after she oversaw its restoration: 2 wds. |
| 34% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | Name given to the team of NASA mathematicians who performed calculations for early space launches (2 wds.) |
| 34% | AMONRA | 6 | Deity that becomes a given name when its fifth letter is moved to the front |
| 34% | MIME | 4 | One who gives the silent treatment? |
| 34% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 34% | OKA | 3 | Unique Canadian cheese named after the location of the Trappist monks who originally made it |
| 34% | DERINGER | 8 | Henry, the gunsmith who gave his name to a pistol |
| 34% | HENSON | 6 | Jim who gave the world the Muppets |