| 100% | PABLONERUDA | 11 | Gabriel García Márquez called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century, in any language" |
| 53% | NERUDA | 6 | Whom Márquez called ''the greatest poet of the 20th century'' |
| 44% | LOVE | 4 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "___ in the Time of Cholera" |
| 43% | JIMTHORPE | 9 | The Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century, according to an ABC Wide World of Sports poll in 2001: 2 wds. |
| 41% | LOVE | 4 | "___ in the Time of Cholera," novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 40% | ALI | 3 | Greatest boxer of the 20th century |
| 40% | SMOKINJOE | 9 | He defeated the Greatest in 1971’s Fight of the Century |
| 39% | TIME | 4 | "Love in the ___ of Cholera," 1988 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which depicts the story of Florentino and Fermina |
| 38% | ALI | 3 | Boxer named by Sports Illustrated as the greatest sportsman of the 20th century |
| 38% | TIME | 4 | "Love in the ___ of Cholera," Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1985 novel that was translated to English in 1988 |
| 37% | DAZA | 4 | Fermina ___, Florentino Ariza's one true love in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" |
| 37% | SSR | 3 | Georgia, for most of the 20th century, in brief |
| 37% | ALI | 3 | Boxer Muhammad named Sports Illustrated's greatest athlete of the 20th century |
| 36% | HER | 3 | The H in H.M.S., for much of the 20th century |
| 35% | CHOLERA | 7 | Gabriel García Márquez novel "Love in the Time of ___" |
| 35% | CHOLERA | 7 | Gabriel García Márquez's "Love in the Time of ___" |
| 35% | TALE | 4 | "Living to Tell the ___," 2002 book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was the first volume of his autobiography |
| 34% | PAUL | 4 | Name of six popes, including one in the 20th century |
| 34% | HUNDRED | 7 | "One ___ Years of Solitude," 1967 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that revolves around various generations of the Buendia family |
| 34% | ZAHARIAS | 8 | Babe __, only woman in ESPN's Top 10 North American Athletes of the 20th Century |
| 34% | ALI | 3 | He was bested in the "Fight of the Century" |
| 34% | ZAHARIAS | 8 | Babe Didrikson ___, athlete named the 10th Greatest North American Athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN |
| 33% | MUHAMMADALI | 11 | Sports Illustrated named him "Sportsman of the Century" in 1999 |
| 33% | TSELIOT | 7 | He's commemorated by a stone at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey that reads "the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living" |
| 33% | ALLEMANDE | 9 | Any of various popular German couple dances originating in the 16th century |
| 32% | CHOLERA | 7 | Gabriel Marquez novel: "Love in the Time of __" |
| 32% | PELE | 4 | Soccer great who was named Player of the Century in 2000 |
| 32% | CHOLERA | 7 | "Love in the Time of ___," novel by Gabriel G. Marquez |
| 32% | LUDDITE | 7 | Any of the textile workers in England opposed to mechanisation who organised machine-breaking in the early 19th century |
| 32% | PUG | 3 | Any one of the crown prince of Carpania's many dogs in "The Great Race" |