| 100% | LEIBNIZ | 7 | Gottfried Wilhelm —, German philosopher and mathematician; a contemporary of Isaac Newton |
| 37% | CALCULUS | 8 | *Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton |
| 36% | HEIDEGGER | 9 | German philosopher of Being and Time |
| 34% | ARISTOTLE | 9 | Greek philosopher and a pupil of Plato |
| 31% | MARXTIME | 8 | Era of a German philosopher? |
| 31% | WALTERBENJAMIN | 14 | German philosopher who wrote, “The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope” |
| 29% | WATTERSON | 9 | Creator of a comic strip duo named after a theologian and a philosopher |
| 29% | SPENGLER | 8 | Oswald —, German philosopher whose two-volume work The Decline of the West was published in 1918 and 1923 |
| 29% | PASCAL | 6 | French philosopher and mathematician Blaise |
| 29% | THALES | 6 | Pre-Socratic philosopher and mathematician |
| 29% | DESCARTES | 9 | French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650 |
| 28% | ESAU | 4 | A son of Isaac |
| 28% | ERNST | 5 | Contemporary of Arp and Miró |
| 28% | PEI | 3 | Contemporary of Gehry and Meier |
| 28% | NGAIO | 5 | Contemporary of Agatha and Erle |
| 28% | SOUTHEY | 7 | Contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge |
| 28% | ELLA | 4 | Contemporary of Dizzy and Billie |
| 28% | LON | 3 | Contemporary of Bela and Boris |
| 28% | ITO | 3 | Contemporary of Baiul and Yamaguchi |
| 28% | CLIFT | 5 | Contemporary of Dean and Brando |
| 28% | AMOS | 4 | Contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah |
| 28% | LON | 3 | Contemporary of Boris and Bela |
| 28% | ERLE | 4 | Contemporary of Agatha and Dashiell |
| 28% | MIRO | 4 | Contemporary of Dali and Arp |
| 28% | KEATS | 5 | Contemporary of Shelley and Byron |
| 28% | AMPERE | 6 | Contemporary of Gauss and Faraday |
| 28% | REOS | 4 | Contemporaries of Studebakers and Stutzes |
| 28% | RIEMANN | 7 | German mathematician for whom a branch of geometry is named |
| 28% | NIELS | 5 | Bohr who was a contemporary of 67-Down |
| 28% | KYD | 3 | Dramatist Thomas who was a contemporary of Shakespeare |