| 100% | AGUA | 4 | Guatemala's dominant volcano that caused the relocation of the entire capital in 1541 |
| 36% | KABUL | 5 | Capital of the country that's alphabetically first in the United Nations |
| 35% | HANOI | 5 | World capital that's home to the Temple of Literature, built in 1070 |
| 35% | BASRA | 5 | Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" |
| 34% | SANAA | 5 | Middle Eastern city that's one of the ten highest capitals in the world |
| 34% | DIURETIC | 8 | Drug that causes an increase in the flow of urine |
| 33% | ANXIETY | 7 | Feelings of fear that cause problems in the body |
| 33% | RASHES | 6 | Sores on the skin, often reddish in color, that cause a lot of itching |
| 32% | SHASTA | 6 | Volcano that's the second-highest peak in the Cascades |
| 32% | COPENHAGEN | 10 | Capital that's the site of the Amalienborg royal residence |
| 32% | PARAMARIBO | 10 | Capital that's the site of the Gouvernementsgebouw presidential residence |
| 32% | PARICUTIN | 9 | Volcano that suddenly appeared in the middle of a Mexican cornfield in 1943 |
| 32% | AMMAN | 5 | Capital that's the site of the king's Raghadan Palace |
| 32% | WEIMAR | 6 | German city that was the European Capital of Culture in 1999 |
| 32% | TULIP | 5 | Flower that caused the world's first economic bubble in the 1630s |
| 32% | IFLEEKSCOULDKILL | 16 | Scenario that would cause panic in the hearts of most French chefs? |
| 32% | TIRANA | 6 | Capital that's the site of the Pallati i Brigadave presidential residence |
| 32% | DUBLIN | 6 | Capital that's the site of the Aras an Uachtarain presidential residence |
| 32% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 32% | ENRON | 5 | Company that's the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
| 32% | MAUNALOA | 8 | The name of the world's largest volcano, in Hawaii |
| 32% | HANOI | 5 | Capital that's the home of Lenin Park |
| 32% | SAC | 3 | Type of fly that caused the Red Sox to beat the Giants in the 1912 World Series |
| 31% | STAR | 4 | With 56-Down, series that's the source of the movie line in the circles |
| 31% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 31% | ETNA | 4 | Volcano in Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" |
| 31% | OSLO | 4 | Capital city that gets as little as six hours of sunlight a day in the winter |
| 31% | GIOTTO | 6 | European data-gathering spacecraft that intercepted the path of Halley's Comet in 1986 |
| 31% | AERO | 4 | Prefix that's at the start of the first "A" in "NASA" |
| 31% | SEIN | 4 | River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" |