| 100% | ICEDAM | 6 | Hazard during spring break-up on North Dakota's Red River of the North, maybe |
| 35% | WALLSEND | 8 | Town on the north bank of the River Tyne at the end of Hadrian's Wall |
| 34% | ELM | 3 | Tree on the Great Seal of North Dakota |
| 33% | TILBURY | 7 | Port in Essex on the north bank of the River Thames |
| 33% | NORTHSHIELDS | 12 | Town on the north bank of the River Tyne south of Whitley Bay |
| 33% | HUNTINGDON | 10 | Market town in Cambridgeshire on the north bank of the River Great Ouse |
| 32% | BARNSLEY | 8 | Town in South Yorkshire on the River Dearne, north of Sheffield |
| 32% | LINZ | 4 | Port on the River Danube; capital of Upper Austria |
| 32% | SAINTDENIS | 10 | Commune on the River Seine north of Paris; home of the Stade de France |
| 32% | REDDEER | 7 | City in S Alberta, Canada, on a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River |
| 32% | HANOI | 5 | It's on the Red River |
| 32% | ANZA | 4 | California location of Red Skelton's 600 acre horse ranch, for sale in 2018 for $6 million, but I passed up on the opportunity |
| 32% | KEIGHLEY | 8 | West Yorkshire town north-west of Bradford on the River Worth |
| 32% | ADANA | 5 | City in S Turkey on the Seyhan River east of Tarsus |
| 31% | DUMBARTON | 9 | Town in Scotland on the north bank of the River Clyde; administrative HQ of West Dunbartonshire |
| 31% | SINGSING | 8 | *Prison on the Hudson that's the source of "up the river" |
| 31% | ILKLEY | 6 | Town in West Yorkshire on the River Wharfe north-west of Leeds |
| 31% | MOERS | 5 | City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the River Rhine west of Duisburg |
| 31% | WELSHPOOL | 9 | Market town in Powys, Wales, on the River Severn north of Powis Castle |
| 31% | ABERGAVENNY | 11 | Market town in Monmouthshire, Wales, on the north bank of the River Usk housing an 11th-century castle |
| 30% | LIVE | 4 | Word seen in the upper-right corner of TV screens during breaking news stories |
| 30% | FARGO | 5 | North Dakota city that's the title of a Coen brothers film |
| 30% | OSAGE | 5 | 276-mile-long Missouri river that the Harry S. Truman Reservoir and the Lake of the Ozarks sits on |
| 30% | MOSS | 4 | Soft growth on the north side of trees, it's said |
| 30% | ONO | 3 | Woman who's often been accused of breaking up the Beatles |
| 29% | OVERHEATS | 9 | Breaks down on the road due to lack of coolant |
| 29% | WELK | 4 | Lawrence of the North Dakota Hall of Fame |
| 29% | SIDE | 4 | Get up on the wrong ___ of the bed |
| 29% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital on a river of the same name |
| 29% | ELM | 3 | American ___ (shade tree that's the state tree of North Dakota and Massachusetts) |