| 100% | AKIHITO | 7 | He succeeded to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1989 |
| 43% | RAP | 3 | Music genre added to the Grammys in 1989 |
| 43% | EMPERORHIROHITO | 15 | He sat on the Chrysanthemum Throne for 62 years |
| 42% | HARE | 4 | He lost to the tortoise in a race |
| 41% | SOLOMON | 7 | Succeeded David in the throne |
| 40% | ARN | 3 | Heir to the throne of Thule, in the comics |
| 40% | ELDEST | 6 | In position to inherit the throne, say |
| 39% | ESAU | 4 | He sold his birthright to Jacob, in the Bible |
| 39% | BILLYZANE | 9 | He played the antagonist to Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic" |
| 39% | NEXT | 4 | "He's ___ in line to the throne" |
| 38% | MICHAELKEATON | 13 | He played Batman in the 1989 movie "Batman": 2 wds. |
| 38% | BRUTUS | 6 | To Shakespeare he was "high in all the people's hearts" |
| 37% | EDWARD | 6 | He abdicated the throne in 1936: __ VIII |
| 37% | LASORDA | 7 | He managed the U.S. to its first Olympic gold in baseball |
| 37% | ELDEST | 6 | First in line to the throne |
| 37% | HEIR | 4 | First in line to the throne |
| 36% | PRINCEWILLIAM | 13 | Second in line to the British throne: 2 wds. |
| 36% | EUGENIE | 7 | Princess in line to the British throne after Beatrice |
| 36% | OFFER | 5 | Former government body set up in 1989 to supervise the activities of the electricity companies (inits) |
| 36% | KNEE | 4 | "Bend the ___" (Daenerys's command to Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones") |
| 35% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun, in myth |
| 35% | ADAMS | 5 | The only U.S. president whose vice president ran against him to succeed him was John .... |
| 34% | HEIR | 4 | ___ to the throne |
| 34% | DWAYNEJOHNSON | 13 | "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" actor whose $124 million earned him the #2 spot in Forbes's ranking: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ANDREW | 6 | Sixth in line of succession to the British throne |
| 34% | PERIL | 5 | "Frodo put his life in ____ the moment he accepted the quest to destroy The One Ring" |
| 33% | ESAU | 4 | He married two Hittites to the chagrin of his parents, in Genesis |
| 33% | NOD | 3 | Land of —, region in the Old Testament to which Cain was banished after he had killed Abel |
| 33% | ELDEST | 6 | Heir to the throne |
| 33% | ADREM | 5 | To the point, in law |