| 100% | PISA | 4 | Hometown of the mathematician Fibonacci |
| 56% | BEDROCK | 7 | Hometown of The Flintstones |
| 56% | PISAN | 5 | The mathematician Fibonacci, for one |
| 56% | TULSA | 5 | Hometown of the band Hanson |
| 55% | AMES | 4 | Hometown of the Iowa State Daily |
| 53% | NYC | 3 | Hometown of the Knicks, Mets, and Islanders: Abbr. |
| 53% | IRAN | 4 | Homeland of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani |
| 48% | OJAI | 4 | California hometown of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman |
| 47% | OMAHA | 5 | The Wizard of Oz's hometown |
| 47% | ORONO | 5 | The University of Maine’s hometown |
| 47% | EVENS | 5 | One-third of the numbers in the Fibonacci sequence |
| 46% | PASCAL | 6 | Mathematician related to the theory of probability |
| 45% | KARL | 4 | Mathematician Weierstrass dubbed the "father of modern analysis" |
| 45% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician who wrote the first theorem of graph theory |
| 44% | EUCLID | 6 | Greek mathematician called the founder of geometry |
| 44% | NASH | 4 | Mathematician John who was the subject of "A Beautiful Mind" |
| 44% | JOHNNAPIER | 10 | Scottish mathematician known as the inventor of logarithms |
| 43% | EUCLID | 6 | Greek mathematician of Alexandria who authored the work Elements |
| 43% | FERMAT | 6 | French mathematician who pioneered in the theory of probability |
| 43% | NAPIER | 6 | John —, Scottish mathematician known as the inventor of logarithms |
| 42% | ODD | 3 | Like two out of three numbers in the Fibonacci sequence |
| 41% | RENEDESCARTES | 13 | French mathematician known as the father of analytic geometry: 2 wds. |
| 41% | TURING | 6 | Mathematician who was the subject of "The Imitation Game" |
| 40% | QED | 3 | Letters a mathematician might sign off the end of her proof with |
| 40% | PIERREDE | 8 | 17th-century French mathematician regarded as the founder of modern number theory |
| 39% | LEONARDO | 8 | Mathematician Fibonacci |
| 39% | EULER | 5 | Leonhard —, 18th-century mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation |
| 39% | ALAN | 4 | Mathematician Turing who was the subject of "The Imitation Game" |
| 39% | MANDELBROT | 10 | Mathematician Benoit ___, coiner of the word "fractal" |