| 100% | USPASSPORT | 10 | Item that became trilingual in the late '90s |
| 58% | PAM | 3 | Product that becomes an item to which it's applied after shifting the last letter one spot down in the alphabet |
| 57% | MINISKIRT | 9 | Short clothing item that became popular in the 60s |
| 46% | SMOKED | 6 | ___ cocktail, drinks infused using wood chips that became popular in the late 2000s |
| 46% | ENIWETOK | 8 | Atoll in the Pacific Ocean taken by the US from Japan in 1944 that later became a testing ground for atomic weapons |
| 46% | BAG | 3 | Item that holds the tiles in Scrabble |
| 45% | STAR | 4 | Item that grants invincibility in the Super Mario Bros. games |
| 45% | ROE | 3 | Eggs that become fish in the future, say |
| 45% | FLACO | 5 | Owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and became an online celebrity, before his death last month |
| 45% | ENIWETOK | 8 | Pacific Ocean atoll taken by the US from Japan in 1944 that later became a testing ground for atomic weapons |
| 45% | CAR | 3 | ___ phones, cellular phones that became affordable in the '90s |
| 45% | EXPOS | 5 | Team that became the Nationals in 2005 |
| 44% | ETAS | 4 | Items that the Amtrak website will tell you, in brief |
| 44% | DODOS | 5 | Flightless birds that became extinct in the 1600s |
| 44% | JEEP | 4 | SUV launched in the 1940s that became popular |
| 44% | DISCO | 5 | Music that was popular in the late 1970s |
| 44% | CINCHER | 7 | Waist __, clothing item that pulls the midriff in |
| 44% | MINTOREO | 8 | Snack item that's green in the middle |
| 43% | OAR | 3 | Item that works best when it's half in the water |
| 43% | SIMPSONS | 8 | Queen Street store that became The Bay in 1991 |
| 43% | EXPOS | 5 | MLB team that became the 25-Down in 2005 |
| 43% | CDS | 3 | Items that were sold at records stores starting in the 1980s: Abbr. |
| 43% | AVEO | 4 | Chevy subcompact that became the Sonic in the U.S. |
| 43% | WHALERS | 7 | N.H.L. team that became the Hurricanes in 1997 |
| 43% | AEROS | 5 | Houston hockey squad that became the Iowa Wild in 2013 |
| 43% | EEL | 3 | Fish that became the first coconut tree, in Samoan myth |
| 43% | INDIA | 5 | Country that became the world’s most populous in 2023 |
| 43% | SOCK | 4 | Clothing item that might lose its mate in the laundry |
| 42% | WREN | 4 | Bird that became the "king of the birds," in European mythology |
| 42% | OSS | 3 | Joint Chiefs of Staff agcy. that became the CIA in 1945 |