| 100% | DEL | 3 | Its nickname is "the First State": Abbr. |
| 90% | ALA | 3 | Its nickname is the Yellowhammer State: Abbr. |
| 66% | IOWA | 4 | Its nickname is "the Hawkeye State" |
| 65% | TOPEKA | 6 | Capital whose last two letters are the first two letters of its state |
| 63% | ALA | 3 | Its state flower is the camellia: Abbr. |
| 63% | IDA | 3 | Its state vegetable is the potato: Abbr. |
| 61% | DEL | 3 | The First State: Abbr. |
| 60% | OREG | 4 | Its state tree is the Douglas fir: Abbr. |
| 60% | FLA | 3 | Its state flower is the orange blossom: Abbr. |
| 59% | KGB | 3 | Its English translation is the Committee for State Security: Abbr. |
| 59% | SINGAPORE | 9 | One of its nicknames is the Lion City |
| 57% | NBA | 3 | Its 2016-17 champs are the Golden State Warriors: Abbr. |
| 57% | VERMONT | 7 | State whose last four letters are the first four letters of its capital |
| 56% | ALA | 3 | State whose nickname is "the Heart of Dixie": Abbr. |
| 56% | DEL | 3 | The first state to ratify the US Constitution: Abbr. |
| 56% | DEL | 3 | First state admitted to the US: Abbr. |
| 56% | DEL | 3 | First state to ratify the Constitution: Abbr. |
| 56% | DEL | 3 | The first US state: Abbr. |
| 55% | NBC | 3 | Its chimes were the first U.S. registered "sound mark" |
| 55% | BLAZEATRAIL | 11 | Be the first to accomplish something (and do it spectacularly!) |
| 55% | STATEDEPARTMENT | 15 | Thomas Jefferson was the first to lead it |
| 55% | SECRETBALLOT | 12 | Australia was the first country to implement it |
| 55% | MBA | 3 | Harvard was the first to offer it (1908) |
| 55% | UAE | 3 | Its currency is the dirham: Abbr. |
| 55% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent it |
| 55% | STEREO | 6 | "Fantasia" was the first commercial film shown in it |
| 54% | SAGUARO | 7 | Its blossom is the state flower of Arizona |
| 53% | ARMENIAN | 8 | Member of the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion |
| 53% | IMAC | 4 | Apple device that was the first to employ its "i" prefix |
| 53% | RICE | 4 | Condoleezza who was the first female African-American secretary of state |