| 100% | ROGETS | 6 | Its origin story is told in The Man Who Made Lists |
| 38% | ELI | 3 | Manning who was the MVP in two Super Bowls |
| 37% | OTT | 3 | Fred ___, Thomas Edison employee who was filmed sneezing in a 5 second short in 1894 making it the oldest copyrighted movie |
| 37% | KNIGHT | 6 | Man who is given the title of Sir in England |
| 37% | TUX | 3 | The best man may be in it |
| 36% | JOKER | 5 | Origin story in which “Send in the Clowns” is sung ironically (October, 2019) |
| 36% | ELABORATEDETAIL | 15 | A story might be told in it |
| 36% | GAGARIN | 7 | Yuri —, Soviet cosmonaut who made the first manned space flight in 1961 |
| 35% | NARRATOR | 8 | Person who tells the story in a book |
| 35% | KROC | 4 | Ray or Joan of “Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away” |
| 35% | TIN | 3 | What the metal man in Oz was made of |
| 35% | ALEKSEI | 7 | Leonov who was the first man to walk in space |
| 34% | FARKUS | 6 | Scut ___, villain in the 1983 film "A Christmas Story" who is played by Zack Ward |
| 34% | RON | 3 | Business honcho Perelman, who was once the richest man in America |
| 34% | RAY | 3 | Kroc who made McDonald's what it is today and once owned the Padres baseball team |
| 34% | EVERS | 5 | Mississippian who was the NAACP's Man of the Year in '69 |
| 34% | CIA | 3 | Spy org. in "The Man Who Cried I Am" |
| 34% | INSTIGATE | 9 | Start something, be the one who makes it happen |
| 33% | MARY | 4 | ___ Morstan, Watson's wife in the Sherlock Holmes stories who was played by Amanda Abbington on screen |
| 33% | TED | 3 | The character who tells the story of his life in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 33% | EPHRON | 6 | Screenwriter who knew the identity of Deep Throat before it was made public |
| 33% | ORLANDOBLOOM | 12 | "Troy" actor who plays Captain Will Turner in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales": 2 wds. |
| 33% | COSELL | 6 | Sportscaster in the documentary "Telling It Like It Is" |
| 33% | ITSAMADMADMADMADWORLD | 21 | 1963 movie with the tagline "Everybody who's ever been funny is in it!" |
| 33% | AIR | 3 | "Up in the ___" (George Clooney film with the tagline "The story of a man ready to make a connection") |
| 33% | DARRENMCGAVIN | 13 | "The Man with the Golden Arm" star who played the unnamed father in "A Christmas Story" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | VOYAGERONE | 10 | NASA probe launched in 1977 which is now the farthest man made object from Earth |
| 32% | PSALMONE | 8 | It begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 32% | LEAR | 4 | King with the immortal line "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" |
| 32% | NEIL | 4 | First name in NASA's prestigious list of astronauts who have been to the moon |