| 100% | HEBERT | 6 | Jacques —, 18th-century journalist; founder of newspaper Le Pere Duchesne during the French Revolution |
| 31% | PIUSVI | 6 | Pope during the French Revolution |
| 31% | ECUS | 4 | Currency dropped during the French Revolution |
| 31% | BEHEAD | 6 | Execute, as during the French Revolution |
| 31% | MARIE | 5 | Queen during the French Revolution, Antoinette |
| 30% | ECUS | 4 | Coins that disappeared during the French Revolution |
| 30% | SALTTAX | 7 | Savory levy repealed during the French Revolution |
| 30% | SANSON | 6 | Paris's executioner during the French Revolution |
| 30% | ASSIGNATS | 9 | Paper bonds issued during the French Revolution |
| 30% | ELMS | 4 | Symbols of hope during the American and French Revolutions |
| 28% | SUSANBANTHONY | 13 | Co-founder of the women's rights newspaper The Revolution |
| 27% | WESLEY | 6 | John, 18th-century founder of the Methodist Church |
| 27% | MINUET | 6 | French dance form of the 17th-18th centuries |
| 27% | BASTILLE | 8 | The __, French jail at middle of the Revolution |
| 26% | CALVIN | 6 | French reformer of the 16th century, John __ |
| 26% | OFFENBACH | 9 | Jacques __, French-German composer of the Can-Can |
| 26% | HUGUENOT | 8 | French Calvinist of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 26% | LINN | 4 | Philatelist George, founder of the largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors |
| 25% | DERRIDA | 7 | Jacques —, French philosopher associated with the theory of deconstructionism |
| 25% | RASHI | 5 | Influential French rabbi of the 11th century |
| 25% | POMPIDOU | 8 | French president during the unrest of 1968 |
| 25% | PERRONET | 8 | Jean-Rodolphe —, 18th-century French architect; designer of the Pont de la Concorde across the River Seine in Paris |
| 25% | COCKEREL | 8 | Avian symbol of the Revolution and French Republic |
| 25% | EQUALITY | 8 | Second tenet of the French Revolution, in English |
| 25% | BASTILLE | 8 | French fortress stormed during the Revolution |
| 25% | ELM | 3 | Symbol of liberty in the French Revolution |
| 24% | MDCCI | 5 | Start of the 18th century |
| 24% | CASANOVA | 8 | Libertine of the 18th century |
| 24% | ALSOP | 5 | Old political journalist with the newspaper column "Matter of Fact" |
| 24% | SIKH | 4 | Member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th century |