| 100% | CARTIER | 7 | Jacques —, French explorer who discovered St Lawrence River, Canada |
| 90% | CARTIER | 7 | Jacques —, French explorer who discovered the St Lawrence River, Canada |
| 35% | DESOTO | 6 | Hernando —, Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River |
| 35% | CARTIER | 7 | St Lawrence River discoverer |
| 35% | STURT | 5 | Charles —, explorer who discovered the Darling River in Australia in 1829 |
| 34% | CADILLAC | 8 | French explorer who founded Detroit |
| 34% | COUSTEAU | 8 | French Explorer Jacques, who is known to be the inventor of the Aqua-lung and pioneer of marine conservation |
| 33% | DESOTO | 6 | Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi |
| 33% | ERIK | 4 | Redhaired Viking explorer who discovered Greenland |
| 32% | VOYAGEURS | 9 | Early French explorers who traveled by canoe |
| 32% | COUSTEAU | 8 | Jacques —, French naval officer and underwater explorer who died in 1997 |
| 32% | COURTOIS | 8 | French chemist who discovered iodine: Barnard __ |
| 32% | MESSIER | 7 | French astronomer who discovered 110 objects |
| 30% | COUSTEAU | 8 | Jacques __, French sailor and undersea explorer |
| 30% | SPEKE | 5 | John Hanning —, Devon-born explorer who discovered Lake Victoria in 1858 |
| 29% | COUSTEAU | 8 | French undersea explorer and inventor, Jacques __ |
| 29% | CABOT | 5 | Explorer who laid the groundwork for the British claim to Canada |
| 29% | THOUSAND | 8 | The St. Lawrence River's misnamed ___ Islands |
| 29% | DERRIDA | 7 | French deconstructionist Jacques who wrote “Of Grammatology” |
| 29% | OTTAUUA | 7 | River to the St. Lawrence |
| 29% | OTTAWA | 6 | River to the St. Lawrence |
| 28% | HENRYHUDSON | 11 | English explorer who discovered a large Canadian bay in the early 1600s: 2 wds. |
| 28% | CABOT | 5 | Explorer for England who mistook Canada for Asia |
| 28% | TASMAN | 6 | Explorer Abel who discovered New Zealand |
| 27% | MOISIE | 6 | River in Quebec, Canada, that flows into the St Lawrence River near Sept-Iles |
| 27% | LACAN | 5 | Jacques ___, French psychoanalyst who studied hysteria |
| 27% | BURTON | 6 | Richard —, English explorer who, with John Speke, discovered Lake Tanganyika in 1858 |
| 27% | THOUSANDISLANDS | 15 | Chain in the upper St. Lawrence River |
| 27% | OTTAWA | 6 | Chief tributary of the St. Lawrence River |
| 27% | JOHNCABOT | 9 | Explorer who sailed from England, claiming eastern Canada for Henry VII in 1497: 2 wds. |