| 100% | MIST | 4 | Locale of Fossey's gorillas? |
| 58% | NARNIA | 6 | Locale of seven C. S. Lewis novels |
| 51% | PHAROS | 6 | Locale of Ptolemy's lighthouse |
| 51% | OMSK | 4 | Locale of Dostoyevsky's exile |
| 51% | SOMALIA | 7 | Locale of 1990's fighting |
| 51% | STYX | 4 | Locale of Charon's ferry |
| 50% | UTAH | 4 | Locale of 1869's Golden Spike |
| 50% | SHOE | 4 | Locale of Maxwell Smart's phone |
| 50% | EAST | 4 | Locale of Shakespeare's "fiery portal" |
| 50% | IDAHO | 5 | Locale of America's deepest gorge |
| 50% | WESTEND | 7 | Locale of London's Leicester Square |
| 50% | LAKEHURON | 9 | Locale of Michigan's Mackinac Island |
| 50% | MAUI | 4 | Locale of Hawaii’s Hana Highway |
| 50% | AMES | 4 | Locale of Iowa’s Reiman Gardens |
| 50% | MIAMI | 5 | Locale of Telemundo's Florida headquarters |
| 50% | AGRA | 4 | Locale of India's "Crown of Palaces" |
| 50% | ASSISI | 6 | Locale of Umbria’s Temple of Minerva |
| 49% | AUST | 4 | Locale of Vict. and N.S.W. |
| 49% | GUAM | 4 | Locale of some U.S. naval forces |
| 49% | STALBANS | 8 | Locale of Britain's first Christian martyr |
| 49% | WASHINGTONSTATE | 15 | Locale of five major U.S. volcanoes |
| 48% | ALPS | 4 | Locale of the world's longest road tunnel |
| 48% | RIO | 3 | Locale of Phelps's last five gold medals |
| 48% | HARLEM | 6 | Locale of New York's Frederick Douglass Blvd. |
| 48% | ZAIRE | 5 | Locale of 1974's Rumble in the Jungle |
| 48% | EAR | 3 | Locale of the human body's smallest bone |
| 48% | ARLES | 5 | Locale of van Gogh's "The Bedroom" paintings |
| 48% | IRAN | 4 | Locale of 10% of the world's oil reserves |
| 46% | TAHOE | 5 | Locale of the "angle point" on Nevada's western border |
| 46% | PEBBLEBEACH | 11 | California locale of several golf U.S. Opens |