| 100% | NETSCAPE | 8 | Loser to Explorer in the first browser war |
| 49% | NETSCAPE | 8 | Competitor in the "first browser war" of the 1990s |
| 46% | ANEWHOPE | 8 | Subtitle added to the first Star Wars film in 1981 |
| 44% | CBS | 3 | Loser to RCA in the color TV race |
| 44% | RIGGS | 5 | Loser to King in the Battle of the Sexes |
| 43% | NERO | 4 | Leader in the First Jewish-Roman War |
| 43% | ALA | 3 | Loser to Clemson in the 2019 football championship game (Abbr.) |
| 43% | HARE | 4 | Loser to the tortoise, in fable |
| 42% | VICTORYGARDEN | 13 | Vegetable patch grown to aid in the war effort during the First and Second World Wars |
| 42% | PITTSBURGHPIRATES | 17 | Loser in the first World Series, 1903 |
| 42% | HARE | 4 | Loser to the tortoise, in a fable |
| 42% | HARE | 4 | Loser to the tortoise in a fairytale |
| 42% | HARE | 4 | Loser to the tortoise in a fable |
| 42% | HARE | 4 | Loser to the tortoise in a fabled race |
| 42% | PADRES | 6 | Losers to the Yankees in the 1998 Series |
| 42% | HEAD | 4 | The first blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 42% | BENGALS | 7 | Losers to the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII |
| 41% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 41% | PSY | 3 | Singer in the first YouTube video to surpass 1 billion views |
| 41% | UTES | 4 | Losers to the Buckeyes in the 2022 Rose Bowl |
| 41% | RAYS | 4 | Losers to the Dodgers in the 2020 World Series |
| 41% | MOTOROLA | 8 | The first company to sell a cellphone, in 1973 |
| 41% | SCUD | 4 | Missile used in the first Gulf War |
| 41% | GHANA | 5 | Loser to the U.S. in the 2014 World Cup |
| 41% | HANSOLO | 7 | In the original cut of Star Wars, he shot first |
| 40% | LEONOV | 6 | Russian cosmonaut, the first to walk in space |
| 40% | ELDEST | 6 | First in line to the throne |
| 40% | HEIR | 4 | First in line to the throne |
| 40% | NSYNC | 5 | Loser to U2 for Grammy Record of the Year in 2001 |
| 40% | ALEXEI | 6 | Cosmonaut Leonov, the first human to walk in space |