| 100% | GHANA | 5 | Loser to the U.S. in the 2014 World Cup |
| 70% | IRAN | 4 | Team that lost to the U.S. in the 2022 FIFA World Cup |
| 59% | MESSI | 5 | Golden Ball winner in the 2014 World Cup |
| 59% | LIONEL | 6 | With 33-Across, winner of the Golden Ball in the 2014 World Cup |
| 55% | FIFA | 4 | Sports body that organized the 2014 World Cup in Brazil: Abbr. |
| 55% | PELE | 4 | Youngest player to score in the FIFA World Cup (age 17) |
| 54% | RAYS | 4 | Losers to the Dodgers in the 2020 World Series |
| 54% | WALES | 5 | Small nation in the U.S.A.'s 2022 World Cup group |
| 54% | MLS | 3 | Org. created to secure the US's bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup |
| 53% | GHANA | 5 | Country that eliminated the U.S.A. in both the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups |
| 53% | ALEXMORGAN | 10 | US soccer star who scored a goal against Colombia in the 2015 World Cup: 2 wds. |
| 53% | MEGANRAPINOE | 12 | US soccer star who scored two goals against Australia in the 2015 World Cup: 2 wds. |
| 52% | CARLILLOYD | 10 | US soccer star who scored three goals against Japan in the 2015 World Cup final: 2 wds. |
| 52% | BELGIUM | 7 | Country that knocked the US Men's National Team out of the 2014 World Cup |
| 52% | FRANCE | 6 | Country home to Zinedine Zidane, that won the FIFA World Cup in 1998 |
| 52% | ENEMY | 5 | Spain, to the U.S. in 1898 |
| 51% | KAHN | 4 | Soccer player Oliver ___, the only goalie in history to win FIFA's World Cup Golden Ball (2002) |
| 51% | ROMARIO | 7 | Brazil's top scorer in the 1994 World Cup |
| 51% | STCROIX | 7 | Denmark sold it to the U.S. in 1917 |
| 51% | ELCHAPO | 7 | Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017 |
| 50% | HARRYKANE | 9 | England's top goal scorer in the 2018 World Cup |
| 50% | GUAM | 4 | Territory ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1898 |
| 50% | AKITA | 5 | Dog breed Helen Keller introduced to the U.S. in 1937 |
| 50% | ASIANLONGHORNEDBEETLE | 21 | Tree-damaging pest accidentally introduced to the U.S. in 1996 |
| 50% | GUAM | 4 | Pacific island ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1899 |
| 49% | MESSI | 5 | Lionel ___, Argentine soccer player who won the Golden Ball award in the 2014 FIFA World Cup |
| 49% | EUR | 3 | U.S. opponent in the Ryder Cup |
| 49% | SIENA | 5 | Tuscan city that's home to the oldest bank in the world |
| 49% | MEGAN | 5 | ___ Rapinoe, American soccer player who led her team to victory in the FIFA Women's World Cup on 7th July 2019 |
| 49% | TAMYRA | 6 | World champion freestyle wrester ___ Mensah who qualified to represent the US in the next Olympics |