| 100% | COMANECI | 8 | Nadia __, first gymnast to be awarded a perfect 10 |
| 83% | NADIA | 5 | ___ Comaneci, the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 at the Olympics |
| 68% | NADIA | 5 | Comaneci who was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect ten at the Olympics |
| 66% | COMANECI | 8 | Nadia, the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 |
| 58% | COMANECI | 8 | Nadia who was the 1st gymnast to get a perfect 10 |
| 48% | NADIA | 5 | She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist and the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Games |
| 46% | COMANECI | 8 | First Olympic gymnast to receive a 10 |
| 45% | OCTAVIABUTLER | 13 | First science-fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur grant |
| 42% | YOUMIGHTTHINK | 13 | The Cars Top 10 hit whose video features 44-Across as a housefly (and was the first to win the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year) (3 wds.) |
| 40% | GYMNAST | 7 | Nadia Comaneci was a perfect-10 one of these |
| 40% | COMANECI | 8 | Romanian Olympic gymnast, first to get perfect 10 |
| 39% | URANUS | 6 | First planet to be identified with a telescope |
| 39% | PERFECT | 7 | 10, to a gymnast |
| 39% | EROS | 4 | First asteroid to be orbited by a spacecraft (2000) |
| 39% | TEN | 3 | Perfect score, to a gymnast |
| 39% | TEN | 3 | Perfect score to a gymnast |
| 38% | BONO | 4 | First musician to be a ''Time'' Person of the Year |
| 37% | YARDS | 5 | 10 are needed for a first down |
| 37% | RATS | 4 | Rodents said to be the first off a sinking ship |
| 37% | AARON | 5 | Last name likely to be first in a roll call |
| 37% | SERIAL | 6 | First podcast to win a Peabody Award (2015) |
| 36% | MEDIC | 5 | First TV series to show a baby being born, 1955 |
| 35% | CRONKITE | 8 | First person outside NASA to receive a moon-rock award, 2006 |
| 35% | GRANDMASTER | 11 | Highest title that can be awarded to a player by world chess organisation FIDE |
| 35% | DEAN | 4 | First person to receive a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor nomination |
| 35% | SANDRA | 6 | ___ Oh, first Asian woman to host a major awards show |
| 35% | RETTON | 6 | Gymnast Mary Lou who was the first woman to appear on the front of a Wheaties box |
| 34% | SUNILEE | 7 | Gymnast who was the first Hmong American athlete to compete in the Olympics |
| 34% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | First author to win a Hugo Award for every book in a trilogy |
| 34% | NONET | 5 | A chamber work by Louis Spohr was the first to bear this title |