| 100% | BYRON | 5 | Originator of the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" |
| 78% | BYRON | 5 | The phrase "Truth is stranger than fiction" originated from Canto XIV of a poem of "immoral content" by this author |
| 70% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who originated the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" |
| 46% | AESOP | 5 | Originator of the phrase "Familiarity breeds contempt" |
| 46% | ERASMUS | 7 | Originator of the phrase "Pandora's box" |
| 46% | HOMER | 5 | Originator of the phrase "rosy-fingered dawn" |
| 45% | TRUTH | 5 | It may be stranger than fiction |
| 44% | CICERO | 6 | Originator of the phrase "Let the punishment fit the offense" |
| 43% | STRANGER | 8 | Truth is __ than fiction |
| 43% | BYRON | 5 | "... truth is always strange; / Stranger than fiction" poet |
| 40% | ERIE | 4 | Of the Great Lakes, only Ontario is smaller than it |
| 39% | PROVERBS | 8 | Whence the phrase "Wisdom is better than rubies" |
| 39% | WORLD | 5 | "On top of the ___," phrase for someone who is extremely delighted |
| 39% | THAN | 4 | "Truth is stranger ___ fiction" |
| 39% | THAN | 4 | "Truth is stranger ___ fiction...." |
| 38% | WAR | 3 | What truth is said to be the first casualty of |
| 38% | AIL | 3 | Be in less than the peak of health |
| 38% | HAMLET | 6 | Whence the phrase "Brevity is the soul of wit" |
| 38% | WELLS | 5 | He's been called the "Father of Science Fiction" |
| 37% | URN | 3 | Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" |
| 37% | PERU | 4 | Home of the Cotahuasi Canyon, which is more than two miles deep |
| 37% | DIAMETER | 8 | That of The General Grant is more than 40 ft. |
| 36% | NEWS | 4 | The bad kind of this is said to travel faster than wildfire |
| 36% | OWEN | 4 | Wister who was known as the father of western fiction |
| 36% | PARTS | 5 | "Whole is greater than the sum of its ___." |
| 36% | KIPLING | 7 | Source of the line "The female of the species is more deadly than the male" |
| 35% | EVEN | 4 | What the sum of two primes greater than two always is |
| 35% | SOH | 3 | Beginning of the phrase ending in "CAH-TOA" which has been a blessing to many trig. students over the years |
| 35% | REPROACH | 8 | The sting of a __ is the truth of it |
| 35% | BRAINSOVERBRAWN | 15 | Relative of "The pen is mightier than the sword" |