| 100% | PIUS | 4 | Papal name first used in the second century |
| 59% | PIUS | 4 | Papal name first used in A.D. 140 |
| 48% | WINCHESTER | 10 | Lever-action repeating rifle widely used in the US during the second half of the 19th century |
| 46% | UZIS | 4 | Guns first used in the Suez Crisis |
| 45% | SCUD | 4 | Missile first used in the Yom Kippur War |
| 45% | CGI | 3 | Special FX first used in the movie "Vertigo" |
| 45% | INNOCENT | 8 | Papal name last used in 1724 |
| 45% | PIUS | 4 | Papal name last used in 1958 |
| 45% | MILITIA | 7 | First noun in the Second Amendment |
| 44% | PTBOAT | 6 | U.S. naval craft used in the Second World War |
| 44% | AARON | 5 | First name for the third second-in-command |
| 43% | SCUD | 4 | Missile used in the first Gulf War |
| 43% | BART | 4 | First name of the only fictional character in Time's list of the 100 Most Important People of the Century |
| 42% | WOODEN | 6 | Type of barrels used in the first diving bells |
| 42% | NEW | 3 | First word in the names of four states |
| 41% | SAN | 3 | First word in the names of many California cities |
| 41% | LLOSA | 5 | The second part missing in the author's name ___ Vargas ___ |
| 41% | LITE | 4 | First word in the rhyming name of a peg toy |
| 40% | ETHER | 5 | Anesthetic first used during surgeries in the 1840s |
| 40% | GLORIA | 6 | First name in second-wave feminism |
| 40% | GOLDENAGEOFTV | 13 | Name applied to both a period following the Second World War and a period in the early twenty-first century |
| 40% | WEAPONS | 7 | Yo-yos were first used as __ in the Philippines |
| 40% | SAN | 3 | First word of the second-largest city in California |
| 40% | III | 3 | Roman numeral in the name of a second sequel |
| 40% | ARENAFOOTBALL | 13 | Sport played in the first word of its name |
| 40% | FAY | 3 | Canadian actress in the 1933 King Kong; first name |
| 40% | RON | 3 | First name of the anchorman in "Anchorman" |
| 40% | JIMINY | 6 | First name of the cricket in Pinocchio |
| 40% | STUKA | 5 | German Junkers-87 dive-bomber first used in combat in the Spanish Civil War |
| 40% | PONTIUS | 7 | First name in the Gospels |