| 100% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who originated the phrase "harmony in discord" |
| 64% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who originated the phrase "For whom the bell tolls" |
| 64% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who originated the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" |
| 64% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who originated the phrase "no country for old men" |
| 55% | HORACE | 6 | He coined the phrase "Harmony in discord" |
| 50% | OTIS | 4 | James who originated the phrase "Taxation without representation" |
| 49% | SPOONER | 7 | Rev. William who originated the phrase "a blushing crow" |
| 49% | SENECA | 6 | Roman who originated the phrase "What fools these mortals be" |
| 48% | PLINY | 5 | Roman writer who originated the phrase "with a grain of salt" |
| 48% | SENECA | 6 | Roman philosopher who originated the phrase "What fools these mortals be" |
| 48% | CICERO | 6 | Roman who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" |
| 47% | TERENCE | 7 | Roman writer who originated the phrase "Where there's life, there's hope" |
| 47% | TERENCE | 7 | Ancient playwright who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" |
| 46% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who gave us the phrase "carpe diem" |
| 46% | LEN | 3 | Cariou who originated the role of Sweeney Todd in the musical |
| 45% | ELAINESTRITCH | 13 | Broadway star who originated the role of Joanne in "Company" (1970) |
| 45% | SOO | 3 | Actress Phillipa who originated the role of Eliza in Broadway's "Hamilton" |
| 45% | IDINA | 5 | Actress Menzel who originated the role of Elphaba in Broadway's "Wicked" |
| 45% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who wrote "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
| 45% | IDINA | 5 | Menzel who originated the lead role in Wicked |
| 44% | REEVE | 5 | Actor/singer ___ Carney, who originated the role of Orpheus in "Hadestown" on Broadway |
| 44% | DANTEALIGHIERI | 14 | Poet who defended writing in the vernacular in "De Vulgari Eloquentia" |
| 43% | ETHEL | 5 | Singer Merman who originated the role of Annie in Broadway's "Annie Get Your Gun" |
| 42% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| 42% | UTA | 3 | She originated the role of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 41% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 41% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 40% | TREBEK | 6 | Host who phrased his questions in the form of an answer |
| 39% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet Pablo who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature |