| 100% | PALOS | 5 | Port from which Columbus departed in 1492 |
| 61% | LACORUNA | 8 | Port from which the Spanish Armada departed in 1588 |
| 52% | CADIZ | 5 | Spanish port from which Columbus sailed, 1493 |
| 46% | BRISTOL | 7 | British port from which John Cabot sailed to the New World in 1497 |
| 38% | LAE | 3 | Port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last flight |
| 35% | STRAW | 5 | From which gold is spun, in a fairy tale |
| 35% | LAE | 3 | New Guinea port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last flight |
| 35% | IRAN | 4 | Country from which the Shah fled in 1979 |
| 34% | LAE | 3 | Pacific port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last and fatal flight |
| 34% | TIBET | 5 | Land from which the Dalai Lama is in exile |
| 34% | SHAWSHANK | 9 | Prison from which Andy Dufresne escaped in a film |
| 34% | MINBAR | 6 | Platform from which sermons are given in a mosque |
| 33% | DEVON | 5 | English county from which the Pilgrims set sail in 1620 |
| 33% | USNA | 4 | Military institution from which Jimmy Carter graduated in 1946: Abbr. |
| 33% | FAUCET | 6 | Metal tube from which water comes out in a sink |
| 33% | ISLE | 4 | Place from which to send a message in a bottle |
| 33% | TELAVIV | 7 | City from which the U.S. moved its embassy in 2018 |
| 33% | AMBER | 5 | Fossilized material from which dinosaur DNA was extracted, in “Jurassic Park” |
| 33% | EPILEPSY | 8 | Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered |
| 33% | OHIO | 4 | Columbus' state which takes its name from a river |
| 32% | TRIESTE | 7 | Port in NE Italy under Austrian rule from 1382-1918 |
| 32% | LAE | 3 | Port city from which Amelia Earhart last flew |
| 32% | PALOS | 5 | Spain's ___ de la Frontera, from where Columbus sailed in 1492 for unknown parts to the west |
| 31% | ADOLF | 5 | First name from which the "Adi" in Adidas is derived |
| 31% | EGG | 3 | Object from which Yoshi hatches in "Super Mario World" |
| 31% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school from which the first Internet transmission was sent, in 1969: Abbr. |
| 31% | LAE | 3 | Port city from which Amelia Earhart made her last flight |
| 31% | BIZARROWORLD | 12 | Metaphorical setting in which everything is inverted from the norm |
| 31% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Game in which words can change from person to person |
| 30% | DAR | 3 | Org. from which Eleanor Roosevelt resigned in 1939 (over its policy toward singer Marian Anderson) |