| 100% | KRAKOW | 6 | Port on the River Vistula; capital of Poland from 1038 to 1569 |
| 50% | LINZ | 4 | Port on the River Danube; capital of Upper Austria |
| 39% | BUDAPEST | 8 | City on the River Danube, capital of Hungary |
| 38% | VAASA | 5 | Port on the Gulf of Bothnia; provisional capital of Finland in 1918 |
| 38% | VAASA | 5 | Port on the Gulf of Bothnia and capital of Finland in 1918 |
| 38% | ADELAIDE | 8 | Capital of South Australia on the Torrens River |
| 38% | BELGRADE | 8 | Capital of Serbia; on the Danube and Sava rivers |
| 37% | YAKUTSK | 7 | Capital of the Sakha Republic, Russia, on the Lena River |
| 37% | NYC | 3 | Capital of the U.S. from 1785 to 1790, in brief |
| 36% | MANDALAY | 8 | Former capital of Burma, on the road to it perhaps |
| 36% | NICOSIA | 7 | Capital of Cyprus which is located on the banks of the river Pedieos |
| 35% | SAS | 3 | Letters on the side of a plane from Beijing to Oslo, say |
| 35% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital on a river of the same name |
| 35% | ADO | 3 | Letters on the front of the bus taking you from Veracruz to Tampico |
| 35% | VISTULA | 7 | River of Poland that flows to the Baltic Sea near Gdansk |
| 35% | TORUN | 5 | Industrial city in N Poland on the River Vistula |
| 35% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital city on the banks of the Rideau River |
| 35% | WIESBADEN | 9 | Capital of Hesse, Germany on the River Rhine |
| 35% | GATESHEAD | 9 | Port on the River Tyne opposite Newcastle |
| 35% | SAN | 3 | River rising in Ukraine that flows across SE Poland to the Vistula |
| 35% | SAN | 3 | River rising in Ukraine that flows across southeast Poland to the Vistula |
| 34% | PATNA | 5 | Capital of Bihar, India, on the River Ganges |
| 34% | GDANSK | 6 | Port on the Vistula |
| 34% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital city on a river of the same name |
| 34% | TORUN | 5 | Industrial city in central north Poland on the River Vistula |
| 33% | TANGIER | 7 | Port on the Strait of Gibraltar |
| 33% | MARSEILLES | 10 | Port on the Gulf of Lion |
| 33% | OTARU | 5 | Port on the Sea of Japan |
| 33% | LAGOS | 5 | Port on the Gulf of Guinea |
| 33% | AYR | 3 | Port on the Firth of Clyde |