| 100% | DOLBY | 5 | Ray —, US inventor of a noise reduction system who died in 2013 |
| 38% | DEWEY | 5 | Melvil —, US inventor of a system for the classification of library books |
| 36% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer who died in 2005 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 35% | FRANKLIN | 8 | Benjamin, US inventor who flew his kite in a storm |
| 34% | ABE | 3 | Nickname of a US president who was born in a log cabin |
| 33% | DEWEY | 5 | Melvil _, US librarian who founded a system of decimal classification |
| 33% | ELLIE | 5 | Teenage girl who's a hero in "The Last of Us" |
| 33% | EBERT | 5 | Movie critic Roger who died in 2013 |
| 33% | EBERT | 5 | Film critic Roger who died in 2013 |
| 32% | LOKI | 4 | God who got pushed out of an airship in a 2013 movie |
| 32% | EBERT | 5 | Popular film critic Roger who died in 2013 |
| 32% | CHEROKEE | 8 | Member of a Native American people formerly of the southern US who now live chiefly in Oklahoma |
| 32% | BILLY | 5 | & 17D Retired seaman who dies of a heart attack in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 32% | BONES | 5 | Billy —, retired seaman who dies of a heart attack in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 32% | WHITNEY | 7 | Eli —, US inventor of a modern mechanical cotton gin |
| 32% | OTIS | 4 | Inventor of a braking system for cars |
| 32% | PATINA | 6 | Miller who won a Tony for her performance in the 2013 revival of “Pippin” |
| 31% | DEWEY | 5 | Inventor of a library classification system |
| 31% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesiser is named |
| 31% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 31% | LINCOLN | 7 | Abraham ___, 16th President of the U.S. who had a general store in New Salem |
| 31% | GATLING | 7 | Richard Jordan —, US inventor of a rapid-fire hand-cranked gun |
| 31% | ERNORUBIK | 9 | Inventor of a colorful puzzle in a cubic shape |
| 30% | BOURQUE | 7 | Ray ___, one of the greatest defensemen in NHL history who is a five-time James Norris Memorial Trophy winner |
| 30% | VALENS | 6 | Singer Ritchie who died in a plane crash |
| 30% | AIDA | 4 | Slave who dies in the Temple of Vulcan |
| 30% | AIDA | 4 | Princess who dies in the temple of Vulcan |
| 30% | YODA | 4 | Guru who dies in "Return of the Jedi" |
| 30% | NOWYOUSEEME | 11 | 2013 thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg, about a group of magicians who pull off bank heists in their acts: 4 wds. |