| 100% | ARAL | 4 | Sea whose Wikipedia page is written in the past tense |
| 87% | ARAL | 4 | Sea whose Wikipedia article is written in the past tense |
| 67% | ARAL | 4 | Sea whose Wikipedia article is in the past tense |
| 42% | WAS | 3 | "Is" in the past tense |
| 40% | THEGIFT | 7 | Vladimir Nabokov novel written in the 1930s whose central character is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev |
| 39% | DODECANESE | 10 | Group of islands in the Aegean Sea whose capital is Rhodes |
| 39% | GRENADA | 7 | Island country in the Caribbean Sea whose capital is St George’s |
| 38% | TWAS | 4 | 'Tis, in the past tense |
| 38% | WERE | 4 | Past tense of "be" in the plural form |
| 38% | HTML | 4 | Many pages are written in it |
| 38% | HTML | 4 | Web pages are written in it |
| 37% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Emergency vehicle whose name may be written across the hood in mirror writing |
| 36% | AGONY | 5 | In the past, city was in pain |
| 35% | WAS | 3 | Is in the past? |
| 35% | WAS | 3 | Is in the past |
| 35% | WERE | 4 | Are in the past? |
| 35% | EAT | 3 | Verb whose past tense is formed by moving the first letter to the end |
| 35% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 35% | DINOSAURS | 9 | They were big in the past |
| 35% | QUOTH | 5 | It was uttered in the past |
| 34% | WERE | 4 | Past tense of be in plural form |
| 34% | RIPTORN | 7 | Entertainer whose last name is the past tense of a synonym of his first name |
| 34% | OLDNORSE | 8 | The Eddas were written in it |
| 33% | ISTRIA | 6 | Peninsula in the N Adriatic Sea whose chief city is Pula |
| 33% | CHICAGO | 7 | Musical that was elegant in the past |
| 33% | CHICAGO | 7 | City that was elegant in the past |
| 32% | USCG | 4 | Org. whose academy's motto in English is "The sea yields to knowledge" |
| 32% | WALES | 5 | Principality in the United Kingdom whose capital is Cardiff |
| 32% | SAUDI | 5 | Kingdom in the Middle East whose capital is Riyadh |
| 32% | EXAM | 4 | Written test is old in the morning |