| 100% | IWO | 3 | Setting of a 1945 Pulitzer-winning photo, briefly |
| 54% | YALTA | 5 | Setting of a 1945 conference |
| 52% | YALTA | 5 | Crimean setting of a 1945 conference |
| 49% | IWOJIMA | 7 | Setting of a famous flag-raising photo |
| 47% | STAT | 4 | Copy of a photo, briefly |
| 45% | ALBUM | 5 | Set of songs released together or a storage for photos |
| 44% | ADANO | 5 | Town in a 1945 Pulitzer-winning novel |
| 44% | ADANO | 5 | Fictional town in a 1945 Pulitzer-winning novel |
| 44% | ADANO | 5 | Title town in a 1945 Pulitzer-winning novel |
| 43% | BURSTMODE | 9 | Setting that captures a lot of photos in quick succession |
| 41% | WHARTON | 7 | Edith who won a Pulitzer for The Age of Innocence |
| 41% | XXXXX | 5 | Protagonist of a Pulitzer-winning play |
| 41% | EDEL | 4 | Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James |
| 41% | MCPHEE | 6 | John who won a Pulitzer for “Annals of the Former World” |
| 40% | ARSON | 5 | Setting of a fire maliciously |
| 40% | BABEL | 5 | Setting of a biblical tower |
| 40% | ROAD | 4 | Setting of a fork, perhaps |
| 40% | MCPHEE | 6 | Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" |
| 40% | COPA | 4 | Setting of a Barry Manilow hit |
| 40% | POKERFLAT | 9 | Setting of a Bret Harte tale |
| 40% | SAIGON | 6 | Setting of a 1991 Broadway musical |
| 40% | SEATTLE | 7 | Setting of a Ryan-Hanks film |
| 40% | AMITYVILLE | 10 | Setting of a 1979 horror flick |
| 39% | MASTERPLANET | 12 | Setting of a sci-fi slave story? |
| 39% | CAIRO | 5 | Setting of a trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz |
| 39% | TOYLAND | 7 | Setting of a 1903 Victor Herbert operetta |
| 39% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 39% | ZERO | 4 | Number of games won by the losing player in a "bagel" set, in tennis |
| 38% | COPA | 4 | Setting of a top 10 Barry Manilow hit |
| 38% | RENO | 4 | Setting of a 2000s Comedy Central police show |