| 100% | JONSON | 6 | Shakespeare contemporary who contributed prefatory verses to the First Folio |
| 32% | JOULE | 5 | Physicist James who contributed to the laws of thermodynamics |
| 30% | NED | 3 | First name of the man who lives next to Homer and Marge |
| 30% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | Whom the first use of the nine long adjectives is credited to |
| 30% | TOSSACOIN | 9 | Referees do this to decide who gets the ball first |
| 29% | WILEY | 5 | Aviator Post who was first to fly solo around the world |
| 29% | EMT | 3 | First responder who may accompany people to the ER: Abbr. |
| 29% | DEE | 3 | Sandra who was the first to play "Gidget" |
| 28% | ELLISON | 7 | Keith who was the first Muslim elected to Congress |
| 28% | BIGMAMATHORNTON | 15 | Singer who was the first to record “Hound Dog” |
| 28% | ALEC | 4 | Baldwin who was the first to play Jack Ryan |
| 28% | BURKE | 5 | Robert O'Hara —, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north who died in 1861 |
| 28% | GLENN | 5 | John who was the first American to orbit the earth |
| 28% | HAYES | 5 | Helen who was the first actress to achieve the EGOT |
| 28% | ALEKSEI | 7 | Leonov who was the first man to walk in space |
| 28% | MELALLEN | 8 | Announcer who was the first to call DiMaggio "Joltin' Joe" |
| 28% | COURIC | 6 | Journalist who was the first woman to guest-host "Jeopardy!" |
| 28% | RANKIN | 6 | Jeannette who was the first woman elected to Congress (1916) |
| 28% | TEBOW | 5 | Tim who was the first sophomore to win a Heisman |
| 28% | IRA | 3 | Aldridge who was the first Black actor to play Othello |
| 28% | NEXT | 4 | Word to the first in line |
| 28% | LAST | 4 | Unfitting answer to the first clue |
| 28% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician Leonard of the 18th century who first wrote f(x) to denote a function |
| 28% | BIL | 3 | Cartoonist Keane who dropped the second “L” from his first name “just to be different” |
| 27% | ABEL | 4 | The first to die |
| 27% | DRAKE | 5 | Francis who was the first Englishman to sail around the world |
| 27% | SALONGA | 7 | Lea who was the first Asian actress to win a Tony |
| 27% | ALEX | 4 | Honnold who was the first to free-solo climb El Capitan |
| 27% | LORRE | 5 | Peter who was the first actor to play a Bond villain |
| 27% | MARIE | 5 | Curie who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes |