| 100% | KINGLEAR | 8 | Shakespeare play that Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran” is loosely based on |
| 47% | IDAHO | 5 | "My Own Private ___," 1991 movie directed by Gus Van Sant which is loosely based on Shakespeare's works |
| 44% | PYGMALION | 9 | Play that My Fair Lady is based on |
| 43% | RENT | 4 | Musical that was loosely based on the opera "La Bohème" |
| 40% | SHREW | 5 | The Taming of the ___ (Shakespeare play that Kiss Me, Kate was based on) |
| 40% | EMMA | 4 | Jane Austen novel that the movie "Clueless" is loosely based on |
| 38% | LES | 3 | "___ Miserables," musical based on Victor Hugo's novel that is one of the longest-running musicals in the West End |
| 37% | WESTSIDESTORY | 13 | Musical based on William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet": 3 wds. |
| 37% | ROMEOMUSTDIE | 12 | *2000 Jet Li film loosely based on Shakespeare |
| 37% | RICHARDIII | 10 | Shakespeare play that begins "Now is the winter of our discontent" |
| 36% | RAN | 3 | Akira Kurosawa film based on "King Lear" |
| 36% | ONLYLIVETWICE | 13 | "You ___" 1967 British spy film which is loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name, starring Sean Connery: 3 wds. |
| 36% | OTELLO | 6 | Opera based on a Shakespeare play |
| 35% | OTELLO | 6 | Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play |
| 35% | ULYSSES | 7 | 1967 film directed by Joseph Strick which is loosely based on a novel by James Joyce |
| 35% | VENICE | 6 | "The Merchant of ___," 1969 short film directed by Orson Welles based on Shakespeare's eponymous play |
| 35% | RAN | 3 | 1985 Akira Kurosawa movie based on King Lear |
| 35% | VERDI | 5 | He wrote several operas based on Shakespeare plays |
| 35% | IAMACAMERA | 10 | Play on which "Cabaret" is based |
| 35% | ORSINO | 6 | Speaker of Shakespeare's "If music be the food of love, play on" |
| 34% | SIDE | 4 | "West ___ Story" (Sondheim musical based on a Shakespeare play) |
| 34% | TITUS | 5 | 1999 Anthony Hopkins film based on a Shakespeare play |
| 34% | CLAY | 4 | Surface that tennis's French Open is played on |
| 34% | BRAM | 4 | Will and Katie's son, that was played by Alex Neustaedter, on USA Network's "Colony" |
| 34% | ADO | 3 | "Much ___ About Nothing" (2013 movie based on a Shakespeare play) |
| 34% | ADO | 3 | "Much ___ About Nothing," 1901 opera based on the Shakespeare play |
| 34% | REMOTE | 6 | Game play that is done from afar, on the internet |
| 34% | THEA | 4 | ___ Foss, who founded the largest tugboat company in the western US and who Tugboat Annie was loosely based on |
| 34% | PYGMALION | 9 | Play on which My Fair Lady was based |
| 33% | HENRYV | 6 | 1989 Emma Thompson movie based on a Shakespeare play: 2 wds. |