| 100% | PIERRE | 6 | State capital whose name is pronounced as one syllable (not two, as many think) |
| 42% | BATONROUGE | 10 | This Capital, one of many with French origins, is one of two states that do not have counties |
| 39% | ACAI | 4 | Fruit whose name is pronounced in three syllables |
| 39% | DAK | 3 | Two state names whose capitals are Bismarck and Pierre, for short |
| 36% | ENO | 3 | Capital One's virtual assistant whose name is "one" backwards |
| 36% | HELENA | 6 | State capital whose main street is named Last Chance Gulch |
| 35% | OREIDA | 6 | Food brand whose name is a portmanteau of two state names |
| 35% | OREIDA | 6 | Food brand whose name is a combination of two state abbreviations |
| 35% | WACO | 4 | U.S. city whose name is composed of two state abbreviations |
| 35% | ILLINI | 6 | College team whose name is its home state minus two letters |
| 34% | SOFIA | 5 | European capital whose name most people incorrectly accent on the second syllable |
| 34% | NUTELLA | 7 | Chocolaty spread whose first syllable is pronounced "new," not "nuh" |
| 34% | BOISE | 5 | Capital whose natives pronounce its name with a "see," not "zee" |
| 34% | CISCO | 5 | Fortune 100 company whose name is the last two syllables of the city near where it was founded |
| 33% | TOPEKA | 6 | Capital whose last two letters are the first two letters of its state |
| 33% | TANZANIA | 8 | East African nation whose name is a meld of its two former states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| 31% | ALASKA | 6 | Only U.S. state whose name can be typed on one row of a keyboard |
| 31% | ISLAMABAD | 9 | Capital whose name is Urdu for "place of peace" |
| 31% | CHVRCHES | 8 | Scottish band whose name is pronounced "churches" |
| 31% | BOISE | 5 | State capital whose name derives from the French for "woods" |
| 31% | BISMARCK | 8 | State capital whose site was visited by Lewis and Clark |
| 31% | SOFIA | 5 | European capital whose name is Greek for "wisdom" |
| 31% | DIPHTHONG | 9 | Two vowels combined as one syllable |
| 31% | PAIR | 4 | Many glasses are sold as one |
| 31% | STAR | 4 | One whose name is in lights |
| 30% | BOISE | 5 | State capital whose name comes from the French for "wooded area" |
| 30% | EYE | 3 | Body part whose name is pronounced like a vowel |
| 30% | LIMA | 4 | World capital whose name is a kind of bean |
| 30% | TRIVIA | 6 | "Hawaii and Tennessee are the only two U.S. states whose names end in doubled letters," e.g. |
| 30% | OHIO | 4 | State whose residents are known as "Buckeyes" |