| 100% | WIVES | 5 | Subject of the mnemonic "Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" in Broadway's "Six" |
| 43% | PARR | 4 | Catherine who is one of the six in Broadway's "Six" |
| 39% | DDAY | 4 | Subject of the book "Six Armies in Normandy" |
| 37% | HOLYGRAIL | 9 | Subject in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" |
| 37% | CORRIDA | 7 | Subject of Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" |
| 37% | PETRAEUS | 8 | General who's the subject of the 2012 biography "All In" |
| 37% | DIANA | 5 | Subject of Elton's "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
| 36% | STARR | 5 | Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" |
| 36% | DIANA | 5 | Subject of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
| 36% | NKOMO | 5 | Joshua —, founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who died in 1999 |
| 36% | EDSEL | 5 | Subject of the book "Disaster in Dearborn" |
| 35% | PLANETS | 7 | Subject of the mnemonic "Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs" |
| 35% | PLANETS | 7 | Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" |
| 35% | ENRON | 5 | Company that's the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
| 35% | SOO | 3 | Actress Phillipa who originated the role of Eliza in Broadway's "Hamilton" |
| 35% | IDINA | 5 | Actress Menzel who originated the role of Elphaba in Broadway's "Wicked" |
| 35% | SINS | 4 | Subject of the seven-letter mnemonic PALE GAS |
| 35% | MACINTOSH | 9 | Subject of the book "Revolution in the Valley" |
| 35% | POLIO | 5 | Subject of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| 35% | TESLA | 5 | Subject of the biography "Lightning in His Hand" |
| 35% | DNA | 3 | Subject of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| 35% | HISTORY | 7 | Subject of the yellow questions in Trivial Pursuit |
| 35% | OLDMACDONALD | 12 | Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue |
| 35% | WOLF | 4 | "...the lone ___ dies, but the pack survives," line said by Ned Stark in "Game of Thrones" |
| 35% | SPAM | 4 | Food that's the subject of a museum in Austin, Minn. |
| 35% | AMBERGRIS | 9 | Secretion that's the subject of a chapter in Moby-Dick |
| 35% | ELSA | 4 | Lion that was the subject of the book "Born Free" and that is buried in Kenya's Meru National Park |
| 35% | FOSSEY | 6 | Subject of the 1997 biography "Woman in the Mists" |
| 35% | ROYORBISON | 10 | Subject of the 2013 musical biography "Rhapsody in Black" |
| 35% | ROWERS | 6 | Subjects of "The Boys in the Boat" |