| 100% | NETHERLANDS | 11 | Team that was runner-up to the USA in the 2019 World Cup |
| 57% | IRAN | 4 | Team that lost to the U.S. in the 2022 FIFA World Cup |
| 56% | USA | 3 | Team that won the Women's World Cup in 2019 |
| 55% | BOSTONBRUINS | 12 | NHL team that lost to 44-Across in the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals (2 wds.) |
| 50% | CUBA | 4 | Caribbean island whose team was runner-up in the 2006 World Baseball Classic |
| 49% | SANDIEGOSTATE | 13 | Team known as the Aztecs who were runners-up to 38-Across in the 2023 NCAA men's basketball championship (3 wds.) |
| 49% | GWENJORGENSEN | 13 | American distance runner and two-time ITU World Champion who was the first to win a triathlon gold for USA in the Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 48% | MEGAN | 5 | ___ Rapinoe, American soccer player who led her team to victory in the FIFA Women's World Cup on 7th July 2019 |
| 47% | DOMINICTHIEM | 12 | Austrian tennis pro who was runner-up to Rafael Nadal at the French Open in both 2018 and 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 47% | NATS | 4 | Team that beat the ’Stros in the 2019 World Series |
| 47% | PEN | 3 | Ballpoint ___, popular writing instrument that you will see being introduced to the world in the 1940s |
| 46% | ASTROS | 6 | Team that lost the 2019 World Series to the Nationals |
| 46% | LINEUP | 6 | The order that players are up to bat in baseball |
| 46% | FRANCE | 6 | Country home to Zinedine Zidane, that won the FIFA World Cup in 1998 |
| 46% | RAMS | 4 | Team that lost to the Patriots in the 2019 Super Bowl |
| 46% | METS | 4 | M.L.B. team that was the first to trade a player for himself (Harry Chiti in 1962) |
| 46% | GHANA | 5 | African national football team that defeated South Korea in the 2022 FIFA World Cup |
| 46% | SWE | 3 | Country that came in third in the 2019 Women's World Cup semifinals (Abbr.) |
| 46% | ROE | 3 | Sea urchin delicacy that may cost up to $250 per pound in the USA |
| 45% | BASRA | 5 | Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" |
| 45% | ASTROS | 6 | Houston team that lost the 2019 World Series to the Washington Nationals |
| 45% | METS | 4 | MLB team that lost to the Royals in the 2015 World Series |
| 44% | MARLINS | 7 | Florida squad that was the first to win two World Series titles as a wild-card team |
| 44% | CNN | 3 | Channel started in 1980 that was the first in the world to provide 24-hour news coverage |
| 44% | ASIA | 4 | Continent that is home to the two most populous countries in the world |
| 44% | GIANT | 5 | ___ Sequoia, tree native to California that is amongst the largest in the world |
| 44% | CRISP | 5 | Horse that finished runner-up to Red Rum in the 1973 Grand National |
| 44% | RBI | 3 | In baseball, the plays that allow a run to be scored |
| 44% | MBEKI | 5 | South African president who was instrumental in bringing the FIFA World Cup to Africa for the first time |
| 44% | THERED | 6 | "And without those beans ___ have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the first place!" |