| 100% | SHALOMMEIRTOWER | 15 | Tel Aviv skyscraper that was the first to be built in the Mideast |
| 47% | PALM | 4 | Co. that was the first to successfully market a PDA worldwide in 1997 |
| 47% | TMZ | 3 | Hollywood website that was the first to report Michael Jackson's death in 2009 |
| 46% | MALAYSIA | 8 | Kuala Lumpur's country that was the first Asian country to host the Commonwealth Games in 1998 |
| 46% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety |
| 46% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women |
| 45% | INCISORS | 8 | Teeth that are typically the first to grow in |
| 45% | METS | 4 | M.L.B. team that was the first to trade a player for himself (Harry Chiti in 1962) |
| 45% | ODESSA | 6 | City that was home to the first car in Russia |
| 45% | PEPSI | 5 | Soda that was the first American brand to be sold widely in the Soviet Union |
| 45% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| 45% | INC | 3 | Business magazine that, in 1981, was the first to feature Steve Jobs on its cover |
| 44% | CNN | 3 | Channel started in 1980 that was the first in the world to provide 24-hour news coverage |
| 44% | ALABAMA | 7 | Montgomery's state that was the first US state to recognize Christmas as a holiday in 1836 |
| 44% | IKEA | 4 | Furniture store that was the first company to show a gay couple in an American TV commercial |
| 44% | DUBAI | 5 | Mideast city that's home to the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world |
| 44% | BASRA | 5 | Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" |
| 43% | IKEA | 4 | Company that was the first in the U.S. to air a TV ad with a gay couple (1994) |
| 42% | REDDESERT | 9 | 1964 Antonioni film that was his first to be shot in color |
| 42% | SKYFALL | 7 | 2012 Adele hit that was the first James Bond theme to debut in the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 |
| 42% | REEL | 4 | Dance that was first referred to in the 1590 witchcraft trial of Doctor Fian in "Edenbrough", Scotland |
| 42% | SHARD | 5 | The ___, 95-story skyscraper that is the tallest building in the U.K. and the European Union, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano |
| 42% | TOBACCO | 7 | Rolfe was the first to cultivate this in Virginia |
| 42% | ALPHA | 5 | Generation ___, first to be born in the 21st century |
| 42% | THERED | 6 | "And without those beans ___ have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the first place!" |
| 42% | MOTEL | 5 | The first one was built in 1925 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. |
| 41% | TASS | 4 | News agency that was the first to report on Sputnik |
| 41% | SUTTERSMALL | 11 | Historic shopping center that was the first to be called "a gold mine for investors"? |
| 41% | IMAC | 4 | Apple device that was the first to employ its "i" prefix |
| 41% | GTOS | 4 | Classic cars that were the first to have Ram Air engines |