| 100% | NOSE | 4 | The —, Dmitri Shostakovich opera first performed in full in 1930 |
| 82% | NOSE | 4 | The —, opera by Dmitri Shostakovich first performed in full in 1930 |
| 49% | GAMBLER | 7 | The —, Sergei Prokofiev opera first performed in 1929 based on a Fyodor Dostoevsky story |
| 49% | GAMBLER | 7 | The —,Prokofiev opera first performed in 1929 based on a Dostoevsky story |
| 42% | MANON | 5 | Massenet's comic opera, first performed in Paris in 1884, where the person in the title role falls to the ground and dies at the end |
| 41% | GUILLAUME | 9 | & 22D Gioachino Rossini opera first performed in 1829 |
| 41% | CREATION | 8 | The —, oratorio by Joseph Haydn first performed in Vienna in 1798 |
| 41% | TRIALBYJURY | 11 | Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera first performed in 1875 |
| 40% | GENOVEVA | 8 | Opera by Robert Schumann first performed in 1850 |
| 40% | GOYESCAS | 8 | Opera by Enrique Granados first performed in 1916 |
| 40% | SEAGULL | 7 | The —, Anton Chekhov stage play first performed in 1896 |
| 39% | INTERMEZZO | 10 | Two-act opera by Richard Strauss first performed in Dresden in 1924 |
| 39% | LARK | 4 | The —, stage play by Jean Anouilh first performed in 1953 |
| 39% | LAKME | 5 | Leo Delibes opera first performed in 1883 set in 19th-century British India |
| 39% | TURANDOT | 8 | Unfinished opera by Giacomo Puccini first performed in 1926 |
| 39% | GIOCONDA | 8 | La —, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli first performed in 1876 |
| 38% | URUGUAY | 7 | Country hosting the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 |
| 37% | LITTLEEYOLF | 11 | 1894 play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in the following year |
| 37% | THEROSEOF | 9 | & 21A Opera by Arthur Sullivan and Basil Hood first performed in 1899 |
| 36% | URUGUAY | 7 | Country that won the first World Cup in 1930 |
| 36% | INDRA | 5 | ___ Club, venue in Germany where The Beatles first performed |
| 35% | HENRYLYTTON | 11 | English actor associated with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who was knighted in 1930 |
| 35% | THESCHOOLFOR | 12 | & 8A R B Sheridan stage play first performed in 1777 featuring the character Lady Sneerwell |
| 35% | SANTINO | 7 | Full first name of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather |
| 35% | MET | 3 | Where Pavarotti first performed in 1968, with "the" |
| 34% | LOS | 3 | ___ Angeles, city in which Elton John performed at the Troubadour for his first concert in the US |
| 34% | LAST | 4 | "At ___," song that Beyonce performed during the first inaugural Presidential dance in 2009 |