| 100% | GTO | 3 | The 1966 gold colored Pontiac that appeared in 2016's "The Nice Guys" |
| 36% | BETHANIE | 8 | ___ Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock, tennis pair that won the Olympics gold medal in Mixed Doubles in 2016 |
| 35% | SPECTRAL | 8 | ___ lines, spooky-sounding term for the colored bands that appear when light is split in physics |
| 33% | INN | 3 | The Sodor ___, lodging place that appears in the animated children's TV series, "Thomas & Friends" |
| 31% | SHANANA | 7 | Group that appeared in the movie "Grease" |
| 31% | SHANANA | 7 | Band that appeared in the movie Grease |
| 31% | ORK | 3 | Planet name that appears in the name "Mork" |
| 31% | DRAB | 4 | Olive color that's great if you're a grunt eating in the desert but not so great when you're appearing at the Grammy Awards |
| 31% | BRUCE | 5 | Performance artist who died in 2016 whose sculptures include 1966's The Womaniser |
| 31% | SCORE | 5 | Word meaning "twenty" that appears in the Gettysburg Address |
| 31% | SHARKS | 6 | Animals that appear in the fossil record before trees |
| 30% | ENRON | 5 | Company that's the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
| 30% | MISFITS | 7 | The Original ___, "Where Eagles Dare" horror punk band that reunited in 2016 |
| 30% | GOAT | 4 | Curse of the Billy ___, Cubs "jinx" that ended in 2016 |
| 30% | DIE | 3 | Word that appears in the titles of three Bond films (or four, if you count one ending in “s”) |
| 30% | ANGOLA | 6 | Luanda's country that was the host nation for the World Environment Day in 2016 |
| 30% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that does not appear in the name of a U.S. state |
| 30% | MAGENTA | 7 | Purplish red that's one of the primary colors in printing |
| 30% | LOON | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 30% | WREN | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 30% | OWL | 3 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 30% | JAY | 3 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 30% | HAWK | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 30% | CROW | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 29% | OPOSSUM | 7 | Small, American marsupials that appeared in the film "Ice Age: Continental Drift" |
| 29% | SELAH | 5 | Word of uncertain meaning that appears in the Bible seventy-four times |
| 29% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 29% | WASP | 4 | Insect that first appeared in the Jurassic era |
| 29% | PSI | 3 | Letter that appears twice in the Schrödinger equation |
| 29% | PSI | 3 | Letter that appears twice in the Schrodinger equation |