| 100% | TONYS | 5 | The 2001 production of "The Producers" won 12 |
| 55% | TONYS | 5 | "The Producers" won a record-breaking 12 of these |
| 47% | BARENAKED | 9 | __ Ladies; won 2001 Juno for Pop Album of the Year |
| 46% | MEL | 3 | Brooks whose musical "The Producers" won 12 Tonys |
| 44% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Novelist whose "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 44% | VANDERWAAL | 10 | Grace ___, singer who won the eleventh season of "America's Got Talent" at age 12 |
| 43% | QUINCYJONES | 11 | "We Are the World" producer who received the French Legion of Honor medal in 2001: 2 wds. |
| 42% | EBAN | 4 | 2001 winner of the Israel Prize |
| 42% | STEVIE | 6 | With 31-Across, "Sir Duke" singer who won the 1977 Grammy for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical |
| 42% | AUDREYHEPBURN | 13 | British actress from "Sabrina" who is one of the 12 people to have won the EGOT: 2 wds. |
| 42% | TONY | 4 | Any of several won by "The Producers" |
| 41% | OBAMA | 5 | President who was a producer of the Oscar-winning documentary, "American Factory" |
| 41% | QUINCYJONES | 11 | "Thriller" producer who won the 1982, 1984, and 1991 Grammys for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: 2 wds. |
| 41% | TCU | 3 | The Horned Frogs of the Big 12 Conf. |
| 41% | ASU | 3 | The Sun Devils of the Big 12 (Abbr.) |
| 41% | WATER | 5 | "Avatar: The Way of ___," 2022 sci-fi film that was in production for 12 years |
| 41% | ATM | 3 | Producer of the Jacksons? |
| 40% | TCU | 3 | The Horned Frogs of the Big 12 Conference (Abbr.) |
| 40% | WILDER | 6 | Half of The Producers, Willy Wonka lead |
| 40% | GIULIANI | 8 | Time's 2001 Person of the Year |
| 40% | FIREANT | 7 | Producer of the venom solenopsin |
| 40% | NOON | 4 | 12, half of the time |
| 40% | RITAMORENO | 10 | Puerto Rican actress from "West Side Story" who is one of the 12 people to have won the EGOT: 2 wds. |
| 40% | MELBROOKS | 9 | Writer and director of The Producers in 1967 |
| 40% | TOMS | 4 | David —, 2001 winner of the US PGA Championship |
| 40% | WEBB | 4 | World Golf Hall of Famer Karrie who won the 2000 and 2001 U.S. Women's Open |
| 40% | KANSAS | 6 | The Jayhawks of the Big 12 |
| 40% | IOWASTATE | 9 | The Cyclones of the Big 12 |
| 40% | SAUDIS | 6 | Producers of the most Mideast oil |
| 39% | ATARI | 5 | Producer of the megaflop "E.T." |