| 100% | VELCRO | 6 | Type of fastening invented by Georges de Mestral in 1948 |
| 52% | BUR | 3 | Type of seed that inspired George de Mestral in his ground-breaking invention |
| 40% | SOFTBALL | 8 | Indoor version of baseball invented by George Hancock in 1887 |
| 39% | ARC | 3 | Type of lamp using carbon electrodes invented by Humphry Davy in the early 19th century |
| 36% | BIFOCALS | 8 | Type of glasses invented by Benjamin Franklin |
| 34% | AUTOMATIC | 9 | Type of hay baler invented in 1936 |
| 34% | ZEPPELIN | 8 | Type of rigid airship invented in Germany |
| 34% | TOILET | 6 | Type of paper invented in Sui Dynasty China |
| 34% | SPIRAL | 6 | Type of stairs invented in 480 BC Sicily |
| 33% | BIB | 3 | Type of shorts usually worn by Tour de France entrants |
| 32% | TIKI | 4 | Type of torch actually invented in the U.S., not Polynesia |
| 32% | PULSAR | 6 | Type of cosmic object discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in 1967 |
| 32% | HOTPANTS | 8 | Type of shorts worn by Kylie in Spinning Around |
| 32% | ACE | 3 | Type of 11d in tennis that is not touched by the receiver |
| 31% | HYENA | 5 | Type of animal voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in "The Lion King" |
| 31% | CONDO | 5 | Type of house bought by Michael Scott in "The Office," colloquially |
| 31% | ANT | 3 | Type of insect voiced by Woody Allen in a 1998 animated film |
| 30% | TART | 4 | Type of pastry made by the Queen of Hearts, in a nursery rhyme |
| 30% | ORING | 5 | Type of gasket in common use today originally patented in 1937 by 72-year-old Niels Christensen |
| 29% | EPODE | 5 | Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one |
| 28% | WARSHIP | 7 | Phoenicians invented this type of ship in 700s BC |
| 28% | DORY | 4 | Type of boat shown in the painting "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer, currently in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts |
| 28% | DIESEL | 6 | Rudolf __ invented this type of engine in 1893 |
| 27% | WATERMUSIC | 10 | Collection of pieces by George Frideric Handel that premiered in 1717 |
| 27% | BARCODE | 7 | Identifier for products, invented by George Laurer |
| 27% | TEE | 3 | Golf item invented by George Franklin Grant |
| 27% | AMEN | 4 | Type of corner in church |
| 27% | AMINO | 5 | Type of acid in proteins |
| 27% | PLEAT | 5 | Type of fold in fabric |
| 27% | SOY | 3 | Type of bean in edamame |