| 100% | STEPH | 5 | U.S. men's basketball star with eight three-pointers in the gold medal game, familiarly |
| 39% | LONDON | 6 | 2012 Olympics venue where James Harden won the gold medal for the US men's basketball team |
| 38% | BOBKNIGHT | 9 | Indiana University coach who led the US men's basketball team to Olympic gold in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 37% | DEANSMITH | 9 | University of North Carolina basketball coach who led the US men's basketball team to Olympic gold in 1976: 2 wds. |
| 37% | MIKEKRZYZEWSKI | 14 | Duke University basketball coach who led the US men's basketball team to Olympic gold in 2008, 2012, and 2016: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ALASKA | 6 | State whose flag, with eight gold stars in the shape of the Big Dipper, was designed by a 13-year-old |
| 36% | PATSUMMITT | 10 | Eight-time NCAA national championship-winning coach who led the US women's basketball team to Olympic gold in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DAWNSTALEY | 10 | Three-time NCAA national championship-winning coach who led the US women's basketball team to Olympic gold in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 36% | TARAVANDERVEER | 14 | Three-time NCAA national championship-winning coach who led the US women's basketball team to Olympic gold in 1996: 2 wds. |
| 36% | WILMARUDOLPH | 12 | US track-and-field star who won three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 36% | RAFERJOHNSON | 12 | US track-and-field star who got a silver and a gold medal in the decathlon in consecutive Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 34% | SUEBIRD | 7 | Basketball star with five Olympic gold medals |
| 34% | JADE | 4 | Gem in the gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games |
| 34% | DREAMTEAM | 9 | 1992 US Olympic men's basketball squad, with "the": 2 wds. |
| 34% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Wilma ___, late American sprinter who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games |
| 34% | COLIN | 5 | ___ Powell, retired general in the U. S. Army who was honored with his second Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 |
| 34% | USAINBOLT | 9 | Olympian with eight gold medals in sprinting |
| 33% | WILMA | 5 | ___ Rudolph, U.S. sprinter who won three golds in the 1960 Olympics |
| 33% | WOLFPACK | 8 | Nickname of the North Carolina State University men's basketball team who defeated North Carolina in the 2023-'24 Atlantic Coast Conference championship game |
| 33% | MARIONJONES | 11 | American track star who won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | REDEEM | 6 | " ___ Team," nickname for US men's basketball team led by Dwyane Wade that won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics |
| 33% | CHINESECHECKERS | 15 | Game with a star in the middle |
| 33% | NAGANO | 6 | Where the U.S. won the first gold medal in women's ice hockey |
| 33% | JESSYENORMAN | 12 | Opera star with five Grammys who received the Spingarn Medal in 2013: 2 wds. |
| 32% | UCLA | 4 | Holder of the longest winning streak in N.C.A.A. men's basketball history (88 games) |
| 32% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the man with a January holiday in the US |
| 32% | USAIN | 5 | Track star Bolt with eight Olympic gold medals |
| 32% | EVANLYSACEK | 11 | American figure skater who won gold in men's singles at the 2010 Olympic Games: 2 wds. |
| 31% | FERNANDO | 8 | ___ Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu, tennis pair that won the Olympic gold medal in men's doubles in 2004 |
| 31% | STANISLAS | 9 | ___ Wawrinka and Roger Federer, tennis pair that won the Olympics gold medal for men's doubles in 2008 |