| 100% | TON | 3 | What the world's heaviest ever pumpkin, grown in Belgium in 2016, weighed far in excess of |
| 31% | INVADE | 6 | What the aliens do in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 30% | MARKSELBY | 9 | Winner of the World Snooker Championship in 2014, 2016 and 2017 |
| 29% | NEWS | 4 | What's happening in the world |
| 29% | NEWS | 4 | What's going on in the world |
| 28% | MAUNALOA | 8 | The name of the world's largest volcano, in Hawaii |
| 28% | DUBAI | 5 | Home of the world's tallest building, completed in 2009 |
| 28% | ESS | 3 | What's right in front of the tee? |
| 28% | OVERSTATEMENT | 13 | What "Home of the world's best pizza!" most likely is |
| 28% | STOLEHOME | 9 | What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series |
| 28% | USSR | 4 | One-sixth of the world's ground surface until 1991, in brief |
| 28% | ORCA | 4 | Whale found in every one of the world's oceans |
| 28% | BOSTON | 6 | Site of the world's first city marathon in 1897 |
| 28% | CANADA | 6 | Most of the world's lakes are in this country |
| 28% | OTTO | 4 | Cruise's ex in ''War of the Worlds'' |
| 27% | WILKINSON | 9 | Jonny ___, former English rugby player who was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2016 |
| 27% | LEAKED | 6 | What the CIA's Joshua Adam Schulte did with documents he had access to in March 2016 |
| 27% | YPRES | 5 | Town in western Belgium; scene of many battles in the First World War |
| 27% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 27% | HYSTERIA | 8 | What 1938's "The War of the Worlds" broadcast set off |
| 27% | REMAKE | 6 | Pete's Dragon in 2016 is a __ of the 1977 film |
| 27% | SPIT | 4 | What the nests in bird's-nest soup are made of |
| 27% | NUT | 3 | What's ''cracked'' in each of the four star-paired answers |
| 27% | HEATRAYS | 8 | Weapons in Wells's "The War of the Worlds" |
| 27% | HEATRAY | 7 | Martian's weapon in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 27% | ORCA | 4 | Apex predator in all of the world's oceans |
| 27% | TUMNUS | 6 | Lucy's faun friend in the world of Narnia |
| 27% | OTTO | 4 | Tom Cruise's ex in ''War of the Worlds'' |
| 27% | HUG | 3 | What any of the O's in "XOXOXO" represent |
| 27% | SUPERSONIC | 10 | In excess of the speed of sound |