| 100% | RIYADH | 6 | World capital whose name means "gardens" |
| 88% | CAIRO | 5 | World capital whose name means "victorious" |
| 87% | ADDISABABA | 10 | World capital whose name means "new flower" |
| 86% | KHARTOUM | 8 | World capital whose name means "elephant trunk" in Arabic |
| 85% | HANOI | 5 | World capital whose name means "between two rivers" in Vietnamese |
| 85% | KYOTO | 5 | Former world capital whose name means "capital city" |
| 70% | ULANBATOR | 9 | Capital whose name means "Red Hero" |
| 70% | HONOLULU | 8 | Capital whose name means "sheltered bay" |
| 69% | HANOI | 5 | Capital whose name means "city inside rivers" |
| 68% | DOHA | 4 | Capital whose name means "big tree" in Arabic |
| 68% | LHASA | 5 | Capital whose name means "place of the gods" |
| 68% | LIMA | 4 | World capital whose name is a kind of bean |
| 67% | RABAT | 5 | National capital whose name means "military post" |
| 67% | DAKAR | 5 | African capital whose name means "tamarind tree" |
| 67% | SOFIA | 5 | World capital whose name comes from the Greek for "wisdom" |
| 66% | LHASA | 5 | Asian capital whose name means "place of the gods" |
| 65% | TOKYO | 5 | City whose name means "eastern capital" |
| 64% | REYKJAVIK | 9 | Capital whose name means "smoky bay," referencing the steam from its hot springs |
| 64% | ELMUNDO | 7 | Spanish newspaper whose name means "the world" |
| 60% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 59% | LHASA | 5 | Capital city whose name means "place of the gods" |
| 57% | KYOTO | 5 | Noncapital city whose name means "capital city" |
| 57% | KYOTO | 5 | Japanese city whose name means "capital city" |
| 53% | CARMELA | 7 | Italian girls' name meaning garden |
| 51% | OSLO | 4 | World capital whose seal depicts St. Hallvard |
| 51% | ECLAIR | 6 | Food whose name means "lightning" |
| 51% | ELAL | 4 | Airline whose name means "skyward" |
| 51% | HOPI | 4 | Tribe whose name means "peaceful" |
| 51% | HOSEA | 5 | Prophet whose name means "salvation" |
| 51% | SANSKRIT | 8 | Language whose name means "perfected" |