| URUGUAY | Smallest country to win the World Cup |
| ICELAND | Smallest country to ever get to soccer's World Cup (7) |
| URU | First nation to win the World Cup: Abbr. |
| JAPAN | In 2011 Victoire Pisa, owned by Yoshimi Ichikawa, became the first horse bred in this country to win the Dubai World Cup |
| USA | Only host country to win the Women's World Cup |
| SOUTHKOREA | Novelist Han Kang made history Oct.10 when she became the first writer from this country to win the Nobel Prize in literature |
| GOALS | They'll win the World Cup |
| JOHANNESBURG | In which city did Spain win the World Cup? (12) |
| GAMESIX | When the Blue Jays would defeat the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series in Toronto on October 23, 1993: Two words. |
| BOBBYFISCHER | In 1972, who became the first US chess player to win the world championship? (5,7) |
| HOUSTON | US baseball team that defeated the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series on November 5, 2022 (7) |
| ASTROS | US baseball team that defeated the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series on November 5, 2022 (6) |
| MCRAE | Colin --- the first British driver to win the World Rally Championship (5) |
| ZHAO | Who recently became the first Chinese player to win the world snooker championship? (4) |
| COLIN | Scottish driver who in 1995 became the first British man to win the World Rally Championship Drivers' title (5,5) |
| NATIONALS | First team to win the World Series with four road victories |
| ALANMINTER | British boxer who beat Vito Antuofermo at Caesars Palace in 1980 to win the World Middleweight title |
| BORISSPASSKY | Who did Bobby Fischer beat to win the World Chess Championship in 1972? (5,7) |
| INGEMARJOHANSSON | Swedish boxer who defeated Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship in 1959 |
| LISTON | Surname of boxer defeated by Mohammad Ali in 1965 to win the World Heavyweight Title, Sonny ...... (6) |
