Daily Double Prep

Daily Double Stats by Topic

#TopicDomainDD Count Contestant AccuracyAvg Value
1 History History 1168 68.5% $2,141 Practice
2 Wordplay Wordplay 764 68.1% $2,065 Practice
3 Visual Art Arts 649 63.2% $2,126 Practice
4 Literature Literature 512 63.1% $2,268 Practice
5 U.S. Presidents History 377 66.8% $1,796 Practice
6 Government & Politics Business 373 66.5% $2,148 Practice
7 Books & Authors Literature 372 66.7% $2,214 Practice
8 Science Science 317 69.4% $2,548 Practice
9 Movies Pop Culture 308 71.4% $1,788 Practice
10 Bodies of Water Geography 296 62.5% $2,096 Practice
11 Geography Geography 285 65.6% $2,213 Practice
12 Animals Science 250 60.0% $1,966 Practice
13 The Bible Religion 245 64.5% $1,766 Practice
14 Shakespeare Literature 236 62.3% $1,835 Practice
15 Transportation Business 228 63.6% $1,842 Practice
16 Authors Literature 224 62.5% $2,200 Practice
17 Historical Figures History 218 67.0% $1,870 Practice
18 Poetry Literature 191 60.7% $2,074 Practice
19 World Geography Geography 189 64.6% $1,886 Practice
20 Television Pop Culture 184 66.3% $1,294 Practice
21 Quotations Literature 184 66.3% $1,655 Practice
22 American History History 171 62.6% $1,879 Practice
23 Music Music 163 70.6% $1,917 Practice
24 Letter Words Wordplay 163 65.6% $2,049 Practice
25 Countries Geography 163 69.9% $2,592 Practice
26 Word Origins Language 160 57.5% $2,403 Practice
27 Novels Literature 157 57.3% $2,341 Practice
28 Business & Industry Business 157 66.2% $1,792 Practice
29 Botany Science 157 59.9% $1,928 Practice
30 Capitals Geography 153 63.4% $2,444 Practice

Daily Doubles: Authors

DD PEN NAMES — $1,000 Show #9524 (2026-03-19)

She used the pen names Flora Fairfield & A.M. Barnard but used her real name on "Jo's Boys"

DD AUTHORS' HOMES — $2,400 Show #9333 (2025-05-14)

Some years after vacating the "Old Manse", he purchased a home from the Alcotts & called it "The Wayside"

DD AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS — $3,000 Show #9270 (2025-02-14)

In a 1973 book by her, Deenie has to deal with scoliosis as well as regular 7th grade issues

DD AUTHORS — $100 Show #9259 (2025-01-30)

Sinclair Lewis created this guy, a symbol of materialist conformity; Matthew Broderick played him on stage in 2024

DD AUTHORS INITIALLY — $4,000 Show #9210 (2024-11-22)

In 2017 this author said, "I grew up in a greaser neighborhood" but got put in high school classes with Socs

DD AUTHORS' EPITAPHS — $800 Show #9208 (2024-11-20)

Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore"

DD WOMEN AUTHORS — $5,800 Show #9180 (2024-10-11)

You can breathe easier knowing that Terry McMillan wrote a sequel to this novel called "Getting to Happy"

DD BRITISH AUTHORS — $5,000 Show #9147 (2024-07-16)

Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he was named for explorer Amundsen

DD AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING — $3,000 Show #9122 (2024-06-11)

During World War II he flew 60 combat missions as a U.S. Air Force bombardier... isn't that crazy? Or maybe not

DD AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES — $9,400 Show #22 (2024-05-01)

The town of Eastwick, Rhode Island

DD NAME THAT AUTHOR — $2,000 Show #9087 (2024-04-23)

"It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics... but this slaughtering machine ran on"

DD AUTHORS AT WAR — $1,800 Show #9071 (2024-04-01)

As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground

DD AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS — $1,500 Show #9017 (2024-01-16)

"Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling

DD AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES — $1,000 Show #9016 (2024-01-15)

Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one?

DD ALL ABOUT AUTHORS — $1,200 Show #9009 (2024-01-04)

This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa

DD AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS — $2,000 Show #8917 (2023-07-18)

Her 1936 effort "We the Living" is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism

DD WOMEN AUTHORS — $1,500 Show #8885 (2023-06-02)

After the success of this classic about Francie Nolan & her impoverished New York family, Betty Smith co-wrote a musical based on it

DD BRITISH AUTHORS — $8,600 Show #19 (2023-05-24)

First & last name of the lesser-known sibling who wrote the semi-autobiographical "Agnes Grey"

DD WOMEN WRITERS — $8,000 Show #2 (2023-05-08)

Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation

DD WITH AUTHOR-ITY — $200 Show #6 (2022-10-30)

Bootlegger Max Gerlach was one of the people F. Scott Fitzgerald may have used as the model for this title character

DD PEN NAMES — $5,000 Show #8716 (2022-10-10)

After moving from Russia to the U.S. in the 1920s, Alissa Rosenbaum adopted this pen name with the same initials

DD AUTHORS — $2,500 Show #8694 (2022-07-28)

A 1903courthousein this state is preserved as amuseumbecause as a young girl, Harper Lee watched her dad argue cases there

DD AUTHORS — $5,000 Show #8597 (2022-03-15)

Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it

DD FEMALE AUTHORS — $1,500 Show #6 (2022-02-10)

Joining Thalia & Urania, the ancient Greek poet Sappho was dubbed "the tenth" one of these goddesses

DD IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS — $6,800 Show #8573 (2022-02-09)

The Globe Inn, with a vast selection of single malt scotches, was a hangout of this 18th century poet & can be yours

DD AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING — $6,000 Show #8466 (2021-09-13)

She studied medicine at Johns Hopkins before moving to Paris in 1903 & drove an ambulance for the French in World War I

DD AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG — $3,000 Show #8412 (2021-06-01)

Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua

DD AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES — $2,000 Show #8388 (2021-04-28)

Bram Stoker consulted the 1865 book this region: "Its Products and Its People" to write about a place he never went

DD AUTHORS — $2,000 Show #8385 (2021-04-23)

Charles Dickens asked to be buried quietly in Kent, but he ended up in this section of Westminster Abbey

DD FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR — $4,000 Show #8365 (2021-03-26)

On his 1875 passing in Copenhagen, it was said though his eyes were closed, in children's hearts, he would live forever

DD AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS — $3,000 Show #8346 (2021-03-01)

One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago

DD 3-NAMED AUTHORS — $5,000 Show #8333 (2021-02-10)

Simon & Schuster sponsors an award for suspense fiction named for this female author of "A Stranger is Watching"

DD NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR — $3,600 Show #8321 (2021-01-25)

"Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen"

DD AUTHORS & THEIR PETS — $1,000 Show #8304 (2020-12-17)

Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy

DD AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS — $4,000 Show #8297 (2020-12-08)

One of his professors at Cornell was William Strunk Jr. whose "Elements of Style" he would later revise

DD AUTHORS' HOMES — $3,000 Show #8278 (2020-11-11)

In the 1870s she & her family lived in a little dugout house near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the banks of Plum Creek

DD ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS — $7,000 Show #8269 (2020-10-29)

One of his most famous characters, Harry Haller, has the same initials as the author

DD AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS — $2,600 Show #8184 (2020-03-19)

Like Doc Holliday, Zane Grey was trained as one of these professionals

DD HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! — $2,200 Show #8176 (2020-03-09)

Not only was she talented enough to somehow write another person's autobiography, she gave us "Three Lives" in 1909

DD FACE THE AUTHOR — $6,000 Show #8123 (2019-12-25)

Thisauthor based a 1962 novel on personal experience working in a hospital's psychiatric ward

DD ITALIAN AUTHORS — $2,000 Show #8113 (2019-12-11)

Chapter one of this Umberto Eco novel begins as a sphere "swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty"

DD OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS — $4,000 Show #8112 (2019-12-10)

Mrs, Tittlemouse, Tom Kitten & many other animal characters were created by this "artisan"

DD STATUESQUE AUTHORS — $3,000 Show #8104 (2019-11-28)

Much ofher6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains

DD PEN NAMES — $1,200 Show #8081 (2019-10-28)

A perfect spy could tell you it's the pen name of the British novelist born David John Moore Cornwell

DD SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR — $2,000 Show #8070 (2019-10-11)

The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was "The Hornet's Nest", his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South

DD AUTHORS: BORN & DIED — $4,400 Show #8064 (2019-10-03)

The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103

DD WOMEN AUTHORS — $4,000 Show #7947 (2019-03-12)

Born in Paris in 1804, she's known for her novels, her lovers & writing under a masculine name

DD WOMEN WRITERS — $2,500 Show #7907 (2019-01-15)

An auction of this poet's possessions included her copy of "Joy of Cooking" with "Ted likes this" next to a veal recipe

DD ALL ABOUT AUTHORS — $1,000 Show #7880 (2018-12-07)

Hunter S. Thompson didn't coin this word; editor Bill Cardoso did, to describe Hunter's style of journalism

DD AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES — $2,000 Show #7833 (2018-10-03)

In the South, Maycomb & Finch's Landing