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: Books & Authors

DD BOOK COVERS — $1,300 Show #42 (2026-03-27)

A haunting paperback cover of a 1979 V.C. Andrews book shows a girl gazing out of the window of this room

DD THE SOCIAL BOOKSHELF — $6,000 Show #9516 (2026-03-09)

Chapter 3 of "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois is about the views of this educator & rival

DD BOOKS & AUTHORS — $7,600 Show #9505 (2026-02-20)

Pierre Boulle drew upon his wartime experiences for this 1952 novel about POWs building the Burma-Siam railway

DD SONG & BOOK: SAME TITLE — $1,000 Show #9500 (2026-02-13)

Don Henley looks back at an old relationship; Roger Kahn looks back at the baseball players of the 1950s

DD BOOK IT — $1,000 Show #9488 (2026-01-28)

In a 1906 novel he wrote of "splitters" who earned 50 cents an hour doing nothing but chopping hogs down the middle

DD ON THE BOOKSHELF — $1,000 Show #9464 (2025-12-25)

Anthony Swofford's experiences in the First Gulf War led to his memoir called this, also the nickname of a Marine

DD CLOTHES IN BOOKS — $8,000 Show #9445 (2025-11-28)

Completes the Wilkie Collins description of a woman's attire: "Bonnet, shawl, and gown all of..."

DD IN THE BOOK — $1,000 Show #9427 (2025-11-04)

Boys in Afghanistan battle to see who can cut the strings of their opponents' toys

DD ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES — $2,000 Show #9410 (2025-10-10)

The opening of this novel describes Castle Caladan, -which "served the Atreides family as home for twenty-six generations"

DD BOOK CHARACTER INSPO — $1,000 Show #9399 (2025-09-25)

The boar-shevik Snowball from "Animal Farm" was based on this man who got got in 1940

DD IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BOOKS — $2,000 Show #9352 (2025-06-10)

The Spanish edition of this book was published under the title "A sangre fría"

DD BOOKS OF THE BIBLE? — $1,200 Show #53 (2025-06-04)

Encompassing math & logic, "Principia Mathematica" by Alfred North Whitehead & him is a book of numbers & letters too

DD LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK — $1,000 Show #9339 (2025-05-22)

"But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real"

DD BOOK TITLE TATTLE — $1,500 Show #9335 (2025-05-16)

The opening line of William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" provided the title for this Cormac McCarthy novel

DD ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF — $5,000 Show #43 (2025-05-14)

There are several water-damaged books on fishing, including this Montana-set Norman Maclean tale "& Other Stories"

DD THINE BOOK SHALT HAVE A BIBLICAL TITLE — $500 Show #39 (2025-04-23)

This John Steinbeck title refers to the direction traveled by Cain in the book of Genesis after he did you know what to Abel

DD PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES — $4,000 Show #9315 (2025-04-18)

It's the title of Demi Moore's memoir; Bruce Willis & Ashton Kutcher are characters, but not Joy, Anger, Sadness or Bing Bong

DD FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT — $5,000 Show #9291 (2025-03-17)

The people of Uruk hide their kids & hide their wives whenever the title king rolls up & they start glazing Anu to create Enkidu

DD WRITERS IN BOOKS — $3,200 Show #9290 (2025-03-14)

In 1976, "Lady Oracle", about writer Joan Foster, was reviewed as "the most cheerful novel" by this Canadian woman

DD ALLITERATIVE BOOKS — $10,000 Show #9287 (2025-03-11)

"That illustrious man mounted into the Windsor chair... and addressed the club" is a line from this Dickens work

DD PARTS OF THE BOOK — $6,000 Show #9286 (2025-03-10)

This 6th grader & title character says, "I've been looking for you God. I looked in temple. I looked in church"

DD SUBTITLES OF BOOKS — $2,800 Show #9261 (2025-02-03)

The subtitle of "Frankenstein" was "The Modern" this, no mythtake

DD PEOPLE OF THE BOOK — $3,400 Show #9246 (2025-01-13)

Paralyzed Clifford, amorous Constance, manly Oliver

DD LAST LINES OF BOOKS — $3,400 Show #9205 (2024-11-15)

"Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger"

DD THE BOOKS OF MORMONS — $10,400 Show #9184 (2024-10-17)

One heck of a labyrinth is the only way out in this 2009 James Dashner novel

DD THE BOOK NOOK — $2,500 Show #9183 (2024-10-16)

"I fell burning into the desert", explains the title character of this novel by Michael Ondaatje

DD FASHION IN BOOKS — $3,000 Show #9146 (2024-07-15)

Aunt Alexandra & Atticus Finch get into an argument about this narrator wearing overalls

DD BOOKS — $5,000 Show #9141 (2024-07-08)

When Kotaro Isaka's high-speed thriller "Maria Beetle" was translated into English, it got this title

DD BOOK SEQUELS — $4,000 Show #9126 (2024-06-17)

William Goldman wrote "Brothers", a sequel to this thriller about a young runner in which Agent Scylla is alive

DD BAND BOOKS — $3,000 Show #9107 (2024-05-21)

Salman Rushdie's "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" merges rock & roll with the myth of this lyre-playing hero

DD PREPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES — $3,000 Show #9100 (2024-05-10)

Virginia Woolf used stream of consciousness in this novel about the Ramsay family vacationing on the Isle of Skye

DD A LOVE FOR BOOKS — $5,000 Show #9081 (2024-04-15)

Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking

DD BOOK TITLES — $9,200 Show #9015 (2024-01-12)

You'll find this Steinbeck title in Genesis 4:16

DD THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... — $4,000 Show #9014 (2024-01-11)

"For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas"

DD BOOKS & AUTHORS — $2,000 Show #8959 (2023-10-26)

To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan

DD BOOK CLUB — $8,000 Show #8948 (2023-10-11)

A 1989 bestseller begins, "My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at" this

DD BOOK DEDICATIONS — $2,000 Show #14 (2023-09-27)

This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover

DD QUOTABLE BOOKS — $3,000 Show #8911 (2023-07-10)

In 1958's "The Dharma Bums", he wrote, "It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy"

DD U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK — $201 Show #8908 (2023-07-05)

"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil":Go South!

DD CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS — $1,000 Show #8886 (2023-06-05)

A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy"

DD PEOPLE IN BOOKS — $600 Show #8853 (2023-04-19)

Neighbor & narrator Nick Carraway doesn't mind some loud parties in this American classic

DD IN THE BOOKSTORE — $1,200 Show #8851 (2023-04-17)

This title of Prince Harry's memoir completes a description of Prince William & him, "The Heir & the..."

DD THE BOOK OF ROMANS — $3,000 Show #8849 (2023-04-13)

Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet

DD BAD BOYS IN BOOKS — $1,200 Show #8847 (2023-04-11)

"You've been brought up bad... Fagin will make something of you", says this rascal to Oliver Twist

DD THE BOOK'S SUPPORTING CHARACTERS — $2,000 Show #8799 (2023-02-02)

Dr. Brodsky & Dim, a Droog until he's very much not a Droog

DD BOOK OF THE YEAR — $4,800 Show #8793 (2023-01-25)

Mark Kurlansky wrote a book titled this year of the Tet Offensive & 2 American assassinations

DD THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS — $2,400 Show #8792 (2023-01-24)

Cathy Ames kills her parents & later abandons her newborn sons Aron & Cal Trask in this Steinbeck novel

DD QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES — $5,800 Show #8783 (2023-01-11)

Retelling nursery rhymes as if they were crimes, a humorous work asks "Who Pushed" him

DD THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK — $3,600 Show #8769 (2022-12-22)

"The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is an underground novel in this Philip K. Dick book set in a conquered America

DD 2-WORD BOOK TITLES — $5,600 Show #8750 (2022-11-25)

Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary