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: Government & Politics

DD IT'S GOVERNMENT POLICY — $1,500 Show #9473 (2026-01-07)

This U.S. policy of using implied force in foreign relations is also known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

DD THAT'S CONSTITUTIONAL — $1,000 Show #9467 (2025-12-30)

"Each State shall have at Least one Representative"; Delaware & this 13th state got exactly that... one

DD WHAT'S YOUR GOVERNMENT NAME? — $2,000 Show #9423 (2025-10-29)

Brunei is an Islamic one of these monarchies; the 29th & current title holder is Hassanal Bolkiah

DD HAPPY 80th, UNITED NATIONS! — $1,000 Show #9418 (2025-10-22)

Since 1948 more than 4,400 of these U.N. personnel have given their lives in the line of duty

DD GOVERNORS — $3,500 Show #9325 (2025-05-02)

Her father Ajit Singh Randhawa was a professor at the HBCU Voorhees College in South Carolina

DD GOVERNMENT JOBS — $2,400 Show #9312 (2025-04-15)

This IRS job from the Latin for "hearing" is more formally a revenue agent or tax compliance officer

DD AMERICAN GOVERNMENT — $6,400 Show #9267 (2025-02-11)

The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789

DD GOVERNMENT WORK — $1,000 Show #9243 (2025-01-08)

You might get a bit sick of Lincoln's face as a metal forming machine operator at this agency's production facilities

DD U.S. GOVERNMENT — $3,400 Show #9194 (2024-10-31)

In the 1930s this state eliminated a house of its legislature & the salaries of 90 out of 133 lawmakers

DD TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS — $2,800 Show #9180 (2024-10-11)

Frank Franz served as an Indian agent of the Osage Agency before becoming this territory's last governor in 1906

DD U.S. GOVERNMENT — $2,200 Show #9127 (2024-06-18)

While the National Park Service is a bureau of the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service is an agency of this department

DD WHITE HOUSE WEDDINGS — $6,000 Show #9113 (2024-05-29)

The 1st ceremony was in 1812 when Lucy Payne Washington, this first lady's sister, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd

DD CONGRESS ACTED UP — $1,200 Show #9109 (2024-05-23)

The Helms-Burton Act notes, "Radio Marti" was one of the "effective vehicles for providing the people of" this nation "with news"

DD 2020s POLITICS — $4,000 Show #9103 (2024-05-15)

Quite the center of attention in 2022, in the '60s this senator played QB for West Virginia & assistant coach Bobby Bowden

DD LEXICONGRESS — $4,000 Show #9101 (2024-05-13)

Jason Smith currently holds this title that includes the name of the legislature of the United Kingdom

DD BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN — $6,000 Show #9073 (2024-04-03)

In the 1990s this future senator from Illinois was the only woman in her helicopter training class

DD PROSE & CONGRESS — $9,000 Show #9057 (2024-03-12)

In 2011 this senator published his "The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed & the Decline of Our Middle Class"

DD THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION — $5,800 Show #9014 (2024-01-11)

This state's plan where all states would have equal representation regardless of size was proposed by William Paterson

DD CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS — $5,500 Show #8969 (2023-11-09)

FromRWRto this

DD GOVERNMENT & POLITICS — $8,000 Show #8967 (2023-11-07)

Randhawa is the maiden name of this Republican, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

DD LOOK IN THE CABINET — $4,200 Show #8944 (2023-10-05)

At the time of its establishment in 1849, this Cabinet department was also known as the Home Department

DD WHITE HOUSE PETS — $3,000 Show #8936 (2023-09-25)

Here's this president's wife, Grace, with their pet raccoon Rebecca, a star attraction at the White House

DD THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. — $3,000 Show #8933 (2023-09-20)

A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women

DD UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES — $1,600 Show #8901 (2023-06-26)

Bordering Dover & Folkestone & Hythe, this district on England's east coast has a few ancient "Tales" to tell

DD POLITICIANS — $4,000 Show #8879 (2023-05-25)

He talked about being a Vietnam vet, 5-term senator & Secretary of State in the memoir "Every Day is Extra"

DD POLITICS TALK — $2,500 Show #8840 (2023-03-31)

Sen. Robert Byrd said the survival of our constitutional system is based on "the delicate mechanism of" this pair

DD GOVERNORS — $11,200 Show #8826 (2023-03-13)

The only governor elected in 2 states, he held office in Tennessee from 1827 to 1829 & then, of course, in Texas from 1859 to 1861

DD ACTS OF CONGRESS — $1,000 Show #8803 (2023-02-08)

Talk about landmark legislation--a 1935 act authorized national historic landmarks & this Colonial Va. capital was among the first

DD ELECTION DAY — $1,200 Show #8737 (2022-11-08)

One reporter wrote, "tranquility forsook Springfield" on Election Day of this year

DD THE CABINET — $3,200 Show #8657 (2022-06-07)

In 1849 Congress passed "an act to establish the Home Department" creating this current cabinet department

DD THE UNITED NATIONS — $1,000 Show #8649 (2022-05-26)

Of the 6 official languages of the U.N., this one is first alphabetically

DD SENATE COMMITTEES — $1,200 Show #8584 (2022-02-24)

In 2006 this committee voted 10-8 to send the Alito nomination to the full Senate

DD CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS — $800 Show #14 (2022-02-17)

The Fourth Amendment guards against unreasonable these 2 related things

DD THE CONSTITUTION — $2,800 Show #8404 (2021-05-20)

The president has no pardon power in cases of this congressional proceeding

DD THE CABINET — $1,800 Show #8386 (2021-04-26)

Henry Knox in 1789 & Kenneth Royall in 1947 were the first & last secretaries of this department

DD ACTS OF CONGRESS — $2,200 Show #8359 (2021-03-18)

An 1872 act established a park in the territories of Montana & Wyoming "near the headwaters of" this river

DD FOREIGN ELECTIONS — $5,000 Show #8328 (2021-02-03)

Televised debates dubbed "The Road to Carthage" were a new feature in this country's 2019 elections

DD YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK — $2,800 Show #8308 (2021-01-06)

In 2020 Charles Q. Brown got this 3-word title for the Air Force & is the 1st African-American general to lead a military branch

DD POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? — $1,000 Show #8228 (2020-06-03)

1950: "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party"

DD U.S. GOVERNMENT — $5,630 Show #8226 (2020-06-01)

One task of this government commission opened in 1915 is to protect consumers from con games

DD BRITISH POLITICS — $3,200 Show #8175 (2020-03-06)

Since 2016 Baroness Evans of Bowes Park has been the leader of this body

DD CONGRESS — $1,200 Show #8174 (2020-03-05)

In 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act & established the first U.S. Mint in this city

DD GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS — $9,200 Show #5 (2020-01-09)

This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law

DD POLITICS — $1,600 Show #8132 (2020-01-07)

Cities as big as L.A. & Dallas have this kind of mayoral election where there's no "D"' or "R" after the candidates' names

DD POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $3,000 Show #8006 (2019-06-03)

On book covers from GOP lawmakers Jason Chaffetz & Mike Lee is this phrase for the bureaucracy said to be working against democracy

DD MY CABINET JOB — $20,000 Show #8001 (2019-05-27)

A few names, if one isn't enough:Albert Fall (who very much did), James Watt, Sally Jewell

DD GOVERNMENT & POLITICS — $2,000 Show #7985 (2019-05-03)

He became U.S. Attorney General in 2019, 27 years after taking the job for the first time

DD POLITICIANS — $10,000 Show #7934 (2019-02-21)

Before going to the Supreme Court, he made history by winning 3 straight California gubernatorial elections

DD THE BILL OF RIGHTS — $2,000 Show #7931 (2019-02-18)

Key phrases in this amendment: "Witness against himself" & "twice put in jeopardy"

DD STATE CONSTITUTIONS — $3,200 Show #7889 (2018-12-20)

The 1868 constitution of Florida stipulated a seat in the state Senate & House for a member of this Indian nation