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: Historical Figures

DD FINAL RESTING PLACES — $1,000 Show #9421 (2025-10-27)

Levallois-Perret Cemetery is where this civil engineer known as the "Magician of Iron" came to rest after his 1923 death

DD PEOPLE IN HISTORY — $1,000 Show #9225 (2024-12-13)

Before an upgrade in title, he was the first bishop in France to implement the reforms laid out at the Council of Trent

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $3,000 Show #9133 (2024-06-26)

The Pax Romana, or Roman peace, which lasted for more than 200 years, began with his reign in 27 B.C.

DD NOTABLE NAMES — $9,400 Show #9064 (2024-03-21)

His 1936 "General Theory" suggesting government spending to lower unemployment influenced economic policy for decades

DD NOTABLE NAMES — $5,000 Show #9040 (2024-02-16)

In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"

DD FAMOUS PAIRS — $2,300 Show #9032 (2024-02-06)

Depending on whose journal you read, it was either in October or November of 1871 when they first met at Lake Tanganyika

DD CONTEMPORARIES — $10,000 Show #9000 (2023-12-22)

J.S. Bach & this great German-British composer were born a few weeks & a few dozen miles apart in 1685

DD FAMOUS PAIRS — $1,000 Show #8965 (2023-11-03)

Their first map appeared in an 1872 issue of the "Railway Guide"

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $2,000 Show #8610 (2022-04-01)

This Rhode Island mansion was named for the waves that crash into the cliffs below it

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $3,000 Show #11 (2022-02-16)

The subject of a 1993 movie, he's the only member of the Nazi Party honored with burial on Israel's Mt. Zion

DD PEOPLE IN HISTORY — $5,000 Show #8537 (2021-12-21)

Gold found on his land in 1848 ruined this California man; people destroyed his property looking for more & by 1852 he was bankrupt

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $4,000 Show #8512 (2021-11-16)

Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, received a copy of this Oct. 31, 1517 document

DD FAMOUS NAMES — $7,000 Show #8511 (2021-11-15)

In 1922 this archaeologist sent a cable saying, "At last have made wonderful discovery in valley"

DD FAMOUS FAMILIES — $4,000 Show #8468 (2021-09-15)

The first 3 doctors who worked at St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota all had this last name

DD NOTABLE WOMEN — $3,200 Show #8397 (2021-05-11)

In an 1851 speech this formerly enslaved abolitionist & a feminist wondered, "Ain't I a woman?"

DD PEOPLE IN HISTORY — $1,000 Show #8359 (2021-03-18)

The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this manwho was born there around 1028

DD FAMOUS AMERICANS — $3,500 Show #8326 (2021-02-01)

His work on game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize, which he shared with John C. Harsanyi & Reinhard Selten

DD NOTABLE WOMEN — $9,000 Show #8312 (2021-01-12)

The longest-serving female U.S. senator in history, Barbara Mikulski represented this state from 1987 to 2017

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $5,000 Show #8276 (2020-11-09)

In 1781 this German philosopher published his "Critique of Pure Reason", because he could

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $1,200 Show #8185 (2020-03-20)

Lord Darnley, husband of this monarch, was murdered at Edinburgh in 1567

DD LESSER-KNOWN NAMES — $2,800 Show #8164 (2020-02-20)

Philippe Curtius taught her the art of wax modeling & in 1794 left her his 2 museums

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $1,000 Show #8160 (2020-02-14)

This Prussian who helped train the Continental Army left his name on a "ville" that's one of Ohio's oldest communities

DD FINAL RESTING PLACES — $6,000 Show #8117 (2019-12-17)

The tombs of Machiavelli & Michelangelo can be found in this city's Basilica of Santa Croce

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $3,000 Show #8108 (2019-12-04)

In 1609 he published "New Astronomy", containing his first 2 laws of planetary motion

DD FAMOUS AMERICANS — $3,000 Show #8093 (2019-11-13)

During the Blitz, Edward R. Murrow borrowed this 5-word phrase from Londoners who weren't sure they'd survive the evening

DD PEOPLE IN HISTORY — $5,000 Show #8009 (2019-06-06)

As Chief Justice he presided over the Roe v. Wade & Pentagon Papers cases

DD LESSER-KNOWN NAMES — $11,914 Show #7982 (2019-04-30)

It was philosopher Herbert Spencer, not Darwin, who coined his 4-word phrase that sums up natural selection

DD NOTABLE WOMEN — $1,200 Show #7948 (2019-03-13)

In 1952, this pioneering writer on the environment was the first woman to win a National Book Award for nonfiction.

DD NOTORIOUS — $3,200 Show #7933 (2019-02-20)

Notorious weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi was a key figure in this 1986 scandal that saw 1,500 missiles head to Tehran

DD CONTEMPORARIES — $100 Show #7835 (2018-10-05)

On March 5, 1770 Crispus Attucks was slain in the Boston massacre; on May 16 she married the Dauphin of France

DD NOTABLE NAMES — $1,200 Show #7641 (2017-11-27)

This Scotsman came to the U.S. in 1871 at the invitation of Sarah Fuller, a teacher at a school for the deaf

DD FAMOUS WOMEN — $1,000 Show #7540 (2017-05-26)

In 1983, shewent where no American woman had gone before

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $1,500 Show #7459 (2017-02-02)

What goes around, comes around--in 1541 this conqueror was murdered at his palace in Lima

DD CONTEMPORARIES — $2,000 Show #7397 (2016-11-08)

1610 saw Hudson discover his bay & this man first observe Jupiter's 4 moons

DD FAMOUS PAIRS — $2,000 Show #7272 (2016-04-05)

In the 1990s their "two thumbs up" became a registered trademark

DD NOTORIOUS — $1,000 Show #7211 (2016-01-11)

This 1962 film made convicted murderer-turned-ornithologist Robert Stroud a household name

DD NOTABLE WOMEN — $1,500 Show #7133 (2015-09-23)

In the 1920s she organized a birth control conference in NYC & a world population conference in Geneva

DD FINAL RESTING PLACES — $3,600 Show #6859 (2014-06-12)

This author's ashes were buried under a large walnut tree in front of his office on Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana, California

DD FAMOUS WOMEN — $400 Show #6843 (2014-05-21)

In 1896 this educator became the first woman in Italy to get a medical degree

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $2,000 Show #6734 (2013-12-19)

In 1861, 4 years after being selected to preside over Mexico's supreme court, he was elected president

DD 19th CENTURY NOTABLES — $5,000 Show #6725 (2013-12-06)

In 1890 this painter of the American West illustrated an edition of Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha"

DD NOTABLE NAMES — $4,000 Show #6427 (2012-07-24)

Mark Twain published this man's memoirs in 1885 & called them "the best of any general's since Caesar"

DD FAMOUS PAIRS — $3,000 Show #6306 (2012-02-06)

Title Trojan lovers in a Shakespeare play

DD NOTABLE WOMEN — $1,600 Show #6241 (2011-11-07)

Piloting Vostok 6, she orbited the Earth 48 times during her trip into space in 1963

DD HISTORIC NAMES — $2,000 Show #6229 (2011-10-20)

In 1514 this Spanish explorer was made military governor of Bimini & Florida

DD LESSER-KNOWN NAMES — $1,000 Show #6182 (2011-06-28)

The teensy "JF" at the base of Washington's neck on the obverse of this belongs to John Flanagan, its sculptor

DD NOTABLE NAMES — $600 Show #6017 (2010-11-09)

At the Diet of Worms in 1521, he said, "I cannot and will not retract anything"

DD NOTABLE NAMES — $6,000 Show #5806 (2009-12-07)

This lt. colonel & his men were vanquished in about an hour on June 25, 1876

DD LESSER-KNOWN NAMES — $2,000 Show #5753 (2009-09-23)

In 1690 British navigator John Strong named the channel between 2 South American islands for Viscount this

DD FAMOUS AMERICANS — $6,400 Show #5387 (2008-01-29)

This man who helped win ratification of the Constitution by Maryland gave his name to a famous fort