| # | Topic | Domain | DD Count | Contestant Accuracy | Avg 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 |
Marx your calendars! 1848 was the year this pamphlet began ominously with "A spectre is haunting Europe"
A 2025 doc about her includes her exploits in space & the life partner she was never able to acknowledge
According to Suetonius, Caesar uttered this phrase as he took a big gamble & crossed the Rubicon
After making the mistake of shacking up with the wrong beefcake, she became the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
Found on the Left Bank of the Seine, this veterans' hospital was built by architect Libéral Bruant in Baroque style
The largest of the Ryukyu Islands, it was the site of a grueling 1945 battle with 12,000 American & 100,000 Japanese troops killed
In 1935 she became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute
This language from Orwell's "1984" was "designed... to diminish the range of thought"
Surname of General Grigory, wooer of Catherine the Great; he was said to have fabricated fake villages to win her favor
An older sister wrote about this youngest one's "Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "The choice of subject was an entire mistake"
Mad that this pres. didn't recognize the new USSR, diplomat William Bullitt Jr. teamed with Freud on a savage psycho-biography of him
"The true treasure of the Church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God" is no. 62 in this document posted in 1517
In a 1972 novel Joanna tries to shake up the wives of this suburb but ends up as glassy-eyed as the rest
Though he runs Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman still has this 2-word royal title as on tape day his father continues to live & reign
Hippo, an ancient port on the coast of North Africa, was home to this saint in the 5th century
For 4 days in 1863, New York City was the scene of riots over inequitable exemptions in this process
Robert Montgomery Bird noted that his own "The Gladiator" about this revolt leader was from the same year as Nat Turner's revolt
The main character of this ancient epic poem is described as "the man of twists & turns driven time & again off course"
In 1805 this ex-veep wrote to his son-in-law that he would "seek another country" due to his legal problems
Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, "We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only" this substance "can cure"
Last name of the man of Scottish ancestry who moved to Eastern Kentucky in 1804 & whose descendants were part of a nasty feud
This archduchess & empress led Austria through the Seven Years' War & was the mother of Marie Antoinette
In this 1952 film Don Lockwood works as a stuntman elevated to leading man, just before the advent of talking pictures
Chapter 1 of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" begins with this famous 4-word question
The original 1980 version of this miniseries starred Richard Chamberlain & Toshiro Mifune & unlike the reboot, didn't use subtitles
Mr. Wonderful will invest in Elizabeth Magie Phillips' "Landlord's Game"... if she'll rename it this, nice to have in business
Like events 70 years later, in 1919 student demonstrators took control of this plaza to protest government actions
The Bismarck Tribune shocked the nation with the first full account of this 1876 event in which one of its correspondents died
A 6-day bank takeover in a European capital led to this term for an unexpected psychological phenomenon
The rocking chair that Lincoln was shot in was claimed by the government but returned to the widow of a man with this last name
After an 1885 siege, the Mahdists slaughtered the British defenders of this city at the junction of the Blue & White Niles
Ezra Pound was partial to these poetic works defined as divisions of a long poem; he wrote 117 of them
Linking Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion
"Bruno" was a nickname of one of the turrets on this battleship that was sunk in part by the HMS Dorsetshire
Lovers of Latin must have rejoiced when this name was officially adopted in 1713; it's still on a province
Rhyming with a term for a pro athlete on the market, it's a chemical trigger; Ehrlich's one is used to test for the presence of LSD
The last Allied summit conference of World War II ended on Aug. 2, 1945 in this German suburb
He landed his 4th No. 1 hit in 2024 with "Not Like Us", a diss track aimed at Drake--oh, and he also has a Pulitzer Prize, NBD
Okay, so I burnt our lasagna--at least I'm not this fifth Roman emperor who legend says fiddled while Rome burned
Midwest transplants included Robert Stroud, known as this--inaccurately, as he couldn't bring his canaries from Leavenworth
A flanking "bullhorn" military technique helped give this leader dominance of his Zulu empire
Thankfully, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned this unfortunate decision of 1896
Giuseppe Mazzini's 1830s movement, Giovine Italia, called this in English, inspired La Jeune Suisse & Mloda Polska
"Of the division of labour" kicks off Chapter One in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" the rest of this 1776 title
The forces of Leonidas & Xerxes faced off at this 480 B.C. battle
Alan Arkin:"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit"
In 1626 this Dutch colonial governor got big into the Manhattan real estate market, paying 60 guilders for, well, Manhattan
Gloria Steinem said this 1972 Democratic candidate for pres. "first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House"
Magellan's flagship on his epic journey had this Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit
2007?"There Will Be Blood", "No Country for Old Men" & this drama starring George Clooney as a law firm fixer