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: History

DD THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY — $500 Show #42 (2026-03-27)

Marx your calendars! 1848 was the year this pamphlet began ominously with "A spectre is haunting Europe"

DD HISTORIC WOMEN — $5,200 Show #9528 (2026-03-25)

A 2025 doc about her includes her exploits in space & the life partner she was never able to acknowledge

DD HISTORIC STATEMENTS — $3,600 Show #9521 (2026-03-16)

According to Suetonius, Caesar uttered this phrase as he took a big gamble & crossed the Rubicon

DD WORLD HISTORY QUIZ — $300 Show #40 (2026-03-13)

After making the mistake of shacking up with the wrong beefcake, she became the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt

DD FRANCE IN THE 1600s — $4,400 Show #9495 (2026-02-06)

Found on the Left Bank of the Seine, this veterans' hospital was built by architect Libéral Bruant in Baroque style

DD MILITARY HISTORY — $3,000 Show #9485 (2026-01-23)

The largest of the Ryukyu Islands, it was the site of a grueling 1945 battle with 12,000 American & 100,000 Japanese troops killed

DD 20th CENTURY WOMEN OF THE WORLD — $5,600 Show #9481 (2026-01-19)

In 1935 she became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute

DD 20th CENTURY LIT — $9,800 Show #9476 (2026-01-12)

This language from Orwell's "1984" was "designed... to diminish the range of thought"

DD HISTORY "P"s & "Q"s — $1,000 Show #9465 (2025-12-26)

Surname of General Grigory, wooer of Catherine the Great; he was said to have fabricated fake villages to win her favor

DD 19th CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS — $2,000 Show #9460 (2025-12-19)

An older sister wrote about this youngest one's "Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "The choice of subject was an entire mistake"

DD HISTORIC AMERICANS — $1,000 Show #9460 (2025-12-19)

Mad that this pres. didn't recognize the new USSR, diplomat William Bullitt Jr. teamed with Freud on a savage psycho-biography of him

DD YOUR SWEET 16th (CENTURY) — $1,000 Show #9443 (2025-11-26)

"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

DD 20th CENTURY NOVELS THAT GOT FILMED — $5,400 Show #9438 (2025-11-19)

In a 1972 novel Joanna tries to shake up the wives of this suburb but ends up as glassy-eyed as the rest

DD TITLES IN HISTORY — $4,400 Show #9438 (2025-11-19)

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

DD HISTORIC AFRICAN FIGURES — $2,000 Show #9430 (2025-11-07)

Hippo, an ancient port on the coast of North Africa, was home to this saint in the 5th century

DD HISTORY — $6,400 Show #9415 (2025-10-17)

For 4 days in 1863, New York City was the scene of riots over inequitable exemptions in this process

DD 19th CENTURY DRAMA — $4,000 Show #9414 (2025-10-16)

Robert Montgomery Bird noted that his own "The Gladiator" about this revolt leader was from the same year as Nat Turner's revolt

DD PRE-21st CENTURY FANTASY LITERATURE — $3,000 Show #9406 (2025-10-06)

The main character of this ancient epic poem is described as "the man of twists & turns driven time & again off course"

DD HISTORIC LETTERS — $2,400 Show #9404 (2025-10-02)

In 1805 this ex-veep wrote to his son-in-law that he would "seek another country" due to his legal problems

DD A PHRASE IN HISTORY — $1,000 Show #9398 (2025-09-24)

Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, "We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only" this substance "can cure"

DD KENTUCKY HISTORY — $4,600 Show #9394 (2025-09-18)

Last name of the man of Scottish ancestry who moved to Eastern Kentucky in 1804 & whose descendants were part of a nasty feud

DD 18th CENTURY NOTABLES — $5,200 Show #9387 (2025-09-09)

This archduchess & empress led Austria through the Seven Years' War & was the mother of Marie Antoinette

DD MOVIES SET IN THE 1920s — $2,700 Show #9377 (2025-07-15)

In this 1952 film Don Lockwood works as a stuntman elevated to leading man, just before the advent of talking pictures

DD 20th CENTURY LIT — $5,000 Show #9371 (2025-07-07)

Chapter 1 of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" begins with this famous 4-word question

DD TV MAKES HISTORY — $4,000 Show #9370 (2025-07-04)

The original 1980 version of this miniseries starred Richard Chamberlain & Toshiro Mifune & unlike the reboot, didn't use subtitles

DD HISTORICALSHARK TANK — $4,000 Show #9368 (2025-07-02)

Mr. Wonderful will invest in Elizabeth Magie Phillips' "Landlord's Game"... if she'll rename it this, nice to have in business

DD CHINESE HISTORY — $2,000 Show #9366 (2025-06-30)

Like events 70 years later, in 1919 student demonstrators took control of this plaza to protest government actions

DD HISTORIC U.S. BUSINESSES — $1,000 Show #9361 (2025-06-23)

The Bismarck Tribune shocked the nation with the first full account of this 1876 event in which one of its correspondents died

DD IT WAS THE 1970s — $3,000 Show #9358 (2025-06-18)

A 6-day bank takeover in a European capital led to this term for an unexpected psychological phenomenon

DD HISTORIC OBJECTS — $2,000 Show #9356 (2025-06-16)

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

DD PLACES IN WORLD HISTORY — $1,000 Show #9355 (2025-06-13)

After an 1885 siege, the Mahdists slaughtered the British defenders of this city at the junction of the Blue & White Niles

DD 20th CENTURY POETRY — $4,000 Show #9347 (2025-06-03)

Ezra Pound was partial to these poetic works defined as divisions of a long poem; he wrote 117 of them

DD HISTORIC ALASKA — $4,800 Show #9342 (2025-05-27)

Linking Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion

DD SAILING THROUGH HISTORY — $1,000 Show #48 (2025-05-21)

"Bruno" was a nickname of one of the turrets on this battleship that was sunk in part by the HMS Dorsetshire

DD CANADIAN HISTORY — $1,200 Show #9336 (2025-05-19)

Lovers of Latin must have rejoiced when this name was officially adopted in 1713; it's still on a province

DD 20th CENTURY SCIENCE — $2,000 Show #42 (2025-05-07)

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

DD A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION — $4,000 Show #41 (2025-05-07)

The last Allied summit conference of World War II ended on Aug. 2, 1945 in this German suburb

DD HITMAKERS OF THE 2020s — $5,600 Show #39 (2025-04-23)

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

DD THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE — $700 Show #38 (2025-04-16)

Okay, so I burnt our lasagna--at least I'm not this fifth Roman emperor who legend says fiddled while Rome burned

DD CALIFORNIA HISTORY — $1,000 Show #9309 (2025-04-10)

Midwest transplants included Robert Stroud, known as this--inaccurately, as he couldn't bring his canaries from Leavenworth

DD SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY — $2,000 Show #9305 (2025-04-04)

A flanking "bullhorn" military technique helped give this leader dominance of his Zulu empire

DD HISTORY IN THE MAKING — $2,800 Show #9304 (2025-04-03)

Thankfully, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned this unfortunate decision of 1896

DD REVOLUTIONARIES — $6,000 Show #9288 (2025-03-12)

Giuseppe Mazzini's 1830s movement, Giovine Italia, called this in English, inspired La Jeune Suisse & Mloda Polska

DD IN YE OLDE 18th CENTURY BOOKSHOPPE — $2,200 Show #9281 (2025-03-03)

"Of the division of labour" kicks off Chapter One in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" the rest of this 1776 title

DD HISTORY TO A "T" — $5,000 Show #9276 (2025-02-24)

The forces of Leonidas & Xerxes faced off at this 480 B.C. battle

DD QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY FILMS — $1,200 Show #9276 (2025-02-24)

Alan Arkin:"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit"

DD 17th CENTURY FACTS — $1,000 Show #9268 (2025-02-12)

In 1626 this Dutch colonial governor got big into the Manhattan real estate market, paying 60 guilders for, well, Manhattan

DD 20th CENTURY NOTABLES — $1,000 Show #9267 (2025-02-11)

Gloria Steinem said this 1972 Democratic candidate for pres. "first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House"

DD VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY — $1,400 Show #9261 (2025-02-03)

Magellan's flagship on his epic journey had this Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit

DD THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? — $800 Show #30 (2025-01-29)

2007?"There Will Be Blood", "No Country for Old Men" & this drama starring George Clooney as a law firm fixer