| # | 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 |
This portmanteau word is used of the genre that blends passion with dragon riders & such, as in "Fourth Wing"
Appropriately, this 1953 Raymond Chandler novel runs 53 chapters ends with Philip Marlowe saying a farewell
Richard Lingeman subtitled his biography of Sinclair Lewis "Rebel from" this title road
"The wide corridor up the center of E Block was floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes" in this 1996 bestseller
William Blake wrote that if these portals "were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite"
Jorge Luis Borges' story collection "A Universal History of Infamy" has been called the first book in this literary genre
Though it sounds possessive, the name of this country estate in an E.M. Forster title has no apostrophe
"In this island we arrived, and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princes can" is in this play
A Samuel R. Delany novel where an exploding star is mined for a vital element shares its name with this PBS program
With this novel as a starting point, "The Madman's Daughter" seeks the truth of her father's experiments on animals
Using unpublished material by the original author, dead for 50+ years, 2015's "Trigger Mortis" is a tale of this spy
The title of this Mexico-set Malcolm Lowry novel refers to both Popocatépetl & Iztaccihuatl
An open door beckons in this Sartre play as Garcin is "condemned to be free"
A group of 10 young people head to a country villa to escape the plague afflicting Florence in this 14th century work
In "The Song of Roland", God makes the sun stand still so this emperor can continue a battle
"Nublado con probabilidades de albóndigas"
A man makes numerous failed attempts to gain access to a the title edifice to improve his situation in this Franz Kafka novel
A painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius is at the heart of this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction
Later immortalized by Audrey Hepburn, she "wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker"
This 2008 novel by Liu Cixin follows physicist Ye Wenjie & Wang Miao, a nanotech researcher, across different timelines
"A Simple Habana Melody" by Oscar Hijuelos focuses on the rumba, but this other 5-letter dance is in the title of his best-known novel
He/it says, "I think there's been a failure in the pod-bay doors... lucky you weren't killed... Dave... what are you doing?"
Regarding the double-talk name of this character in "Lolita", Nabokov said, "It is a hateful name for a hateful person"
Dear Diary: it's v. tough to quit smoking while stressed over 2 different men, like this love-seeking heroine
Shimerda is the last name of the heroine of this Willa Cather novel
Feeling familiar, Henry V says, "We few, we happy few, we" this group
This 1880s short story ends with "never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls"
In the opening line of a novel, this Woolf woman "said she would buy the flowers herself"
"Frog" by Mo Yan follows Gugu, a midwife during China's implementation of this policy
In a fantasy series:Dorne is in the south of it & the Haunted Forest, north of the wall
Winston Smith found "while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing... 'down with"' him, in all caps, 5 times
Not always marked by 3 dots, it's the omission of words that are understood in context
Picasso called this Post-Impressionist known for his "Bathers" series the "father of us all"
What "utopia" means, it completes the title of William Morris' book about a place without politics or poverty, "News from..."
"She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately--unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly"
Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero
From "Hamlet", "This above all:" this phrase
In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover
An 1854 series of essays:"Woods"
Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror"
Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program
In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor
Scotland's remote island of Jura is famous for 2 things: a whisky distillery & the farmhouse where George Orwell wrote this classic
Libel & slander are both forms of this 10-letter term often found before "of character"
"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that"
Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted"
The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome"
In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh"
Chopin was a master of these meditative piano pieces, a French word meaning "of the night"
Nora Ephron's novel about the end of a marriage bemoans "mysteries like... neuritis, neuralgia, acid indigestion &" this title condition