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: Literature

DD LITERARY GENRES — $1,000 Show #9531 (2026-03-30)

This portmanteau word is used of the genre that blends passion with dragon riders & such, as in "Fourth Wing"

DD A LITTLE LITERATURE — $3,600 Show #9520 (2026-03-13)

Appropriately, this 1953 Raymond Chandler novel runs 53 chapters ends with Philip Marlowe saying a farewell

DD LITERARY BIOGRAPHY — $1,600 Show #9491 (2026-02-02)

Richard Lingeman subtitled his biography of Sinclair Lewis "Rebel from" this title road

DD COLORFUL LIT — $7,000 Show #9485 (2026-01-23)

"The wide corridor up the center of E Block was floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes" in this 1996 bestseller

DD LITERARY QUOTATIONS — $1,600 Show #9481 (2026-01-19)

William Blake wrote that if these portals "were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite"

DD LITERARY BEGINNINGS — $3,400 Show #9471 (2026-01-05)

Jorge Luis Borges' story collection "A Universal History of Infamy" has been called the first book in this literary genre

DD LITERARY LODGINGS — $1,400 Show #9461 (2025-12-22)

Though it sounds possessive, the name of this country estate in an E.M. Forster title has no apostrophe

DD LITERATURE — $1,800 Show #9448 (2025-12-03)

"In this island we arrived, and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princes can" is in this play

DD OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD LITERARY TITLES — $6,000 Show #9443 (2025-11-26)

A Samuel R. Delany novel where an exploding star is mined for a vital element shares its name with this PBS program

DD CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGININGS — $4,400 Show #9441 (2025-11-24)

With this novel as a starting point, "The Madman's Daughter" seeks the truth of her father's experiments on animals

DD ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE — $2,000 Show #9437 (2025-11-18)

Using unpublished material by the original author, dead for 50+ years, 2015's "Trigger Mortis" is a tale of this spy

DD 1940s LITERATURE — $5,000 Show #9429 (2025-11-06)

The title of this Mexico-set Malcolm Lowry novel refers to both Popocatépetl & Iztaccihuatl

DD MAIS OUI, FRENCH LIT — $5,000 Show #9423 (2025-10-29)

An open door beckons in this Sartre play as Garcin is "condemned to be free"

DD A BIT O' LIT — $5,000 Show #9421 (2025-10-27)

A group of 10 young people head to a country villa to escape the plague afflicting Florence in this 14th century work

DD OLDEN LIT — $8,600 Show #9402 (2025-09-30)

In "The Song of Roland", God makes the sun stand still so this emperor can continue a battle

DD KID LIT EN ESPAÑOL — $3,000 Show #9384 (2025-07-24)

"Nublado con probabilidades de albóndigas"

DD GREAT LITERATURE BEFORE 2000 — $5,000 Show #9383 (2025-07-23)

A man makes numerous failed attempts to gain access to a the title edifice to improve his situation in this Franz Kafka novel

DD LITERARY HODGEPODGE — $3,000 Show #9342 (2025-05-27)

A painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius is at the heart of this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction

DD LITERARY DRESS-UP — $2,500 Show #9326 (2025-05-05)

Later immortalized by Audrey Hepburn, she "wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker"

DD LITERARY CHARACTERS — $2,500 Show #9323 (2025-04-30)

This 2008 novel by Liu Cixin follows physicist Ye Wenjie & Wang Miao, a nanotech researcher, across different timelines

DD LITERATURE — $3,400 Show #9305 (2025-04-04)

"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

DD LITERARY CHARACTERS, HAVING A DAY — $1,600 Show #9295 (2025-03-21)

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?"

DD A BIT OF LIT — $5,000 Show #9289 (2025-03-13)

Regarding the double-talk name of this character in "Lolita", Nabokov said, "It is a hateful name for a hateful person"

DD LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES — $500 Show #33 (2025-02-26)

Dear Diary: it's v. tough to quit smoking while stressed over 2 different men, like this love-seeking heroine

DD LITERARY CHARACTERS — $2,000 Show #9256 (2025-01-27)

Shimerda is the last name of the heroine of this Willa Cather novel

DD ALLITERATIVE LIT — $3,800 Show #9254 (2025-01-23)

Feeling familiar, Henry V says, "We few, we happy few, we" this group

DD LITERALLY LITERATURE — $2,600 Show #9253 (2025-01-22)

This 1880s short story ends with "never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls"

DD MR. & MRS. LIT — $2,000 Show #9230 (2024-12-20)

In the opening line of a novel, this Woolf woman "said she would buy the flowers herself"

DD ASIAN LITERATURE — $400 Show #9214 (2024-11-28)

"Frog" by Mo Yan follows Gugu, a midwife during China's implementation of this policy

DD LITERARY SETTINGS — $3,000 Show #9206 (2024-11-18)

In a fantasy series:Dorne is in the south of it & the Haunted Forest, north of the wall

DD BRIT LIT SITS — $1,000 Show #9167 (2024-09-24)

Winston Smith found "while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing... 'down with"' him, in all caps, 5 times

DD LITERARY TERMS — $2,500 Show #9119 (2024-06-06)

Not always marked by 3 dots, it's the omission of words that are understood in context

DD FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" — $1,000 Show #9117 (2024-06-04)

Picasso called this Post-Impressionist known for his "Bathers" series the "father of us all"

DD UTOPIAN LITERATURE — $1,400 Show #37 (2024-05-22)

What "utopia" means, it completes the title of William Morris' book about a place without politics or poverty, "News from..."

DD LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? — $15,400 Show #25 (2024-05-08)

"She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately--unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly"

DD LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING — $1,000 Show #9091 (2024-04-29)

Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero

DD LITERARY LINES — $2,800 Show #9077 (2024-04-09)

From "Hamlet", "This above all:" this phrase

DD CLASSICAL LITERATURE — $9,600 Show #9073 (2024-04-03)

In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover

DD THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE — $2,500 Show #9044 (2024-02-22)

An 1854 series of essays:"Woods"

DD LITERATURE — $2,200 Show #3 (2024-02-02)

Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror"

DD 3 LITTLE LETTERS — $3,400 Show #2 (2024-01-12)

Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program

DD LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES — $6,000 Show #9005 (2023-12-29)

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

DD LITERARY TOURISM — $600 Show #22 (2023-12-06)

Scotland's remote island of Jura is famous for 2 things: a whisky distillery & the farmhouse where George Orwell wrote this classic

DD A LITTLE LEGALESE — $2,600 Show #8969 (2023-11-09)

Libel & slander are both forms of this 10-letter term often found before "of character"

DD THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... — $3,200 Show #8951 (2023-10-16)

"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"

DD LITERARY BIOGRAPHY — $7,800 Show #8942 (2023-10-03)

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"

DD BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS — $1,200 Show #8939 (2023-09-28)

The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome"

DD BRITISH LITERATURE — $2,000 Show #8925 (2023-07-28)

In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh"

DD A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC — $1,600 Show #8888 (2023-06-07)

Chopin was a master of these meditative piano pieces, a French word meaning "of the night"

DD LITERARY MISMATCHES — $6,000 Show #8875 (2023-05-19)

Nora Ephron's novel about the end of a marriage bemoans "mysteries like... neuritis, neuralgia, acid indigestion &" this title condition