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: Novels

DD DEBUT NOVELS — $2,800 Show #9530 (2026-03-27)

Themes of class & the individual fill her first novel, 1902's "The Valley of Decision", though it's set not in NYC but 18th c. Italy

DD CLASSIC NOVEL ADD A LETTER — $6,000 Show #9458 (2025-12-17)

Westley dons the mask of the Dread Pirate Roberts to find some equine gear with which he can harness Buttercup

DD NOVELS — $1,700 Show #9455 (2025-12-12)

In a Dickens novel, the ownership of this title place is gambled away to Quilp

DD A NOVEL PROFESSION — $1,000 Show #9278 (2025-02-26)

Oliver Mellors, working on the Chatterley estate

DD NOVEL TITLE DROP A LETTER — $3,700 Show #9239 (2025-01-02)

An Edith Wharton title drops a letter & laughter spews from a tube

DD THE NOVEL CHAPTER — $1,000 Show #9233 (2024-12-25)

"Eliza's Escape"

DD SPY NOVELS — $5,000 Show #9176 (2024-10-07)

Goldfinger tells James Bond he calls his chauffeur this "because that describes his functions on my staff"

DD A NOVEL INTRODUCTION — $1,000 Show #9142 (2024-07-09)

This novel opens on a rather bleak note with "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know"

DD NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS — $11,200 Show #9076 (2024-04-08)

The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute

DD LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS — $1,600 Show #9010 (2024-01-05)

The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"

DD NOVEL IDEAS — $1,200 Show #8957 (2023-10-24)

"Cleanliness is next to Fordliness" is a line from this 1932 novel

DD & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE — $5,000 Show #8928 (2023-09-13)

"She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at" this symbol

DD NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL — $5 Show #8891 (2023-06-12)

This novel:Stranded astronaut Mark Watney

DD NOVELS — $5,600 Show #8867 (2023-05-09)

The mysterious Anne Catherick strongly favors a certain color in this novel by Wilkie Collins

DD NOVELS BY QUOTE — $4,000 Show #8846 (2023-04-10)

"What you see there are not giants, but windmills"

DD IN THAT NOVEL — $7,000 Show #8736 (2022-11-07)

High-ranking Father Latour passes away in a Santa Fe cathedral

DD NOVEL "T"s — $2,000 Show #8685 (2022-07-15)

The nameless narrator of this, Wells' first novel, finds himself in the year 802,701

DD THEIR LAST NOVEL — $2,000 Show #8645 (2022-05-20)

"The Reivers"; he died in Mississippi a month after it was published

DD CLASSIC NOVELS — $2,000 Show #10 (2022-02-15)

Newland Archer arrives fashionably late to the opera as this novel set in 1870s New York begins

DD CLASSIC NOVELS — $1,200 Show #8541 (2021-12-27)

The end of this Twain tale says while Tom Canty lived to be very old, King Edward VI lived to the age of 15

DD NOVELS & NOVELISTS — $2,000 Show #8540 (2021-12-24)

"La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one

DD NOVELS — $2,400 Show #8525 (2021-12-03)

This Leon Uris novel portraying Israel's birth is about 10 times longer than the Bible book of the same name

DD NOVELS BY QUOTE — $2,000 Show #8475 (2021-09-24)

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"

DD ACTION & SUSPENSE NOVELS — $5,400 Show #8468 (2021-09-15)

"Marko Ramius of the Soviet navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the... submarine base" in this book

DD NOVEL VOCABULARY — $7,800 Show #8465 (2021-08-13)

This title heroine of a 1913 novel now means someone who's cheerful to the point of being irritating

DD CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS — $9,000 Show #8464 (2021-08-12)

Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel

DD FIRST NOVELS — $5,000 Show #8439 (2021-07-08)

This title of James Baldwin's debut novel comes from a spiritual

DD A NOVEL CATEGORY — $1,600 Show #8280 (2020-11-13)

E.M. Forster saw his first major success in 1910 with this novel named for a country estate

DD CLASSIC NOVELS — $400 Show #8107 (2019-12-03)

Esther Greenwood is a college student & aspiring poet in the 1950s who suffers a mental breakdown in this auto-biographical novel

DD NEW YORK-SET NOVELS — $1,600 Show #8101 (2019-11-25)

Psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler & his team track down a brutal serial killer in this bestseller set in 1896

DD EPISTOLARY NOVELS — $9,812 Show #8005 (2019-05-31)

In a Lionel Shriver novel, a mom writes notes to a dad because of a "Need to Talk About" this dangerous son

DD CLASSIC NOVELS — $1,200 Show #7986 (2019-05-06)

This Tolstoy title lady has a young son named Sergei

DD NAME THAT NOVELIST! — $1,000 Show #7959 (2019-03-28)

"Tonight's lecture--a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral"

DD CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS — $3,000 Show #7927 (2019-02-12)

Rafael Sabatini wrote a novel about this sanguine "Captain", a doctor turned pirate

DD CHAPTERS OF THE NOVEL — $2,000 Show #7902 (2019-01-08)

"The Chateau d'If", "The Treasure"

DD CITY OF THE NOVEL — $2,000 Show #7763 (2018-05-16)

"Fifty Shades of Grey" & "The Art of Racing in the Rain"

DD GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS — $1,000 Show #7759 (2018-05-10)

This Dreiser novel lives up to its title: Clyde dies in the electric chair for murdering his pregnant girlfriend

DD SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS — $3,000 Show #7709 (2018-03-01)

During the French Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeney disguises himself as this hero to rescue the wrongly jailed

DD NOVEL "T"s — $2,000 Show #7697 (2018-02-13)

In Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller, Clare Abshire DeTamble is this title spouse

DD NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS — $2,500 Show #7668 (2018-01-03)

She created fictional mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, author of "The Affair of the Second Goldfish"

DD A NOVEL IDEA — $4,000 Show #7612 (2017-10-17)

Chapters in this classic include "5 June 1832" & "Marius Enters the Darkness"

DD CLASSIC NOVELS — $3,000 Show #7580 (2017-07-21)

This classic by William Faulkner is "a tale told by an idiot... signifying nothing"

DD NOVELS — $1,000 Show #7546 (2017-06-05)

"The fathers of Chingachgook have not lied!" is a line in this historical novel

DD THRILLER & SUSPENSE NOVELS — $1,000 Show #7441 (2017-01-09)

This legal thriller gets is name from attorney Mickey Haller's habit of working out of his town car

DD A NOVEL CATEGORY — $2,000 Show #7426 (2016-12-19)

Khaled Hosseini dedicated "The Kite Runner" in part "to the children of" this country

DD SCI-FI NOVELS — $1,400 Show #7403 (2016-11-16)

Meg & Charles Murry travel the universe with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which in this 1962 novel

DD 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS — $3,800 Show #7279 (2016-04-14)

Young Civil War soldier Henry Fleming

DD DEBUT NOVELS — $1,400 Show #7163 (2015-11-04)

Her 1936 debut "We the Living" began a lifelong theme by attacking the evils of socialist collectivism

DD WAR NOVELS — $5,000 Show #7145 (2015-10-09)

Paul Baumer is an idealistic enlistee until he sees the horrors of war firsthand in this 1929 novel

DD SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL — $2,000 Show #7126 (2015-09-14)

Try to inspire this release of emotions like fear or pity, a term used by Aristotle