| # | 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 |
She wrote the immortal "Because I could not stop for Death--He kindly stopped for me"
In 1761 the Wheatley family bought a girl from this slave ship & named her after it; she became the 1st major African-American poet
Best known for writing about Lady Liberty, she penned "Venus of the Louvre" about a different statue
"Bless my baby bless my baby bright", wrote Gertrude Stein to her
His "Four Quartets" begins, "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future"; I like the ones about cats
In an ode, Keats says the love depicted on this title object is "for ever warm and still to be enjoy'd"
A fan of repetition, she began her poem "Susie Asado", "Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea"
"All our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse"
In Yeats' "The Second Coming", the line "the centre cannot hold" is preceded by these 3 words, later a novel title
This 1915 work was the poet's joke about a pal's frequent regret about the path they took on walks together
The narrator asks this title bird to "leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!"
The last stanza of John Keats' poem about this title object mentions its "Attic shape"
His "The Runaway" is not even his most famous poem with a horse in falling snow
Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer
Namechecking herself, this Lesbos poet "Asked myself what, (her), can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?"
"Thou singest of summer in full-throated ease", Keats wrote in "Ode to" this creature
It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..."
His poem "America" says, "Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister"
Kipling: "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a ____, ____ ____!"
This pair of adjectives describes how the narrator of "The Raven" pondered "over many a quaint & curious volume of forgotten lore"
Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" describes this "with jewels... on the hilt, bewildering heart and eye"
The title of this Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection does not come from her nationality, but from her nickname
The poet laureate of this state, like Marie Howe, receives the Walt Whitman Citation; Walt was from that state
From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title
Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these "vast birds of the sea" who famously show up in an English poem
In an epic poem this king of the Geats drinks mead & fights a monster
"Back from the mouth of hell, all that was left of them, left of six hundred"
In the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron mentions this 16th century Italian, "with his woes"
In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
Katharine Lee Bates' book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: "O beautiful beyond all dream"
In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city's first poet laureate
Don't hold back, name this repeated line in a poem, also a verb meaning to hold back
Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation of this 1,200-year-old epic poem was a surprise bestseller
Despite his name, he holds "with those who favor fire" for how "the world will end"
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so"
This Romantic poet, who wrote "The World is Too Much With Us", had a perfect last name for his profession
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this poem as a call to help save the USS Constitution from demolition
Often compared to another New England poet, Maxine Kumin was dubbed this, the female equivalent of his name
The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men"
"For the strength of the pack is the ____, and the strength of the ____ is the pack"
Longfellow referred to him as the "Tuscan that wanderest through the realms of gloom"
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out"
This Englishman was buried in 1771 in St. Giles' Churchyard, the reputed subject of his famous elegy
In "Inferno" Dante called him "my master... from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor"
A poem about it by its chief engineer says, "To north, the Redwood Empire's gates / To south, a happy playground waits"
"In Exile" & "In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport" are 2 other poems by this woman who was put on a pedestal in N.Y.
Sylvia Plath encouraged him to enter his first book, "The Hawk in the Rain", into a contest & he won first prize
Christina Rossetti wrote, "Who has seen" this, "neither you nor I, but when the trees bow down their heads", it "is passing by"
This poet once claimed that English is the only language in which the pronoun "I" was written as a capital letter
This 1852 book inspired John Greenleaf Whittier to write his poem "Eva"