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: Poetry

DD HELP A POET OUT — $2,000 Show #40 (2026-03-13)

She wrote the immortal "Because I could not stop for Death--He kindly stopped for me"

DD FACTS ABOUT POETS — $1,000 Show #9516 (2026-03-09)

In 1761 the Wheatley family bought a girl from this slave ship & named her after it; she became the 1st major African-American poet

DD POETS — $2,000 Show #9514 (2026-03-05)

Best known for writing about Lady Liberty, she penned "Venus of the Louvre" about a different statue

DD POETS & POETRY — $1,000 Show #9474 (2026-01-08)

"Bless my baby bless my baby bright", wrote Gertrude Stein to her

DD POETRY TIME — $1,000 Show #9456 (2025-12-15)

His "Four Quartets" begins, "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future"; I like the ones about cats

DD POETS & POETRY — $6,000 Show #9431 (2025-11-10)

In an ode, Keats says the love depicted on this title object is "for ever warm and still to be enjoy'd"

DD AMERICAN POETRY — $3,400 Show #9391 (2025-09-15)

A fan of repetition, she began her poem "Susie Asado", "Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea"

DD IN THE WORDS OF THE POET — $1,000 Show #9345 (2025-05-30)

"All our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse"

DD POETRY-POURRI — $5,000 Show #39 (2025-04-30)

In Yeats' "The Second Coming", the line "the centre cannot hold" is preceded by these 3 words, later a novel title

DD POETRY — $2,500 Show #9212 (2024-11-26)

This 1915 work was the poet's joke about a pal's frequent regret about the path they took on walks together

DD AVIAN POETRY — $5,600 Show #9172 (2024-10-01)

The narrator asks this title bird to "leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!"

DD POETIC OBJECTS — $1,500 Show #9128 (2024-06-19)

The last stanza of John Keats' poem about this title object mentions its "Attic shape"

DD POETS & POETRY — $1,000 Show #9095 (2024-05-03)

His "The Runaway" is not even his most famous poem with a horse in falling snow

DD POETS OF LOVE — $4,500 Show #9085 (2024-04-19)

Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer

DD PURE POETRY — $5 Show #8816 (2023-02-27)

Namechecking herself, this Lesbos poet "Asked myself what, (her), can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?"

DD POETRY — $7,800 Show #8741 (2022-11-14)

"Thou singest of summer in full-throated ease", Keats wrote in "Ode to" this creature

DD POETS & POETRY — $2,569 Show #8724 (2022-10-20)

It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..."

DD PEOPLE IN POETRY — $2,400 Show #8670 (2022-06-24)

His poem "America" says, "Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister"

DD POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK — $2,400 Show #8592 (2022-03-08)

Kipling: "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a ____, ____ ____!"

DD POETRY — $1,400 Show #8568 (2022-02-02)

This pair of adjectives describes how the narrator of "The Raven" pondered "over many a quaint & curious volume of forgotten lore"

DD POETIC OBJECTS — $2,200 Show #8535 (2021-12-17)

Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" describes this "with jewels... on the hilt, bewildering heart and eye"

DD POETRY COLLECTIONS — $2,000 Show #8514 (2021-11-18)

The title of this Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection does not come from her nationality, but from her nickname

DD A POET LAUREATE — $4,000 Show #8459 (2021-08-05)

The poet laureate of this state, like Marie Howe, receives the Walt Whitman Citation; Walt was from that state

DD POETIC BOOK TITLES — $1,000 Show #8418 (2021-06-09)

From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title

DD POETRY — $1,000 Show #8329 (2021-02-04)

Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these "vast birds of the sea" who famously show up in an English poem

DD POETIC CHARACTERS — $2,000 Show #8294 (2020-12-03)

In an epic poem this king of the Geats drinks mead & fights a monster

DD THE MAN, THE POETRY — $5,000 Show #8242 (2020-09-22)

"Back from the mouth of hell, all that was left of them, left of six hundred"

DD POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS — $8,000 Show #8204 (2020-04-16)

In the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron mentions this 16th century Italian, "with his woes"

DD POETRY — $5,000 Show #8203 (2020-04-15)

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"

DD POET-POURRI — $2,400 Show #8177 (2020-03-10)

Katharine Lee Bates' book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: "O beautiful beyond all dream"

DD AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE — $4,000 Show #8071 (2019-10-14)

In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city's first poet laureate

DD POETIC WORDS — $5,000 Show #8041 (2019-07-22)

Don't hold back, name this repeated line in a poem, also a verb meaning to hold back

DD FACTS ABOUT POETS — $10,117 Show #7981 (2019-04-29)

Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation of this 1,200-year-old epic poem was a surprise bestseller

DD AMERICAN POETRY — $5,000 Show #7969 (2019-04-11)

Despite his name, he holds "with those who favor fire" for how "the world will end"

DD POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE — $400 Show #7911 (2019-01-21)

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so"

DD POET-POURRI — $1,000 Show #7793 (2018-06-27)

This Romantic poet, who wrote "The World is Too Much With Us", had a perfect last name for his profession

DD AMERICAN POETRY — $1,000 Show #7750 (2018-04-27)

Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this poem as a call to help save the USS Constitution from demolition

DD WOMEN POETS — $2,600 Show #7735 (2018-04-06)

Often compared to another New England poet, Maxine Kumin was dubbed this, the female equivalent of his name

DD TITLES FROM POETRY — $3,000 Show #7675 (2018-01-12)

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"

DD BEASTLY POETRY FILL-IN — $500 Show #7666 (2018-01-01)

"For the strength of the pack is the ____, and the strength of the ____ is the pack"

DD PEOPLE IN POETRY — $2,000 Show #7588 (2017-09-13)

Longfellow referred to him as the "Tuscan that wanderest through the realms of gloom"

DD QUOTH THE POET — $2,200 Show #7543 (2017-05-31)

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out"

DD POETRY — $3,000 Show #7535 (2017-05-19)

This Englishman was buried in 1771 in St. Giles' Churchyard, the reputed subject of his famous elegy

DD POETS & POETRY — $6,600 Show #7517 (2017-04-25)

In "Inferno" Dante called him "my master... from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor"

DD POETRY & BRIDGES — $1,000 Show #7476 (2017-02-27)

A poem about it by its chief engineer says, "To north, the Redwood Empire's gates / To south, a happy playground waits"

DD WOMEN POETS — $3,000 Show #7442 (2017-01-10)

"In Exile" & "In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport" are 2 other poems by this woman who was put on a pedestal in N.Y.

DD BRITISH POETS — $1,000 Show #7356 (2016-09-12)

Sylvia Plath encouraged him to enter his first book, "The Hawk in the Rain", into a contest & he won first prize

DD POET-TREE — $4,000 Show #7277 (2016-04-12)

Christina Rossetti wrote, "Who has seen" this, "neither you nor I, but when the trees bow down their heads", it "is passing by"

DD AMERICAN POETS — $3,000 Show #7261 (2016-03-21)

This poet once claimed that English is the only language in which the pronoun "I" was written as a capital letter

DD WOMEN IN POETRY — $1,500 Show #7237 (2016-02-16)

This 1852 book inspired John Greenleaf Whittier to write his poem "Eva"