| # | 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 |
1 shift, 2 shift, these 2 terms for increase & decrease in light wavelengths from an object moving toward & away from you
Sounding a bit like dinnerware, they're the components of blood that gang up together to form clots
One step of Joseph Priestley's 1700s experiment to make soda water involved storing this gas in a sheep's bladder
The Cassini-Huygens mission found rippling sand dunes & liquid seas on this moon
God bless this radioactive element discovered in 1944 by a group of U.S. scientists when they bombarded plutonium with neutrons
Latin for "hair" gives us the name of these blood vessels
The ancient Romans used this 2-word farming concept with a revolving "food, feed & fallow" planting method
Maximizing this, the rotational version of force, is why it's easier to open a door by pushing far from the hinges than next to them
"Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake is about this kingdom; Mr. Sheldrake says much of the world is stitched together by its mycelium
The narrator of this story puts a "drop of oil on the quartz rod" of his title device, hops in the saddle & hours just zoom by
Immunoglobulins is another word for these, produced in the body to fight foreign invaders
From Greek for "swift", this word first appeared in a 1967 paper called "possibility of faster-than-light particles"
A mad scientist & his grandson use a portal gun to travel to different dimensions on this long-running animated series
It's separation of waves according to their wavelength, as in a rainbow; also, what police may want a crowd to do, meaning scattering
The recoil of a gun is an example of conservation of this, mass times velocity
Gymnosperms like the pine tree reproduce via these organs also called strobili
It's the structure of DNA & the title of James Watson's book about the discovery of it
It's the distance between 2 crests of sound or light that are next to each other
The 2 chemical elements bearing the names of U.S. states are tennessine & this one
Pascal's law says in fluid in a closed container, a change in this goes without loss to every part; Pascal tested it with a full barrel
D2O, or heavy water, combines oxygen with this isotope that is twice as heavy as hydrogen
A 19th c. word for a psychiatrist is the title of this Caleb Carr novel in which Dr. Laszlo Kreizler investigates a murder
The scientific paper "Soil Animals and Pedogenesis" focuses on the role of this creature in transforming organic matter
In novels by Dan Simmons, the planet Hyperion has a capital named for this poet who wrote an epic about the sun god Hyperion
Remove 2 letters from the study of weather to get this, the study of weights & measures
The hormones raging in you right now were secreted by this system of ductless glands
Devised by a 19th century German scientist, this scale measures a mineral's resistance to abrasion
This tiny unit of measurement is named for a Swedish physicist
Studies have shown that some shrews use this process, emitting high-pitched squeaks as a guide in the dark
During an epidemic of this disease in 1796, Edward Jenner discovered the power of vaccines & used it to save lives
Any of a hydrophobic group of organic compounds, including fats & oils
With her husband George, Gladys Dick found the cause of this childhood disease named for its red skin rash & came up with a cure
Behind thick glass in the Gems & Minerals Hall of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tom's Baby is an 8-lb nugget of this
Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia
Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal
In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left
It's the measure of the size of the seismic waves generated by an earthquake; Charles Richter invented one way to measure it
His name is associated with work & this 19th C. British physicist had an occasional day job managing his family brewery
(Here with your clue is quantum physicist Spiros Michalakis.) 2022 Nobel physics laureate Anton Zeilingerhas pioneered the quantum type of this, from Latin for "far" & "carry"; it's just a state of2 entangled particlesthat is moved--nothing bigger yet
This pioneering computer language got its name from its early use in translating formulas
Fireworks went off July 4, 2012 with the announcement of a boson consistent with the predictions of this British particle physicist
Atomic number 87, this element named for a country by Marguerite Perey is the heaviest of the alkali metals
It's a social ideal meant to motivate people toward success; a book by a N.Y. Times columnist is subtitled "Waking Up from" it
In 1957, long before she had her own institute, she met Louis Leakey, who guided her to Gombe Stream to study chimps
This Russian physiologist trained many breeds of dogs to reflexively salivate at the sound of noises they associated with food
Water boiling & turning into steam is an example of an isobaric process, meaning this remains constant
It's a disease that afflicts cereal grasses, or a diminutive name for a star like the Sun
Neptune's moon Triton is the only big moon in our solar system that orbits in this 10-letter way, meaning backwards
Some scientists think Uranus' atmosphere may compress carbon atoms into these, putting the ice in ice giant
Ceres & Pallas are found between the orbits of these 2 planets