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: Shakespeare

DD SHAKESPEARE GETS WILD — $2,000 Show #9472 (2026-01-06)

This king's horses "turned wild in nature, broke their stalls... 'tis said they eat each other" after his murder by Macbeth

DD SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID IT? — $6,000 Show #9442 (2025-11-25)

"Caparison my horse. Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power: I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain"

DD IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE — $2,400 Show #9331 (2025-05-12)

Denmark is the setting for many of the stories in her 1942 book "Winter's Tales"

DD NAMELESS IN SHAKESPEARE — $1,000 Show #9306 (2025-04-07)

All 5 words of it, it's the most famous line spoken by the soothsayer in "Julius Caesar"

DD SURPRISE! SHAKESPEARE! — $5,600 Show #9274 (2025-02-20)

The title of this play is fulfilled in Act V, scene 3, when Helena finally gets her Bertram

DD SHAKESPEARE — $2,000 Show #9238 (2025-01-01)

Polonius saying "I hear him coming, let's withdraw, my lord" is the cue for this immortal line

DD A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE — $3,000 Show #9229 (2024-12-19)

Sir, please come back to the restaurant--instead of the customer copy, you kept the slip marked this "copy"

DD INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE — $1,000 Show #9134 (2024-06-27)

The 2023 romcom "Anyone But You", with squabbling would-be lovers named Bea & Ben, was inspired by this comedy

DD DREAMY SHAKESPEARE QUOTES — $4,000 Show #9123 (2024-06-12)

The ghost of the Duke of Buckingham, one of this man's many victims, tells him to "Dream on, of bloody deeds and death"

DD SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! — $1,000 Show #9053 (2024-03-06)

Her last speech includes "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper... thy sovereign"

DD ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE — $1,400 Show #9007 (2024-01-02)

"The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person

DD SHAKESPEARE — $1,000 Show #8920 (2023-07-21)

Speaker of the line "I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse, good king's son"

DD FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE — $1,000 Show #8896 (2023-06-19)

"Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"

DD SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD — $2,000 Show #8879 (2023-05-25)

If you were part of this "earthy" group taking in a play at the Globe Theatre, you paid the lowest amount to stand in the pit & watch

DD A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS — $2,800 Show #5 (2023-05-10)

Octavia, Octavius, battle, snake, figs, finis

DD 'TIS SHAKESPEARE — $500 Show #8826 (2023-03-13)

These are Richard III's "beastly" last 5 words

DD SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE — $2,000 Show #8637 (2022-05-10)

"The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water"

DD LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT — $2,500 Show #8585 (2022-02-25)

This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt"

DD SHAKESPEARE — $2,000 Show #2 (2022-02-08)

The first scene of this late play ends with the line "The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death"

DD HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? — $800 Show #8530 (2021-12-10)

"'Tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well"

DD SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS — $1,000 Show #8503 (2021-11-03)

Once more into this play whose centerpiece is a 1415 battle in France

DD SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS — $3,000 Show #8488 (2021-10-13)

In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue

DD 'TIS SHAKESPEARE — $1,000 Show #8434 (2021-07-01)

"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life

DD SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM — $3,400 Show #8409 (2021-05-27)

A very outside LB, this guy plays on an island; the son of a witch & a devil, he's a total beast out there!

DD SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES — $1,800 Show #8393 (2021-05-05)

This "Tempest"uous daughter of Prospero says, "O brave new world, that has such people in it!"

DD ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE — $6,000 Show #8368 (2021-03-31)

This period of the returned monarchy featured plays known for bawdiness, like "The Country Wife"

DD SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE — $1,200 Show #8352 (2021-03-09)

Referred to in "Love's Labour's Lost", novum quinque is a dice game where the goal is to roll these 2 numbers

DD SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! — $4,200 Show #8301 (2020-12-14)

"Here in this island we arrived; and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit"

DD SHAKESPEARE — $5,000 Show #8222 (2020-05-26)

In "Henry IV, Part 2", Doll Tearsheet calls this knight a "sweet little rogue"

DD SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE — $100 Show #8079 (2019-10-24)

"Take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England, I am thine'" is how this title king proposes to Katherine

DD SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES — $1,600 Show #8021 (2019-06-24)

A Christopher Marlowe guy makes a deal he can't back out of, as he's written in blood, "Faustus gives to thee" this

DD QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER — $3,000 Show #8013 (2019-06-12)

"I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me"

DD COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE — $2,000 Show #7991 (2019-05-13)

At the end of a major battle in this play, the future Henry VII declares, "We will unite the white rose and the red"

DD QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE — $3,800 Show #7963 (2019-04-03)

King Lear complained, "How sharper than" this "it is to have a thankless child"

DD POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE — $4,200 Show #7829 (2018-09-27)

The 1950s sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet" is based on this play, with Robby the Robot as Ariel

DD SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE — $2,000 Show #7760 (2018-05-11)

He calls himself "his Moorship's ancient"

DD SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE — $2,000 Show #7695 (2018-02-09)

"His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights"

DD SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK — $5,000 Show #7663 (2017-12-27)

This pastoral place is the setting for most of "As You Like It"

DD ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY — $2,000 Show #7572 (2017-07-11)

Sir Robert Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower

DD SHAKESPEARE BUFFS — $2,200 Show #7545 (2017-06-02)

Before her Oscar for playing a 20th century queen, she scandalized as a nude Cleopatra with the Royal National Theatre

DD WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? — $3,000 Show #7530 (2017-05-12)

2 ladies in this tragedy, playing rough in Gloucester's castle: "Hang him instantly"--"Pluck out his eyes"

DD SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! — $2,000 Show #7508 (2017-04-12)

Desdemona:Murder by this method

DD SHAKESPEAREAN BABY NAMES — $2,000 Show #7487 (2017-03-14)

This feminine name from "The Taming of the Shrew" means "white"

DD SHAKESPEAREAN YARD SALE — $1,600 Show #7468 (2017-02-15)

Amphibian and canine ingredients are included with theitem from this play

DD THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! — $2,400 Show #7399 (2016-11-10)

2 lines, back to back in this play:Regan: "Hang him instantly"; Goneril: "Pluck out his eyes";'nuff said

DD SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN — $1,500 Show #7394 (2016-11-03)

Bianca must wait for this bad-tempered older sister to wed before she can

DD SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK — $1,000 Show #7190 (2015-12-11)

"I never did offend you in my life; never loved Cassio but with such general warranty of heaven as I might love"

DD SHAKESPEARE — $2,200 Show #7156 (2015-10-26)

Tamora eats a pie in this play; problem is that the pie was made with the heads of Demetrius & Chiron, her sons

DD SHAKESPEAREAN DEATHMATCH — $3,500 Show #7127 (2015-09-15)

This guy kills his wife Emilia after she reveals his unjust adultery accusations

DD QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE — $5,000 Show #7068 (2015-05-13)

Her barge "like a burnished throne, burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold"