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: Transportation

DD AIRPORT CODES — $3,000 Show #9517 (2026-03-10)

One letter deliciously short of the city it serves, YUMhas people coming & going in this state

DD AIRPORTS — $1,000 Show #9506 (2026-02-23)

Her name is on the world's busiest airport named for a woman

DD LET'S RADIOCARBON DATE — $2,400 Show #9474 (2026-01-08)

Found in Portugal, the skeleton of a love child from a Homo sapiens & this species has been dated at 27,000+ years old

DD LET'S GIVE THAT CAR A SECOND CHANCE — $200 Show #9466 (2025-12-29)

This Brit brand stopped selling its durable Defenders in 2016 but brought them back in 2020

DD AROUND THE CARIBBEAN — $1,000 Show #9463 (2025-12-24)

Split between 2 nations, this island has the largest population of any Caribbean isle, about 21 million

DD TRANSPORTATION — $2,200 Show #9412 (2025-10-14)

Traveling between the host city & Osaka, the first one of these began operating in 1964, just in time for the Tokyo Olympics

DD BOATS & SHIPS — $4,000 Show #9318 (2025-04-23)

On July 24, 1857 Henry David Thoreau & others set off on Moosehead Lake in an 18-foot one of these

DD TRANSPORTATION — $5,000 Show #9202 (2024-11-12)

Disneyland opened one of these in 1959; Seattle, in 1962 &Las Vegas, in 1995

DD LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 — $1,000 Show #9156 (2024-09-09)

Knowing this state capital is at the south end of Puget Sound is geography 101

DD OLDE CARS — $200 Show #9131 (2024-06-24)

Studebaker, maker of an electric car around 1900, was based in this town; Knute Rockne worked part-time in sales

DD TRAIN TALES — $5,400 Show #9074 (2024-04-04)

This title train was filled with children "all in their pajamas and nightgowns" as it "raced northward"

DD ON STATES' HIGHWAY WELCOME SIGNS — $2,200 Show #9041 (2024-02-19)

A southern sign says, "Welcome to" this Lynyrd Skynyrd title

DD HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS — $2,000 Show #9024 (2024-01-25)

Important landmarks on this pioneer route included Chimney Rock in Nebraska & Fort Hall on the Snake River

DD SKIN CARE — $1,000 Show #21 (2023-11-29)

Seeking a youthful glow? Make a habit of this process, defined as scrubbing or using chemicals to remove dead skin cells

DD POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE — $1,000 Show #8973 (2023-11-15)

Wish you weren't here! Our raft is nearing the drop of this tallest Venezuelan cataract! See you next fall!

DD CARL SAGAN — $5,000 Show #8972 (2023-11-14)

Sagan co-authored a 1983 scientific paper that predicted that this climate condition would follow atomic war

DD SHIPS — $2,600 Show #8970 (2023-11-10)

On July 24, 1969 the USS Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for this group of men

DD THE SHIP OF STATE — $2,200 Show #8940 (2023-09-29)

In the 1860s a paddle-wheeler named this plied the waters of the same-named river around Fort Yuma

DD A GAME OF CARDS — $2,200 Show #8912 (2023-07-11)

There are 2 types of booze in this 2-player game

DD DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR — $2,200 Show #8883 (2023-05-31)

Lamborghini's Sesto Elemento was named for its pioneering use of this, from which much of the car is made

DD LIFE IS PICARESQUE — $2,000 Show #8870 (2023-05-12)

Allen Ginsberg said all the "running around in an automobile" in this work by his pal was "a great picaresque literary device"

DD A SPECIAL TRAIN CAR — $6,000 Show #8864 (2023-05-04)

An epically terrible trip from Buffalo to Westfield, N.Y. inspired this man to create the comfy rail cars named for him

DD STATE OF THE AIRPORT — $1,200 Show #8831 (2023-03-20)

Cheboygan County, Grosse Ile Municipal

DD SHIP OUT — $4,000 Show #8830 (2023-03-17)

Before its more famous departure from Plymouth, the Mayflower set sail from this "directional" English port

DD HERE'S YOUR REPORT CARD — $1,600 Show #8827 (2023-03-14)

Put out by the Air Force in 1995, a report on a 1947 incident here is subtitled "Facts vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert"

DD TRANSPORTATION — $3,000 Show #8693 (2022-07-27)

This type of sturdy horse-drawn wagon of early America, got its name from the Pennsylvania region where it was developed

DD HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS — $2,000 Show #8583 (2022-02-23)

Gulag labor was used to build this 7,000-mile highway with the same name as a famous railroad

DD BOATS & SHIPS — $3,400 Show #8575 (2022-02-11)

These boats in the lagoon at Boston's Public Garden were inspired by the opera "Lohengrin" & declared a Boston landmark

DD THE CAROLINAS — $1,400 Show #8563 (2022-01-26)

This Army post northwest of Fayetteville boasts of being "Home of the Airborne & Special Operations Forces"

DD INTERNATIONAL CARS — $2,000 Show #8557 (2022-01-18)

This car was first imported to the U.S. in the 1980s; the factory that made them was destroyed by NATO bombing in 1999

DD AIRPORTS — $3,000 Show #8512 (2021-11-16)

At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, art lovers can enjoy a sampling of paintings from this nearby national museum

DD TRAIN STATIONS — $6,000 Show #8510 (2021-11-12)

Now in mid-renovation, this historic Baltimore station has the same name as a NYC station that was famously demolished

DD BOATS & SHIPS — $1,600 Show #8493 (2021-10-20)

In 1854 Flying Cloud, this type of merchant ship, sailed from NYC to San Francisco in 89 days, a record that stood for 135 years

DD THAT'S MY AIRPORT — $7,000 Show #8404 (2021-05-20)

This Dallas airport is named for a lieutenant killed in a plane crash while practicing for a military aviator test

DD AROUND THE CARIBBEAN — $3,000 Show #8325 (2021-01-29)

2 capital cities are located on this Caribbean island: Marigot, which is French, & Philipsburg, which is Dutch

DD AT THE AIRPORT — $2,000 Show #8251 (2020-10-05)

Idlewild Wine Bar

DD HIGHWAYS — $3,000 Show #8219 (2020-05-21)

The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Highway connects Feng-shan & Keelung on this island

DD TRANSPORTATION — $2,500 Show #8170 (2020-02-28)

The vehicle of choice on the Oregon Trail was this wagon with a type of flat land in its name

DD TRAIN OF THOUGHT — $2,200 Show #8148 (2020-01-29)

In 1977, after decades of dwindling ridership, this luxury train was discontinued, or was it... murdered?!

DD BOATS & SHIPS — $2,000 Show #8056 (2019-09-23)

In 1851 this schooner won the Hundred Guinea Cup, the prize for a yacht race around the Isle of Wight

DD CAREER HIGHLIGHTS — $3,000 Show #8053 (2019-09-18)

Governor, secretary of energy;"Dancing with the Stars" contestant

DD TRANSPORTATION — $2,000 Show #8022 (2019-06-25)

In 1932 a 3-seat Stinson was the entire fleet flying between Bristol Bay & Anchorage for what would be this airline

DD THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD — $9,000 Show #7990 (2019-05-10)

"The Drinking Gourd" was this group of stars that helped runaways find the North Star in the night sky

DD CAR TALK — $9,200 Show #7978 (2019-04-24)

The 2015 50th anniversary edition of this pony car was limited to a production run of 1,964

DD ALTERED CARBON — $3,000 Show #7895 (2018-12-28)

(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) A sheet of carbon atoms is formed by strong covalent bonds. However, thebonds connecting multiple sheetsare much weaker, resulting in this soft substance, used in pencils

DD LET'S GET TO URCHIN CARE — $6,000 Show #7845 (2018-10-19)

Tom Canty receives a lot of care in this Twain novel when he swaps places with Prince Edward

DD AVIATION — $2,000 Show #7838 (2018-10-10)

The "A" in the plane called the A380 is for this company with a more terrestrial type of transport in its name

DD GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER — $3,000 Show #7806 (2018-07-16)

Among his teachers, Carver counted James Wilson & Henry C. Wallace, who went on to be secretaries of this department

DD TRANSPORTATION — $3,000 Show #7711 (2018-03-05)

In the 1940s this airline advertised, "None faster--none finer--to and through the South"

DD AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE — $1,000 Show #7697 (2018-02-13)

Cities in Greece & Macedonia both have airports named for this man