2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Ariel Faeder
Pittsburgh

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Fine Arts - Other	Ma Rainey	147	10			10
1	1	3	Science - Biology	lifespan	105	-5
1	1	7	Religion	Enoch	83	10	✓	✓	1
1	1	9	History - American	Santa Fe	146	10			14	✓
1	1	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	John Dowland	107	10			5
1	1	15	Literature - British	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	89	10			9
1	1	16	Current Events	military families	81	10		✓	3
2	2	3	History - Other	Sanskrit	131	10			11	✓
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	130	10			12
2	2	8	Other Academic	Egyptian pyramids	110	10			6
2	2	9	Literature - World	Canada	84	10			9
2	2	10	Fine Arts - Other	Norma Desmond	143	10			8
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	92	10		✓	3
2	2	13	Literature - European	*Heart of a Dog*	132	10			13	✓
2	2	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	vegetal decoration	138	10			7
3	3	3	Literature - American	fire	103	10			11
3	3	9	Literature - British	churches	91	10			4
3	3	14	Philosophy	Gayatri Spivak	74	10		✓	3
3	3	15	Mythology	the man in the moon	95	10		✓	3
3	3	16	Literature - European	Denmark	122	10			12
3	3	17	History - American	Alcott family	96	10			9
3	3	19	History - Other	Urartu	92	-5
4	4	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Giorgio Vasari	93	10			4
4	4	5	Literature - American	beaches	41	10	✓	✓	1
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	138	10			4	✓
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	128	10			8	✓
4	4	13	Literature - British	William Wycherley	69	-5
4	4	14	Mythology	giants	137	10			11
4	4	20	Fine Arts - Other	Alvar Aalto	113	10		✓	3
5	5	1	Science - Physics	Newtonian gravity	132	10			4	✓
5	5	3	Religion	Korean Confucianism	84	10			5
5	5	8	Mythology	uncle	88	10		✓	3
5	5	13	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Cossacks	127	10			8
5	5	16	Fine Arts - Classical Music	preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff	138	10			11
5	5	17	Philosophy	Donald Davidson	108	10			8
5	5	19	Literature - American	*True West*	45	-5
7	7	1	Literature - American	William Dean Howells	135	10			7
7	7	8	History - Other	temples	118	10			5
7	7	12	Literature - World	The Bus Stop	119	10			7
7	7	17	History - World	Julius Nyerere	130	10			14	✓
7	7	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	lime plaster	115	10		✓	2
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	111	10			6
8	8	3	Science - Chemistry	cellulose	131	10			15	✓
8	8	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Japan	100	10			9
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	153	10			6	✓
8	8	7	Other Academic	Luce	97	10			4
8	8	12	Fine Arts - Other	scenes consisting of one shot	94	10			5
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	132	10			13	✓
8	8	19	Religion	catholic	95	10			4
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	100	10		✓	3
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	118	10			15	✓
10	1	9	Literature - European	*Woe from Wit*	150	10			10
10	1	11	Fine Arts - Other	Marx Brothers	165	10			6
10	1	15	Geography	Belgrade	138	0
10	1	18	History - European	Hundred Years’ War	99	10			9
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	99	10			4
11	2	4	Science - Biology	fear	117	10			13	✓
11	2	7	Literature - American	Tom Sawyer	84	10	✓	✓	1
11	2	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Antarctica	109	-5
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	79	10	✓	✓	1
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	160	10			11	✓
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	141	10			11	✓
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	125	10			14	✓
11	2	18	Fine Arts - Other	Pisa	55	-5
11	2	19	Philosophy	law of excluded middle	57	10			6
12	3	8	Science - Biology	ovulation	106	10			9
12	3	11	Science - Chemistry	vulcanization	108	10		✓	2
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	57	-5
12	3	16	Religion	centurions	98	-5
12	3	18	Philosophy	*Minima Moralia*: Reflections from Damaged Life	92	-5
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	145	10			12	✓
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	70	-5
13	4	7	History - Other	basileus	147	10			14	✓
13	4	8	Science - Physics	number of protons AND number of neutrons	112	-5
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	143	10			9	✓
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	98	10			5
14	5	3	Literature - World	Buddha	95	10			12
14	5	4	Fine Arts - Other	Jim Jarmusch	149	10		✓	3
14	5	5	Science - Biology	Drosophila eyes	101	10			9
14	5	6	Religion	Bali	140	0
14	5	9	Science - Other	network congestion	113	-5
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	102	10			9
15	6	6	Science - Biology	antipsychotics	73	10			4
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	127	0
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	130	10			7
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	134	10			7
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	126	10			12
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	91	10			8
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	150	10			13	✓
15	6	18	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Romeo and Juliet*	112	-5
15	6	20	History - Other	Genesis	118	10			14
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	131	10			6
16	7	4	Religion	du’a	141	0
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	139	10			14	✓
16	7	11	History - European	Greeks	92	-5
16	7	12	Fine Arts - Other	beaches	139	10			13	✓
16	7	13	Literature - British	*Pearl*	85	10		✓	3
16	7	14	Science - Chemistry	resins	133	10			12	✓
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	102	-5
16	7	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time*	33	10	✓	✓	1
16	7	19	Philosophy	Leo Strauss	66	10			6
16	7	20	Other Academic	mancala	114	10			4
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	143	10			11	✓
17	8	8	Fine Arts - Other	scarf	127	-5
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	92	10			5
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	132	10			7
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	51	10	✓	✓	1
17	8	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Leonard Bernstein	104	10			10
18	9	2	Religion	Chief Rabbi of Israel	124	10			7
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	139	10		✓	3
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	71	-5
18	9	7	Fine Arts - Classical Music	canon	96	10			4
18	9	8	Literature - British	*Peter Pan*	142	10			17
18	9	9	Science - Chemistry	diamonds	108	10			13
18	9	10	History - World	Hóng	137	10			15	✓
18	9	11	Literature - European	*Works and Days*	148	10			12	✓
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	126	10			12	✓
18	9	13	Other Academic	genealogy	91	-5
18	9	15	Geography	honey	126	10			14
18	9	16	Fine Arts - Other	montages	88	10		✓	2
18	9	19	History - Other	hairstyling	101	10			6
19	10	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	seated	154	10			15	✓
19	10	4	Literature - British	The Sea, The Sea	143	10			5
19	10	5	Religion	baptism	21	10	✓	✓	1
19	10	8	History - American	bank robbers	144	10			14	✓
19	10	9	Science - Physics	stress–energy tensor	113	-5
19	10	12	Literature - European	Menander	118	10			5
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	120	10			9
19	10	15	Philosophy	consolatio	88	10			4
19	10	16	History - World	Jahangir	28	10		✓	2
19	10	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Rosamunde*	129	10			5

Ariel FaederPittsburgh

Ariel Faeder
Pittsburgh