2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

August Vanskike
Maryland B

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	4	Social Science	aspect	112	10			5
1	1	6	Science - Physics	Lars Onsager	123	0
1	1	7	Religion	Enoch	90	10		✓	2
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	136	0
2	2	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Symphony of Sorrowful Songs*	45	10	✓	✓	1
2	2	2	Science - Biology	reservoirs	103	10			4
2	2	4	Science - Chemistry	desorption	132	0
2	2	5	History - World	Trinidad and Tobago	124	10			7
2	2	6	Literature - British	Dublin	104	10		✓	3
2	2	10	Fine Arts - Other	Norma Desmond	151	0
2	2	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	vegetal decoration	127	10			4
2	2	18	History - American	ships	94	10			9
5	5	2	Literature - World	London	148	10			8	✓
5	5	3	Religion	Korean Confucianism	111	10			10
5	5	6	Literature - European	Sappho	46	10		✓	2
5	5	10	History - Other	the Hyksos period	137	10			9
5	5	13	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Cossacks	151	0
5	5	15	Literature - British	John Berger	148	10			14
5	5	17	Philosophy	Donald Davidson	133	0
5	5	19	Literature - American	*True West*	154	0
6	6	2	History - European	Theodora	125	10			8
6	6	5	Social Science	being in a romantic relationship	130	10			8
6	6	16	Religion	spoken by Jesus	88	10			6
6	6	17	History - American	dot-com crash	103	10			5
6	6	19	Other Academic	Heimat	141	10			8	✓
7	7	4	Other Academic	anatomy	119	-5
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	142	0
7	7	9	Current Events	“From the river to the sea”	152	10			15	✓
7	7	13	History - American	Miami, Florida	122	10			17
7	7	15	Fine Arts - Other	Maria Tallchief	139	0
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	119	10			5
8	8	3	Science - Chemistry	cellulose	118	-5
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	140	0
8	8	15	History - Other	Tarim Basin	109	10			9
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	126	-5
10	1	10	History - World	mines	136	10			16	✓
10	1	20	Philosophy	Spain	133	10			16
11	2	1	Mythology	mercury	135	10			16	✓
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	137	10			13	✓
11	2	7	Literature - American	Tom Sawyer	132	-5
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	144	10			12
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	160	0
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	120	0
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	141	10			11	✓
11	2	16	Literature - British	lawyers	148	10			13	✓
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	57	10	✓	✓	1
12	3	3	Geography	Simón Bolívar	132	10			11
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	31	10		✓	2
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	100	10		✓	2
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	138	-5
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	125	10			12
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	132	0
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	137	0
13	4	18	History - European	Derry	36	10	✓	✓	1
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	101	10			6
14	5	2	Philosophy	antinatalism	133	10			18	✓
14	5	3	Literature - World	Buddha	81	10			7
14	5	4	Fine Arts - Other	Jim Jarmusch	157	0
14	5	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	British Museum	70	10			6
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	134	10			8
15	6	3	Literature - European	Raymond Queneau	146	0
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	152	10			9	✓
15	6	5	Religion	Inari	134	0
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	128	10			12	✓
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	127	0
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	146	-5
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	138	-5
15	6	14	Literature - World	Paris	121	10			15
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	146	-5
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	143	0
16	7	5	History - American	Fort McHenry	129	10			17
16	7	12	Fine Arts - Other	beaches	139	10			13	✓
16	7	14	Science - Chemistry	resins	133	10			12	✓
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	142	10			15	✓
16	7	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time*	141	0
16	7	18	History - Other	canoes	93	10			7
17	8	2	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	spiders	120	10			13
17	8	5	Literature - European	“White Nights”	146	10			13
17	8	10	Literature - British	World War I	100	-5
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	156	10			16
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	140	10			10	✓
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	130	10			17
17	8	18	Religion	Vipassanā meditation	129	0
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	132	0
17	8	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Leonard Bernstein	136	10			17	✓
18	9	3	History - European	Cologne	132	10			15
18	9	4	Social Science	hearing	109	10			8
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	155	10			11
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	145	0
18	9	11	Literature - European	*Works and Days*	148	10			12
18	9	16	Fine Arts - Other	montages	101	10			9
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	144	0
19	10	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	seated	155	0
19	10	3	Social Science	Paul Gilroy	135	0
19	10	5	Religion	baptism	56	-5
19	10	6	Literature - American	Toni	154	10			18
19	10	8	History - American	bank robbers	139	10			13
19	10	12	Literature - European	Menander	154	0
19	10	13	History - Other	Zapotec civilization	123	0
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	155	10			13
19	10	15	Philosophy	consolatio	143	10			15	✓
19	10	17	Mythology	Argos	144	10			11	✓
19	10	19	Current Events	Bad Bunny	127	10			12

August VanskikeMaryland B

August Vanskike
Maryland B