2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Ben Hellman
Swarthmore

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Fine Arts - Other	Ma Rainey	120	10			6
1	1	2	Literature - American	Barbara Kingsolver	91	10			4
1	1	6	Science - Physics	Lars Onsager	43	-5
1	1	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	John Dowland	107	-5
1	1	11	Science - Other	sets	122	-5
1	1	14	Science - Chemistry	Hermann Kolbe	125	0
1	1	17	Literature - World	Somalia	140	0
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	136	10			8	✓
2	2	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Symphony of Sorrowful Songs*	135	10			15
2	2	2	Science - Biology	reservoirs	102	-5
2	2	4	Science - Chemistry	desorption	132	0
2	2	6	Literature - British	Dublin	158	10			18	✓
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	82	-5
2	2	9	Literature - World	Canada	130	10			14
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	54	10	✓	✓	1
2	2	14	Religion	Great Disappointment	152	0
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	130	10			7	✓
2	2	19	Literature - American	Mary Oliver	160	0
2	2	20	Science - Physics	slipping	103	10			8
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	38	-5
3	3	5	Science - Other	deep ocean	76	10			7
3	3	6	Fine Arts - Other	*Doctor Atomic*	140	10			10	✓
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	121	0
3	3	8	History - World	Mamlūk Sultanate	75	-5
3	3	13	Literature - World	The Savage Detectives	102	10			7
3	3	14	Philosophy	Gayatri Spivak	120	10			11
3	3	17	History - American	Alcott family	93	-5
3	3	19	History - Other	Urartu	133	0
4	4	2	History - American	sugar industry	96	10		✓	3
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	119	0
4	4	5	Literature - American	beaches	152	0
4	4	7	Philosophy	University of Edinburgh	59	10		✓	2
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	139	0
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	123	-5
4	4	12	Science - Chemistry	diatomic molecules	113	10			6
4	4	15	History - European	Christian	121	10			11
4	4	19	Science - Biology	fluorescent proteins	90	10			4
4	4	20	Fine Arts - Other	Alvar Aalto	114	-5
6	6	3	Current Events	LDP	102	-5
6	6	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Muzio Clementi	137	10			13
6	6	14	Literature - American	Esmé	143	10			14
6	6	17	History - American	dot-com crash	62	10		✓	2
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	58	-5
7	7	1	Literature - American	William Dean Howells	141	-5
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	4	Other Academic	anatomy	77	-5
7	7	6	History - European	Miklós Horthy	96	10			8
7	7	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Dmitri Shostakovich	133	10			14
7	7	12	Literature - World	The Bus Stop	118	10			6
7	7	13	History - American	Miami, Florida	83	10			6
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	135	10			5
7	7	15	Fine Arts - Other	Maria Tallchief	107	10			7
7	7	16	Science - Biology	cycads	95	-5
7	7	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	lime plaster	86	10	✓	✓	1
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	118	-5
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	159	0
8	8	2	Philosophy	*Pragmatism*	134	10			7
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	76	-5
8	8	8	Science - Physics	entropy	117	10			8
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	140	0
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	96	-5
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	130	10			10
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	134	10			10	✓
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	101	10			4
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	118	10			15
10	1	11	Fine Arts - Other	Marx Brothers	165	10			6	✓
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	140	0
10	1	17	Science - Physics	instabilities	86	10			10
10	1	20	Philosophy	Spain	117	-5
11	2	5	History - European	Haiti	72	10		✓	3
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	35	-5
11	2	8	Social Science	David Graeber	91	10			6
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	135	10			10
11	2	12	History - World	dogs	104	-5
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	137	10			8
11	2	16	Literature - British	lawyers	138	-5
11	2	18	Fine Arts - Other	Pisa	139	10			13
11	2	20	History - American	Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990	65	10			5
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	101	10			8
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	176	0
12	3	3	Geography	Simón Bolívar	100	-5
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	107	10			8
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	129	10			9
12	3	8	Science - Biology	ovulation	140	10			13	✓
12	3	13	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Riccardo	124	-5
12	3	17	History - European	szlachta	121	10			9
12	3	20	Literature - American	schools	130	10			6
13	4	3	History - American	Gifford Pinchot	19	-5
13	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mannheim	115	10			10
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	111	10			10
13	4	8	Science - Physics	number of protons AND number of neutrons	107	10			6
13	4	11	Social Science	slavery	89	10			6
13	4	12	Science - Chemistry	cyclopentadiene	122	-5
13	4	15	History - World	tea	106	10			12
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	102	-5
13	4	19	Fine Arts - Other	Chile	113	-5
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	123	-5
14	5	6	Religion	Bali	140	0
14	5	7	History - European	Kingdom of Kent	141	0
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	134	-5
14	5	9	Science - Other	network congestion	57	10			4
14	5	11	Science - Chemistry	hydrazine	129	10			12
14	5	12	Social Science	economic surplus	99	10		✓	2
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	150	0
14	5	15	History - American	slave catching	107	-5
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	141	0
14	5	20	History - Other	Helena Augusta	144	0
15	6	1	Science - Chemistry	kinetic isotope effect	124	10			13
15	6	3	Literature - European	Raymond Queneau	146	0
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	132	10			5
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	125	10			11
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	127	0
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	146	0
15	6	15	Current Events	cholera	115	10			10
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	114	-5
15	6	20	History - Other	Genesis	62	-5
16	7	1	Social Science	seasonality	75	-5
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	143	0
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	138	10			13
16	7	8	Geography	Switzerland	123	10			10
16	7	9	Literature - European	Buddenbrook family	115	10			11
16	7	10	Science - Physics	thermodynamic limit	122	0
16	7	11	History - European	Greeks	114	10			10
16	7	14	Science - Chemistry	resins	129	10			10
16	7	17	Science - Other	vehicle speed	137	10			12	✓
16	7	18	History - Other	canoes	139	10			15	✓
16	7	19	Philosophy	Leo Strauss	132	0
16	7	20	Other Academic	mancala	121	10			9
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	130	10			10
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	124	0
17	8	4	History - World	Osman I	140	0
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	91	10			5
17	8	8	Fine Arts - Other	scarf	130	10			11
17	8	10	Literature - British	World War I	146	10			11	✓
17	8	12	Current Events	blackouts	85	10		✓	2
17	8	13	History - European	oprichnina	129	10			7
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	120	-5
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	128	10			7
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	123	-5
18	9	2	Religion	Chief Rabbi of Israel	79	10		✓	2
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	124	-5
18	9	9	Science - Chemistry	diamonds	123	10			18	✓
18	9	10	History - World	Hóng	84	-5
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	103	-5
18	9	15	Geography	honey	118	10			12
18	9	19	History - Other	hairstyling	101	10			6
19	10	3	Social Science	Paul Gilroy	135	0
19	10	5	Religion	baptism	121	-5
19	10	6	Literature - American	Toni	66	10		✓	2
19	10	8	History - American	bank robbers	88	10	✓	✓	1
19	10	13	History - Other	Zapotec civilization	123	0

Ben HellmanSwarthmore

Ben Hellman
Swarthmore