2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

David Bass
Johns Hopkins

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	6	Science - Physics	Lars Onsager	87	10			4
1	1	12	Other Academic	Huxley	81	10			8
1	1	14	Science - Chemistry	Hermann Kolbe	101	-5
2	2	4	Science - Chemistry	desorption	132	0
2	2	8	Other Academic	Egyptian pyramids	116	10			9
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	80	-5
2	2	20	Science - Physics	slipping	87	10		✓	2
3	3	3	Literature - American	fire	105	10			12
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	84	10		✓	2
3	3	10	History - European	Siege of Leningrad	121	-5
3	3	15	Mythology	the man in the moon	140	0
3	3	18	Science - Biology	Golgi apparatus	95	10			8
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	104	-5
4	4	12	Science - Chemistry	diatomic molecules	110	10			5
5	5	9	Geography	Belarusian	136	10			12	✓
5	5	10	History - Other	the Hyksos period	137	0
5	5	12	Science - Other	ice sheets	116	10			11	✓
6	6	12	Fine Arts - Other	*All That Jazz*	129	10			5
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	116	-5
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	142	0
7	7	7	Science - Physics	traps	106	10			9
10	1	12	Science - Biology	ribozymes	83	10			6
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	83	10			5
11	2	7	Literature - American	Tom Sawyer	85	10		✓	2
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	160	10			11
11	2	12	History - World	dogs	93	10			7
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	82	10		✓	3
11	2	20	History - American	Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990	113	10			14
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	99	10			7
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	116	-5
12	3	19	Science - Other	dimensionality	9	10	✓	✓	1
13	4	3	History - American	Gifford Pinchot	131	0
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	140	-5
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	75	10		✓	3
13	4	8	Science - Physics	number of protons AND number of neutrons	112	10			7
13	4	10	Science - Biology	niches	80	10		✓	3
14	5	7	History - European	Kingdom of Kent	141	0
14	5	18	Other Academic	machetes	93	10			6
15	6	2	History - World	Mexican Revolution	69	10			4
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	105	10			8
15	6	14	Literature - World	Paris	42	10		✓	3
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	87	10			7
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	113	10			6
16	7	5	History - American	Fort McHenry	83	10		✓	3
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	125	10			9	✓
16	7	8	Geography	Switzerland	93	-5
16	7	10	Science - Physics	thermodynamic limit	122	10			6
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	94	10			8
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	55	-5
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	94	10		✓	2
17	8	18	Religion	Vipassanā meditation	129	10			6
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	132	0
18	9	1	Science - Physics	number of degrees of freedom	56	10		✓	2
18	9	9	Science - Chemistry	diamonds	113	10			14	✓
18	9	18	Science - Other	bootstrapping	50	10		✓	2
19	10	2	Science - Biology	chromosomal inversions	49	10	✓	✓	1
19	10	9	Science - Physics	stress–energy tensor	82	-5

David BassJohns Hopkins

David Bass
Johns Hopkins