2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Gavin Markoff
Vanderbilt

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	3	Science - Biology	lifespan	127	10		11	✓
1	1	8	Literature - European	*Madame Bovary*	129	10		12
1	1	12	Other Academic	Huxley	116	-5
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	136	10		8	✓
2	2	5	History - World	Trinidad and Tobago	70	-5
2	2	6	Literature - British	Dublin	104	10	✓	3
2	2	9	Literature - World	Canada	129	10		13
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	145	10		16	✓
2	2	13	Literature - European	*Heart of a Dog*	86	10	✓	3
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	129	10		6
3	3	9	Literature - British	churches	129	-5
3	3	11	Science - Chemistry	ozone	130	10		16	✓
3	3	13	Literature - World	The Savage Detectives	111	10		9
3	3	14	Philosophy	Gayatri Spivak	130	10		14	✓
3	3	15	Mythology	the man in the moon	124	-5
3	3	19	History - Other	Urartu	90	-5
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	122	10	✓	2
4	4	14	Mythology	giants	107	10	✓	2
6	6	7	History - World	Norodom Sihanouk	91	10		8
6	6	11	Philosophy	sophists	117	10		10
6	6	13	History - Other	Jean Chrétien	137	10		18	✓
7	7	1	Literature - American	William Dean Howells	153	10		12
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	132	0
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	97	-5
7	7	11	Science - Chemistry	proteins	127	10		14	✓
7	7	13	History - American	Miami, Florida	79	10		5
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	88	-5
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	130	0
8	8	2	Philosophy	*Pragmatism*	136	0
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	138	10	✓	2
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	140	0
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	132	0
8	8	20	Literature - American	*Naked Lunch*	132	10		13
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	130	10		10
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	129	10		12
10	1	9	Literature - European	*Woe from Wit*	150	0
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	114	10		8
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	159	10		10	✓
12	3	6	Other Academic	mythology	137	0
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	129	10		9	✓
12	3	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Berthe Morisot	149	10		13	✓
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	146	0
12	3	17	History - European	szlachta	92	10	✓	2
12	3	20	Literature - American	schools	141	10		12
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	143	-5
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	99	10		7
13	4	11	Social Science	slavery	126	10		16
13	4	12	Science - Chemistry	cyclopentadiene	132	0
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	143	0
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	84	-5
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	134	10		6
14	5	2	Philosophy	antinatalism	120	10		16
14	5	5	Science - Biology	Drosophila eyes	102	10		10
14	5	7	History - European	Kingdom of Kent	135	10		8
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	137	-5
14	5	10	History - World	Cameroon	94	-5
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	122	10		13
15	6	3	Literature - European	Raymond Queneau	105	10		13
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	152	0
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	128	10		12	✓
16	7	3	History - World	Kingdom of Pagan	134	0
16	7	5	History - American	Fort McHenry	96	10		5
16	7	6	Science - Biology	measles	133	10		11
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	100	-5
16	7	10	Science - Physics	thermodynamic limit	122	0
16	7	18	History - Other	canoes	130	10		12
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	130	0
17	8	2	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	spiders	111	10		11
17	8	7	Mythology	childbirth	56	-5
17	8	18	Religion	Vipassanā meditation	124	-5
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	145	0
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	126	10		12	✓
19	10	4	Literature - British	The Sea, The Sea	122	-5
19	10	12	Literature - European	Menander	106	-5

Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt

Gavin Markoff
Vanderbilt