2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Jim Fan
North Carolina

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	5	History - Other	land	48	-5
1	1	7	Religion	Enoch	145	10		12	✓
1	1	12	Other Academic	Huxley	124	10		15	✓
2	2	13	Literature - European	*Heart of a Dog*	108	10		7
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	120	-5
2	2	19	Literature - American	Mary Oliver	116	-5
3	3	6	Fine Arts - Other	*Doctor Atomic*	140	10		10
3	3	13	Literature - World	The Savage Detectives	109	10		8
3	3	15	Mythology	the man in the moon	137	10		12
3	3	16	Literature - European	Denmark	107	10		7
4	4	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Giorgio Vasari	108	10		8
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	119	10		6	✓
4	4	5	Literature - American	beaches	66	-5
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	121	-5
4	4	9	Literature - World	mystery fiction	121	-5
4	4	20	Fine Arts - Other	Alvar Aalto	139	0
5	5	1	Science - Physics	Newtonian gravity	133	0
5	5	2	Literature - World	London	148	10		8
5	5	4	History - European	Belgium	116	10		12
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	114	10		4
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	142	0
7	7	7	Science - Physics	traps	109	10		10
7	7	12	Literature - World	The Bus Stop	119	10		7
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	126	-5
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	134	-5
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	153	0
8	8	8	Science - Physics	entropy	131	10		14	✓
8	8	12	Fine Arts - Other	scenes consisting of one shot	140	10		11
8	8	20	Literature - American	*Naked Lunch*	93	10		5
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	130	10		10
10	1	3	History - Other	Sardis	139	10		11
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	145	10		13
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	74	10		7
10	1	7	Literature - American	interpretation	130	10		10
10	1	11	Fine Arts - Other	Marx Brothers	165	10		6
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	122	10		10
10	1	17	Science - Physics	instabilities	82	10		8
11	2	1	Mythology	mercury	68	10	✓	3
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	136	10		13
11	2	4	Science - Biology	fear	117	10		13	✓
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	137	0
11	2	7	Literature - American	Tom Sawyer	137	10		7	✓
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	134	10		9
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	157	10		9
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	88	-5
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	141	10		11
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	87	10		5
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	176	0
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	105	10	✓	3
12	3	8	Science - Biology	ovulation	103	-5
12	3	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Berthe Morisot	71	-5
12	3	13	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Riccardo	150	0
12	3	19	Science - Other	dimensionality	119	10		12	✓
13	4	12	Science - Chemistry	cyclopentadiene	132	0
13	4	13	Mythology	Karna	138	-5
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	117	10		10
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	137	10		12	✓
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	138	0
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	138	10		12	✓
14	5	3	Literature - World	Buddha	97	10		13
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	119	-5
14	5	9	Science - Other	network congestion	110	-5
14	5	17	Science - Physics	bending	111	-5
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	93	-5
15	6	1	Science - Chemistry	kinetic isotope effect	129	0
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	152	10		9	✓
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	81	10	✓	2
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	146	-5
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	129	10		15
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	142	10		9
15	6	18	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Romeo and Juliet*	144	10		12
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	113	-5
16	7	13	Literature - British	*Pearl*	142	10		16	✓
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	142	10		15	✓
16	7	19	Philosophy	Leo Strauss	132	0
17	8	2	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	spiders	103	10		9
17	8	8	Fine Arts - Other	scarf	127	10		10
17	8	10	Literature - British	World War I	143	10		10
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	84	10		4
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	140	0
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	117	10		11
18	9	10	History - World	Hóng	116	10		14
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	126	10		12
18	9	16	Fine Arts - Other	montages	121	10		13
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	132	-5
19	10	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	seated	116	10		10
19	10	4	Literature - British	The Sea, The Sea	144	10		6
19	10	10	History - European	Holy Crown of Hungary	135	0
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	112	10		6
19	10	15	Philosophy	consolatio	104	10		9
19	10	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Rosamunde*	151	0

Jim FanNorth Carolina

Jim Fan
North Carolina