2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Joel Miles
Minnesota

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Fine Arts - Other	Ma Rainey	103	10		✓	2
1	1	2	Literature - American	Barbara Kingsolver	93	10			5
1	1	5	History - Other	land	117	10			8
1	1	9	History - American	Santa Fe	104	10			11
1	1	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	John Dowland	149	10			15
1	1	11	Science - Other	sets	131	0
1	1	12	Other Academic	Huxley	105	10			12
1	1	13	History - European	the Fronde	138	10			13
1	1	15	Literature - British	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	102	10			12
1	1	17	Literature - World	Somalia	116	10			8
1	1	18	Philosophy	Max	123	10			9
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	128	-5
2	2	3	History - Other	Sanskrit	117	10			7
2	2	5	History - World	Trinidad and Tobago	85	10		✓	3
2	2	6	Literature - British	Dublin	112	10			6
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	101	10			6
2	2	8	Other Academic	Egyptian pyramids	116	-5
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	94	10			5
2	2	14	Religion	Great Disappointment	146	10			12
2	2	19	Literature - American	Mary Oliver	160	10			12	✓
2	2	20	Science - Physics	slipping	134	10			14	✓
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	100	-5
3	3	5	Science - Other	deep ocean	115	10			12
3	3	6	Fine Arts - Other	*Doctor Atomic*	139	10			9
3	3	9	Literature - British	churches	123	-5
3	3	12	Current Events	Romanians	133	10			10	✓
3	3	14	Philosophy	Gayatri Spivak	83	10			6
3	3	17	History - American	Alcott family	96	10			9
3	3	20	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Maurizio Cattelan	121	10			12
5	5	3	Religion	Korean Confucianism	84	10			5
5	5	6	Literature - European	Sappho	46	10		✓	2
5	5	9	Geography	Belarusian	107	10			6
5	5	13	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Cossacks	118	10		✓	2
5	5	17	Philosophy	Donald Davidson	29	10	✓	✓	1
5	5	19	Literature - American	*True West*	154	0
6	6	1	Science - Chemistry	hydrogen sulfide	131	0
6	6	5	Social Science	being in a romantic relationship	127	10			7
6	6	6	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	clouds	84	10	✓	✓	1
6	6	7	History - World	Norodom Sihanouk	74	10			7
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	135	0
6	6	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Muzio Clementi	94	10			4
6	6	11	Philosophy	sophists	92	10			4
6	6	14	Literature - American	Esmé	73	10			6
6	6	16	Religion	spoken by Jesus	53	10		✓	3
7	7	1	Literature - American	William Dean Howells	141	10			10
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	4	Other Academic	anatomy	95	-5
7	7	8	History - Other	temples	139	10			10	✓
7	7	9	Current Events	“From the river to the sea”	83	-5
7	7	13	History - American	Miami, Florida	85	10			7
7	7	15	Fine Arts - Other	Maria Tallchief	93	10			6
7	7	16	Science - Biology	cycads	104	-5
7	7	18	Religion	Ulrich Zwingli	95	10			7
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	19	10	✓	✓	1
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	159	10			9	✓
8	8	2	Philosophy	*Pragmatism*	132	10			6
8	8	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Japan	82	10			6
8	8	6	History - European	Velvet Divorce	88	10			4
8	8	7	Other Academic	Luce	105	10			7
8	8	9	History - World	trek	123	10			9
8	8	10	Geography	St. Louis	69	10			5
8	8	11	Literature - European	Lucian of Samosata	148	10			13
8	8	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Hildegard of Bingen	108	10			8
8	8	17	History - American	Meriwether Lewis	125	10			8
8	8	19	Religion	catholic	138	0
9	1	3	History - Other	ancient Iberians	132	10	✓	✓	1	✓
9	1	6	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Brazil	117	10	✓	✓	1
9	1	7	Social Science	altitude	86	10	✓	✓	1
9	1	8	Geography	visas	143	10	✓	✓	1
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	128	10			8
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	134	10			10
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	113	10			7
10	1	7	Literature - American	interpretation	102	10			5
10	1	8	Science - Chemistry	electrolytes	126	0
10	1	9	Literature - European	*Woe from Wit*	150	10			10
10	1	14	History - American	Niagara River	96	10			4
10	1	20	Philosophy	Spain	44	10		✓	2
11	2	2	History - Other	Oxus River	125	10			10
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	102	10			6
11	2	8	Social Science	David Graeber	91	10			6
11	2	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Antarctica	143	10			6	✓
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	160	10			11	✓
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	122	10			4
11	2	19	Philosophy	law of excluded middle	58	-5
11	2	20	History - American	Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990	113	10			14
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	166	-5
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	22	10	✓	✓	1
12	3	6	Other Academic	mythology	108	-5
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	108	10			4
12	3	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Berthe Morisot	150	10			14	✓
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	126	-5
12	3	15	Fine Arts - Other	Lee	122	10			12
12	3	16	Religion	centurions	112	10			9
12	3	18	Philosophy	*Minima Moralia*: Reflections from Damaged Life	100	10			4	✓
12	3	20	Literature - American	schools	142	10			13
13	4	1	Literature - American	hired man	142	10			7
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	103	10		✓	3
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	92	10			4
13	4	7	History - Other	basileus	147	0
13	4	11	Social Science	slavery	101	10			11
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	143	10			9	✓
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	137	0
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	138	10			9
14	5	2	Philosophy	antinatalism	87	10		✓	3
14	5	7	History - European	Kingdom of Kent	135	10			8
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	115	10			4
14	5	9	Science - Other	network congestion	110	-5
14	5	10	History - World	Cameroon	94	10			4
14	5	12	Social Science	economic surplus	134	0
14	5	13	Geography	Hạ Long Bay	126	10			4
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	99	10			8
14	5	15	History - American	slave catching	118	10			12
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	136	10			9
15	6	2	History - World	Mexican Revolution	130	10			13	✓
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	152	0
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	119	10			8
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	130	10			7
15	6	15	Current Events	cholera	116	10			11
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	150	0
15	6	20	History - Other	Genesis	119	10			15
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	131	10			6
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	119	10			7
16	7	8	Geography	Switzerland	128	10			12
16	7	9	Literature - European	Buddenbrook family	117	10			13
16	7	12	Fine Arts - Other	beaches	114	10		✓	3
16	7	13	Literature - British	*Pearl*	119	10			10
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	134	-5
16	7	17	Science - Other	vehicle speed	133	10			9
16	7	19	Philosophy	Leo Strauss	67	-5
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	98	-5
17	8	8	Fine Arts - Other	scarf	131	10			12
17	8	11	History - Other	Australia	96	10			8
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	137	10			13
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	98	10			11
17	8	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Leonard Bernstein	124	10			16
18	9	2	Religion	Chief Rabbi of Israel	136	0
18	9	4	Social Science	hearing	114	10			9
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	135	10		✓	2
18	9	11	Literature - European	*Works and Days*	148	10			12
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	96	-5
18	9	14	History - American	Apollo 11 mission	141	10			13	✓
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	136	-5
19	10	3	Social Science	Paul Gilroy	92	10		✓	3
19	10	7	Fine Arts - Other	United States	152	10			13	✓
19	10	8	History - American	bank robbers	47	-5
19	10	10	History - European	Holy Crown of Hungary	134	10			16	✓
19	10	13	History - Other	Zapotec civilization	122	10			12
19	10	18	Science - Other	Wolf–Rayet stars	133	10			7

Joel MilesMinnesota

Joel Miles
Minnesota