2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Jonathan Huang
MIT

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	3	Science - Biology	lifespan	91	-5
1	1	4	Social Science	aspect	83	-5
1	1	5	History - Other	land	95	10			5
1	1	16	Current Events	military families	129	10			13	✓
2	2	3	History - Other	Sanskrit	111	10			5
2	2	11	History - European	Battle of Kulikovo	136	0
2	2	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	vegetal decoration	138	10			7	✓
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	102	10	✓	✓	1
2	2	19	Literature - American	Mary Oliver	120	10			5
2	2	20	Science - Physics	slipping	134	10			14	✓
3	3	8	History - World	Mamlūk Sultanate	114	10			11
3	3	10	History - European	Siege of Leningrad	97	-5
3	3	11	Science - Chemistry	ozone	101	10			11
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	80	-5
4	4	12	Science - Chemistry	diatomic molecules	104	-5
4	4	19	Science - Biology	fluorescent proteins	100	10			8
6	6	15	Science - Other	genus	130	10			9
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	119	10			9
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	9	Current Events	“From the river to the sea”	124	10			11
7	7	15	Fine Arts - Other	Maria Tallchief	107	10			7
7	7	16	Science - Biology	cycads	124	10		✓	3	✓
8	8	6	History - European	Velvet Divorce	54	10	✓	✓	1
8	8	8	Science - Physics	entropy	108	10			6
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	110	10			5
8	8	15	History - Other	Tarim Basin	127	10			11
8	8	17	History - American	Meriwether Lewis	139	10			10
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	94	-5
10	1	4	Social Science	crowds	121	10			12
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	86	10			9
10	1	8	Science - Chemistry	electrolytes	92	10		✓	3
10	1	12	Science - Biology	ribozymes	79	10			5
10	1	15	Geography	Belgrade	119	-5
10	1	19	Other Academic	Navajo	101	10			5
11	2	1	Mythology	mercury	116	10			10
11	2	4	Science - Biology	fear	117	10			13	✓
11	2	5	History - European	Haiti	108	-5
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	83	10			5
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	92	-5
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	56	10		✓	2
11	2	17	Current Events	scams	84	10			10
11	2	19	Philosophy	law of excluded middle	125	10			15	✓
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	176	0
12	3	3	Geography	Simón Bolívar	140	10			13	✓
12	3	8	Science - Biology	ovulation	46	-5
12	3	12	History - Other	Tyre	136	10			11	✓
12	3	19	Science - Other	dimensionality	80	10			8
13	4	2	Current Events	Hezbollah	124	10			11
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	108	-5
13	4	15	History - World	tea	139	10			18	✓
14	5	5	Science - Biology	Drosophila eyes	99	10			8
14	5	6	Religion	Bali	82	-5
14	5	12	Social Science	economic surplus	99	-5
14	5	17	Science - Physics	bending	101	-5
15	6	1	Science - Chemistry	kinetic isotope effect	111	10			9
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	127	0
15	6	12	History - American	shells	125	10			15	✓
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	99	10			4
16	7	1	Social Science	seasonality	81	10	✓	✓	1
16	7	6	Science - Biology	measles	125	10			6
16	7	8	Geography	Switzerland	112	-5
16	7	14	Science - Chemistry	resins	82	-5
16	7	17	Science - Other	vehicle speed	103	10		✓	2
16	7	20	Other Academic	mancala	116	10			6
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	130	10			10	✓
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	124	10			9	✓
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	143	10			11	✓
17	8	9	Social Science	presidents	109	-5
17	8	12	Current Events	blackouts	98	10			4
18	9	2	Religion	Chief Rabbi of Israel	55	-5
18	9	4	Social Science	hearing	65	10			5
18	9	14	History - American	Apollo 11 mission	89	-5
18	9	18	Science - Other	bootstrapping	122	10			12	✓
18	9	20	Science - Biology	GLP-1	71	-5
19	10	2	Science - Biology	chromosomal inversions	103	10			4
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	36	10	✓	✓	1
19	10	18	Science - Other	Wolf–Rayet stars	83	-5

Jonathan HuangMIT

Jonathan Huang
MIT