2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Karthik Jayaram
UCLA

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	6	Science - Physics	Lars Onsager	123	10			12
1	1	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	John Dowland	148	10			14
1	1	11	Science - Other	sets	131	10			11
1	1	14	Science - Chemistry	Hermann Kolbe	114	10			4
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	136	0
2	2	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Symphony of Sorrowful Songs*	128	10			13
2	2	4	Science - Chemistry	desorption	132	0
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	107	10			8
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	107	10			4
2	2	19	Literature - American	Mary Oliver	160	10			12
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	118	10			5	✓
4	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Frédéric Chopin	104	10			7
4	4	5	Literature - American	beaches	152	0
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	104	-5
4	4	12	Science - Chemistry	diatomic molecules	129	10			11	✓
4	4	13	Literature - British	William Wycherley	99	10		✓	3
4	4	16	Literature - European	Byzantine Empire	146	10			9	✓
4	4	17	History - World	Taira clan	84	10		✓	2
5	5	1	Science - Physics	Newtonian gravity	133	0
5	5	12	Science - Other	ice sheets	127	0
5	5	14	Science - Biology	*Pseudomonas*	132	10			10	✓
5	5	16	Fine Arts - Classical Music	preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff	141	10			12
6	6	1	Science - Chemistry	hydrogen sulfide	131	0
6	6	2	History - European	Theodora	104	10		✓	3
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	135	0
6	6	12	Fine Arts - Other	*All That Jazz*	143	10			10
6	6	15	Science - Other	genus	137	10			11
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	117	10			7
7	7	1	Literature - American	William Dean Howells	153	10			12	✓
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	123	10			7	✓
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	12	Literature - World	The Bus Stop	96	10		✓	3
7	7	16	Science - Biology	cycads	124	0
7	7	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	lime plaster	138	10			9	✓
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	130	0
8	8	3	Science - Chemistry	cellulose	131	10			15	✓
8	8	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Japan	82	10			6
8	8	8	Science - Physics	entropy	96	10			4
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	140	0
8	8	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Hildegard of Bingen	94	10			4
8	8	16	Social Science	federalism	113	10			10	✓
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	107	10			7
8	8	20	Literature - American	*Naked Lunch*	86	10		✓	3
9	1	1	Science - Biology	E3 ubiquitin ligases	108	10	✓	✓	1
9	1	3	History - Other	ancient Iberians	49	-5
9	1	4	Literature - British	Percy Bysshe Shelley	114	10	✓	✓	1
9	1	5	Science - Other	sets	105	10	✓	✓	1
9	2	2	Literature - American	A Streetcar Named Desire	111	10	✓	✓	1
9	2	4	Fine Arts - Other	Yves Saint Laurent	91	10	✓	✓	1
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	97	-5
10	1	17	Science - Physics	instabilities	82	10			8
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	57	10	✓	✓	1
11	2	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Antarctica	143	10			6	✓
11	2	16	Literature - British	lawyers	53	-5
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	103	10			10
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	129	10			9	✓
12	3	13	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Riccardo	150	0
12	3	15	Fine Arts - Other	Lee	134	0
13	4	1	Literature - American	hired man	146	10			8
13	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mannheim	101	10			5
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	123	10			7
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	68	-5
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	133	10			11
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	95	10			4
14	5	11	Science - Chemistry	hydrazine	129	10			12	✓
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	132	10			5
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	128	10			13
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	144	10			10
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	146	10			10
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	84	10			4
15	6	18	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Romeo and Juliet*	139	10			10
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	84	10	✓	✓	1
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	121	10			4
16	7	9	Literature - European	Buddenbrook family	79	10		✓	3
16	7	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time*	66	10			4
16	7	17	Science - Other	vehicle speed	118	-5
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	130	10			10
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	124	0
17	8	7	Mythology	childbirth	129	10			13	✓
17	8	13	History - European	oprichnina	103	10	✓	✓	1
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	132	10			12
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	66	10			4
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	94	10		✓	2
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	132	0
18	9	13	Other Academic	genealogy	137	10			13	✓
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	144	10			9	✓
18	9	20	Science - Biology	GLP-1	137	0
19	10	18	Science - Other	Wolf–Rayet stars	132	10			6
19	10	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Rosamunde*	150	10			11	✓

Karthik JayaramUCLA

Karthik Jayaram
UCLA