2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Michael Du
Waterloo

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
2	2	2	Science - Biology	reservoirs	106	10			6
2	2	5	History - World	Trinidad and Tobago	134	10			11	✓
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	129	10			11	✓
2	2	8	Other Academic	Egyptian pyramids	97	10			4
2	2	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	vegetal decoration	137	10			6
2	2	20	Science - Physics	slipping	91	-5
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	64	-5
3	3	2	Religion	Vaishnavism	107	10			11
3	3	8	History - World	Mamlūk Sultanate	98	10			5
3	3	10	History - European	Siege of Leningrad	118	10			7
3	3	12	Current Events	Romanians	30	10	✓	✓	1
3	3	19	History - Other	Urartu	90	-5
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	115	-5
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	103	-5
4	4	12	Science - Chemistry	diatomic molecules	129	10			11	✓
4	4	15	History - European	Christian	95	-5
5	5	3	Religion	Korean Confucianism	73	10	✓	✓	1
5	5	4	History - European	Belgium	93	-5
5	5	8	Mythology	uncle	116	10			5
5	5	9	Geography	Belarusian	67	-5
5	5	10	History - Other	the Hyksos period	127	10			7
6	6	1	Science - Chemistry	hydrogen sulfide	131	10			11	✓
6	6	3	Current Events	LDP	53	10	✓	✓	1
6	6	5	Social Science	being in a romantic relationship	93	10		✓	3
6	6	13	History - Other	Jean Chrétien	24	-5
6	6	19	Other Academic	Heimat	132	10			6
7	7	4	Other Academic	anatomy	117	-5
7	7	9	Current Events	“From the river to the sea”	151	10			14	✓
7	7	13	History - American	Miami, Florida	103	10			12
7	7	16	Science - Biology	cycads	69	-5
7	7	17	History - World	Julius Nyerere	109	-5
7	7	18	Religion	Ulrich Zwingli	111	-5
8	8	9	History - World	trek	92	10		✓	3
8	8	10	Geography	St. Louis	82	10			10	✓
8	8	15	History - Other	Tarim Basin	75	10		✓	2
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	94	-5
8	8	19	Religion	catholic	94	10		✓	3
10	1	4	Social Science	crowds	103	10			10
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	97	-5
10	1	14	History - American	Niagara River	51	10	✓	✓	1
10	1	19	Other Academic	Navajo	95	10		✓	3
11	2	1	Mythology	mercury	94	-5
11	2	2	History - Other	Oxus River	127	10			12
11	2	4	Science - Biology	fear	116	10			12
11	2	5	History - European	Haiti	97	10			9
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	65	-5
11	2	8	Social Science	David Graeber	104	10			8
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	120	10			13
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	115	10			13	✓
11	2	17	Current Events	scams	66	10		✓	3
11	2	19	Philosophy	law of excluded middle	87	10			9
12	3	5	History - World	princely states	77	10			6
12	3	6	Other Academic	mythology	135	10			11
12	3	8	Science - Biology	ovulation	140	10			13	✓
12	3	11	Science - Chemistry	vulcanization	110	10		✓	3
12	3	12	History - Other	Tyre	72	10		✓	2
12	3	13	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Riccardo	150	10			7
12	3	17	History - European	szlachta	106	10			6
13	4	2	Current Events	Hezbollah	105	10			8
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	142	10			14	✓
13	4	9	Religion	swearing oaths	97	10			10
13	4	11	Social Science	slavery	102	10			12
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	132	10			11	✓
14	5	5	Science - Biology	Drosophila eyes	109	10			14
14	5	6	Religion	Bali	140	10			9	✓
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	140	10			9
14	5	15	History - American	slave catching	91	10			10
15	6	2	History - World	Mexican Revolution	100	-5
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	119	-5
15	6	6	Science - Biology	antipsychotics	75	-5
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	133	10			15
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	108	10			9
15	6	12	History - American	shells	83	-5
15	6	15	Current Events	cholera	85	10		✓	3
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	101	10			12
16	7	1	Social Science	seasonality	113	10		✓	3
16	7	3	History - World	Kingdom of Pagan	97	10			6
16	7	11	History - European	Greeks	97	10			8	✓
16	7	17	Science - Other	vehicle speed	100	10	✓	✓	1
16	7	19	Philosophy	Leo Strauss	64	10			4
16	7	20	Other Academic	mancala	101	-5
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	124	0
17	8	4	History - World	Osman I	123	-5
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	85	10			4
17	8	7	Mythology	childbirth	130	10			14	✓
17	8	9	Social Science	presidents	90	10			8
17	8	11	History - Other	Australia	87	10		✓	2
17	8	12	Current Events	blackouts	100	10			5
17	8	13	History - European	oprichnina	130	10			8
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	107	-5
18	9	3	History - European	Cologne	75	10		✓	3
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	145	10			10	✓
18	9	9	Science - Chemistry	diamonds	119	-5
18	9	10	History - World	Hóng	84	10			5	✓
18	9	13	Other Academic	genealogy	94	10			5
18	9	14	History - American	Apollo 11 mission	131	10			11	✓
18	9	18	Science - Other	bootstrapping	88	10			6
18	9	20	Science - Biology	GLP-1	77	10			4
19	10	5	Religion	baptism	66	10			5
19	10	9	Science - Physics	stress–energy tensor	128	0
19	10	10	History - European	Holy Crown of Hungary	75	10			4
19	10	16	History - World	Jahangir	145	0
19	10	19	Current Events	Bad Bunny	127	10			12

Michael DuWaterloo

Michael Du
Waterloo