2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Mitch McCullar
Penn State

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Fine Arts - Other	Ma Rainey	137	10			7
1	1	8	Literature - European	*Madame Bovary*	88	10			4
1	1	12	Other Academic	Huxley	45	10	✓	✓	1
1	1	15	Literature - British	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	92	10			10
1	1	17	Literature - World	Somalia	115	10			7
1	1	18	Philosophy	Max	92	10		✓	3
3	3	3	Literature - American	fire	74	10			9
3	3	8	History - World	Mamlūk Sultanate	122	10			13
3	3	9	Literature - British	churches	145	10			14	✓
3	3	13	Literature - World	The Savage Detectives	95	10		✓	3
3	3	15	Mythology	the man in the moon	110	-5
3	3	16	Literature - European	Denmark	90	10			4
4	4	5	Literature - American	beaches	65	-5
4	4	6	Religion	Zoroaster	93	10		✓	2
4	4	7	Philosophy	University of Edinburgh	125	10			13
4	4	10	History - Other	hoplites	113	10			7
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	74	10			4
4	4	13	Literature - British	William Wycherley	25	-5
4	4	14	Mythology	giants	115	10			7
4	4	15	History - European	Christian	134	10			13
4	4	16	Literature - European	Byzantine Empire	90	10		✓	3
4	4	18	Geography	Middle East	135	10			13
5	5	2	Literature - World	London	66	-5
5	5	8	Mythology	uncle	123	10			7
5	5	11	Social Science	Milton Friedman	135	10			15
5	5	15	Literature - British	John Berger	111	10			7
5	5	17	Philosophy	Donald Davidson	100	10			5
5	5	20	History - American	Iowa	135	10			9	✓
6	6	1	Science - Chemistry	hydrogen sulfide	131	0
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	124	10			8
6	6	10	Literature - European	Gerhart Hauptmann	46	10	✓	✓	1
6	6	11	Philosophy	sophists	100	10			8
6	6	14	Literature - American	Esmé	41	10			4
6	6	18	Literature - World	Mohsin Hamid	82	10		✓	3
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	114	10			6
7	7	12	Literature - World	The Bus Stop	87	10		✓	2
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	39	-5
7	7	15	Fine Arts - Other	Maria Tallchief	72	10	✓	✓	1
7	7	16	Science - Biology	cycads	104	-5
7	7	18	Religion	Ulrich Zwingli	91	-5
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	88	-5
8	8	2	Philosophy	*Pragmatism*	118	10		✓	2
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	153	0
8	8	7	Other Academic	Luce	104	10			6
8	8	11	Literature - European	Lucian of Samosata	103	10			4
8	8	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Hildegard of Bingen	102	10			6
8	8	19	Religion	catholic	94	-5
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	128	10			8
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	134	10			10
10	1	7	Literature - American	interpretation	123	10			7
10	1	9	Literature - European	*Woe from Wit*	75	10	✓	✓	1
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	97	10			4
10	1	16	Literature - British	Oliver Cromwell	100	10		✓	3
10	1	18	History - European	Hundred Years’ War	96	10			8
10	1	20	Philosophy	Spain	71	10			10
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	101	10			5
11	2	8	Social Science	David Graeber	127	10			13
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	145	10			13	✓
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	111	10		✓	3
11	2	16	Literature - British	lawyers	75	-5
11	2	19	Philosophy	law of excluded middle	125	10			15	✓
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	121	10		✓	3
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	126	10			15
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	129	10			9	✓
12	3	9	History - American	Martin Van Buren	128	10			14	✓
12	3	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Berthe Morisot	130	10			11
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	107	10		✓	3
12	3	16	Religion	centurions	143	10			12	✓
12	3	17	History - European	szlachta	107	10			7
12	3	18	Philosophy	*Minima Moralia*: Reflections from Damaged Life	115	-5
12	3	20	Literature - American	schools	134	10			7
13	4	1	Literature - American	hired man	125	10		✓	3
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	87	10	✓	✓	1
13	4	6	Philosophy	simulation hypothesis	116	10			11
13	4	7	History - Other	basileus	147	0
13	4	9	Religion	swearing oaths	108	-5
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	9	10	✓	✓	1
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	46	10	✓	✓	1
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	89	10		✓	2
14	5	2	Philosophy	antinatalism	115	10			15
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	60	10	✓	✓	1
14	5	10	History - World	Cameroon	94	10			4
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	55	10	✓	✓	1
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	87	10	✓	✓	1
14	5	20	History - Other	Helena Augusta	133	10			9
15	6	3	Literature - European	Raymond Queneau	80	10			6
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	81	10		✓	2
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	127	0
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	42	-5
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	99	10			6
15	6	14	Literature - World	Paris	86	10			4
15	6	18	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Romeo and Juliet*	144	10			12	✓
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	86	-5
16	7	9	Literature - European	Buddenbrook family	95	10			6
16	7	13	Literature - British	*Pearl*	89	10			4
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	99	10		✓	3
17	8	5	Literature - European	“White Nights”	41	10		✓	2
17	8	8	Fine Arts - Other	scarf	123	10			9
17	8	10	Literature - British	World War I	106	10		✓	3
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	89	10	✓	✓	1
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	97	10			10
17	8	18	Religion	Vipassanā meditation	129	10			6
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	151	10			9
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	71	-5
18	9	8	Literature - British	*Peter Pan*	98	10			8
18	9	11	Literature - European	*Works and Days*	132	-5
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	121	10			8
18	9	14	History - American	Apollo 11 mission	141	10			13	✓
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	104	10			4
18	9	19	History - Other	hairstyling	125	10			11
19	10	4	Literature - British	The Sea, The Sea	137	10		✓	3
19	10	5	Religion	baptism	142	10			16	✓
19	10	6	Literature - American	Toni	83	10			5
19	10	12	Literature - European	Menander	97	10		✓	2
19	10	13	History - Other	Zapotec civilization	123	10			13
19	10	15	Philosophy	consolatio	102	10			7
19	10	17	Mythology	Argos	68	-5

Mitch McCullarPenn State

Mitch McCullar
Penn State