2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Noah Chin
Virginia Tech

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Fine Arts - Other	Ma Rainey	145	10			8
1	1	2	Literature - American	Barbara Kingsolver	121	10			13
1	1	6	Science - Physics	Lars Onsager	108	10			9
1	1	8	Literature - European	*Madame Bovary*	86	10		✓	2
1	1	13	History - European	the Fronde	104	10			6
1	1	15	Literature - British	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	87	10			8
1	1	17	Literature - World	Somalia	139	0
1	1	20	History - World	Durrani	101	10			8
3	3	3	Literature - American	fire	56	10		✓	2
3	3	8	History - World	Mamlūk Sultanate	101	10			6
3	3	10	History - European	Siege of Leningrad	131	10			11
3	3	12	Current Events	Romanians	102	10			4
3	3	15	Mythology	the man in the moon	138	10			13
4	4	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Giorgio Vasari	114	10			11
4	4	2	History - American	sugar industry	128	10			10
4	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Frédéric Chopin	137	10			14
4	4	5	Literature - American	beaches	152	0
4	4	9	Literature - World	mystery fiction	120	10			9
4	4	10	History - Other	hoplites	126	0
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	129	10			9
4	4	13	Literature - British	William Wycherley	134	10			7
4	4	15	History - European	Christian	101	10			5
4	4	16	Literature - European	Byzantine Empire	127	10			5
4	4	17	History - World	Taira clan	124	10			7
4	4	18	Geography	Middle East	128	10			11	✓
5	5	1	Science - Physics	Newtonian gravity	98	-5
5	5	2	Literature - World	London	101	10		✓	3
5	5	3	Religion	Korean Confucianism	123	10			12	✓
5	5	6	Literature - European	Sappho	41	10	✓	✓	1
5	5	9	Geography	Belarusian	131	10			9
5	5	10	History - Other	the Hyksos period	137	10			9	✓
5	5	15	Literature - British	John Berger	108	10			6
5	5	19	Literature - American	*True West*	116	10			4
6	6	2	History - European	Theodora	78	-5
6	6	6	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	clouds	128	-5
6	6	7	History - World	Norodom Sihanouk	135	10			15	✓
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	106	10			4
6	6	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Muzio Clementi	98	10			6
6	6	10	Literature - European	Gerhart Hauptmann	116	10			9
6	6	14	Literature - American	Esmé	23	10	✓	✓	1
6	6	15	Science - Other	genus	141	0
6	6	18	Literature - World	Mohsin Hamid	149	10			14	✓
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	129	10			11
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	132	0
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	110	10		✓	3
7	7	6	History - European	Miklós Horthy	81	10			5
7	7	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Dmitri Shostakovich	134	10			15
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	81	10	✓	✓	1
7	7	17	History - World	Julius Nyerere	119	10			13
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	159	10			9	✓
8	8	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Japan	144	10			14	✓
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	95	-5
8	8	6	History - European	Velvet Divorce	113	10			11
8	8	9	History - World	trek	92	10		✓	3
8	8	15	History - Other	Tarim Basin	134	10			12	✓
8	8	17	History - American	Meriwether Lewis	98	10		✓	2
8	8	18	Science - Other	theorem proving	107	10			7
8	8	19	Religion	catholic	102	10			6	✓
8	8	20	Literature - American	*Naked Lunch*	90	10			4
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	133	10			9	✓
10	1	3	History - Other	Sardis	97	10			4
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	116	10			9
10	1	9	Literature - European	*Woe from Wit*	75	10	✓	✓	1
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	96	10		✓	3
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	135	10			10
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	119	10			12
11	2	16	Literature - British	lawyers	106	10		✓	3
11	2	20	History - American	Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990	109	10			11
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	28	10	✓	✓	1
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	116	10			11
12	3	6	Other Academic	mythology	101	10			4
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	129	10			7
12	3	20	Literature - American	schools	137	10			9
13	4	1	Literature - American	hired man	133	10			5
13	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mannheim	105	10			7
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	145	10			12	✓
13	4	7	History - Other	basileus	117	10			7
13	4	8	Science - Physics	number of protons AND number of neutrons	136	10			9	✓
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	138	10			7
13	4	18	History - European	Derry	74	10			8
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	98	-5
14	5	7	History - European	Kingdom of Kent	101	10			4
14	5	9	Science - Other	network congestion	83	-5
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	88	10			7
14	5	15	History - American	slave catching	91	10			10
14	5	17	Science - Physics	bending	131	0
14	5	20	History - Other	Helena Augusta	112	10		✓	3
15	6	2	History - World	Mexican Revolution	119	10			12
15	6	3	Literature - European	Raymond Queneau	82	10			8	✓
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	72	10	✓	✓	1
15	6	9	History - European	Mary of Burgundy	31	10	✓	✓	1
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	105	-5
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	119	0
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	129	10			12	✓
16	7	3	History - World	Kingdom of Pagan	82	10			5
16	7	5	History - American	Fort McHenry	76	10	✓	✓	1
16	7	9	Literature - European	Buddenbrook family	95	10			6
16	7	11	History - European	Greeks	74	10		✓	3
16	7	13	Literature - British	*Pearl*	85	-5
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	110	-5
16	7	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time*	108	10			9
16	7	20	Other Academic	mancala	116	10			6
17	8	4	History - World	Osman I	91	10			6
17	8	5	Literature - European	“White Nights”	81	-5
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	91	10			5
17	8	7	Mythology	childbirth	128	10			12	✓
17	8	10	Literature - British	World War I	104	10	✓	✓	1
17	8	13	History - European	oprichnina	127	10			6
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	128	10			7	✓
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	132	0
18	9	3	History - European	Cologne	104	10			9
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	133	-5
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	79	-5
18	9	8	Literature - British	*Peter Pan*	82	10			4
18	9	10	History - World	Hóng	85	10			6
18	9	11	Literature - European	*Works and Days*	137	10			9
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	144	0
19	10	12	Literature - European	Menander	147	10			13	✓
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	117	-5
19	10	16	History - World	Jahangir	87	-5

Noah ChinVirginia Tech

Noah Chin
Virginia Tech