2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Rohan Ganeshan
Harvard

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	3	Science - Biology	lifespan	88	-5
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	136	10			8	✓
1	1	20	History - World	Durrani	130	10			14
2	2	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Symphony of Sorrowful Songs*	111	10			10
2	2	5	History - World	Trinidad and Tobago	135	10			12	✓
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	130	10			12	✓
2	2	13	Literature - European	*Heart of a Dog*	113	10			11
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	123	10			7	✓
3	3	2	Religion	Vaishnavism	105	10			10
3	3	3	Literature - American	fire	129	10			15
3	3	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Brahms’s Violin Concerto	78	10		✓	2
3	3	6	Fine Arts - Other	*Doctor Atomic*	94	-5
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	121	0
3	3	8	History - World	Mamlūk Sultanate	132	10			16	✓
3	3	9	Literature - British	churches	145	0
3	3	11	Science - Chemistry	ozone	85	10			4
3	3	16	Literature - European	Denmark	117	10			9
3	3	18	Science - Biology	Golgi apparatus	87	10		✓	3
3	3	20	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Maurizio Cattelan	72	10	✓	✓	1
5	5	2	Literature - World	London	148	10			8	✓
5	5	5	Science - Chemistry	citrate	84	10			6
5	5	7	Fine Arts - Other	South Africa	119	10			6
5	5	9	Geography	Belarusian	136	10			12	✓
5	5	11	Social Science	Milton Friedman	117	10			12
5	5	12	Science - Other	ice sheets	110	10			9	✓
5	5	13	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Cossacks	106	10	✓	✓	1
5	5	14	Science - Biology	*Pseudomonas*	127	10			6
5	5	16	Fine Arts - Classical Music	preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff	125	10			10
6	6	2	History - European	Theodora	106	10			4
6	6	3	Current Events	LDP	111	10			12
6	6	4	Science - Biology	capsaicin	117	-5
6	6	7	History - World	Norodom Sihanouk	94	10			10
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	135	10			10	✓
6	6	10	Literature - European	Gerhart Hauptmann	117	10			10
6	6	15	Science - Other	genus	129	10			8
6	6	17	History - American	dot-com crash	104	10			6
6	6	18	Literature - World	Mohsin Hamid	149	10			14	✓
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	111	-5
7	7	1	Literature - American	William Dean Howells	140	10			9
7	7	3	Social Science	Democratic Republic of the Congo	140	0
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	112	10			5
7	7	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Dmitri Shostakovich	84	10			8
8	8	2	Philosophy	*Pragmatism*	118	10		✓	2
8	8	3	Science - Chemistry	cellulose	82	10			5
8	8	8	Science - Physics	entropy	102	10			5
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	116	10			6
8	8	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Hildegard of Bingen	115	10			10
8	8	15	History - Other	Tarim Basin	134	10			12	✓
8	8	20	Literature - American	*Naked Lunch*	132	10			13	✓
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	130	10			10	✓
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	98	10		✓	3
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	148	10			14	✓
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	79	10			8
10	1	10	History - World	mines	136	10			16	✓
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	97	-5
10	1	14	History - American	Niagara River	139	10			15	✓
11	2	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Antarctica	108	-5
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	86	10			4
11	2	14	Literature - European	Italy	139	10			9
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	60	10		✓	3
12	3	11	Science - Chemistry	vulcanization	122	10			8	✓
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	146	0
13	4	3	History - American	Gifford Pinchot	90	10		✓	2
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	108	-5
13	4	19	Fine Arts - Other	Chile	139	10			17	✓
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	128	10			10
14	5	11	Science - Chemistry	hydrazine	76	-5
15	6	7	Literature - American	Ezra Pound	120	10			9
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	104	10			7
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	130	-5
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	132	-5
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	128	10			14	✓
15	6	15	Current Events	cholera	115	10			10
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	121	10			4
16	7	6	Science - Biology	measles	95	-5
16	7	14	Science - Chemistry	resins	132	10			11	✓
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	141	10			14	✓
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	116	10			6
17	8	5	Literature - European	“White Nights”	132	-5
17	8	6	History - American	Arizona	143	10			11	✓
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	132	10			6	✓
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	146	10			7
18	9	8	Literature - British	*Peter Pan*	110	10			11
18	9	20	Science - Biology	GLP-1	118	10			8
19	10	2	Science - Biology	chromosomal inversions	128	10			6
19	10	7	Fine Arts - Other	United States	153	10			14	✓
19	10	9	Science - Physics	stress–energy tensor	103	10			6
19	10	11	Science - Chemistry	beryllium	121	10			14
19	10	13	History - Other	Zapotec civilization	77	10		✓	2
19	10	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Rosamunde*	151	10			12	✓

Rohan GaneshanHarvard

Rohan Ganeshan
Harvard