2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Shardul Parthasarathy
Illinois B

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	7	Religion	Enoch	92	10			4
1	1	14	Science - Chemistry	Hermann Kolbe	125	0
2	2	3	History - Other	Sanskrit	112	10			6
2	2	4	Science - Chemistry	desorption	132	0
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	130	10			12
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	142	10			15
2	2	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	vegetal decoration	138	10			7
3	3	2	Religion	Vaishnavism	24	-5
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	98	-5
3	3	18	Science - Biology	Golgi apparatus	39	-5
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	119	0
4	4	8	Science - Other	gravitational contraction	62	10	✓	✓	1
4	4	14	Mythology	giants	108	10		✓	3
5	5	7	Fine Arts - Other	South Africa	141	10			12
5	5	8	Mythology	uncle	142	0
5	5	10	History - Other	the Hyksos period	137	10			9
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	135	10			10	✓
6	6	19	Other Academic	Heimat	142	10			9
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	152	-5
8	8	6	History - European	Velvet Divorce	136	10			13	✓
8	8	9	History - World	trek	145	0
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	140	0
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	130	10			10
10	1	3	History - Other	Sardis	140	0
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	46	-5
10	1	12	Science - Biology	ribozymes	76	10			4
10	1	15	Geography	Belgrade	138	10			12
10	1	17	Science - Physics	instabilities	82	10			8
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	137	0
11	2	7	Literature - American	Tom Sawyer	88	-5
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	120	0
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	125	10			14
12	3	5	History - World	princely states	99	10			12
12	3	8	Science - Biology	ovulation	58	-5
12	3	18	Philosophy	*Minima Moralia*: Reflections from Damaged Life	133	0
12	3	19	Science - Other	dimensionality	98	10			9
13	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mannheim	114	10			9
13	4	8	Science - Physics	number of protons AND number of neutrons	122	-5
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	134	10			6
14	5	4	Fine Arts - Other	Jim Jarmusch	157	0
14	5	6	Religion	Bali	140	10			9
14	5	11	Science - Chemistry	hydrazine	126	10			10
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	150	0
14	5	17	Science - Physics	bending	97	10			7
15	6	1	Science - Chemistry	kinetic isotope effect	129	10			17	✓
15	6	2	History - World	Mexican Revolution	130	0
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	91	10		✓	3
15	6	15	Current Events	cholera	136	10			12	✓
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	98	10			11
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	124	10			8
16	7	1	Social Science	seasonality	144	10			11	✓
16	7	4	Religion	du’a	141	0
16	7	8	Geography	Switzerland	132	10			14
16	7	9	Literature - European	Buddenbrook family	116	10			12
16	7	10	Science - Physics	thermodynamic limit	122	0
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	119	-5
16	7	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time*	141	0
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	124	0
17	8	7	Mythology	childbirth	102	-5
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	156	10			16	✓
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	81	-5
17	8	18	Religion	Vipassanā meditation	62	-5
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	120	-5
18	9	13	Other Academic	genealogy	110	10			11
19	10	2	Science - Biology	chromosomal inversions	129	0
19	10	3	Social Science	Paul Gilroy	135	0
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	119	10			8
19	10	16	History - World	Jahangir	145	10			11	✓
19	10	17	Mythology	Argos	144	10			11	✓
19	10	18	Science - Other	Wolf–Rayet stars	35	-5

Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois B

Shardul Parthasarathy
Illinois B