2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Sinecio Morales
Johns Hopkins

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Fine Arts - Other	Ma Rainey	147	10			10	✓
1	1	13	History - European	the Fronde	138	10			13	✓
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	136	10			8	✓
2	2	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Symphony of Sorrowful Songs*	121	10			12
2	2	6	Literature - British	Dublin	129	10			10
2	2	10	Fine Arts - Other	Norma Desmond	151	0
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	140	10			14
2	2	13	Literature - European	*Heart of a Dog*	132	10			13	✓
2	2	19	Literature - American	Mary Oliver	152	-5
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	97	10			4
3	3	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Brahms’s Violin Concerto	91	-5
3	3	9	Literature - British	churches	145	10			14	✓
3	3	11	Science - Chemistry	ozone	106	-5
3	3	14	Philosophy	Gayatri Spivak	111	-5
3	3	16	Literature - European	Denmark	127	10			14
4	4	2	History - American	sugar industry	124	10			8
4	4	6	Religion	Zoroaster	94	10		✓	3
4	4	9	Literature - World	mystery fiction	86	10			5
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	129	0
4	4	14	Mythology	giants	107	10		✓	2
4	4	16	Literature - European	Byzantine Empire	147	10			10
4	4	18	Geography	Middle East	105	10			6
4	4	20	Fine Arts - Other	Alvar Aalto	139	10			6	✓
5	5	1	Science - Physics	Newtonian gravity	133	0
5	5	2	Literature - World	London	92	-5
5	5	8	Mythology	uncle	142	10			9	✓
5	5	13	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Cossacks	127	10			8
5	5	19	Literature - American	*True West*	154	10			8
5	5	20	History - American	Iowa	104	10			5
6	6	7	History - World	Norodom Sihanouk	121	-5
6	6	8	Literature - British	Houyhnhnms	135	0
6	6	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Muzio Clementi	105	10			8
6	6	16	Religion	spoken by Jesus	106	10			7
6	6	18	Literature - World	Mohsin Hamid	129	10			12
7	7	8	History - Other	temples	139	0
7	7	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Dmitri Shostakovich	135	10			16	✓
7	7	11	Science - Chemistry	proteins	103	10			10
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	145	10			8	✓
7	7	17	History - World	Julius Nyerere	106	10			8
7	7	18	Religion	Ulrich Zwingli	131	10			19
7	7	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	lime plaster	133	10			7	✓
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	127	10			7
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	115	10			6
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	70	10			4
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	113	10			8
10	1	17	Science - Physics	instabilities	82	10			8
11	2	4	Science - Biology	fear	117	10			13	✓
11	2	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Antarctica	143	10			6	✓
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	99	-5
11	2	16	Literature - British	lawyers	146	10			11	✓
12	3	2	Literature - World	Central Asia	176	10			12	✓
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	145	10			19	✓
12	3	12	History - Other	Tyre	112	10			6
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	110	-5
12	3	15	Fine Arts - Other	Lee	119	10			11
12	3	18	Philosophy	*Minima Moralia*: Reflections from Damaged Life	133	0
13	4	1	Literature - American	hired man	149	10			11
13	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mannheim	100	10			4
13	4	11	Social Science	slavery	126	10			16	✓
13	4	12	Science - Chemistry	cyclopentadiene	118	-5
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	143	10			9
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	119	10			9
13	4	20	Literature - World	Ama Ata Aidoo	136	10			7
14	5	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	banning polyphony in the liturgy/mass	89	-5
14	5	3	Literature - World	Buddha	78	10			5
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	146	10			15
14	5	17	Science - Physics	bending	64	10		✓	2
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	141	10			11	✓
15	6	1	Science - Chemistry	kinetic isotope effect	127	10			15
15	6	3	Literature - European	Raymond Queneau	68	10			4
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	116	10		✓	3
15	6	5	Religion	Inari	125	10			11
15	6	6	Science - Biology	antipsychotics	74	10			5
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	157	10			12	✓
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	146	10			10	✓
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	127	10			13
15	6	15	Current Events	cholera	108	10			8
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	132	10			8
15	6	18	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Romeo and Juliet*	132	-5
16	7	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mendelssohn’s Octet	137	10			8
16	7	4	Religion	du’a	141	0
16	7	6	Science - Biology	measles	95	-5
16	7	12	Fine Arts - Other	beaches	67	-5
16	7	14	Science - Chemistry	resins	133	10			12	✓
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	120	10			6
16	7	16	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time*	108	10			9
16	7	17	Science - Other	vehicle speed	115	-5
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	130	10			10	✓
17	8	5	Literature - European	“White Nights”	146	10			13	✓
17	8	7	Mythology	childbirth	49	-5
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	154	10			15
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	98	10			11
17	8	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Leonard Bernstein	84	10		✓	3
18	9	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	John Everett Millais’s depictions of William Shakespeare plays	134	10	✓	✓	1
18	9	7	Fine Arts - Classical Music	canon	133	10			13	✓
18	9	10	History - World	Hóng	137	0
18	9	11	Literature - European	*Works and Days*	118	-5
18	9	12	Philosophy	strong	126	10			12	✓
18	9	16	Fine Arts - Other	montages	117	10			12
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	144	0
19	10	3	Social Science	Paul Gilroy	135	0
19	10	5	Religion	baptism	80	-5
19	10	6	Literature - American	Toni	131	10			14
19	10	12	Literature - European	Menander	154	10			15
19	10	14	Literature - World	villages	45	-5
19	10	16	History - World	Jahangir	145	10			11	✓
19	10	17	Mythology	Argos	144	10			11
19	10	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Rosamunde*	111	-5

Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins

Sinecio Morales
Johns Hopkins