2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Swapnil Garg
UC Berkeley A

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	3	Science - Biology	lifespan	81	-5
2	2	4	Science - Chemistry	desorption	115	-5
2	2	10	Fine Arts - Other	Norma Desmond	127	10			7
2	2	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	vegetal decoration	138	10			7
2	2	20	Science - Physics	slipping	124	10			11	✓
3	3	5	Science - Other	deep ocean	66	10		✓	3
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	121	10			4	✓
3	3	11	Science - Chemistry	ozone	52	10	✓	✓	1
3	3	12	Current Events	Romanians	66	-5
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	70	-5
4	4	12	Science - Chemistry	diatomic molecules	114	10			7
4	4	19	Science - Biology	fluorescent proteins	111	10			10
5	5	1	Science - Physics	Newtonian gravity	115	10		✓	2
5	5	7	Fine Arts - Other	South Africa	130	10			9
5	5	11	Social Science	Milton Friedman	114	10			9
5	5	12	Science - Other	ice sheets	98	10	✓	✓	1
6	6	1	Science - Chemistry	hydrogen sulfide	110	10			8
6	6	15	Science - Other	genus	62	10		✓	2
6	6	19	Other Academic	Heimat	87	-5
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	114	10			5
8	8	8	Science - Physics	entropy	114	-5
8	8	13	Science - Biology	phospholipases	124	-5
10	1	6	Science - Other	gamma-ray bursts	116	10			13	✓
10	1	19	Other Academic	Navajo	131	10			9
11	2	4	Science - Biology	fear	115	10			11
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	76	10		✓	3
11	2	13	Science - Physics	phase space	64	10		✓	2
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	49	10	✓	✓	1
11	2	17	Current Events	scams	127	10			13	✓
12	3	11	Science - Chemistry	vulcanization	110	10		✓	3
12	3	19	Science - Other	dimensionality	71	10			7
13	4	2	Current Events	Hezbollah	125	10			12
13	4	8	Science - Physics	number of protons AND number of neutrons	112	10			7	✓
13	4	10	Science - Biology	niches	80	10		✓	3
13	4	12	Science - Chemistry	cyclopentadiene	92	10			4
13	4	14	Science - Other	subducting slabs	132	10			11	✓
14	5	5	Science - Biology	Drosophila eyes	94	10			6
14	5	6	Religion	Bali	140	10			9	✓
14	5	9	Science - Other	network congestion	74	10			6
14	5	12	Social Science	economic surplus	67	-5
14	5	13	Geography	Hạ Long Bay	144	0
14	5	17	Science - Physics	bending	96	10			6
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	100	10			5	✓
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	93	10			9
15	6	19	Science - Other	function approximation	129	10			12	✓
16	7	1	Social Science	seasonality	141	10			9	✓
17	8	3	Science - Chemistry	transesterifications	120	-5
17	8	12	Current Events	blackouts	101	10			6
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	54	-5
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	131	10			5
18	9	9	Science - Chemistry	diamonds	87	10			5
18	9	20	Science - Biology	GLP-1	71	-5
19	10	2	Science - Biology	chromosomal inversions	129	10			7
19	10	6	Literature - American	Toni	94	10			10
19	10	9	Science - Physics	stress–energy tensor	73	10		✓	3
19	10	18	Science - Other	Wolf–Rayet stars	132	10			6

Swapnil GargUC Berkeley A

Swapnil Garg
UC Berkeley A