2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Yrwin Batan
MIT

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	2	Literature - American	Barbara Kingsolver	139	10			15
1	1	8	Literature - European	*Madame Bovary*	107	10			9
1	1	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	John Dowland	107	10			5
1	1	12	Other Academic	Huxley	108	-5
1	1	15	Literature - British	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	121	10			14
1	1	17	Literature - World	Somalia	113	10			6
1	1	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	journalists	109	10		✓	2
2	2	7	Geography	glaciers	76	-5
2	2	8	Other Academic	Egyptian pyramids	134	10			15	✓
2	2	12	Philosophy	Ethiopia	92	10		✓	3
2	2	13	Literature - European	*Heart of a Dog*	86	-5
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	116	10			6
3	3	2	Religion	Vaishnavism	89	-5
3	3	3	Literature - American	fire	50	10	✓	✓	1
3	3	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Brahms’s Violin Concerto	91	10			6
3	3	5	Science - Other	deep ocean	99	-5
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	121	0
3	3	13	Literature - World	The Savage Detectives	99	10			5
3	3	17	History - American	Alcott family	94	10			7
3	3	18	Science - Biology	Golgi apparatus	100	10			11
3	3	19	History - Other	Urartu	121	-5
3	3	20	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Maurizio Cattelan	108	10			8
4	4	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Giorgio Vasari	67	10		✓	2
4	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Frédéric Chopin	103	10			6
4	4	6	Religion	Zoroaster	127	10			12
4	4	7	Philosophy	University of Edinburgh	125	10			13
4	4	9	Literature - World	mystery fiction	83	10			4
4	4	11	Social Science	Peru	129	10			9	✓
4	4	15	History - European	Christian	136	10			15	✓
4	4	16	Literature - European	Byzantine Empire	90	10		✓	3
4	4	17	History - World	Taira clan	125	10			8
4	4	18	Geography	Middle East	67	10		✓	3
6	6	6	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	clouds	138	10			12	✓
6	6	7	History - World	Norodom Sihanouk	93	10			9
6	6	10	Literature - European	Gerhart Hauptmann	114	10			7
6	6	12	Fine Arts - Other	*All That Jazz*	143	10			10
6	6	14	Literature - American	Esmé	127	10			9
6	6	16	Religion	spoken by Jesus	141	10			10
6	6	18	Literature - World	Mohsin Hamid	126	10			11
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	130	10			10
7	7	5	Literature - European	*Dictionary of the Khazars*	114	10			6
7	7	7	Science - Physics	traps	97	10			4
7	7	8	History - Other	temples	118	10			5
7	7	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Dmitri Shostakovich	133	10			14
7	7	12	Literature - World	The Bus Stop	119	10			7
7	7	13	History - American	Miami, Florida	101	10			11
7	7	14	Literature - British	Petrarch	119	10		✓	3
7	7	17	History - World	Julius Nyerere	106	10			8
7	7	18	Religion	Ulrich Zwingli	83	10			4
7	7	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	lime plaster	138	10			9	✓
8	8	1	Literature - British	Vienna	159	0
8	8	5	Literature - World	Akkadian	71	-5
8	8	9	History - World	trek	99	10			4
8	8	10	Geography	St. Louis	53	10		✓	2
8	8	11	Literature - European	Lucian of Samosata	148	10			13
8	8	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Hildegard of Bingen	94	10			4
8	8	20	Literature - American	*Naked Lunch*	102	10			8
10	1	1	Religion	Nāgārjuna	112	10			4
10	1	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	George Frederic Handel	120	10			6
10	1	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Andrea Mantegna	106	10			5
10	1	7	Literature - American	interpretation	124	10			8
10	1	9	Literature - European	*Woe from Wit*	115	10			4
10	1	10	History - World	mines	135	10			15	✓
10	1	11	Fine Arts - Other	Marx Brothers	164	10			5
10	1	13	Literature - World	*Men of Maize*	140	0
10	1	14	History - American	Niagara River	138	10			14	✓
10	1	16	Literature - British	Oliver Cromwell	93	10	✓	✓	1
11	2	7	Literature - American	Tom Sawyer	81	-5
11	2	9	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Antarctica	94	-5
11	2	10	Literature - World	dervishes	135	10			10
11	2	11	Religion	Basil	103	-5
11	2	18	Fine Arts - Other	Pisa	123	10			9
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	102	10			9
12	3	4	Literature - European	*Letters* of Abelard and Heloise	114	10			9
12	3	7	Social Science	universal grammar hypothesis	129	10			9	✓
12	3	9	History - American	Martin Van Buren	81	10			6
12	3	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Berthe Morisot	121	10			9
12	3	13	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Riccardo	122	-5
12	3	14	Literature - British	Mrs. Ramsay	96	-5
12	3	15	Fine Arts - Other	Lee	118	10			10
12	3	16	Religion	centurions	33	10	✓	✓	1
12	3	17	History - European	szlachta	99	10			4
12	3	18	Philosophy	*Minima Moralia*: Reflections from Damaged Life	99	10		✓	3
12	3	20	Literature - American	schools	130	10			6
13	4	1	Literature - American	hired man	134	10			6
13	4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Mannheim	100	10			4
13	4	5	Literature - European	bedrooms	117	10			4
13	4	7	History - Other	basileus	85	10		✓	3
13	4	16	Literature - British	The Pickwick Papers	93	10		✓	3
13	4	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Francis Picabia	112	10			8
13	4	18	History - European	Derry	117	-5
14	5	4	Fine Arts - Other	Jim Jarmusch	157	0
14	5	7	History - European	Kingdom of Kent	141	0
14	5	8	Literature - American	captivity narrative	98	-5
14	5	14	Literature - European	von Kleist	103	10			10
14	5	15	History - American	slave catching	68	-5
14	5	19	Literature - British	gyres	129	10			5
15	6	4	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	white	100	10	✓	✓	1
15	6	6	Science - Biology	antipsychotics	91	-5
15	6	8	Social Science	small world	104	10			7
15	6	10	Fine Arts - Other	Billy	127	-5
15	6	11	Literature - British	Cibber	107	10			4
15	6	13	Philosophy	Ernst Mach	129	10			15
15	6	14	Literature - World	Paris	105	10			11
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	150	10			13	✓
15	6	18	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Romeo and Juliet*	134	10			7
16	7	3	History - World	Kingdom of Pagan	100	-5
16	7	4	Religion	du’a	141	0
16	7	7	Literature - American	transcendentalism	107	10		✓	3
16	7	11	History - European	Greeks	88	10			4
16	7	12	Fine Arts - Other	beaches	72	-5
16	7	13	Literature - British	*Pearl*	126	10			13
16	7	15	Literature - World	Yoruba	142	10			15	✓
16	7	18	History - Other	canoes	66	10		✓	2
16	7	19	Philosophy	Leo Strauss	132	0
17	8	2	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	spiders	82	10			6
17	8	4	History - World	Osman I	126	10			14
17	8	8	Fine Arts - Other	scarf	110	10			6
17	8	10	Literature - British	World War I	141	10			8
17	8	11	History - Other	Australia	135	10			13	✓
17	8	13	History - European	oprichnina	129	10			7
17	8	14	Literature - American	Tracy Letts	132	10			12
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	140	0
17	8	16	Literature - World	stone	64	10		✓	3
17	8	18	Religion	Vipassanā meditation	106	10			5
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	132	10			6	✓
18	9	1	Science - Physics	number of degrees of freedom	91	10			6
18	9	6	Literature - World	diary	65	10		✓	2
18	9	7	Fine Arts - Classical Music	canon	107	10			6
18	9	9	Science - Chemistry	diamonds	77	10		✓	2
18	9	16	Fine Arts - Other	montages	93	10			5
18	9	17	Literature - American	Bowles	88	10	✓	✓	1
19	10	3	Social Science	Paul Gilroy	94	-5
19	10	4	Literature - British	The Sea, The Sea	143	10			5	✓
19	10	6	Literature - American	Toni	85	10			6
19	10	15	Philosophy	consolatio	102	10			7
19	10	20	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Rosamunde*	140	10			9

Yrwin BatanMIT

Yrwin Batan
MIT