2025 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Gavin Markoff
Vanderbilt

Round	Question #	Category	Answer	Position	Value
1	17	Literature - World Literature	Sumerian	141	10
2	14	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	*Dracula*	148	10
4	7	Fine Arts - Classical Music	percussion ensemble	110	10
4	10	History - World History	Chamorro family	132	10
4	11	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	A Subtlety	122	10
4	14	Science - Physics	paramagnetism	121	0
5	1	Science - Biology	gastropods	110	10
5	2	History - World History	Kamehameha I	121	10
5	4	Mythology	skin	132	0
5	6	History - European History	Poland	132	10
5	7	Religion	Gurū Nānak	138	10
5	8	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Correggio	141	0
6	1	Philosophy	wood	152	10
6	2	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Iceland	143	10
6	3	Science - Chemistry	oxygen	130	10
6	14	Literature - World Literature	Jun’ichiro Tanizaki	143	10
6	20	Science - Physics	incompressible	133	0
7	1	Other Academic	crosswalks	140	10
7	4	Literature - European Literature	kings	116	10
7	11	Social Science	Claudia Goldin	137	0
7	15	Literature - British Literature	weddings	109	10
7	16	Science - Chemistry	photoresist	121	0
7	20	Literature - American Literature	Babylon	150	-5
8	4	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	red	151	10
8	14	History - European History	inquisitors	121	10
8	16	Philosophy	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	114	10
9	2	History - World History	Spear of the Nation	136	10
9	8	History - Any History	Hispania	116	10
9	10	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	speak	154	10
9	13	Science - Other Science	capital omega	113	10
9	15	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Petrus Christus	162	0
9	16	History - American History	FCC	115	10
9	17	Literature - European Literature	Leo Tolstoy	35	10
9	18	Social Science	minimalist	148	0
10	2	Social Science	networks	90	10
10	4	Literature - British Literature	Helen of Troy	132	10
10	6	Literature - American Literature	dreams	132	10
10	8	Science - Biology	transmembrane proteins	132	0
10	11	Literature - European Literature	Charles Baudelaire	145	10
10	12	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	mental hospitals	160	10
10	14	Science - Physics	water waves	134	0
10	19	Literature - World Literature	*Soul Mountain*	148	10
11	5	Fine Arts - Classical Music	polonaises by Frédéric Chopin	140	10
11	6	Philosophy	*Protagoras*	140	10
11	7	Literature - World Literature	forests	142	10
11	10	History - Any History	the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty	80	10
11	15	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Paul Cézanne	131	10
11	19	Literature - American Literature	bullfighting	114	-5
12	7	History - Any History	funerals	139	-5
12	10	Literature - British Literature	*Mrs. Warren’s Profession*	146	0
12	16	Literature - European Literature	Guy de Maupassant	131	10
12	19	Science - Chemistry	electrolysis	132	10
13	2	Science - Biology	cell lysis	138	10
13	4	History - European History	France	129	10
13	8	Literature - British Literature	“The Bear Came over the Mountain”	136	-5
13	11	Literature - World Literature	Mahātmā Gandhi	135	10
13	13	Philosophy	language games	139	10
13	15	Science - Chemistry	glycosylation	130	0
13	16	Literature - American Literature	fire	143	0
13	17	Science - Physics	Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei	135	10
13	19	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Jane Campion	152	0
14	2	History - European History	Kingdom of Sweden	102	10
14	5	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Orphism	134	10
14	9	Science - Biology	natural killer cells	124	0
14	10	Literature - British Literature	Jez Butterworth	136	-5
14	12	History - Any History	Nazca culture	123	10
14	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Joseph Haydn’s “Paris” Symphonies	138	0
14	19	Philosophy	Arthur Schopenhauer	66	10
14	20	History - World History	Kashmir	134	10
15	2	Literature - European Literature	the Sphinx	122	-5
15	4	Science - Chemistry	elution	128	0
15	5	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Bill Evans	147	0
15	9	Literature - British Literature	George Herbert	149	0
15	10	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Katsushika Hokusai	125	10
15	11	Science - Physics	accelerometers	120	-5
15	12	Literature - World Literature	prisons	133	-5
15	16	Philosophy	The *Human Condition*	132	0
15	18	Science - Other Science	brown dwarf stars	102	-5
16	3	Current Events	pro-Ukraine	126	10
16	8	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Christoph Willibald Gluck	133	10
16	9	Mythology	Odin	133	10
16	11	Fine Arts - Classical Music	hammers	119	-5
16	13	History - Any History	jars	101	10
16	18	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Germany	115	10
16	20	Philosophy	being	129	10
17	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Trout Quintet*	121	10
17	3	Literature - American Literature	*Maggie*: A Girl of the Streets	150	10
17	11	Science - Biology	inbreeding	104	10
17	12	Literature - European Literature	bourgeois	125	10
17	16	Literature - World Literature	masnavi	149	-5
17	17	History - European History	German Peasants’ War	128	10
17	18	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Weegee	89	10
17	19	Philosophy	intellect	138	10
17	20	Science - Other Science	video games	110	-5
18	1	History - Any History	Nigeria	119	10
18	2	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	mothers AND children	155	10
18	4	Literature - European Literature	Fernando Pessoa	142	10
18	8	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	*Cinderella*, Opus 87	119	-5
18	11	Science - Other Science	hyperbolic	142	0
18	16	Science - Biology	chlamydia	133	10
18	17	Philosophy	Bernard Williams	134	0

Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt

Gavin Markoff
Vanderbilt