2025 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Richard Niu
Cornell A

Round	Question #	Category	Answer	Position	Value
1	1	Science - Biology	insomnia	121	-5
1	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	short	119	10
1	5	Literature - British Literature	bone	96	10
1	7	Literature - European Literature	“Nevsky Prospect”	97	10
1	9	Science - Physics	attenuation	136	-5
1	13	Science - Other Science	fixed points	89	10
1	18	Science - Chemistry	thioesters	109	-5
1	19	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Die Meister·singer* von Nürnberg*	134	10
2	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Luigi Boccherini	75	10
2	4	Literature - World Literature	Derek Walcott	74	10
2	8	Literature - British Literature	dejection	59	10
2	13	Science - Chemistry	pyridine	83	10
2	15	Literature - European Literature	hunger	97	10
2	16	Science - Physics	spin	54	10
2	19	Philosophy	*Truth and Method*	105	10
3	1	Science - Other Science	sparse	101	10
3	9	Science - Biology	acetylation	75	10
3	10	Current Events	National Labor Relations Board	132	10
3	14	Science - Physics	population inversion	104	-5
3	19	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8	79	10
4	3	Science - Biology	homologous recombination	104	10
4	7	Fine Arts - Classical Music	percussion ensemble	113	10
4	11	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	A Subtlety	127	10
4	12	Literature - European Literature	Vienna	108	10
4	14	Science - Physics	paramagnetism	46	10
4	16	Literature - American Literature	Gertrude Stein	120	10
4	19	Social Science	gambling	135	10
5	1	Science - Biology	gastropods	135	10
5	10	Science - Chemistry	X-ray crystallography	73	10
5	13	Science - Physics	light cones	51	-5
5	14	Literature - European Literature	We	123	10
5	16	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Guillaume de Machaut	58	10
5	19	Science - Other Science	Fibonacci	138	10
6	3	Science - Chemistry	oxygen	105	10
6	4	Literature - American Literature	Merrill	117	10
6	8	Science - Other Science	elliptical galaxies	87	10
6	9	Literature - European Literature	magicians	138	10
6	14	Literature - World Literature	Jun’ichiro Tanizaki	143	10
6	15	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	gold	60	-5
6	17	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Amy Beach	61	10
6	20	Science - Physics	incompressible	133	10
7	4	Literature - European Literature	kings	93	-5
7	6	Literature - World Literature	Ousmane Sembène	85	10
7	13	Science - Biology	PCR	106	10
7	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	caprices	145	10
9	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	waltz	112	10
9	9	Science - Chemistry	quantum dots	80	10
9	13	Science - Other Science	capital omega	133	0
9	15	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Petrus Christus	162	0
9	17	Literature - European Literature	Leo Tolstoy	74	-5
9	20	Science - Biology	nitrogen fixation	72	10
10	1	Science - Chemistry	transition states	59	-5
10	6	Literature - American Literature	dreams	107	10
10	8	Science - Biology	transmembrane proteins	125	10
10	14	Science - Physics	water waves	63	10
10	16	Science - Other Science	integration	83	10
10	19	Literature - World Literature	*Soul Mountain*	118	10
11	1	Literature - European Literature	Juan Ramón Jiménez	68	10
11	2	History - American History	Chicago	115	-5
11	3	Science - Chemistry	degree of substitution	68	10
11	5	Fine Arts - Classical Music	polonaises by Frédéric Chopin	76	10
11	7	Literature - World Literature	forests	92	10
11	11	Social Science	standard errors	128	10
11	12	Literature - British Literature	well	128	10
11	13	Science - Physics	collisions	63	-5
11	19	Literature - American Literature	bullfighting	97	-5
12	3	Literature - World Literature	seasons	140	10
12	10	Literature - British Literature	*Mrs. Warren’s Profession*	123	10
12	11	Science - Other Science	metamorphic grade	132	10
12	14	Literature - American Literature	watchman	60	-5
12	17	Fine Arts - Classical Music	perfect	95	10
12	19	Science - Chemistry	electrolysis	64	10
12	20	Philosophy	*I and Thou*	133	10
13	5	Literature - European Literature	*Hamlet*	50	10
13	7	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Edward Elgar	116	-5
13	17	Science - Physics	Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei	48	10
14	3	Science - Physics	baryon number	102	-5
14	5	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Orphism	72	10
14	9	Science - Biology	natural killer cells	53	10
14	10	Literature - British Literature	Jez Butterworth	103	-5
14	11	Science - Other Science	algebraic	55	-5
14	14	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Joseph Haydn’s “Paris” Symphonies	100	10
14	16	Science - Chemistry	diffusion coefficient	123	10
15	1	Social Science	voters	119	10
15	4	Science - Chemistry	elution	69	10
15	11	Science - Physics	accelerometers	139	10
15	18	Science - Other Science	brown dwarf stars	50	10
16	6	Science - Chemistry	cyclohexane	102	10
16	8	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Christoph Willibald Gluck	77	10
16	10	Literature - European Literature	Auschwitz	94	10
16	11	Fine Arts - Classical Music	hammers	99	10
16	15	Science - Physics	particle number	56	10
16	16	Literature - World Literature	Damascus	132	10
16	17	Science - Biology	5-prime cap	90	10
16	19	History - American History	Tom	67	10
16	20	Philosophy	being	79	-5
17	1	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Trout Quintet*	100	10
17	5	Science - Chemistry	denticity	61	10
17	8	Science - Physics	polarization	98	10
17	10	Literature - British Literature	Virginia Woolf	89	10
17	12	Literature - European Literature	bourgeois	66	-5
17	20	Science - Other Science	video games	72	10
18	4	Literature - European Literature	Fernando Pessoa	57	-5
18	7	Science - Chemistry	aluminum	63	10
18	10	Literature - World Literature	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o	120	10
18	15	Fine Arts - Classical Music	tears	66	10
18	19	Literature - British Literature	towers	130	10
5100	2	Science - Chemistry	lactams	35	10
5100	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	*Children’s Corner* L. 113	95	10
5100	12	Literature - European Literature	Dutch	66	10
5100	14	Science - Biology	birds	88	10
5100	18	Literature - World Literature	*Leaf Storm*	114	10
5100	20	History - Any History	black pepper	147	10

Richard NiuCornell A

Richard Niu
Cornell A