2025 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

William Orr
Yale

Round	Question #	Category	Answer	Position	Value
1	5	Literature - British Literature	bone	123	10
1	7	Literature - European Literature	“Nevsky Prospect”	74	10
1	9	Science - Physics	attenuation	143	0
1	10	History - American History	Long	110	10
1	15	Literature - American Literature	*Glengarry Glen Ross*	78	10
1	20	Mythology	Minamoto Clan	145	0
2	8	Literature - British Literature	dejection	112	-5
3	3	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Joan Miró	149	10
3	4	Religion	jubilees	116	-5
3	5	History - Any History	University of Cambridge	110	10
3	12	History - European History	poisoning	113	10
3	20	Literature - British Literature	*Look Back in Anger*	91	10
4	4	Literature - World Literature	house servants	101	-5
4	9	Literature - British Literature	“Politics and the English Language”	138	10
4	10	History - World History	Chamorro family	146	0
4	11	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	A Subtlety	124	-5
4	12	Literature - European Literature	Vienna	139	10
4	16	Literature - American Literature	Gertrude Stein	118	10
4	17	History - European History	Battle of Königgrätz	127	0
4	18	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Thomas	124	10
5	2	History - World History	Kamehameha I	101	10
5	17	Literature - World Literature	concubines	142	10
5	18	History - American History	land	106	10
6	1	Philosophy	wood	133	10
6	4	Literature - American Literature	Merrill	97	-5
6	9	Literature - European Literature	magicians	101	10
6	16	Literature - British Literature	The Way of the World	147	0
7	1	Other Academic	crosswalks	95	-5
7	4	Literature - European Literature	kings	98	10
7	15	Literature - British Literature	weddings	109	10
9	1	Literature - American Literature	The Emperor Jones	110	10
9	6	Other Academic	screenwriting	100	10
9	10	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	speak	100	-5
9	17	Literature - European Literature	Leo Tolstoy	68	10
10	11	Literature - European Literature	Charles Baudelaire	70	10
10	12	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	mental hospitals	89	10
10	14	Science - Physics	water waves	133	10
10	19	Literature - World Literature	*Soul Mountain*	59	-5
11	7	Literature - World Literature	forests	128	10
11	15	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Paul Cézanne	81	10
11	17	Geography	Calgary	130	-5
11	19	Literature - American Literature	bullfighting	130	10
12	10	Literature - British Literature	*Mrs. Warren’s Profession*	108	-5
12	14	Literature - American Literature	watchman	146	10
12	16	Literature - European Literature	Guy de Maupassant	87	-5
13	1	Other Academic	the American Dream	130	10
13	5	Literature - European Literature	*Hamlet*	114	10
13	8	Literature - British Literature	“The Bear Came over the Mountain”	70	10
13	11	Literature - World Literature	Mahātmā Gandhi	58	10
13	14	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Diego Velázquez	128	10
13	16	Literature - American Literature	fire	143	0
13	19	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Jane Campion	86	10
14	1	Literature - European Literature	the country	111	10
14	7	History - American History	Bayard Rustin	111	10
14	13	Other Academic	humor	80	-5
14	15	Literature - American Literature	“I Sing the Body Electric”	111	10
14	17	Literature - World Literature	ghosts	111	10
15	9	Literature - British Literature	George Herbert	111	-5
15	14	Other Academic	slow	116	10
15	20	Literature - American Literature	Henry James	79	10
16	5	Literature - British Literature	*Mansfield Park*	103	-5
16	8	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Christoph Willibald Gluck	109	-5
16	12	Literature - American Literature	guitars	73	10
16	18	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	Germany	113	10
17	3	Literature - American Literature	*Maggie*: A Girl of the Streets	108	10
17	9	History - American History	Colorado	117	-5
17	10	Literature - British Literature	Virginia Woolf	73	10
17	12	Literature - European Literature	bourgeois	123	10
17	14	Fine Arts - Painting & Sculpture	parks	107	10
17	15	History - Any History	Robert Caro	130	0
17	17	History - European History	German Peasants’ War	23	-5
18	4	Literature - European Literature	Fernando Pessoa	92	10
18	9	History - World History	Nāder Shāh	127	0
18	10	Literature - World Literature	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o	104	10
18	13	Literature - American Literature	swimming pools	106	10
18	17	Philosophy	Bernard Williams	134	0
18	19	Literature - British Literature	towers	137	10

William OrrYale

William Orr
Yale