2026 ACF Regionals - Buzzpoints

Ben Hellman
Swarthmore

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	A	2	Literature - American	William Inge	147	-5
1	A	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	habanera	136	10			23
1	A	7	Science - Physics	fluids	106	10			18
1	A	9	Literature - World	Haruki Murakami	133	10			18
1	A	10	History - World	Manichaeism	139	0
1	A	11	Current Events	Haiti	98	10			13
1	A	15	Science - Chemistry	d-orbitals	58	10			6
1	A	16	Literature - British	*Brave New World*	130	10			42	✓
1	A	18	History - European	Algeria	101	10			22	✓
1	A	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Kingdom of Norway	120	10			22
1	A	20	History - Other	Phoenicians	93	10			14
2	D	1	Literature - European	Italian	144	10			38	✓
2	D	2	History - Other	Olmec	97	10			16
2	D	4	Literature - British	Kazuo Ishiguro	97	10			15
2	D	5	Fine Arts - Classical Music	César Franck	126	10			18
2	D	6	Science - Other	loops	95	10			6
2	D	7	Social Science	business cycles	45	10	✓	✓	1
2	D	8	History - World	Dutch Empire	60	10			6
2	D	9	Fine Arts - Other	weddings	86	-5
2	D	11	Science - Physics	optical cavities	135	0
2	D	12	Geography	Kathmandu	118	10			15
2	D	14	Literature - American	*O Pioneers!*	98	-5
2	D	15	Science - Chemistry	copper	63	10			13
2	D	16	History - European	Palaiologos	138	0
2	D	17	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Washington, D.C.	59	10			6
2	D	20	History - American	impeachment of Andrew Johnson	90	10			11
3	E	2	History - European	Seymour	96	-5
3	E	3	Religion	graves	81	10			6
3	E	4	Literature - American	Kushner	112	10			20
3	E	5	Science - Chemistry	polymers	83	10			16
3	E	6	Social Science	money supply	87	10			13
3	E	9	Fine Arts - Other	Sonny	45	-5
3	E	12	Literature - European	The Netherlands	136	10			24
3	E	13	Science - Biology	spores	114	10			25	✓
3	E	17	History - World	Republic of Botswana	59	10			5
3	E	19	Science - Other	Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis	91	10			6
5	N	1	History - European	Roma	53	10			6
5	N	2	Literature - European	*Oedipus Rex*	96	10			5
5	N	3	Fine Arts - Other	Benito Mussolini	75	-5
5	N	4	History - World	Moche culture	132	10			4	✓
5	N	10	Social Science	flapping	40	-5
5	N	11	Literature - World	Peru	116	10			11
5	N	13	Philosophy	Young Hegelians	132	10			12	✓
5	N	14	Literature - American	John Ashbery	67	10			4
5	N	19	History - American	1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic	124	10			20	✓
6	B	1	Science - Physics	decibels	78	10			12
6	B	2	Religion	Black Hills	132	10			17	✓
6	B	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Aaron Copland	74	10			6
6	B	8	Literature - World	*Arrow of God*	154	0
6	B	11	History - American	Portland, Oregon	39	10			4
6	B	15	Fine Arts - Other	*Tristan and Isolde*	102	10			13
6	B	16	Philosophy	*Discipline and Punish*: The Birth of the Prison	59	-5
6	B	17	Literature - American	Frank Norris	97	10			17
6	B	18	Other Academic	color blindness	60	10			7
6	B	19	Science - Chemistry	ionization	92	10			14
7	C	1	Literature - American	John Updike	126	10			21
7	C	3	Science - Other	cleanrooms	116	-5
7	C	7	Fine Arts - Other	guns	48	10			8
7	C	8	Religion	Bengal	113	10			20
7	C	9	Social Science	education	111	10			22
7	C	11	Philosophy	justification	45	-5
7	C	12	History - World	First Brazilian Republic	87	-5
7	C	14	Science - Biology	DNA topoisomerases	59	10		✓	2
7	C	15	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor	130	10			25
7	C	16	Literature - British	John Millington Synge	124	10			23
7	C	17	Mythology	soul	91	-5
7	C	19	Science - Chemistry	bond rotation	110	0
7	C	20	Literature - European	Maxim Gorky	140	10			23	✓
8	F	1	Science - Chemistry	nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy	57	10			7
8	F	3	Religion	Jesuits	84	-5
8	F	4	Literature - British	Jonathan Swift	75	-5
8	F	11	Science - Physics	momentum	75	10			6
8	F	12	Literature - World	*Notebook of a Return to the Native Land*	107	10			5
8	F	16	Science - Other	relativistic particles	87	-5
8	F	17	Literature - American	soul	91	10			11
8	F	18	Fine Arts - Other	China	74	-5
8	F	20	Philosophy	belief	142	10			13
9	H	1	Social Science	gaze	95	10			20
9	H	2	History - Other	coffee	79	10			17
9	H	3	Literature - American	desire	96	10			15
9	H	7	History - World	Katanga	95	-5
9	H	10	Science - Biology	vesicles	50	10			6
9	H	14	Philosophy	evil	102	-5
9	H	16	Science - Other	thermonuclear fusion	99	10			22
9	H	19	Science - Chemistry	electrical conductivity	104	-5
9	H	20	History - American	Missouri AND Kansas	88	10			14
10	I	1	Science - Biology	ecological niches	91	10			20
10	I	3	Literature - British	Mrs. Dalloway	102	10			16
10	I	5	History - World	Khwarazm	148	10			20
10	I	6	Religion	seals	30	-5
10	I	7	Current Events	Sudan	62	10			9
10	I	8	Science - Physics	transport	117	-5
10	I	10	Philosophy	Ethics	95	-5
10	I	11	History - American	Harvey Milk	34	-5
10	I	14	Literature - European	Constantine Cavafy	149	10			24
10	I	15	History - European	Sardinia	100	10			11
10	I	16	Science - Chemistry	ammonia	66	-5
10	I	18	Science - Other	discriminant	108	10			13
11	J	1	Literature - British	The School for Scandal	132	10			23	✓
11	J	2	Other Academic	slums	143	10			36	✓
11	J	5	Philosophy	Gottlob Frege	78	10			8
11	J	9	Science - Physics	integration	112	10			15
11	J	11	Science - Other	Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory	74	10			17
11	J	17	Social Science	equilibrium	95	-5
11	J	20	Literature - American	coffins	147	10			31	✓

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Ben Hellman
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