2025 ACF Regionals - Buzzpoints

Jerry Vinokurov
John Jay College

Round	Question #	Category	Answer	Position	Value
1	4	Science - Biology	nephrons	101	10
1	5	Religion	Cao Đài	104	10
1	6	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Poland	123	10
1	10	Literature - American Literature	The Little Foxes	139	10
1	11	Science - Other Science	generation	58	10
1	12	Mythology	Saturn	78	10
1	13	History - European History	Naples	139	10
1	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Max Ernst	122	10
1	17	History - American History	Rhode Island	64	10
1	18	Literature - World Literature	kings	149	10
1	20	Literature - European Literature	drunkenness	103	10
2	1	Science - Biology	adrenal glands	117	10
2	2	Literature - World Literature	Havana	52	10
2	4	Mythology	Taliesin	104	10
2	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	space	104	10
2	6	Literature - European Literature	*In Search of Lost Time*	113	10
2	7	Philosophy	G. E. M. Anscombe	133	10
2	8	Science - Chemistry	Wittig reaction	80	10
2	9	History - World History	New Order	83	10
2	15	Social Science	A. C. Pigou	65	-5
2	16	Literature - American Literature	T. S. Eliot	82	10
2	17	History - Other History	Shāng dynasty	75	-5
2	18	Science - Other Science	elevation	60	10
2	20	Literature - British Literature	tears	131	10
3	1	History - American History	American Revolution	58	10
3	2	Literature - British Literature	A Shropshire Lad	82	10
3	3	Fine Arts - Classical Music	two violins	135	10
3	4	Science - Chemistry	ultraviolet spectroscopy	133	0
3	5	Religion	Augustine of Hippo	95	10
3	6	History - European History	Ottonian dynasty	89	-5
3	7	Literature - World Literature	Jorge Luis Borges	115	10
3	8	Other Academic	cabinets	79	10
3	9	Science - Other Science	threads	76	10
3	10	Social Science	liberalism	101	10
3	12	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Michael Mann	120	10
3	13	Mythology	Alexander the Great	111	10
3	14	Philosophy	hard problem of consciousness	82	10
3	15	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Marie Antoinette	104	10
3	16	Literature - American Literature	Ohio	87	-5
3	17	History - Other History	Diocletian	130	10
3	18	Science - Physics	strange quark	124	10
3	19	History - World History	Mandela family	128	10
3	20	Literature - European Literature	The House of Bernarda Alba	101	-5
4	1	History - European History	Albanians	116	10
4	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3	90	-5
4	5	Science - Biology	genomes	92	10
4	6	Literature - British Literature	letters	110	10
4	7	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Billie Holiday	124	-5
4	8	Literature - American Literature	Jhumpa Lahiri	135	10
4	9	Science - Chemistry	pi bonds	119	10
4	11	Literature - European Literature	dinner parties	137	10
4	13	Science - Physics	moments	123	10
4	14	Mythology	houses	61	-5
4	15	Social Science	mazes	83	10
4	16	Science - Other Science	domains	130	10
4	17	Literature - World Literature	A Thousand Splendid Suns	144	0
4	19	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	monarch of Spain	135	10
5	1	Literature - American Literature	Ma Rainey	99	10
5	2	Science - Chemistry	calorimetry	129	0
5	3	Mythology	Väinämöinen	102	10
5	4	Social Science	criminal law	94	10
5	5	History - European History	July Revolution	133	10
5	6	Science - Physics	Max Born	89	10
5	8	Literature - European Literature	the apparatus from “In the Penal Colony”	134	10
5	9	Geography	Reno	67	10
5	11	Literature - British Literature	The Good Soldier	123	-5
5	12	Philosophy	The Birth of Tragedy	77	10
5	13	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	hula	92	10
5	14	History - World History	Zimbabwe	124	10
5	15	Science - Other Science	gravitational lensing	56	10
5	16	Religion	mercy	136	10
5	17	History - American History	Battle of Chickamauga	127	10
5	18	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Berlin	83	10
5	19	Literature - World Literature	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	131	10
5	20	Science - Biology	heavy metal poisoning	117	-5
6	3	History - American History	Martin Van Buren	76	10
6	4	Literature - European Literature	Occitan	107	-5
6	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Isenheim* Altarpiece	142	10
6	11	Literature - World Literature	Indonesia	99	10
6	13	Religion	Myanmar	113	10
6	14	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	Giuseppe Verdi	126	10
6	19	History - World History	Hugo Chávez	120	10
6	20	Social Science	Marshall Sahlins	97	10
7	2	Literature - European Literature	Il Canzoniere	85	-5
7	5	Literature - American Literature	Hinduism	101	-5
7	6	Social Science	government bonds	82	10
7	8	Fine Arts - Classical Music	flute	116	10
7	9	Science - Chemistry	valence	68	-5
7	13	History - World History	1990s	46	10
7	17	Mythology	sex change	104	10
8	1	History - European History	Battle of Kosovo	65	10
8	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Claude Monet	108	-5
8	5	Science - Physics	eddy currents	65	10
8	6	Literature - British Literature	“The Ballad of Reading Gaol”	129	10
8	8	History - American History	Milwaukee	79	10
8	9	Religion	Kurds	119	10
8	11	Science - Other Science	perovskite	57	10
8	13	Literature - European Literature	Zweig	55	10
8	18	Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts	upright bass	80	10
8	19	History - World History	tea	78	10
8	20	Science - Biology	autophagy	101	-5
10	1	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Book of Revelation	129	-5
10	3	Science - Biology	DNA replication	132	10
10	4	Literature - British Literature	O’Brien	116	-5
10	5	Social Science	grammatical conjugation	104	10
10	6	History - Other History	Babylon	132	0
10	7	Science - Other Science	CPU instructions	62	-5
10	8	History - European History	Nikita Khrushchev	52	10
10	9	Religion	impurity	116	10
10	10	Literature - World Literature	*Love in the Time of Cholera*	128	10
10	11	History - World History	Seljuks	87	-5
10	12	Philosophy	Charles Sanders Peirce	108	10
10	13	Science - Physics	quantum harmonic oscillator	84	10
10	14	Pop Culture	*Buffy* the Vampire Slayer	56	-5
10	15	History - American History	Palmer Raids	66	10
10	17	Literature - European Literature	Electra	142	0
10	19	Literature - American Literature	Edna St. Vincent Millay	81	10
10	20	Mythology	Seth	133	10
11	1	Literature - American Literature	*Daisy Miller*	132	10
11	2	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	nudity	38	10
11	3	Religion	Bahá’i	129	-5
11	7	Literature - British Literature	Anthony Trollope	106	-5
11	10	Philosophy	Hannah Arendt	73	10
11	11	History - World History	Chile	105	10
11	12	Science - Biology	breast cancer	114	10
11	15	Literature - World Literature	written vernacular Chinese	120	0
11	16	Social Science	sociological imagination	114	0
11	19	Literature - European Literature	Italy	125	10
11	20	Science - Physics	noise	72	10
12	5	Mythology	Baldr	95	10
12	6	Science - Physics	tensors	67	-5
12	9	Social Science	sexology	95	10
12	14	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	horses	41	10
12	15	Literature - American Literature	Theodore Dreiser	59	-5
12	17	Geography	Uzbekistan	126	10

Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay College

Jerry Vinokurov
John Jay College