2025 ACF Regionals - Buzzpoints

Stan Melkumian
Purdue

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	A	1	Science - Biology	adrenal glands	60	10			5
1	A	2	Literature - World	Havana	54	10		✓	3
1	A	5	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	space	119	10			19
1	A	6	Literature - European	*In Search of Lost Time*	114	10			21
1	A	7	Philosophy	G. E. M. Anscombe	136	10			19
1	A	8	Science - Chemistry	Wittig reaction	70	10			10
1	A	11	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Ralph Vaughan Williams	59	10			4
1	A	14	Science - Physics	diffusion	49	-5
1	A	16	Literature - American	T. S. Eliot	129	10			21
1	A	18	Science - Other	elevation	54	-5
2	B	4	Science - Chemistry	ultraviolet spectroscopy	40	10	✓	✓	1
2	B	7	Literature - World	Jorge Luis Borges	103	10			15
2	B	9	Science - Other	threads	81	-5
2	B	11	Science - Biology	plant carnivory	83	10			7
2	B	14	Philosophy	hard problem of consciousness	87	10			10
2	B	16	Literature - American	Ohio	98	10			9	✓
3	C	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3	72	10		✓	3
3	C	5	Science - Biology	genomes	71	10			6
3	C	10	History - Other	Quiet Revolution	94	10			8
3	C	11	Literature - European	dinner parties	148	10			21
3	C	13	Science - Physics	moments	73	10			6
4	E	4	Literature - European	Occitan	109	-5
4	E	7	History - Other	Nubia	138	10			25	✓
4	E	8	Science - Chemistry	Karl Barry Sharpless	56	10			6	✓
4	E	10	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	*Isenheim* Altarpiece	49	10		✓	2
4	E	11	Literature - World	Indonesia	79	10			4
4	E	16	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Richard Strauss	54	10			5
4	E	17	Science - Other	singularities	23	10	✓	✓	1
4	E	18	Literature - British	Noël Coward	138	10			28	✓
5	F	2	Literature - European	Il Canzoniere	84	10			5
5	F	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Cuba	100	10			11
5	F	7	Science - Biology	cyclic AMP	59	10			6
5	F	8	Fine Arts - Classical Music	flute	39	10		✓	2
5	F	14	Science - Physics	interferometers	52	-5
5	F	15	Literature - British	Sun	155	10			23	✓
5	F	20	Literature - World	Senegal	103	10			12	✓
6	G	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Claude Monet	74	10			12
6	G	4	Literature - American	Plath family	123	10			17
6	G	5	Science - Physics	eddy currents	30	10	✓	✓	1
6	G	7	Philosophy	geometry	36	10			8
6	G	10	Fine Arts - Classical Music	A minor	110	10			14
6	G	11	Science - Other	perovskite	48	10			4
6	G	13	Literature - European	Zweig	140	10			20
6	G	14	History - Other	Amun	139	10			24
6	G	16	Social Science	attention	82	-5
6	G	20	Science - Biology	autophagy	33	10		✓	2
7	J	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Franz Schubert	108	10			13	✓
7	J	3	Literature - World	musical instruments	74	10		✓	3
7	J	4	Fine Arts - Other	I. M. Pei	90	10			12
7	J	10	Literature - European	Polish	53	10			11
7	J	11	Science - Other	polynomials	57	10			11
7	J	15	Literature - American	Theodore Dreiser	94	10			14
8	K	2	Social Science	Kenneth Arrow	76	10			7
8	K	5	Mythology	Amazon rainforest	122	10			19
8	K	6	Literature - World	Haiti	102	-5
8	K	9	Science - Biology	starfish	97	10			7
8	K	10	Literature - European	Mikhail Bulgakov	120	10			16	✓
8	K	13	Science - Chemistry	square planar	25	-5
8	K	16	Philosophy	*Anarchy, State, and Utopia*	101	10			12
9	L	2	Fine Arts - Classical Music	Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky	51	10			6
9	L	5	Science - Chemistry	voltammetry	71	10		✓	3
9	L	6	Science - Physics	memory	101	10		✓	3
9	L	12	Science - Biology	photosystems	43	10		✓	3
9	L	20	Philosophy	machines	100	10			5
10	N	3	Science - Physics	Johannes Rydberg	49	10			5
10	N	11	Science - Biology	mitochondria	59	10		✓	3
11	O	8	Philosophy	Karl Marx	89	10			8
11	O	17	Fine Arts - Classical Music	piano trio	83	10		✓	2
11	O	18	Science - Physics	n-body problem	55	10		✓	2
12	I	1	Literature - American	*Daisy Miller*	106	10			10
12	I	4	Fine Arts - Classical Music	madrigal	52	10		✓	3
12	I	6	Science - Chemistry	chemical reactions	82	10			7
12	I	10	Philosophy	Hannah Arendt	89	10			14
12	I	12	Science - Biology	breast cancer	30	10		✓	3
12	I	15	Literature - World	written vernacular Chinese	78	10			12
12	I	16	Social Science	sociological imagination	64	-5
12	I	19	Literature - European	Italy	97	10			15
12	I	20	Science - Physics	noise	87	10			7

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Stan Melkumian
Purdue