2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Amory Kaufman-Young
Providence

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	59	-5
1	1	2	Science	oceanic pH	55	-5
1	1	3	Social Science	psychotherapy	46	15			4
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	101	10			17	✓
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	32	-5
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	79	-5
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	60	-5
1	1	9	History	Kingdom of Poland	85	10			23
1	1	10	Modern World	Claudia Sheinbaum	80	-5
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	48	15			5
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	81	10			18
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	96	-5
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	71	10			8
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	105	10			17	✓
2	2	2	History	Barbary pirates	80	10			10
2	2	3	Modern World	North Carolina	62	10			12
2	2	4	Fine Arts	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	71	-5
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	97	10			19	✓
2	2	7	History	Congo	65	15			10
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	100	10			24
2	2	9	Mythology	Baldr	105	10			21
2	2	11	Science	conservation of angular momentum	114	0
2	2	12	History	playing chess	33	15		✓	3
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	28	-5
2	2	14	Fine Arts	Delft	116	10			20
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	42	15			12
2	2	18	Science	H+ ions	106	0
3	3	4	Science	batteries	98	10			25
3	3	5	History	the railroad industry	49	15			9	✓
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	62	15			8
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	91	10			18
3	3	10	Fine Arts	cave paintings	63	10			18
3	3	11	Science	asthma	68	-5
3	3	12	Philosophy	pragmatism	65	10			13
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	67	-5
3	3	14	History	Draco	59	15			10
3	3	16	Science	aluminum	64	-5
3	3	17	Mythology	Ireland	80	10			15
3	3	18	History	France	78	10			17	✓
3	3	19	Fine Arts	chairs	67	10			19
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	97	10			12
4	4	1	History	Holy Bibles	55	10			8
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	102	10			17
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	84	-5
4	4	5	Fine Arts	video game soundtracks	81	10			13
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	89	10			16
4	4	8	History	Ethiopia AND Italy	98	10			12
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	108	0
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	98	10			22
4	4	12	History	Babylon	37	15			8
4	4	13	Fine Arts	Scotland	87	-5
4	4	14	Mythology	rivers	40	15	✓	✓	1
4	4	15	Science	frequency	115	0
4	4	16	History	2001	64	10			14
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	76	10			14
4	4	18	Science	genetic linkage	108	0
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	90	10			20
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	98	10			13
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	107	10			15	✓
5	5	7	History	Ming dynasty	28	-5
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	56	15			5
5	5	12	History	nurse	51	-5
5	5	15	Mythology	Sun Wukong	14	-5
6	6	1	History	House of Wisdom	48	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	109	10			25	✓
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	112	10			20	✓
6	6	5	Science	Ceres	64	-5
6	6	7	Philosophy	Søren Kierkegaard	80	10			11	✓
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	67	-5
6	6	9	Fine Arts	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	66	15			12
6	6	10	Science	eyes	82	10			25
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	94	-5
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	62	-5
6	6	19	History	Dwight D. Eisenhower	76	10			10	✓
7	7	3	History	1930s	81	10			23
7	7	4	Fine Arts	piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven	72	-5
7	7	5	Modern World	“Golden”	83	10			12	✓
7	7	6	Mythology	crocodiles	38	15			5
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	126	10			21
7	7	12	Science	Pi bonds	92	0
7	7	13	Social Science	Jane Goodall	94	10			19
7	7	15	History	Mississippi River	92	10			13
7	7	17	Religion	Day of the Dead	46	-5
7	7	18	History	Caucasus Mountains	68	-5
7	7	19	Fine Arts	scientist	108	10			14
7	7	20	Literature	China	103	10			22	✓
8	8	1	History	war elephants	51	15			8
8	8	2	Science	detecting exoplanets	92	10			21	✓
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	117	0
8	8	4	Fine Arts	fountains	46	-5
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	34	15			5
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	106	0
8	8	8	History	Harold	72	10			13
8	8	10	Religion	*ahimsa*	57	-5
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	71	10			19
8	8	12	Fine Arts	United States of America	79	-5
8	8	14	Science	hydrophobicity	91	10			22
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	129	10			15	✓
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	71	10			11
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	93	10			14	✓
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	79	-5
8	8	20	Science	spin angular momentum	96	10			17
9	9	2	History	Chicago	60	10			11
9	9	3	Science	integer factorization	103	10			21	✓
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	91	10			14
9	9	6	Science	Ernest Rutherford	64	10			17
9	9	7	Literature	French	92	10			16
9	9	8	Current Events	Reform UK	96	10			22
9	9	9	History	Shah	97	-5
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	49	15			8
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	83	10			13
9	9	13	Religion	Kaaba	53	15			14
9	9	14	History	automobiles	42	15			6
9	9	16	Science	methyl	97	0
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	121	0
9	9	18	History	freeing the Serfs in the Russian Empire	72	10			11
9	9	19	Mythology	*Rāmāyan*a	120	0
10	10	11	Science	testing	105	0
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	60	-5
10	10	13	History	banks	64	10			11	✓
10	10	14	Geography	Mount Kilimanjaro	30	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	100	0
10	10	17	History	Chinese-Australians	67	-5

Amory Kaufman-YoungProvidence

Amory Kaufman-Young
Providence