2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Ben Hellman
Michael Touse-Squid

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	56	10			10
1	1	3	Social Science	psychotherapy	48	15			6
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	70	10			4
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	76	-5
1	1	6	Science - Math	sets	37	15			7
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	80	-5
1	1	10	Modern World	Claudia Sheinbaum	88	10			14
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	111	10			22	✓
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	107	0
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	97	10			15
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	68	10			6
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	69	10			9
1	1	18	Science	critical	53	15			4
1	1	19	History	*Brown* v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	31	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	2	History	Barbary pirates	60	15			5	✓
2	2	3	Modern World	North Carolina	74	10			15	✓
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	37	15			4
2	2	7	History	Congo	30	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	23	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	10	Science	uranium	32	15		✓	2
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	60	-5
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	109	10			25	✓
2	2	18	Science	hydrogen ions	51	-5
2	2	19	Science	p-value	28	15		✓	2
3	3	1	Fine Arts	bows	31	-5
3	3	3	Science	trees	47	10			13
3	3	4	Science	batteries	78	10			13
3	3	9	Science	viscosity	37	-5
3	3	10	Fine Arts	cave paintings	63	-5
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	39	-5
3	3	16	Science	aluminum	83	10			14	✓
3	3	18	History	France	53	15			9
3	3	19	Fine Arts	chairs	44	-5
4	4	1	History	Holy Bibles	57	10			10
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	21	15	✓	✓	1
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	50	-5
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	58	15			10
4	4	8	History	Ethiopia AND Italy	66	-5
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	38	15			5
4	4	12	History	Babylon	75	10			19
4	4	16	History	2001	48	-5
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	58	-5
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	47	15			7
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	67	15			9
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	41	15		✓	3
5	5	3	Science	total energy	30	-5
5	5	5	Religion	synagogues	21	15		✓	3
5	5	7	History	Ming dynasty	30	-5
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	64	15			11
5	5	10	Social Science	birthright citizenship	100	10			19	✓
5	5	12	History	nurse	19	15		✓	2
5	5	17	History	astronomy	42	-5
5	5	20	Science	spheres	37	15			7
6	6	1	History	House of Wisdom	48	15		✓	2
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	92	10			17
6	6	5	Science	Ceres	70	10			9
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	40	15			7
6	6	7	Philosophy	Søren Kierkegaard	25	15			4
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	106	0
6	6	9	Fine Arts	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	38	15		✓	2
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	88	10			12
6	6	12	Science	polymers	19	-5
6	6	13	Religion	colored powder	35	15		✓	2
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	61	10			16
6	6	15	History	pirates	53	-5
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	50	15		✓	2
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	77	10			5
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	22	-5
6	6	19	History	Dwight D. Eisenhower	27	15		✓	2
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	88	10			13
7	7	1	Science	hydrogen peroxide	79	-5
7	7	3	History	1930s	57	10			18
7	7	5	Modern World	“Golden”	59	10		✓	3
7	7	7	Science	capacitors	24	-5
7	7	8	History	Bangladesh	50	15			7
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	69	-5
7	7	11	Literature	bars	24	-5
7	7	12	Science	Pi bonds	49	-5
7	7	14	Science	natural logarithm	30	15			4
7	7	15	History	Mississippi River	52	15			5
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	69	-5
7	7	18	History	Caucasus Mountains	52	15			12
7	7	19	Fine Arts	scientist	66	-5
7	7	20	Literature	China	46	15			11	✓
8	8	1	History	war elephants	56	15			9
8	8	2	Science	detecting exoplanets	92	10			21
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	117	10			14
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	106	10			6	✓
8	8	7	Science	sine	89	10			16
8	8	8	History	Harold	51	-5
8	8	10	Religion	*ahimsa*	55	15			5
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	68	10			17
8	8	12	Fine Arts	United States of America	67	10			10
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	37	15			5
8	8	15	Science	skewness	28	-5
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	129	10			15	✓
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	48	15			4
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	80	0
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	29	15	✓	✓	1
8	8	20	Science	spin angular momentum	74	10			4	✓
9	9	1	Philosophy	Friedrich Nietzsche	83	10			13
9	9	2	History	Chicago	35	15		✓	2
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	25	15		✓	2
9	9	5	Science	superconductivity	33	15			8
9	9	6	Science	Ernest Rutherford	59	10			14
9	9	7	Literature	Mexican Revolution	43	15			5
9	9	8	Current Events	Reform UK	61	-5
9	9	9	History	Shah	91	-5
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	99	10			15
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	21	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	12	Science	neutrinos	20	15		✓	2
9	9	13	Religion	Kaaba	21	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	14	History	automobiles	40	-5
9	9	15	Fine Arts	American soldiers	83	10			15
9	9	16	Science	methyl	97	10			21
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	43	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	19	Mythology	*Rāmāyan*a	84	10			13
9	9	20	Fine Arts	India	32	-5
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	30	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	52	15			7
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	37	15			8
10	10	4	History	Portugal	85	10			16
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	29	15		✓	2
10	10	6	History	agōgē	38	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	7	Fine Arts	scrolls	115	10			15	✓
10	10	8	Mythology	Perseus	114	10			17	✓
10	10	9	Literature	Spanish Civil War	84	10			14
10	10	10	Science	flagella	31	15		✓	2
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	43	-5
10	10	13	History	banks	51	-5
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	100	10			16
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	36	-5
10	10	17	History	Chinese-Australians	51	15			7
10	10	19	Science	fluorescence	21	15			4
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	50	-5
11	11	1	Fine Arts	The *Birth of Venus*	71	15			8
11	11	3	Literature	France	42	15			7
11	11	5	History	Dirty War	19	15	✓	✓	1
11	11	6	Mythology	Ragnarok	114	10			18
11	11	7	History	Venice	68	10			14
11	11	8	Fine Arts	Dior	106	10			12
11	11	10	Literature	Tim O’Brien	113	10			4
11	11	11	Philosophy	Judith Butler	99	10			8
11	11	12	Fine Arts	African-Americans	54	15			7
11	11	13	Literature	Alan Paton	45	15			4
11	11	14	History	American Revolution	48	15			4
11	11	15	Science	light emission	47	15			5
11	11	16	Modern World	Brazil AND Germany	33	-5
11	11	17	Science	Edwin Hubble	34	15			10
11	11	19	Religion	Book of Revelation	46	-5
11	11	20	Literature	Oliver Twist	91	10			14

Ben HellmanMichael Touse-Squid

Ben Hellman
Michael Touse-Squid