2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Dan Millington
Birmingham B

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	91	10			14
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	96	10			25
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	124	10			15
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	42	-5
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	96	10			14
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	68	10			8
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	72	10			16
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	105	10			17
2	2	14	Fine Arts	Delft	104	10			13
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	78	10			19
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	71	10			10
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	60	15			11
3	3	5	History	the railroad industry	104	10			26	✓
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	43	15			4
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	88	10			20
3	3	12	Philosophy	pragmatism	109	0
3	3	19	Fine Arts	chairs	58	15			14
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	84	10			9
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	121	10			20	✓
4	4	9	Science	David Hilbert	57	10			9
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	108	0
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	105	0
4	4	15	Science	frequency	65	15			13
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	63	10			11
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	109	10	✓	✓	1
5	5	3	Science	total energy	100	10			19	✓
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	59	15			7
5	5	11	Literature	being old	84	10			9
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	60	10			5
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	74	10			12
5	5	20	Science	spheres	68	10			18
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	103	10			21
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	106	0
6	6	9	Fine Arts	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	80	10			18
6	6	13	Religion	colored powder	107	0
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	99	10			26
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	117	10			25	✓
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	93	10			15
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	117	10			22	✓
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	82	10			9
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	98	10			12
7	7	20	Literature	China	42	15			10
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	50	10			13
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	112	10			20
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	64	10			10
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	62	15			6
9	9	3	Science	integer factorization	55	-5
9	9	5	Science	superconductivity	103	10			23	✓
9	9	7	Literature	French	37	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	98	10			14
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	81	10			12
9	9	12	Science	neutrinos	77	-5
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	106	10			9
9	9	18	History	freeing the Serfs in the Russian Empire	72	10			11
9	9	20	Fine Arts	India	35	15		✓	3
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	68	-5
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	39	15		✓	3
10	10	7	Fine Arts	scrolls	88	-5
10	10	11	Science	testing	83	10			20
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	56	15			4
10	10	13	History	banks	105	10			24
10	10	17	History	Chinese-Australians	90	-5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	109	10			14	✓

Dan MillingtonBirmingham B

Dan Millington
Birmingham B