2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

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Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	2	Science	oceanic pH	42	15		✓	2
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	95	10			17	✓
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	41	15			7
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	126	10			17	✓
1	1	9	History	Kingdom of Poland	39	15			5
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	48	15			5
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	37	-5
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	59	-5
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	22	15	✓	✓	1
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	46	15			6
2	2	1	Science	beetles	39	15		✓	3
2	2	3	Modern World	North Carolina	25	-5
2	2	7	History	Congo	30	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	9	Mythology	Baldr	67	10			10
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	30	-5
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	41	15			14
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	25	15			5
2	2	18	Science	hydrogen ions	41	-5
3	3	1	Fine Arts	bows	52	15			5
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	65	-5
3	3	3	Science	trees	41	10			7
3	3	4	Science	batteries	69	-5
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	56	15			4
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	118	0
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	62	10			6
3	3	9	Science	viscosity	61	-5
3	3	10	Fine Arts	cave paintings	38	-5
3	3	11	Science	asthma	82	10			13
3	3	14	History	Draco	61	-5
3	3	16	Science	aluminum	58	10			5
3	3	17	Mythology	Ireland	27	15			7
3	3	18	History	France	75	10			14
3	3	19	Fine Arts	chairs	35	15			4
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	98	10			13
4	4	1	History	Holy Bibles	49	15			5
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	53	10			5
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	76	-5
4	4	4	Science	collisions	52	15			11
4	4	5	Fine Arts	video game soundtracks	73	-5
4	4	6	Science	tidal force	36	15			5
4	4	8	History	Ethiopia AND Italy	36	-5
4	4	9	Science	David Hilbert	66	10			15	✓
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	29	15			5
4	4	12	History	Babylon	13	15		✓	2
4	4	13	Fine Arts	Scotland	55	10			7
4	4	14	Mythology	rivers	45	15		✓	3
4	4	18	Science	genetic linkage	47	-5
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	93	-5
5	5	5	Religion	synagogues	31	15			8
5	5	7	History	Ming dynasty	34	15			4
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	116	10			28	✓
5	5	12	History	nurse	37	-5
5	5	17	History	astronomy	36	-5
6	6	1	History	House of Wisdom	55	15		✓	3
6	6	5	Science	Ceres	62	10			6
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	63	10			18
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	46	15			5
6	6	10	Science	eyes	9	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	118	10			21	✓
6	6	12	Science	polymers	70	10			17
6	6	15	History	pirates	31	15		✓	2
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	59	15			4
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	70	10			10
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	80	-5
7	7	1	Science	hydrogen peroxide	85	10			13
7	7	3	History	1930s	29	15			6
7	7	4	Fine Arts	piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven	49	0
7	7	6	Mythology	crocodiles	38	15			5
7	7	7	Science	capacitors	70	-5
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	38	-5
7	7	12	Science	Pi bonds	34	-5
7	7	13	Social Science	Jane Goodall	80	-5
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	69	10			15	✓
7	7	17	Religion	Day of the Dead	35	15			4
7	7	18	History	Caucasus Mountains	23	15		✓	2
8	8	1	History	war elephants	56	15			9
8	8	2	Science	detecting exoplanets	71	10			17
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	80	10			6
8	8	4	Fine Arts	fountains	105	10			6
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	117	0
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	63	10		✓	3
8	8	7	Science	sine	114	10			22	✓
8	8	8	History	Harold	44	15	✓	✓	1
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	116	10			18
8	8	10	Religion	*ahimsa*	57	15			6
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	69	10			18
8	8	12	Fine Arts	United States of America	76	-5
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	79	10			15
8	8	14	Science	hydrophobicity	46	-5
8	8	15	Science	skewness	93	10			18
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	64	10			10
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	44	15		✓	2
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	36	-5
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	109	10			18
8	8	20	Science	spin angular momentum	60	10		✓	3
9	9	1	Philosophy	Friedrich Nietzsche	61	10			7
9	9	2	History	Chicago	104	10			21	✓
9	9	3	Science	integer factorization	60	10			10
9	9	9	History	Shah	50	0
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	45	15			6
9	9	13	Religion	Kaaba	26	15		✓	3
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	84	-5
9	9	18	History	freeing the serfs in the Russian Empire	28	-5
9	9	19	Mythology	*Rāmāyan*a	107	10			17
9	9	20	Fine Arts	India	19	-5
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	115	0
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	121	10			23
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	80	10			12
10	10	4	History	Portugal	88	10			19	✓
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	107	10			9	✓
10	10	6	History	agōgē	33	-5
10	10	7	Fine Arts	scrolls	106	10			13
10	10	8	Mythology	Perseus	53	-5
10	10	10	Science	flagella	56	0
10	10	11	Science	testing	38	15			11
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	27	-5
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	92	-5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	27	-5
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	64	-5
11	11	1	Fine Arts	The *Birth of Venus*	68	15			7
11	11	2	Science	magnesium	70	10			12
11	11	4	Science	substitution	85	10			13	✓
11	11	5	History	Dirty War	54	10			10
11	11	6	Mythology	Ragnarok	46	15			10
11	11	7	History	Venice	51	15			7
11	11	8	Fine Arts	Dior	68	10			5
11	11	9	Science	glycogen	38	-5
11	11	11	Philosophy	Judith Butler	46	15		✓	3
11	11	14	History	American Revolution	41	-5
11	11	16	Modern World	Brazil AND Germany	91	10			4
11	11	17	Science	Edwin Hubble	37	-5
11	11	18	History	Nile River	21	15	✓	✓	1
11	11	19	Religion	Book of Revelation	73	10			4	✓
11	11	20	Literature	Oliver Twist	47	15			7

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