2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Elouise Finch
Oxford

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	77	10		✓	2
1	1	2	Science	oceanic pH	57	-5
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	89	10			13
1	1	10	Modern World	Claudia Sheinbaum	37	-5
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	69	10			9
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	52	15			8
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	53	10			7
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	59	-5
1	1	19	History	*Brown* v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	58	10			14
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	67	10			15
2	2	2	History	Barbary pirates	81	10			11
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	105	0
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	59	10			12
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	70	-5
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	19	-5
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	15	15			5
3	3	1	Fine Arts	bows	86	10		✓	3
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	80	10			20
3	3	5	History	the railroad industry	74	10			19
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	62	15			8
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	118	0
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	67	10			12
3	3	18	History	France	75	10			14
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	55	10			6
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	95	-5
4	4	8	History	Ethiopia AND Italy	112	-5
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	105	0
4	4	12	History	Babylon	103	10			27
4	4	16	History	2001	50	15			9
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	113	0
4	4	18	Science	genetic linkage	108	0
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	34	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	110	0
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	90	10			18
5	5	6	Literature	Hedda Gabler	104	0
5	5	11	Literature	being old	119	10			19
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	113	10			27	✓
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	113	10			21
6	6	1	History	House of Wisdom	70	10	✓	✓	1
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	66	15		✓	3
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	33	15			4
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	106	0
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	99	10			26
7	7	2	Literature	Ernest	57	15			13
7	7	3	History	1930s	18	15		✓	3
7	7	5	Modern World	“Golden”	96	10			19
7	7	6	Mythology	crocodiles	120	10			25	✓
7	7	7	Science	capacitors	27	-5
7	7	8	History	Bangladesh	69	10			15
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	97	-5
7	7	11	Literature	bars	109	10			19
7	7	20	Literature	China	102	10			21
8	8	2	Science	detecting exoplanets	53	-5
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	117	0
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	117	0
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	60	-5
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	104	-5
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	129	0
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	81	-5
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	115	-5
9	9	15	Fine Arts	American soldiers	107	10			22	✓
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	118	0
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	81	10			12
10	10	6	History	agōgē	78	10			11
10	10	9	Literature	Spanish Civil War	108	10			22
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	116	0
10	10	13	History	banks	78	-5
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	106	0
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	72	10			9	✓
10	10	19	Science	fluorescence	99	-5

Elouise FinchOxford

Elouise Finch
Oxford