2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Gus Sullivan
Minnetonka B

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	2	Science	oceanic pH	92	10			10	✓
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	38	-5
1	1	6	Science - Math	sets	35	15			5
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	112	10			28	✓
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	125	10			16	✓
1	1	10	Modern World	Claudia Sheinbaum	99	10			17	✓
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	83	10			16
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	112	10			20	✓
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	47	-5
1	1	18	Science	critical	82	10			12
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	64	15			13
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	64	10			10
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	68	10			7
2	2	10	Science	uranium	71	10			11
2	2	11	Science	conservation of angular momentum	96	-5
2	2	12	History	playing chess	45	15			7
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	90	10			9
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	52	15			15
2	2	18	Science	H+ ions	106	0
2	2	19	Science	p-value	68	10			11
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	60	10			6
3	3	1	Fine Arts	bows	52	-5
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	65	10			13
3	3	3	Science	trees	50	10			14
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	77	10			16
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	77	10			15
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	78	10			17
3	3	11	Science	asthma	79	-5
3	3	12	Philosophy	pragmatism	101	10			20
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	82	10			8
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	108	10			20	✓
4	4	5	Fine Arts	video game soundtracks	76	10			10
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	56	15			9
4	4	9	Science	David Hilbert	25	15		✓	2
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	69	-5
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	95	10			11
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	62	15			7
5	5	4	Modern World	Death Notes	45	15		✓	2
5	5	5	Religion	synagogues	64	10			15
5	5	8	Science	gel electrophoresis	76	-5
5	5	10	Social Science	birthright citizenship	107	-5
5	5	11	Literature	being old	77	10			6
5	5	13	Science	endocytosis	94	10			9
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	99	10			23
5	5	17	History	astronomy	51	15		✓	3
5	5	19	Fine Arts	Paris, France	99	10			20
5	5	20	Science	spheres	48	15			11
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	36	-5
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	58	10			15
6	6	7	Philosophy	Søren Kierkegaard	17	-5
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	106	10			17	✓
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	94	0
6	6	12	Science	polymers	82	10			23
6	6	13	Religion	colored powder	61	10			10
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	42	15			7
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	26	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	98	10			18
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	82	10			9
7	7	1	Science	hydrogen peroxide	101	10			19
7	7	2	Literature	Ernest	53	15			11
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	34	15		✓	3
7	7	11	Literature	bars	85	10			11
7	7	12	Science	Pi bonds	51	-5
7	7	14	Science	natural logarithm	42	-5
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	67	-5
7	7	19	Fine Arts	scientist	107	10			13
7	7	20	Literature	China	37	15			7
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	34	15			5
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	60	15			13
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	57	10			9
8	8	15	Science	skewness	99	0
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	72	10			10
9	9	1	Philosophy	Friedrich Nietzsche	61	10			7
9	9	3	Science	integer factorization	55	10			5
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	24	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	7	Literature	French	54	15		✓	3
9	9	14	History	automobiles	30	-5
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	71	15			4
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	66	10			6
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	103	10			10
10	10	10	Science	flagella	75	10			10
10	10	11	Science	testing	64	10			18	✓
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	106	10			14
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	86	10			10
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	50	-5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	15	-5
10	10	19	Science	fluorescence	98	-5
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	94	-5

Gus SullivanMinnetonka B

Gus Sullivan
Minnetonka B