2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Kaiwen Xiao
Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	80	10			9
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	76	10			11
1	1	6	Science - Math	sets	13	-5
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	41	15			7
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	60	15			5
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	47	15			4
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	113	10			21	✓
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	31	15		✓	3
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	93	10			12
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	45	15		✓	3
1	1	18	Science	critical	53	15			4
2	2	4	Fine Arts	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	97	10			18
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	73	10			14
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	68	-5
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	80	10			20
2	2	9	Mythology	Baldr	43	15			4
2	2	11	Science	conservation of angular momentum	68	-5
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	81	-5
2	2	14	Fine Arts	Delft	117	10			21
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	43	15			15
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	12	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	63	10			7
4	4	1	History	Holy Bibles	55	10			8
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	38	15			4
4	4	4	Science	collisions	57	10			14
4	4	6	Science	tidal force	33	15			4
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	58	15			10
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	88	10			16	✓
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	105	10			26	✓
4	4	13	Fine Arts	Scotland	65	10			11
4	4	16	History	2001	25	-5
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	67	10			12
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	78	10			16
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	62	15			7
5	5	4	Modern World	Death Notes	82	10			15
5	5	6	Literature	Hedda Gabler	72	10			10
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	91	10			18
5	5	11	Literature	being old	80	10			7
5	5	12	History	nurse	83	10			20
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	106	10			25
5	5	15	Mythology	Sun Wukong	17	15		✓	3
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	65	15			8
5	5	17	History	astronomy	54	15			4
5	5	19	Fine Arts	Paris, France	42	15			7
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	36	15			6
6	6	4	Mythology	Troy	57	-5
6	6	7	Philosophy	Søren Kierkegaard	56	-5
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	38	15			4
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	87	10			12
7	7	2	Literature	Ernest	74	10			17
7	7	3	History	1930s	61	-5
7	7	4	Fine Arts	piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven	104	10			14
7	7	7	Science	capacitors	48	10			9
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	32	15		✓	2
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	103	10			14
7	7	11	Literature	bars	48	15			6
7	7	17	Religion	Day of the Dead	35	15			4
7	7	19	Fine Arts	scientist	104	10			12
7	7	20	Literature	China	40	15			9
8	8	1	History	war elephants	61	10			11
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	47	15		✓	2
8	8	4	Fine Arts	fountains	110	10			8
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	59	10			16
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	58	15			7
8	8	12	Fine Arts	United States of America	95	10			18
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	59	10			10
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	46	15		✓	3
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	52	15			5
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	71	10			9
9	9	1	Philosophy	Friedrich Nietzsche	63	10			9
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	32	15			7
9	9	6	Science	Ernest Rutherford	39	-5
9	9	7	Literature	French	64	15			5
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	79	10			11
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	43	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	18	History	freeing the Serfs in the Russian Empire	44	15		✓	3
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	102	10			14
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	43	15		✓	3
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	57	-5
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	79	10			8
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	36	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	23	-5
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	72	-5
11	11	3	Literature	France	13	15	✓	✓	1
11	11	6	Mythology	Ragnarok	32	15			8
11	11	11	Philosophy	Judith Butler	67	-5
11	11	14	History	American Revolution	42	15		✓	3
11	11	18	History	Nile River	30	15		✓	2
11	11	19	Religion	Book of Revelation	75	10			6
11	11	20	Literature	Oliver Twist	61	10			10
12	13	10	Mythology	rainbows	30	15	✓	✓	1
12	13	11	Science	Gauss’s law for electricity	42	15	✓	✓	1
12	13	14	Literature	Daniel Defoe	80	10		✓	3
12	13	16	Literature	new	37	-5
12	13	20	Philosophy	categorical imperative	70	10		✓	3

Kaiwen XiaoLeif Eriksen's Striking Appearance

Kaiwen Xiao
Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance