2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

March Delfin
With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	2	Science	oceanic pH	55	-5
1	1	3	Social Science	psychotherapy	60	10		8
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	69	10		5
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	95	10		24
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	72	10		8
1	1	9	History	Kingdom of Poland	54	15		12
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	59	10		10
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	113	10		21	✓
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	74	10		12
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	61	-5
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	115	10		24	✓
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	68	10		7
2	2	7	History	Congo	61	15		8
2	2	9	Mythology	Baldr	89	10		15
2	2	12	History	playing chess	58	15		13
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	107	10		17	✓
2	2	14	Fine Arts	Delft	105	10		14
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	48	15		12
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	90	10		23
2	2	18	Science	H+ ions	105	10		5	✓
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	74	10		11
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	108	10		20	✓
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	39	15		5
4	4	4	Science	collisions	51	15		10
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	56	15		9
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	36	15		7	✓
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	65	10		11
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	93	-5
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	107	10		15
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	74	-5
5	5	4	Modern World	Death Notes	55	15		9
5	5	5	Religion	synagogues	69	-5
5	5	7	History	Ming dynasty	98	10		26
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	106	10		25
5	5	10	Social Science	birthright citizenship	85	10		15
5	5	11	Literature	being old	118	10		18	✓
5	5	12	History	nurse	89	10		21
5	5	13	Science	endocytosis	56	10		6
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	95	10		21
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	68	15		9
5	5	19	Fine Arts	Paris, France	100	10		21
6	6	1	History	House of Wisdom	105	0
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	72	10		13
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	71	10		7
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	72	10		21
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	51	-5
6	6	9	Fine Arts	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	78	10		17
6	6	10	Science	eyes	48	15		13
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	53	15		11
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	117	10		25	✓
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	87	10		12
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	69	10		9
7	7	2	Literature	Ernest	75	10		18
7	7	4	Fine Arts	piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven	77	-5
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	49	15		10
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	86	-5
7	7	11	Literature	bars	53	15		7
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	99	10		22	✓
7	7	19	Fine Arts	scientist	71	10		6
7	7	20	Literature	China	37	15		7
8	8	4	Fine Arts	fountains	103	10		6
8	8	10	Religion	*ahimsa*	54	15		4
8	8	12	Fine Arts	United States of America	100	10		20
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	67	10		12
8	8	14	Science	hydrophobicity	42	-5
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	98	10		15
9	9	3	Science	integer factorization	71	10		15
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	85	10		12
9	9	7	Literature	French	67	15		6
9	9	9	History	Shah	101	10		18	✓
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	83	10		13	✓
9	9	13	Religion	Kaaba	88	10		23	✓
9	9	15	Fine Arts	American soldiers	108	10		23	✓
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	106	10		9
9	9	18	History	freeing the Serfs in the Russian Empire	72	-5
9	9	20	Fine Arts	India	112	10		17	✓
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	92	10		15
10	10	7	Fine Arts	scrolls	115	10		15	✓
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	55	-5
10	10	13	History	banks	102	10		23	✓
10	10	14	Geography	Mount Kilimanjaro	82	-5
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	50	-5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	30	-5
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	100	-5
11	11	1	Fine Arts	The *Birth of Venus*	94	10		12
11	11	2	Science	magnesium	69	10		11
11	11	6	Mythology	Ragnarok	100	10		17
11	11	7	History	Venice	107	10		17
11	11	9	Science	glycogen	97	10		9	✓
11	11	10	Literature	Tim O’Brien	103	-5
11	11	11	Philosophy	Judith Butler	82	-5
11	11	12	Fine Arts	African-Americans	37	15	✓	3
11	11	13	Literature	Alan Paton	85	10		11
11	11	19	Religion	Book of Revelation	107	10		14
11	11	20	Literature	Oliver Twist	91	10		14

March DelfinWith Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience

March Delfin
With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience