2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Mitch McCullar
They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	48	-5
1	1	3	Social Science	psychotherapy	46	15			4
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	70	10			4
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	57	15			5
1	1	6	Science - Math	sets	65	10			17
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	92	10			21
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	75	10			9
1	1	9	History	Kingdom of Poland	53	15			11
1	1	10	Modern World	Claudia Sheinbaum	83	10			13
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	41	15		✓	2
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	55	15			9
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	107	10			22	✓
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	72	10			12
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	56	10			8
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	69	10			7
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	47	15			4
1	1	19	History	*Brown* v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	52	10			10
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	45	15			5
2	2	2	History	Barbary pirates	11	-5
2	2	4	Fine Arts	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	97	10			18	✓
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	16	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	56	15			4
2	2	7	History	Congo	58	15			6
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	29	15			5
2	2	9	Mythology	Baldr	44	15			5
2	2	12	History	playing chess	56	15			12
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	54	-5
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	13	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	43	15			15
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	23	15			4
2	2	18	Science	hydrogen ions	106	0
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	66	10			8
3	3	1	Fine Arts	bows	88	10			16	✓
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	46	15			5
3	3	5	History	the railroad industry	49	15			5
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	55	15		✓	3
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	36	15		✓	2
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	20	15	✓	✓	1
3	3	9	Science	viscosity	109	10			27	✓
3	3	10	Fine Arts	cave paintings	117	10			27	✓
3	3	11	Science	asthma	59	10			10
3	3	12	Philosophy	pragmatism	34	15		✓	3
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	77	10			17	✓
3	3	14	History	Draco	50	15			7
3	3	15	Current Events	music concerts	88	10			10
3	3	16	Science	aluminum	77	-5
3	3	17	Mythology	Ireland	30	15			9
3	3	19	Fine Arts	chairs	61	15			16	✓
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	39	15			4
4	4	1	History	Holy Bibles	46	15		✓	3
4	4	8	History	Ethiopia AND Italy	97	10			11	✓
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	38	-5
4	4	12	History	Babylon	81	10			20
4	4	14	Mythology	rivers	45	15		✓	3
4	4	15	Science	frequency	115	10			22	✓
4	4	16	History	2001	64	10			14
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	21	15		✓	2
4	4	18	Science	genetic linkage	108	0
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	50	15			8
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	59	15		✓	3
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	49	15			4
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	57	-5
5	5	3	Science	total energy	100	10			19	✓
5	5	6	Literature	Hedda Gabler	44	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	7	History	Ming dynasty	62	-5
5	5	11	Literature	being old	13	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	73	10			12
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	56	15			5
5	5	17	History	astronomy	48	-5
5	5	18	Science	carbon monoxide	83	10			21
5	5	19	Fine Arts	Paris, France	9	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	28	15		✓	3
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	66	15		✓	3
6	6	4	Mythology	Troy	42	15			6
6	6	7	Philosophy	Søren Kierkegaard	28	15			5
6	6	9	Fine Arts	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	76	10			16
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	72	-5
6	6	13	Religion	colored powder	43	15			5
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	12	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	50	15		✓	2
6	6	19	History	Dwight D. Eisenhower	74	10			6
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	112	10			19	✓
7	7	3	History	1930s	54	10			16
7	7	6	Mythology	crocodiles	26	15		✓	3
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	34	-5
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	54	15			6
7	7	11	Literature	bars	33	15		✓	2
7	7	15	History	Mississippi River	52	15			5
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	101	0
7	7	18	History	Caucasus Mountains	59	15			16
7	7	20	Literature	China	17	15		✓	2
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	26	15	✓	✓	1
8	8	4	Fine Arts	fountains	86	10		✓	3
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	106	10			6	✓
8	8	8	History	Harold	59	15			8
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	14	15		✓	2
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	37	15		✓	2
8	8	12	Fine Arts	United States of America	48	15			5
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	59	10			10
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	51	15			5
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	75	10			13
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	66	10			9
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	44	15		✓	2
9	9	1	Philosophy	Friedrich Nietzsche	30	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	24	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	6	Science	Ernest Rutherford	68	10			18
9	9	7	Literature	Mexican Revolution	23	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	9	History	Shah	37	15			5	✓
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	100	10			16
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	46	15			4
9	9	14	History	automobiles	107	10			24	✓
9	9	15	Fine Arts	American soldiers	17	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	43	15	✓	✓	1
9	9	18	History	freeing the serfs in the Russian Empire	58	15			5
9	9	19	Mythology	*Rāmāyan*a	63	15			6
9	9	20	Fine Arts	India	35	15		✓	3
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	46	15		✓	3
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	40	15		✓	2
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	95	10			16	✓
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	47	15			6
10	10	6	History	agōgē	56	-5
10	10	7	Fine Arts	scrolls	64	10			7
10	10	8	Mythology	Perseus	33	15			4
10	10	9	Literature	Spanish Civil War	25	15		✓	2
10	10	10	Science	flagella	98	0
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	47	15		✓	3
10	10	13	History	banks	50	15			10
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	100	0
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	36	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	17	History	Chinese-Australians	48	-5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	92	-5
10	10	19	Science	fluorescence	100	10			16
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	87	10			10
11	11	1	Fine Arts	The *Birth of Venus*	115	10			17	✓
11	11	3	Literature	France	16	15		✓	3
11	11	6	Mythology	Ragnarok	54	15			12
11	11	7	History	Venice	45	15		✓	3
11	11	9	Science	glycogen	97	0
11	11	10	Literature	Tim O’Brien	40	15		✓	3
11	11	11	Philosophy	Judith Butler	40	15		✓	2
11	11	12	Fine Arts	African-Americans	29	15		✓	2
11	11	13	Literature	Alan Paton	28	15	✓	✓	1
11	11	14	History	American Revolution	38	15	✓	✓	1
11	11	16	Modern World	Brazil AND Germany	86	-5
11	11	18	History	Nile River	57	15		✓	3
11	11	19	Religion	Book of Revelation	65	15		✓	2
11	11	20	Literature	Oliver Twist	42	-5

Mitch McCullarThey'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days

Mitch McCullar
They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days