2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Peter Mahowald
Belmont A

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	67	10		4
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	33	-5
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	106	10		18	✓
2	2	4	Fine Arts	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	32	15		4
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	105	10		20
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	91	10		15
2	2	11	Science	conservation of angular momentum	71	10		11
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	68	10	✓	2
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	97	10		24
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	70	-5
2	2	18	Science	H+ ions	31	-5
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	66	10		8
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	52	15		8
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	76	10		14
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	35	15		6
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	68	10		13
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	88	10		10
5	5	11	Literature	being old	77	10		6
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	56	15		5
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	75	10		15
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	86	10		15
6	6	4	Mythology	Troy	92	10		21
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	106	10		17
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	87	10		11
6	6	13	Religion	colored powder	60	-5
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	68	10		18
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	43	15	✓	2
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	91	10		13
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	53	15		6
7	7	4	Fine Arts	piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven	101	10		13
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	45	15		8
7	7	11	Literature	bars	74	10		9
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	98	10		14
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	45	15		7
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	19	-5
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	71	10		11
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	72	-5
9	9	4	Literature	Old English	25	15	✓	2
9	9	5	Science	superconductivity	41	15		11
9	9	7	Literature	French	68	15		7
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	108	10		18
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	88	10		14
10	10	2	Fine Arts	Bong Joon-ho	120	10		22
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	89	-5
10	10	8	Mythology	Perseus	35	-5
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	98	10		13
10	10	13	History	banks	42	15		5
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	49	-5
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	94	-5
11	11	13	Literature	Alan Paton	65	10		7
11	11	19	Religion	Book of Revelation	76	10		7
12	13	11	Science	Gauss’s law for electricity	40	-5
12	13	18	Fine Arts	Mephistopheles	105	10		4	✓

Peter MahowaldBelmont A

Peter Mahowald
Belmont A