2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

Robert Wisdom
Chapel Hill A

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	101	10			20	✓
1	1	3	Social Science	psychotherapy	75	10			13
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	65	15		✓	2
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	94	10			23
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	58	15			4
1	1	10	Modern World	Claudia Sheinbaum	79	10			10
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	67	10			8
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	87	10			19
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	62	-5
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	66	15			7
1	1	19	History	*Brown* v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	40	15		✓	3
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	39	15		✓	2
2	2	3	Modern World	North Carolina	26	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	22	15		✓	3
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	56	15			4
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	78	10			19
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	116	10			19
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	26	15			7
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	34	15			10
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	20	15		✓	2
2	2	18	Science	H+ ions	105	0
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	60	10			6
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	29	15	✓	✓	1
3	3	5	History	the railroad industry	47	15			8
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	62	15			8
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	70	10			9
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	82	10			18
3	3	12	Philosophy	pragmatism	56	10			8
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	41	15			4
3	3	15	Current Events	music concerts	81	10			7
3	3	18	History	France	34	-5
4	4	1	History	Holy Bibles	91	10			18
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	38	15			4
4	4	5	Fine Arts	video game soundtracks	92	10			16
4	4	6	Science	tidal force	66	-5
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	31	15		✓	2
4	4	9	Science	David Hilbert	57	10			9
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	108	10			20	✓
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	59	15			10
4	4	14	Mythology	rivers	45	15		✓	2
4	4	16	History	2001	34	15			4
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	53	15			9
4	4	18	Science	genetic linkage	96	-5
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	61	10			10
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	103	10			16	✓
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	60	15			6
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	35	15		✓	2
5	5	6	Literature	Hedda Gabler	46	15			4
5	5	10	Social Science	birthright citizenship	44	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	11	Literature	being old	80	10			7
5	5	12	History	nurse	35	-5
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	35	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	19	Fine Arts	Paris, France	48	15			9
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	34	15			5
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	112	10			20
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	63	10			18
6	6	8	Literature	John Proctor	42	15			6
6	6	12	Science	polymers	89	10			26
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	63	10			17
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	66	10			10
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	66	15			9
6	6	18	Science	the square root of two is irrational	94	10			15
6	6	19	History	Dwight D. Eisenhower	44	15		✓	2
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	112	10			19
7	7	2	Literature	Ernest	20	15		✓	2
7	7	3	History	1930s	29	-5
7	7	4	Fine Arts	piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven	33	15	✓	✓	1
7	7	6	Mythology	crocodiles	51	15			8
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	32	15		✓	2
7	7	11	Literature	bars	74	10			9
7	7	14	Science	natural logarithm	108	10			18	✓
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	100	10			23
7	7	17	Religion	Day of the Dead	70	10			17
7	7	20	Literature	China	37	15			7
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	80	10			6
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	29	15		✓	3
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	53	10		✓	3
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	54	15			6
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	54	15			10
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	34	15			4
8	8	14	Science	hydrophobicity	71	10			15
8	8	15	Science	skewness	78	10			13
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	70	10			11
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	60	15			5

Robert WisdomChapel Hill A

Robert Wisdom
Chapel Hill A