2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

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Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	78	10			15
1	1	2	Science	oceanic pH	40	15	✓	✓	1
1	1	3	Social Science	psychotherapy	48	15			6
1	1	4	Literature	*Gravity’s Rainbow*	70	10			4
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	61	10			6
1	1	6	Science - Math	sets	47	10			12
1	1	7	Science	Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	41	-5
1	1	8	Literature	*Water Margin*	68	10			7
1	1	9	History	Kingdom of Poland	53	-5
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	47	-5
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	52	15			8
1	1	13	Science	transfer RNA	44	15			5
1	1	14	Fine Arts	The *Marriage of Figaro*	33	15		✓	3
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	38	15			6
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	72	10			9
1	1	17	Literature	If on a winter's night a traveler	45	15		✓	3
1	1	18	Science	critical	38	15		✓	3
1	1	19	History	*Brown* v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	52	10			10
2	2	1	Science	beetles	36	15	✓	✓	1
2	2	2	History	Barbary pirates	21	-5
2	2	4	Fine Arts	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	71	10			13
2	2	5	Literature	The *Jew of Malta*	38	15			5
2	2	6	Literature	Harry Haller	69	-5
2	2	7	History	Congo	60	15			7
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	35	15			7
2	2	9	Mythology	Baldr	99	10			19	✓
2	2	10	Science	uranium	39	15			5
2	2	11	Science	conservation of angular momentum	115	10			22	✓
2	2	13	Religion	Eve	104	10			15	✓
2	2	14	Fine Arts	Delft	48	15			4
2	2	15	Literature	Cormac McCarthy	16	15		✓	3
2	2	16	History	UK Labour Party	55	10			19
2	2	17	Philosophy	love	21	15		✓	3
2	2	18	Science	hydrogen ions	51	-5
2	2	19	Science	p-value	34	15			4
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	66	10			8
3	3	1	Fine Arts	bows	48	15			4
3	3	2	Literature	the Library of Babel	65	10			13
3	3	3	Science	trees	31	15			4
3	3	4	Science	batteries	46	-5
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	56	-5
3	3	7	Literature	Percy Shelley	42	-5
3	3	8	Religion	sutras	37	15		✓	2
3	3	9	Science	viscosity	54	15			4
3	3	10	Fine Arts	cave paintings	42	15			6
3	3	11	Science	asthma	87	10			16	✓
3	3	12	Philosophy	pragmatism	63	-5
3	3	13	Literature	Joad family	41	-5
3	3	14	History	Draco	74	10			11
3	3	15	Current Events	music concerts	84	10			9
3	3	16	Science	aluminum	33	15		✓	2
3	3	17	Mythology	Ireland	47	15			11
3	3	19	Fine Arts	chairs	53	-5
3	3	20	Literature	*Duino Elegies*	38	15		✓	3
4	4	2	Modern World	Jamaica	35	-5
4	4	3	Literature	Offred	47	-5
4	4	4	Science	collisions	16	15	✓	✓	1
4	4	5	Fine Arts	video game soundtracks	70	15		✓	2
4	4	6	Science	tidal force	55	15			8
4	4	7	Literature	A *Raisin in the Sun*	62	15			12
4	4	10	Religion	Santería	14	15		✓	2
4	4	13	Fine Arts	Scotland	44	15		✓	3
4	4	14	Mythology	rivers	105	10			6	✓
4	4	15	Science	frequency	64	15			12
4	4	16	History	2001	58	10			12
4	4	17	Literature	Karel Čapek	51	-5
4	4	18	Science	genetic linkage	27	15		✓	2
4	4	19	Fine Arts	New York City	50	15			8
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	34	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	1	Literature	William Cullen Bryant	52	-5
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	50	-5
5	5	3	Science	total energy	56	10			8
5	5	5	Religion	synagogues	44	15			10
5	5	6	Literature	Hedda Gabler	54	15			4
5	5	8	Science	gel electrophoresis	35	15			9
5	5	9	Fine Arts	human skulls	63	-5
5	5	11	Literature	being old	62	15			5
5	5	13	Science	endocytosis	32	-5
5	5	14	Fine Arts	trains	83	10			15
5	5	16	Literature	*Gitanjali*	73	10			11
5	5	18	Science	carbon monoxide	59	10			12
5	5	20	Science	spheres	33	15			5
6	6	2	Literature	Margarita Nikolaevna	24	15		✓	2
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	38	-5
6	6	5	Science	Ceres	51	-5
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	57	-5
6	6	7	Philosophy	Søren Kierkegaard	21	15		✓	2
6	6	11	Fine Arts	preludes	118	10			21	✓
6	6	12	Science	polymers	18	15		✓	2
6	6	15	History	pirates	49	-5
6	6	16	History	Kyiv	50	15		✓	2
6	6	19	History	Dwight D. Eisenhower	99	10			7	✓
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	38	15		✓	3
7	7	1	Science	hydrogen peroxide	12	15		✓	2
7	7	2	Literature	Ernest	30	15			4
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	38	15		✓	2
7	7	13	Social Science	Jane Goodall	70	10			6
7	7	14	Science	natural logarithm	63	10			11	✓
7	7	15	History	Mississippi River	18	-5
7	7	16	Science	plant germination	19	15		✓	3
7	7	17	Religion	Day of the Dead	24	15	✓	✓	1
7	7	19	Fine Arts	scientist	12	-5
7	7	20	Literature	China	21	-5
8	8	1	History	war elephants	34	-5
8	8	2	Science	detecting exoplanets	59	-5
8	8	3	Philosophy	Epicurus	84	10			8
8	8	4	Fine Arts	fountains	41	-5
8	8	5	Literature	Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire	44	15			11
8	8	6	Modern World	Xīnjiāng	73	-5
8	8	7	Science	sine	114	10			22	✓
8	8	8	History	Harold	79	10			16
8	8	13	Literature	The *God of Small Things*	34	15			4
8	8	14	Science	hydrophobicity	31	15			4
8	8	15	Science	skewness	99	10			20	✓
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	51	-5
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	68	10			9
8	8	18	History	Benito Juárez	77	-5
8	8	20	Science	spin angular momentum	30	-5
9	9	1	Philosophy	Friedrich Nietzsche	33	15		✓	2
9	9	2	History	Chicago	33	-5
9	9	5	Science	superconductivity	31	15			6
9	9	6	Science	Ernest Rutherford	45	-5
9	9	7	Literature	Mexican Revolution	35	15			4
9	9	9	History	Shah	29	-5
9	9	10	Fine Arts	Robert Schumann	110	10			19	✓
9	9	11	Literature	The *Tin Drum*	55	10			5
9	9	13	Religion	Kaaba	24	15		✓	2
9	9	15	Fine Arts	American soldiers	48	15			5
9	9	16	Science	methyl	20	15		✓	3
9	9	17	Literature	Lillian Hellman	59	15		✓	3
9	9	18	History	freeing the serfs in the Russian Empire	108	10			12	✓
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	64	10			4
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	23	15		✓	2
10	10	5	Religion	Dào Dé Jīng	26	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	6	History	agōgē	66	15		✓	3
10	10	7	Fine Arts	scrolls	45	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	8	Mythology	Perseus	49	15			7
10	10	9	Literature	Spanish Civil War	32	15		✓	3
10	10	10	Science	flagella	15	-5
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	74	15			7
10	10	13	History	banks	45	-5
10	10	14	Geography	Mount Kilimanjaro	82	10			16
10	10	15	Science	hydrolysis	13	-5
10	10	16	Literature	Aeschylus	36	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	17	History	Chinese-Australians	44	15			5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	23	-5
10	10	19	Science	fluorescence	20	15		✓	3
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	73	-5
11	11	1	Fine Arts	The *Birth of Venus*	103	10			15	✓
11	11	2	Science	magnesium	27	15		✓	3
11	11	4	Science	substitution	99	10			15	✓
11	11	5	History	Dirty War	46	15			8
11	11	6	Mythology	Ragnarok	67	10			14
11	11	7	History	Venice	64	10			13
11	11	8	Fine Arts	Dior	43	15		✓	3
11	11	9	Science	glycogen	39	15		✓	3	✓
11	11	11	Philosophy	Judith Butler	101	10			10
11	11	12	Fine Arts	African-Americans	82	-5
11	11	13	Literature	Alan Paton	65	10			7
11	11	15	Science	light emission	31	15		✓	2
11	11	16	Modern World	Brazil AND Germany	67	10		✓	3
11	11	17	Science	Edwin Hubble	71	10			17
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	60	-5

Shahar SchwartzAn even worse idea

Shahar Schwartz
An even worse idea