2025 VAULT II - Buzzpoints

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Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	History	Sikhs	68	10		13
1	1	5	Fine Arts	Sergei Rachmaninoff	95	0
1	1	11	Literature	vampires	104	10		15
1	1	12	History	Christopher Columbus discovering the New World	63	-5
1	1	15	Mythology	Duat	81	-5
1	1	16	Fine Arts	Grant Wood	103	10		17
1	1	18	Science	critical	82	-5
1	1	19	History	*Brown* v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	82	10		18
1	1	20	Religion	Smith	110	10		25	✓
2	2	2	History	Barbary pirates	104	0
2	2	3	Modern World	North Carolina	65	-5
2	2	4	Fine Arts	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	97	0
2	2	8	Fine Arts	the Empire State Building	62	10		13
2	2	10	Science	uranium	82	10		18
2	2	20	Literature	Farsi	87	-5
3	3	3	Science	trees	31	15		4
3	3	5	History	the railroad industry	66	-5
3	3	6	History	Nikita Khrushchev	109	10		22	✓
3	3	9	Science	viscosity	109	10		27	✓
3	3	10	Fine Arts	cave paintings	44	-5
3	3	15	Current Events	music concerts	81	10		7
3	3	16	Science	aluminum	101	10		21	✓
3	3	18	History	France	77	10		16
4	4	5	Fine Arts	video game soundtracks	109	10		21	✓
4	4	8	History	Ethiopia AND Italy	37	-5
4	4	11	Literature	Havana	66	-5
4	4	14	Mythology	rivers	105	10		12	✓
4	4	16	History	2001	81	10		19	✓
4	4	20	Social Science	social class	84	-5
5	5	2	History	Republic of Texas	80	10		11
5	5	5	Religion	synagogues	39	-5
5	5	6	Literature	Hedda Gabler	43	-5
5	5	7	History	Ming dynasty	98	0
6	6	3	Fine Arts	*Cats*	66	15	✓	3
6	6	4	Mythology	Troy	45	15		8
6	6	5	Science	Ceres	72	-5
6	6	6	Current Events	2025 New York City Mayoral election	99	10		25	✓
6	6	9	Fine Arts	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	116	0
6	6	12	Science	polymers	90	10		27
6	6	13	Religion	colored powder	30	-5
6	6	14	Literature	“The Monkey’s Paw”	78	10		20
6	6	17	Literature	Kenzaburō Ōe	109	0
6	6	20	Science	oscillation	83	10		10
7	7	1	Science	hydrogen peroxide	102	10		20	✓
7	7	6	Mythology	crocodiles	31	-5
7	7	9	Literature	the Little Prince	52	15		13
7	7	10	Fine Arts	crucifixion	62	-5
7	7	14	Science	natural logarithm	32	-5
7	7	17	Religion	Day of the Dead	25	-5
8	8	1	History	war elephants	74	10		18
8	8	8	History	Harold	79	-5
8	8	9	Literature	du Maurier	116	0
8	8	10	Religion	*ahimsa*	48	-5
8	8	11	History	Charles Lindbergh	78	10		22
8	8	14	Science	hydrophobicity	63	-5
8	8	16	Mythology	Huitzilopochtli	102	-5
8	8	17	Fine Arts	fugue	114	0
8	8	19	Literature	The *Seagull*	117	0
8	8	20	Science	spin angular momentum	88	10		14
10	10	1	Literature	*Tess of the d’Urbervilles*	115	0
10	10	3	Science	linear velocity	95	0
10	10	6	History	agōgē	78	-5
10	10	8	Mythology	Perseus	114	10		17
10	10	9	Literature	Spanish Civil War	108	0
10	10	11	Science	testing	33	15		9
10	10	12	Literature	Edwin Arlington Robinson	116	0
10	10	14	Geography	Mount Kilimanjaro	82	-5
10	10	17	History	Chinese-Australians	46	-5
10	10	18	Social Science	consonants	109	10		14
10	10	19	Science	fluorescence	102	0
10	10	20	Fine Arts	string quartets by Franz Josef Haydn	115	0

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