An even worse idea (VAULT II Stanford Online)
Shahar Schwartz

RoundCategoryOpponentEasyMediumHardTotalParts
1LiteratureJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuThomas Mann(2)Buddenbrooks (3)Italy(1)20EM
1HistoryJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutugold(2)Populist Party(3)William Jennings Bryan(1)10E
1Fine ArtsJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuNapoleon Bonaparte(3)Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (2)La Grande Odalisque (1)30EMH
1ScienceJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutusolvents(2)sulfate(3)extraction(1)30EMH
1ReligionJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutudharma(2)Falun Gong(1)Qi(3)20EM
1HistoryJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuJulius Caesar(3)tribunes(2)Secession of the Plebs(1)20EH
1ScienceJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutustaining(1)Mycobacterium(3)Chlamydia(2)30EMH
1Modern WorldJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuJay-Z(1)A$AP Rocky(2)Destroy Lonely(3)0
1LiteratureJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuLatin(3)Catullus (2)Lesbia(1)30EMH
1ScienceJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuAlbert Einstein(1)tensors(2)geodesics(3)30EMH
1ScienceJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batuturegression(1)square(2)Andrey Andreyevich Markov(3)30EMH
1HistoryJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuAlbania(1)writing systems(3)London(2)20EM
1PhilosophyJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuBertrand Russell(3)Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)rule-following paradox(2)20EM
1LiteratureJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuF. Scott Fitzgerald(2)Jordan Baker(3)Nick Carraway(1)20EH
1Fine ArtsJeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuG(3)flute(2)J.S. Bach’s orchestral suites(1)20EM
2LiteratureOstia OrcasThe Frogs(3)Euripides (2)satyr plays(1)30EMH
2ScienceOstia Orcascurrent(3)loop rule(1)curl(2)20EM
2Social ScienceOstia Orcasbystander effect(1)Good Samaritan laws(3)Bibb Latané or John Darley(2)20EM
2ScienceOstia Orcasneutrons(2)iron(1)pressure(3)20EM
2ReligionOstia OrcasSaint Augustine of Hippo(1)Manichaeism(2)elect(3)20EM
2LiteratureOstia OrcasHenry David Thoreau(2)Walden(1)Economy(3)20EM
2HistoryOstia Orcasthe Black Death(2)witch trials(3)dancing(1)30EMH
2Modern WorldOstia OrcasDMZ(2)Lee Jae-myung(1)using a balloon(3)10E
2HistoryOstia OrcasTheodore Roosevelt(2)dams(3)Sierra Club(1)30EMH
2LiteratureOstia OrcasFranz Kafka(3)The Trial(2)Before the Law”(1)30EMH
2Fine ArtsOstia OrcasElla Jane Fitzgerald(2)Louis Armstrong(3)The Threepenny Opera(1)20EM
2ScienceOstia Orcaslattices(1)Two atoms(3)Miller indices(2)20EH
2LiteratureOstia OrcasJane Austen(2)Dashwood(1)Edward Ferrars(3)20EM
2HistoryOstia OrcasHatshepsut (2)the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty(3)Karnak(1)10E
2Fine ArtsOstia OrcasHungary(3)Camille Saint-Saëns(2)Symphonie espagnole(1)30EMH
3Modern WorldVirginia TechAngola(2)Malawi(1)Walvis Bay(3)10E
3HistoryVirginia TechGreat Wall of China(2)Marco Polo(1)Dominican Order(3)20EM
3LiteratureVirginia TechFederico Garcia Lorca(2)bullfighter(1)ghazal(3)30EMH
3ScienceVirginia Technephrons(2)diuretics(1)diabetes(3)30EMH
3Fine ArtsVirginia TechHamilton(2)Natasha Rostova(3)Phillippa Soo(1)20EH
3MythologyVirginia TechHawai’i(3)Pele(1)lava sledding(2)30EMH
3Fine ArtsVirginia TechIgor Stravinsky(2)Petrushka(3)the finale from The Firebird(1)20EM
3ScienceVirginia Techmixing(2)exponential function(3)chemical reactors(1)30EMH
3LiteratureVirginia Techsuicide(3)Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (2)the Hell Screen(1)30EMH
3Fine ArtsVirginia TechJapan(2)Edgar Degas(3)ukiyo-e(1)10E
3ScienceVirginia Techquadratic equation(1)Vieta’s formulas(2)depressed polynomial(3)10E
3ScienceVirginia Techsupernovae(3)standard candles(1)baryons(2)20EM
4MythologyThey fuck you up your buzz and negelephants(2)Indra(3)the churning of the Ocean of Milk(1)20EH
4ScienceThey fuck you up your buzz and negErwin Schrödinger(3)wavefunction(1)many-worlds interpretation(2)30EMH
4PhilosophyThey fuck you up your buzz and negatheism(2)David Hume (3)the problem of evil(1)20EM
4Rohan GaneshanThey fuck you up your buzz and negrespiratory system(2)Chordata(3)gastrulation(1)30EMH
4HistoryThey fuck you up your buzz and negBoston(2)Oda Nobunaga(3)House of Sforza(1)30EMH
4ReligionThey fuck you up your buzz and negAramaic(2)Eucharist(1)martyrs(3)20EM
4Modern WorldThey fuck you up your buzz and negGordon Ramsay(1)the lamb sauce(2)a purple potato(3)20EM
4LiteratureThey fuck you up your buzz and negJohn Milton(3)William Wordsworth(2)London(1)20EM
4ScienceThey fuck you up your buzz and negtetrahedral(3)transition states(2)chair conformation(1)30EMH
4Fine ArtsThey fuck you up your buzz and negCharlie Chaplin(1)Battleship Potemkin(2)F. W. Murnau(3)20EM
4HistoryThey fuck you up your buzz and negStockholm(3)Central Intelligence Agency(2)the assassination of Olof Palme(1)30EMH
4LiteratureThey fuck you up your buzz and negErnest Hemingway(3)Santiago(1)arm-wrestling(2)20EM
5HistoryMountain Dew is BetterAshoka the Great(2)rock edicts of Ashoka(3)Grand Trunk Road(1)10E
5LiteratureMountain Dew is BetterLi Bai(2)wine(1)Elemental Odes(3)20EM
5ScienceMountain Dew is Betterglass(1)ethers(3)click chemistry.(2)30EMH
5HistoryMountain Dew is Bettermercenaries(3)Battle of Pavia(2)Francis I of France(1)10E
5HistoryMountain Dew is BetterGhana(2)salt(1)Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe(3)20EM
5PhilosophyMountain Dew is BetterAristotle of Stagira(2)Avicenna(1)The Incoherence of the Philosophers(3)30EMH
5ScienceMountain Dew is Bettermineral hardness(1)cleavage(2)sclerometers(3)20EM
5LiteratureMountain Dew is BetterTurkey(2)castles(3)the Museum of Innocence(1)30EMH
5HistoryMountain Dew is BetterQuakers(2)Seneca(3)the Public Universal Friend(1)20EM
6HistoryNot Just Bikingwomen’s suffrage(2)New Zealand(3)force feeding(1)30EMH
6LiteratureNot Just BikingSouth Africa(2)Nadine Gordimer(1)Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black(3)30EMH
6Social ScienceNot Just BikingJohn Maynard Keynes(3)income(1)econometrics(2)10H
6LiteratureNot Just BikingWallace Stevens(3)Sunday Morning(2)Ten O’Clock(1)20EM
6MythologyNot Just BikingIran(1)Shahnameh(2)Rostam(3)30EMH
6LiteratureNot Just BikingItaly(2)guns or pistols(3)Accidental Death of an Anarchist(1)30EMH
6Fine ArtsNot Just Bikingsteel(1)Guernica(2)Seagram Murals(3)30EMH
7Fine ArtsBooz Allen InternsHindi(2)Khan(3)Lagaan(1)20EM
7ScienceBooz Allen Internsdiffusion(3)nuclear envelope(1)importins(2)30EMH
7LiteratureBooz Allen Internsthe Great Depression(2)August Wilson(3)Lefty Costello(1)30EMH
7Fine ArtsBooz Allen Internspiano concertos(1)Aram Khachaturian(3)Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District(2)30EMH
7HistoryBooz Allen Internsmosque(2)Selim(3)Roxelana(1)20EM
7Fine ArtsBooz Allen InternsAndrew Wyeth(2)Christina’s World(1)winter(3)20EM
7HistoryBooz Allen InternsHuguenots(3)Henry IV(2)Catherine de’ Medici(1)20EM
8Fine ArtsThe Young JitsWorld Trade Center(3)Denver(2)Las Vegas(1)30EMH
8ScienceThe Young Jitscyanide(2)nitrate(1)azide(3)20EM
8MythologyThe Young Jitstrees(3)Baba Yaga(1)Koschei the Deathless(2)30EMH
8Fine ArtsThe Young Jitsarias(3)Domenico Scarlatti(2)cats(1)30EMH
8Fine ArtsThe Young JitsGustav Klimt(2)frieze(3)Adele Bloch-Bauer(1)30EMH
8HistoryThe Young Jitsthe Walt Disney Company(1)Singapore(2)Euro(3)20EM
8LiteratureThe Young JitsShakespearean fools(1)Twelfth Night(2)Touchstone(3)20EM
8HistoryThe Young Jitsparliaments(3)Iceland(1)Christian X(2)30EMH
9Fine ArtsArmand duplantis fan clubFiddler on the Roof(1)Irving Berlin(3)Jerome Robbins(2)20EM
9HistoryArmand duplantis fan clubJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy(3)Fall of the Berlin Wall(1)E. Allan Lightner Jr.(2)20EM
9HistoryArmand duplantis fan clubAugustus(3)Vestal Virgins(2)Elagabalus(1)10M
9LiteratureArmand duplantis fan clubLouisa May Alcott(2)Jo March(1)scrivener(3)10E
9HistoryArmand duplantis fan clubFederalist Party(2)Daniel Webster(3)Hartford Convention(1)10E
9ScienceArmand duplantis fan club2𝜋(1)Euler's identity(2)roots of unity(3)20EM
9Social ScienceArmand duplantis fan clubemotions(3)human faces(1)hats(2)30EMH
9HistoryArmand duplantis fan clubSimon Bolívar(2)earthquake(3)Francisco de Miranda(1)20EM
9Fine ArtsArmand duplantis fan clubmass (2)Antonio Salieri (3)Vienna(1)20EM
9ScienceArmand duplantis fan clubJohannes Kepler(2)orbital eccentricity(1)Hohmann transfer(3)20EM
10HistoryPC Chris Master RaceAlaska(2)Teapot Dome scandal(3)death of Warren G. Harding(1)20EM
10Fine ArtsPC Chris Master RacePoland(3)codas(2)Frédéric Chopin’s ballades(1)10E
10Modern WorldPC Chris Master RaceFormula One(1)Charles Leclerc(2)Mercedes(3)10E
10LiteraturePC Chris Master RaceSylvia Plath(2)Ariel(3)Ted Hughes(1)30EMH
10SciencePC Chris Master RaceHydrogen atom(1)Balmer series(2)spherical harmonics(3)30EMH
10SciencePC Chris Master Racepentagons(1)Hero of Alexandria(2)cyclic quadrilaterals(3)20EM
10HistoryPC Chris Master RaceBritish East India Company(3)Aurangzeb(2)Shivājī I (1)10E
10Fine ArtsPC Chris Master RaceBillie Holiday(1)Charles Mingus Jr.(2)Count Basie(3)30EMH
10SciencePC Chris Master Raceseismic(1)Mohorovičić discontinuity(2)bulk modulus(3)20MH
10Fine ArtsPC Chris Master Racebronze(2)the Tate Galleries(3)Barbara Hepworth(1)20EM
10ReligionPC Chris Master RacePassover(2)four(1)afikomen(3)30EMH
10HistoryPC Chris Master RaceSwitzerland(2)Duchy of Savoy(3)Geneva(1)10E
11HistoryHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?19th century(1)Great Leap Forward(3)Philip II of Spain(2)10E
11Social ScienceHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?supply(2)Thorstein Veblen(1)lipstick effect(3)10M
11LiteratureHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Boris Pasternak(2)Doctor Zhivago(1)life(3)30EMH
11Fine ArtsHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Franz Schubert(1)Death (3)swans(2)30EMH
11ScienceHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?ground(2)decibels(3)operational amplifiers(1)10E
11LiteratureHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Alice(3)Sean O’Casey(2)Noël Coward(1)30EMH
11Current EventsHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Meta(3)Peter Thiel(1)Y Combinator(2)20EM
11HistoryHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Ellis Island(1)Quotas(3)Galveston, Texas(2)0
11LiteratureHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Sweden(3)Pippi Longstocking(2)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(1)30EMH
11Fine ArtsHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Futurism(1)Winged Victory of Samothrace(2)triptychs(3)10E
11HistoryHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Richard Nixon(3)Dèng Xiǎopíng(2)Special Economic Zones(1)10E
11Fine ArtsHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?the Vietnam War(3)Robert Smithson (2)Utah (1)10E
11LiteratureHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?A Streetcar Named Desire(2)Mexico(3)"The Catastrophe of Success"(1)20EM
11MythologyHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?China(2)Yellow Emperor(1)Yu the Great(3)30EMH
11ScienceHoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?DNA sequencing(2)phosphorus(3)Frederick Sanger(1)20MH