Poland - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

It’s not France, but an early historical chronicle of this country was written by Gallus Anonymus. This country’s nobility expelled William of Austria after crowning his wife king in 1384. (10[3]-5[1])The (-5[1])Nihil (10[4])novi (10[2]-5[1])act (10[3])gave (10[1])this country’s nobles (10[4])power (10[1])which (10[1])was (10[1])strengthened (10[2])under a system known as Golden (10[2]-5[1])Liberty. (10[9]-5[3])This (10[1])country (10[2]-5[1])was united (10[1]-5[1])with a Grand Duchy (10[2])to its (10[1])east (10[6]-5[2])by (10[1])the (10[1]-5[1])Union (10[3]-5[1])of (10[1])Lublin. (10[12]-5[2])Jadwiga (10[8]-5[1])(“yad-VEE-gah”) ruled (10[1])this (10[1])country (10[4])immediately (10[2])before (10[2])a line of (10[1])kings (10[1])from (10[1])the (10[1])Jagiellonian (“yog-yell-OH-nee-in”) dynasty. (10[3])For 10 points, which country (10[1])formed a Commonwealth (10[2])with Lithuania (10[10])and crowned monarchs (10[3])in its (10[1])medieval (10[1])capital (10[1])Kraków ■END■ (10[11]0[3])

ANSWER: Poland [or Kingdom of Poland; accept Poland-Lithuania or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; prompt on Lithuania]

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= Average correct buzz position

Summary


Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	67.80
Southern California	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	48.43
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	75.60
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	11%	64.78
Florida	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	73.25
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	17%	63.83
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	0%	61.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	50%	0%	50%	48.00
Midwest	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	11%	61.11
North	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	67.50
Northeast	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	10%	63.40
Pacific	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	25%	53.50
South Central	Main	Y	7	86%	0%	14%	77.50
Southeast	Main	Y	13	100%	0%	23%	63.85
Northern California	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	64.50
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	100%	0%	25%	68.63
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	71.40

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Emily Justak	Indiana B	WashU Grizzlers	29	-5
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Southampton	29	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	Virginia A	29	10
Steven Pan	Georgia Tech C	Clemson A	29	10
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	British Columbia A	30	-5
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Amherst A	31	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	RIT A	31	10
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	Claremont B	31	10
Carson Kessler	Washington Pink	Washington Sockeye	31	10
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	Louisville D	32	-5
Kevin Yang	Illinois Blue	Illinois Champaign	32	10
Annabelle Koopmans	Washington Atlantic	British Columbia B	32	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Steelhead	33	10
Aeron Wheel	Cardiff	Cambridge B	33	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCLA D	33	10
Anthony Yin	CWRU A	Michigan A	34	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Brandeis Bach	37	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	Michigan B	37	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Tennessee Tech	37	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	South Carolina A	37	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	USC A	38	10
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	McGill C	39	10
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	Washington State	40	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech B	41	10
Jas Wang	UCLA F	UC Irvine	41	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	McMaster B	47	10
Abhinav Dinesh	LSE	Imperial C	47	-5
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida A	47	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Ottawa A	48	-5
Alex Feller	Minnesota	Wisconsin C	48	10
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Tufts C	48	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	Brandeis Mozart	48	-5
Gregory Stone	ESF	Cornell A	48	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	48	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Louisville B	48	10
Will Marcotte	Toronto D	Waterloo A	48	10
Benjamin Silversten	William & Mary C	William & Mary B	48	10
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	Maryland A	48	10
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Indiana A	48	10
Sage Snow	Central Oklahoma A	Nebraska B	48	-5
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Auburn B	49	10
John Gamble	NCSU A	UNC A	50	10
Hayden Willett	Purdue B	Iowa B	50	10
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	Ohio State B	50	-5
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Washington Coho	52	10
Ethan Miniard	Montevallo	Georgia Tech D	52	-5
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Vermont B	56	10
Nathan Coble	Oklahoma	Murray State College A	56	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	CWRU B	58	10
James Xiao	Toronto A	Toronto C	59	10
Seth Allen	McMaster A	Toronto B	59	10
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	Michigan State B	59	10
Anthony Cruz Martinez	Nebraska C	Murray State College B	59	10
Aris Anton	Waterloo C	Waterloo B	59	-5
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	Pittsburgh	59	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Georgia Tech E	59	-5
Nitish Sudhakar	Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	59	10
Jonathan Koehler	UCLA C	UCSD B	60	10
Suhaan Pastakia	Maryland C	Rutgers A	61	-5
Jack Disbury	Durham D	Edinburgh B	61	10
Youyou Yu	Imperial A	Warwick	62	10
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial D	Cambridge E	62	10
Kingsley Chen	McGill A	McGill B	62	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	British Columbia C	62	-5
Venkat Das	WVU B	Michigan State D	63	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	64	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Mighty Miner	64	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	Queen's A	64	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Guelph A	64	10
John Halsun	UConn A	Tufts B	64	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Masu	64	10
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	RIT B	64	-5
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	WVU A	64	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Rose-Hulman A	64	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Clemson C	64	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	64	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Imperial B	64	-5
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	64	10
David Nickel	Purdue A	Purdue C	64	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Stanford A	65	10
Thomas Wu	Berkeley Skeleton King	UCSC	65	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Macalester	65	10
Steve Gaughan	Brandeis Mozart	Williams B	65	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Iowa A	65	10
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Indiana B	65	10
John Maupin	Chipola College	Alabama A	65	-5
Jackson Hatcher	Nebraska A	Tulsa A	65	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham B	65	10
Kevin Cronk	Virginia Tech C	UNC C	66	10
Frances Corban	Toronto H	Brock A	67	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Boston College A	68	10
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	VCU A	68	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	CWRU C	68	10
Caleb Hines	Liberty A	Duke A	68	10
Alex Smits	Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	69	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Durham A	69	10
Pallas Allen	South Florida A	Florida State A	70	10
Ben Kantsiper	JMU B	Liberty B	70	10
Austin Embry	Auburn C	Mississippi State A	73	10
James Windle	Purdue D	WashU Grolars	74	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	Binghamton C	75	10
Harry Fines	York	Edinburgh D	76	10
Cranmer McGinn	McMaster C	Toronto I	78	10
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Brown B	78	10
Kamil Boehm	Cambridge A	Oxford	78	10
Stefan Mihai	Carleton B	Carleton A	83	10
Emily Snider	Liberty C	NCSU B	86	10
James Bramley	Durham C	Edinburgh C	86	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	88	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Binghamton B	88	10
Will Massey	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	88	10
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	UCF A	88	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Sewanne	88	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC B	88	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Louisville C	88	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Chicago B	88	10
Wesley Yu	British Columbia A	Texas	88	10
Ryan Zhang	British Columbia C	Washington Chum	88	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Kentucky	91	10
CJ Sershon	Central Oklahoma B	Kansas State A	91	10
Andrew Boardman	Cambridge D	Bristol	91	10
Akif Ismail	Williams C	Harvard	93	10
Jacky Li	MIT B	Brandeis Beethoven	94	10
Harper Royal	Georgia Tech E	Emory A	95	10
Gerrit Severeid	McGill E	Ottawa C	97	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	Ottawa D	97	10
Will Barton	Imperial C	LSE	97	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Cornell D	97	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Maryland C	97	0
Luke Hasksins	Kansas State B	Rose State	97	0
Cassidy McIntyre	Rose State	Kansas State B	97	0
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Chipola College	97	10
Miguel Carreira	Imperial B	Cambridge C	97	10
Zack Wiffen	Waterloo B	Waterloo C	97	10
Brady Hagan	Ohio State B	CWRU D	97	10
Robert Szot	Nebraska B	Central Oklahoma A	97	10
Anna Pearson	Tulsa B	Harding	97	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Montevallo	97	10

Upstate NY

Main

100%

20%

67.80

Southern California

Main

100%

48.43

Eastern Canada (1)

Main

100%

20%

75.60

Eastern Canada (2)

Main

100%

11%

64.78

Florida

Main

100%

73.25

Great Lakes

Main

100%

17%

63.83

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

61.00

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

50%

48.00

Midwest

Main

100%

11%

61.11

North

Main

100%

67.50

Northeast

Main

100%

10%

63.40

Pacific

Main

100%

25%

53.50

South Central

Main

86%

14%

77.50

Southeast

Main

100%

23%

63.85

Northern California

Main

100%

64.50

UK (South)

100%

25%

68.63

UK (North)

100%

71.40

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Emily Justak

Indiana B

WashU Grizzlers

-5

Tom Morris-Jones

Birmingham

Southampton

Derek Aldridge

William & Mary A

Virginia A

Steven Pan

Georgia Tech C

Clemson A

Vishnu Sharma

Texas

British Columbia A

-5

Eames Weeks

Brown A

Amherst A

Vincent Misterkiewicz

Cornell C

RIT A

Scarlet Rutter

Claremont A

Claremont B

Carson Kessler

Washington Pink

Washington Sockeye

Aiden Hart

Kentucky

Louisville D

-5

Kevin Yang

Illinois Blue

Illinois Champaign

Annabelle Koopmans

Washington Atlantic

British Columbia B

Anne Fjeld

Alberta A

Washington Steelhead

Aeron Wheel

Cardiff

Cambridge B

Terrence Han

UCLA B

UCLA D

Anthony Yin

CWRU A

Michigan A

Jaehyun Park

Boston University A

Brandeis Bach

Joe Paterson

Michigan State A

Michigan B

Martin Brandenburg

Georgia A

Tennessee Tech

Darren Kellis

Vanderbilt A

South Carolina A

Jacob Cohen

UCLA A

USC A

Abhay Ariyapappillil

Ottawa B

McGill C

James O'Reilly

Arizona State A

Washington State

Moses Dong

Georgia Tech F

Georgia Tech B

Jas Wang

UCLA F

UC Irvine

Sean Gao

Toronto E

McMaster B

Abhinav Dinesh

LSE

Imperial C

-5

Matthew Andersen

Florida B

Florida A

John Rootham

Ottawa D

Ottawa A

-5

Alex Feller

Minnesota

Wisconsin C

Rafael Gómez

Amherst B

Tufts C

Johnny Myers

Williams B

Brandeis Mozart

-5

Gregory Stone

ESF

Cornell A

Cliodora Selyuzhitsky

UCSD A

UC Santa Barbara

Reed Sexton

Michigan C

Louisville B

Will Marcotte

Toronto D

Waterloo A

Benjamin Silversten

William & Mary C

William & Mary B

Jeremy Katen

George Mason A

Maryland A

Brian Qian

Illinois Canada

Indiana A

Sage Snow

Central Oklahoma A

Nebraska B

-5

Will Hughes

Auburn A

Auburn B

John Gamble

NCSU A

UNC A

Hayden Willett

Purdue B

Iowa B

Oliver Thompson

CWRU D

Ohio State B

-5

Skand Parvatikar

Arizona State B

Washington Coho

Ethan Miniard

Montevallo

Georgia Tech D

-5

Elliott Gomes

Dartmouth A

Vermont B

Nathan Coble

Oklahoma

Murray State College A

Orion Brey

Louisville A

CWRU B

James Xiao

Toronto A

Toronto C

Seth Allen

McMaster A

Toronto B

Peter Zeng

Ohio State A

Michigan State B

Anthony Cruz Martinez

Nebraska C

Murray State College B

Aris Anton

Waterloo C

Waterloo B

-5

Jack Rabaut

Michigan D

Pittsburgh

Ethan Altshul

Emory A

Georgia Tech E

-5

Nitish Sudhakar

Georgia Tech A

Tennessee A

Jonathan Koehler

UCLA C

UCSD B

Suhaan Pastakia

Maryland C

Rutgers A

-5

Jack Disbury

Durham D

Edinburgh B

Youyou Yu

Imperial A

Warwick

Ollie Glin-Conway

Imperial D

Cambridge E

Kingsley Chen

McGill A

McGill B

George Matsumura

Washington Chum

British Columbia C

-5

Venkat Das

WVU B

Michigan State D

Annoshae Mirza

Berkeley Archer Queen

Stanford B

Vijay Hans

Berkeley Boss Bandit

Berkeley Mighty Miner

Imtiaz Kidwai

Toronto F

Queen's A

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto G

Guelph A

John Halsun

UConn A

Tufts B

Bryce Younger

Boise State

Washington Masu

Solomon Blecher

Cornell D

RIT B

-5

Eric Cameron

Michigan State C

WVU A

Alex Dzurick

William Woods University A

Rose-Hulman A

Asheton Wilbanks

Clemson B

Clemson C

Edward Zhang

Vanderbilt C

Vanderbilt B

Honor Mountford

Cambridge C

Imperial B

-5

Charlie Weaver

Virginia Tech B

Virginia Tech A

David Nickel

Purdue A

Purdue C

Janghyun Lee

Berkeley Little Prince

Stanford A

Thomas Wu

Berkeley Skeleton King

UCSC

James Horsley

Iowa State

Macalester

Steve Gaughan

Brandeis Mozart

Williams B

Saswat Sasha Tripathi

Chicago A

Iowa A

Conner Yamnitz

WashU Grizzlers

Indiana B

John Maupin

Chipola College

Alabama A

-5

Jackson Hatcher

Nebraska A

Tulsa A

Charlie Castleton

Sheffield A

Durham B

Kevin Cronk

Virginia Tech C

UNC C

Frances Corban

Toronto H

Brock A

Surya Dinesh

MIT A

Boston College A

Ezra Zareba

UNC B

VCU A

Miles Spieler

Ohio State C

CWRU C

Caleb Hines

Liberty A

Duke A

Alex Smits

Wisconsin A

St. Thomas

Harry Sexton

Edinburgh A

Durham A

Pallas Allen

South Florida A

Florida State A

Ben Kantsiper

JMU B

Liberty B

Austin Embry

Auburn C

Mississippi State A

James Windle

Purdue D

WashU Grolars

Gabriel Nell

Cornell B

Binghamton C

Harry Fines

York

Edinburgh D

Cranmer McGinn

McMaster C

Toronto I

Jake Markus

Dartmouth B

Brown B

Kamil Boehm

Cambridge A

Oxford

Stefan Mihai

Carleton B

Carleton A

Emily Snider

Liberty C

NCSU B

James Bramley

Durham C

Edinburgh C

Luke Sauer

Michigan Tech

Wisconsin B

Aidan Keenan

Rochester

Binghamton B

Will Massey

Florida Tech B

ERAU Daytona A

Dominic Heffron

Florida Tech A

UCF A

Richard D’Angelo

Tennessee B

Sewanne

Joseph Wang

UCLA E

USC B

Ishan Chahande

Ohio State D

Louisville C

Samarth Majmudar

Illinois Urbana

Chicago B

Wesley Yu

British Columbia A

Texas

Ryan Zhang

British Columbia C

Washington Chum

Dirk Hay

Louisville D

Kentucky

CJ Sershon

Central Oklahoma B

Kansas State A

Andrew Boardman

Cambridge D

Bristol

Akif Ismail

Williams C

Harvard

Jacky Li

MIT B

Brandeis Beethoven

Harper Royal

Georgia Tech E

Emory A

Gerrit Severeid

McGill E

Ottawa C

Aedan Cooper

Ottawa A

Ottawa D

Will Barton

Imperial C

LSE

Jake Scoville

RIT B

Cornell D

Aarav Vasanthan

Rutgers A

Maryland C

Luke Hasksins

Kansas State B

Rose State

Cassidy McIntyre

Rose State

Kansas State B

Britton Webster

Alabama A

Chipola College

Miguel Carreira

Imperial B

Cambridge C

Zack Wiffen

Waterloo B

Waterloo C

Brady Hagan

Ohio State B

CWRU D

Robert Szot

Nebraska B

Central Oklahoma A

Anna Pearson

Tulsa B

Harding

Madeline Painter

Georgia Tech D

Montevallo