Summer 2021 Popular Culture Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hindi | Film | Drew Scheeler |
| Ohio | .817 | 20 |
| 2 | Michelle Obama | Other PC | Jimmy Li |
 
| California | .827 | 20 |
| 3 | The 1975 | Music | Stephen Liu |
  
| California | .745 | 19 |
| 4 | Grey | Comics | Janet Berry |
| Virginia | .722 | 19 |
| 5 | Leslie Jones | TV | Natalie Schermer |
| Washington | .593 | 17 |
| 6 | Fifth Harmony | Music | Danielle Long | Illinois | .730 | 19 | |
| 7 | KFC | Other PC | Chris Miller |
| Kentucky | .706 | 19 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible | Film | Andrew Fanko |
| United Kingdom | .771 | 20 |
| 9 | Shazam | Comics | Michael Kettler |
| Ohio | .724 | 19 |
| 10 | Halo(s) | Video Games | Aaron Dos Remedios |
| Canada | .665 | 18 |
| 11 | Wayne | TV | Jimmy Li |
| California | .437 | 15 |
| 12 | Santa Claus | Film | Drew Scheeler |
| Ohio | .797 | 20 |
| 13 | Foo Fighters | Music | Shannon Jamison |
| Virginia | .804 | 20 |
| 14 | Ridiculousness | TV | Scott Latchem |
| California | .761 | 19 |
| 15 | Alcatraz Island | Film | Jeff Frank |
| Indiana | .721 | 19 |
| 16 | Chris Cornell | Music | Joshua Levit |
| Massachusetts | .687 | 18 |
| 17 | dragons | Video Games | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .693 | 19 |
| 18 | Chicago | Musicals | Lawrence Simon |
| Maryland | .776 | 20 |
| 19 | Strawberry Fields | Music | Matthew Grieco | New York | .725 | 19 | |
| 20 | Johnny Carson | TV | Myron Meyer |
| South Dakota | .795 | 20 |
| 21 | Mega Man | Video Games | Jack Rousseau |
| California | .766 | 19 |
| 22 | Lego | Other PC | Susannah Brooks |
| Wisconsin | .724 | 19 |
| 23 | Bing Crosby | Film | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | .795 | 20 |
| 24 | Meryl Streep | Film | Craig Moysey |
| Canada | .746 | 19 |
| 25 | brain | Comics | Patrick Liao |
| Canada | .775 | 20 |
| 26 | Monty Python’s Flying Circus | TV | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .682 | 18 |
| 27 | Wendy’s | Other PC | Brian Hight |
| Michigan | .861 | 20 |
| 28 | John (Joseph) Travolta | Film | Susannah Brooks |
| Wisconsin | .695 | 19 |
| 29 | The Vampire Diaries | TV | Elisabeth Evan |
| Ohio | .774 | 20 |
| 30 | John (William) Oates | Music | Stan Jastrzebski |
| Indiana | .785 | 20 |
| 31 | doughnuts | Other PC | Brad Williams |
| Wisconsin | .764 | 19 |
| 32 | The Goldbergs | TV | Owen Cooper |
| Alabama | .787 | 20 |
| 33 | (the) boys | Music | Stephen Liu |
| California | .765 | 19 |
| 34 | Singin’ in the Rain | Film | Clifford Galiher |
| California | .733 | 19 |
| 35 | Topps | Other PC | McKinnie Lee Sizemore |
| Florida | .722 | 19 |
| 36 | Jimi Hendrix | Music | Toby Cox |
| United Kingdom | .645 | 18 |
| 37 | Regina (Rene) King | Film | Omar Sajjad |
| California | .747 | 19 |
| 38 | Marlboro | Other PC | Myron Meyer |
| South Dakota | .732 | 19 |
| 39 | Ron Howard | TV | Amanda Walker |
| Washington | .736 | 19 |
| 40 | Sega | Video Games | Jason Sterlacci |
| New Jersey | .742 | 19 |
| 41 | Butter | Music | Aaron Dos Remedios |
| Canada | .792 | 20 |
| 42 | Jodie Foster | Film | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .707 | 19 |
| 43 | MASH | TV | Brad Williams |
| Wisconsin | .810 | 20 |
| 44 | (John) Michael Crichton | Other PC | Garrett Johnston |
| Alabama | .651 | 18 |
| 45 | Japan | Film | David Kiang |
| Illinois | .758 | 19 |
| 46 | The Monkees | Music | Matthew Marcotte |
| Texas | .801 | 20 |
| 47 | Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | Video Games | Stephen Liu |
| California | .741 | 19 |
| 48 | Hairspray | Musicals | Ali Filipowicz |
| Virginia | .792 | 20 |
| 49 | Ad Astra | Film | Joshua Grischow |
| Ohio | .486 | 16 |
| 50 | Samantha (Anne) Bee | TV | Matthew Marcotte |
| Texas | .590 | 17 |
Celerity is the fraction of the question that had not been read at the time of a buzz (for which a correct answer was provided). 1.000 is an immediate buzz, .500 is an answer given halfway through the question in terms of time on the sound recording, and .000 is an answer given at the very end.