Academic Pop Culture
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Shepard | Film | Neal Joshi |
  
| Missouri | Fr. | .436 | 15 |
| 2 | Werner (Karl) Heisenberg | TV | Mazin Omer |
 
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .725 | 19 |
| 3 | Medusa | Video Games | Brynn Jones |
| Alabama | Jr. | .551 | 17 |
| 4 | Nikita (Sergeyevich) Khrushchev | Film | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Illinois | Fr. | .439 | 15 |
| 5 | George W(alker) Bush | Music | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Illinois | Fr. | .682 | 18 |
| 6 | The Tell-Tale Heart | TV | Jack Wolverton |
| Missouri | Sr. | .705 | 19 |
| 7 | Myers-Briggs Type Indicator | Other PC | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Jr. | .134 | 11 |
| 8 | Dante Alighieri | Film | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Illinois | Fr. | .287 | 13 |
| 9 | Albert Einstein | Comics | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .405 | 15 |
| 10 | Pinkerton National Detective Agency | Video Games | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .537 | 16 |
| 11 | Jane Seymour | Other PC | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .068 | 10 |
| 12 | John Glenn | Film | Avi Mehta |
| Maryland | Fr. | .511 | 16 |
| 13 | Norman (Percevel) Rockwell | Music | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .732 | 19 |
| 14 | Gerald Ford | TV | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .816 | 20 |
| 15 | Francisco Franco | Film | Matt D'Annunzio |
| Connecticut | So. | .685 | 18 |
| 16 | The Troubles | Music | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .520 | 16 |
| 17 | Mahatma Gandhi | Video Games | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .572 | 17 |
| 18 | Kansas | Other PC | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .551 | 17 |
| 19 | (Saint) Mary Magdalene | Musicals | Tomás Aguilar-Fraga |
| California | Jr. | .738 | 19 |
| 20 | Frédéric (François) Chopin | Video Games | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | Sr. | .165 | 12 |
| 21 | Catherine the Great | TV | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .352 | 14 |
| 22 | Erie Canal | Other PC | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .778 | 20 |
| 23 | oxytocin | Music | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .248 | 13 |
| 24 | Fred Hampton | Film | Chandler West |
| Tennessee | Grad. | .448 | 15 |
| 25 | Vlad Dracula | Comics | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Illinois | Fr. | .502 | 16 |
| 26 | Lee Harvey Oswald | TV | Max Smiley |
| California | Grad. | .332 | 14 |
| 27 | fractals | Other PC | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .732 | 19 |
| 28 | Johann Pachelbel | Music | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | Sr. | .293 | 13 |
| 29 | Frida Kahlo de Rivera | Film | Tomás Aguilar-Fraga |
| California | Jr. | .566 | 17 |
| 30 | selenium | Film | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .796 | 20 |
| 31 | Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso | Music | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Illinois | Fr. | .377 | 14 |
| 32 | State of the Union address | TV | Parth Jagtap |
| Canada | Jr. | .422 | 15 |
| 33 | Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt | Musicals | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Jr. | .716 | 19 |
| 34 | Frank Herbert | Music | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .377 | 14 |
| 35 | seven seals of God | Film | Halle Friedman |
| New York | Grad. | .362 | 14 |
| 36 | Tyrannosaurus rex | TV | Christian Wilson |
| New York | Jr. | .776 | 20 |
| 37 | Tom Stoppard | Film | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .708 | 19 |
| 38 | George Washington | Other PC | Andrew Semak |
| Michigan | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .491 | 16 |
| 39 | mass | Video Games | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .439 | 15 |
| 40 | Anne Frank | Music | Jared Cubilla |
| Canada | Jr. | .724 | 19 |
| 41 | William F. Buckley | Other PC | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Jr. | .725 | 19 |
| 42 | The Road Not Taken | TV | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | Sr. | .585 | 17 |
| 43 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Film | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .501 | 16 |
| 44 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Comics | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .399 | 15 |
| 45 | Louvre Museum | Music | Matt D'Annunzio |
| Connecticut | So. | .660 | 18 |
| 46 | Chernobyl (nuclear) disaster | TV | Kevin Ye |
| California | Jr. | .446 | 15 |
| 47 | electric flux | Film | Casey Stafford |
| Illinois | Jr. | .502 | 16 |
| 48 | H. P. Lovecraft | Other PC | Logan Anbinder |
| Maryland | Grad. | .746 | 19 |
| 49 | Oxford comma(s) | Music | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .498 | 16 |
| 50 | Holocaust | TV | Matt D'Annunzio |
| Connecticut | So. | .434 | 15 |
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.