Academic Pop Culture
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Shepard | Film | Stephen Liu |
  
| California | .724 | 19 |
| 2 | Werner (Karl) Heisenberg | TV | Teddy Knox |
 
| Illinois | .727 | 19 |
| 3 | Medusa | Video Games | Mindy Wong |
| New York | .674 | 18 |
| 4 | Nikita (Sergeyevich) Khrushchev | Film | Michael Laudermith |
 
| Illinois | .700 | 19 |
| 5 | George W(alker) Bush | Music | Dargan Ware |
| Alabama | .667 | 18 |
| 6 | The Tell-Tale Heart | TV | Joshua Grischow |
 
| Ohio | .840 | 20 |
| 7 | Myers-Briggs Type Indicator | Other PC | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .497 | 16 |
| 8 | Dante Alighieri | Film | Tucker Warner |
| New York | .370 | 14 |
| 9 | Albert Einstein | Comics | Jimmy Dunn |
| Michigan | .488 | 16 |
| 10 | Pinkerton National Detective Agency | Video Games | Dylan Minarik |
| Illinois | .655 | 18 |
| 11 | Jane Seymour | Other PC | Brian Weikle |
| Minnesota | .584 | 17 |
| 12 | John Glenn | Film | Stephanie Perkins |
| Missouri | .393 | 15 |
| 13 | Norman (Percevel) Rockwell | Music | Naveed Chowdhury |
| California | .696 | 19 |
| 14 | Gerald Ford | TV | Ethan Levine |
| Illinois | .802 | 20 |
| 15 | Francisco Franco | Film | Stephen Liu |
| California | .715 | 19 |
| 16 | The Troubles | Music | Eric Douglass |
| South Carolina | .627 | 18 |
| 17 | Mahatma Gandhi | Video Games | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .580 | 17 |
| 18 | Kansas | Other PC | Naveed Chowdhury |
| California | .653 | 18 |
| 19 | (Saint) Mary Magdalene | Musicals | David Cruickshank |
| United Kingdom | .655 | 18 |
| 20 | Frédéric (François) Chopin | Video Games | Benji Nguyen |
| Texas | .626 | 18 |
| 21 | Catherine the Great | TV | Tim Crockett |
| Washington | .744 | 19 |
| 22 | Erie Canal | Other PC | Ryan Rosenberg |
| California | .820 | 20 |
| 23 | oxytocin | Music | Sarah Benner |
| Indiana | .574 | 17 |
| 24 | Fred Hampton | Film | Adam Escandell |
| Texas | .644 | 18 |
| 25 | Vlad Dracula | Comics | Dargan Ware |
| Alabama | .444 | 15 |
| 26 | Lee Harvey Oswald | TV | Aaron Lichtig |
| Maryland | .758 | 19 |
| 27 | fractals | Other PC | Jack Rousseau |
| California | .513 | 16 |
| 28 | Johann Pachelbel | Music | David Dennis |
| Missouri | .478 | 16 |
| 29 | Frida Kahlo de Rivera | Film | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .589 | 17 |
| 30 | selenium | Film | Nate Kane |
| Arizona | .876 | 20 |
| 31 | Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso | Music | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .527 | 16 |
| 32 | State of the Union address | TV | Jeff Frank |
| Indiana | .417 | 15 |
| 33 | Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt | Musicals | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .670 | 18 |
| 34 | Frank Herbert | Music | Craig Moysey |
| Canada | .488 | 16 |
| 35 | seven seals of God | Film | James E. Lasker |
| Texas | .331 | 14 |
| 36 | Tyrannosaurus rex | TV | Sam Ferguson |
| North Carolina | .593 | 17 |
| 37 | Tom Stoppard | Film | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .738 | 19 |
| 38 | George Washington | Other PC | Rahul Rao-Pothuraju |
| New York | .496 | 16 |
| 39 | mass | Video Games | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
| Kentucky | .480 | 16 |
| 40 | Anne Frank | Music | Sarah Benner |
| Indiana | .746 | 19 |
| 41 | William F. Buckley | Other PC | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .714 | 19 |
| 42 | The Road Not Taken | TV | Alex Dzurick |
| Missouri | .644 | 18 |
| 43 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Film | Hans von Walter |
| California | .619 | 18 |
| 44 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Comics | Myron Meyer |
| South Dakota | .712 | 19 |
| 45 | Louvre Museum | Music | Nick Jensen |
| Wisconsin | .701 | 19 |
| 46 | Chernobyl (nuclear) disaster | TV | Bailey Angle |
| Virginia | .557 | 17 |
| 47 | electric flux | Film | Michael Laudermith |
| Illinois | .570 | 17 |
| 48 | H. P. Lovecraft | Other PC | Matthew Marcotte |
| California | .804 | 20 |
| 49 | Oxford comma(s) | Music | Dylan Minarik |
| Illinois | .439 | 15 |
| 50 | Holocaust | TV | Teddy Knox |
| Illinois | .463 | 16 |
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.