Aerospace/Aviation Challenge
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NASA | Christina Wukich |
| Pennsylvania | .775 | 20 |
| 2 | Challenger disaster | Simran Takhar |
| North Carolina | .726 | 19 |
| 3 | Captain Jean-Luc Picard | James Heaney |
| Minnesota | .825 | 20 |
| 4 | thrust | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
 
| Kentucky | .458 | 15 |
| 5 | Billy Mitchell | Brent Beck |
| California | .823 | 20 |
| 6 | asteroids | Kevin Wang |
| Massachusetts | .819 | 20 |
| 7 | Mexico | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .653 | 18 |
| 8 | James Bond | Chris Miller |
| Virginia | .590 | 17 |
| 9 | Walter Cronkite | Nate Kane |
| Arizona | .673 | 18 |
| 10 | The Expanse | Shae Williams |
| New York | .862 | 20 |
| 11 | World War I | Owen Cooper | Alabama | .828 | 20 | |
| 12 | infrared or IR | Jake Stone |
| California | .769 | 19 |
| 13 | Igor (Ivanovich) Sikorsky | Brent Beck |
| California | .815 | 20 |
| 14 | James (Maitland) Stewart | Jake Stone |
| California | .832 | 20 |
| 15 | ground | Michael Turbe |
| Alabama | .773 | 20 |
| 16 | The Little Prince | Adam Silverman |
| Massachusetts | .750 | 19 |
| 17 | Howard Hughes | John Riss |
| Illinois | .739 | 19 |
| 18 | Los Angeles International Airport (or KLAX) | Erik Eide |
| Canada | .593 | 17 |
| 19 | United Airlines | Dylan Minarik |
| Illinois | .652 | 18 |
| 20 | de-icing | Erik Eide |
| Canada | .695 | 19 |
| 21 | black holes | Daniel Feitel |
| District of Columbia | .593 | 17 |
| 22 | Chuck Yeager | Erik Eide |
| Canada | .806 | 20 |
| 23 | (aerodynamic) stall | Brent Beck |
| California | .755 | 19 |
| 24 | Rama | Jury Razumau |
| Europe | .528 | 16 |
| 25 | Samuel (Pierpont) Langley | Ben Ingram |
| South Carolina | .748 | 19 |
| 26 | Sea of Tranquility | Akosua Asante |
| Canada | .669 | 18 |
| 27 | aluminum | Shae Williams |
| New York | .866 | 20 |
| 28 | 5G | Blake Andert |
| Minnesota | .735 | 19 |
| 29 | Sally (Kristen) Ride | Brad Fischer |
| Illinois | .795 | 20 |
| 30 | jet streams | Aldric Benalan |
| New Jersey | .718 | 19 |
| 31 | Mauna Kea or Maunakea | Dominic Lloyd |
| Louisiana | .778 | 20 |
| 32 | Florida Everglades | Brent Beck |
| California | .683 | 18 |
| 33 | airspeed | Michael Turbe |
| Alabama | .507 | 16 |
| 34 | Flying Tigers | Brent Beck |
| California | .700 | 19 |
| 35 | Colorado | Josh Hill |
| Arkansas | .772 | 20 |
| 36 | escape velocity | Emmett Laurie |
| New Jersey | .792 | 20 |
| 37 | EVE Online | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .529 | 16 |
| 38 | Washington, D.C. | Ben Ingram |
| South Carolina | .546 | 17 |
| 39 | Artemis program | Robert Brice Russ |
| Alabama | .725 | 19 |
| 40 | Kepler’s (three) laws of planetary motion | Michael Bentley |
| Washington | .757 | 19 |
| 41 | Iran | Stephen Liu |
| California | .587 | 17 |
| 42 | Pan Am | Michael Coates |
| Idaho | .604 | 17 |
| 43 | wind tunnels | Jeff Frank |
| Indiana | .745 | 19 |
| 44 | U.S. Senator(s) | Justin Abel | Illinois | .837 | 20 | |
| 45 | Eddie Rickenbacker | Chris Miller |
| Virginia | .679 | 18 |
| 46 | entropy | Kevin Wang |
| Massachusetts | .808 | 20 |
| 47 | Lost in Space | Alex Dzurick |
| Missouri | .799 | 20 |
| 48 | Project Gemini | Quinn McGarry |
| Missouri | .742 | 19 |
| 49 | Hidden Figures | Aidan Mehigan |
| New Jersey | .716 | 19 |
| 50 | Betelgeuse | Kevin Wang |
| Massachusetts | .609 | 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.