2023 Popular Culture Week 44

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Matthew Marcotte	California	10	100.0%	.435	.271	152
2	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.404	.297	149
3	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.520	.324	147
4	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	10	100.0%	.389	.281	146
5	Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	10	100.0%	.366	.288	144
6	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.372	.227	143
7	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.350	.252	143
8	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	10	100.0%	.350	.203	141
9	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.473	.271	139
10	Derek Martz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.451	.281	137
11	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.321	.246	137
12	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	9	90.0%	.426	.271	136
13	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.323	.263	136
14	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	10	100.0%	.303	.190	135
15	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.413	.321	134
16	James Dowd	Hawaii	10	100.0%	.298	.246	134
17	Kyle Kahan	California	10	100.0%	.279	.141	131
18	Michael Patison	Texas	10	100.0%	.266	.251	131
19	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	8	80.0%	.521	.220	130
20	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.393	.266	130
21	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	10	100.0%	.282	.240	130
22	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.355	.325	129
23	Kendall Plapp	New York	10	100.0%	.234	.286	129
24	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.359	.234	128
25	Andy Kravis	New York	8	80.0%	.491	.278	127
26	Tim Crockett	Washington	9	90.0%	.357	.241	127
27	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	9	90.0%	.352	.274	127
28	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.349	.226	127
29	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.342	.347	126
30	Devon Edwards	New York	8	80.0%	.466	.236	125
31	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.325	.252	125
32	Nate Muckley	Illinois	9	90.0%	.321	.342	125
33	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.220	.181	125
34	Mark Morris	Alabama	10	100.0%	.209	.263	124
35	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	8	80.0%	.435	.267	122
36	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.320	.230	122
37	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.318	.251	122
38	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.308	.165	122
39	Julian Saddy	Canada	9	90.0%	.300	.268	121
40	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.301	.293	120
41	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	10	100.0%	.187	.263	120
42	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.423	.228	119
43	Mitchell Rimerman	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.408	.339	119
44	Scott Latchem	California	8	80.0%	.405	.259	119
45	Daniel Jude	California	9	90.0%	.287	.253	119
46	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	9	90.0%	.274	.219	119
47	Tucker Warner	New York	9	90.0%	.270	.181	118
48	Dan Puma	Illinois	8	80.0%	.398	.264	117
49	Akosua Asante	Canada	9	90.0%	.245	.226	114
50	Craig Moysey	Canada	8	80.0%	.350	.239	113
51	Chris Abrams	Nevada	8	80.0%	.349	.275	113
52	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.342	.234	113
53	Kent Buxton	Maryland	8	80.0%	.347	.224	112
54	Michael Turner	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.330	.301	112
55	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.224	.183	112
56	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	8	80.0%	.336	.222	111
57	Ryan Rosenberg	California	9	90.0%	.219	.253	111
58	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.206	.236	111
59	Kari Race	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.327	.257	110
60	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	8	80.0%	.313	.308	110
61	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	9	90.0%	.197	.225	110
62	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.478	.286	109
63	Evan Knox	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.323	.248	109
64	William Neiswanger	Washington	8	80.0%	.306	.293	109
65	Andrew Dupont	California	8	80.0%	.302	.263	108
66	Ryan Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.297	.239	108
67	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.297	.265	108
68	Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.285	.248	108
69	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.194	.176	108
70	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	7	70.0%	.442	.241	107
71	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.437	.276	107
72	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.306	.205	107
73	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.286	.276	107
74	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.280	.285	107
75	Lauren Manton	Ohio	7	70.0%	.436	.271	106
76	John Kocsis	Virginia	8	80.0%	.293	.245	106
77	Cari Milowicki	Ohio	8	80.0%	.285	.259	106
78	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	8	80.0%	.283	.196	106
79	Chris Becker	Maryland	8	80.0%	.277	.276	106
80	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.426	.282	105
81	Owen Cooper	Alabama	7	70.0%	.414	.339	105
82	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	7	70.0%	.410	.275	105
83	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	8	80.0%	.291	.216	105
84	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	8	80.0%	.271	.213	105
85	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.271	.247	105
86	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	9	90.0%	.163	.170	105
87	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.140	.080	105
88	Erik Christensen	Canada	7	70.0%	.406	.331	104
89	Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	7	70.0%	.399	.213	104
90	Suna Tabag	Illinois	7	70.0%	.398	.308	104
91	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.284	.327	104
92	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	8	80.0%	.270	.281	104
93	Chris Hale	Virginia	8	80.0%	.268	.239	104
94	Sofia Pralle	Washington	8	80.0%	.263	.261	104
95	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	8	80.0%	.256	.205	104
96	Paolo Pasco	California	7	70.0%	.406	.265	103
97	Dan Passner	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.394	.314	103
98	Lynn Yu	California	8	80.0%	.238	.268	103
99	Jeff Frank	Indiana	7	70.0%	.377	.273	102
100	Andy Brown	Illinois	8	80.0%	.246	.146	102
101	David Kiang	Illinois	8	80.0%	.239	.206	102
102	Talia Fan	Canada	7	70.0%	.391	.341	101
103	William Travis	Texas	7	70.0%	.378	.276	101
104	Sean Doyle	Texas	7	70.0%	.369	.267	101
105	Jesse Tow	Illinois	7	70.0%	.350	.209	99
106	Lee Henry	Alabama	7	70.0%	.348	.296	99
107	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.343	.260	98
108	Mike Myers	California	7	70.0%	.338	.238	98
109	Stephen Liu	California	8	80.0%	.203	.157	98
110	James Washick	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.533	.336	97
111	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.327	.268	97
112	Michael Olson	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.326	.287	97
113	Harry White	Virginia	7	70.0%	.312	.180	97
114	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.204	.162	97
115	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.196	.155	97
116	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	8	80.0%	.192	.220	96
117	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.333	.227	95
118	Naveed Chowdhury	California	7	70.0%	.317	.229	95
119	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.314	.286	95
120	Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.308	.245	95
121	Bryan Householder	Ohio	7	70.0%	.304	.280	95
122	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	7	70.0%	.303	.236	95
123	Jason Palmer	Ohio	7	70.0%	.302	.266	95
124	Kevin Lei	Canada	8	80.0%	.177	.162	95
125	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	7	70.0%	.319	.274	94
126	Matt Smania	Michigan	7	70.0%	.303	.231	94
127	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	7	70.0%	.303	.237	94
128	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	8	80.0%	.162	.150	94
129	Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	6	60.0%	.462	.234	93
130	Radu Popescu	Canada	7	70.0%	.287	.196	93
131	Patrick Carthy	Europe	7	70.0%	.284	.179	93
132	Tom Minard	Canada	7	70.0%	.273	.250	93
133	Jason Lai	New York	8	80.0%	.146	.135	93
134	Parth Jagtap	Canada	7	70.0%	.278	.209	92
135	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	7	70.0%	.268	.188	92
136	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.440	.290	91
137	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.258	.274	91
138	Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	7	70.0%	.242	.253	91
139	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.428	.283	90
140	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	7	70.0%	.242	.282	90
141	Andy Rossitch	Georgia	8	80.0%	.108	.148	90
142	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	6	60.0%	.414	.315	89
143	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	6	60.0%	.407	.268	89
144	Omar Sajjad	California	6	60.0%	.396	.223	89
145	Stephen Ours	Virginia	7	70.0%	.259	.219	89
146	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	7	70.0%	.249	.274	89
147	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.404	.285	88
148	Michael Kettler	Ohio	6	60.0%	.397	.357	88
149	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	6	60.0%	.390	.295	88
150	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.233	.158	88
151	Jack Garrison	Ohio	7	70.0%	.226	.229	88
152	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.222	.203	88
153	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	7	70.0%	.220	.261	87
154	Michael Coates	Idaho	7	70.0%	.219	.255	87
155	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	7	70.0%	.208	.182	87
156	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.376	.191	86
157	Erik Eide	Canada	6	60.0%	.360	.246	86
158	Pranav Veluri	Indiana	6	60.0%	.353	.236	86
159	Erik Nickels	California	7	70.0%	.216	.196	86
160	Jason Laabs	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.210	.159	86
161	Matt Rossitch	Georgia	8	80.0%	.079	.091	86
162	Daniel Chung	California	6	60.0%	.366	.211	85
163	Jack Rousseau	California	6	60.0%	.359	.307	85
164	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.197	.196	85
165	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	6	60.0%	.353	.241	84
166	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.345	.299	84
167	Delano Barnes	Texas	7	70.0%	.181	.151	84
168	Henry Blyth	Ohio	6	60.0%	.332	.300	83
169	JinAh Kim	Virginia	6	60.0%	.320	.220	83
170	Adam Escandell	Texas	6	60.0%	.319	.292	83
171	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.316	.292	83
172	John Petrovich	Indiana	7	70.0%	.174	.153	83
173	Kelly Rabin	Washington	7	70.0%	.164	.175	82
174	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.150	.213	82
175	Lars Melton	Virginia	6	60.0%	.302	.269	81
176	David Edwards	Illinois	6	60.0%	.300	.265	81
177	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	6	60.0%	.290	.245	81
178	Ozzie Fallick	California	6	60.0%	.289	.224	80
179	Ryan Hemmel	California	6	60.0%	.286	.166	80
180	Dawson Owens	Ohio	7	70.0%	.134	.137	80
181	Will Howells	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.126	.123	79
182	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	6	60.0%	.261	.191	78
183	Hidehiro Anto	California	6	60.0%	.246	.242	77
184	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.105	.143	77
185	Molly Risley	Tennessee	6	60.0%	.222	.258	76
186	Liam Buck	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.232	.182	75
187	Matt Coleman	Washington	5	50.0%	.412	.261	74
188	Eric Li	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.404	.288	74
189	Daniel Ogburn	Virginia	5	50.0%	.385	.227	74
190	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.226	.307	74
191	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	6	60.0%	.221	.157	74
192	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.217	.244	74
193	Michael Shang	Maryland	6	60.0%	.217	.184	74
194	Henry Cafaro	Illinois	6	60.0%	.215	.240	74
195	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	5	50.0%	.391	.299	73
196	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.390	.259	73
197	Erica Nordstrom	Illinois	6	60.0%	.211	.224	73
198	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	6	60.0%	.203	.131	73
199	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.192	.248	73
200	Gail Celio	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.368	.253	72
201	Greg Garbee	Florida	6	60.0%	.197	.144	72
202	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	6	60.0%	.193	.165	72
203	John Riss	Illinois	6	60.0%	.174	.255	72
204	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	6	60.0%	.181	.255	71
205	Chauncey Lo	California	6	60.0%	.176	.129	71
206	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	5	50.0%	.351	.244	70
207	Kai Tang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.175	.161	70
208	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.166	.220	70
209	Nora Denning	Ohio	6	60.0%	.165	.144	70
210	Christopher Parsons	Washington	5	50.0%	.316	.268	69
211	Shauna McNally	Canada	6	60.0%	.145	.159	69
212	Christopher Harris	Texas	6	60.0%	.141	.138	69
213	Jill Heink	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.325	.231	68
214	Christian Wilson	New York	5	50.0%	.310	.214	68
215	Nate Kane	Arizona	5	50.0%	.315	.206	67
216	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	5	50.0%	.302	.209	67
217	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	5	50.0%	.294	.288	67
218	Russ Hart	New York	5	50.0%	.280	.248	66
219	Randall Eng	New York	5	50.0%	.276	.234	66
220	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.273	.187	66
221	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	5	50.0%	.264	.270	65
222	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	5	50.0%	.256	.204	64
223	Paul Campbell	California	5	50.0%	.253	.163	64
224	Ben Dillon	Indiana	5	50.0%	.234	.147	64
225	Vannieda Sun	Kentucky	4	40.0%	.501	.344	63
226	Brock Stephenson	Canada	4	40.0%	.451	.270	63
227	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	5	50.0%	.241	.158	63
228	Lauren Cusitello	California	5	50.0%	.228	.244	63
229	Peter Donarum	Maryland	6	60.0%	.055	.133	63
230	Ben Stalets	Illinois	5	50.0%	.213	.161	62
231	Garrison Page	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.215	.124	61
232	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	5	50.0%	.177	.163	61
233	Andrey Goder	California	6	60.0%	.042	.048	61
234	George Atendido	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.426	.256	60
235	Mary Foley	Arizona	5	50.0%	.206	.226	60
236	Joe Nutter	Georgia	5	50.0%	.166	.146	60
237	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.165	.205	60
238	Spencer Brown	Virginia	5	50.0%	.184	.207	59
239	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.172	.157	59
240	Christopher Vuong	Louisiana	5	50.0%	.169	.263	59
241	Connor Teevens	Michigan	5	50.0%	.161	.164	59
242	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.384	.291	58
243	Emily Fletcher	Texas	4	40.0%	.376	.224	57
244	Raul Passement	Texas	4	40.0%	.352	.193	57
245	Elise Preston	Illinois	5	50.0%	.142	.124	57
246	Matthew Grieco	New York	5	50.0%	.137	.151	57
247	Zane Placie	Georgia	5	50.0%	.132	.160	57
248	Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	4	40.0%	.347	.329	56
249	Michael Bentley	Washington	4	40.0%	.336	.276	55
250	Brynn Jones	Alabama	4	40.0%	.317	.280	55
251	Ben Smith	Canada	5	50.0%	.137	.166	55
252	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	3	30.0%	.656	.087	54
253	Daniel White	Washington	4	40.0%	.298	.304	54
254	Adam Sapa	Canada	5	50.0%	.106	.217	54
255	Nora Elder	Illinois	5	50.0%	.073	.251	54
256	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	4	40.0%	.278	.289	53
257	Jenna Hull	California	3	30.0%	.599	.255	52
258	Joseph Langas	Texas	4	40.0%	.272	.129	52
259	Danielle Long	Illinois	4	40.0%	.265	.222	52
260	Tony Chen	Canada	4	40.0%	.258	.159	52
261	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	5	50.0%	.063	.073	52
262	Anthony DiCarlo	California	4	40.0%	.267	.351	51
263	Jackson Todd	Georgia	4	40.0%	.231	.276	51
264	James Denning	Ohio	4	40.0%	.189	.159	49
265	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	4	40.0%	.199	.271	48
266	Natalie Schermer	Washington	4	40.0%	.187	.257	48
267	Suwanna Blakey	Florida	4	40.0%	.161	.183	48
268	Michael Joy	Michigan	4	40.0%	.180	.139	47
269	Tyler Berry	Canada	4	40.0%	.169	.125	47
270	Liz Fujita	Michigan	4	40.0%	.144	.159	47
271	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	4	40.0%	.154	.275	46
272	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	4	40.0%	.126	.206	46
273	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	4	40.0%	.146	.314	45
274	Valerie Ogonor	Georgia	4	40.0%	.095	.106	44
275	Holden Nichols	Illinois	4	40.0%	.078	.081	43
276	Abel Gilsing	Europe	3	30.0%	.340	.204	42
277	Joshua Grischow	Ohio	4	40.0%	.060	.073	42
278	Andrew Almas	Canada	4	40.0%	.051	.249	42
279	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	3	30.0%	.335	.353	41
280	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	3	30.0%	.228	.290	38
281	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	2	20.0%	.683	.341	37
282	Dan Ni	New York	3	30.0%	.185	.151	36
283	James Carberry	Louisiana	3	30.0%	.184	.102	36
284	Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	3	30.0%	.163	.148	35
285	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	3	30.0%	.124	.169	33
286	Alexandra Transue	Illinois	3	30.0%	.121	.112	33
287	Curtis Roselle	Illinois	3	30.0%	.109	.135	33
288	Javas Lal	New Jersey	3	30.0%	.106	.050	33
289	Carson Blaney	Illinois	3	30.0%	.105	.091	33
290	David Snoddon	Canada	3	30.0%	.104	.156	33
291	Ben Tuxhorn	Illinois	3	30.0%	.081	.279	33
292	Eleanor Gegen	Illinois	3	30.0%	.089	.212	32
293	Louis Johnson	Alabama	3	30.0%	.047	.238	31
294	Rebecca May	Alabama	3	30.0%	.008	.009	30
295	Jessica Chellino	Florida	2	20.0%	.256	.103	25
296	Arjun Sivakumar	California	2	20.0%	.221	.144	25
297	Sarah Benner	Ohio	2	20.0%	.054	.228	20
298	Susan Corbus	Illinois	2	20.0%	.000	.000	20
299	Amory Kaufman	Minnesota	1	10.0%	.052	.277	10
300	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.013	0

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.

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