2023 Popular Culture Week 45

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Matthew Marcotte	California	10	100.0%	.411	.266	149
2	Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	10	100.0%	.394	.272	147
3	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	10	100.0%	.391	.268	144
4	Derek Martz	Illinois	10	100.0%	.372	.253	144
5	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	10	100.0%	.370	.252	144
6	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.365	.220	143
7	Greg Peterson	Illinois	10	100.0%	.354	.288	142
8	Paul Campbell	California	10	100.0%	.368	.288	140
9	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	10	100.0%	.319	.269	140
10	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.441	.264	137
11	William Marshall	Alabama	10	100.0%	.318	.231	137
12	Nate Muckley	Illinois	10	100.0%	.312	.258	136
13	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.297	.252	135
14	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.419	.258	133
15	Andy Kravis	New York	9	90.0%	.410	.244	133
16	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.395	.213	131
17	Mark Morris	Alabama	10	100.0%	.265	.278	131
18	Andrew Dupont	California	9	90.0%	.395	.200	130
19	Jason Hess	Texas	9	90.0%	.386	.267	129
20	Dan Puma	Illinois	9	90.0%	.379	.237	129
21	Craig Moysey	Canada	9	90.0%	.374	.206	129
22	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.373	.277	128
23	Adam Escandell	Texas	9	90.0%	.346	.219	127
24	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.337	.204	126
25	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.349	.258	125
26	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	9	90.0%	.343	.310	125
27	James Dowd	Hawaii	9	90.0%	.335	.290	125
28	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.330	.259	124
29	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.219	.220	124
30	Ryan Manton	Ohio	10	100.0%	.215	.249	124
31	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.330	.270	123
32	John Riss	Illinois	9	90.0%	.318	.247	123
33	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.316	.251	123
34	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	9	90.0%	.313	.290	123
35	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	10	100.0%	.215	.302	123
36	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	10	100.0%	.195	.187	123
37	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.323	.227	122
38	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	9	90.0%	.317	.199	122
39	Tim Crockett	Washington	9	90.0%	.315	.189	122
40	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	9	90.0%	.309	.265	122
41	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.421	.311	121
42	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.303	.274	121
43	Jeff Frank	Indiana	9	90.0%	.299	.256	121
44	Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	7	70.0%	.603	.322	120
45	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.431	.271	120
46	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	8	80.0%	.398	.309	120
47	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	10	100.0%	.188	.208	120
48	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	9	90.0%	.279	.257	119
49	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.275	.255	119
50	Jack Rousseau	California	8	80.0%	.407	.260	118
51	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	8	80.0%	.403	.241	118
52	Joseph Langas	Texas	9	90.0%	.268	.223	118
53	Randall Eng	New York	9	90.0%	.264	.254	118
54	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.261	.268	118
55	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	10	100.0%	.165	.214	118
56	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.391	.219	117
57	Jesse Tow	Illinois	9	90.0%	.258	.251	117
58	Kyle Kahan	California	9	90.0%	.254	.199	117
59	Julian Saddy	Canada	9	90.0%	.259	.219	116
60	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	9	90.0%	.253	.196	116
61	Mike Myers	California	9	90.0%	.247	.217	116
62	Kari Race	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.380	.305	115
63	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.375	.308	115
64	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	7	70.0%	.513	.168	114
65	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.372	.216	114
66	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	8	80.0%	.358	.305	114
67	Ryan Hemmel	California	9	90.0%	.250	.217	114
68	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.249	.279	114
69	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.246	.251	114
70	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	9	90.0%	.239	.297	114
71	Mark McDonald	Illinois	8	80.0%	.358	.221	113
72	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.352	.235	113
73	Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.345	.233	113
74	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.333	.248	113
75	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	9	90.0%	.234	.181	113
76	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.227	.201	113
77	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.224	.187	113
78	Lauren Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.354	.281	112
79	Anthony DiCarlo	California	8	80.0%	.351	.233	112
80	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.337	.268	112
81	Tyler Berry	Canada	8	80.0%	.332	.264	112
82	Chris Becker	Maryland	9	90.0%	.217	.210	112
83	Deleena Simon	Michigan	9	90.0%	.210	.180	112
84	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	8	80.0%	.332	.289	111
85	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	9	90.0%	.217	.227	111
86	Patrick Carthy	Europe	8	80.0%	.345	.254	110
87	Kane Keller	Louisiana	10	100.0%	.106	.112	110
88	Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.324	.270	109
89	William Neiswanger	Washington	8	80.0%	.324	.320	109
90	Omar Sajjad	California	8	80.0%	.319	.295	109
91	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.312	.258	109
92	Nora Denning	Ohio	8	80.0%	.304	.293	109
93	Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.205	.208	109
94	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.192	.223	109
95	Christine Irwin	Canada	8	80.0%	.317	.237	108
96	Kendall Plapp	New York	8	80.0%	.316	.278	108
97	Dan Passner	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.307	.223	108
98	Brynn Jones	Alabama	8	80.0%	.305	.265	108
99	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.302	.208	108
100	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.299	.283	108
101	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	8	80.0%	.291	.302	107
102	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	7	70.0%	.440	.284	106
103	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	8	80.0%	.296	.222	106
104	Michael Bentley	Washington	8	80.0%	.274	.273	106
105	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	9	90.0%	.168	.209	106
106	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	7	70.0%	.419	.271	105
107	Andrew Almas	Canada	8	80.0%	.262	.294	105
108	Candy Murphy	Virginia	9	90.0%	.165	.167	105
109	Matthew Askins	Arizona	9	90.0%	.147	.196	105
110	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	7	70.0%	.419	.299	104
111	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.272	.180	104
112	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.265	.186	104
113	Erik Nickels	California	8	80.0%	.262	.222	104
114	John Kocsis	Virginia	8	80.0%	.262	.224	103
115	Adam Sapa	Canada	8	80.0%	.248	.203	103
116	Arjun Sivakumar	California	8	80.0%	.237	.238	103
117	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	8	80.0%	.270	.236	102
118	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	8	80.0%	.268	.291	102
119	Sean Doyle	Texas	8	80.0%	.245	.129	102
120	Jenna Hull	California	8	80.0%	.241	.205	102
121	Rachael Peters	Michigan	9	90.0%	.120	.204	102
122	Henry Blyth	Ohio	7	70.0%	.379	.281	101
123	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.368	.340	101
124	Ben Smith	Canada	8	80.0%	.234	.245	101
125	Michael Patison	Texas	8	80.0%	.231	.242	101
126	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.229	.185	101
127	Tucker Warner	New York	7	70.0%	.371	.275	100
128	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	7	70.0%	.367	.291	100
129	Erik Christensen	Canada	7	70.0%	.366	.295	100
130	David Kiang	Illinois	7	70.0%	.357	.234	100
131	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	7	70.0%	.352	.281	100
132	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.222	.246	100
133	Evan Knox	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.218	.236	100
134	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.213	.232	100
135	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	9	90.0%	.109	.134	100
136	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	7	70.0%	.358	.302	99
137	Tom Minard	Canada	7	70.0%	.347	.297	99
138	Gail Celio	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.222	.199	99
139	Michael Olson	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.218	.274	99
140	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.348	.266	98
141	Daniel Jude	California	8	80.0%	.221	.266	98
142	Matt Smania	Michigan	8	80.0%	.207	.170	98
143	Jill Heink	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.200	.209	98
144	Erik Eide	Canada	7	70.0%	.337	.246	97
145	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	7	70.0%	.329	.237	97
146	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.322	.312	97
147	Devon Edwards	New York	7	70.0%	.322	.303	97
148	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.198	.183	97
149	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.191	.186	97
150	Daniel Ogburn	Virginia	8	80.0%	.186	.185	96
151	James Denning	Ohio	9	90.0%	.060	.116	96
152	Robert Kilner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.330	.211	95
153	Chris Hale	Virginia	7	70.0%	.317	.285	95
154	William Travis	Texas	7	70.0%	.310	.257	95
155	David Edwards	Illinois	7	70.0%	.308	.260	95
156	Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.307	.221	95
157	Owen Cooper	Alabama	6	60.0%	.493	.290	94
158	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.286	.262	94
159	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	8	80.0%	.155	.171	94
160	Shauna McNally	Canada	8	80.0%	.147	.185	94
161	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.300	.238	93
162	Lars Melton	Virginia	7	70.0%	.293	.246	93
163	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	7	70.0%	.278	.342	93
164	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.259	.209	93
165	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.293	.320	92
166	Suwanna Blakey	Florida	7	70.0%	.268	.242	91
167	Harry White	Virginia	6	60.0%	.438	.330	90
168	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.254	.228	90
169	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	8	80.0%	.106	.225	90
170	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.406	.261	89
171	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.256	.239	89
172	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.236	.260	89
173	Andrey Goder	California	8	80.0%	.117	.149	89
174	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	8	80.0%	.116	.175	88
175	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.236	.237	87
176	Andy Rossitch	Georgia	7	70.0%	.220	.208	87
177	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.214	.172	86
178	Michael Turner	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.372	.317	85
179	Michael Arjona	Georgia	7	70.0%	.200	.206	85
180	Christian Wilson	New York	7	70.0%	.199	.175	85
181	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.348	.263	84
182	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.188	.233	84
183	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	5	50.0%	.539	.158	83
184	Stephen Ours	Virginia	6	60.0%	.337	.285	83
185	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	6	60.0%	.329	.293	83
186	James Washick	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.327	.236	83
187	Jack Garrison	Ohio	7	70.0%	.202	.257	83
188	Matt Coleman	Washington	7	70.0%	.198	.220	83
189	Henry Cafaro	Illinois	7	70.0%	.189	.221	83
190	Greg Garbee	Florida	7	70.0%	.187	.163	83
191	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	7	70.0%	.181	.189	83
192	Jason Laabs	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.162	.204	83
193	Michael Coates	Idaho	6	60.0%	.308	.308	82
194	Daniel White	Washington	7	70.0%	.178	.154	82
195	Michael Joy	Michigan	7	70.0%	.161	.165	82
196	Matt Rossitch	Georgia	8	80.0%	.044	.049	82
197	Nate Kane	Arizona	6	60.0%	.317	.204	81
198	Suna Tabag	Illinois	6	60.0%	.297	.234	80
199	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	6	60.0%	.297	.197	80
200	Garrison Page	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.158	.190	80
201	Lynn Yu	California	7	70.0%	.122	.194	80
202	Tony Chen	Canada	6	60.0%	.288	.241	79
203	Chauncey Lo	California	7	70.0%	.148	.238	79
204	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	7	70.0%	.131	.151	79
205	Will Howells	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.275	.243	78
206	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	6	60.0%	.263	.223	78
207	JinAh Kim	Virginia	6	60.0%	.261	.297	78
208	James Carberry	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.257	.348	78
209	Zane Placie	Georgia	7	70.0%	.121	.155	78
210	Jackson Todd	Georgia	6	60.0%	.242	.308	76
211	James E. Lasker	Texas	6	60.0%	.242	.224	76
212	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	6	60.0%	.227	.281	76
213	Talia Fan	Canada	5	50.0%	.414	.293	75
214	Michael Shang	Maryland	6	60.0%	.227	.245	75
215	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	7	70.0%	.094	.162	75
216	Sarah Benner	Ohio	6	60.0%	.232	.195	74
217	Kelly Rabin	Washington	6	60.0%	.225	.278	74
218	Ben Dillon	Indiana	6	60.0%	.221	.217	74
219	John Petrovich	Indiana	6	60.0%	.219	.157	74
220	Natalie Schermer	Washington	6	60.0%	.218	.202	74
221	Emily Fletcher	Texas	6	60.0%	.214	.234	74
222	Liam Buck	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.213	.267	74
223	Jason Palmer	Ohio	6	60.0%	.212	.200	74
224	Connor Teevens	Michigan	6	60.0%	.206	.206	74
225	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.393	.215	73
226	Cari Milowicki	Ohio	5	50.0%	.390	.282	73
227	Tommy Segi	Ohio	6	60.0%	.215	.173	73
228	Christopher Parsons	Washington	6	60.0%	.210	.151	72
229	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.184	.272	72
230	Molly Risley	Tennessee	6	60.0%	.174	.153	72
231	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.050	.086	72
232	Chuck Yu	Maryland	5	50.0%	.376	.226	71
233	Hidehiro Anto	California	5	50.0%	.366	.266	71
234	Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	5	50.0%	.359	.256	71
235	Lee Henry	Alabama	6	60.0%	.185	.186	71
236	Kenny Peskin	Virginia	6	60.0%	.173	.163	71
237	Dawson Owens	Ohio	6	60.0%	.172	.178	71
238	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	5	50.0%	.346	.210	70
239	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	6	60.0%	.178	.170	70
240	Daniel Chung	California	6	60.0%	.168	.150	70
241	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.338	.289	69
242	Naveed Chowdhury	California	5	50.0%	.307	.258	69
243	Parth Jagtap	Canada	5	50.0%	.299	.251	68
244	Abel Gilsing	Europe	6	60.0%	.150	.223	68
245	Shao-Yun Guo	Illinois	6	60.0%	.137	.156	68
246	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	6	60.0%	.131	.133	68
247	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.280	.252	66
248	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	6	60.0%	.113	.085	66
249	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	6	60.0%	.107	.127	66
250	Christopher Harris	Texas	5	50.0%	.275	.225	65
251	Jason Lai	New York	6	60.0%	.086	.086	65
252	Danielle Long	Illinois	5	50.0%	.211	.249	63
253	Joe Nutter	Georgia	6	60.0%	.084	.092	63
254	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.071	.076	63
255	Mary Foley	Arizona	4	40.0%	.469	.274	62
256	Ben Tuxhorn	Illinois	5	50.0%	.202	.217	62
257	Sinecio Morales	Maryland	6	60.0%	.072	.039	62
258	Carolyn Dow	Illinois	6	60.0%	.039	.073	62
259	Stephen Liu	California	5	50.0%	.221	.192	61
260	Raul Passement	Texas	5	50.0%	.205	.137	61
261	Susan Corbus	Illinois	6	60.0%	.042	.049	61
262	Liz Fujita	Michigan	4	40.0%	.407	.298	60
263	Max Perrin	Illinois	5	50.0%	.173	.353	60
264	Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.171	.217	60
265	George Atendido	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.174	.121	59
266	Dan Ni	New York	5	50.0%	.155	.185	59
267	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	5	50.0%	.158	.125	58
268	Michael Kettler	Ohio	5	50.0%	.157	.180	58
269	Delano Barnes	Texas	5	50.0%	.084	.071	54
270	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.083	.096	54
271	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.285	.319	53
272	Kevin Lei	Canada	4	40.0%	.280	.277	52
273	Brock Stephenson	Canada	4	40.0%	.274	.148	52
274	Carson Blaney	Illinois	5	50.0%	.063	.218	52
275	Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.039	.060	52
276	Kai Tang	Illinois	4	40.0%	.235	.256	51
277	Christopher Vuong	Louisiana	5	50.0%	.036	.029	50
278	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	4	40.0%	.126	.173	46
279	Curtis Roselle	Illinois	4	40.0%	.105	.207	44
280	David Snoddon	Canada	3	30.0%	.317	.373	42
281	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.045	.290	40
282	Rebecca May	Alabama	4	40.0%	.000	.000	40
283	Lemuel Chan	Illinois	4	40.0%	.000	.046	40
284	Peter Donarum	Maryland	4	40.0%	.000	.000	40
285	Nora Elder	Illinois	3	30.0%	.184	.170	35
286	Valerie Ogonor	Georgia	3	30.0%	.160	.129	35
287	Erica Nordstrom	Illinois	3	30.0%	.152	.133	35
288	Alexandra Transue	Illinois	3	30.0%	.077	.092	33
289	Louis Johnson	Alabama	3	30.0%	.016	.028	30
290	Elise Preston	Illinois	3	30.0%	.001	.000	30
291	Vannieda Sun	Kentucky	2	20.0%	.069	.098	21
292	Luke Gribbins	Illinois	2	20.0%	.000	.103	20
293	Ben Stalets	Illinois	2	20.0%	.000	.150	20
294	Cashton Krippel	Illinois	1	10.0%	.490	.342	16
295	Holden Nichols	Illinois	1	10.0%	.070	.031	10
296	Soren Transue	Illinois	1	10.0%	.018	.173	10
297	Rikiya Cheaves	Florida	1	50.0%	.001	-1.000	10
298	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.019	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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