2024 Popular Culture Week 17

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Matthew Marcotte	California	10	100.0%	.485	.252	158
2	Jared Cubilla	Canada	9	90.0%	.520	.339	147
3	Steven Brown	Virginia	10	100.0%	.370	.255	144
4	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.348	.267	140
5	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.345	.223	140
6	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	9	90.0%	.465	.265	139
7	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	9	90.0%	.435	.276	137
8	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.423	.313	137
9	Susannah Brooks	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.435	.295	136
10	Kyle Kahan	California	9	90.0%	.424	.263	136
11	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	9	90.0%	.421	.260	136
12	Ryan Milowicki	New York	9	90.0%	.413	.321	136
13	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.301	.239	136
14	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.421	.265	135
15	Matthew McDaniel	California	9	90.0%	.408	.329	135
16	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.309	.197	135
17	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.307	.204	135
18	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.409	.292	133
19	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.292	.224	133
20	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.402	.176	132
21	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.399	.300	132
22	James Dowd	Hawaii	9	90.0%	.385	.287	132
23	Jeff King	Maryland	10	100.0%	.276	.230	132
24	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.383	.272	130
25	Paolo Pasco	California	9	90.0%	.366	.247	129
26	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	9	90.0%	.365	.263	128
27	Dan Puma	Illinois	10	100.0%	.237	.217	128
28	Andy Strange	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.230	.305	128
29	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	10	100.0%	.237	.215	126
30	Henry Blyth	Ohio	9	90.0%	.326	.303	125
31	Evan Nagler	New York	9	90.0%	.312	.280	124
32	Adam Escandell	Texas	8	80.0%	.449	.256	123
33	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.311	.184	123
34	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.323	.198	122
35	Jack Rousseau	Virginia	9	90.0%	.319	.208	122
36	Jason Palmer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.315	.245	122
37	William Travis	Texas	8	80.0%	.437	.248	121
38	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.433	.262	121
39	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	8	80.0%	.416	.259	121
40	Lauren Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.313	.216	121
41	Tucker Warner	New York	9	90.0%	.301	.212	121
42	Jeff Frank	Indiana	9	90.0%	.299	.216	121
43	Drew Wheeler	Georgia	9	90.0%	.288	.247	120
44	David Kiang	Illinois	9	90.0%	.286	.239	120
45	John Petrovich	Indiana	9	90.0%	.281	.244	120
46	Max Smiley	California	9	90.0%	.287	.209	119
47	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.281	.199	119
48	Mazin Omer	Ohio	8	80.0%	.418	.255	118
49	Matthew Askins	Arizona	8	80.0%	.393	.270	118
50	Erik Kreutner	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.276	.173	118
51	Julian Saddy	Canada	9	90.0%	.272	.240	117
52	John Kocsis	Virginia	9	90.0%	.269	.255	117
53	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	9	90.0%	.268	.229	117
54	Craig Moysey	Canada	9	90.0%	.265	.226	117
55	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	9	90.0%	.249	.228	117
56	Randall Eng	New York	9	90.0%	.249	.277	116
57	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.160	.172	116
58	Lee Henry	Alabama	8	80.0%	.379	.194	115
59	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.256	.236	115
60	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	9	90.0%	.241	.228	115
61	Michael Patison	Texas	9	90.0%	.241	.194	115
62	Kelly Rabin	Washington	9	90.0%	.236	.280	115
63	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.363	.285	114
64	Liam Buck	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.357	.214	114
65	Talia Fan	Canada	8	80.0%	.354	.272	114
66	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	9	90.0%	.227	.250	114
67	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.348	.286	113
68	Stephen Liu	California	9	90.0%	.228	.223	113
69	Jason Hess	Texas	9	90.0%	.220	.175	113
70	Rahim Dina	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.341	.261	112
71	Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.324	.217	112
72	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	9	90.0%	.229	.177	112
73	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.218	.162	112
74	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	8	80.0%	.327	.240	111
75	Adam Suzan	New York	8	80.0%	.321	.216	111
76	Naveed Chowdhury	California	9	90.0%	.213	.169	111
77	Erik Nickels	California	9	90.0%	.207	.148	111
78	Ryan Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.205	.219	111
79	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	8	80.0%	.311	.192	110
80	Paul Wiesler	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.321	.227	109
81	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	9	90.0%	.191	.237	109
82	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	8	80.0%	.303	.280	108
83	Evan Suttell	Colorado	8	80.0%	.303	.273	108
84	Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.299	.288	108
85	John Riss	Illinois	8	80.0%	.290	.347	108
86	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	7	70.0%	.462	.275	107
87	Jill Heink	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.304	.220	107
88	Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.294	.219	107
89	David Kocik	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.279	.261	107
90	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.296	.155	106
91	Michael Turner	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.289	.232	106
92	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.274	.246	106
93	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	8	80.0%	.267	.347	106
94	William Neiswanger	Washington	9	90.0%	.158	.190	106
95	Suhas Pai	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.274	.169	105
96	Matt Takimoto	California	8	80.0%	.272	.201	105
97	Lynn Yu	California	8	80.0%	.268	.318	105
98	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	9	90.0%	.141	.139	105
99	Hans von Walter	California	7	70.0%	.406	.302	104
100	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	8	80.0%	.260	.270	104
101	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.260	.189	104
102	Rick Terpstra	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.251	.266	104
103	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	7	70.0%	.413	.216	103
104	Mike Myers	California	7	70.0%	.388	.267	103
105	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.256	.170	103
106	Felix Stimets	Indiana	9	90.0%	.122	.214	103
107	Tim Crockett	Washington	8	80.0%	.248	.156	102
108	Erik Eide	Canada	8	80.0%	.248	.253	102
109	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	8	80.0%	.244	.169	102
110	Jared Michael Taylor	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.233	.202	102
111	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	9	90.0%	.124	.151	102
112	Erik Christensen	Canada	7	70.0%	.377	.228	101
113	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.363	.304	101
114	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	8	80.0%	.244	.206	101
115	Mike Rauscher	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.240	.237	101
116	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.224	.175	101
117	Alex Rice	Mississippi	9	90.0%	.128	.138	101
118	Cailey Hansen-Mahoney	Ohio	9	90.0%	.110	.162	101
119	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	7	70.0%	.360	.230	100
120	Mitchell Rimerman	California	7	70.0%	.357	.317	100
121	Ryan Hemmel	California	8	80.0%	.244	.173	100
122	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.216	.190	100
123	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Indiana	8	80.0%	.213	.174	100
124	Brynn Jones	Illinois	7	70.0%	.358	.221	99
125	Jenna Hull	California	8	80.0%	.207	.170	99
126	Matthew Grieco	New York	8	80.0%	.203	.210	99
127	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.092	.152	99
128	John Presloid	Ohio	7	70.0%	.361	.235	98
129	Jonathan So	California	8	80.0%	.205	.142	98
130	Alex Eaton	Michigan	8	80.0%	.202	.166	98
131	Greg Garbee	Florida	8	80.0%	.199	.162	98
132	Miranda Castro	Texas	9	90.0%	.092	.130	98
133	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.341	.205	97
134	Matt Coleman	Washington	7	70.0%	.339	.207	97
135	Kari Race	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.335	.252	97
136	Seth Ebner	Maryland	8	80.0%	.216	.156	97
137	Tony Evans	Illinois	8	80.0%	.210	.175	97
138	Will Singleton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.193	.222	97
139	Caleb Bales	Virginia	8	80.0%	.190	.200	97
140	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.187	.166	97
141	Shauna McNally	Canada	9	90.0%	.080	.110	97
142	Devon Edwards	New York	7	70.0%	.321	.243	96
143	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.308	.245	96
144	Chris Abrams	Nevada	7	70.0%	.320	.192	95
145	Ben Kirk	New York	7	70.0%	.311	.303	95
146	Max Clark	Michigan	7	70.0%	.309	.228	95
147	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.300	.234	95
148	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	8	80.0%	.173	.186	95
149	Karen Keller	Ohio	8	80.0%	.155	.203	95
150	Ryan Carr	Indiana	7	70.0%	.298	.248	94
151	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.295	.153	94
152	Nora Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.280	.294	93
153	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	7	70.0%	.274	.250	93
154	Swapnil Garg	California	8	80.0%	.151	.169	93
155	Owen Cooper	Alabama	7	70.0%	.295	.280	92
156	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.285	.196	92
157	Isak Jatoi	Illinois	7	70.0%	.283	.249	92
158	Francis Englert	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.277	.224	92
159	Jason Zuffranieri	Texas	7	70.0%	.276	.178	92
160	Sam Luongo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.266	.274	92
161	Meghan Timmel	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.154	.182	92
162	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	9	90.0%	.031	.065	92
163	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.255	.227	91
164	Jason Lai	New York	8	80.0%	.135	.143	91
165	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.423	.312	90
166	Michael Olson	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.271	.203	90
167	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.259	.244	90
168	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	7	70.0%	.247	.253	90
169	Nate Muckley	Illinois	7	70.0%	.235	.215	90
170	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.419	.241	89
171	Sam Davis	Texas	7	70.0%	.236	.203	89
172	Andy Arizpe	Texas	7	70.0%	.236	.205	89
173	Andy Brown	Illinois	7	70.0%	.235	.144	89
174	Dren Rollins	Tennessee	6	60.0%	.385	.245	88
175	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	7	70.0%	.234	.197	88
176	Lars Melton	Virginia	7	70.0%	.229	.199	87
177	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.229	.204	87
178	Joseph Langas	Texas	7	70.0%	.219	.236	87
179	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.218	.247	87
180	Natalie Schermer	Washington	7	70.0%	.206	.159	87
181	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.199	.231	87
182	Christopher Parsons	Washington	7	70.0%	.211	.188	86
183	Matt Smania	Michigan	7	70.0%	.210	.242	86
184	Michael Coates	Idaho	7	70.0%	.204	.244	86
185	Michael Shang	Maryland	7	70.0%	.203	.267	86
186	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.351	.275	85
187	Raul Passement	Texas	6	60.0%	.346	.296	85
188	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	7	70.0%	.201	.154	85
189	Juliet Harris	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.195	.193	85
190	Nate Meyvis	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.070	.112	85
191	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.352	.246	84
192	Josh Turner	California	6	60.0%	.339	.212	84
193	Shanine Salmon	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.161	.152	84
194	Maria Kuhn	Colorado	6	60.0%	.337	.300	83
195	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.176	.161	83
196	Mike Malloy	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.322	.272	82
197	Michael Kettler	Ohio	6	60.0%	.322	.230	82
198	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.319	.251	82
199	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	6	60.0%	.299	.274	82
200	Nick Matchen	Illinois	7	70.0%	.160	.134	82
201	Mary Foley	Arizona	7	70.0%	.154	.138	81
202	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.286	.282	80
203	Eric Glyck	New York	6	60.0%	.273	.214	79
204	Hidehiro Anto	California	6	60.0%	.264	.213	79
205	Chuck Yu	Maryland	7	70.0%	.125	.141	79
206	Amitrajit Jana	Florida	7	70.0%	.112	.182	79
207	James Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.110	.110	79
208	Alan Kreisel	Florida	6	60.0%	.283	.169	78
209	Michael Bentley	Washington	6	60.0%	.281	.166	78
210	Gail Celio	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.267	.207	78
211	Delano Barnes	Texas	7	70.0%	.124	.170	78
212	Harrison Knapp	Alabama	7	70.0%	.114	.115	78
213	Andrew Dupont	California	6	60.0%	.259	.199	77
214	Lili Omilian	Michigan	6	60.0%	.242	.252	77
215	Chris Hale	Virginia	6	60.0%	.234	.233	76
216	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	6	60.0%	.239	.248	75
217	Anthony DiCarlo	California	6	60.0%	.220	.292	75
218	Richard Appleyard	Europe	6	60.0%	.212	.219	75
219	George Atendido	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.229	.194	74
220	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.226	.152	74
221	Connor Teevens	Michigan	6	60.0%	.208	.198	73
222	Michael Joy	Michigan	6	60.0%	.200	.161	73
223	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	6	60.0%	.199	.123	72
224	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.188	.101	72
225	Lawrence Simon	New York	5	50.0%	.341	.306	70
226	Michael Arjona	Georgia	5	50.0%	.335	.246	70
227	Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.326	.293	70
228	Nate Kane	Arizona	6	60.0%	.172	.164	70
229	Jennifer Trofa	California	6	60.0%	.161	.139	69
230	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.138	.155	69
231	Tyler Berry	Canada	6	60.0%	.136	.134	68
232	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	5	50.0%	.301	.207	67
233	Michael Sands	New York	5	50.0%	.288	.170	66
234	Candy Murphy	Virginia	5	50.0%	.283	.207	66
235	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.103	.174	66
236	Andrea Cowan	Canada	5	50.0%	.267	.181	65
237	Sheldon Wong	California	6	60.0%	.093	.148	65
238	Stephen Ours	Virginia	5	50.0%	.269	.164	64
239	Chauncey Lo	California	5	50.0%	.261	.170	64
240	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	5	50.0%	.252	.264	64
241	Liz Fujita	Michigan	6	60.0%	.056	.112	64
242	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	6	60.0%	.053	.112	64
243	Sarah Benner	Ohio	5	50.0%	.243	.219	62
244	Brock Stephenson	Canada	5	50.0%	.209	.111	62
245	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	5	50.0%	.195	.142	60
246	Daniel DeFelippis	Illinois	5	50.0%	.175	.174	60
247	Emily Fletcher	Texas	4	40.0%	.377	.187	58
248	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.137	.123	57
249	James Carberry	Louisiana	5	50.0%	.134	.126	57
250	Innis Carson	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.122	.113	56
251	Kai Tang	Illinois	5	50.0%	.114	.154	55
252	Christopher Knapp	Illinois	5	50.0%	.089	.073	55
253	Will Howells	United Kingdom	4	40.0%	.316	.167	54
254	Jackson Todd	Georgia	4	40.0%	.302	.246	54
255	Russ Hart	New York	4	40.0%	.297	.203	54
256	Ellie Hoblitzell	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.296	.241	53
257	Abigail Dotson	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.263	.262	53
258	Daniel White	Oregon	5	50.0%	.072	.086	53
259	Dan Love	California	5	50.0%	.069	.081	53
260	Nicholas Nguyen	Florida	4	40.0%	.277	.208	52
261	Peter Paik	Virginia	4	40.0%	.236	.291	51
262	Tia O'Neil	Florida	5	50.0%	.030	.042	51
263	Katie Noyes	Michigan	4	40.0%	.209	.165	49
264	Andrew Semak	Michigan	4	40.0%	.182	.201	49
265	Max Woghiren	Canada	4	40.0%	.179	.229	49
266	Veronica Freund	Indiana	4	40.0%	.213	.138	48
267	Melissa Knapp	Illinois	4	40.0%	.164	.101	46
268	Harry White	Virginia	4	40.0%	.140	.120	46
269	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	4	40.0%	.088	.097	44
270	John Christian Settle	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.259	.138	39
271	Jay Hutchinson	New Jersey	3	30.0%	.203	.208	37
272	David Snoddon	Canada	3	30.0%	.181	.234	36
273	Ben Dillon	Indiana	3	30.0%	.176	.184	35
274	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	3	30.0%	.151	.107	35
275	Marcia Hamley	Oregon	3	30.0%	.000	.000	30
276	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	2	20.0%	.247	.240	25
277	Bryan Householder	Ohio	2	20.0%	.225	.115	25
278	Susan Corbus	Illinois	2	20.0%	.000	.075	20
279	Minh Le	Florida	1	25.0%	.001	.000	10
280	Abel Gilsing	Europe	1	100.0%	.000	-1.000	10
281	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.004	0
282	Itamar Friedman	Texas	0	0.0%	-1.000	.330	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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