2024 Popular Culture Week 1

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	10	100.0%	.428	.191	151
2	Matthew Marcotte	California	10	100.0%	.375	.135	144
3	David Kiang	Illinois	10	100.0%	.332	.160	138
4	Ryan Milowicki	New York	10	100.0%	.325	.162	137
5	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	10	100.0%	.293	.272	134
6	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.288	.195	134
7	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Indiana	10	100.0%	.293	.172	133
8	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.397	.258	131
9	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.281	.124	131
10	Craig Moysey	Canada	10	100.0%	.278	.199	131
11	Dan Puma	Illinois	10	100.0%	.268	.169	131
12	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	10	100.0%	.244	.146	129
13	Chris Miller	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.355	.152	127
14	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.334	.226	126
15	Jeff King	Maryland	10	100.0%	.231	.151	125
16	Evan Nagler	New York	10	100.0%	.215	.154	125
17	Erik Christensen	Canada	9	90.0%	.323	.218	124
18	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.209	.166	124
19	Matthew McDaniel	California	8	80.0%	.467	.201	123
20	Tucker Warner	New York	9	90.0%	.326	.197	123
21	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.315	.140	123
22	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	9	90.0%	.311	.254	121
23	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.307	.177	121
24	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.279	.214	121
25	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.289	.172	120
26	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	9	90.0%	.288	.185	120
27	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.283	.281	120
28	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	9	90.0%	.261	.147	118
29	James Dowd	Hawaii	10	100.0%	.177	.161	118
30	Michael Patison	Texas	10	100.0%	.171	.167	118
31	Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.260	.149	117
32	Drew Wheeler	Georgia	8	80.0%	.376	.262	116
33	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.253	.163	116
34	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	10	100.0%	.145	.169	116
35	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.257	.183	115
36	Robert Kilner	Ohio	10	100.0%	.147	.168	115
37	Jason Palmer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.259	.150	114
38	Kari Race	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.256	.224	114
39	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.247	.214	114
40	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.240	.155	114
41	Parth Jagtap	Canada	8	80.0%	.358	.267	113
42	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	8	80.0%	.356	.231	113
43	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.352	.283	113
44	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	8	80.0%	.352	.196	113
45	Stephen Liu	California	8	80.0%	.350	.165	113
46	Christine Irwin	Canada	9	90.0%	.237	.188	113
47	Ryan Hemmel	California	9	90.0%	.236	.145	113
48	Suhas Pai	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.227	.178	113
49	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.227	.157	113
50	Nate Kane	Arizona	9	90.0%	.222	.169	113
51	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	8	80.0%	.342	.202	111
52	Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.335	.208	111
53	Scott Latchem	California	8	80.0%	.324	.219	111
54	Mazin Omer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.221	.232	111
55	Ryan Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.217	.195	111
56	Jeff Frank	Indiana	8	80.0%	.335	.210	110
57	Jack Rousseau	Virginia	8	80.0%	.330	.171	110
58	Erik Nickels	California	9	90.0%	.216	.156	110
59	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	10	100.0%	.108	.082	110
60	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.302	.215	108
61	William Travis	Texas	9	90.0%	.197	.179	108
62	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	9	90.0%	.192	.151	108
63	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.180	.132	108
64	Kyle Kahan	California	9	90.0%	.185	.152	107
65	Harry White	Virginia	8	80.0%	.284	.168	106
66	Lee Henry	Alabama	9	90.0%	.171	.160	106
67	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	9	90.0%	.170	.139	106
68	Matthew Askins	Arizona	9	90.0%	.166	.166	106
69	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	8	80.0%	.277	.208	105
70	Ben Kirk	New York	8	80.0%	.266	.223	105
71	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.266	.239	105
72	Akosua Asante	Canada	9	90.0%	.159	.098	105
73	Lauren Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.271	.194	104
74	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.263	.166	104
75	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	8	80.0%	.262	.195	104
76	Owen Cooper	Alabama	8	80.0%	.258	.213	104
77	Daniel Donohue	California	8	80.0%	.257	.240	103
78	Andy Strange	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.255	.230	103
79	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.137	.124	103
80	Liam Buck	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.389	.193	102
81	Mike Myers	California	7	70.0%	.383	.256	102
82	Martin Ocon	Georgia	8	80.0%	.259	.172	102
83	Francis Englert	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.256	.179	102
84	Erik Kreutner	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.255	.175	102
85	Matt Coleman	Washington	8	80.0%	.247	.172	102
86	John Kocsis	Virginia	8	80.0%	.247	.219	102
87	Jennifer Trofa	California	8	80.0%	.242	.201	102
88	Candy Murphy	Virginia	10	100.0%	.031	.048	102
89	Michael Olson	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.217	.171	101
90	Tim Crockett	Washington	8	80.0%	.226	.208	100
91	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.222	.210	100
92	Deleena Simon	Michigan	9	90.0%	.117	.128	100
93	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.116	.127	100
94	Naveed Chowdhury	California	9	90.0%	.114	.132	100
95	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	7	70.0%	.345	.230	99
96	Mike Malloy	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.217	.214	99
97	Kent Buxton	Maryland	9	90.0%	.110	.102	99
98	Tony Evans	Illinois	8	80.0%	.216	.179	98
99	Randall Eng	New York	8	80.0%	.211	.191	98
100	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.200	.241	98
101	George Atendido	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.197	.184	98
102	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.203	.178	97
103	Julian Saddy	Canada	8	80.0%	.201	.122	97
104	Andrew Dupont	California	8	80.0%	.199	.197	97
105	Devon Edwards	New York	8	80.0%	.198	.234	97
106	Max Clark	Michigan	8	80.0%	.194	.210	97
107	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	8	80.0%	.186	.229	96
108	Vincenzo Tagle	Asia	8	80.0%	.184	.191	96
109	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	9	90.0%	.064	.093	96
110	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.307	.159	95
111	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.173	.182	95
112	Susannah Brooks	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.165	.160	95
113	Will Johnson	Virginia	8	80.0%	.159	.180	95
114	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.056	.070	95
115	Rick Terpstra	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.304	.195	94
116	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.153	.153	94
117	John Petrovich	Indiana	8	80.0%	.150	.134	94
118	Sarah Benner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.283	.176	93
119	Hidehiro Anto	California	8	80.0%	.167	.249	93
120	John Riss	Illinois	8	80.0%	.165	.225	93
121	Michael Coates	Idaho	8	80.0%	.156	.160	93
122	Jason Lai	New York	9	90.0%	.037	.078	93
123	Lynn Yu	California	7	70.0%	.270	.264	92
124	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	8	80.0%	.160	.110	92
125	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.159	.147	92
126	Christopher Parsons	Washington	8	80.0%	.152	.131	92
127	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.142	.198	92
128	Adam Escandell	Texas	7	70.0%	.270	.179	91
129	Mitchell Rimerman	California	8	80.0%	.133	.144	91
130	Josh Hill	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.120	.169	91
131	Russ Hart	New York	9	90.0%	.028	.047	91
132	Michael Sands	New York	7	70.0%	.275	.163	90
133	Greg Garbee	Florida	7	70.0%	.258	.175	90
134	Michael Joy	Michigan	6	60.0%	.402	.292	89
135	Sam Davis	Texas	8	80.0%	.126	.109	89
136	Gala Kaufman	California	8	80.0%	.118	.137	88
137	Lars Melton	Virginia	7	70.0%	.224	.181	87
138	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.212	.143	87
139	Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.209	.224	87
140	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	7	70.0%	.220	.199	86
141	Greg Peterson	Illinois	7	70.0%	.215	.144	86
142	Jennifer Zhu	Canada	7	70.0%	.204	.207	86
143	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	8	80.0%	.090	.096	86
144	Jenna Hull	California	8	80.0%	.088	.085	86
145	Mike Staley	Georgia	7	70.0%	.202	.140	85
146	Richard Appleyard	Europe	7	70.0%	.177	.205	85
147	Michael Arjona	Georgia	8	80.0%	.081	.079	85
148	Andrew Almas	Canada	8	80.0%	.060	.087	85
149	Jeffrey Fastow	New York	8	80.0%	.056	.129	85
150	Joseph Langas	Texas	7	70.0%	.190	.137	84
151	Jesse Tow	Illinois	7	70.0%	.186	.222	84
152	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	7	70.0%	.162	.223	84
153	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	7	70.0%	.169	.177	83
154	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.073	.188	83
155	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.326	.245	82
156	Erik Eide	Canada	6	60.0%	.315	.168	82
157	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.182	.136	82
158	Colin Mason	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.169	.195	82
159	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	7	70.0%	.165	.127	82
160	Harrison Knapp	Alabama	6	60.0%	.302	.175	81
161	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	7	70.0%	.163	.170	81
162	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.150	.134	81
163	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	8	80.0%	.059	.073	81
164	Nicholas Nguyen	Florida	8	80.0%	.018	.042	81
165	Brynn Jones	Illinois	6	60.0%	.293	.218	80
166	Chauncey Lo	California	7	70.0%	.143	.091	80
167	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.141	.235	80
168	John Christian Settle	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.127	.150	80
169	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.129	.124	79
170	Matt Takimoto	California	7	70.0%	.120	.167	79
171	Eric Glyck	New York	7	70.0%	.119	.129	79
172	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.120	.117	78
173	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	7	70.0%	.117	.225	78
174	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	7	70.0%	.113	.088	78
175	William Neiswanger	Washington	6	60.0%	.249	.208	77
176	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.113	.106	77
177	Talia Fan	Canada	6	60.0%	.224	.281	76
178	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.099	.102	76
179	Karen Keller	Ohio	7	70.0%	.095	.096	76
180	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.093	.088	76
181	Ryan Carr	Indiana	6	60.0%	.231	.168	75
182	Nora Denning	Ohio	6	60.0%	.219	.163	75
183	David Kocik	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.219	.233	75
184	Swapnil Garg	California	7	70.0%	.084	.158	75
185	Sam Luongo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.080	.104	75
186	James Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.077	.085	75
187	Gail Celio	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.208	.150	74
188	David Snoddon	Canada	6	60.0%	.204	.187	74
189	Seth Ebner	Maryland	7	70.0%	.084	.059	74
190	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.214	.157	73
191	Innis Carson	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.202	.192	73
192	Evan Suttell	Colorado	6	60.0%	.198	.250	73
193	Jackson Todd	Georgia	6	60.0%	.196	.202	73
194	Christopher Knapp	Illinois	6	60.0%	.196	.155	73
195	Kit Hoffman	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.195	.150	73
196	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.189	.188	73
197	Mindy Wong	New York	6	60.0%	.179	.230	73
198	Jill Heink	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.065	.055	73
199	Julie McDermitt	Illinois	6	60.0%	.177	.123	72
200	Stephen Ours	Virginia	6	60.0%	.170	.165	72
201	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	6	60.0%	.165	.148	72
202	Max Woghiren	Canada	7	70.0%	.033	.057	72
203	Lexi Terman	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.175	.154	71
204	Noah McRedmond	Ohio	6	60.0%	.158	.133	70
205	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	6	60.0%	.155	.103	70
206	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.147	.230	70
207	Alex Rice	Mississippi	6	60.0%	.143	.149	70
208	Sheldon Wong	California	7	70.0%	.025	.032	70
209	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.327	.239	69
210	Tony Chen	Canada	6	60.0%	.164	.125	69
211	Delano Barnes	Texas	6	60.0%	.154	.156	69
212	Michael Kettler	Ohio	5	50.0%	.300	.241	68
213	Kimberly Brazier	New York	6	60.0%	.140	.138	68
214	Shanine Salmon	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.133	.099	68
215	Arjun Sivakumar	California	6	60.0%	.130	.115	68
216	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.128	.117	68
217	Nate Muckley	Illinois	6	60.0%	.113	.205	67
218	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	5	50.0%	.282	.200	66
219	Connor Teevens	Michigan	6	60.0%	.119	.091	66
220	Christopher Harris	Texas	6	60.0%	.096	.081	66
221	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	5	50.0%	.262	.227	65
222	Meghan Timmel	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.112	.072	65
223	Rudra Ranganathan	Delaware	6	60.0%	.096	.106	65
224	Craig Duke	Vermont	6	60.0%	.085	.086	65
225	Shauna McNally	Canada	6	60.0%	.076	.215	65
226	Liz Fujita	Michigan	6	60.0%	.072	.145	65
227	James Carberry	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.056	.055	63
228	Victoria Huynh	Washington	6	60.0%	.050	.068	63
229	Daniel White	Oregon	6	60.0%	.046	.043	63
230	Chris Hale	Virginia	6	60.0%	.063	.199	62
231	Cailey Hansen-Mahoney	Ohio	6	60.0%	.030	.069	62
232	Roman Madoerin	Texas	5	50.0%	.197	.186	61
233	Tyler Berry	Canada	5	50.0%	.183	.208	61
234	Matthew Grieco	New York	5	50.0%	.209	.192	60
235	Kai Tang	Illinois	5	50.0%	.173	.182	60
236	Kristen Wedel	California	6	60.0%	.013	.024	60
237	Alan Marhic	Georgia	6	60.0%	.005	.161	60
238	Amitrajit Jana	Florida	6	60.0%	.002	.000	60
239	Nate Meyvis	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.186	.134	59
240	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	5	50.0%	.181	.181	59
241	Will Singleton	Ohio	5	50.0%	.171	.161	59
242	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	5	50.0%	.167	.128	59
243	Jared Michael Taylor	North Carolina	5	50.0%	.164	.132	59
244	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.367	.221	57
245	Matt Smania	Michigan	5	50.0%	.151	.120	57
246	Christopher Vuong	Louisiana	5	50.0%	.145	.115	57
247	Katie Chew	New York	5	50.0%	.141	.143	57
248	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.136	.126	57
249	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	5	50.0%	.154	.102	56
250	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	5	50.0%	.116	.096	56
251	Felix Stimets	Indiana	5	50.0%	.115	.137	56
252	Alex Randall	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.104	.115	56
253	Juliet Harris	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.111	.082	55
254	Kelly Rabin	Washington	5	50.0%	.082	.130	54
255	Natalie Schermer	Washington	5	50.0%	.075	.118	54
256	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	5	50.0%	.073	.121	53
257	Daniel DeFelippis	Illinois	5	50.0%	.055	.165	53
258	Andrew Semak	Michigan	4	40.0%	.271	.202	52
259	Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.040	.036	51
260	Sarah Kathirvel	Illinois	5	50.0%	.032	.051	51
261	Rachael Peters	Michigan	5	50.0%	.017	.032	51
262	Danielle Long	Illinois	5	50.0%	.000	.067	50
263	Dan Love	California	5	50.0%	.000	.000	50
264	Parth Vadia	Illinois	3	30.0%	.518	.356	48
265	Owen Newell	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.176	.138	48
266	Michael Shang	Maryland	4	40.0%	.174	.117	47
267	James E. Lasker	Texas	4	40.0%	.105	.137	44
268	Jacob Blaney	Florida	4	40.0%	.085	.111	43
269	Tia O'Neil	Florida	4	40.0%	.077	.125	43
270	Rebecca May	Alabama	4	40.0%	.046	.073	42
271	Emily Fletcher	Texas	4	40.0%	.065	.089	41
272	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.041	.038	41
273	Andrea Cowan	Canada	4	40.0%	.025	.277	41
274	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	4	40.0%	.026	.023	40
275	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	4	40.0%	.000	.000	40
276	Padraig Finan	Washington	3	30.0%	.228	.205	38
277	Sivesh Dodda	Illinois	3	30.0%	.177	.157	35
278	Jude Griffith	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.122	.293	33
279	Minh Le	Florida	3	30.0%	.088	.130	33
280	Zach Dill	Michigan	3	30.0%	.082	.081	33
281	Joshua Grischow	Ohio	2	33.3%	.484	.320	31
282	Susan Corbus	Illinois	3	30.0%	.041	.039	31
283	Ellie Hoblitzell	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.003	.012	30
284	Katelyn Hentschel	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.000	.005	30
285	Mary Foley	Arizona	2	20.0%	.045	.097	21
286	Veronica Freund	Indiana	2	20.0%	.000	.132	20
287	Melissa Knapp	Illinois	2	20.0%	.000	.047	20
288	Abigail Dotson	West Virginia	1	10.0%	.204	.144	12
289	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	1	10.0%	.000	.297	10
290	Debarghya Das	Illinois	0	0.0%	-1.000	.109	0
291	Douglas Mason	Massachusetts	0	0.0%	-1.000	-1.000	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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