2024 Popular Culture Week 16

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.285	.268	133
2	Matthew McDaniel	California	10	100.0%	.285	.249	133
3	Ryan Milowicki	New York	10	100.0%	.250	.252	130
4	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	10	100.0%	.224	.258	126
5	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.439	.231	122
6	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	8	80.0%	.432	.266	122
7	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.305	.264	121
8	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	9	90.0%	.276	.268	120
9	Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.283	.214	119
10	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.170	.155	119
11	Evan Nagler	New York	8	80.0%	.378	.240	116
12	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.237	.274	115
13	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.132	.169	115
14	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.240	.204	114
15	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Indiana	9	90.0%	.215	.239	111
16	Jack Rousseau	Virginia	9	90.0%	.193	.192	109
17	Stephen Liu	California	8	80.0%	.295	.328	108
18	Erik Eide	Canada	8	80.0%	.291	.227	108
19	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	8	80.0%	.298	.256	107
20	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.288	.295	107
21	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.187	.179	107
22	Jack Brounstein	Texas	8	80.0%	.280	.175	106
23	Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.264	.309	106
24	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.274	.266	105
25	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	7	70.0%	.415	.246	103
26	Tucker Warner	New York	7	70.0%	.397	.225	102
27	Craig Moysey	Canada	7	70.0%	.381	.241	102
28	Scott Latchem	California	8	80.0%	.234	.252	102
29	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	9	90.0%	.128	.172	102
30	Jared Cubilla	Canada	7	70.0%	.381	.365	101
31	Brynn Jones	Illinois	8	80.0%	.252	.254	101
32	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	8	80.0%	.237	.242	101
33	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	7	70.0%	.373	.197	100
34	Tim Crockett	Washington	7	70.0%	.358	.247	100
35	John Presloid	Ohio	8	80.0%	.248	.179	100
36	Nate Meyvis	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.222	.183	100
37	Dan Puma	Illinois	7	70.0%	.365	.240	99
38	Adam Escandell	Texas	7	70.0%	.361	.270	99
39	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.342	.247	99
40	James Dowd	Hawaii	7	70.0%	.334	.345	99
41	Parth Jagtap	Canada	8	80.0%	.223	.281	99
42	Chris Miller	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.339	.247	98
43	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	8	80.0%	.221	.207	98
44	Kendall Plapp	New York	8	80.0%	.204	.288	98
45	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.330	.286	97
46	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	7	70.0%	.316	.201	96
47	Anthony DiCarlo	California	7	70.0%	.315	.271	96
48	Andrew Dupont	California	7	70.0%	.315	.228	96
49	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.196	.283	96
50	Michael Olson	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.177	.254	96
51	Chris Abrams	Nevada	8	80.0%	.166	.151	96
52	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.496	.259	95
53	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.320	.275	95
54	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	8	80.0%	.177	.227	95
55	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.172	.218	95
56	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	8	80.0%	.172	.228	95
57	Lawrence Simon	New York	8	80.0%	.166	.191	94
58	Randall Eng	New York	7	70.0%	.281	.227	93
59	Talia Fan	Canada	6	60.0%	.441	.304	92
60	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.302	.315	92
61	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	8	80.0%	.139	.171	92
62	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.278	.308	91
63	Erik Kreutner	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.273	.182	91
64	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.270	.207	91
65	Adam Suzan	New York	7	70.0%	.266	.260	91
66	Jeff Frank	Indiana	7	70.0%	.266	.276	91
67	Jason Serrano	New York	7	70.0%	.263	.201	91
68	Andy Strange	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.128	.195	91
69	Mike Malloy	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.254	.231	90
70	John Kocsis	Virginia	8	80.0%	.123	.150	90
71	Evan Suttell	Colorado	6	60.0%	.415	.301	89
72	Devon Edwards	New York	7	70.0%	.262	.219	89
73	Michael Arjona	Georgia	7	70.0%	.251	.201	89
74	Matt Takimoto	California	7	70.0%	.246	.219	89
75	Jeff King	Maryland	7	70.0%	.238	.233	89
76	Michael Kettler	Ohio	7	70.0%	.238	.219	89
77	Jenna Hull	California	7	70.0%	.231	.207	89
78	Ryan Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.115	.109	89
79	Tony Colicchio	California	6	60.0%	.379	.335	88
80	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.233	.191	88
81	Meghan Timmel	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.231	.182	88
82	William Neiswanger	Washington	7	70.0%	.210	.248	88
83	Jennifer Trofa	California	7	70.0%	.224	.214	87
84	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	7	70.0%	.221	.271	87
85	Drew Wheeler	Georgia	7	70.0%	.220	.225	87
86	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.201	.254	87
87	David Kiang	Illinois	8	80.0%	.106	.104	87
88	Kari Race	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.383	.236	86
89	Steven Brown	Virginia	7	70.0%	.202	.170	86
90	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.362	.278	85
91	Natalie Schermer	Washington	7	70.0%	.179	.235	85
92	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	8	80.0%	.072	.090	85
93	Nora Denning	Ohio	6	60.0%	.342	.278	84
94	Rick Terpstra	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.335	.221	84
95	Amitrajit Jana	Florida	7	70.0%	.200	.159	84
96	Jason Palmer	Ohio	7	70.0%	.185	.161	84
97	Innis Carson	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.177	.240	84
98	Alex Eaton	Michigan	7	70.0%	.171	.223	84
99	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	7	70.0%	.169	.320	84
100	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	7	70.0%	.163	.289	84
101	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.332	.268	83
102	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	6	60.0%	.315	.335	83
103	Mike Myers	California	7	70.0%	.190	.150	83
104	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.171	.235	83
105	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.171	.136	83
106	Jason Zuffranieri	Texas	6	60.0%	.329	.241	82
107	Daniel White	Oregon	6	60.0%	.317	.286	81
108	Lauren Manton	Ohio	6	60.0%	.310	.172	81
109	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.293	.221	81
110	Maria Kuhn	Colorado	7	70.0%	.158	.152	81
111	Henry Blyth	Ohio	7	70.0%	.153	.259	81
112	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	7	70.0%	.150	.128	81
113	Erik Christensen	Canada	7	70.0%	.146	.165	81
114	Akosua Asante	Canada	7	70.0%	.141	.159	81
115	Andy Arizpe	Texas	6	60.0%	.313	.271	80
116	David Kocik	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.302	.210	80
117	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.294	.377	80
118	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.293	.213	80
119	Connor Teevens	Michigan	6	60.0%	.287	.201	80
120	Max Smiley	California	6	60.0%	.275	.279	79
121	Mazin Omer	Ohio	6	60.0%	.279	.342	78
122	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.275	.210	78
123	Shanine Salmon	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.257	.241	78
124	Jesse Tow	Illinois	6	60.0%	.253	.231	78
125	Matthew Askins	Arizona	6	60.0%	.248	.261	78
126	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	7	70.0%	.123	.157	78
127	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	7	70.0%	.119	.114	78
128	Daniel DeFelippis	Illinois	7	70.0%	.098	.241	78
129	Joseph Langas	Texas	6	60.0%	.255	.194	77
130	Alex Rice	Mississippi	6	60.0%	.250	.258	77
131	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	6	60.0%	.250	.208	77
132	Julian Saddy	Canada	6	60.0%	.241	.206	77
133	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.239	.230	77
134	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.129	.096	77
135	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	7	70.0%	.080	.104	76
136	Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.080	.150	76
137	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.229	.134	75
138	Kyle Kahan	California	6	60.0%	.235	.160	74
139	Alan Kreisel	Florida	6	60.0%	.225	.167	74
140	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	6	60.0%	.223	.192	74
141	Jonathan So	California	6	60.0%	.214	.178	74
142	Daniel Donohue	California	6	60.0%	.212	.262	74
143	Robert Kilner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.075	.083	74
144	Ben Dillon	Indiana	5	50.0%	.413	.256	73
145	Ryan Hemmel	California	5	50.0%	.390	.284	73
146	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.210	.243	73
147	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	6	60.0%	.208	.241	73
148	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.205	.183	73
149	Raul Passement	Texas	6	60.0%	.193	.236	73
150	Andy Brown	Illinois	6	60.0%	.194	.160	72
151	Harry White	Virginia	6	60.0%	.182	.266	72
152	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.170	.184	72
153	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	6	60.0%	.193	.149	71
154	Will Howells	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.180	.124	71
155	Max Woghiren	Canada	6	60.0%	.174	.193	71
156	Michael Patison	Texas	6	60.0%	.171	.276	71
157	Seth Ebner	Maryland	6	60.0%	.168	.261	71
158	Stephen Ours	Virginia	6	60.0%	.168	.160	71
159	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	6	60.0%	.166	.168	71
160	Dan Love	California	6	60.0%	.163	.211	71
161	Nate Muckley	Illinois	6	60.0%	.145	.216	70
162	Swapnil Garg	California	6	60.0%	.144	.207	70
163	Lili Omilian	Michigan	6	60.0%	.136	.190	70
164	Lars Melton	Virginia	5	50.0%	.318	.213	69
165	Richard Appleyard	Europe	6	60.0%	.137	.185	69
166	Michael Coates	Idaho	5	50.0%	.311	.269	68
167	Radu Popescu	Canada	5	50.0%	.301	.237	68
168	Dren Rollins	Tennessee	5	50.0%	.296	.185	68
169	Sarah Benner	Ohio	6	60.0%	.162	.214	68
170	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.153	.138	68
171	Chris Hale	Virginia	5	50.0%	.293	.244	67
172	William Travis	Texas	5	50.0%	.292	.227	67
173	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	5	50.0%	.291	.295	67
174	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.122	.181	67
175	Rahim Dina	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.114	.134	67
176	Michael Shang	Maryland	6	60.0%	.112	.132	67
177	Tony Evans	Illinois	5	50.0%	.286	.222	66
178	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	5	50.0%	.286	.188	66
179	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	5	50.0%	.276	.284	66
180	Ben Kirk	New York	5	50.0%	.274	.222	66
181	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.259	.275	66
182	Hidehiro Anto	California	6	60.0%	.124	.111	66
183	Matt Smania	Michigan	6	60.0%	.102	.114	66
184	Ryan Carr	Indiana	4	40.0%	.512	.283	65
185	Mitchell Rimerman	California	5	50.0%	.279	.236	65
186	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	5	50.0%	.258	.142	65
187	Candy Murphy	Virginia	5	50.0%	.263	.189	64
188	Andrew Semak	Michigan	5	50.0%	.254	.200	64
189	Lee Henry	Alabama	5	50.0%	.246	.243	64
190	Gail Celio	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.242	.221	64
191	Erik Nickels	California	6	60.0%	.093	.220	64
192	Sam Luongo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.058	.110	64
193	Jill Heink	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.253	.150	63
194	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.242	.192	63
195	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	5	50.0%	.229	.154	62
196	Mary Foley	Arizona	5	50.0%	.220	.290	62
197	John Petrovich	Indiana	5	50.0%	.214	.144	62
198	Nate Kane	Arizona	4	40.0%	.439	.278	61
199	Brock Stephenson	Canada	5	50.0%	.213	.181	61
200	Jackson Todd	Georgia	5	50.0%	.213	.290	61
201	Will Singleton	Ohio	5	50.0%	.196	.214	61
202	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	5	50.0%	.177	.347	60
203	Max Clark	Michigan	5	50.0%	.162	.249	60
204	Michael Sands	New York	5	50.0%	.193	.135	59
205	Tony Chen	Canada	5	50.0%	.177	.210	59
206	Sam Davis	Texas	5	50.0%	.173	.223	59
207	Kit Hoffman	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.170	.205	59
208	Felix Stimets	Indiana	5	50.0%	.158	.186	59
209	Juliet Harris	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.164	.200	58
210	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.153	.130	58
211	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	5	50.0%	.151	.212	58
212	Lynn Yu	California	5	50.0%	.142	.181	58
213	Mike Rauscher	New Jersey	5	50.0%	.137	.119	58
214	Paul Wiesler	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.130	.142	58
215	Shauna McNally	Canada	5	50.0%	.124	.120	57
216	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	4	40.0%	.343	.261	56
217	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	5	50.0%	.123	.104	56
218	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	5	50.0%	.116	.261	56
219	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.340	.212	55
220	Eric Glyck	New York	4	40.0%	.336	.187	55
221	Naveed Chowdhury	California	5	50.0%	.119	.105	55
222	Josh Turner	California	5	50.0%	.113	.187	55
223	Caleb Bales	Virginia	5	50.0%	.101	.100	55
224	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	4	40.0%	.307	.233	54
225	Christopher Parsons	Washington	4	40.0%	.306	.255	54
226	Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.070	.180	54
227	Michael Turner	South Carolina	4	40.0%	.282	.250	53
228	Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.068	.096	53
229	Susan Corbus	Illinois	5	50.0%	.049	.078	53
230	Karen Keller	Ohio	4	40.0%	.280	.175	52
231	Matt Coleman	Washington	4	40.0%	.272	.175	52
232	Cailey Hansen-Mahoney	Ohio	5	50.0%	.042	.090	52
233	Liam Buck	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.242	.211	51
234	Jason Lai	New York	5	50.0%	.019	.034	51
235	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	4	40.0%	.217	.120	50
236	Krystle Smith	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.008	.019	50
237	Chauncey Lo	California	4	40.0%	.212	.220	49
238	John Christian Settle	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.201	.113	49
239	Owen Cooper	Alabama	4	40.0%	.201	.312	49
240	Christopher Knapp	Illinois	4	40.0%	.178	.155	48
241	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	4	40.0%	.175	.121	47
242	Jared Michael Taylor	North Carolina	4	40.0%	.151	.141	46
243	David Snoddon	Canada	4	40.0%	.136	.148	46
244	Matthew Grieco	New York	4	40.0%	.116	.253	46
245	John Riss	Illinois	3	30.0%	.426	.256	45
246	James Denning	Ohio	4	40.0%	.113	.165	45
247	Peter Paik	Virginia	4	40.0%	.102	.291	45
248	Kai Tang	Illinois	3	30.0%	.390	.248	44
249	Lexi Terman	New Jersey	4	40.0%	.125	.272	44
250	Michael Joy	Michigan	4	40.0%	.089	.075	44
251	Andrea Cowan	Canada	4	40.0%	.074	.168	43
252	Harrison Knapp	Alabama	3	30.0%	.292	.166	40
253	Marcia Hamley	Oregon	4	40.0%	.000	.000	40
254	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	3	30.0%	.267	.213	39
255	George Atendido	Minnesota	3	30.0%	.255	.173	39
256	Sheldon Wong	California	3	30.0%	.219	.289	38
257	Greg Garbee	Florida	3	30.0%	.215	.254	38
258	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	3	30.0%	.169	.148	35
259	Abel Gilsing	Europe	3	30.0%	.150	.122	35
260	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	3	30.0%	.124	.137	34
261	Tia O'Neil	Florida	2	20.0%	.564	.310	33
262	Ellie Hoblitzell	West Virginia	2	20.0%	.385	.171	29
263	Emily Fletcher	Texas	2	20.0%	.375	.309	29
264	James Carberry	Louisiana	2	20.0%	.371	.173	29
265	Veronica Freund	Indiana	2	20.0%	.360	.235	29
266	Itamar Friedman	Texas	2	20.0%	.360	.318	29
267	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	2	20.0%	.311	.167	27
268	Abigail Dotson	West Virginia	2	20.0%	.269	.150	26
269	Delano Barnes	Texas	2	20.0%	.185	.139	24
270	Nicholas Nguyen	Florida	2	20.0%	.169	.107	24
271	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	2	20.0%	.157	.240	23
272	Chuck Yu	Maryland	2	20.0%	.128	.213	23
273	Katie Noyes	Michigan	2	20.0%	.000	.245	20
274	Melissa Knapp	Illinois	1	10.0%	.094	.138	11
275	Danielle Long	Illinois	1	10.0%	.001	.294	10
276	Minh Le	Florida	1	10.0%	.001	.315	10
277	Liz Fujita	Michigan	1	10.0%	.000	.258	10
278	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.004	0
279	Andrew Neuburger	Washington	0	0.0%	-1.000	.359	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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