2024 Popular Culture Week 5

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Francis Englert	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.438	.209	151
2	Matthew McDaniel	California	10	100.0%	.427	.328	149
3	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.400	.201	148
4	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.391	.286	146
5	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.390	.258	146
6	Jack Rousseau	Virginia	9	90.0%	.479	.288	143
7	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	10	100.0%	.364	.241	142
8	John Presloid	Ohio	10	100.0%	.356	.231	142
9	Matthew Marcotte	California	10	100.0%	.347	.287	141
10	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.341	.246	141
11	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	9	90.0%	.466	.255	140
12	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.360	.217	140
13	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	10	100.0%	.349	.259	140
14	David Kiang	Illinois	10	100.0%	.334	.221	139
15	Jack Brounstein	Texas	10	100.0%	.336	.146	138
16	Jennifer Trofa	California	10	100.0%	.333	.139	138
17	Michael Turner	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.423	.247	134
18	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	10	100.0%	.280	.208	134
19	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.299	.187	133
20	Erik Eide	Canada	10	100.0%	.284	.285	133
21	Craig Moysey	Canada	9	90.0%	.380	.209	130
22	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.375	.229	130
23	Ryan Milowicki	New York	9	90.0%	.373	.238	130
24	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	10	100.0%	.261	.184	130
25	Rick Terpstra	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.375	.316	129
26	Andy Strange	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.260	.212	129
27	Mazin Omer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.368	.215	128
28	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	9	90.0%	.364	.150	128
29	Kyle Kahan	California	9	90.0%	.354	.231	128
30	Deleena Simon	Michigan	10	100.0%	.250	.249	128
31	Steven Brown	Virginia	10	100.0%	.247	.129	128
32	Radu Popescu	Canada	9	90.0%	.359	.312	127
33	Akosua Asante	Canada	9	90.0%	.354	.236	127
34	Evan Nagler	New York	10	100.0%	.244	.137	127
35	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.226	.221	127
36	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.351	.182	126
37	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.345	.247	125
38	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.335	.238	125
39	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	8	80.0%	.473	.243	124
40	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.467	.269	124
41	Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.332	.232	124
42	James Dowd	Hawaii	9	90.0%	.321	.243	124
43	Nate Muckley	Illinois	9	90.0%	.304	.225	124
44	Kent Buxton	Maryland	10	100.0%	.213	.165	124
45	Dan Puma	Illinois	9	90.0%	.336	.285	123
46	Lauren Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.329	.187	123
47	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	9	90.0%	.322	.200	123
48	Nora Denning	Ohio	9	90.0%	.302	.345	123
49	Martin Ocon	Georgia	9	90.0%	.315	.173	122
50	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	9	90.0%	.304	.270	122
51	Tim Crockett	Washington	9	90.0%	.303	.148	121
52	Devon Edwards	New York	9	90.0%	.300	.289	121
53	Ryan Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.297	.201	121
54	Naveed Chowdhury	California	10	100.0%	.198	.114	121
55	Mike Malloy	Minnesota	10	100.0%	.186	.170	121
56	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.291	.217	120
57	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	9	90.0%	.286	.175	120
58	Ryan Carr	Indiana	10	100.0%	.196	.153	120
59	Lee Henry	Alabama	8	80.0%	.410	.225	119
60	John Riss	Illinois	9	90.0%	.274	.249	119
61	Henry Blyth	Ohio	9	90.0%	.273	.232	119
62	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.269	.242	119
63	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.275	.196	118
64	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.266	.177	118
65	Joseph Langas	Texas	8	80.0%	.377	.213	117
66	Mike Myers	California	9	90.0%	.277	.236	117
67	Michael Olson	Minnesota	9	90.0%	.265	.191	117
68	Tucker Warner	New York	8	80.0%	.393	.284	116
69	Evan Suttell	Colorado	9	90.0%	.250	.175	116
70	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	10	100.0%	.143	.154	116
71	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.247	.164	115
72	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.246	.196	115
73	Candy Murphy	Virginia	8	80.0%	.371	.254	114
74	Nate Kane	Arizona	9	90.0%	.252	.199	114
75	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	9	90.0%	.246	.226	114
76	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.240	.224	114
77	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	8	80.0%	.357	.226	113
78	Stephen Ours	Virginia	8	80.0%	.342	.267	113
79	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	8	80.0%	.337	.269	112
80	David Kocik	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.329	.252	112
81	Stephen Liu	California	9	90.0%	.218	.157	112
82	Andrew Dupont	California	9	90.0%	.215	.098	112
83	Jason Palmer	Ohio	8	80.0%	.341	.199	111
84	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Indiana	8	80.0%	.339	.200	111
85	Adam Escandell	Texas	8	80.0%	.325	.193	111
86	Matt Coleman	Washington	8	80.0%	.320	.229	111
87	Suhas Pai	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.319	.260	111
88	Daniel White	Oregon	9	90.0%	.208	.147	111
89	Jeff King	Maryland	9	90.0%	.197	.144	111
90	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.476	.294	110
91	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.324	.204	110
92	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.323	.234	110
93	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.200	.161	110
94	Rachael Peters	Michigan	9	90.0%	.193	.160	110
95	Clifford Galiher	California	8	80.0%	.330	.260	109
96	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.327	.158	109
97	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	8	80.0%	.305	.223	108
98	Greg Garbee	Florida	8	80.0%	.301	.201	108
99	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.298	.274	108
100	Jesse Tow	Illinois	9	90.0%	.178	.143	108
101	Owen Cooper	Alabama	7	70.0%	.435	.242	106
102	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	8	80.0%	.279	.172	106
103	Tony Chen	Canada	9	90.0%	.161	.162	106
104	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	8	80.0%	.282	.175	105
105	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.280	.156	105
106	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	8	80.0%	.272	.251	105
107	Jason Hess	Texas	8	80.0%	.275	.104	104
108	Randall Eng	New York	8	80.0%	.255	.162	104
109	Erik Kreutner	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.391	.198	103
110	Erik Nickels	California	8	80.0%	.256	.170	103
111	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	8	80.0%	.251	.157	103
112	Erik Christensen	Canada	8	80.0%	.243	.151	103
113	Daniel Donohue	California	7	70.0%	.384	.255	102
114	Julian Saddy	Canada	7	70.0%	.383	.242	102
115	Matt Takimoto	California	8	80.0%	.249	.156	102
116	Jill Heink	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.248	.171	102
117	Ryan Hemmel	California	8	80.0%	.244	.154	102
118	Christopher Harris	Texas	8	80.0%	.244	.182	102
119	Chauncey Lo	California	8	80.0%	.232	.149	102
120	Tony Colicchio	California	8	80.0%	.231	.196	102
121	William Neiswanger	Washington	8	80.0%	.225	.245	102
122	Kari Race	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.387	.325	101
123	Victoria Huynh	Washington	7	70.0%	.369	.276	101
124	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	8	80.0%	.246	.157	101
125	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.242	.155	101
126	Michael Patison	Texas	8	80.0%	.232	.193	101
127	Brynn Jones	Illinois	8	80.0%	.226	.158	101
128	Jeff Frank	Indiana	7	70.0%	.372	.233	100
129	Noah McRedmond	Ohio	7	70.0%	.365	.285	100
130	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.240	.205	100
131	Chris Hale	Virginia	8	80.0%	.233	.167	100
132	Andrew Almas	Canada	8	80.0%	.228	.190	100
133	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.227	.217	100
134	Shanine Salmon	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.128	.120	100
135	Sarah Benner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.355	.193	99
136	Max Smiley	California	7	70.0%	.348	.241	99
137	John Kocsis	Virginia	8	80.0%	.221	.172	99
138	Michael Bentley	Washington	8	80.0%	.217	.217	99
139	Meghan Timmel	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.217	.237	99
140	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	8	80.0%	.214	.159	99
141	Mike Rauscher	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.205	.191	99
142	Hidehiro Anto	California	9	90.0%	.093	.105	99
143	Drew Wheeler	Georgia	7	70.0%	.341	.278	98
144	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.340	.218	98
145	Dan Love	California	8	80.0%	.222	.172	98
146	Alex Rice	Mississippi	8	80.0%	.217	.194	98
147	Nick Matchen	Illinois	8	80.0%	.217	.140	98
148	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.209	.164	98
149	Delano Barnes	Texas	8	80.0%	.204	.213	98
150	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	7	70.0%	.330	.252	97
151	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	8	80.0%	.189	.143	97
152	Andy Brown	Illinois	8	80.0%	.180	.186	97
153	Ben Dillon	Indiana	7	70.0%	.331	.245	96
154	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.303	.308	96
155	Tyler Berry	Canada	8	80.0%	.192	.161	96
156	Karen Keller	Ohio	8	80.0%	.190	.181	96
157	Harrison Knapp	Alabama	6	60.0%	.483	.285	95
158	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.313	.192	95
159	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	7	70.0%	.308	.240	95
160	Arjun Sivakumar	California	8	80.0%	.182	.172	95
161	Lynn Yu	California	8	80.0%	.169	.145	95
162	Kimberly Brazier	New York	6	60.0%	.469	.293	94
163	John Petrovich	Indiana	7	70.0%	.302	.223	94
164	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.170	.133	94
165	Bryan Householder	Ohio	8	80.0%	.158	.161	94
166	Sam Davis	Texas	7	70.0%	.296	.248	93
167	Danielle Long	Illinois	7	70.0%	.292	.221	93
168	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	7	70.0%	.285	.190	93
169	Matthew Askins	Arizona	7	70.0%	.273	.189	93
170	Chuck Yu	Maryland	8	80.0%	.172	.140	93
171	Russ Hart	New York	8	80.0%	.144	.185	93
172	Michael Kettler	Ohio	6	60.0%	.456	.279	92
173	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	7	70.0%	.280	.235	92
174	Matt Smania	Michigan	7	70.0%	.273	.226	92
175	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.268	.228	92
176	Christopher Parsons	Washington	8	80.0%	.136	.113	91
177	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.136	.117	91
178	Kelly Rabin	Washington	7	70.0%	.274	.240	90
179	Lars Melton	Virginia	7	70.0%	.262	.273	90
180	Michael Joy	Michigan	7	70.0%	.258	.279	90
181	Gala Kaufman	California	7	70.0%	.252	.193	90
182	Peter Paik	Virginia	7	70.0%	.246	.177	90
183	Max Woghiren	Canada	7	70.0%	.237	.235	90
184	George Atendido	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.114	.124	90
185	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.249	.238	89
186	Harry White	Virginia	7	70.0%	.247	.228	89
187	Ben Kirk	New York	7	70.0%	.247	.184	89
188	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.116	.105	89
189	James Denning	Ohio	8	80.0%	.116	.126	89
190	Tony Evans	Illinois	7	70.0%	.248	.208	88
191	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.230	.170	88
192	Will Singleton	Ohio	7	70.0%	.220	.244	88
193	Jared Michael Taylor	North Carolina	6	60.0%	.370	.283	87
194	Richard Appleyard	Europe	7	70.0%	.231	.159	87
195	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	7	70.0%	.219	.131	87
196	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.216	.248	87
197	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.207	.144	87
198	Jason Lai	New York	8	80.0%	.078	.122	87
199	Jason Zuffranieri	Texas	7	70.0%	.218	.226	86
200	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.208	.127	86
201	Seth Ebner	Maryland	7	70.0%	.205	.186	86
202	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.200	.199	86
203	James Carberry	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.200	.159	86
204	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	6	60.0%	.361	.217	85
205	Lexi Terman	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.359	.224	85
206	Mitchell Rimerman	California	6	60.0%	.344	.250	85
207	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	7	70.0%	.193	.188	85
208	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	8	80.0%	.065	.122	85
209	Michael Sands	New York	7	70.0%	.200	.172	84
210	Talia Fan	Canada	7	70.0%	.193	.160	84
211	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.177	.168	84
212	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.189	.156	83
213	Innis Carson	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.178	.162	83
214	Eric Glyck	New York	7	70.0%	.173	.121	83
215	Connor Teevens	Michigan	7	70.0%	.159	.281	83
216	Amitrajit Jana	Florida	8	80.0%	.041	.086	83
217	William Travis	Texas	6	60.0%	.309	.264	82
218	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	6	60.0%	.302	.234	81
219	Liam Buck	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.301	.269	81
220	Cailey Hansen-Mahoney	Ohio	6	60.0%	.282	.276	81
221	Nate Meyvis	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.158	.159	81
222	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.155	.162	81
223	Natalie Schermer	Washington	7	70.0%	.153	.132	81
224	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.285	.266	80
225	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.127	.135	80
226	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	6	60.0%	.272	.241	79
227	Michael Shang	Maryland	6	60.0%	.272	.234	79
228	Will Howells	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.149	.139	79
229	Swapnil Garg	California	7	70.0%	.131	.115	79
230	Raul Passement	Texas	6	60.0%	.270	.220	78
231	Christopher Vuong	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.259	.169	78
232	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	7	70.0%	.126	.115	78
233	Jenna Hull	California	7	70.0%	.120	.127	78
234	Michael Coates	Idaho	7	70.0%	.116	.121	78
235	Kristen Wedel	California	7	70.0%	.113	.128	78
236	Christopher Knapp	Illinois	7	70.0%	.105	.134	78
237	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.458	.306	77
238	Kai Tang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.262	.162	77
239	Daniel DeFelippis	Illinois	6	60.0%	.253	.165	77
240	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	6	60.0%	.245	.181	77
241	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	6	60.0%	.244	.207	77
242	John Christian Settle	West Virginia	6	60.0%	.267	.286	76
243	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.254	.157	76
244	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.244	.145	76
245	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.234	.194	75
246	Juliet Harris	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.221	.149	75
247	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.218	.202	75
248	Craig Duke	Vermont	6	60.0%	.205	.157	74
249	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.200	.137	74
250	Sheldon Wong	California	7	70.0%	.058	.095	74
251	Felix Stimets	Indiana	6	60.0%	.185	.321	73
252	David Pedraza	Texas	6	60.0%	.169	.205	71
253	Sam Luongo	Virginia	5	50.0%	.315	.252	69
254	Shauna McNally	Canada	6	60.0%	.133	.138	69
255	Mary Foley	Arizona	6	60.0%	.132	.141	68
256	Andrew Semak	Michigan	5	50.0%	.297	.267	67
257	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	6	60.0%	.119	.121	67
258	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.111	.093	67
259	Andrea Cowan	Canada	6	60.0%	.101	.089	66
260	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	6	60.0%	.097	.129	66
261	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	5	50.0%	.281	.181	65
262	Lili Omilian	Michigan	5	50.0%	.236	.262	65
263	Kit Hoffman	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.078	.100	65
264	Liz Fujita	Michigan	6	60.0%	.074	.080	64
265	Josh Turner	California	5	50.0%	.237	.146	62
266	Veronica Freund	Indiana	5	50.0%	.209	.146	62
267	Abigail Dotson	West Virginia	6	60.0%	.026	.058	62
268	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	5	50.0%	.217	.222	61
269	David Snoddon	Canada	5	50.0%	.162	.177	59
270	Jackson Todd	Georgia	5	50.0%	.144	.122	58
271	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.130	.124	56
272	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	5	50.0%	.124	.082	55
273	Emily Fletcher	Texas	5	50.0%	.101	.101	55
274	Itamar Friedman	Texas	5	50.0%	.097	.120	55
275	Rodney Bolling	Florida	5	50.0%	.093	.092	54
276	Melissa Knapp	Illinois	5	50.0%	.045	.039	51
277	Owen Newell	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.225	.207	50
278	Katie Noyes	Michigan	4	40.0%	.203	.150	49
279	Jude Griffith	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.153	.099	46
280	Ellie Hoblitzell	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.121	.088	45
281	Susan Corbus	Illinois	4	40.0%	.115	.097	45
282	Padraig Finan	Washington	4	40.0%	.013	.019	40
283	Katelyn Hentschel	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.087	.080	32
284	Krystle Smith	Pennsylvania	3	30.0%	.023	.030	30
285	Zach Dill	Michigan	2	20.0%	.239	.103	25
286	Amy Donaldson Arnold	West Virginia	2	20.0%	.000	.000	20
287	Matthew Grieco	New York	1	33.3%	.350	.202	14
288	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.005	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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