2023 Popular Culture Week 17

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.446	.193	154
2	Derek Martz	Illinois	10	100.0%	.443	.224	152
3	Matthew Marcotte	California	10	100.0%	.439	.231	151
4	Jack Rousseau	California	10	100.0%	.425	.253	151
5	Andy Kravis	New York	10	100.0%	.409	.253	149
6	Kari Race	Wisconsin	10	100.0%	.392	.207	146
7	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.389	.210	145
8	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	10	100.0%	.372	.182	143
9	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.361	.160	142
10	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.343	.213	141
11	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.459	.244	140
12	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.351	.267	140
13	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	10	100.0%	.339	.162	140
14	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	10	100.0%	.338	.242	139
15	Tucker Warner	New York	10	100.0%	.327	.201	139
16	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	9	90.0%	.449	.201	138
17	William Marshall	Alabama	9	90.0%	.437	.264	138
18	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.326	.131	138
19	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.452	.250	137
20	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.428	.292	137
21	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	10	100.0%	.339	.239	137
22	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	9	90.0%	.425	.223	136
23	Jared Cubilla	Canada	9	90.0%	.429	.264	135
24	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	10	100.0%	.307	.205	135
25	Lynn Yu	California	9	90.0%	.400	.288	134
26	Zoe Madonna	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.414	.213	133
27	Paolo Pasco	California	9	90.0%	.405	.268	133
28	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.409	.165	132
29	Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	9	90.0%	.395	.117	132
30	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	10	100.0%	.277	.208	132
31	Kyle Kahan	California	9	90.0%	.391	.208	131
32	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	9	90.0%	.375	.269	130
33	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.373	.199	130
34	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	9	90.0%	.373	.227	130
35	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	10	100.0%	.263	.222	130
36	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.370	.202	129
37	Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.362	.201	129
38	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.361	.210	129
39	Jason Palmer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.367	.200	128
40	Dan Puma	Illinois	9	90.0%	.352	.170	128
41	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	9	90.0%	.362	.166	127
42	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	10	100.0%	.239	.295	127
43	Michael Turner	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.344	.278	126
44	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.332	.169	126
45	Craig Moysey	Canada	9	90.0%	.344	.185	125
46	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	9	90.0%	.339	.251	125
47	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.327	.277	125
48	Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.462	.278	124
49	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.332	.206	124
50	Lee Henry	Alabama	9	90.0%	.331	.214	124
51	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.331	.180	124
52	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.327	.215	124
53	Evan Nagler	New York	9	90.0%	.323	.230	124
54	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	8	80.0%	.444	.252	122
55	Radu Popescu	Canada	9	90.0%	.320	.261	122
56	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	9	90.0%	.305	.264	122
57	David Kiang	Illinois	9	90.0%	.304	.191	122
58	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.299	.235	122
59	Max Smiley	California	9	90.0%	.298	.220	122
60	William Neiswanger	Washington	9	90.0%	.304	.217	121
61	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.301	.250	121
62	Daniel Jude	California	9	90.0%	.299	.245	121
63	James Dowd	Hawaii	9	90.0%	.297	.148	121
64	Lauren Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.288	.250	121
65	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.298	.230	120
66	Nate Kane	Arizona	9	90.0%	.292	.193	120
67	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.403	.199	119
68	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	8	80.0%	.402	.295	119
69	Tim Crockett	Washington	8	80.0%	.400	.295	119
70	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	8	80.0%	.407	.199	118
71	Devon Edwards	New York	8	80.0%	.402	.283	118
72	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	9	90.0%	.286	.200	118
73	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.271	.190	118
74	Kevin Lei	Canada	8	80.0%	.399	.264	117
75	Akosua Asante	Canada	9	90.0%	.271	.149	117
76	Paul Campbell	California	9	90.0%	.268	.202	117
77	Andy Brown	Illinois	9	90.0%	.267	.235	117
78	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.387	.205	116
79	William Travis	Texas	8	80.0%	.386	.228	116
80	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	9	90.0%	.255	.194	116
81	John Kocsis	Virginia	9	90.0%	.253	.153	116
82	Jenna Hull	California	9	90.0%	.251	.153	116
83	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	10	100.0%	.153	.146	116
84	Andrew Dupont	California	9	90.0%	.260	.167	115
85	Jesse Tow	Illinois	8	80.0%	.368	.282	114
86	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	8	80.0%	.361	.196	114
87	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.243	.150	114
88	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.243	.203	114
89	Erik Christensen	Canada	8	80.0%	.349	.209	113
90	John Riss	Illinois	9	90.0%	.247	.183	113
91	Dan Passner	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.209	.257	113
92	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	9	90.0%	.226	.192	112
93	Jason Lai	New York	10	100.0%	.104	.121	112
94	Jeff Frank	Indiana	7	70.0%	.471	.241	111
95	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	8	80.0%	.346	.244	111
96	Candy Murphy	Virginia	8	80.0%	.340	.217	111
97	Jason Serrano	New York	8	80.0%	.338	.186	111
98	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	9	90.0%	.205	.174	111
99	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.196	.243	111
100	JinAh Kim	Virginia	8	80.0%	.324	.228	110
101	Nathan Finn	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.323	.250	110
102	Mike Myers	California	9	90.0%	.194	.152	110
103	Gail Celio	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.306	.296	109
104	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.301	.203	109
105	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	8	80.0%	.303	.165	108
106	Harry White	Virginia	8	80.0%	.301	.237	108
107	Josh Walker	Ohio	8	80.0%	.301	.232	108
108	Michael Kettler	Ohio	8	80.0%	.297	.210	108
109	Shauna McNally	Canada	8	80.0%	.293	.259	108
110	Tom Minard	Canada	9	90.0%	.202	.115	108
111	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	9	90.0%	.184	.148	108
112	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	10	100.0%	.071	.124	108
113	Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.445	.197	107
114	Matt Coleman	Washington	8	80.0%	.309	.246	107
115	Erik Nickels	California	8	80.0%	.305	.180	107
116	Adam Escandell	Texas	8	80.0%	.288	.210	107
117	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	7	70.0%	.419	.336	106
118	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	7	70.0%	.413	.243	106
119	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.278	.205	106
120	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	9	90.0%	.160	.185	106
121	Erik Eide	Canada	8	80.0%	.287	.176	105
122	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	8	80.0%	.278	.189	105
123	Hidehiro Anto	California	8	80.0%	.273	.271	105
124	Greg Peterson	Illinois	8	80.0%	.266	.239	105
125	Anthony DiCarlo	California	7	70.0%	.405	.284	104
126	Jack Brounstein	Texas	7	70.0%	.404	.195	104
127	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	8	80.0%	.274	.159	104
128	Lauren Cusitello	California	8	80.0%	.265	.183	104
129	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	9	90.0%	.142	.152	104
130	Henry Blyth	Ohio	7	70.0%	.421	.266	103
131	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.396	.118	103
132	Owen Cooper	Alabama	8	80.0%	.258	.150	103
133	Christian Wilson	New York	8	80.0%	.251	.234	103
134	Michael Coates	Idaho	8	80.0%	.247	.216	103
135	Daniel Chung	California	8	80.0%	.260	.162	102
136	Adam Sapa	Canada	8	80.0%	.236	.226	102
137	Chris Hale	Virginia	7	70.0%	.376	.231	101
138	Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	7	70.0%	.366	.257	100
139	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.365	.215	100
140	Lars Melton	Virginia	8	80.0%	.225	.161	100
141	Mary Foley	Arizona	8	80.0%	.222	.194	100
142	Chris Becker	Maryland	8	80.0%	.216	.170	100
143	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	7	70.0%	.356	.289	99
144	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.354	.256	99
145	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	7	70.0%	.347	.147	99
146	Matthew Askins	Arizona	7	70.0%	.344	.261	99
147	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.211	.190	99
148	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.347	.192	98
149	Stephen Liu	California	8	80.0%	.211	.159	98
150	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.210	.172	98
151	Daniel White	Washington	9	90.0%	.087	.112	98
152	Ryan Manton	Ohio	7	70.0%	.341	.268	97
153	Matt Smania	Michigan	7	70.0%	.338	.214	97
154	Nate Muckley	Illinois	7	70.0%	.329	.239	97
155	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.328	.243	97
156	James Carberry	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.197	.151	97
157	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.317	.296	96
158	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	7	70.0%	.312	.214	96
159	Tyler Berry	Canada	8	80.0%	.198	.115	96
160	Patrick Carthy	Europe	8	80.0%	.188	.151	96
161	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	7	70.0%	.318	.253	95
162	Omar Sajjad	California	7	70.0%	.310	.242	95
163	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	7	70.0%	.316	.225	94
164	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	7	70.0%	.303	.224	94
165	James Washick	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.303	.230	93
166	Randall Eng	New York	7	70.0%	.292	.193	93
167	Stephen Ours	Virginia	7	70.0%	.286	.264	93
168	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.283	.158	93
169	Ross Ferguson	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.272	.184	93
170	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	7	70.0%	.276	.230	92
171	Greg Garbee	Florida	7	70.0%	.269	.223	92
172	Josh Hill	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.149	.112	92
173	Cari Milowicki	Ohio	6	60.0%	.443	.286	91
174	Nick Matchen	Illinois	7	70.0%	.278	.163	91
175	David Edwards	Illinois	7	70.0%	.273	.215	91
176	Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	7	70.0%	.273	.213	91
177	Naveed Chowdhury	California	7	70.0%	.264	.219	91
178	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.250	.182	90
179	Reesa Wiggins	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.247	.262	90
180	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.115	.139	90
181	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.253	.132	89
182	Raul Passement	Texas	7	70.0%	.245	.299	89
183	George Atendido	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.231	.242	89
184	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.227	.182	88
185	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	7	70.0%	.219	.216	88
186	Julian Saddy	Canada	6	60.0%	.386	.190	87
187	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	7	70.0%	.219	.198	87
188	Talia Fan	Canada	6	60.0%	.376	.216	86
189	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.367	.237	86
190	Sarah Benner	Ohio	6	60.0%	.368	.216	85
191	Ozzie Fallick	California	7	70.0%	.202	.163	85
192	Matthew Grieco	New York	7	70.0%	.180	.182	85
193	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.179	.207	85
194	Brandon Jones	Alabama	6	60.0%	.339	.239	84
195	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	6	60.0%	.328	.206	84
196	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.187	.134	84
197	Pranav Veluri	Indiana	6	60.0%	.331	.232	83
198	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.324	.248	83
199	Amogh Kulkarni	Illinois	6	60.0%	.317	.324	83
200	Michael Bentley	Washington	6	60.0%	.312	.201	83
201	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.175	.151	83
202	Will Howells	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.320	.201	82
203	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	6	60.0%	.311	.154	82
204	Sean Doyle	Texas	6	60.0%	.310	.196	82
205	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	7	70.0%	.162	.143	82
206	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.157	.146	82
207	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.155	.163	82
208	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	7	70.0%	.153	.192	82
209	Andrew Almas	Canada	7	70.0%	.151	.209	82
210	Ben Smith	Canada	6	60.0%	.312	.229	81
211	Dan Ni	New York	6	60.0%	.297	.226	81
212	Cameron Williams	North Carolina	6	60.0%	.287	.262	80
213	Danielle Long	Illinois	6	60.0%	.282	.244	80
214	Brock Stephenson	Canada	7	70.0%	.143	.154	80
215	Natalie Schermer	Washington	7	70.0%	.134	.158	80
216	Dawson Owens	Ohio	6	60.0%	.270	.126	79
217	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	6	60.0%	.259	.224	79
218	James Kang	California	7	70.0%	.125	.161	79
219	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	6	60.0%	.287	.218	78
220	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	6	60.0%	.245	.320	78
221	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	6	60.0%	.274	.229	77
222	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.245	.188	77
223	Kenny Peskin	Virginia	6	60.0%	.245	.262	77
224	Christopher Parsons	Washington	6	60.0%	.235	.195	77
225	Ryan Rosenberg	California	5	50.0%	.447	.202	76
226	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.231	.240	76
227	Michael Patison	Texas	6	60.0%	.228	.222	76
228	Michael Olson	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.227	.229	76
229	Jack Garrison	Ohio	7	70.0%	.080	.153	76
230	Evan Knox	North Carolina	6	60.0%	.235	.169	75
231	Kane Keller	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.218	.173	75
232	Tommy Segi	Ohio	7	70.0%	.088	.114	75
233	Kai Tang	Illinois	5	50.0%	.403	.260	74
234	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	6	60.0%	.206	.162	74
235	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.202	.220	74
236	John Lance	Colorado	5	50.0%	.409	.315	73
237	Michael Arjona	Georgia	6	60.0%	.194	.144	73
238	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	5	50.0%	.371	.178	72
239	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.370	.192	72
240	Ryan Hemmel	California	6	60.0%	.210	.128	72
241	Matthew Hart	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.052	.072	72
242	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.368	.125	71
243	Michael Shang	Maryland	6	60.0%	.184	.180	71
244	Matthew Hoffer-Hawlik	New York	6	60.0%	.172	.270	71
245	Andrey Goder	California	7	70.0%	.018	.048	71
246	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.366	.298	70
247	Connor Teevens	Michigan	6	60.0%	.163	.172	70
248	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	5	50.0%	.341	.253	69
249	Siddarth Kumar	Indiana	5	50.0%	.305	.183	67
250	Chauncey Lo	California	4	40.0%	.512	.306	64
251	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.241	.180	63
252	John Brock	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.233	.163	63
253	Delano Barnes	Texas	5	50.0%	.196	.216	61
254	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.178	.153	60
255	Nora Denning	Ohio	5	50.0%	.175	.202	60
256	Michael Joy	Michigan	5	50.0%	.163	.140	60
257	Abel Gilsing	Europe	6	60.0%	.019	.024	60
258	Jill Heink	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.167	.130	58
259	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	4	40.0%	.356	.208	57
260	James Denning	Ohio	5	50.0%	.124	.136	57
261	Jessica Chellino	Florida	5	50.0%	.118	.081	55
262	Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.095	.081	54
263	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.084	.074	54
264	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	4	40.0%	.192	.117	48
265	Joe Nutter	Georgia	4	40.0%	.182	.163	48
266	Chris Morin	New York	4	40.0%	.177	.130	47
267	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	4	40.0%	.148	.152	47
268	Daniel Galitsky	District of Columbia	4	40.0%	.144	.162	46
269	Padraig Finan	Washington	4	40.0%	.042	.033	41
270	Emily Fletcher	Texas	3	30.0%	.311	.234	40
271	Louis Johnson	Alabama	3	30.0%	.269	.277	40
272	Madeline Painter	Illinois	3	30.0%	.258	.220	39
273	David Snoddon	Canada	3	30.0%	.213	.116	37
274	Saahir Narang	Texas	3	30.0%	.169	.123	35
275	Jordan Sackmaster	Wisconsin	3	30.0%	.135	.222	34
276	Zane Placie	Georgia	3	30.0%	.067	.181	32
277	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	3	30.0%	.035	.099	31
278	Susan Corbus	Illinois	2	20.0%	.000	.070	20
279	Theodore Young	Kansas	1	10.0%	.267	.094	13

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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