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2023 Popular Culture Week 39

Standings

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#	Awards	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1		Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.397	.193	148
2		Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	9	90.0%	.499	.264	143
3		Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.480	.223	142
4		McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	9	90.0%	.422	.212	134
5		Chris Miller	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.393	.180	133
6		Randall Eng	New York	8	80.0%	.535	.259	132
7		Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.401	.258	131
8		Tucker Warner	New York	9	90.0%	.386	.187	130
9		Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.384	.186	129
10		Andy Kravis	New York	9	90.0%	.380	.198	129
11		Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.365	.190	129
12		Cari Milowicki	Ohio	10	100.0%	.257	.209	129
13		Kari Race	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.485	.263	128
14		Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.361	.238	128
15		Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.240	.164	127
16		Myron Meyer	South Dakota	9	90.0%	.340	.204	126
17		Jack Rousseau	California	9	90.0%	.326	.218	126
18		Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	9	90.0%	.348	.237	125
19		Will Swygart	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.330	.172	125
20		Devon Edwards	New York	8	80.0%	.443	.241	124
21		Jared Cubilla	Canada	9	90.0%	.332	.259	124
22		Theo Howe	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.328	.135	124
23		Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.319	.206	124
24		Craig Moysey	Canada	8	80.0%	.459	.228	123
25		Derek Martz	Illinois	8	80.0%	.447	.185	123
26		Steven Brown	Virginia	8	80.0%	.445	.331	123
27		Jason Hess	Texas	9	90.0%	.316	.190	123
28		Drew Scheeler	Ohio	8	80.0%	.440	.188	122
29		James Washick	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.317	.209	122
30		Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	8	80.0%	.426	.240	121
31		Evan Nagler	New York	9	90.0%	.303	.138	121
32		Jeff Frank	Indiana	9	90.0%	.291	.213	121
33		Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.287	.174	119
34		William Travis	Texas	9	90.0%	.281	.169	119
35		Jason Serrano	New York	8	80.0%	.408	.249	118
36		Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	8	80.0%	.396	.236	118
37		Andrew Dupont	California	8	80.0%	.395	.153	118
38		Lauren Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.285	.221	118
39		Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.279	.183	118
40		Harry White	Virginia	9	90.0%	.272	.206	118
41		Jack Wolverton	Missouri	8	80.0%	.407	.226	117
42		John Riss	Illinois	8	80.0%	.396	.251	117
43		Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	8	80.0%	.394	.260	117
44		Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.279	.134	117
45		Adam Sapa	Canada	9	90.0%	.266	.219	117
46		Jesse Tow	Illinois	9	90.0%	.260	.196	117
47		Christine Irwin	Canada	9	90.0%	.244	.246	116
48		Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.538	.229	115
49		Henry Cafaro	Illinois	8	80.0%	.378	.237	115
50		Finn Bender	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.373	.311	115
51		Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.257	.152	115
52		Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.374	.209	114
53		Michael Patison	Texas	8	80.0%	.352	.212	114
54		Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.245	.233	114
55		Kevin Lei	Canada	9	90.0%	.235	.175	114
56		Matthew Askins	Arizona	9	90.0%	.219	.178	113
57		Nate Muckley	Illinois	8	80.0%	.337	.216	112
58		Mike Myers	California	8	80.0%	.342	.204	111
59		Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	8	80.0%	.342	.173	111
60		Alex Dzurick	Missouri	9	90.0%	.211	.181	111
61		Matthew Grieco	New York	8	80.0%	.320	.216	110
62		Chris Becker	Maryland	8	80.0%	.319	.262	109
63		Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	7	70.0%	.447	.129	108
64		Shannon Jamison	Virginia	8	80.0%	.324	.203	108
65		Erik Christensen	Canada	9	90.0%	.188	.173	108
66		Jason Palmer	Ohio	7	70.0%	.449	.267	107
67		Erik Nickels	California	7	70.0%	.429	.305	107
68		Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	7	70.0%	.439	.193	106
69		Kyle Kahan	California	8	80.0%	.301	.215	106
70		Connor Teevens	Michigan	8	80.0%	.288	.249	106
71		Eric Douglass	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.285	.174	106
72		Erik Eide	Canada	7	70.0%	.420	.218	105
73		Adam Escandell	Texas	7	70.0%	.420	.225	104
74		Ryan Luptak	Illinois	8	80.0%	.284	.261	104
75		Tim Crockett	Washington	8	80.0%	.271	.192	104
76		Darrell Johnson	Arizona	8	80.0%	.269	.217	104
77		Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	8	80.0%	.265	.238	104
78		Bobb X. Ha	Texas	7	70.0%	.408	.176	103
79		Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.401	.212	103
80		Joseph Langas	Texas	7	70.0%	.400	.273	103
81		Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.399	.259	103
82		Sarah Benner	Ohio	8	80.0%	.258	.215	103
83		Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.244	.195	103
84		James Dowd	Hawaii	7	70.0%	.386	.257	102
85		David Kiang	Illinois	8	80.0%	.252	.177	102
86		Daniel Chung	California	8	80.0%	.250	.186	102
87		Naveed Chowdhury	California	8	80.0%	.232	.198	101
88		William Marshall	Alabama	7	70.0%	.350	.327	100
89		Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.236	.175	100
90		Michael Coates	Idaho	8	80.0%	.229	.222	100
91		Matthew Marcus	Oregon	8	80.0%	.226	.188	100
92		Robert Kilner	Ohio	8	80.0%	.218	.178	100
93		Dibyo Haldar	Asia	9	90.0%	.115	.136	100
94		Jenna Hull	California	7	70.0%	.367	.157	99
95		Omar Sajjad	California	7	70.0%	.354	.225	99
96		Elizabeth Chang	Washington	7	70.0%	.352	.182	99
97		Jackson Todd	Georgia	8	80.0%	.238	.151	99
98		Mitchell Rimerman	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.213	.247	99
99		William Neiswanger	Washington	8	80.0%	.205	.186	99
100		Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	7	70.0%	.350	.247	98
101		Ryan Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.217	.179	98
102		Sean Calhoun	Iowa	8	80.0%	.216	.162	98
103		James Kang	California	8	80.0%	.200	.171	98
104		Dan Puma	Illinois	6	60.0%	.508	.255	97
105		Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.330	.250	97
106		Jack Brounstein	Texas	6	60.0%	.492	.204	96
107		Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.330	.209	96
108		Paolo Pasco	California	7	70.0%	.325	.233	96
109		Chris Ottolino	Missouri	6	60.0%	.490	.201	95
110		Michael Olson	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.312	.231	95
111		Scott Latchem	California	7	70.0%	.303	.186	95
112		Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.154	.209	95
113		Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.501	.317	94
114		Daniel Jude	California	6	60.0%	.467	.282	94
115		Kane Keller	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.299	.193	94
116		Brad Williams	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.295	.236	94
117		Gerry Tansey	Missouri	7	70.0%	.292	.117	94
118		Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	7	70.0%	.300	.217	93
119		Stephen Morrison	Michigan	7	70.0%	.280	.255	93
120		Kevin McCabe	Colorado	8	80.0%	.147	.131	93
121		Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.290	.227	92
122		JinAh Kim	Virginia	7	70.0%	.282	.202	92
123		Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.271	.239	92
124		Michael Kettler	Ohio	7	70.0%	.261	.248	92
125		Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.148	.184	92
126		Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.446	.192	91
127		Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	6	60.0%	.441	.215	91
128		Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.125	.177	91
129		Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	6	60.0%	.426	.285	90
130		Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.417	.243	90
131		Will Johnson	Virginia	6	60.0%	.415	.245	90
132		Paul Campbell	California	7	70.0%	.255	.230	90
133		Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.251	.207	90
134		Nora Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.241	.247	90
135		Quinn McGarry	Missouri	8	80.0%	.149	.119	90
136		Jenn Tulo	Virginia	8	80.0%	.128	.149	90
137		Christopher Parsons	Washington	7	70.0%	.254	.128	89
138		James Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.241	.259	89
139		Lauren Cusitello	California	7	70.0%	.239	.217	89
140		Will Howells	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.228	.222	89
141		Michael Arjona	Georgia	8	80.0%	.104	.107	89
142		Jason Lai	New York	8	80.0%	.096	.170	89
143		Tom Minard	Canada	6	60.0%	.393	.237	88
144		Anthony Peek	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.240	.194	88
145		Kendall Plapp	New York	7	70.0%	.222	.210	88
146		Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.237	.180	87
147		Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.223	.229	87
148		Max Smiley	California	7	70.0%	.216	.150	87
149		Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.360	.204	86
150		Patrick Carthy	Europe	7	70.0%	.214	.177	86
151		John Kocsis	Virginia	6	60.0%	.358	.223	85
152		Lee Henry	Alabama	7	70.0%	.200	.177	85
153		Gail Celio	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.195	.225	85
154		Candy Murphy	Virginia	7	70.0%	.193	.179	85
155		Gwen Abrams	Nevada	6	60.0%	.364	.242	84
156		Alex Paskevicius	Canada	6	60.0%	.362	.267	84
157		Brian Hamilton	Oregon	6	60.0%	.349	.288	84
158		Brynn Jones	Alabama	6	60.0%	.343	.248	84
159		Michael Turner	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.343	.288	84
160		Kent Buxton	Maryland	6	60.0%	.338	.151	84
161		Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.189	.115	84
162		Henry Blyth	Ohio	6	60.0%	.331	.272	83
163		Stephen Liu	California	6	60.0%	.327	.203	83
164		Chuck Yu	Maryland	7	70.0%	.181	.178	83
165		Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.175	.232	83
166		Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.178	.160	82
167		Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	7	70.0%	.168	.146	82
168		Kelly Rabin	Washington	7	70.0%	.165	.174	82
169		Owen Cooper	Alabama	6	60.0%	.295	.195	81
170		Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.170	.173	81
171		Dan Passner	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.279	.217	80
172		Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	6	60.0%	.275	.169	79
173		Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.266	.206	79
174		Zoe Kaperonis	New York	6	60.0%	.276	.187	78
175		Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.271	.170	78
176		Matt Coleman	Washington	6	60.0%	.266	.218	78
177		Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.265	.180	78
178		Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.257	.204	78
179		Tyler Berry	Canada	7	70.0%	.119	.097	78
180		Anthony DiCarlo	California	6	60.0%	.254	.258	77
181		Jill Heink	Kentucky	6	60.0%	.243	.207	77
182		Talia Fan	Canada	6	60.0%	.235	.218	77
183		John Presloid	Ohio	6	60.0%	.254	.197	76
184		Natalie Schermer	Washington	6	60.0%	.244	.228	76
185		Shauna McNally	Canada	7	70.0%	.077	.129	76
186		Nate Kane	Arizona	5	50.0%	.411	.206	75
187		Julian Saddy	Canada	6	60.0%	.239	.179	75
188		Mary Foley	Arizona	6	60.0%	.219	.194	75
189		Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	6	60.0%	.212	.185	75
190		Ryan Hemmel	California	6	60.0%	.219	.144	74
191		Evan Knox	North Carolina	6	60.0%	.207	.180	74
192		Stephen Ours	Virginia	6	60.0%	.215	.149	73
193		John Petrovich	Indiana	5	50.0%	.384	.247	72
194		Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	5	50.0%	.361	.240	72
195		Suwanna Blakey	Florida	6	60.0%	.189	.150	72
196		Danielle Long	Illinois	6	60.0%	.165	.222	72
197		Andrey Goder	California	6	60.0%	.163	.243	72
198		Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	7	70.0%	.049	.059	72
199		Chauncey Lo	California	6	60.0%	.189	.141	71
200		Josh Hill	Arkansas	7	70.0%	.027	.031	71
201		Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	5	50.0%	.347	.244	70
202		Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.155	.169	70
203		Kenny Peskin	Virginia	5	50.0%	.329	.253	69
204		Andy Rossitch	Georgia	6	60.0%	.140	.176	69
205		Ozzie Fallick	California	6	60.0%	.169	.094	68
206		Kai Tang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.146	.147	68
207		Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.138	.124	68
208		Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	6	60.0%	.134	.137	68
209		Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	6	60.0%	.124	.172	68
210		Brock Stephenson	Canada	5	50.0%	.305	.224	67
211		Cameron Williams	North Carolina	5	50.0%	.301	.236	67
212		Abel Gilsing	Europe	5	50.0%	.300	.220	67
213		Chris Hale	Virginia	6	60.0%	.121	.132	67
214		Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	6	60.0%	.114	.163	67
215		Rachael Peters	Michigan	6	60.0%	.106	.156	67
216		Matt Smania	Michigan	5	50.0%	.298	.201	66
217		Parth Jagtap	Canada	4	40.0%	.498	.287	65
218		Lars Melton	Virginia	5	50.0%	.275	.198	65
219		Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.262	.134	65
220		Josh Walker	Ohio	5	50.0%	.260	.161	65
221		Tommy Segi	Ohio	6	60.0%	.086	.124	65
222		Lynn Yu	California	5	50.0%	.242	.189	64
223		Pranav Veluri	Indiana	5	50.0%	.237	.249	63
224		Cody Donahue	Mississippi	5	50.0%	.221	.211	63
225		Jack Garrison	Ohio	6	60.0%	.068	.141	63
226		Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.209	.159	62
227		Moses Kitakule	New York	4	40.0%	.432	.223	61
228		George Atendido	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.175	.360	61
229		Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	5	50.0%	.186	.188	60
230		Russ Hart	New York	5	50.0%	.177	.172	60
231		Andy Brown	Illinois	5	50.0%	.178	.225	59
232		Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.157	.185	59
233		Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.177	.192	58
234		Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	4	40.0%	.362	.255	57
235		Joe Nutter	Georgia	5	50.0%	.113	.097	56
236		Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.105	.190	56
237		Jonathan Hunter	Florida	4	40.0%	.326	.293	55
238		Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.123	.138	55
239		Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.096	.093	55
240		Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	4	40.0%	.302	.181	54
241		Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	5	50.0%	.086	.127	54
242		Daniel White	Washington	5	50.0%	.072	.190	54
243		Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	4	40.0%	.262	.195	53
244		Mark Morris	Alabama	5	50.0%	.073	.079	53
245		Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	5	50.0%	.052	.200	53
246		Garrison Page	Kentucky	4	40.0%	.270	.167	52
247		Dan Ni	New York	4	40.0%	.247	.285	51
248		Sofia Pralle	Washington	4	40.0%	.246	.200	51
249		David Edwards	Illinois	4	40.0%	.237	.214	51
250		Eric Li	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.245	.155	50
251		Jon Violet	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.021	.197	50
252		Hidehiro Anto	California	4	40.0%	.231	.168	49
253		Javas Lal	New Jersey	4	40.0%	.230	.176	49
254		James E. Lasker	Texas	4	40.0%	.217	.144	49
255		Emily Fletcher	Texas	4	40.0%	.200	.241	49
256		Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	4	40.0%	.195	.218	49
257		Jason Laabs	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.193	.183	49
258		Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	3	30.0%	.515	.282	48
259		Arjun Sivakumar	California	4	40.0%	.208	.126	48
260		Zane Placie	Georgia	4	40.0%	.184	.152	48
261		Sheldon Wong	Illinois	4	40.0%	.158	.245	48
262		Ben Smith	Canada	4	40.0%	.180	.129	47
263		Raul Passement	Texas	4	40.0%	.149	.376	47
264		David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	4	40.0%	.136	.282	46
265		Spencer Thrope	Middle East	3	30.0%	.428	.219	45
266		Tristan Clarke	Arizona	4	40.0%	.130	.139	45
267		Kenneth Martin	Illinois	4	40.0%	.111	.171	45
268		Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.140	.174	44
269		Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.124	.215	44
270		Valerie Ogonor	Georgia	4	40.0%	.101	.126	44
271		Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	3	30.0%	.377	.227	43
272		Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	4	40.0%	.072	.109	43
273		Liz Fujita	Michigan	4	40.0%	.069	.161	43
274		Michael Shang	Maryland	3	30.0%	.337	.166	42
275		Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	4	40.0%	.055	.036	41
276		Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	3	30.0%	.287	.262	40
277		Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.000	.112	40
278		Tony Chen	Canada	3	30.0%	.217	.231	37
279		Michael Joy	Michigan	3	30.0%	.192	.216	36
280		David Snoddon	Canada	3	30.0%	.131	.079	33
281		Mindy Wong	New York	3	30.0%	.088	.102	33
282		Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	3	30.0%	.000	.005	30
283		Susan Corbus	Illinois	2	20.0%	.183	.118	24
284		Rikiya Cheaves	Florida	2	20.0%	.181	.117	24
285		Ben Dillon	Indiana	2	20.0%	.120	.290	23
286		Jessica Chellino	Florida	2	20.0%	.082	.112	21
287		Padraig Finan	Washington	2	20.0%	.000	.367	20
288		Louis Johnson	Alabama	1	10.0%	.001	.018	10
289		Kara Lee	Oklahoma	1	10.0%	.001	.000	10
290		Amory Kaufman	Minnesota	1	10.0%	.000	.000	10
291		Maddie Wright	Oklahoma	1	10.0%	.000	.200	10
292		Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.009	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.