2023 Popular Culture Week 40

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	10	100.0%	.479	.201	158
2	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	10	100.0%	.463	.248	156
3	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.447	.167	153
4	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	10	100.0%	.440	.210	151
5	Daniel Chung	California	10	100.0%	.433	.223	151
6	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	10	100.0%	.415	.225	149
7	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.404	.231	148
8	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	10	100.0%	.376	.187	145
9	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.357	.194	142
10	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.352	.211	142
11	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	10	100.0%	.341	.220	138
12	Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	10	100.0%	.315	.303	138
13	Hidehiro Anto	California	9	90.0%	.439	.285	137
14	Mitchell Rimerman	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.435	.206	137
15	Scott Latchem	California	9	90.0%	.430	.250	136
16	William Marshall	Alabama	9	90.0%	.424	.216	136
17	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.408	.226	135
18	Joseph Langas	Texas	9	90.0%	.429	.252	134
19	Andy Kravis	New York	9	90.0%	.411	.212	133
20	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.405	.239	133
21	Daniel Jude	California	9	90.0%	.390	.218	133
22	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.524	.281	131
23	Adam Escandell	Texas	9	90.0%	.387	.196	131
24	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.369	.222	131
25	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.490	.285	129
26	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.375	.182	129
27	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.362	.241	129
28	Stephen Liu	California	9	90.0%	.359	.226	129
29	Paolo Pasco	California	9	90.0%	.370	.240	128
30	JinAh Kim	Virginia	9	90.0%	.358	.261	128
31	Omar Sajjad	California	9	90.0%	.353	.241	128
32	Michael Patison	Texas	9	90.0%	.340	.229	126
33	Jack Brounstein	Texas	8	80.0%	.471	.275	125
34	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	8	80.0%	.467	.238	125
35	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	8	80.0%	.459	.224	125
36	Brynn Jones	Alabama	9	90.0%	.345	.171	125
37	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.341	.208	125
38	Ryan Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.326	.200	125
39	Derek Martz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.325	.242	124
40	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.314	.308	124
41	Randall Eng	New York	8	80.0%	.461	.261	123
42	Ozzie Fallick	California	9	90.0%	.316	.268	123
43	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.315	.236	123
44	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.314	.262	123
45	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	9	90.0%	.307	.229	122
46	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.436	.178	121
47	Henry Blyth	Ohio	9	90.0%	.308	.119	121
48	Andy Brown	Illinois	10	100.0%	.179	.223	121
49	Erik Christensen	Canada	8	80.0%	.422	.223	119
50	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	8	80.0%	.409	.289	119
51	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.404	.229	119
52	Jason Laabs	Minnesota	9	90.0%	.292	.295	119
53	Matthew Marcotte	California	8	80.0%	.400	.203	118
54	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.278	.187	118
55	Lee Henry	Alabama	9	90.0%	.277	.153	118
56	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.268	.176	118
57	Tim Crockett	Washington	9	90.0%	.268	.150	118
58	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.385	.254	117
59	William Travis	Texas	9	90.0%	.266	.146	117
60	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	8	80.0%	.384	.249	116
61	Jack Rousseau	California	8	80.0%	.382	.209	116
62	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.380	.225	116
63	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.377	.305	116
64	Liam Buck	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.389	.245	115
65	James Dowd	Hawaii	8	80.0%	.383	.244	115
66	Evan Knox	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.377	.267	115
67	Michael Coates	Idaho	8	80.0%	.369	.208	114
68	Sofia Pralle	Washington	9	90.0%	.246	.188	114
69	Henry Cafaro	Illinois	8	80.0%	.367	.208	113
70	Connor Teevens	Michigan	8	80.0%	.364	.198	113
71	John Petrovich	Indiana	8	80.0%	.358	.236	113
72	Chris Abrams	Nevada	8	80.0%	.349	.268	113
73	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.346	.281	113
74	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	8	80.0%	.343	.185	113
75	Jackson Todd	Georgia	9	90.0%	.239	.176	113
76	Nate Muckley	Illinois	9	90.0%	.232	.176	113
77	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.230	.221	113
78	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.348	.255	112
79	Paul Campbell	California	8	80.0%	.347	.245	112
80	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.328	.264	112
81	Nate Kane	Arizona	8	80.0%	.350	.287	111
82	Sean Doyle	Texas	8	80.0%	.347	.236	111
83	Julian Saddy	Canada	8	80.0%	.341	.228	111
84	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	8	80.0%	.337	.261	111
85	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	9	90.0%	.219	.244	111
86	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.494	.192	110
87	Chris Becker	Maryland	8	80.0%	.334	.304	110
88	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	8	80.0%	.330	.245	110
89	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	8	80.0%	.322	.274	110
90	Tony Chen	Canada	8	80.0%	.322	.226	109
91	David Kiang	Illinois	8	80.0%	.321	.199	109
92	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.299	.240	109
93	Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.299	.188	108
94	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.434	.253	107
95	Jason Hess	Texas	8	80.0%	.296	.144	107
96	Tom Minard	Canada	8	80.0%	.281	.211	107
97	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.450	.233	106
98	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	7	70.0%	.445	.240	106
99	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	7	70.0%	.437	.295	106
100	Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.300	.218	106
101	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.294	.157	106
102	Chauncey Lo	California	8	80.0%	.282	.194	106
103	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.280	.175	106
104	Danielle Long	Illinois	9	90.0%	.158	.158	106
105	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.277	.278	105
106	Michael Turner	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.277	.178	105
107	Mike Myers	California	8	80.0%	.276	.254	105
108	Christine Irwin	Canada	8	80.0%	.265	.270	105
109	William Neiswanger	Washington	8	80.0%	.261	.205	105
110	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	8	80.0%	.283	.225	104
111	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.283	.250	104
112	Ryan Hemmel	California	8	80.0%	.267	.180	104
113	Erik Eide	Canada	8	80.0%	.267	.182	104
114	Jeff Frank	Indiana	8	80.0%	.263	.178	104
115	Michael Olson	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.259	.212	103
116	Dan Passner	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.250	.194	103
117	Sarah Benner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.389	.270	102
118	Matt Smania	Michigan	8	80.0%	.254	.200	102
119	Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.248	.251	102
120	Lauren Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.246	.142	102
121	Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	8	80.0%	.241	.215	102
122	Talia Fan	Canada	7	70.0%	.389	.257	101
123	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.377	.147	101
124	Michael Kettler	Ohio	7	70.0%	.368	.262	101
125	Jack Garrison	Ohio	7	70.0%	.361	.250	101
126	Nick Matchen	Illinois	8	80.0%	.249	.179	101
127	James Denning	Ohio	8	80.0%	.238	.159	101
128	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	8	80.0%	.230	.203	101
129	Daniel White	Washington	8	80.0%	.229	.221	101
130	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.228	.180	101
131	Harry White	Virginia	7	70.0%	.381	.245	100
132	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	7	70.0%	.365	.279	100
133	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.365	.294	100
134	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	7	70.0%	.364	.275	100
135	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.230	.260	100
136	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	8	80.0%	.218	.218	100
137	James Carberry	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.214	.257	100
138	Joe Nutter	Georgia	8	80.0%	.214	.222	100
139	Christian Wilson	New York	6	60.0%	.534	.248	99
140	Erik Nickels	California	7	70.0%	.356	.243	99
141	Siddarth Kumar	Indiana	7	70.0%	.354	.240	99
142	Tristan Clarke	Arizona	7	70.0%	.354	.171	99
143	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	7	70.0%	.343	.187	99
144	Garrison Page	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.225	.153	99
145	Jason Palmer	Ohio	7	70.0%	.354	.261	98
146	James E. Lasker	Texas	7	70.0%	.346	.251	98
147	Dan Puma	Illinois	7	70.0%	.345	.230	98
148	Andrew Dupont	California	7	70.0%	.343	.254	98
149	Tucker Warner	New York	7	70.0%	.339	.164	98
150	Robert Kilner	Ohio	8	80.0%	.192	.232	98
151	Craig Moysey	Canada	7	70.0%	.347	.209	97
152	Jesse Tow	Illinois	7	70.0%	.339	.182	97
153	Gail Celio	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.315	.268	97
154	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	8	80.0%	.205	.161	97
155	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	8	80.0%	.198	.125	97
156	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	7	70.0%	.339	.258	96
157	Lynn Yu	California	7	70.0%	.326	.243	96
158	Raul Passement	Texas	7	70.0%	.310	.183	96
159	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.504	.249	95
160	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	7	70.0%	.322	.198	95
161	John Stewart	Virginia	7	70.0%	.318	.224	95
162	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	7	70.0%	.307	.289	95
163	Michael Shang	Maryland	7	70.0%	.295	.234	95
164	Kevin Lei	Canada	7	70.0%	.309	.238	94
165	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.305	.189	94
166	James Washick	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.297	.225	94
167	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.301	.260	93
168	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.285	.231	93
169	Abel Gilsing	Europe	8	80.0%	.162	.224	93
170	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.285	.225	92
171	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	7	70.0%	.279	.141	92
172	Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.268	.299	92
173	Natalie Schermer	Washington	7	70.0%	.265	.223	92
174	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	6	60.0%	.446	.256	91
175	Matthew Hart	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.274	.130	91
176	Ryan Rosenberg	California	7	70.0%	.268	.272	91
177	James Kang	California	7	70.0%	.264	.206	91
178	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.262	.291	91
179	Ben Smith	Canada	7	70.0%	.262	.224	90
180	Christopher Parsons	Washington	7	70.0%	.251	.195	90
181	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	8	80.0%	.126	.140	90
182	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.407	.317	89
183	Eric Li	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.405	.246	89
184	Cameron Williams	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.263	.186	89
185	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.255	.167	89
186	Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.244	.210	89
187	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	7	70.0%	.239	.151	89
188	Matthew Askins	Arizona	7	70.0%	.228	.167	89
189	Kai Tang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.396	.264	88
190	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.239	.200	88
191	Matt Coleman	Washington	7	70.0%	.224	.175	88
192	Tommy Segi	Ohio	8	80.0%	.105	.127	88
193	David Edwards	Illinois	6	60.0%	.396	.272	87
194	Christopher Harris	Texas	7	70.0%	.226	.222	87
195	Nora Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.225	.225	87
196	John Kocsis	Virginia	7	70.0%	.224	.201	87
197	Jill Heink	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.202	.278	87
198	Tyler Berry	Canada	6	60.0%	.376	.235	86
199	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	7	70.0%	.213	.242	86
200	Dan Ni	New York	7	70.0%	.213	.244	86
201	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	5	50.0%	.557	.306	85
202	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	6	60.0%	.368	.239	85
203	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.204	.243	85
204	Emily Fletcher	Texas	6	60.0%	.362	.228	84
205	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	6	60.0%	.328	.281	84
206	Stephen Ours	Virginia	7	70.0%	.197	.160	84
207	Shauna McNally	Canada	7	70.0%	.187	.146	84
208	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.182	.150	83
209	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.180	.136	83
210	Jason Lai	New York	7	70.0%	.166	.209	83
211	Kenny Peskin	Virginia	6	60.0%	.328	.278	82
212	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	6	60.0%	.328	.196	82
213	Adam Sapa	Canada	6	60.0%	.319	.227	81
214	Kari Race	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.302	.210	81
215	Spencer Brown	Virginia	6	60.0%	.298	.257	81
216	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	7	70.0%	.163	.139	81
217	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.160	.136	81
218	Zane Placie	Georgia	7	70.0%	.159	.207	81
219	Mary Foley	Arizona	7	70.0%	.148	.196	81
220	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.303	.216	80
221	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	6	60.0%	.281	.191	80
222	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.163	.243	80
223	Chris Hale	Virginia	7	70.0%	.141	.151	80
224	Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	5	50.0%	.482	.231	79
225	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.295	.215	79
226	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	6	60.0%	.283	.246	79
227	Suwanna Blakey	Florida	6	60.0%	.272	.292	79
228	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.271	.181	79
229	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	6	60.0%	.269	.223	79
230	George Atendido	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.122	.177	79
231	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	7	70.0%	.112	.173	79
232	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	6	60.0%	.261	.177	78
233	Andy Rossitch	Georgia	7	70.0%	.130	.127	78
234	Will Howells	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.263	.224	77
235	Andrey Goder	California	7	70.0%	.098	.149	77
236	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.238	.210	76
237	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	6	60.0%	.236	.155	76
238	Delano Barnes	Texas	6	60.0%	.233	.198	76
239	Matthew Grieco	New York	6	60.0%	.231	.290	76
240	Naveed Chowdhury	California	6	60.0%	.221	.273	75
241	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	5	50.0%	.409	.328	74
242	Lars Melton	Virginia	6	60.0%	.231	.164	74
243	Dawson Owens	Ohio	6	60.0%	.228	.165	74
244	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.203	.260	74
245	Reesa Wiggins	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.049	.105	74
246	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.199	.159	73
247	Kyle Kahan	California	5	50.0%	.380	.223	72
248	Lauren Cusitello	California	6	60.0%	.206	.217	72
249	Candy Murphy	Virginia	6	60.0%	.206	.147	72
250	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.178	.133	72
251	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	6	60.0%	.167	.206	71
252	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.163	.288	71
253	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	5	50.0%	.342	.240	70
254	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	6	60.0%	.148	.158	70
255	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	7	70.0%	.014	.023	70
256	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	5	50.0%	.344	.174	69
257	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.158	.128	69
258	Michael Joy	Michigan	6	60.0%	.140	.152	69
259	Greg Garbee	Florida	5	50.0%	.316	.275	68
260	Chuck Yu	Maryland	6	60.0%	.117	.187	68
261	Jenna Hull	California	5	50.0%	.300	.234	67
262	Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.105	.119	66
263	Ben Dillon	Indiana	5	50.0%	.272	.237	65
264	Valerie Ogonor	Georgia	5	50.0%	.232	.225	63
265	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	5	50.0%	.227	.137	63
266	Arjun Sivakumar	California	5	50.0%	.228	.193	62
267	Jack Foster	Georgia	5	50.0%	.212	.300	62
268	Brock Stephenson	Canada	5	50.0%	.199	.157	61
269	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	6	60.0%	.042	.116	61
270	John Riss	Illinois	5	50.0%	.172	.152	59
271	Jessica Chellino	Florida	5	50.0%	.161	.209	58
272	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.157	.163	58
273	Patrick Carthy	Europe	4	40.0%	.359	.249	57
274	Michael Arjona	Georgia	4	40.0%	.357	.237	57
275	Owen Cooper	Alabama	4	40.0%	.330	.122	56
276	Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.133	.180	56
277	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	5	50.0%	.113	.186	55
278	Rebecca May	Alabama	5	50.0%	.084	.246	53
279	Daniel Ogburn	Virginia	5	50.0%	.070	.141	52
280	Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.014	.158	50
281	Rohan Jain	Georgia	4	40.0%	.184	.195	48
282	Susan Corbus	Illinois	4	40.0%	.173	.148	48
283	Amory Kaufman	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.164	.142	47
284	David Snoddon	Canada	4	40.0%	.110	.103	44
285	Louis Johnson	Alabama	4	40.0%	.062	.138	42
286	Padraig Finan	Washington	4	40.0%	.045	.341	41
287	Parth Jagtap	Canada	3	30.0%	.290	.256	40
288	Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.011	.017	40
289	Mark Morris	Alabama	3	30.0%	.250	.191	38
290	Maddie Wright	Oklahoma	3	30.0%	.170	.226	36
291	Javas Lal	New Jersey	3	30.0%	.039	.147	30
292	Carolyn Dow	Illinois	2	20.0%	.064	.263	21
293	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.006	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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