2023 Popular Culture Week 43

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Derek Martz	Illinois	10	100.0%	.522	.146	163
2	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	10	100.0%	.498	.164	161
3	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	10	100.0%	.443	.258	154
4	Tucker Warner	New York	10	100.0%	.440	.224	152
5	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	10	100.0%	.403	.233	147
6	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	10	100.0%	.397	.239	146
7	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.385	.229	146
8	Tim Crockett	Washington	10	100.0%	.354	.230	142
9	Stephen Liu	California	10	100.0%	.345	.260	142
10	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.473	.262	141
11	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.360	.246	141
12	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	9	90.0%	.463	.218	139
13	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	9	90.0%	.459	.160	138
14	Dan Puma	Illinois	10	100.0%	.334	.208	138
15	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	10	100.0%	.328	.230	138
16	Andy Kravis	New York	10	100.0%	.319	.162	136
17	Jack Rousseau	California	10	100.0%	.308	.203	136
18	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	10	100.0%	.304	.225	136
19	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.424	.221	135
20	Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.408	.261	135
21	Daniel Chung	California	10	100.0%	.313	.249	135
22	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.302	.120	135
23	Adam Escandell	Texas	9	90.0%	.397	.193	133
24	JinAh Kim	Virginia	10	100.0%	.291	.220	133
25	Lee Henry	Alabama	10	100.0%	.275	.237	132
26	John Petrovich	Indiana	9	90.0%	.402	.270	131
27	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	9	90.0%	.390	.247	131
28	Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	9	90.0%	.389	.203	131
29	Tom Minard	Canada	9	90.0%	.379	.277	131
30	Jared Cubilla	Canada	9	90.0%	.377	.258	131
31	Mark McDonald	Illinois	10	100.0%	.275	.161	131
32	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	10	100.0%	.264	.166	131
33	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.366	.287	130
34	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.364	.219	130
35	Christine Irwin	Canada	9	90.0%	.364	.215	129
36	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.359	.218	128
37	Adam Sapa	Canada	10	100.0%	.254	.256	127
38	Henry Cafaro	Illinois	10	100.0%	.237	.197	126
39	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	10	100.0%	.237	.179	126
40	Andy Brown	Illinois	9	90.0%	.336	.157	125
41	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.336	.196	125
42	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.332	.305	125
43	Deleena Simon	Michigan	10	100.0%	.233	.171	125
44	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.462	.254	124
45	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.455	.229	124
46	Omar Sajjad	California	9	90.0%	.329	.266	124
47	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.326	.223	124
48	Dan Passner	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.212	.229	124
49	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	10	100.0%	.199	.209	124
50	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.327	.237	123
51	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.325	.241	123
52	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.322	.240	123
53	Kyle Kahan	California	9	90.0%	.303	.252	123
54	Paolo Pasco	California	10	100.0%	.219	.164	123
55	Scott Latchem	California	9	90.0%	.309	.214	122
56	John Riss	Illinois	9	90.0%	.305	.227	122
57	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	8	80.0%	.422	.299	121
58	Jeff Frank	Indiana	9	90.0%	.301	.213	121
59	Lawrence Simon	New York	9	90.0%	.299	.244	121
60	William Neiswanger	Washington	9	90.0%	.297	.188	121
61	Jason Palmer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.290	.225	121
62	Kari Race	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.289	.245	121
63	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	8	80.0%	.424	.252	120
64	Akosua Asante	Canada	9	90.0%	.298	.194	120
65	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.294	.281	120
66	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	10	100.0%	.178	.232	120
67	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.408	.271	119
68	Owen Cooper	Alabama	9	90.0%	.280	.267	118
69	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.275	.232	118
70	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.273	.144	118
71	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.273	.184	118
72	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.272	.211	118
73	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.266	.192	118
74	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.367	.259	117
75	Ryan Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.268	.146	117
76	John Kocsis	Virginia	9	90.0%	.266	.249	117
77	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.266	.171	117
78	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.387	.245	116
79	Matt Smania	Michigan	9	90.0%	.253	.227	116
80	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	9	90.0%	.249	.238	116
81	Will Johnson	Virginia	9	90.0%	.248	.191	116
82	Joseph Langas	Texas	9	90.0%	.258	.225	115
83	William Marshall	Alabama	8	80.0%	.352	.235	114
84	Greg Garbee	Florida	9	90.0%	.225	.183	114
85	Mike Myers	California	9	90.0%	.216	.239	114
86	Craig Moysey	Canada	8	80.0%	.371	.239	113
87	Kent Buxton	Maryland	8	80.0%	.354	.101	113
88	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.345	.201	113
89	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.218	.260	113
90	William Travis	Texas	8	80.0%	.350	.243	112
91	Andrew Dupont	California	8	80.0%	.345	.235	112
92	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	8	80.0%	.342	.149	112
93	Michael Patison	Texas	8	80.0%	.340	.227	112
94	Erik Christensen	Canada	7	70.0%	.503	.323	111
95	Brynn Jones	Alabama	8	80.0%	.347	.285	111
96	Michael Turner	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.327	.270	111
97	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	8	80.0%	.323	.245	111
98	David Kiang	Illinois	9	90.0%	.221	.181	111
99	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	7	70.0%	.473	.269	110
100	Randall Eng	New York	7	70.0%	.469	.314	110
101	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	8	80.0%	.319	.241	110
102	Naveed Chowdhury	California	9	90.0%	.205	.194	110
103	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	9	90.0%	.200	.197	110
104	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.330	.207	109
105	James Denning	Ohio	8	80.0%	.293	.298	109
106	Mark Morris	Alabama	9	90.0%	.190	.236	109
107	Kevin Lei	Canada	8	80.0%	.318	.238	108
108	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	8	80.0%	.301	.258	108
109	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.299	.261	108
110	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.298	.251	108
111	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.297	.215	108
112	Michael Kettler	Ohio	8	80.0%	.295	.223	108
113	Matthew Askins	Arizona	9	90.0%	.172	.204	108
114	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.178	.155	107
115	Andy Rossitch	Georgia	8	80.0%	.281	.194	106
116	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.161	.148	106
117	Michael Coates	Idaho	7	70.0%	.403	.343	105
118	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	8	80.0%	.289	.227	105
119	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.277	.191	105
120	Stephen Ours	Virginia	8	80.0%	.266	.205	105
121	Devon Edwards	New York	7	70.0%	.405	.171	104
122	James Dowd	Hawaii	8	80.0%	.272	.190	104
123	Connor Teevens	Michigan	8	80.0%	.260	.271	104
124	Jesse Tow	Illinois	8	80.0%	.255	.202	104
125	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.244	.217	104
126	Julian Saddy	Canada	8	80.0%	.261	.175	103
127	John Presloid	Ohio	8	80.0%	.259	.209	103
128	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.251	.221	103
129	Delano Barnes	Texas	9	90.0%	.134	.120	103
130	Harry White	Virginia	8	80.0%	.252	.174	102
131	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.239	.227	102
132	James Washick	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.378	.285	101
133	David Edwards	Illinois	7	70.0%	.374	.309	101
134	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.257	.163	101
135	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.242	.155	101
136	Evan Knox	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.234	.202	101
137	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.375	.225	100
138	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	7	70.0%	.368	.206	100
139	Daniel Jude	California	8	80.0%	.232	.132	100
140	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	7	70.0%	.356	.234	99
141	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	7	70.0%	.353	.214	99
142	Ben Smith	Canada	8	80.0%	.220	.129	98
143	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.214	.197	98
144	Nate Muckley	Illinois	7	70.0%	.343	.244	97
145	Jenna Hull	California	7	70.0%	.332	.214	97
146	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.206	.211	97
147	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.310	.242	96
148	Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.289	.260	95
149	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	8	80.0%	.182	.166	95
150	Lauren Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.178	.175	95
151	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.458	.269	94
152	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.304	.188	94
153	Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	7	70.0%	.291	.224	94
154	Michael Olson	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.283	.197	94
155	Suna Tabag	Illinois	8	80.0%	.166	.137	94
156	Talia Fan	Canada	8	80.0%	.160	.144	94
157	Jackson Todd	Georgia	7	70.0%	.296	.183	93
158	Cari Milowicki	Ohio	7	70.0%	.295	.247	93
159	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	7	70.0%	.292	.239	93
160	Tyler Berry	Canada	7	70.0%	.291	.199	92
161	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	7	70.0%	.274	.221	92
162	Radu Popescu	Canada	7	70.0%	.274	.191	92
163	Chris Becker	Maryland	7	70.0%	.267	.210	92
164	George Atendido	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.263	.207	92
165	Daniel White	Washington	7	70.0%	.261	.191	92
166	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.153	.137	92
167	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.283	.184	91
168	Nate Kane	Arizona	7	70.0%	.273	.177	91
169	Raul Passement	Texas	7	70.0%	.255	.180	91
170	Ben Stalets	Illinois	6	60.0%	.441	.330	90
171	Garrison Page	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.271	.177	90
172	Sofia Pralle	Washington	7	70.0%	.256	.210	90
173	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	7	70.0%	.240	.224	90
174	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.239	.167	89
175	Mitchell Rimerman	District of Columbia	7	70.0%	.229	.291	89
176	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	7	70.0%	.251	.199	88
177	Nora Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.242	.234	88
178	Robert Kilner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.240	.185	88
179	James Kang	California	7	70.0%	.238	.297	88
180	Henry Blyth	Ohio	7	70.0%	.234	.262	88
181	Chris Hale	Virginia	7	70.0%	.217	.219	87
182	Ben Dillon	Indiana	7	70.0%	.208	.143	86
183	Cameron Williams	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.207	.196	86
184	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	7	70.0%	.203	.156	86
185	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	7	70.0%	.193	.201	86
186	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.355	.273	85
187	Sarah Benner	Ohio	7	70.0%	.190	.164	85
188	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	7	70.0%	.186	.244	84
189	Kane Keller	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.184	.240	84
190	Shauna McNally	Canada	7	70.0%	.178	.233	84
191	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	6	60.0%	.350	.227	83
192	Matt Coleman	Washington	6	60.0%	.335	.225	83
193	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.334	.250	83
194	Candy Murphy	Virginia	6	60.0%	.324	.192	83
195	Chauncey Lo	California	7	70.0%	.201	.173	83
196	Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.172	.230	83
197	Christopher Parsons	Washington	7	70.0%	.168	.160	83
198	Hidehiro Anto	California	7	70.0%	.166	.153	83
199	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	8	80.0%	.059	.039	83
200	Lynn Yu	California	6	60.0%	.313	.232	82
201	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	6	60.0%	.311	.266	82
202	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.315	.240	81
203	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	6	60.0%	.315	.221	81
204	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.300	.195	81
205	Ryan Hemmel	California	7	70.0%	.179	.148	81
206	Dawson Owens	Ohio	7	70.0%	.168	.126	81
207	Joe Nutter	Georgia	7	70.0%	.155	.202	81
208	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	7	70.0%	.149	.129	81
209	Jason Lai	New York	7	70.0%	.142	.148	81
210	Erik Eide	Canada	5	50.0%	.500	.280	80
211	Owen McCoy	Illinois	6	60.0%	.304	.233	80
212	Paul Campbell	California	6	60.0%	.295	.178	80
213	Anthony DiCarlo	California	6	60.0%	.295	.256	80
214	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	6	60.0%	.289	.221	80
215	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	6	60.0%	.279	.203	80
216	Rachael Peters	Michigan	7	70.0%	.126	.143	80
217	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.272	.199	79
218	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.261	.297	79
219	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.142	.125	79
220	Erik Nickels	California	6	60.0%	.267	.221	78
221	Matthew Grieco	New York	6	60.0%	.264	.220	78
222	Curtis Roselle	Illinois	6	60.0%	.264	.222	78
223	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.256	.202	78
224	Sinecio Morales	Maryland	6	60.0%	.252	.135	77
225	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	6	60.0%	.246	.178	77
226	Christian Wilson	New York	7	70.0%	.099	.290	77
227	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	6	60.0%	.248	.194	76
228	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.219	.282	76
229	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.216	.156	75
230	Lars Melton	Virginia	5	50.0%	.403	.206	74
231	Abel Gilsing	Europe	6	60.0%	.214	.187	74
232	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	5	50.0%	.396	.198	73
233	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.199	.152	73
234	Will Howells	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.199	.136	73
235	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.203	.177	72
236	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	6	60.0%	.200	.209	72
237	Chuck Yu	Maryland	6	60.0%	.193	.162	72
238	Rebecca May	Alabama	7	70.0%	.043	.072	72
239	Nora Elder	Illinois	6	60.0%	.186	.171	71
240	Jack Garrison	Ohio	6	60.0%	.173	.148	71
241	Liz Fujita	Michigan	6	60.0%	.162	.137	71
242	Natalie Schermer	Washington	6	60.0%	.160	.171	71
243	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	6	60.0%	.156	.132	71
244	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.346	.329	70
245	Molly Risley	Tennessee	5	50.0%	.345	.255	70
246	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.178	.205	70
247	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	6	60.0%	.165	.142	70
248	Peter Donarum	Maryland	6	60.0%	.132	.155	69
249	Chris Abrams	Nevada	5	50.0%	.300	.247	68
250	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	5	50.0%	.318	.217	67
251	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	5	50.0%	.308	.176	67
252	Lauren Cusitello	California	5	50.0%	.304	.230	67
253	Andrey Goder	California	6	60.0%	.118	.105	67
254	Arjun Sivakumar	California	5	50.0%	.246	.191	65
255	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	5	50.0%	.256	.181	64
256	Jill Heink	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.255	.206	64
257	Liam Buck	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.252	.225	64
258	Michael Shang	Maryland	5	50.0%	.232	.182	64
259	Holden Nichols	Illinois	6	60.0%	.072	.091	64
260	Hannah Hillis	Illinois	5	50.0%	.242	.235	63
261	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.233	.180	62
262	Jason Laabs	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.200	.193	61
263	Jessica Chellino	Florida	5	50.0%	.199	.123	61
264	Eric Li	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.422	.258	60
265	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	5	50.0%	.203	.130	60
266	Kai Tang	Illinois	5	50.0%	.150	.124	57
267	Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.149	.123	57
268	Mary Foley	Arizona	5	50.0%	.137	.100	57
269	Dan Ni	New York	5	50.0%	.122	.139	57
270	Michael Joy	Michigan	4	40.0%	.352	.212	56
271	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.333	.152	56
272	Michael Arjona	Georgia	4	40.0%	.320	.176	56
273	Daniel Galitsky	District of Columbia	5	50.0%	.133	.234	56
274	Bryan Householder	Ohio	5	50.0%	.125	.109	56
275	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	5	50.0%	.123	.095	56
276	Elise Preston	Illinois	5	50.0%	.110	.115	56
277	Bia Vergakis	Illinois	5	50.0%	.099	.207	56
278	Tristan Clarke	Arizona	4	40.0%	.314	.318	55
279	Rikiya Cheaves	Florida	5	50.0%	.128	.224	55
280	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	5	50.0%	.089	.081	55
281	Tony Chen	Canada	4	40.0%	.287	.204	54
282	Zane Placie	Georgia	5	50.0%	.099	.094	54
283	Erica Nordstrom	Illinois	5	50.0%	.098	.087	54
284	Carolyn Dow	Illinois	5	50.0%	.074	.090	54
285	Matt Rossitch	Georgia	5	50.0%	.051	.113	52
286	Tommy Segi	Ohio	4	40.0%	.224	.212	49
287	Alexandra Transue	Illinois	4	40.0%	.204	.257	49
288	Susan Corbus	Illinois	4	40.0%	.201	.120	48
289	Christopher Vuong	Louisiana	4	40.0%	.166	.299	47
290	Javas Lal	New Jersey	4	40.0%	.161	.144	47
291	Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.129	.101	45
292	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	4	40.0%	.099	.078	44
293	James Carberry	Louisiana	4	40.0%	.093	.091	43
294	Jack Foster	Georgia	4	40.0%	.061	.060	42
295	Lemuel Chan	Illinois	4	40.0%	.050	.080	42
296	Valerie Ogonor	Georgia	4	40.0%	.052	.033	41
297	Ben Tuxhorn	Illinois	3	30.0%	.290	.202	40
298	Luke Gribbins	Illinois	3	30.0%	.222	.300	38
299	Emily Fletcher	Texas	3	30.0%	.239	.146	37
300	David Snoddon	Canada	3	30.0%	.079	.106	33
301	Danielle Long	Illinois	3	30.0%	.084	.090	32
302	Amory Kaufman	Minnesota	2	20.0%	.264	.203	26
303	Cashton Krippel	Illinois	1	50.0%	.629	-1.000	18
304	Kelly Rabin	Washington	1	100.0%	.000	-1.000	10
305	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.039	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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