2024 Popular Culture Week 8

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	10	100.0%	.384	.263	147
2	Matthew McDaniel	California	10	100.0%	.278	.208	132
3	Mike Myers	California	10	100.0%	.264	.111	130
4	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.256	.210	130
5	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.247	.199	129
6	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.357	.225	127
7	Francis Englert	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.243	.142	127
8	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.346	.199	126
9	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.328	.285	125
10	Lawrence Simon	New York	9	90.0%	.329	.261	124
11	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.305	.246	122
12	Evan Nagler	New York	10	100.0%	.214	.215	122
13	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.302	.261	121
14	Tucker Warner	New York	9	90.0%	.293	.263	120
15	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	9	90.0%	.290	.236	120
16	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.175	.184	119
17	Ryan Milowicki	New York	9	90.0%	.282	.167	118
18	Jason Serrano	New York	8	80.0%	.387	.268	117
19	Amitrajit Jana	Florida	9	90.0%	.261	.215	116
20	Stephen Liu	California	9	90.0%	.259	.156	116
21	Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.257	.203	116
22	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.247	.234	116
23	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.374	.247	115
24	Michael Coates	Idaho	9	90.0%	.247	.266	115
25	John Petrovich	Indiana	9	90.0%	.245	.229	115
26	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.362	.218	114
27	Matthew Marcotte	California	8	80.0%	.362	.180	114
28	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	8	80.0%	.355	.304	114
29	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.240	.186	114
30	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	8	80.0%	.358	.259	113
31	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.235	.249	113
32	Naveed Chowdhury	California	9	90.0%	.225	.218	113
33	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	7	70.0%	.505	.291	112
34	Evan Suttell	Colorado	8	80.0%	.351	.246	112
35	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	8	80.0%	.346	.229	112
36	Jason Palmer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.227	.247	112
37	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.223	.234	112
38	Shanine Salmon	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.335	.299	111
39	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.332	.249	111
40	Nora Denning	Ohio	8	80.0%	.330	.242	111
41	Ryan Carr	Indiana	8	80.0%	.316	.132	111
42	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	9	90.0%	.222	.175	111
43	Erik Christensen	Canada	9	90.0%	.211	.183	111
44	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.210	.137	111
45	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.333	.234	110
46	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.316	.150	109
47	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.303	.226	108
48	William Travis	Texas	8	80.0%	.302	.271	108
49	Jennifer Trofa	California	9	90.0%	.190	.194	108
50	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.178	.261	108
51	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.171	.179	108
52	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.168	.166	107
53	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Indiana	8	80.0%	.290	.197	106
54	Rick Terpstra	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.285	.241	106
55	Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.261	.263	105
56	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.158	.154	105
57	Will Howells	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.268	.218	104
58	Jason Hess	Texas	8	80.0%	.267	.196	104
59	Michael Olson	Minnesota	9	90.0%	.146	.129	104
60	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.262	.212	103
61	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.258	.189	103
62	Henry Blyth	Ohio	8	80.0%	.254	.253	103
63	Ryan Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.251	.235	103
64	Minh Le	Florida	10	100.0%	.029	.084	103
65	Erik Eide	Canada	7	70.0%	.391	.256	102
66	Lee Henry	Alabama	8	80.0%	.252	.250	102
67	Daniel Donohue	California	8	80.0%	.248	.301	102
68	John Kocsis	Virginia	9	90.0%	.145	.171	102
69	Andy Strange	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.125	.149	102
70	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	9	90.0%	.117	.232	102
71	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.374	.222	101
72	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.248	.215	101
73	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.241	.232	101
74	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	7	70.0%	.379	.238	100
75	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	7	70.0%	.374	.214	100
76	Jeff Frank	Indiana	8	80.0%	.231	.132	100
77	Jeff King	Maryland	8	80.0%	.227	.228	100
78	Andrew Dupont	California	8	80.0%	.223	.174	100
79	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	9	90.0%	.125	.079	100
80	Nicholas Nguyen	Florida	10	100.0%	.000	.000	100
81	Drew Wheeler	Georgia	8	80.0%	.227	.227	99
82	Jason Zuffranieri	Texas	8	80.0%	.219	.216	99
83	Lauren Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.217	.191	99
84	Craig Moysey	Canada	8	80.0%	.215	.111	99
85	Mazin Omer	Ohio	7	70.0%	.358	.198	98
86	James Dowd	Hawaii	7	70.0%	.339	.272	98
87	Jenna Hull	California	8	80.0%	.191	.247	98
88	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	7	70.0%	.337	.242	97
89	Rahim Dina	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.327	.280	97
90	Hans von Walter	California	7	70.0%	.325	.269	97
91	Chris Miller	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.205	.183	97
92	Jason Lai	New York	8	80.0%	.180	.218	97
93	Tony Evans	Illinois	9	90.0%	.085	.134	97
94	Chauncey Lo	California	8	80.0%	.198	.173	96
95	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	8	80.0%	.183	.105	96
96	Swapnil Garg	California	8	80.0%	.167	.223	96
97	Steven Brown	Virginia	7	70.0%	.324	.203	95
98	Martin Ocon	Georgia	7	70.0%	.311	.243	95
99	Nate Kane	Arizona	7	70.0%	.303	.230	95
100	Kendall Plapp	New York	7	70.0%	.300	.265	95
101	Arjun Sivakumar	California	7	70.0%	.299	.172	94
102	Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.288	.302	94
103	Matthew Askins	Arizona	8	80.0%	.156	.151	94
104	Daniel DeFelippis	Illinois	8	80.0%	.154	.257	94
105	Joseph Langas	Texas	7	70.0%	.289	.226	93
106	David Kiang	Illinois	7	70.0%	.287	.169	93
107	Will Johnson	Virginia	8	80.0%	.155	.163	93
108	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.154	.241	93
109	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	6	60.0%	.442	.306	92
110	Julian Saddy	Canada	7	70.0%	.291	.169	92
111	Dan Puma	Illinois	7	70.0%	.281	.158	92
112	Mary Foley	Arizona	7	70.0%	.277	.265	92
113	Mike Malloy	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.277	.240	92
114	Erik Nickels	California	7	70.0%	.268	.232	92
115	Adam Suzan	New York	7	70.0%	.260	.247	92
116	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	7	70.0%	.260	.270	92
117	Suhas Pai	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.163	.169	92
118	Tim Crockett	Washington	8	80.0%	.145	.162	92
119	Seth Ebner	Maryland	8	80.0%	.144	.227	92
120	Jesse Tow	Illinois	7	70.0%	.285	.220	91
121	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.268	.239	91
122	Liz Fujita	Michigan	6	60.0%	.435	.221	90
123	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	7	70.0%	.265	.222	90
124	Kari Race	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.250	.148	90
125	Innis Carson	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.120	.141	90
126	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	7	70.0%	.254	.267	89
127	Michael Patison	Texas	7	70.0%	.234	.170	89
128	Lili Omilian	Michigan	7	70.0%	.232	.250	89
129	James Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.227	.173	89
130	Juliet Harris	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.388	.313	88
131	Lexi Terman	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.234	.163	88
132	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	7	70.0%	.225	.190	88
133	Andy Brown	Illinois	7	70.0%	.232	.178	87
134	Ryan Hemmel	California	7	70.0%	.223	.131	87
135	Michael Kettler	Ohio	7	70.0%	.218	.307	87
136	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.382	.208	86
137	Kelly Rabin	Washington	6	60.0%	.367	.301	86
138	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.219	.245	86
139	Daniel White	Oregon	7	70.0%	.216	.143	86
140	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.209	.198	86
141	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	7	70.0%	.206	.182	86
142	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	6	60.0%	.360	.255	85
143	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	6	60.0%	.350	.273	85
144	James Carberry	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.347	.243	85
145	Katie Noyes	Michigan	6	60.0%	.344	.229	84
146	Devon Edwards	New York	6	60.0%	.340	.294	84
147	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.198	.209	84
148	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.186	.168	84
149	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.179	.113	84
150	Greg Peterson	Illinois	7	70.0%	.179	.214	84
151	Matt Coleman	Washington	7	70.0%	.161	.206	84
152	Randall Eng	New York	6	60.0%	.319	.238	83
153	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.170	.145	83
154	Adam Escandell	Texas	7	70.0%	.164	.137	83
155	Candy Murphy	Virginia	6	60.0%	.300	.237	82
156	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.166	.149	82
157	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.162	.135	82
158	Jackson Todd	Georgia	7	70.0%	.161	.259	82
159	Chris Hale	Virginia	7	70.0%	.155	.238	82
160	Michael Turner	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.323	.217	81
161	Max Smiley	California	6	60.0%	.305	.253	81
162	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.305	.214	81
163	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	6	60.0%	.301	.219	81
164	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	6	60.0%	.292	.175	81
165	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	6	60.0%	.287	.293	81
166	Michael Sands	New York	7	70.0%	.164	.212	81
167	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	7	70.0%	.155	.114	81
168	Russ Hart	New York	7	70.0%	.138	.192	81
169	Miranda Castro	Texas	5	50.0%	.505	.285	80
170	Jack Rousseau	Virginia	6	60.0%	.288	.283	80
171	Tyler Berry	Canada	6	60.0%	.273	.252	80
172	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	7	70.0%	.135	.184	80
173	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.282	.249	79
174	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.275	.255	79
175	Matt Takimoto	California	6	60.0%	.269	.283	79
176	Deleena Simon	Michigan	6	60.0%	.266	.164	79
177	Jill Heink	Kentucky	6	60.0%	.254	.263	78
178	Kristen Wedel	California	6	60.0%	.252	.231	78
179	Brock Stephenson	Canada	6	60.0%	.254	.198	77
180	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	6	60.0%	.245	.277	77
181	Harry White	Virginia	6	60.0%	.241	.312	77
182	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	6	60.0%	.240	.265	77
183	William Neiswanger	Washington	6	60.0%	.237	.240	77
184	Natalie Schermer	Washington	6	60.0%	.232	.286	77
185	Hidehiro Anto	California	7	70.0%	.109	.131	77
186	Alex Rice	Mississippi	7	70.0%	.093	.138	77
187	Christopher Harris	Texas	7	70.0%	.086	.107	77
188	Sam Davis	Texas	5	50.0%	.415	.282	76
189	Lars Melton	Virginia	6	60.0%	.222	.254	76
190	Nate Muckley	Illinois	5	50.0%	.435	.299	75
191	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.220	.212	75
192	Richard Appleyard	Europe	6	60.0%	.217	.184	75
193	Erik Kreutner	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.217	.158	74
194	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	6	60.0%	.204	.196	74
195	Stephen Ours	Virginia	6	60.0%	.191	.157	74
196	Kyle Kahan	California	5	50.0%	.381	.284	73
197	Andrea Cowan	Canada	6	60.0%	.209	.216	73
198	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.206	.136	73
199	Kimberly Brazier	New York	6	60.0%	.203	.241	73
200	David Kocik	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.188	.298	73
201	Meghan Timmel	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.186	.191	73
202	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	5	50.0%	.380	.285	72
203	Maria Kuhn	Colorado	6	60.0%	.196	.147	72
204	Cailey Hansen-Mahoney	Ohio	6	60.0%	.181	.172	72
205	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.179	.192	72
206	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	5	50.0%	.351	.252	71
207	Lynn Yu	California	5	50.0%	.350	.237	71
208	Sam Luongo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.163	.239	71
209	Matthew Grieco	New York	6	60.0%	.158	.185	71
210	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.147	.226	71
211	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.323	.291	70
212	John Christian Settle	West Virginia	6	60.0%	.160	.136	70
213	Matt Smania	Michigan	5	50.0%	.313	.231	69
214	Sarah Benner	Ohio	6	60.0%	.175	.148	69
215	Abel Gilsing	Europe	6	60.0%	.150	.151	69
216	Talia Fan	Canada	6	60.0%	.149	.119	69
217	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.289	.258	67
218	John Presloid	Ohio	6	60.0%	.134	.166	67
219	Max Clark	Michigan	6	60.0%	.126	.255	67
220	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	6	60.0%	.110	.176	67
221	Mitchell Rimerman	California	5	50.0%	.267	.199	66
222	Josh Turner	California	6	60.0%	.114	.117	66
223	Noah McRedmond	Ohio	6	60.0%	.099	.108	66
224	Craig Duke	Vermont	5	50.0%	.263	.279	65
225	Owen Cooper	Alabama	5	50.0%	.253	.314	65
226	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.249	.190	65
227	Mike Staley	Georgia	5	50.0%	.229	.255	63
228	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.212	.154	61
229	Kai Tang	Illinois	5	50.0%	.207	.150	61
230	Tony Chen	Canada	5	50.0%	.203	.190	61
231	Shauna McNally	Canada	5	50.0%	.188	.168	61
232	Alan Kreisel	Florida	5	50.0%	.176	.145	59
233	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.159	.218	59
234	Will Singleton	Ohio	4	40.0%	.367	.290	58
235	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.148	.158	58
236	Radu Popescu	Canada	5	50.0%	.146	.185	58
237	Raul Passement	Texas	5	50.0%	.144	.151	58
238	Max Woghiren	Canada	5	50.0%	.137	.165	58
239	Michael Arjona	Georgia	4	40.0%	.376	.239	57
240	Anthony DiCarlo	California	5	50.0%	.142	.170	57
241	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	4	40.0%	.343	.216	56
242	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	5	50.0%	.117	.127	56
243	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	5	50.0%	.114	.102	56
244	Andrew Semak	Michigan	5	50.0%	.109	.115	56
245	Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.107	.145	56
246	Greg Garbee	Florida	5	50.0%	.106	.136	56
247	Padraig Finan	Washington	5	50.0%	.129	.052	55
248	Mike Rauscher	New Jersey	5	50.0%	.105	.156	55
249	Danielle Long	Illinois	4	40.0%	.303	.211	54
250	Michael Shang	Maryland	5	50.0%	.094	.088	54
251	David Snoddon	Canada	5	50.0%	.067	.164	54
252	Christopher Knapp	Illinois	5	50.0%	.067	.084	53
253	Harrison Knapp	Alabama	4	40.0%	.220	.173	50
254	Sheldon Wong	California	4	40.0%	.222	.171	49
255	Jared Michael Taylor	North Carolina	4	40.0%	.193	.313	49
256	Mindy Wong	New York	4	40.0%	.183	.281	48
257	Brynn Jones	Illinois	4	40.0%	.166	.202	46
258	John Riss	Illinois	4	40.0%	.153	.199	46
259	Michael Joy	Michigan	4	40.0%	.151	.104	46
260	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	4	40.0%	.152	.103	45
261	Sameen Belal	New York	4	40.0%	.114	.220	45
262	Connor Teevens	Michigan	4	40.0%	.126	.249	44
263	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.066	.098	43
264	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	3	30.0%	.355	.305	42
265	Peter Paik	Virginia	4	40.0%	.068	.148	42
266	George Atendido	Minnesota	3	30.0%	.296	.160	41
267	Bryan Householder	Ohio	3	30.0%	.323	.233	40
268	Felix Stimets	Indiana	4	40.0%	.015	.072	40
269	Marcia Hamley	Oregon	4	40.0%	.000	.000	40
270	Liam Buck	Minnesota	3	30.0%	.242	.176	38
271	Veronica Freund	Indiana	3	30.0%	.151	.103	35
272	Abigail Dotson	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.135	.092	35
273	Eric Glyck	New York	3	30.0%	.147	.199	34
274	Emily Fletcher	Texas	3	30.0%	.086	.137	33
275	Kit Hoffman	Pennsylvania	3	30.0%	.012	.171	30
276	Nate Meyvis	Massachusetts	2	20.0%	.138	.092	23
277	Delano Barnes	Texas	2	20.0%	.127	.145	23
278	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	2	20.0%	.059	.067	20
279	Jude Griffith	West Virginia	2	20.0%	.021	.013	20
280	Tia O'Neil	Florida	2	20.0%	.012	.008	20
281	Ben Dillon	Indiana	2	20.0%	.001	.300	20
282	Sivesh Dodda	Illinois	2	100.0%	.000	.000	20
283	Owen Newell	West Virginia	2	20.0%	.000	.000	20
284	Ellie Hoblitzell	West Virginia	1	10.0%	.287	.091	13
285	Parth Vadia	Illinois	1	10.0%	.047	.016	10
286	Itamar Friedman	Texas	1	10.0%	.001	.211	10
287	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	1	100.0%	.000	-1.000	10
288	Katelyn Hentschel	West Virginia	1	10.0%	.000	.000	10
289	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.011	0
290	Melissa Knapp	Illinois	0	0.0%	-1.000	.004	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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