2024 Popular Culture Week 9

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	10	100.0%	.426	.206	150
2	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.416	.295	149
3	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.400	.244	148
4	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	10	100.0%	.359	.216	143
5	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	10	100.0%	.364	.149	142
6	Mazin Omer	Ohio	10	100.0%	.356	.181	142
7	Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.445	.232	139
8	Tucker Warner	New York	10	100.0%	.334	.192	139
9	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.328	.206	139
10	Lauren Manton	Ohio	10	100.0%	.338	.181	138
11	Matthew McDaniel	California	10	100.0%	.313	.266	138
12	Chris Miller	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.391	.298	134
13	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	10	100.0%	.290	.194	134
14	Chris Abrams	Nevada	10	100.0%	.290	.219	134
15	Ryan Milowicki	New York	9	90.0%	.378	.216	132
16	Jeff King	Maryland	10	100.0%	.290	.164	132
17	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.376	.257	131
18	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.251	.136	130
19	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	9	90.0%	.361	.267	129
20	Seth Ebner	Maryland	9	90.0%	.363	.286	128
21	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.363	.170	128
22	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	10	100.0%	.243	.183	128
23	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.241	.230	128
24	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	10	100.0%	.239	.208	128
25	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.355	.259	127
26	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.351	.238	127
27	Evan Nagler	New York	10	100.0%	.234	.165	127
28	Lars Melton	Virginia	9	90.0%	.344	.261	126
29	Steve Charnick	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.342	.271	125
30	Deleena Simon	Michigan	9	90.0%	.336	.287	125
31	Matthew Askins	Arizona	10	100.0%	.211	.195	125
32	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	9	90.0%	.332	.202	124
33	Andrew Dupont	California	9	90.0%	.317	.215	124
34	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	9	90.0%	.317	.242	124
35	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	9	90.0%	.317	.237	124
36	Lynn Yu	California	9	90.0%	.315	.229	124
37	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.314	.246	124
38	Craig Moysey	Canada	9	90.0%	.312	.152	122
39	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.302	.228	122
40	Tim Crockett	Washington	8	80.0%	.428	.232	121
41	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.305	.214	121
42	Akosua Asante	Canada	9	90.0%	.302	.157	121
43	Michael Turner	South Carolina	9	90.0%	.299	.201	121
44	Adam Suzan	New York	10	100.0%	.196	.167	121
45	Candy Murphy	Virginia	10	100.0%	.195	.184	121
46	Lee Henry	Alabama	8	80.0%	.428	.176	120
47	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	8	80.0%	.414	.241	120
48	Joseph Langas	Texas	9	90.0%	.294	.192	120
49	John Riss	Illinois	9	90.0%	.290	.183	120
50	Greg Peterson	Illinois	9	90.0%	.288	.198	120
51	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	10	100.0%	.189	.145	120
52	Jack Rousseau	Virginia	8	80.0%	.429	.248	119
53	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.281	.152	118
54	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.276	.146	118
55	John Kocsis	Virginia	10	100.0%	.167	.150	118
56	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	9	90.0%	.275	.218	117
57	David Kiang	Illinois	9	90.0%	.248	.182	117
58	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.166	.142	117
59	Suhas Pai	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.383	.230	116
60	Susannah Brooks	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.382	.225	116
61	Julian Saddy	Canada	8	80.0%	.377	.246	116
62	Hans von Walter	California	9	90.0%	.261	.232	116
63	James Dowd	Hawaii	9	90.0%	.260	.188	116
64	Kendall Plapp	New York	9	90.0%	.251	.213	116
65	Rahim Dina	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.249	.186	116
66	Andy Brown	Illinois	9	90.0%	.242	.187	116
67	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.370	.160	115
68	John Presloid	Ohio	8	80.0%	.368	.194	115
69	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.239	.181	115
70	Erik Nickels	California	9	90.0%	.237	.192	115
71	Lili Omilian	Michigan	9	90.0%	.237	.266	115
72	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.235	.207	115
73	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.360	.215	114
74	Dan Puma	Illinois	8	80.0%	.354	.217	114
75	Mitchell Rimerman	California	8	80.0%	.352	.259	114
76	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	9	90.0%	.249	.231	114
77	Matt Takimoto	California	9	90.0%	.247	.230	114
78	Dren Rollins	Tennessee	9	90.0%	.239	.231	113
79	Jason Palmer	Ohio	9	90.0%	.236	.207	113
80	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.343	.278	112
81	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	8	80.0%	.333	.209	112
82	Jeff Frank	Indiana	8	80.0%	.333	.206	112
83	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	9	90.0%	.207	.202	112
84	Kyle Kahan	California	8	80.0%	.335	.241	111
85	Jason Serrano	New York	8	80.0%	.331	.223	111
86	Adam Escandell	Texas	8	80.0%	.329	.215	111
87	Maria Kuhn	Colorado	8	80.0%	.327	.165	111
88	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.213	.153	111
89	Jennifer Trofa	California	9	90.0%	.209	.232	111
90	Michael Olson	Minnesota	9	90.0%	.207	.214	111
91	Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.319	.209	110
92	Greg Garbee	Florida	9	90.0%	.211	.164	110
93	Jason Lai	New York	9	90.0%	.193	.219	110
94	Michael Arjona	Georgia	9	90.0%	.191	.223	110
95	Jason Zuffranieri	Texas	8	80.0%	.321	.282	109
96	Cade Reinberger	New York	8	80.0%	.315	.176	109
97	Harry White	Virginia	8	80.0%	.312	.207	109
98	Michael Patison	Texas	8	80.0%	.300	.272	109
99	Alex Rice	Mississippi	9	90.0%	.207	.162	109
100	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	9	90.0%	.204	.163	109
101	Tony Evans	Illinois	9	90.0%	.198	.161	109
102	Matt Coleman	Washington	8	80.0%	.318	.219	108
103	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.300	.221	108
104	Juliet Harris	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.298	.286	108
105	Steven Brown	Virginia	7	70.0%	.459	.250	107
106	Martin Ocon	Georgia	7	70.0%	.445	.259	107
107	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	8	80.0%	.300	.207	107
108	Kari Race	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.297	.186	107
109	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.292	.195	107
110	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	9	90.0%	.176	.188	107
111	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.163	.188	107
112	Karen Keller	Ohio	9	90.0%	.159	.222	107
113	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.430	.261	106
114	Stephen Liu	California	8	80.0%	.290	.142	106
115	Andy Strange	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.288	.245	106
116	Drew Wheeler	Georgia	8	80.0%	.287	.245	106
117	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	Indiana	8	80.0%	.281	.218	106
118	Max Clark	Michigan	8	80.0%	.279	.206	106
119	Lawrence Simon	New York	8	80.0%	.278	.293	106
120	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	8	80.0%	.274	.207	106
121	Michael Coates	Idaho	8	80.0%	.273	.248	106
122	Daniel DeFelippis	Illinois	9	90.0%	.164	.152	106
123	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	8	80.0%	.285	.212	105
124	Innis Carson	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.282	.218	105
125	Erik Kreutner	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.395	.259	104
126	William Neiswanger	Washington	9	90.0%	.149	.170	104
127	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	7	70.0%	.391	.267	103
128	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.388	.198	103
129	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	8	80.0%	.249	.192	103
130	Paolo Pasco	California	7	70.0%	.403	.277	102
131	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.402	.227	102
132	Matthew Grieco	New York	7	70.0%	.394	.217	102
133	John Petrovich	Indiana	7	70.0%	.394	.229	102
134	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.239	.162	102
135	Randall Eng	New York	7	70.0%	.374	.250	101
136	Logan Anbinder	Maryland	7	70.0%	.362	.258	101
137	Rick Terpstra	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.361	.306	101
138	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.230	.157	101
139	Naveed Chowdhury	California	9	90.0%	.112	.104	101
140	Erik Christensen	Canada	7	70.0%	.372	.224	100
141	Brynn Jones	Illinois	7	70.0%	.368	.251	100
142	Erik Eide	Canada	7	70.0%	.366	.231	100
143	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.234	.156	100
144	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.224	.251	100
145	Mike Malloy	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.222	.194	100
146	Nate Kane	Arizona	7	70.0%	.358	.219	99
147	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	8	80.0%	.211	.204	99
148	Parth Jagtap	Canada	7	70.0%	.333	.137	98
149	Devon Edwards	New York	7	70.0%	.330	.209	98
150	Talia Fan	Canada	8	80.0%	.209	.217	98
151	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.205	.145	98
152	Nate Muckley	Illinois	8	80.0%	.202	.228	98
153	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	8	80.0%	.198	.161	98
154	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.194	.173	98
155	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.336	.220	97
156	Ryan Manton	Ohio	7	70.0%	.326	.221	97
157	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.101	.110	97
158	Christopher Harris	Texas	8	80.0%	.173	.200	96
159	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	7	70.0%	.317	.270	95
160	Will Johnson	Virginia	7	70.0%	.291	.185	95
161	Rachael Peters	Michigan	8	80.0%	.163	.202	95
162	Mike Myers	California	7	70.0%	.297	.224	93
163	Liam Buck	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.292	.236	93
164	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	8	80.0%	.156	.158	93
165	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	8	80.0%	.143	.134	93
166	Raul Passement	Texas	7	70.0%	.307	.226	92
167	James Carberry	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.282	.204	92
168	Michael Bentley	Washington	7	70.0%	.261	.205	92
169	Hidehiro Anto	California	8	80.0%	.149	.149	92
170	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.147	.158	92
171	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	8	80.0%	.130	.180	92
172	Swapnil Garg	California	8	80.0%	.123	.168	92
173	Chauncey Lo	California	7	70.0%	.266	.237	91
174	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.266	.258	91
175	Daniel Donohue	California	7	70.0%	.262	.204	91
176	Josh Turner	California	7	70.0%	.261	.217	91
177	Lexi Terman	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.260	.161	91
178	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	7	70.0%	.255	.294	91
179	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.252	.278	90
180	Shanine Salmon	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.243	.234	90
181	Nick Matchen	Illinois	7	70.0%	.242	.184	90
182	Abel Gilsing	Europe	8	80.0%	.130	.120	90
183	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	8	80.0%	.123	.126	90
184	Nicholas Nguyen	Florida	9	90.0%	.000	.088	90
185	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.251	.137	89
186	Ryan Hemmel	California	7	70.0%	.250	.183	89
187	Nora Denning	Ohio	7	70.0%	.247	.217	89
188	Will Howells	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.243	.180	89
189	Alan Kreisel	Florida	7	70.0%	.237	.250	89
190	Tyler Berry	Canada	8	80.0%	.107	.133	89
191	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	7	70.0%	.238	.120	88
192	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.233	.163	88
193	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	8	80.0%	.104	.100	88
194	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	6	60.0%	.388	.261	87
195	Sheldon Wong	California	7	70.0%	.224	.212	87
196	Christopher Parsons	Washington	7	70.0%	.207	.234	86
197	Jenna Hull	California	7	70.0%	.198	.180	86
198	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.208	.227	85
199	Jill Heink	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.206	.190	85
200	Noah McRedmond	Ohio	7	70.0%	.201	.204	85
201	Daniel White	Oregon	7	70.0%	.188	.128	85
202	Henry Blyth	Ohio	6	60.0%	.360	.187	84
203	Christopher Knapp	Illinois	6	60.0%	.341	.240	84
204	Mary Foley	Arizona	6	60.0%	.336	.201	84
205	Ben Dillon	Indiana	6	60.0%	.323	.237	83
206	Jared Michael Taylor	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.168	.177	83
207	Sarah Benner	Ohio	6	60.0%	.331	.162	82
208	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.309	.204	82
209	Kai Tang	Illinois	7	70.0%	.164	.165	82
210	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.468	.333	79
211	James E. Lasker	Texas	6	60.0%	.266	.191	79
212	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.274	.152	78
213	Evan Suttell	Colorado	6	60.0%	.268	.193	78
214	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	6	60.0%	.253	.184	78
215	Will Singleton	Ohio	7	70.0%	.117	.156	78
216	Michael Kettler	Ohio	5	50.0%	.450	.242	77
217	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.254	.213	77
218	Michael Shang	Maryland	6	60.0%	.247	.178	77
219	Andrew Semak	Michigan	6	60.0%	.245	.195	77
220	Eric Glyck	New York	6	60.0%	.249	.135	76
221	Bryan Householder	Ohio	6	60.0%	.237	.205	76
222	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.222	.243	76
223	Richard Appleyard	Europe	6	60.0%	.238	.168	75
224	Cailey Hansen-Mahoney	Ohio	6	60.0%	.232	.202	75
225	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	5	50.0%	.420	.251	74
226	Meghan Timmel	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.202	.250	74
227	Natalie Schermer	Washington	6	60.0%	.195	.177	74
228	Katie Noyes	Michigan	6	60.0%	.218	.134	73
229	Veronica Freund	Indiana	6	60.0%	.195	.162	73
230	Matt Smania	Michigan	6	60.0%	.190	.168	73
231	Sam Luongo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.183	.152	73
232	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	6	60.0%	.191	.106	72
233	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.369	.228	71
234	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.188	.140	71
235	Amitrajit Jana	Florida	7	70.0%	.026	.048	71
236	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	5	50.0%	.347	.241	70
237	Anthony DiCarlo	California	5	50.0%	.320	.305	70
238	Josh Hill	Arkansas	6	60.0%	.146	.146	69
239	George Atendido	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.309	.232	68
240	Harrison Knapp	Alabama	4	40.0%	.551	.302	66
241	Stephen Ours	Virginia	5	50.0%	.281	.171	66
242	David Kocik	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.280	.182	66
243	Paul Wiesler	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.084	.104	66
244	Chuck Yu	Maryland	5	50.0%	.278	.210	65
245	Peter Paik	Virginia	6	60.0%	.083	.111	65
246	Felix Stimets	Indiana	6	60.0%	.080	.079	65
247	Samuel McCoy	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.217	.175	63
248	Andrea Cowan	Canada	6	60.0%	.071	.105	63
249	Kristen Wedel	California	5	50.0%	.216	.182	62
250	Jackson Todd	Georgia	5	50.0%	.210	.182	61
251	Delano Barnes	Texas	6	60.0%	.027	.037	61
252	Michael Joy	Michigan	4	40.0%	.403	.329	59
253	John Christian Settle	West Virginia	5	50.0%	.159	.131	59
254	Mike Rauscher	New Jersey	5	50.0%	.165	.134	58
255	Russ Hart	New York	5	50.0%	.152	.161	58
256	Mindy Wong	New York	5	50.0%	.146	.149	58
257	Ellie Hoblitzell	West Virginia	5	50.0%	.146	.148	58
258	Tony Chen	Canada	4	40.0%	.343	.190	56
259	Chris Hale	Virginia	4	40.0%	.337	.188	56
260	Emily Fletcher	Texas	4	40.0%	.281	.222	53
261	Owen Cooper	Alabama	4	40.0%	.254	.152	51
262	Abigail Dotson	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.251	.223	51
263	William Travis	Texas	4	40.0%	.232	.212	51
264	Melissa Knapp	Illinois	4	40.0%	.224	.271	51
265	David Snoddon	Canada	5	50.0%	.034	.089	51
266	Marcia Hamley	Oregon	5	50.0%	.000	.000	50
267	Tony Colicchio	California	4	40.0%	.192	.161	49
268	Debarghya Das	Illinois	4	40.0%	.203	.152	48
269	Nate Meyvis	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.155	.271	47
270	Andrew Almas	Canada	4	40.0%	.145	.202	46
271	Dan Love	California	4	40.0%	.119	.128	45
272	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	4	40.0%	.111	.102	45
273	James Denning	Ohio	4	40.0%	.124	.109	44
274	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	3	30.0%	.357	.188	42
275	Max Woghiren	Canada	3	30.0%	.272	.284	39
276	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	3	30.0%	.237	.265	37
277	Padraig Finan	Washington	3	30.0%	.222	.129	37
278	Minh Le	Florida	2	20.0%	.001	.000	20
279	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.024	0
280	Parth Vadia	Illinois	0	0.0%	-1.000	-1.000	0
281	Itamar Friedman	Texas	0	0.0%	-1.000	.308	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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