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2023 Popular Culture Week 40

Standings

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#	Awards	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		Jessie 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.