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| # | Answer | TUH | # Correct | % Correct | Average Correct Celerity |
Std. Dev Celerity | Average Correct Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warren G(amaliel) Harding | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .367 | .235 | 14.50 |
| 2 | Montezuma (II) | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .517 | .299 | 16.00 |
| 3 | Catherine the Great | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .430 | .240 | 15.33 |
| 4 | John Brown | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .320 | .214 | 13.33 |
| 5 | World War II | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .358 | .311 | 14.33 |
| 6 | Sparta | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .344 | .275 | 14.00 |
| 7 | Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | .275 | .142 | 13.00 |
| 8 | Japan | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | .198 | .262 | 12.00 |
| 9 | Earl Warren | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | .000 | .128 | 10.00 |
| 10 | Battle of Trafalgar | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .382 | .221 | 14.00 |
| 11 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .062 | .071 | 10.50 |
| 12 | Portugal | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .219 | .326 | 12.50 |
| 13 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .101 | .011 | 11.00 |
| 14 | Saint Francis of Assisi | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .141 | .075 | 11.33 |
| 15 | Dick Cheney | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .158 | .182 | 12.00 |
| 16 | Quebec | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .288 | .351 | 13.00 |
| 17 | Clinton | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .239 | .413 | 13.00 |
| 18 | (Nazi) concentration camps | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .182 | .258 | 12.00 |
| 19 | Church of England or Anglican Church | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .261 | .028 | 13.00 |
| 20 | New Amsterdam | 3 | 0 | 0.0% | -1.000 | .260 | NaN |
| 21 | Ferdinand Magellan | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .353 | .241 | 14.00 |
| 22 | Battle(s) of Saratoga | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .563 | .209 | 16.50 |
| 23 | China | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .067 | .059 | 10.67 |
| 24 | salt | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .541 | .249 | 16.33 |
| 25 | Nero | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .304 | .007 | 13.33 |
| 26 | (U.S. presidential election of) 1860 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .436 | .248 | 15.00 |
| 27 | Erwin Rommel | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .230 | .186 | 12.67 |
| 28 | Argentina | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .000 | .000 | 10.00 |
| 29 | Rhode Island | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .113 | .196 | 11.33 |
| 30 | Louis XIV of France | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .238 | .206 | 12.67 |
| 31 | Baltimore, Maryland | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .238 | .001 | 13.00 |
| 32 | William Wallace | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .373 | .215 | 14.00 |
| 33 | Iraq | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | .191 | .168 | 12.00 |
| 34 | Cherokee | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .080 | .054 | 10.50 |
| 35 | children | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .126 | .145 | 11.50 |
| 36 | Alfred Dreyfus | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .459 | .267 | 15.50 |
| 37 | Clarence (Seward) Darrow | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .002 | .003 | 10.00 |
| 38 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .130 | .119 | 11.00 |
| 39 | Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .089 | .078 | 10.67 |
| 40 | Harrison | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .220 | .127 | 12.00 |
| 41 | Rwandan genocide | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .410 | .237 | 15.00 |
| 42 | First Barbary War | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | .152 | .215 | 11.50 |
| 43 | Elizabeth I of England | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .254 | .221 | 13.00 |
| 44 | Phoenician civilization | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .435 | .047 | 15.00 |
| 45 | Speaker of the House (of Representatives) | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .081 | .070 | 10.67 |
| 46 | Nicholas II of Russia | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | .466 | .237 | 16.00 |
| 47 | Mao Zedong | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .349 | .108 | 14.00 |
| 48 | Graham | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | .007 | .005 | 10.00 |
| 49 | William the Conqueror | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .388 | .022 | 14.67 |
| 50 | Battle of Gettysburg | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | .225 | .032 | 12.33 |
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.