Current Goos
Can you solve the goos below? You'll improve your score if you do. Good luck! For more information, see How to Play.
publication date: Saturday, April 20, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, April 27
category: 
Science
clue: This pioneer in synthetic drugs is also remembered for being a pioneer for African Americans in chemistry.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm
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publication date: Friday, April 19, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, April 26
category: 
Literature
clue: This mid-century Russian novelist (not medical textbook author) was so controversial that the Communists running the country told him that they would ring no bell in his honor.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm
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publication date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, April 25
category: 
Television
clue: He's been good at playing an interesting person in Lost, playing a lost person in Evil, and playing good in Person of Interest.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, and Samir Mehta
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This celebrity goo was created by player Steve West.
publication date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, April 24
category: 
Family
clue: This rude, thoughtless, little pig is not from the Emerald Isle.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Richard Slominsky, and Scott Hardie
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This celebrity goo was created by player LaVonne Lemler.
Scott Hardie made major changes to the clue and made major changes to the explanation provided by LaVonne.
publication date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, April 23
category: 
Business
clue: Under his leadership, the 46,000 American employees of this fast-growing retail company love to focus on efficiency and simplicity to deliver affordable product to its customers.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
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publication date: Monday, April 15, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, April 22
category: 
Cuisine
clue: One of the best-regarded chefs in Japan must have nightmares about working at a Subway.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Sunday, April 14, 2024 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, April 21
category: 
Music
clue: Looking very young has always been important to this former man-child of a guitarist, ever since his first solo hit about a babe.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Samir Mehta
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Recent Goos
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Julia Butterfly Hill
Hill lived in a California redwood from December 10, 1997 to December 18, 1999 to save it from loggers. Go »
Bruce Hornsby
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Martha Moxley
Moxley was murdered on October 30, 1975 after falling behind the fence while playing with the Skakel boys, nephews of Ethel Kennedy, across the street from her home. Teenagers Thomas and Michael Skakel, as well as their live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton, were all prime suspects at one point. Michael was eventually convicted of the murder and served more than a decade in prison. The case was the subject of the fictionalized book A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne. Go »
James Woods
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Kearns Goodwin is a renowned historian and biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Her works include Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018), Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005), No Ordinary Time: Franklink and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994), and her own memoir, Wait Till Next Year (1997). Go »
Rishi Sunak
When Sunak became prime minister in 2022, he and his wife's combined net worth was nearly one billion U.S. dollars, and much was made of such a wealthy man governing a country struggling with poverty and low wages. Go »
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
James Duggan Jr., best known by his stage name "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, was a popular pro wrestler known for carrying a 2x4 around with him and leading the crowd in chants of "U-S-A!" He earned a degree in botany from Southern Methodist University. Go »
