How well do you know famous actors, musicians, athletes, newsmakers, and other celebrities? In Celebrity Goo Game, a distorted photograph of a famous person (a "goo") is published daily, along with a few hints. Guess correctly and you'll enter the monthly competition, where each winner earns a gift-card prize.


Today's Goo

Legends, January 3

Legends

Like the cheese famously produced by his country, this father of the year (1307) put a lot of holes in things, but not as many as historians have put into the veracity of his legend, much to the burning resentment of his people.

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Other Current Goos

Movies

Playing an oily preacher earned him a BAFTA nomination and the ire of Quentin Tarantino. Go »

Literature

She adapted her urban novel, first published as a book in 1926 and set one hundred years later, into a meilenstein (or is it kilometerstein?) of sci-fi cinema directed by her husband. Go »

Competitions

You'd have to win 74,592 rounds of Celebrity Goo Game to equal this quiz-show master's earnings, the tenth highest amount ever across standard American game shows. Go »

Movies

This director of Spartacus, Strangelove, A Space Odyssey, and The Shining didn't live to see A Minecraft Movie, though his name sounds like something in it. Go »

Literature

This Dragonwriter put her mark on the science fantasy genre in the form of a Hugo Nebula. Go »

Business

This Hawaiian breadwinner was beloved by his employees for his selflessness, perhaps the same trait that led him to name his bakery after the street it was on instead of after himself, which is why I can't ask you whether he's the king. Go »