April 2024
Steve West won this round on April 30, 2024. There were 30 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (28 goos solved, a perfect score), Samir Mehta (21 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (15 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (11 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (1 goo solved).
Mohamed Zakariya
On this 1400th anniversary of the first Eid al-Fitr, if you wanted to tell someone "Eid mubarak" through the U.S. mail, you might apply the work of this Virginia-based calligrapher. Go »
Lupe Fiasco
Since humble beginnings in a food & liquor shop, he went on to be a successful entrepreneur, with a focus on lasers and drills. Go »
Teddy Swims
After a dive into the deep end of the music pool, this singer resurfaced with a hit single about self-control (not breath control) and learned to freestyle over an impressive variety of genres. Go »
Liver King
This influencer believes in unprocessed raw meat, but not in unprocessed raw truth about his own steroid use. Who's the king? Go »
John Ratzenberger
Long after his most famous job as a Boston mail carrier, he found a second career providing voices in every Pixar film—even Ratatouille, despite his name sounding like a health code violation. Go »
Pachacuti
Turning a village into an empire that conquered much of a continent was all in a day's work for this sun worshiper, but he's best remembered today for the ruins of his estate on top of a mountain. Go »
Che Guevara
Long before this Marxist revolutionary appeared on the shirts and dorm walls of college students, he kept "motorcycle diaries" of his travels as a young man, including his pivotal trip to a mountaintop ruin that opened his eyes to the exploitation of the locals around it. Go »
Hiram Bingham III
The single day that he spent as the governor of Connecticut was about the same amount of time that he gave anyone else credit for "discovering" Machu Picchu before him. Go »
MartÃn Chambi
This Indigenous photographer from Cusco made a name for himself by photographing both portraits of the living and the ruins of the dead. Go »
Fabrizio Moretti
This drummer and visual artist is the only South American member of the band that scored an early-2010s streaming hit with a song about a desire to go mountaineering. Go »
Colin Murphy
This British banker was thought to have drowned while hiking to Machu Picchu on vacation, until the cause of death was determined to be a series of head injuries that led to a murder investigation that remains unsolved. Go »
Charlton Heston
By starring in the first major Hollywood studio film made at a Peruvian archeological site, this actor inspired Indiana Jones. Go »
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
A botanist by education, he wound up in professional wrestling, where he put up with endless splinters in his hands in order to lead the audience in a patriotic three-letter chant that made him one of the most popular wrestlers of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Go »
Rishi Sunak
Britain's first prime minister of Indian descent did not buy his way into office, but he could have afforded it. Go »
Doris Kearns Goodwin
When I find myself in times of turbulence, a team of rivals comes to me, speaking World War wisdom: "Wait till next year." Go »
James Woods
He has dealt with many notable figures, including Richard Nixon, Roy Cohn, Charlie Chaplin, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hercules, and the 9/11 hijackers. Go »
Martha Moxley
One Halloween season in Connecticut (or was it Purgatory?), this teenager fell in with the wrong crowd, namely the Kennedy boys across the street. Go »
Bruce Hornsby
In 1984, this Virginian musician made a home on the range. That's just the way it was. Go »
Julia Butterfly Hill
This Missouri-born activist never made a guest appearance in One Tree Hill. Go »
Babyface
Looking very young has always been important to this former man-child of a guitarist, ever since his first solo hit about a babe. Go »
Jiro Ono
One of the best-regarded chefs in Japan must have nightmares about working at a Subway. Go »
Jason Hart
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. Go »
Ireland Baldwin
This rude, thoughtless, little pig is not from the Emerald Isle. Go »
Michael Emerson
He's been good at playing an interesting person in Lost, playing a lost person in Evil, and playing good in Person of Interest. Go »
Boris Pasternak
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. Go »
Percy Lavon Julian
This pioneer in synthetic drugs is also remembered for being a pioneer for African Americans in chemistry. Go »
Sandy Duncan
This actress with a funny face has starred in many Broadway and off-Broadway productions besides just Peter Pan and Finding Neverland. Go »
Sonny Liston
This son of a sharecropper was most famous for an incredible victory to win the heavyweight title and an equally incredible loss of same in a span of two years. Go »
Mickey Rourke
Plenty of guys have picked fights while hanging around in bars and diners, but this one went undefeated as a professional (albeit losing an Oscar for fighting in a different kind of ring). Go »
