May 2024
Russ Wilhelm won this round on May 31, 2024. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved), Steve West (28 goos solved, a perfect score), Richard Slominsky (23 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (19 goos solved), Erik Bates (12 goos solved), Samir Mehta (8 goos solved), Alexis Andino (3 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (2 goos solved).
Rey Mysterio
Like something out of a horror movie, this Wrestlemaniac from Tijuana has spawned a family of wrestlers. His ring name roughly translates to: Who's the king? Go »
Adam Scott
He used his severance pay after leaving a parks and recreation department to party down. Go »
Bindi Irwin
Crikey! This third-generation zookeeper's first major live public appearance was delivering a eulogy at age 8. Go »
Simon Pegg
When he had a break from fixing the Enterprise's engines, running from zombies in London, and helping Ethan Hunt pull off impossible missions, he played a junk boss who resembled a blobfish in The Force Awakens. Go »
Treat Williams
This actor made a snack out of lead roles in films as diverse as The Substitute 2, Hair, Deep Rising, 1941, and Dead Heat, but for fun, he went uncredited as an unnamed background extra in The Empire Strikes Back, playing a rebel on the planet Hoth. Go »
Jason Sudeikis
This SNL veteran wasn't very familiar with soccer as coach Ted Lasso, but that character was still more competent than his scout trooper who couldn't even guard a baby in The Mandalorian. Go »
Diahann Carroll
None of her nominations for five Emmys, three Golden Globes, two Grammys, and one Oscar were for playing a holographic sex fantasy. Go »
Greg Proops
With two independent heads and personalities, his Star Wars character probably often wondered whose line it was. Go »
Clint Howard
He's been making one-off appearances in the other Star-based media franchise since he was a child, as well as in the films made by his famous actor-writer-director brother. One of the latter included a solo appearance in the Star Wars series. Go »
Bea Arthur
Beloved by fans for her many years on Broadway, as well as television appearances as a liberal housewife in the 1970s and a Miami roommate in the 1980s, she is nonetheless overlooked for her greatest role of all, a singing bartender forced to close her cantina early due to a planet-wide curfew. Go »
Delta Burke
Despite being the only female lead nominated for an Emmy, she was fired after the fifth season of her hit show. Go »
Kat Graham
Her name sounds like a business that lets you send cats to your friends. Instead, this actress and singer delivered criticism to Hollywood, complaining openly about the racism and antisemitism that she experienced over eight years of playing a witch among vampires. Go »
Christopher Scott
So you think you can guess who this choreographer from the heights is? Go »
Mena Suvari
Her movie career started nowhere but she found work in a US bakery, a US salon, a US airline, a second US bakery, and eventually, a get-together of them all. Go »
Eugene O'Neill
His plays about hairy apes, icy men, stately mansions, and laughing Lazari earned him four Pulitzers. Go »
Amerigo Vespucci
This Italian cartographer was so influential in mapping the New World that he became synonymous with it. Go »
Jeff Probst
He went from hosting Rock & Roll Jeopardy! on VH1 to competing in Celebrity Jeopardy! to contributing pre-recorded answers in the "Reality TV Hosts" category of Jeopardy!, now that he's most famous for snuffing torches after the tribe speaks in a different TV competition. Go »
N. Scott Momaday
His 1969 novel won a Pulitzer and was the dawn of a renaissance in Native American literature. Go »
Brad Dourif
He specializes in playing madmen, like a mental patient who beds a prostitute, a psychotic Starfleet officer in distant space, a playful killer trapped in a child's toy, and a grimy advisor to a confused king. Go »
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Her life got better with every letter that he wrote, which is why she meticulously kept all of his correspondence and lobbied aggressively for its publication and preservation. Go »
Nancy Spungen
After this punk was killed, no trial ever determined whether she was viciously murdered. Go »
Ted Koppel
This alphabetical broadcaster's coverage of the Iran hostage crisis lasted for 25 years. Go »
Opha May Johnson
Before Drew Carey, R. Lee Ermey, John Glenn, or Ed McMahon, this lady was first. Go »
Philippa Langley
Some children play in the dirt. This royal historian was even less Reserved. Go »
Ke Huy Quan
This recent Oscar winner now seems to be everywhere all at once, after previously quitting the entertainment business shortly after his time in Head of the Class, given how few roles there were for Vietnamese-American actors. Go »
Dan Schneider
Behind the scenes, he was all that: Writer, producer, and showrunner on a series of hit shows and movies for NIckelodeon. But his former stars alleged his sexual misconduct, often while they were still underage, and this eventually proved victorious in ending his career. Go »
Robin Givens
After Head of the Class, she made movies opposite Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone, but she was so well known for her combative 1980s marriage to a heavyweight champion boxer that she was hired as the public spokesperson of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Go »
Brian Robbins
Media executives who have reached the paramount of success, like he has, rarely started their careers acting in the sort of sitcoms that he now greenlights. Go »
Johnny Galecki
By the time he joined the cast of Roseanne as a socially awkward teen, his career had already been launched by a "big bang" event. Go »
Dan Frischman
His AP history student on Head of the Class may have been a genius, but his grocery store manager overseeing Kenan and Kel definitely wasn't. Go »
