August 2024
Samir Mehta won this round on August 31, 2024. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Samir Mehta (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (22 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (10 goos solved), Scott Hardie (6 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (4 goos solved), Scott Horowitz (3 goos solved), and Denise Sawicki (2 goos solved).
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Rick Rubin
This American producer and DJ made hip hop mainstream with Russell and Run-DMC, and he had hits in other genres with artists like Rage and RHCP, despite being unable to jam due to hearing loss. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/alois-alzheimer.jpg)
Alois Alzheimer
This German scholar of brain disease never wrote his own book and couldn't get an audience to engage in his work, but he discovered and inspired the name of one of the modern world's most feared mental disorders among an aging population. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/bernard-fokke.jpg)
Bernard Fokke
This fokker sailed so fast that he gave rise to a legend that still frightens sailors three and a half centuries later. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/ty-cobb.jpg)
Ty Cobb
He was an odd choice for a pinch hitter on the legal team for a year, given that he didn't vote for his boss, but he scored a (white) home run anyway. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/alessia-zecchini.jpg)
Alessia Zecchini
According to a Netflix documentary, this Italian athlete sunk to new lows in her rivalry with a Japanese competitor. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/joanna-cole.jpg)
Joanna Cole
When she started her famous series in the mid-1980s, she needed a figurative and literal vehicle for her characters to explore science, and she knew one that her grade-school readers would recognize. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/rita-hayworth.jpg)
Rita Hayworth
She was a femme fatale to Glenn Ford, a wife to Orson Welles, a dance partner to Fred Astaire, a friend to Ronald Reagan, and a pin-up to Tim Robbins. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/graham-norton.jpg)
Graham Norton
This BBC host cultivates a party-like atmosphere among his well-lubricated guests, but the most popular seat in the studio is the big red one. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/junkyjanker.jpg)
Nicolas Cantu
This junky janker is an American voice actor and child actor. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/marilyn-hartman-2.jpg)
Marilyn Hartman
Her expertise in exposing weaknesses in airport security, from San Francisco to Chicago, eventually led to expertise exposing weaknesses in electronic monitoring. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/nastassja-kinski.jpg)
Nastassja Kinski
This third-generation performer refused to stay as she was, transforming into a Texan Parisian, a cat person, a rhapsodic American, and a d'Urberville. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/alexis-nikole-nelson.jpg)
Alexis Nikole Nelson
Sometimes, foraging for useful content on the Internet means looking for specific sources. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/lena-horne.jpg)
Lena Horne
This lady, and her music, have been devoted to civil rights for African Americans regardless of the varying races of the men in her life. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/ho-chi-minh.jpg)
Hồ Chi Minh
This Communist leader remained so popular after his death and after the unification of his country that the defeated southern capital, Saigon, was renamed in his honor. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/dave-portnoy.jpg)
Dave Portnoy
Taking its name from common barroom furniture, his sports-focused newspaper and opinion platform slowly grew into a media empire, allowing him to afford a bite of pizza anywhere in Manhattan. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/holly-maniatty.jpg)
Holly Maniatty
She's not dancing, she's working! Are you deaf? Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/franz-liszt.jpg)
Franz Liszt
Fans of this Hungarian composer could be diagnosed with a kind of mass hysteria, despite confusion over his best-known work being for a piano or a little bell. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/molly-pitcher.jpg)
Molly Pitcher
Revolutionary War historians cannot agree on which actual combatant she was, but they have achieved consensus that the yankees wanted her and not a belly itcher. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/richard-benjamin.jpg)
Richard Benjamin
His favorite year was when he spent his milk money on a mermaid made in America despite the heat in the city. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/trevor-jacob.jpg)
Trevor Jacob
His attempt to go viral with a dangerous YouTube video (and wallet commercial) did not crash the Internet as well as it did his abandoned vehicle. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/edward-woodward.jpg)
Edward Woodward
Was this British actor the equal of Denzel Washington and Queen Latifah? Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/irene-cara.jpg)
Irene Cara
She was raised as a little goddess; told she would be a star. She did indeed find fame. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/ren-magritte.jpg)
René Magritte
This artist walked into a bar and when the bartender asked him what he'd like, he responded, "Ce n'est pas un bar." Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/emanuela-orlandi.jpg)
Emanuela Orlandi
The question of what became of this teenager after her music lessons has haunted the Vatican since 1983. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/knickers.jpg)
Knickers
An Australian farm got the Internet's panties in a bunch over a new absolute unit of measurement in 2018. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/lily-king.jpg)
Lily King
This novelist writes stories set near her home in Maine that draw upon her experience as an English teacher, but she's not Stephen. Who's the king? Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/ted-cassidy.jpg)
Ted Cassidy
No one played the harpsichord quite like this butler. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/jiro-wang.jpg)
Jiro Wang
An Asian boy band was fortunate not to have named their band Celsius because they'd never make it big in America. But they have this singer who knows English well enough to rap, and since he didn't become one of three Js, he was available. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/ren-descartes.jpg)
René Descartes
I have been gooed, therefore I am. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/richard-kiel.jpg)
Richard Kiel
He mainly portrayed gentle giants except when fixed with braces. Go »![](/image/main-square/celebrity-goo-game/gooed/erwin-rommel.jpg)