October 2024
Russ Wilhelm and Steve West won this round on November 6, 2024. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (23 goos solved, a perfect score), Denise Sawicki (21 goos solved), Samir Mehta (21 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (15 goos solved), Scott Hardie (5 goos solved), and LaVonne Lemler (2 goos solved).
Margaret Qualley
Her mother was famous in Hollywood once upon a time, but she's no one's leftovers: She's been praised for substantial roles as a cleaner, a thing, and a noted killer. Go »
David Lander
He burst through the door with a boisterous "hello," regardless of how Large and Small he and his best friend were. Go »
Moo Deng
She's not even three months old yet, but this bouncy Thai baby is already attracting a global audience. Go »
Enrico Caruso
Before Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras, this Italian was generally regarded as the first international recording star. Go »
Dylan McDermott
Among all interchangeable, generically handsome TV hunks, he might be the reigning king: He has traded lead roles with Julian McMahon in FBI: Most Wanted, Zachary Quinto in American Horror Story, and James Spader in The Practice. Go »
Davante Adams
By the time he left Wisconsin to join his hometown team, they had moved to Nevada. Go »
Tali Biner
This professional lifesaver survived at the Nova music festival by hiding sight unseen. Now she's using her visibility as a survivor to tell people (including a recent U.S. presidential candidate) about what that bloody day was like. Go »
Lisa Ling
Wherever she goes on our perilous planet, our American correspondent will broaden her views. I guess that's life. Go »
Lloyd Bentsen
He served with Jack Kennedy. He knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of his. Go »
King Diamond
As fate would have it, he became a heavy metal singer and bone collector, not a playing card. Who's the king? Go »
Stetson Kennedy
He traded his family's expensive hat for a pointy white hood in order to expose what it was like inside. Go »
Patti LuPone
Despite being fired from Andrew Lloyd Webber's production, don't cry for this multiple award-winning performer. Go »
David Emge
Being able to fly a helicopter is a useful skill but it doesn't equate to zombie survival. Go »
Deb Haaland
It's about time that someone with her heritage was a Secretary of the Interior, and by that I mean someone with "land" in her name. Go »
Keith Lee
This short-video restaurant critic, whose popularity recently went all the way to 10, has been a fighter for more recognition for Black-owned restaurants since the beginning. Go »
Stephen Wolfram
If you want to know how to add two violent animals together (as in his last name), ask his search engine. Go »
John Pemberton
This Georgian pharmacist's stabbing at the very end of the Civil War led to one of the most popular fizzy drinks in the world today. Go »
Liam Payne
At one point, the only direction that his career seemed to be going was up. But now, we'll only have the one L.P. by which to remember him. Go »
Vaclav Pisvejc
This Czech artist goes to such criminal and violent lengths to be part of other people's art that you can't be sure that he didn't hack this website to insert himself into this goo. Go »
Spanky McFarland
This child star's name sounds like an adherent of corporal punishment. Go »
Rajneesh
From Maharashtra to Oregon, this meditative leader taught his orange followers to reject the religious morality of Eastern and Western religions alike, and to live fully in the modern world as sexual beings, although he is not to be confused with a racist 2008 Mike Myers movie. Go »
David Boies
This lawyer took down Microsoft, legalized gay marriage in California, and almost made Al Gore president, but he never practiced law in the hood. Go »
Billy Graham
This evangelical tar heel and crusader wasn't "crackers," nor did he own a goat, but he did make timely decisions. Go »
Jane Alexander
Her acting career started with hope of an Academy Award. She was nominated four times but never won. A notable television role saw her age from teenager to sexagenarian. Go »
Ray J
This singer is one degree of separation from Kim Kardashian, Brandy Norwood, Lil' Kim, Princess Love, and Whitney Houston. Go »
Hoda Kotb
Today, this outgoing co-anchor is open about her personal life, whether broadcasting her experience with breast cancer or speaking about what her Egyptian Muslim parents gave up to raise her in the United States. Go »
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Seventy years ago, the Air Force gained its first Black general, one who had plenty of experience from leading the Tuskegee Airmen. Go »
Jack Swigert
Have you ever had one of those bad days at work when everything goes wrong, and it's extra frustrating because you were only there to cover for a sick co-worker? Go »
Brooke Hogan
This singer and reality TV star might have known better than her father how to manage fame, since it was her dating of a Black man that started the chain of events that ended his wrestling career. Go »
Thomas Cochrane
Although le Loup des Mers was successful in nearly all of his naval actions, his insider trading hoax led to his dismissal from the House of Commons. Ironically, he ran on the stance of Parliamentary reform. Go »
