November 2024
Steve West won this round on December 6, 2024. There were 30 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (23 goos solved, a perfect score), Richard Slominsky (21 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (18 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (17 goos solved), Denise Sawicki (16 goos solved), Samir Mehta (13 goos solved), Boko Bobcat (12 goos solved), Erik Bates (6 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (4 goos solved).
George Gaynes
Once a mob boss, he devolved into a bungling police commandant. Go »
Xavier Jernigan
This mid-level employee at a streaming service had the X factor that producers were looking for when they needed a voice (but not intelligence). Go »
Bill Russell
This mighty, mighty Bostonian (originally from Louisiana) was central to his team's dominance in the 1960s. Go »
Franklin Chang-Díaz
This astronaut Hall of Famer went from Central America to the United States to space a record number of times. Go »
Britt Ekland
She's known for her relationships with Peter Sellers, Rod Stewart, Lee Majors, Edward Woodland, and Roger Moore. Go »
Garrett Wilson
When you're a wide receiver, you're a wide receiver all the way. Go »
Hemiunu
His work remains shrouded in architectural mystery as to how it was made and what's inside, but most historians agree that this prince understood the point. Go »
Lenny Lipton
His life would come full circle if you saw a 3-D film about a magic dragon. Go »
Larry King
He advanced women's tennis with a tour and a magazine, but not as much as his ex-wife did by defeating Bobby Riggs. Who's the king? Go »
John O'Brien
That his novel about suicide would become an Oscar-winning film about suicide may have contributed to his suicide. Go »
John Clem
This Ohioan was promoted to major general a year before America entered WWI, but the first war in which he served was the American Civil War. Go »
Edgar Wright
Three Simon Pegg movies about ice cream are a lot to write and direct. Go »
Dorothy Day
She was a Bohemian who became a Catholic, a suffragist who became an anarchist, a pacifist who became an arrestee, and a journalist who might one day become a saint. Go »
"Macho Man" Randy Savage
This pro wrestler dominated in the 1980s and 1990s with his distinctive raspy voice, flamboyant fashion sense, snappy beef jerky endorsements, and headlining WrestleMania appearances. Oooh yeah! Go »
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
She put down her didgeridoo and swung more than a boomerang on her way to Wimbledon. Go »
William Burke and William Hare
Their Scottish murder spree changed the culture around medical dissection and cadaver donation, but not enough to keep one of them from being on display to this day in Edinburgh. Go »
Angela Lansbury
She won Tonys for Mame and Sweeney Todd, and was nominated for Oscars for Gaslight and The Manchurian Candidate, but the whodunit writer and amateur sleuth that she played on television from 1984 to 1996 brought her a whole new level of worldwide fame, and that's all she wrote. Go »
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
This Nigerian economist organizes world trade. Go »
Lisa Edelstein
Her doctor boyfriend couldn't stop being manipulative or deal with his addictions, could he? Go »
Ned Vizzini
The arc of his life—acclaimed 2006 novel about suicidal depression, followed by a 2010 film adaptation, and ending with his 2013 suicide—turned out not to be a funny story at all. Go »
Diane Keaton
Her first major film role as a crime lord's wife could have closed the door on her future success if it hadn't gone well, but a 1977 Oscar for playing Woody Allen's girlfriend confirmed her popularity. Go »
Tarja Halonen
This Scandinavian was the first after only 10 others and had an approval rating just shy of 90%. It makes one wonder why the US hasn't followed suit, yet. Go »
Anthony Edwards
The Timberwolves' #1 player is neither a tiny Marvel superhero nor an actor from ER and Top Gun. Go »
Charissa Thompson
Is a sideline reporter a true journalist or just an extra part of the show? This national sports host inspired this question in 2023 when she admitted to fabricating quotes in her former role. Go »
Paul Gauguin
This French master is remembered for his influential Primitivism and for his tumultuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh, which almost led to van Gogh cutting off his ear the night that he cut off his own. Go »
Lee Jung-jae
One of South Korea's most successful actors took a gamble on a Netflix series about deadly childhood games, but it paid off with international acclaim and an Emmy. Go »
Robert Mark Kamen
He has written some of Hollywood's most successful action movies of the last forty years, ever since his career took off when he adapted his own true story about learning martial arts to defend himself from bullies. Go »
Kathy Najimy
She helped a nun in hiding in San Francisco, was resurrected on Halloween in Salem, and married a propane salesman in Texas. Go »
