January 2025
Russ Wilhelm and Steve West won this round on February 6, 2025. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (25 goos solved, a perfect score), Samir Mehta (22 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (17 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (1 goo solved), and Scott Hardie (1 goo solved).
Dick Butkus
What do Paddington, Bobo, Fozzie, Baloo, and Winnie the Pooh have in common with this linebacker? They're all bears with silly names. Go »
Ferdinand Kingsley
It's hard to follow Gandhi, but this young actor has made his own name in movies about Dracula and Herman Mankiewicz and television shows about Queen Victoria and the Sandman. Who's the king? Go »
Adolphe Sax
This Belgian designer of musical instruments is most famous for his eponymous brass invention. Go »
Roberto Durán
Boxing's most famous quitter doesn't want to fight any more. Go »
Andrew Grant
It's a bit of a reach to think little brother can write as well as big brother. Go »
Ludger Sylbaris
This street fighter joined a circus after one explosive morning changed his life. Go »
Vanna Bonta
Her writing launched a literary sub-genre and flew all the way to Mars, but her life took other quirky detours, from inventing a sexy new spacesuit to voice-acting in a beautiful Disney movie. Go »
Richard Burton
This actor starred in a "fun" movie in which he did all the talking and Eastwood did all the killing. Go »
Justin Verlander
He was of/from the land of Detroit for many years, until a last-minute trade to Houston that allowed him to pitch his way to a pair of World Series titles. Go »
Sabrina Carpenter
Before the pandemic, she had such a singular vision for her magnum opus that it required two releases, but now she keeps her albums short and sweet. Go »
Tavar Zawacki
The artist formerly known as ⇧ has left his mark on walls around the world, including a famous one in Berlin. Go »
Beka Gillis
Guests might not have shown up to her original party because they had visions of being bored, but Tiktok gave her a chance to try again in the new year. Go »
Anthony Gatto
Defying physics (of the "what goes up must come down" variety), neither rings, clubs, nor balls can kill this cat. Go »
David Daleiden
Ten years ago, his organization found it easier to acquire controversy, Congressional attention, and news coverage than fetal tissue. Go »
Harry R. Truman
On May 18, 1980, this presidential-sounding folk hero got a swift rebuke from nature when he doubted geologists. Go »
David Chase
This showrunner named his mother after his aunt, his psychiatrist after his grandmother, and his friends after his mother. Go »
Doug Williams
His achievement was the first of its kind in his sport, while the team for which he played had a name contradicting the reason. Go »
Chappell Roan
Trying to identify this Midwesterner who has enjoyed a rapid rise (and so far, no fall)? Good luck! Go »
Johnny Winter
Before his 2014 death, he was the skinniest, whitest boy playing the blues, on records like Still Alive and Well and Saints & Sinners. Go »
Dean Winters
He played a scheming convict in Oz, a jaded detective in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and an ill-fated cop in Rescue Me, but he's best known for embodying the abstract concept of random but insurable violence in a series of commercials. Go »
Ariel Winter
These days, it seems like every family has that one super-smart kid. Go »
Shelley Winters
This actress found her place in the movie business, being nominated for four acting Oscars between 1952 and 1973. She won two of them in a very successful patch in the middle of that span. Go »
Tex Winter
Nicknamed for the Lone Star State where he was born, this famed basketball coach triangulated a way to win eleven championships with his colleague Phil Jackson. Go »
Alex Winter
After an excellent start to his acting career, he lost interest in acting when he discovered that the industry was bogus. Go »
Robin Winters
This conceptual artist's ability to paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, and most of all perform his work live for weeks at a time has made every other artist in New York want to colab with him. Go »
Sarah Wynter
Yes, like seemingly every actor from New Zealand, she was in Flight of the Conchords. But you might have also seen her in 24 other hit shows. Go »
Jeanette Winterson
This novelist operates an organic grocery in London, where the menu includes oranges in a nod to her prize-winning debut. Go »
Anna Wintour
This media chief and Met Gala chairperson always knows what's in vogue, making her one of the most powerful people in fashion and publishing for decades. Go »
Jonathan Winters
Audiences went mad, mad, mad, mad for this (many) character actor, in his appearances from The Tonight Show to The Dean Martin Show to The Smurfs to Mork & Mindy. Go »
Terence Winter
He put words in the mouths of Tony Soprano, Nucky Thompson, Dwight Manfredi, and Jordan Belfort. Go »
