July 2025
Richard Slominsky and Steve West won this round on August 6, 2025. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Richard Slominsky (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Samir Mehta (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (29 goos solved, a perfect score), LaVonne Lemler (17 goos solved), Stan Iwanchuk (10 goos solved), Erik Bates (3 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (3 goos solved).

Lily Collins
She followed a different beat than her famous father and chose acting, blindsiding audiences with roles as diverse as Snow White, Fantine, Edith Tolkien, and Emily in Paris. Go »
Gabrielle Union
Her two marital unions with pro athletes have boosted her fame, but she's a big star all by herself, playing notable roles about bad boys, brothers, Daddy's girls, honeymooners, an uncle, breaking in, bringing on, breakin' rules, and being Mary Jane. Go »
Phoebe Gates
As the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, she had no trouble affording an education at Stanford University and Julliard School, but she did not attend Ridgemont High. Go »
Patrick Reed
This Texan golfer with a patriotic nickname has won the Masters once, and finished in the top 5 in the PGA Championship and U.S. Open. Go »
H. Michael Croner
This person is known for voicing J.P. Mercer and Barry Buns. Go »
FKA Twigs
In her sexy live performances and in her resilience to chronic pain, this singer is neither as wooden nor as breakable as her stage name implies. Go »
Jesse Marcel
His statement that it was not a weather balloon that he had investigated three decades earlier in New Mexico blew up like Bikini Atoll. Go »
Lorraine Bracco
One can't help but wonder how her most famous character, a psychiatrist to a New Jersey mobster, would psychoanalyze some of her other notable roles, like a wife to a Irish mob associate, a mother to a teen-aged heroin addict, and a medical researcher trapped in the rainforest. Go »
Buffalo Bill
The town of Cody, Wyoming is named after him, even though he's named after bison. He became famous for killing an enormous number of them, as he boasted about in his hugely successful Old West traveling theater show. Go »
David Corenswet
Take over an iconic superhero role from Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill? No sweat. Go »
Jack Valenti
This longtime movie-industry bureaucrat opposed VCRs and invented the X and NC-17 ratings, maybe to prevent audiences from seeing any violence as graphic as what he witnessed on November 22, 1963. Go »
Peggy Lee
This jazz singer may have inspired a tequila-and-lime cocktail, a self-centered puppet diva, and a beautiful American rose, all of which share versions of her name. Go »
Robert Picardo
He played doctors on The Golden Girls, China Beach, and Early Edition before and during his long stint playing a holographic doctor on the wrong side of the galaxy. Go »
Anita Bryant
Somehow this singer thought being a beauty queen entitled her to make the LGBTQIA2S+ community public enemy #1. Her solution? Drink more orange juice. Go »
Mike Fiers
This pitcher threw his teammates under the bus by going on the record about their sign-stealing in what would become a major MLB scandal, although he came under fires himself by only doing so after he had moved onto another team. Go »
Ryan Phillippe
On film, he's played rogues in the likes of Cruel Intentions, 54, and Crash, but on TV, he's been a straight shooter. Go »
Ronald Reagan
Disneyland's addition of an audio-animatronic of Walt Disney for its 70th anniversary is turning out to be controversial, but Walt wouldn't be the first company employee recreated in audio-animatronic form: This man was reaching the end of his first career as a film actor when he was hired to host the live television broadcast of Disneyland's opening day from spots all over the park, before he embarked on a second career that eventually reached such heights that his likeness was added to the Magic Kingdom's Hall of Presidents. Go »
John Bettis
This hit-making songwriter is best known for his collaboration with the Carpenters, particularly lifelong friend Richard Carpenter, with whom he played live music in the Coke Corner (now Refreshment Corner) restaurant on Main Street, USA while they were just starting out. The duo was fired after four months for playing contemporary hits instead of old-timey music, but his career turned out just fine, seeing as he went on to write hits for Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Strait, and others. He also wrote many theme songs for TV shows, including Growing Pains starring Joanna Kerns, who herself once worked at Disneyland, playing Pinocchio's Blue Fairy in the Main Street Electrical Parade. Go »
John Lasseter
Prior to becoming one of Disney's most bankable directors with the likes of Toy Story and Cars—and one of their most high-profile separations in the wake of a #MeToo scandal—he spent summers working as a skipper aboard the Jungle Cruise attraction in Adventureland. What was he studying in college at the time? Character animation at CalArts, as taught by veteran Disney animators including Eric Larson, Frank Tomas, and Ollie Johnston. Go »
John McEuen
Steve Martin is arguably the celebrity who most famously used to work at Disneyland, but he acquired his love of the banjo the same way as this man, who was then his co-worker: The teenagers would take their breaks at the magic shop to run over to Frontierland to listen to the live bluegrass music. As a professional banjoist, he went on to a nearly forty-year membership in a famous Dirt Band, who once played backup on Martin's "King Tut" while billed as the Toot Uncommons. Go »
Sarah Butler
She rose to fame in the violent rape-revenge thriller I Spit on Your Grave and its sequel, playing a woman who is held captive and forced into sex. Much earlier in her career, she worked in the Fantasyland Theater, performing in the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast as Belle, a woman held captive and pressured into romance. (In the film version, her last name was played by frequent Disney voice actor David Ogden Stiers.) Go »
Josh Freese
He has rocked out as a member of so many notable bands—Devo, Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses, Sublime, the Vandals, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, and more—that it's easy to overlook his first, a Top 40 cover band that played on stage at the Tomorrowland Terrace restaurant. By then he had already spent a lot of time at the park, since his father led the Disneyland Band, who he used to march behind while playing toy instruments. Go »
Colleen Ballinger
Her most popular character, a lipstick-bedecked wannabe star whose false confidence in her singing talent motivates her to behave like a diva, first went viral while she was employed at Disney's California Adventure, performing in shows based on Playhouse Disney and High School Musical. She was fired by the park because she kept breaking character to respond to fans of her videos, but she enjoyed years of success on YouTube, until a scandal involving inappropriate contact with a minor brought that to a halt, too. Go »
Ed Sullivan
Countless stars made their debut on his really big shoe. Go »
Robert King Stone
This physician was so well-connected in D.C. that he was present at Abraham Lincoln's deathbed and autopsy. Who's the king? Go »
Daniel Silva
This unlikely spy novelist is far too eloquent of a messenger for anyone to accuse him of assassinating English. Go »
Bella Thorne
Considering that her breakout role came in Dirty Sexy Money, it's no surprise that she's been involved in other unsavory projects since, from directing a porn film to owning a cannabis brand to playing a Satanic cheerleader. Go »
Sean Paul
This Jamaican got busy raising the temperature with his hits about being given light and being burning. Go »
Jan Harold Brunvand
I heard from a friend of a friend that he's such an expert in modern folklore that he was informally given an honorific nickname. But that's probably too good to be true. Go »