December 2025
Samir Mehta won this round on January 6, 2026. 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 (30 goos solved), and LaVonne Lemler (4 goos solved).
Katherine Paterson
In 1977, this Chinese-born author swung from Asian history to American fantasy. Go »
Alonzo Jay King
A salty suspect's oral argument had the DNA of a compelling fourth-amendment Supreme Court case. Who's the king? Go »
Milton Glaser
This logo designer so ♥ed his city that he co-founded a magazine that shared its name. Go »
Mike Schmitz
It took a year (specifically, 2021) for him to make the Bible the biggest book in podcasts. Go »
June Lockhart
Late-career roles in the likes of Holiday in Handcuffs and Zombie Hamlet did not turn up in many remembrances after the recent passing of this centenarian, whose best-known work happened decades earlier, playing mothers in Lassie and Lost in Space and a surrogate mother figure in Petticoat Junction. Go »
Cecil Baldwin
This voice actor broadcasts community news from a town that is as strange as his character on a heavy Disney Channel series. Go »
Eugenio Derbez
He's been a valet to Samara Weaving, a gardener to Adam Sandler, a doctor to Jennifer Garner, an uncle-in-law to Rob Schneider, and a son to Silvia Derbez. Go »
Iwona B. Horyn
The person who keeps secure the people who keep secure our homeland keeps secure in her reputation despite social media mocking her unfortunate name. Go »
Gaten Matarazzo
It's no prank that this teen actor would want to use his celebrity from a horror TV series to help strangers also dealing with his bone disorder. Go »
Georgy Zhukov
One of World War II's most successful generals accepted surrender from Germany and colorless Coke from America. Go »
Baz Luhrmann
Whether it's the La bohème score, the earliest hip hop music, or Elvis Presley songs, this unconventional Aussie always chooses carefully when selecting the music for his productions, which tend to be about transplants: Shakespearean Italians in Los Angeles, an English poet in the Parisian nightlife, and a Midwesterner drawn to lavish New York parties. Go »
Jane Curtin
She's known for playing a humanities professor in 3rd Rock from the Sun, a divorced mom in Kate & Allie, and an ignorant slut on Saturday Night Live. Go »
Dick Van Dyke
The seemingly hundred awards that he received in his long life include an Emmy for playing Rob Petrie, a Grammy for singing as Bert, a Tony for playing Albert Peterson, and induction to the Television Hall of Fame, Disney Legends Hall of Fame, Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Kennedy Center Honors. And in case you thought he was done, he won another Emmy last year at the age of 99. Go »
Larry Ellison
This mega-rich SYSDBA has seen the future and wants to grant privileges to his preferred government administrators. Go »
Emma Mackey
Moviegoers out to see her latest titular role might be confused as to which name on the poster is the character and which is the actress, the same problem that she had in 2022. Go »
Kristi Noem
The head of the home of the people who head up securing our home has secured a reputation for heading to raids to secure their success at heading off certain reputed security risks, despite the unfortunate coincidence of her name sounding like a tiny creature taking up residence in someone else's home garden. Go »
Al Leong
A predilection for Crunch bars made him a standout stuntman, a year before his Mongolian emperor invaded Los Angeles. Go »
Rob Reiner
Despite never winning an Oscar, he wrote and/or directed numerous films beloved by critics and audiences, including This is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Bucket List, and, in retrospect perhaps his saddest film, Being Charlie. Go »
Hugh Troy
If a light bulb goes off for you while trying to name this prankster behind fake severed Van Gogh ears and rhinoceros tracks across campus, it probably didn't come from the Waldorf Astoria. Then again, his biggest prank of all might have been making up the majority or even entirety of the stories about him. Go »
Hugh Thompson Jr.
Despite strategically landing his helicopter to interrupt a massacre, he considered his distinguished flying to be trash. Go »
Thomas Edison
His versions of the electric light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and thousand or so other inventions made him a shining American icon, but his intellectual property theft, exploitation of law and employees, and animal cruelty have dimmed his glow since. Go »
Neil Papworth
When he sent a first-of-its-kind message on December 3, 1992, he's lucky that he didn't get back in reply, "new technology who dis?" Go »
Dusty Slay
This trucker-hat enthusiast slays 'em out there with his Southern perspective on comedy and Bible-tinged podcast. Go »
Flannery O'Connor
Merely quoting Matthew 11:12 would have gotten you nowhere with this writer, for whom it's true that a gooed answer is hard to find. Go »
Susan Dey
On this first dey of Christmas, my goo game gave to thee: A Partridge in self-parody. Go »
Robert L. Hines
This stand-up escaped his confinement to the comedy club by making an ass of himself while starring in a series of viral commercials for fake Chicago businesses. Go »
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A famous saying in the murder-mystery genre, identifying the killer as a specific domestic servant, was inspired by this American novelist's work. Seventeen years later, a different domestic servant in her own home tried to kill her with a gun and knives. Go »
Robert Taira
This Hawaiian breadwinner was beloved by his employees for his selflessness, perhaps the same trait that led him to name his bakery after the street it was on instead of after himself, which is why I can't ask you whether he's the king. Go »
Anne McCaffrey
This Dragonwriter put her mark on the science fantasy genre in the form of a Hugo Nebula. Go »
Stanley Kubrick
This director of Spartacus, Strangelove, A Space Odyssey, and The Shining didn't live to see A Minecraft Movie, though his name sounds like something in it. Go »
