March 2026
Russ Wilhelm won this round on April 6, 2026. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (29 goos solved), Steve West (27 goos solved), Samir Mehta (21 goos solved), Hugh Spaffman (3 goos solved), Wilbur Soot (3 goos solved), and Matthew Anderson (2 goos solved).
Marie Tussaud
If this French artist had lost her head in the French revolution as nearly happened. you might not be able to pose with lifelike figures of the subjects of this game in touristy museums around the world. Go »
Jacob Elordi
Hearts, horses, and heights are the titular concerns of this actor, whose career has been given a second life thanks to a jolting Oscar nomination. Go »
Jeremy Fears Jr.
Going into March Madness, his rivals might tell themselves that the only thing they have to fear is he himself. Go »
Margaret Gilleo
Whatever your feelings about American military action, your right to express them via your yard was protected by this Missourian litigant in the 1990s. Go »
Lou Gehrig
On the face of it, he may have seemed like the luckiest man on Earth. But his record-setting streak of consecutive games while playing for his native New York was so famously interrupted by an incurable disease that it came to be called his. Go »
Brian Posehn
This comedian of comedy has written for Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel, and Dethklok and Deadpool. Go »
Terry Smith
The ceaselessly positive attitude of this American footballer who became a British soccer coach inspired a wave of feel-good television long before Apple TV+ existed. Go »
Dianna Cowern
This MIT grad is a physicist, not a pathologist, but COVID caused a three-year interruption in her normal production schedule none the less. Go »
Merv Griffin
This pop singer, film actor, and talk show host enjoyed his biggest success producing two long-running weeknight game shows about danger and circular luck, although his wife came up with the premise for one of them. Please phrase your response in the form of a question. Go »
Tobi Vail
Her deodorant inspired Kurt Cobain's biggest hit, her zine about angry grrls could have started a riot, and she's been killing it on stage in her feminist band since 1990. Go »
Robert Smithson
After his early Catholic-inspired paintings and drawings, this artist looked at nature's landscape of rocks and shapes and thought, "Why not give it a whirl?" Go »
Nick Ut
Evidence indicates that despite his credit, he might not have been the photographer who took the world-famous picture of a crying girl in severe emotional distress on a fateful June 8, and I'm not even talking about that time when Paris Hilton was crying in the back of an LAPD cruiser. Go »
Michael Ende
This German fantasist so hated the part of the story that was his name that he wrote a famous story in which it would never happen. Go »
Jack Welch
Gee, this electricity company leader is about as popular today as a neutron bomb: A CEO who spent two decades maximizing executive pay while forcing his employees into competition to avoid being cut in his yearly termination quota. Go »
Jason Kreis
The career of this soccer coach has taken him as far across the field (pitch?) as Manchester to learn how they operate, but currently he's back at work in Salt Lake City where he once played. Go »
Chrishell Stause
This small-town Kentuckian so enjoyed living in Los Angeles to film All My Children and Days of Our Lives that she started helping other people buy houses there on Netflix. Go »
Saint Patrick
This Irish saint is remembered every year for having had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking island! Go »
Kathleen Hanna
Her bandmate's deodorant inspired her to mock Kurt Cobain, her riot-grrl attitude could have inspired other bands to start, and she's been killing it on stage in her punk band since 1990. Go »
Josh Hutcherson
This actor is no stranger to franchises, having starred in the multi-film series based on Five Nights at Freddy's, The Hunger Games, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Go »
Reneé Rapp
This mean college girl has recorded pop songs, R&B songs, and Broadway songs, but curiously, not rap. Go »
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
What was the deal with a popular TV star and comedian dating this high school student, who is today a successful fashion designer? In fact, there was everything wrong with that. Go »
J.G. Ballard
This British novelist, who was trapped in occupied Shanghai by an enemy Empire as a boy, crashed into dystopian topics more than once, including in a drowned London after global warming a failing high-rise apartment building. Go »
Democritus
It's funny how this this ancient Greek would, like his writing, probably be lost to history today if not for the one irreducible idea at the core of his work, because it would be proven right millennia later. Go »
Andy Borowitz
His satirical reports are often mistaken for fact, but it's true that this funniest American writer has an NAACP Image Award. Go »
Clancy Brown
Do casting directors take one look at this tall character actor and immediately assign him to play a cop or a prison guard? The makers of Last Light, Homefront, The Hurricane, Dead Man Walking, and The Shawshank Redemption apparently did. Go »
Julius Sämann
He had a small idea, inspired by the famous flora of his native Bavaria, that made driving around his adopted New York a more pleasant experience. Go »
Jean-Jacques Muyembe
He's a hero in his native Congo for his 1976 discovery of a virus feared the world over, even if his Belgian colleague was long recognized as the one to identify it. Go »
Bryan Ferry
This British singer didn't want to be a slave to his former band, and refused to stick together in favor of a solo career. But his popularity didn't travel across the water to the States, where his music sales stayed in limbo. Go »
Mike Krzyzewski
He played under the other famous Coach K (as in Knight) before breaking his record as a coach himself, as part of the Blue Devils dominating college basketball for much of his 42-year tenure. Go »
Noel King
Up first, this radio host goes from the morning edition of a news program to explaining today in its entirety. Who's the king? Go »
