May 2026
This round is still underway and has had 25 goos so far. Start playing!
Players this round: Richard Slominsky (24 goos solved), Russ Wilhelm (24 goos solved), Samir Mehta (16 goos solved), and Steve West (2 goos solved).
Quentin Roosevelt
Growing up in the White House, he was the favorite son of a U.S. president, but also the shortest lived among six siblings, becoming the only presidential child killed in military combat. Go »
Mena Trott
She has since moved on from being the archetypal blogger, after her then-husband's padded code gave her something new to wear once a week. Go »
Secretariat
Take notes: This champion wore three crowns in the seventies, and in his most famous win, he was thirty-one of himself ahead of the next finisher. Go »
Brett Goldstein
He was unknown in his writing and acting jobs with British cultural icons like Catherine Tate, Ricky Gervais, and The Doctor, until winning acclaim and two Emmys working with an American coach in Britain. Go »
Timbaland
This producer and rapper known for his wooden delivery never apologized for the way he gave it to us. Go »
Kit Harington
He was twice nominated for Emmys for his portrayal of a wintry watchman in an HBO adaptation of a fantasy novel series. Go »
Matt Dinniman
His book series about a dungeon-crawler and a donut have made this D.M. (or is it M.D.?) a best-selling author. Go »
Graham Platner
The man once called "most likely to start a revolution" by his high school yearbook is now campaigning for the U.S. Senate, with his maine opponent not being a Democrat or a Republican but himself and his own controversial history of opinions and tattoos. Go »
Gout Gout
Here's a shout-out to the Aussie who took a stout route from soccer to sprinting, without doubt, and a new world record that lets him brag about clout. Go »
Ma Barker
J. Edgar Hoover and sensational newspapers made wild claims about her involvement as the matriarchal mastermind of a Midwestern crime family during the Prohibition, but historians who tried to verify the accounts found themselves barking up the wrong tree. Go »
Sananda Maitreya
When this artist draws a hard line to sign his autograph across your heart, there's some confusion as to whether he's about to write Terence, Howard, or Sananda. Go »
Sgt. Slaughter
Among boys' action figures of the 1980s, the two dominant styles were the bulky muscle-men of the Masters of the Universe and the smaller, more articulated troops of G.I. Joe. This man should know, as he became both of them. Go »
Margaret York
By the time this LAPD officer made Deputy Chief, she didn't have to tolerate jokes about lacey frills on her uniform, not even from her husband after he got famous himself by presiding over a celebrity trial. Go »
Bob Odenkirk
Next on the newsradio: This normal Nebraska man is a nobody among nobodies. Go »
Antoine Fuqua
Long before his current blockbuster about a singer who faced criminal charges and was fond of military-style jackets, he made a series of action movies about soldiers and law enforcement officers, starring Denzel Washington as a corrupt narcotics officer, Bruce Willis as a Navy SEAL on a rescue, Denzel Washington as an equalizing retired Marine, Mark Wahlberg as a framed sniper, and Denzel Washington as an Old Western warrant officer. Go »
George C. Marshall
In his government job, he was so committed to the plan to rebuild what he had blow up in his military job that he became the only American general to receive a prize for peace. Go »
Jake Smollett
The fifth of six siblings turned his family-table experiences with his famous sister and infamous brother into a Food Network series and a cookbook for families who eats as much as they do. Go »
