May 2026
Richard Slominsky won this round on June 6, 2026. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Richard Slominsky (30 goos solved), Samir Mehta (22 goos solved), and Steve West (3 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 »
Patricia Cornwell
It's a good thing that publishers rejected her early manuscripts about an investigator so unremarkable that he may as well have been named Guy Detective, because as she conducted a post-mortem on the failed project, she realized correctly that a forensic scientist would make a far more compelling and long-running protagonist, especially if she looked like Nicole Kidman. Go »
Oscar Piastri
His competitors try not to be grouches whenever this Australian wins another Grand Prix. Go »
Scott McKenzie
He recorded one hit as a singer, about a California destination where people arrived wearing flowers in their hair, but he also had another as a songwriter, about a Caribbean destination way down where the Beach Boys wanna go. Go »
Michael O'Donoghue
This unapologetically dark writer set the comedic voice of Saturday Night Live from the very first line, creating popular sketches like "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" and "Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Bedtime Tales," but his post-SNL career fizzled in the late 80s due to his scrooge-like personality. Go »
Dorothy Parker
Born to be a star, this lady certainly was given rope enough to hang herself reputationally, having been fired from Vanity Fair for angering a theater producer, blacklisted in Hollywood for sympathizing with Communists, and left in a filing cabinet for 17 years as her remains went unclaimed. Go »
Kathleen Kennedy
Mega-hits like Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Back to the Future made her one of the top producers in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from her dubious reputation among fans of Star Wars and Indiana Jones over the last decade-plus. Go »
Kane Parsons
If you think it's insane that a creepy 4chan post led to this 20-year-old directing two Oscar nominees and an Emmy winner in a widely released horror film, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a short story essentially agreeing. Go »
Adam Gontier
This Ontarian quadragenarian is a self-declared saint, full of grace, in a pair of post-grunge bands founded in his province. Go »
Alice Hoffman
It's practically magical how this author of Ice Queen knows a thing or two about color, having written books about white horses, blue diaries, green angels, black birds, and red gardens. Go »
Marcia King
It took authorities 37 years, nearly twice her lifespan, for this owner of a buckskin jacket to be identified. You have one week. Who's the king? Go »
Kyle Busch
NASCAR tracks will be a lot less rowdy without this perennial winner and baby brother tearing up the track. Go »
Clavicular
The only thing not surprising about an influencer who has advocated for smashing bones with a hammer to improve one's appearance is that he's named after the most frequently broken bone in the body. Go »
Jamie Lee Curtis
Although closely associated with Halloween after eight appearances on the holiday, she has been known to turn up everywhere all at once on the calendar, from Prom Night to Freaky Friday to Christmas (with the Kranks). Go »
