June 2026
Richard Slominsky and Russ Wilhelm won this round on July 6, 2026. There were 30 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (29 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (27 goos solved), and Samir Mehta (4 goos solved).
Roger Sweet
He didn't live to see the latest big-screen adaptation of the 1980s toy line that is widely credited to him, but man, he had the power to make a generation of children feel like masters of making their parents buy a universe of action figures. Go »
Johnny Mathis
Chances are, when it comes to guessing this doubly wonderful velvet-voiced singer, it IS for you to say. Go »
Vladimir Nabokov
Although best known for his "love" story between a teenager and the stepfather sexually obsessed with her, his own true love was chess, where he manipulated his king, queen, and knight to seize glory by overcoming the losin' defense of his opponents. Go »
Mac McAnally
Not that long down the road is a crazy world where he came from with a junk car and a lovely opinion about making country music. Go »
Margareta Magnusson
True to her principles, parts of her house in Sweden were empty three months ago. Go »
Richard Petty
It's no petit accomplishment to become the winningest driver in NASCAR history. Who's the king? Go »
Eve
If you're looking to stream any of her music: In a twist, Apple offers her. Go »
Paul W.S. Anderson
His movies Soldier, Alien vs. Predator, Death Race, and Event Horizon feel like video games but were not in fact based on them. His movies Monster Hunter, DOA: Dead or Alive, Resident Evil, and Mortal Kombat also do and were. Go »
Andy Reid
Read closely: He's the chief chief of the Chiefs. Go »
Dennis Prager
This conservative commentator's university might not be real, but it pulled a U-turn by getting its videos played in real public schools. Go »
Sergei Rachmaninoff
This turn-of-the-century pianist composed classical music, not rock, but his No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 and No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 could rock your Bolshoi off. Go »
Jay Laga'aia
He's practically Disney royalty, having been a Lion King, a royal guard in Star Wars, and the father of the princess Moana. Go »
Viggo Mortensen
What is it about this guy and subterranean disasters? He's been in one in Thai cave with Colin Farrell, one in a New York tunnel with Sylvester Stallone, one in a California hotel basement with Vince Vaughn, and one in a Middle-Earth mine with Ian McKellen. Go »
Bel Kaufman
This lifelong educator defied expectations: Her hit novel was about the difficulties of being an English teacher and not about getting lost in a confusing school layout, and she kept teaching past her 100th birthday because she found it humorous and not because she couldn't afford to retire. Go »
Ian Channell
New Zealand has an official wizard, and he ain't Gandalf: This public performer has sometimes rallied the public against corruption in governments and corporations, but also sometimes lost his audience with comments widely seen as misogynist and bigoted. Go »
Eiji Tsuburaya
Cinephiles treasure him for his invention of the iron camera crane and full-scale rear projection. Japanophiles treasure him for his co-invention of Godzilla and Ultraman. Go »
B.J. Novak
This Benjamin Joseph got himself a job in a real office writing screenplays on real paper for a pretend office that concerned itself with pretend paper. And unlike the pretend bad bosses, he stepped away before he could become one for real. Go »
Jalen Brunson
Playing at the MVP level on a championship-winning team is easier when your dad is one of your coaches. Go »
Philip Glass
It's clear that this opera composer has opened a window for audiences enjoying films by the likes of Stephen Daltry, Peter Weir, and Martin Scorsese, even if critics proved brittle about his repetitive style. Go »
Savannah Chrisley
You'd best know the name of this influencer, podcaster, and entrepreneur, who was just a Tennessee teen when her family became reality TV stars on a path to federal convictions. Go »
Jim Lovell
He wasn't a statesman from Massachusetts. He was the commander of a star-crossed lunar trip, who told Houston about a famous problem. Go »
Johnny Hart
He wasn't a politician from New Jersey. He was a cartoonist known for two famous comic strips, one of which inspired The Flintstones, and the other of which was inspired by The Wizard of Oz. Go »
Patrick Morrisey
He isn't a statesman from New York. He's an attorney with a long history of fighting the EPA, and now the top elected official in West Virginia. Go »
Euan Morton
He isn't a farmer from Pennsylvania. He's a Broadway actor known for playing two different British Georges, one of them diametrically opposed to this theme, and an audiobook narrator known for his interpretations of James Islington and Frank Herbert. Go »
Joan Collins
She isn't a politician from Rhode Island. She's a British movie star who, long before she was made a dame by the queen, began her career playing a beauty queen in Lady Godiva Rides Again and then riding in The Bravados, played half of a clandestine marriage in The Virgin Queen but not in The Clandestine Marriage, played someone who became a queen by marrying a king in Esther and the King but not in My Duchess, and played a princess screwed over by a hateful pharaoh in Land of the Pharaohs but a prince's wooed who's not on the straight-and-narrow in Hard Time for Princes. Go »
Sam Huntington
He isn't a politician from Connecticut. He's a screen actor who tired of being a human turned werewolf, took photos of a Superman's return, and lured Tim Allen out 2 a jungle. Go »
Tree Paine
She isn't a lawyer from Massachusetts. She's a music-industry professional known for quickly shutting down rumors and leaks concerning her #1 client, but before launching her own firm, she worked with artists such as the performer of "Head Like a Hole." Go »
Benjamin Harrison
He wasn't a planter from Virginia. He was a president whose career peaked before and after Cleveland. Go »
Samuel Holden Parsons
He wasn't a doctor from Massachusetts. He was a Connecticut lawyer who took up arms as a revolutionary and later commander, finding more luck against royal redcoats than against river rapids. Go »
