July 2026
Richard Slominsky and Russ Wilhelm won this round on August 6, 2026. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score), Richard Slominsky (28 goos solved), and Erik Bates (16 goos solved).
June Blair
She wasn't a judge from Virginia. She was an actress who married into a TV-perfect 1950s family, complete with Ricky Nelson as the best man. Go »
John Witherspoon
He wasn't a minister from New Jersey. He was Ice Cube's weekday father, Kid & Play's annoyed neighbor, Robert Townsend's fast-food boss, Eddie Murphy's vamping victim, and a very animated granddad. Go »
Frances Dana Barker Gage
She wasn't a lawyer from Massachusetts. She was a universal suffragist and abolitionist who refused to sit on her fanny in the face of injustice, until an accident forced it. Go »
George Washington Carver
He wasn't a military commander from Virginia. He was an agricultural scientist and inventor, the arc of whose life—being born into slavery, witnessing race crimes, overcoming educational discrimination, joining the faculty of an esteemed school, devoting his career to teaching poor Southerners who spurned him how they could grow new crops like peanuts in soil that was depleted by cotton, and surviving until the eve of the post-war boom—inspires hope that America will spend its second 250 years fully embodying the principles that it established in its first. Go »
Jonathan Dickinson
He wasn't a lawyer from Delaware. He was a merchant whose journal after a famous shipwreck in Florida has been hailed as one of the great survival-in-captivity tales, but spoiler warning: He lived to become the mayor of Philadelphia. Go »
John Harvey Kellogg
He wasn't a builder from Virginia. He was a sanitarium director whose beliefs about racial superiority and holistic medicine put the flake in cornflakes. Go »
Flavor Flav
He isn't a planter from South Carolina. He's a frequent reality TV cast member and the most famous hype man in hip hop, known for his tasty nickname and horological fashion sense, boyeee. Go »
Richard Henry Leigh
He wasn't a statesman from Virginia. He was an admiral who preferred the classroom to the war room, though I heard some submarine crews were not fond of him. Go »
William Rufus King
He wasn't a statesman from Massachusetts. He was possibly America's first gay vice president, definitely America's first vice president sworn in on foreign soil, and probably America's first vice president to have both a county in Washington that was named after him and a city in Alabama that he named become far more associated with a civil rights icon with his last name. Who's the king? Go »
John Williams
He isn't a university founder from North Carolina. He's one of the most beloved film composers of all time, having written iconic themes for Darth Vader, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, E.T., Superman, Kevin McCallister, Jaws, and countless more. Go »
Matt Thornton
He isn't a physician from New Hampshire. He's a retired baseball player and 2010 all-star whose skill at pitching was a thorn in opponents' sides. Go »
Jimmy Smits
He isn't a surveyor from Pennsylvania. He's an actor who started out as an L.A. lawyer before becoming a sad NYPD detective and eventually a candidate to occupy the West Wing. Go »
Grizzly Adams
He wasn't a lawyer from Massachusetts. He was an outdoorsman who risked death many times to get up close and personal with the beasts who would become his legacy, turning up years later in such places as the Bronx Zoo, an NBC TV series, and the flag of California. Go »
El Gerry
No es un comerciante de Massachusetts. Es un popular cantante mexicano y estrella de las redes sociales que recordó bien su promesa de regresar. Go »
Richard Speight Jr.
He isn't a politician from North Carolina. He's an actor, best known as an angel who lied for a yuk to the Supernatural brothers and a soldier who died in the muck with the Band of Brothers. Go »
James McHenry
He isn't a surgeon from Maryland. He's a legal officer who was briefly the second first Attorney General of Donald Trump. Go »
Robert T. Morris
He isn't an investor from New York. He's a cyber-criminal who went on to co-found the influential Y Combinator and the not-so-influential Yahoo! Store, although he is the "RTM" in the proprietary RTML language of the latter. Go »
Richard Hudson
He isn't a lawyer from South Carolina. He's a Congressional representative from central North Carolina, whose wife worked for Kellyanne Conway. Go »
Bill Williams
He wasn't a merchant from Connecticut. He was a Kit who made a Katt. Go »
Frank Hopkins
He wasn't a songwriter from New Jersey. He was a horseman who definitely performed for the Ringling Brothers, probably didn't do tricks for Buffalo Bill, and almost certainly didn't race across Arabia. Go »
James G. Madison
He isn't a statesman from Virginia. He's a convicted murderer with what must have been an expensive collection of head coverings. Go »
Lu Parker
She isn't a merchant from New York. She's a beauty queen who spent two decades at KTLA, though her path to fame did briefly get perilous due to a conflict of interest dating the mayor. Go »
Dick Stockton
He isn't a lawyer from New Jersey. He's a retired broadcaster whose career spanned numerous sports, networks, and decades, having called such memorable moments as Carlton Fisk's winning homer in game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Michael Jordan's buzzer-beater in game 1 of the 1989 NBA Playoffs, and Dan Jansen's gold-medal finish at the 1994 Olympics. Go »
William Petersen
He isn't a judge from New Jersey. He's an actor who played many law enforcement agents, including Will Graham, Richard Chance, Pat Garrett, Gideon Walker, and most famously, Gil Grissom. Go »
John Lee Hancock
He isn't a merchant from Massachusetts. He's a filmmaker who has made tearjerkers out of stories set across the American South, including a doomed battle in San Antonio, a murder trial in Savannah, a football player's adoption in Memphis, an over-the-hill amateur's tryout in Tampa, and a boy and dog's friendship in small-town Mississippi. Go »
S.S. Adams
He wasn't a politician from Massachusetts. He was a merry prankster who practically buzzed with joy whenever his customers made people itch, sneeze, or dribble. Go »
Will Packer
He isn't a governor from Maryland. He's a film producer with ten #1 openings, including such hits as Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Obsessed, Girls Trip, and Stomp the Yard. Go »
William Ellery Channing
He wasn't a judge from Rhode Island. He was a Unitarian preacher and theologian whose influence spread far beyond the Baltimore church that he founded. Go »
Georgia Taylor-Brown
She isn't an ironmaster from Pennsylvania. She's a British triathlete who, earlier this decade, tied for the best Olympic performance of all time in her sport. Go »
James Joseph Duane
He isn't a mayor from New York. He's a defense attorney whose talk was widely heard even though it urged other people to stop talking. Go »
