Round XXVIII
Elliot Farney won this round on November 17, 2006. There were 103 goos.
Players this round: Amy Austin (98 goos solved), Russ Wilhelm (97 goos solved), Steve West (94 goos solved), Megan Baxter (91 goos solved), Chris McKinnon (87 goos solved), Denise Sawicki (85 goos solved), Elliot Farney (85 goos solved), David Mitzman (83 goos solved), Jerry Mathis (83 goos solved), Mike Eberhart (82 goos solved), Kerry Odell (81 goos solved), Adrianne Rodgers (78 goos solved), Steve Dunn (74 goos solved), Todd Brotsch (74 goos solved), Tony Peters (74 goos solved), Scott Horowitz (73 goos solved), Aaron Weiss (66 goos solved), Matthew Preston (65 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (57 goos solved), Josh Paddison (54 goos solved), Joy Dunn (52 goos solved), Michael Paul Cote (47 goos solved), Jackie Mason (40 goos solved), E. M. (32 goos solved), Lori Lancaster (26 goos solved), Nadine Russell (19 goos solved), Jeremiah Poisson (17 goos solved), Justin Hampson (16 goos solved), Wendy Hampson (15 goos solved), Justin Woods (13 goos solved), Amir H. Sufyani (11 goos solved), Erik Bates (11 goos solved), Sam Boyarsky (11 goos solved), Sarah Simmons (11 goos solved), Joanna Woods (9 goos solved), Mihai Rusu (8 goos solved), Allison Bair (7 goos solved), Sasaan S. (4 goos solved), Sue Harper (4 goos solved), Shana Swartwout (3 goos solved), John Tate (2 goos solved), Mike Rothstein (2 goos solved), Amanda Lacoff (1 goo solved), Brooke Patterson (1 goo solved), Dave Hankins (1 goo solved), John Pierpoint (1 goo solved), and Mike Melville (1 goo solved).
Johnny Depp
He's played Don Juan, Ed Wood, JM Barrie, and Willy Wonka, but none as infamous as a certain Disney pirate captain. Y'arr! Go »
Jessica Simpson
This irresistible former newlywed can't decide if her favorite food is chicken of the sea or tuna of the dirt. Go »
Floyd Landis
If this game's prize was a tour of France, you'd see a lot more players accused of illegal doping. Go »
Mel Gibson
After this road warrior drove his car like a lethal weapon, he'd have paid a ransom not to have his passionate words aired all over America. Go »
Andrea Yates
This Texan went from motherhood to a mental hospital by way of the bathtub. Go »
Star Jones Reynolds
This former commentator became the star of her own news story when, in her view, she was fired from her talk show. Go »
Kinky Friedman
Whatever kind of sex he likes, this asshole from El Paso could take his rabble-rousing all the way to the governor's mansion. Go »
Phil McGraw
He stopped filling in on Tuesday when America needed his advice five days a week. Go »
Spencer Tunick
His photographs wouldn't be so famous if each of his subjects showed up wearing a coat or a jacket or something. Go »
Sandra Cisneros
This poet and novelist's delicious works cover such tasty topics as caramel and mangoes. Go »
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
When your husbands are an American president and a Greek tycoon, you're the most famous wife in the world. Go »
Gong Li
Being a concubine, a temptress, and a geisha prepared her for seducing Colin Farrell. Go »
Doc Holliday
This gunslinger, gambler, adventurer, and legend of the Old West wouldn't have had such an exciting life if he'd stuck to his nickname and been a dentist. Go »
Jesse James
This infamous outlaw did a lot of bad things before he was assassinated by his own gang, but he didn't marry Sandra Bullock. Go »
Geronimo
The name of this Apache wartime chieftain is familiar to any paratrooper who's jumped out of a plane. Go »
Butch Cassidy
This butcher and a bunch of wild criminals became some of the most famous train robbers in history. Go »
Wyatt Earp
You'd better know about this famous lawman's shootout with horse thieves, OK? Go »
Calamity Jane
It would be a disaster if I tried to sing about this legend of the frontier. Go »
Louis L'Amour
This Western writer loved the Old West so much, he wrote more than a hundred novels about it. Go »
Ellen DeGeneres
I can't remember if this talk show host was funnier while she was still in the closet. Go »
Fidel Castro
The Comandante has been a dictator and a liberator, but he was never a baseball pitcher. Go »
Vanessa Minnillo
This former all-American teenager totally asked out a divorced newlywed. Go »
Danny Elfman
He might be dark; he may be weird; heck at times he might even seem a bit unreal. Go »
Channing Tatum
This former Abercrombie and Fitch model hopes Samuel L. Jackson and Amanda Bynes can help him succeed at acting. Go »
Travis Pastrana
You'll do a couple of backflips if you can rally your wits long enought to recognize this extreme champion. Go »
Frank Lloyd Wright
Geometric design came as easily to this highly influential Midwestern architect as falling water. Go »
Leslie Bibb
This formerly private and popular model went on to marry Will Ferrell in a hurry. Go »
Quincy Jones
Don't quit if you're not quick-witted enough to qualify with this question: What producer and composer got some of the biggest names in music to check their egos at his door? Go »
Thomas Kyte
Ask this guy a question, and he'll predict the future. Go »
Bob Evans
Down on the farm, breakfast consists of pork and sausage. Go »
Scott Adams
This cartoonist and former engineer has been a big success at skewering big business. Go »
Gayle King
Oprah can make any woman in America feel like her best friend, but only one woman really is. Who's the king? Go »
Kirsten Dunst
A superhero's girlfriend, a high school cheerleader, a French queen, and an 11-year-old vampire all have this prolific young actress in common. Go »
Jackie Mason
This ordained rabbi's controversial comedy plays like chicken soup for the funny bone. Go »
Randy Harrison
This boyish TV actor is best known for being as queer as, um, people. Go »
Adrian Rogers
The answer to this baptist leader's identity is worth finding. Go »
Jeremy "Passion" Manongdo
The only thing this soulful young singer is more passionate about than his career is Jesus. Go »
Alison Scott-Baumann
If a certain site user wanted to switch from being a lawyer to a public schoolteacher, he'd do well to study under this British expert. Go »
Jenny Lee
This CNN regular and native Houstonian perfects her tan while waiting for her big break. Go »
Craig David
The story goes that this British R&B crooner was born to do it slicker than his average competitor. Go »
Steve Irwin
After a career-long collision course with deadly animals, this conservationist leaves behind a legacy of love and understanding for the natural kingdom. Go »
Mohammed Atta
Five years ago, he carried out an al Qaeda plot that would change the world at the cost of thousands of lives. Go »
Bob Marley
No answer, no cry: This Jamaican's jammin' made raggae an international success. Go »
Heather Mills McCartney
This activist felt whole again after marrying rock's most famous widower. Go »
Faith Hill
If you're stumped by this country singer, then cry, breathe, and try to have faith. Go »
Vince Papale
By solving the goo of this bartender who became a pro football player in his thirties, you'll disprove his nickname, which was also the title of the film about his life. Go »
Natascha Kampusch
Almost the entire goo game took place while nobody saw this Austrian teenager except her captor. Go »
Brittany Snow
Did this wintery TV star dream of killing her high school boyfriend for a movie role? Go »
Lonelygirl15
This 15-year-old wouldn't feel so alone if she knew you were watching her life on your screen. Go »
Jerry Seinfeld
This New Yorker was a stand-up comedian, sitcom star, master of his domain, yada yada yada... Go »
Maurice Clarett
I'd say this troubled youngster's life off the field has captured more headlines than his career on the field, but then he never had a career on the field. Go »
Jessica Biel
This reverend's daughter and stealth pilot has killed vampires and outrun Texan serial killers. Go »
Salman Rushdie
As fishy as it sounds, this Indian author was in such a hurry to get killed he wrote a novel declaring Muhammad a liar. Go »
Warren Jeffs
This fundamentalist prophet was wanted in more ways than one: He reportedly has over 90 wives. Go »
Paul Reubens
The manic star of a children's TV show made a teensy-tiny little mistake at a lusty theater in 1991. Go »
Kenneth Lay
This energy chairman became a model of greed when he energetically bilked his investors and bankrupted his employees for billions. Go »
Kirstie Alley
As depicted on her reality show, this former bar manager's gluttony got her more than a beer belly. Go »
Steve Michalik
Being the most fit man in the universe required a sacrifice of health for vanity. Go »
Jayson Blair
A reporter's job is to tell the truth, but slothful reporters find other ways. Go »
Anna Nicole Smith
This former Playmate and later reality TV star envied an 89-year-old's fortune while he envied... her. Go »
Jake LaMotta
Wrath helped this bullish boxer pummel his perceived enemies inside and outside the ring. Go »
Charlize Theron
It was a sweet November when this celebrity's career was no longer in flux after she pulled a monsterously successful job in Italy. Go »
Grigori Perelman
After 100 years, the million-dollar solution to a French geometric mystery has come from St. Petersburg, by a man who wants nothing to do with the field. Go »
Barack Obama
This 45-year-old junior from the land of Lincoln might someday charm his way to the White House. Go »
Kristi Yamaguchi
In the early nineties, no one was more golden than this icy athlete. Go »
Ron Kovic
This born patriot has taken a stand against war ever since war left him unable to stand. Go »
Heidi Klum
When she's not busy hosting reality shows, this top model loves animals so much she married a seal. Go »
Wentworth Miller
This actor's racial identity has been hard to break both on-screen and off. Go »
Lance Bass
This bass singer nearly fulfilled America's wishes to see boy-band singers flung into space. Go »
Harold Reynolds
Who wants a hug? Go »
Keira Knightley
Pirates, soccer players, bounty hunters, British aristocrats, deranged veterans, and mythical kings have all romanced this chivalrous movie star. Go »
Tamara Hoover
Earlier this year, she taught her students a lesson about art: Keep your naughty photos off of Flickr if you want to keep your job. Go »
Naguib Mahfouz
This prolific Arab writer outlived religious uproar and assassination attempts, but he didn't outlive Bertrand Russell. Go »
Zinédine Zidane
This zestful footballer has zero more chances to zoom and zip across the field. Go »
Katharine Graham
In Washington, 1/455th of a pound of scandal is enough to bring down even the loftiest politicians. Go »
Isabella Rossellini
For 14 years she had one of the best faces in the business and a fearless career in films by her fathers and others. Go »
Roberto Benigni
Only a clown could make a game out of the Holocaust. Go »
Galileo Galilei
This physicist set astronomy in motion when he dared suggest the Earth revolves around the Sun. Go »
Valentino Rossi
This current and seven-time world champion on two wheels has always used his father's number instead of the #1 he's earned. Go »
Andrea Bocelli
Come può l'opera essere bella ad un uomo cieco? Go »
Niccolò Machiavelli
Politics were never princely again after this writer-philosopher blew the livy off the Italian Renaissance. Go »
Asia Argento
After scoring her biggest hit with a pornographic spy movie, this Asian brought death to her career with George A. Romero. Go »
Charles Manson
This lunatic killer almost belongs in the Family category. Go »
Buck O'Neil
This butterfly was overlooked right up to the end. I guess a dollar just doesn't go as far as it used to. Go »
Maria Sharapova
Make a loud, sudden scream when you guess this top-ranked Russian. Go »
Bigfoot
Any goo following this one will have some pretty big footprints to fill. Go »
Takeshi Kitano
Marching into battle to the beat of his own drum, are you ready for a blood bath of (somewhat) comedic proportions? Go »
Corey Taylor
This masked performer could not slip out of character even at a childrens Halloween party. Go »
John Mark Karr
Don't claim you got this goo if you're only looking for attention in Thailand. Go »
Suri Cruise
When Mom dates Batman and Dad's just batty, you're in for a bumpy childhood. Go »
Jabir ibn Hayyan
Not even HCl could damage this alchemist's contribution to science. Go »
Nancy Grace
Controversy has fueled this objectionable prosecutor's transition to courtroom television. Go »
Ségolène Royal
Sovereignty ascends with a rose in hand. Go »
David Sanborn
This voyeuristic smooth jazz veteran is best known for his contributions to a Los Angeles law firm in the eighties. Go »
Marilyn vos Savant
If this puzzle-loving columnist isn't smart enough to solve her own goo, nobody is. Go »
Mark Cuban
Only mavericks cash in on the web's real potential. Go »
Rachel Carson
Pesticides, pollution, and population concerned this crusading conservationist. Go »
Natalie Pinkham
Poker is just as much of a sport as tennis, rugby, and soccer in the eyes of this porky presenter. Go »
Wayne Rooney
Once a goo, always a goo. Go »
Robbie Williams
This egotistical Brit sings (and swings) when he's winning, which he's been doing on the charts ever since he told his old band "take that." Go »
Charly García
This South American master of music is anything but a generic hit machine. Go »
Gregorio Fuentes
This Cuban became messianic long before he became titular. Go »
