Round XLI
Amy Austin won this round on December 20, 2009. There were 91 goos.
Players this round: Amy Austin (89 goos solved), Russ Wilhelm (88 goos solved), Steve West (88 goos solved), Ryan Dunn (87 goos solved), Steve Dunn (86 goos solved), Samir Mehta (85 goos solved), Denise Sawicki (83 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (76 goos solved), Chris Lemler (75 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (75 goos solved), Walter Chesser (70 goos solved), Tony Peters (58 goos solved), Melissa Anderson (46 goos solved), Jesse King (45 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (44 goos solved), Elaine Beckland (42 goos solved), Sarah Kyle (35 goos solved), Erik Bates (31 goos solved), Justin Woods (28 goos solved), Mike Eberhart (27 goos solved), Scott Horowitz (20 goos solved), Mike Rothstein (19 goos solved), Joanna Woods (8 goos solved), David Mitzman (7 goos solved), Bryan Gordon (3 goos solved), Jeremiah Poisson (2 goos solved), Jerry Mathis (2 goos solved), Lori Lancaster (2 goos solved), River Noonan (2 goos solved), and Meredith Lamb (1 goo solved).
Kate Hudson
After surviving a French divorce and losing a guy in a week and a half, she finally found love with a man's best friend, but had to go to war to marry him. Go »
Glenn Beck
Paranoia won't destroy your ratings if you're this conservative commentator. Go »
Norman Borlaug
Give a nation some wheat, save a life. Give them new varieties of the plant and modern production techniques, save a billion. Go »
Garrison Keillor
This writer and speaker is known for his chronicles of lakes, prairies, and Norwegian plainfolk. Go »
Caster Semenya
Usually a runner is scrutinized about what fuels their legs, not what's between them. Go »
Willie Nelson
Getting arrested can help your image in certain genres of music. Go »
Adam Sandler
He's been called funny, happy, little, dirty, drunk, angry, and nuts. Go »
Drew Carey
If you know the name of this Cleveland sitcom star, come on down! Go »
Keri Noble
This singer wasn't afraid to leave church for more aristocratic circles. Go »
Ted Williams
The best batter in baseball might have been better if Uncle Sam hadn't needed him twice. Go »
Tucker Max
This writer takes kissing and telling to the limit. Go »
Tom DeLay
This Congressman can't wait to get back out on the floor and dazzle his colleagues. Go »
Wynonna Judd
In the shadow of her mom in Nashville and her sister in Hollywood, this singer drew strength from her weakness. Go »
Francis Drake
Better the Spaniards think he was a dragon than a mere duck. Go »
Henry Morgan
Got a little of this goo in you? Go »
Blackbeard
If you don't know the nickname of this hirsute pirate, you better learn it from someone fast. Go »
Alexander Selkirk
They say no man is an island, but this man spent four years proving otherwise. Go »
Anne Bonny
It's pretty hard not to be a pirate when your lover is the captain. Go »
Long John Silver
Ironically, this fictional pirate had as great an influence on pirate mythology as any real treasure-seeker. Go »
Errol Flynn
He may have been a soldier, a cowboy, a pilot, and Robin Hood, but he was a pirate first and foremost, inspiring cinematic swashbucklers ever since. Go »
Tila Tequila
Think you have a shot at hooking up with the correct answer? Go »
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. Go »
James Cameron
If I lied to you that this titanic talent was no alien to success at the box office, it would be true. Go »
Phineas Gage
You need to fail at this goo like you need another hole in your head. Go »
David Hasselhoff
One night in November 1989, German music lovers watched this singer's words of freedom come true. Go »
Wernher von Braun
Building a car and composing music wasn't rocket science for this space cadet. Go »
Nate Silver
All of the math in the entire world couldn't predict the winner of this round. Go »
Billy Mitchell
You can't question his high scores, and don't question his patriotism, either. Go »
Virginia Dare
We know what became of our first president, and the first European to come here, but the fate of another first is lost forever. Go »
Kid Rock
Mixing rap and rock into a new form of music was child's play for this Michigan native. Go »
Audrey Niffenegger
When she started writing, if she could have seen how successful she would later become, she might have gone back and started earlier. Go »
Jennifer Morrison
After haunting Kevin Bacon and mothering William Shatner, she settled for romancing Hugh Laurie. Go »
Norman Rockwell
On Saturday evenings, America feasted on another riveting look at itself in the mirror. Go »
Uga
The biggest football fan in Georgia might be the littlest. Go »
Robin Leach
You don't envy the famous and rich? You would after you watched his show. Go »
Lewis Black
He might be less angry if he put cream and sugar in his coffee. Go »
Bettie Page
She steamed up the pages of many lusty pin-up magazines during her heyday. Go »
Dean Kamen
What began as a mobility aid for the handicapped has become a space-age tool for the incredibly lazy. Go »
Elizabeth Arden
It takes a certain vanity to think you can make millions in America by leaving Canada behind. Go »
Eric Schlosser
This muckracker has given gluttons some food for thought. Go »
Ken Lewis
These days, it seems like no value is more American than greed. Go »
Jen Yates
Did you think this game was going to be a cakewalk? Go »
Meb Keflezighi
It's about time this competition was won by a local. Go »
Jessica McClure
If you can't recognize this grown-up Texan, well, there's just no helping you out. Go »
Jasper Johns
Patriotism, numerology, and kleptomania are all part of this South Carolinian artist's claim to fame. Go »
Lou Albano
He's been a professional wrestler, a video-game plumber, a rubber-band enthusiast, and Cyndi Lauper's dad. Go »
Tawana Brawley
She was either raped, beaten, burned, and left for dead, or a pawn in a conspiracy to smear the NYPD. Go »
Haruki Murakami
Nobody does a better job of depicting the Kafkaesque complication and soullessness of modern Japanese society. Go »
King Vidor
With songs like "Over the Rainbow," this filmmaker ushered in a crowded new era of sound at the movies. Who's the king? Go »
Sufjan Stevens
This noisemaker is very popular in two Midwestern states. Go »
Dennis Hopper
He makes it look easy, bouncing between villains such as a video game lizard, a mad bomber, and an oil tanker captain. Go »
Biz Stone
@GOOplayers it's appropriate that his name is an abbreviation of business #thisgoo Go »
Adrian Peterson
Don't hurt yourself running back here with the answer. Go »
Paul McCartney
When the beetles were broken up into four parts, this one got the wings. Go »
Claudia Schiffer
At the peak of this supermodel's fame, not even David Copperfield could saw her career in half. Go »
Lou Dobbs
Immigration opponents just lost one of their most vocal supporters. Go »
M.I.A.
Some goos are harder to find than others. Go »
Samuel Halpern
You're guessing celebrities? Who gives a shit? ... Son, nobody's going to give you a prize for knowing who Dennis Hopper is. Even your mother knows that. ... You think it's me? Well, it sure isn't you. You have to do something with your life to be famous. Go »
Sandra Bullock
This former beauty pageant contestant sped to success in Hollywood by proposing to the right hunk. Go »
Seth Green
Are you too chicken to watch the cartoon created by this son of evil? Go »
Judyann Elder
Do you think this goo would respect the elders in the family? Go »
Richard Simmons
Has this round got you sweatin' to the end? Never say die(t). Go »
Max Yasgur
This milkman's biggest contribution to rock & roll had nothing to do with Farm Aid. Go »
Richard Roeper
The bald guy left some pretty big shoes to fill, but the fat guy gave someone the thumbs-up for the job. Go »
Brandi Chastain
Triumph at a game this difficult inspires naked joy. Go »
Joseph Merrick
He is not an Animals goo! Go »
Jeff Dowd
When he was arrested for protesting the Vietnam War with the other six, he was so angry you'd think the army had peed on his rug. Go »
Helen Thomas
Obama has one more thing in common with Kennedy when you consider this White House fixture. Go »
Bartholomew I
Not even the Pope is this green. Go »
Tyler Hansbrough
This sticky-heeled player is on pace to become one of the greatest NBA players ever, and it's only his first season. Go »
Adam Lambert
He might have beaten Kris Allen if he had kissed Ryan Seacrest during a song... then again, maybe not. Go »
Nadya Suleman
She gave us eight reasons to think she's the worst mother of 2009. Go »
Henry Louis Gates
Disorderly conduct probably happens a lot more in his civics classes now. Go »
Falcon Heene
Maybe this kid saw Up too many times. Go »
Neda Agha-Soltan
Her death gave the opposition a voice. Go »
Michaele Salahi
When she and her husband wanted to get into the White House, they didn't wait for an engraved invitation. Go »
Bernard Madoff
He was the top of the biggest pyramid in history until it all came crashing down. Go »
George Tiller
He died early for waiting too late to kill early. Go »
Roxana Saberi
This Fargoan served a thin sentence for the heavy crime of espionage. Go »
Zac Sunderland
For the first time in history, a teenager wanted to travel further on his summer vacation than the local mall. Go »
Joe Halderman
This jilted ex-boyfriend's mistake was choosing one of the top ten famous people you don't try to extort for money. Go »
Susan Boyle
Got talent? Go »
María Belén Chapur
Argentina is a long way from the Appalachian Trail. Go »
Judy Trunnell
American fears of a porcine pandemic went into overdrive when we lost one of our own. Go »
Nidal Malik Hasan
He shot his own people to get out of shooting his own people. Go »
Frank Ricci
Fire doesn't care what color your skin is. Go »
Conrad Murray
This was it. Go »
Joe Wilson
If I say that only ordinary people are part of this series, there may be a lie involved. Go »
Jaimee Grubbs
Anybody who thinks that this scandal is about just one cocktail waitress can't see the forest for the trees. Go »
Kate Gosselin
Nadya Suleman wasn't the only "octo-mom" who captured the public's attention for better or worse in 2009. Go »
