Fall 2014
Mike Rothstein won this round on November 28, 2014. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (89 goos solved), Steve West (88 goos solved), Joanna Woods (80 goos solved), Samir Mehta (79 goos solved), Chris Lemler (78 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (78 goos solved), Justin Woods (75 goos solved), Mike Rothstein (75 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (68 goos solved), Lori Lancaster (60 goos solved), Denise Sawicki (51 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (37 goos solved), Erik Bates (26 goos solved), Matthew Preston (9 goos solved), Scott Hardie (3 goos solved), and Themba Shawn Ncala (1 goo solved).
Leonardo DiCaprio
After some growing pains at the inception of his career, he found titanic success playing departed aviator Howard Hughes. Go »
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
He'd prefer me to list him under Government or Religion, seeing as how he has carved out a religious state from parts of two other nations, but the $10 million bounty on his head makes him a terrorist. Go »
Milton Chapman
Man, don't go around keying his car, or his fans will boo and hiss, especially when you point out that he never appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. Go »
Michael Bay
He loves to explode robot cars, ninja turtles, asteroids, Pearl Harbor, Alcatraz... You name, he'll explode it. Go »
Amanda Hocking
Writing vampire romance books for teens can make anyone successful, even without a publisher. Who's the king? Go »
Olivia Prokopova
This Czech native is a big fish in a little pond. Go »
Jim Butcher
His popular books are about a wizard and private eye in Chicago, not a city in Germany. Go »
Larry Page
Other tech startups have taken a page from his playbook after he co-founded the massively successful Google. Go »
Bashar al-Assad
How could he have received 89% of the re-election vote this year when his nation is torn in half by civil war? Go »
Jason Miller
Don't go have a specific brand of beer in Milwaukee and be a bully, or this goo will beat you up. Go »
Gene Simmons
This rock singer gave up rocking and rolling all night and partying every day to raise a bejeweled family. Go »
Ira Glass
This American host is known for putting his interview subjects under a magnifying glass. Go »
Uzo Aduba
The actress behind the breakout supporting character on Orange is the New Black has a knotty relationship with casting directors. Go »
Deadmau5
No, he does not enter the club through a hole in the baseboard. Go »
Lisa Lopes
The initials of this monocular singer's group did not stand for Turn Left Carefully. Go »
Penélope Cruz
The sky was the limit for her early career success, then she endured a long desert without a hit in the middle years, and her biggest recent film was heavily pirated. Go »
Ray Santilli
He shouldn't open alien bodies to see what killed them. Go »
David Letterman
There are ten top reasons why his impending retirement is a loss for late-night comedy talk shows. Go »
Karen Elson
This British model branched out into making spectral music with her white-loving husband. Go »
Tobin Wolf
This wolf from Pittsburgh likes his cats. Go »
Edward Crawford
No need to feel weepy over this freedom-loving St. Louisan. He's all that and a bag of chips. Go »
Julia Roberts
This pretty woman, one of America's sweethearts, couldn't go to her best friend's wedding without looking in her mirror-mirror to practice her Mona Lisa smile. Go »
Justin Timberlake
He has justifiably produced twenty out of twenty sounds of the future. Go »
Luis Suárez
His teammates promised to take him out for a bite to eat after the game, but he just couldn't wait. Go »
Adam Sandler
This SNL veteran doesn't play as many funny people as he used to. Go »
Bill Maher
This un-PC comedian prefers to tackle current events in real time. Go »
Hugo Weaving
If the Transformers, the Lord of the Rings, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Matrix, and the penguins in Happy Feet had a crossover, this actor would be very busy playing multiple parts. Go »
Robin Williams
He brought sitcom space aliens, comic-strip sailors, Vietnam War radio show hosts, absent-minded professors, cross-dressing nannies, and cartoon genies to life, but depression eventually robbed him of his own. Go »
Martin Short
Besides a long movie career, this Canadian comedian is known for bringing his characters Ed Grimley and Jiminy Glick to various television shows. Go »
John Krasinski
Since leaving his office job, this actor has found success as a voice actor in Monsters University and The Wind Rises. Go »
Guy Fieri
This fiery guy is a popular host on the Food Network. Go »
Jim Gilchrist
You have less than a minute to run back over the border when you see this activist's men coming for you. Go »
Eleanor Rigby
She has memorialized the struggle of all the lonely people to find a place they have in common with four musicians. Go »
Charlie Kaufman
This New York writer and director, who has adapted novels to the screen, is known for getting inside his actors' heads. Go »
Sandra Bullock
This actress likes physics: She made movies in the nineties about velocity and buoyancy, and recently, two films about temperature and weight. Go »
Bob Marley
This Rastafarian wailed his way into Jamaican record books as a best-selling legend. Go »
Lewis Black
If comedians call obscenity on stage "working blue," would it be appropriate to call angry ranting on stage "working black?" Go »
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
This popular NASCAR driver hopes to carry on his father's legacy for 88 more years. Go »
Emilia Clarke
Westeros is a long way from her native London. Go »
Tommy Tune
Being from Texas didn't make him a Whore. Go »
Mahatma Gandhi
This great Indian leader once said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." Go »
Brian Michael Bendis
Oh, your comic book character has super powers? Big deal. This guy has the ultimate power. Go »
Judit Polgár
This Hungarian knows that the queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Go »
Ryan Seacrest
Wannabe hosts idolize this rockin' emcee's ability to land more high-profile gigs on the air every new year. Go »
Tim Edwards
Even MacGyver couldn't do this much with a sharpie, some cardboard, and a website. Go »
Alison Bechdel
People who only know her 3-step test for cinematic gender equality will have to watch out for her genius comics about LGBT life. Go »
Steve Diet Goedde
Is this what Ansel Adams really had in mind when he thought about S&M? Go »
Alisha Hessler
What would she have called her reality show? Busom Buddies? Triple Threat? Mammory in the Middle? Go »
Harold Bloom
He fires at the idea that Western literature isn't aesthetically better than global literature, or women's literature. Go »
Flavor Flav
It's always a good time for this very public enemy with a funny sense of taste. Go »
Tegan Humphrey
You shouldn't sing or hum free while trying to catch a mermaid. Go »
John Green
He leveraged his video-blogging with his sibling into a best-selling YA lit career. Blame it on the stars, I guess. Go »
Brenda Leyland
It's understandable to hate a married couple who you think murdered their daughter in Portugal. Hating them up to 50 times a day seems excessive. Go »
Kailash Satyarthi
Having to share the Nobel Peace Prize with someone less than a third his age might be difficult, if he hadn't devoted his life's work to the concerns of minors. Go »
Solomon W. Golomb
Think this professor would know his way around Tetris? Go »
Peter Mutharika
How can you go from being a law professor to a leader of a country in three years? Family connections help. Go »
Brian McKnight
Being born on June 5 gave him the astrological inspiration for his highest-charting album. Go »
Thomas Eric Duncan
This Liberian driver became America's patient zero in the current ebola outbreak. Go »
danah boyd
This social media expert knows how teenagers use the Internet, but not how to capitalize. Go »
Zoe Quinn
This Canada-based developer became the "game" in more ways than one: She implanted a chip in her hand to interact with a game, and criticism by her ex-boyfriend made her the center of a firestorm of controversy called #GamerGate. Go »
Blue Ivy Carter
This colorfully named toddler may have good genes for music from her parents Bey and Jay. Go »
Danny MacAskill
What a rush he must get, being from the sky. Go »
H.B. Reese
Cups and pieces are the legacy of this Pennsylvania dairy farmer. Go »
Tina Fey
Except for Sarah Palin, most people like the work of this comedy writer who made a sitcom about the weekly live sketch show where she used to work. Go »
H.H. Holmes
It's not Fair that we'll never know how much blood this Devil left all over Chicago. Go »
Phil Hellmuth
If this goo checks to you, don't call, because he will call you an idiot goo player. Go »
Rob Lowe
He's had career highs like The West Wing and About Last Night, and career lowes like St. Elmo's Fire and his duet with Snow White. Go »
Brandon Marshall
This wide receiver is the first person on Inside the NFL who actually is inside the NFL. Go »
Samantha Lewthwaite
She's not your everyday black widow. Go »
Joanna Newsom
This squeaky-voiced harpist with a movie-star husband is the new something in indie folk music. Go »
Willie Lloyd
Chicago's king of sin dodges bullets (unsuccessfully) while he tries to repent as a free man. Go »
Alex Laboeuf
This retail worker scored a bullseye with Ellen's audience. Go »
Brutus
This UK feline is always at Morrison's place. Go »
Meghan Trainor
This singer scored an XXL hit this summer with a song that was heavy on bass (no treble). Go »
Daisy Ridley
May the Force be with this London-born actress as she attempts to awaken a dormant sci-fi franchise as one of its new co-leads. Go »
Todd McFarlane
His image of being an atheist reflects in his stories. No clowning around here! Go »
Kim Harrison
This author's primary character may not live long without her pixy and vampire back-up. Go »
Giacomo Puccini
Butterflies and Bohemians figure prominently in the work of this Italian opera composer. Go »
Virginia Woolf
She wrote classics like To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway in a room of her own. Go »
Robert Hughes
If you're upside down, maybe you'll say he's a major art critic. But don't do it in a car or you'll crash. Go »
Catrina Allen
She's on Team Prodigy and has cat-like reflexes when putting. Go »
Misty Upham
This actress, who co-starred with Meryl Streep, Benecio Del Toro, and Jennifer Aniston, wasn't discovered until her career was already over. Go »
Allison Scagliotti
Her last hacking gig was #13. Go »
Taylor Momsen
This pretty hard rock singer can turn into a real grinch if she catches you gossiping about her prior career. Go »
Chris Rock
He discovered his greatest success as a standup comic after everybody hated his rocky start on Saturday Night Live. Go »
Tory Burch
This billionaire designer shares her name with a thin white tree. Go »
John Schnatter
This paternal CEO has sold a lot of pizza since 1984. Go »
Bruce Campbell
He has battled Hercules and Xena, a maniac cop, and Bubba Ho-Tep, but his best-known enemies remain the Deadites. Go »
Jim DeMint
Eight years in the Senate weren't enough heritage for him, so he left to find more. Go »
