Fall 2015
Mike Rothstein won this round on November 27, 2015. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Justin Woods (89 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (89 goos solved), Russ Wilhelm (89 goos solved), Joanna Woods (88 goos solved), Steve West (87 goos solved), Chris Lemler (86 goos solved, a perfect score), Samir Mehta (82 goos solved), Mike Eberhart (79 goos solved), Mike Rothstein (77 goos solved), Stan Iwanchuk (77 goos solved), Matthew Preston (75 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (71 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (1 goo solved).
Billy Idol
With a rebel yell, this British punk rocker invaded American airwaves in the 80s. Go »
Robert Cornelius
His selfie received zero likes or comments, because he took it more than a century and a half before Facebook was invented. Go »
Jen Welter
She just broke a Cardinal rule about gender in the NFL. Go »
Charlie Chaplin
A century ago, this comic actor put on a bowler hat and a fake mustache, and became the most famous person in the world without saying a single word. Go »
Sandra Brown
This colorful Texan has written dozens of best-selling romances and thrillers since her writing career began in 1981. Go »
Charlie Sheen
He used to be a major league hot shot, but in his later career, he can't even manage to stay employed as one of two and a half men. Go »
Gilbert Gottfried
This comedian has lent his scratchy, grating voice to three fictional birds. Go »
Sarah Winchester
If you have to share a house with the ghosts of your husband's shooting victims, you may as well make it a weird one. Go »
Teller
This magician, half of a famous duo, will never tell you the secrets of his magic show, or tell you anything else while he's on stage. Go »
August Dvorak
The letters "afuf;k h.soav" would spell the answer, if you typed it on a keyboard named after this educator. Go »
Kim Davis
If gay couples want to continue to protest this county clerk in Kentucky for not issuing them marriage licenses, they'll have to do it outside of jail. Go »
Andrew Luck
If the Colts want to make it to the Super Bowl this year, they're going to need a lot of their quarterback's last name. Go »
Maggie Gyllenhaal
She started her career as a secretary, but now she has starred alongside a crazy heart and a dark knight. Go »
Donald Trump
This businessman, birther, and Apprentice host wants to make America great again. Go »
Sean Kingston
This rapper is named after the capital of reggae. Who's the king? Go »
Woody Harrelson
He's been a detective, a pornographer, a bartender, a serial killer, and a Hunger Games tribute. Go »
Carrot Top
This prop comic is widely associated with an orange vegetable. Go »
Kevin Spacey
This actor gets killed in many of his films, but in the lead role that won him an Oscar, he was already dead before the movie started. Go »
Slash
This top hat aficionado with a violent mononym is known for his slippery, grimy style of playing guitar and his feud with former bandmate Axl Rose. Go »
David Steindl-Rast
This OSB monk taught that within all religions there is a fire below. Go »
Kate Mulgrew
How many actresses have played an Irish-American daughter, a starship captain, and a prison chef? Go »
George Lucas
He's now a mere consultant on the space opera franchise that Disney bought from him, but there's nothing mere about the billions of dollars that he earned from it. Go »
Vani Hari
Getting Subway to stop using the "yoga mat chemical" in their bread and Kraft to stop using artificial dyes in their macaroni & cheese does not require you to have a medical degree, if you have hundreds of thousands of followers who sign your petitions. Go »
Zhao Wei
This star of hits about soccer and princesses may be one of China's most successful actresses (literally: one of the four), but in some places she's better known for staring at one viewer from his television set. Go »
Charles Grey
If you prefer your tea somewhere between black and white, this is the British prime minister for you. Go »
Smokey Robinson
This singer took over Motown in more ways than one as the legendary frontman of the Miracles. Go »
Eric Ellison
He told a teen about a deadly crash before the young man got to collect an important document prior to leaving for college. Go »
Kylie Jenner
This youngest daughter of a prominent family gets lips moving when she leaves "reality" to make news in reality. Go »
Miley Cyrus
She took a wrecking ball to her former career as a family-friendly Disney Channel star. Go »
Bobbie Brown
It was her prerogative (she made her own decisions) to appear on the cover of a dessert-themed rock & roll album. Go »
Zack Hample
It takes a lot of balls to write a book telling people how to catch up to your collection. Go »
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
You can't pronounce his name, but he can pronounce you a great ninja. Go »
Ben Affleck
He played Daredevil, he's about to play Batman, he played a guy who played Superman, and he played the creator of Bluntman & Chronic. Go »
David Sedaris
This scion of a talented family recently faced diabetes. Go »
A$AP Rocky
You better hurry up and name this Harlem rapper who shares his name with a boxer from Philadelphia. Go »
Kate Walsh
You'd be a poor judge of character if you thought she got where she is without practicing alone. Go »
Jason Aldean
This Georgia-born country singer has sold a lot of records about parties, trains, and boots. Go »
Sam Phillips
Early rock & roll wouldn't have been the same without the supernova of talent (Elvis! Carl! Jerry Lee! Johnny!) that was discovered in his studio. Go »
Bernie Sanders
This senator from Vermont is running to become America's first self-described Socialist president. Go »
Tina Arena
This once-young talent on Australian television can now sing her songs of love to an entire sold-out... Go »
Frank Oz
This funny-voiced man, named for a fantastical land, was the hand beneath the felt for a self-obsessed pig, a mentoring alien, and a dessert-devouring monster. Go »
Larry Platt
This general wants 50 push-ups for having the wrong kind of pants on. Go »
Tori Spelling
After years living away her father's famous California zip code, she returned to it in 2009, around the time she wrote a book with a misspelling in the title. Go »
Ryan Gosling
Hey girl, do you know that a baby goose starred in The Notebook and Drive? Go »
Sia Furler
This Australian singer scored hits last year with songs about a hanging light fixture and a stretching circulatory organ. Go »
Chrissy Teigen
Newly pregnant with a legendary baby, this model is known for swimsuit issues and lip sync battles. Go »
Flambeaux
For this entertainer, whose name rhymes with Rambo, playing with fire is just another day at the office. Go »
Steve Spurrier
Fans of college and pro football alike have enjoyed his coaching of the Bandits, Blue Devils, Gators, Redskins, and Gamecocks, up until this week anyway. Go »
Lamar Odom
He's both a former NBA champion and a former Mr. Kardashian. Go »
Joaquín Guzmán
Despite him being the most powerful drug trafficker in the world, his stays in prison have been shorty. Go »
PewDiePie
Playing video games can indeed make you a millionaire. Go »
Wendy Davis
Whoever took over this long-winded, pro-choice Texan's state senate seat has some big (pink) shoes to fill. Go »
Christopher Lloyd
Even more so than his iconic roles in Taxi, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Addams Family, this actor is known for playing a time-traveling mad scientist who sends Marty McFly forward and back to the future and past. Go »
Elizabeth Banks
Her comedic roles in the Hunger Games, Lego Movie, Pitch Perfect, and Spider-Man films have her laughing all the way to the bank. Go »
Andy Weir
He's already a best-seller with only one book (and hit movie adaptation) to his name, about a resident of our nearest planetary neighbor. Go »
Charles Lindbergh
This record-setter was into transatlanticism long before Death Cab for Cutie. Go »
Andres Serrano
Blood, sweat, and tears go into this artist's controversial works. Go »
Twyla Tharp
Have you ever watched ballet and thought, this could use more Beach Boys? So has she. Go »
Judas Iscariot
He sealed his famous betrayal with a kiss. Go »
Charles Ponzi
Italians weren't known for pyramids, until this con artist came along. Go »
Jenny Lawson
She would probably like to pretend that some of her more embarrassing blog posts never happened. Go »
R.L. Stine
This author, best known for giving children goosebumps, is so successful it's scary. Go »
Mo'Ne Davis
This adolescent threw 8 XXXXXXXXs and solving this will be a challenge for you. You might want to accept this goo's challenge, because a professional dodger is going to do the challenge. Go »
Moondog
How many other blind jazz composers became homeless Vikings? Go »
Nicholas Sparks
Sparks fly whenever his lovers meet, in best-sellers like The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle. Go »
David Price
It turns out that you can put a price on pitching this good: $19,750,000. Go »
Melissa Benoist
She was quite gleeful upon learning that she had been cast as a very super girl. Go »
Zakk Wylde
He played guitar for a Black singer, and later started his own Black band, all without being able to spell his own name. Go »
Le'Veon Bell
There's nothing bell-shaped about the curves this running back takes on the field. Go »
Vin Diesel
He's a movie star known for The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Guardians of the Galaxy, not a compression-ignition engine in which a spray of fuel, introduced into air compressed to a temperature of approximately 1000° F (538° C), ignites at a virtually constant pressure. Go »
Mick Jagger
If you're trying to solve a goo that no one else can, you won't get no satisfaction from this singer of "Paint It Black" and "Sympathy for the Devil." Go »
Matthew Broderick
In his most famous roles, he played hooky from school, almost started thermonuclear war by hacking, mounted a stage musical about Hitler, and took his rightful place as king of a pride of lions. Go »
Cro
This rapper has gone Once Around the World and landed in a Dream in Deutschland. Go »
Eliot Ness
During the Prohibition, this top cop in Chicago couldn't be touched. Go »
Stephen Leatherman
He's the comparer of coastlines, the orderer of oceanfronts, and the scientist of sandiness. Go »
Tracey Gold
Her harrowing story has become the gold standard for young actresses struggling with anorexia. Go »
Abigail Breslin
This onetime Little Miss Oscar Nominee and keeper of her sister is now queen of screaming on Fox. Go »
Dante Hall
Do you think he will make it into the Hall of Fame as a Ram, a Chief, or a video game controller? Go »
Sylvia Browne
This self-described psychic, now two years deceased, had critics seeing red (and brown) when her claims in several missing-persons cases turned out to be false. Go »
Franz Mesmer
This German physician's magnetic personality allowed him to control his patients by dangling a watch and telling them that they were getting very sleepy. Go »
Dan Castellaneta
D'oh! 27 years (and counting) is a long time to voice a bumbling yellow patriarch. Go »
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
This Egyptian was better known for his humorously reduplicated name than for his humanitarian efforts as a diplomat and U.N. leader. Go »
Bon Scott
The last hit that was sung by this Scotsman with an electric stage presence had the unfortunate title "Highway to Hell." Go »
Montezuma
After his death marked the birth of New Spain and later Mexico. a common joke held that his vengeance lurked in the water. Go »
Ben Carson
The president is supposed to be smart, so Republicans might nominate an actual brain surgeon to do the job. Go »
Xi Jinping
The world's most powerful Communist has a dream for his nation. Go »
Sir Mix-a-Lot
This pseudo-Arthurian is veracious regarding his callipygian preferences. Go »
John Grisham
He's written about lawyers both rogue and street, as well as firms, partners, associates, and clients in general. Go »
Arianna Huffington
This Greek author, columnist, gubernatorial candidate, and occasional actress will be remembered for introducing the term "huffpo" to the world. Go »
