Winter 2016
Russ Wilhelm won this round on February 26, 2016. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Justin Woods (90 goos solved, a perfect score), Russ Wilhelm (85 goos solved), Joanna Woods (83 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (82 goos solved), Steve West (82 goos solved), Chris Lemler (81 goos solved), Samir Mehta (81 goos solved), Mike Rothstein (68 goos solved), Matthew Preston (51 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (41 goos solved), Erik Bates (34 goos solved), Stan Iwanchuk (26 goos solved), Mike Eberhart (21 goos solved), Steve Dunn (11 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (2 goos solved), Lori Lancaster (2 goos solved), Kelly Lee (1 goo solved), and Scott Hardie (1 goo solved).
LeVar Burton
He's best known for playing a blind starship engineer, a defiant slave, and a reading-obsessed host. Go »
Ta-Nehisi Coates
He never sugar-coats his views on raising black sons in America or paying reparations for slavery. Go »
Tex Ritter
This country singer may stack the deck against you. Go »
Dwight King
This left winger is the king of kings in Los Angeles. Who's the king? Go »
Saartjie Baartman
This ample-bodied woman didn't have the option of being coy. Go »
Marco Rubio
This Floridian senator thinks he has what it takes to become the first Cuban-American president. Go »
Mel Brooks
Governor William J. Lepetomane, Richard H. Thorndyke, and President Skroob are among the creatures of parody played by this writer-director. Go »
Kimbo Slice
This fighter, boxer, and occasional actor is known for cutting his opponents down to size. Go »
Curtis Mayfield
This super-fly soul singer made an even bigger impression as a solo artist. Go »
Steven Yeun
This Korean-American actor's career is very much alive even if his show is very much dead. Go »
DeRay Mckesson
He quit his job as a school administrator to become a full-time activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, launching WeTheProtestors.org and lecturing at Yale. Go »
Leonid Telyatnikov
Put out the answer before you have a meltdown. Go »
Kristen Stewart
Roles in Snow White and the Huntsman, American Ultra, and Adventureland suggest that she's nowhere near the twilight of her career. Go »
Martin Shkreli
This pharmaceutical executive and Wu-Tang fan experienced a 5000% increase in hatred of his business practices this year. Go »
Busy Philipps
Shows about nerds, brooks, and pumas have kept this actress's schedule full. Go »
Derek Jeter
The Yankee's all-time hittingest player was not known to be a cheater, despite his last name sounding like it. Go »
Nova Rockafeller
This pop star self-identifies as one of the "children of the 1990s" despite being born in 1988. Go »
Tim Allen
His television and movie characters are known by their catch-phrases: "More power!" "To infinity, and beyond!" "Never give up. Never surrender." "What if I fall off the roof?" Go »
Tom Brady
If you solve this goo, you can give yourself a pat on the back. You will be called a true American. Go »
Mila Kunis
No matter how many forgettable movies she stars in about swans or Oz or Jupiter, she remains best known for her shows on Fox about the seventies and a guy with a family. Go »
Stephanie Courtney
It takes two hours for this actress to get into the distinctive hair and heavy makeup required to play her famous insurance-selling mascot character. Go »
Jazbo Brown
Jazz might have been named after this Mississippi delta blues musician, if he actually existed. Go »
Philip K. Dick
Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report were all based on works by this dickish author. Go »
Gareth Jones
This may be rather heartless of me, but irony has to make you wonder if getting into character is what killed this actor. Go »
Les Paul
His contributions to rock guitar got him inducted to both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Go »
Denis Leary
This Boston-Irish comic with the (foul) motor mouth spent years playing a firefighter and a sabretooth tiger. Go »
Jean Shepherd
His childhood reminiscences of a much-desired Red Ryder BB Gun, a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a stocking, and a triple dog dare to lick a frozen pole make up an annual holiday tradition. Go »
Fetty Wap
This trap rapper does it his way. Go »
Purvi Patel
Abortion or feticide? Buoyancy or stillbirth? Crime or injustice? Go »
Natalie Portman
You can't spell vendetta without Luke Skywalker's mom. Go »
Grover Norquist
He likes tax reform, in the sense of no net increases in taxes ever again, and he's gotten most Republicans to pledge their support. Go »
Raúl Castro
His re-establishment of diplomatic relations with America might make him more revolutionary than his older brother. Go »
Lil Bub
This might be the first YouTube star to have their entire genome sequenced. Go »
Clive Owen
He makes movies about men who are inside and rich with wives, but also kids who are back and of men. Go »
David Gunn
This ironically-named (and ironically-killed) doctor was a major influence on Marilyn Manson. Go »
Eddie Fatu
This Samoan might give you a spike to the throat if you piss him off. Go »
Ed Sheeran
This self-described ginger kid from Britain names his albums after math and has made fans and collaborators out of Elton John, Taylor Swift, and Jamie Foxx. Go »
Daniel Owsen
He didn't just translate most of the Legend of Zelda games: His voice was among the very first speaking English to appear in any video game, assuring players that the galaxy is at peace. Go »
Jesse Owens
This winner of four gold medals, and onetime fastest man in the world, outran Hitler's claims of Aryan supremacy. Go »
Peter Unger
His philosophy is that an idea without substance is relative to ignorance. Go »
Elisabeth Moss
This actress is as busy as a rolling stone, playing a presidential daughter, a secretary, and a British detective on three highly-acclaimed shows. Go »
Jared Leto
This nearly Martian rock star played the assassin of a rock star in a movie, as well as an HIV-positive trans woman and a laughing comic-book villain and a member of an underground fight club. Go »
James Harden
He skyrocketed to popularity because he's one of the best shooting guards in the NBA, not because of his beard. Go »
Ivana Baquero
She became famous in movies about a maze and an offspring. Now she's starring in a new series about annals. Go »
Thomas Harris
His novels, all of them adapted by Hollywood, are about a cannibal and serial killer named for an ancient general. Go »
Tom Hardy
His enemies include Immortan Joe, Batman, and Captain Picard. Go »
Ammon Bundy
Like father, like son: This rancher's standoff in Oregon might be only getting started. Go »
Bob Costas
This sportscaster (and later, talk-show host) has been embroiled in controversies as significant as gun control and as silly as pinkeye. Go »
Anna Anderson
Polish factory worker or Russian grand duchess? Go »
David Bowie
After creating a space oddity, spiders from Mars, and a man who fell to Earth, this singer had in him one final space-themed album, ★. Go »
Adam Wainwright
He's number 1 in his family, but when playing cards, he's 50. He does everything wright, nothing wrong. Go »
Rachel Platten
Her current album has caught on like a wildfire, on the strength of a popular fighting song. Go »
Stephen Curry
This warrior's proficiency at scoring three points at a time has accelerated his rise as one of the NBA's all-time best shooters. Go »
Diabolito
This Caribbean pirate was a little bit devilish. Go »
Ariadna Gutiérrez
You might be told that your guess for this Columbian model is the most correct in the universe, only to hear an announcement four minutes later that someone else is the right answer. Go »
Peter Wolf
This centerfold-admiring singer's middle name is not "and the." Go »
Gillian Anderson
She has played Lady Dedlock, Stella Gibson, Meg Fitch, and Bedelia Du Maurier, but she'll always be best known as Dana Scully. Go »
Jacques Pépin
This French chef provided the seed for today's explosion of television gourmets. Go »
Kostydin Yankov
Desiring to be hurled into the air by a medieval siege weapon is not the most sensible way to seek your thrills. Go »
George Armstrong Custer
This Union general witnessed Lee surrender to Grant, but his ignomious last stand in Montana on the banks of the Little Bighorn River became his legacy. Go »
Jamie Keeton
You don't need a cupholder when having drinks with this Chicagoan. Go »
Carol Burnett
This sketch-comedy legend made a charwoman her signature character. Go »
Ashanti
How many people can say that their career started with J-Lo, Ja Rule, and Fat Joe? Go »
Jeb Bush
This Floridian governor doesn't seem to have what it takes to follow his father and brother into the White House. Go »
Jason Schwartzman
This actor is not yet dead of boredom from roles that have him loving Huckabees, opposing Scott Pilgrim, and rushing more. Go »
Boo Weekley
Playing disc golf weekly is not this type of golf this Floridian likes to play. With his name, maybe ghost hunting would be a better profession. Go »
Elvis Presley
This hip-shaking heartthrob had history-making hits with "Hard-Headed Woman," "Hound Dog," and "Heartbreak Hotel." Go »
Wendy Thomas
The restaurant chain that has borne her name and likeness since she was a girl didn't start airing commercials starring her until the 2000s. Go »
Killer Mike
Monstrously talented from the beginning, this deadly rapper is currently running away with critical acclaim. Go »
Maggie Goldenberger
Ehrmahgerd! Mah fravrit cehrlerberty gehr! Go »
Cam Newton
The Panthers' #1 player seeks glory at Super Bowl 50. Go »
Katie May
Sticking her neck out in the modeling business may have been her undoing. Go »
Mike Peters
His muses are his TV mother and fairy tales. Go »
Emily Heaton
This Virginian 8-year-old has never been to the African country where she's a princess, and neither has anyone else. Go »
Joseph Lewis
One minute you're famished; the next minute you find a sucker to appease your appetite. Go »
Adam Driver
Playing an immature jerk lacking self-awareness in Girls prepared him for playing a galaxy-sized version of the same in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Go »
Cecilia Giménez
Praying, she's good at. Painting, not so much. Go »
Emma Roberts
This famous niece knows a thing or two about screaming in horror. Go »
Matt Groening
Life is no longer hellish for this very successful creator of a yellow family and a future parody. Go »
DeForest Kelley
To paint this actor, who made many appearances across multiple iterations of Star Trek, you would need two shades of green. Go »
Saoirse Ronan
If she wins an Academy Award this month (it's her second nomination and she's only 21), good luck to the presenter who must pronounce her name. Go »
Darren Pang
Trying to slip a goal past this ex-hawk would make him announce his retirement by singing the blues. Go »
Ed Helms
When not working at his daily office job, he gets hungover on vacation. Go »
Tim Cook
His beloved, now deceased predecessor had a legacy of innovation. His legacy might be privacy. Go »
Dan Price
This CEO put a $70k price tag on his employees' happiness. Go »
Léo Major
It was never clear whether he was a sergeant, a major, or a sergeant major, but all the same, he twice conducted himself with distinction. Go »
Ahmed Mohamed
Bringing a bomb to school is grounds for arrest, unless it's a clock, in which case it's grounds for an invitation to the White House. Go »
Robert Stack
The version of Eliot Ness that he played didn't leave many mysteries unsolved. Go »
Iggy Pop
You'll find records by this lustful wild-child filed under pop, even though he performs punk. Go »
