Summer 2016
Chris Lemler won this round on August 26, 2016. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Steve West (89 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (88 goos solved), Chris Lemler (87 goos solved, a perfect score), Russ Wilhelm (86 goos solved), Samir Mehta (84 goos solved), Justin Woods (82 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (71 goos solved), Matthew Preston (56 goos solved), Joanna Woods (49 goos solved), Jesse King (24 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (4 goos solved).
A.J. Styles
He will cramp your Styles but he likes to be called AJ, when he wins the WWE Championship against Roman Reigns. Go »
Robert and Michelle King
They abandoned their show about a well-behaved missus to make another about brainless politicians. Who's the king? Go »
John Legend
Everyone knows he evolved from ordinary people to become legendary. Go »
Will Arnett
This actor has been a toy Batman, a sitcom-starring horse, a suriphobic chef, an angry squirrel, and an evil banker, and those are just the roles where he didn't show his face. Go »
Blac Chyna
Her professional alias is the opposite color of her real name. Go »
Genghis Khan
He founded the Mongol Empire, conquered most of central Asia, and executed some guy by pouring molten silver and gold on his face. Go »
Olivia Newton-John
She was totally hot in the 1970s, but merely warm by the late 1980s. Go »
Anthony Perkins
This Oscar nominee starred in plenty of roles, but none were as famous as the hotelier he played four times. Go »
Alexis Bledel
She was the only actual girl in the Gilmore family. Go »
Chris Van Allsburg
His books about dangerous board games and Arctic-bound trains have captivated children for decades. Go »
Max Pruss
He'd done it 170 times before, but bad things can happen when you pilot passengers while using hydrogen as a pick-me-up. Go »
Christopher Walken
He's been a deer-hunting Vietnam soldier, a cowbell-loving record producer, and a clairvoyant Stephen King protagonist, but he has never been David Lynch. Go »
Andrew Breitbart
This Hollywood Jew became one of the Internet's fiercest conservative voices on several websites, including one bearing his name. Go »
Serj Tankian
The Armenian Genocide won't be forgotten, if this downer of a rock star has any say in it. Go »
Muhammad Ali
He wasn't called The Greatest just because he was good at the sport where he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. Go »
Creflo Dollar
He has plenty of reasons to ask for his own last name, such as a replacement for his private jet. Go »
Pat McCrory
This Southern governor might forever be remembered for declaring where people get to pee. Go »
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Playing an American founding father on Broadway has been one of the heights of his career. Go »
Torii Hunter
If you're tracking down sports on TV and you can't find it, get the newspaper and check and see if it's on channel #44. If you can't find it there, ask this twin. Go »
Pink
Most girls, even stupid ones, love this color no matter how it's punctuated. Go »
Bob Uecker
This Milwaukeean is synonymous with his sport, despite forays into sitcoms and beer commercials that brought him national fame. Go »
Eric Church
He's a self-identified sinner despite being named for a holy building. Go »
Raquel Welch
She took a fantastic voyage roughly one million years into the past, becoming a sex symbol in the 1960s and 1970s. Go »
Louis Armstrong
You can say this famous trumpeter's name as "Louie" or "Lewis," but you can't say that jazz would have been the same without him. Go »
North West
You can find her at 10:30, on an instrument other than a clock. Go »
Daniel Snyder
If you have any snide remarks to make about his football team, keep them to yourself: He's proud of their heritage and he won't have you cheapen their name. Go »
Helen Mirren
She started her film career romancing princes, kings, and emperors in Caligula, Hamlet, and Excalibur, but it was her own role as The Queen that earned her an Oscar in 2007. Go »
Elizabeth Holmes
This businesswoman took a bloody path from broke to billions and back. Go »
Tim McGraw
He broke out too soon in 1994, got faith in 1996, and inspired country's next generation in 2006. Go »
Trayvon Martin
The neighborhood (and soon the country) watched him get into a deadly scuffle over Skittles and a gray hoodie. Go »
Bob Rock
Creating hit records for Bon Jovi, Metallica, and Mötley Crüe has made this producer synonymous with his genre of music. Go »
Val Kilmer
In a long film career, he's been Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison, Simon Templar and Bruce Wayne, Philip of Macedon and Moses. Go »
Roosh V.
The Internet's most notorious misogynist has dating advice fit for kings. Go »
Harry Lampert
His work with his most famous creation was over in a flash, but I guess that's how the cards fall. Go »
Phil Knight
At the intersection of sports, marketing, fashion, and controversy, this founder and former CEO has one attitude: Just goo it. Go »
Joe Maddon
This vigilante down by the bay in Tampa has an issue with pitchers throwing at his cubs for no reason. Go »
James Madison
This Founding Father is remembered for drafting the Bill of Rights, overseeing the Louisiana Purchase, serving eight years as president, and declaring war on Britain, but also for owning hundreds of slaves on his Virginia plantation. Go »
Hachiko
The story of a commuter's best friend has become an iconic tale in Japan, where loyalty is a virtue. Go »
Harold Schultz
Giving credit to this Marine after a case of mistaken identity raises important questions about military propaganda and historical accuracy. Go »
Ernest Cline
Hollywood is more than ready to adapt his popular novels about video games. Go »
Chris Stevens
The killing of this diplomat in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 continues to be a factor in the 2016 election. Go »
Cody ChesnuTT
The seed of his success was planted among the roots. Go »
Melanie Martinez
This Long Islander's songs reveal an obsession with childhood objects. Go »
Ricky Gervais
This British comic no longer gets to enjoy the extras since he left his office job. Go »
Pedro de Alvarado
Every red son of central Central America knows this founder's name. Go »
Satoru Iwata
After years of work on beloved titles like Kirby, Earthbound, and Super Smash Bros, this banana-loving president's final gift to gamers is Pokémon Go. Go »
Dick Van Dyke
Long before he got into diagnosing cases of homicide, he was a comedy writer tripping over ottomans and a chimney sweep dancing on London rooftops. Go »
James Blake Miller
He became a poster boy for war-weariness in Iraq, but he won't ever be on a poster for an anti-smoking campaign. Go »
Nigel Farage
Nobody should be more excited about the Brexit than the guy who has, off and on over the last decade, led a political party founded on the notion of independence. Go »
Mark Wahlberg
He's been a porn star, an astronaut, a rapper, a Boston cop, a shipwrecked sailor, a burger shop owner, a biker dad, and an NFL player. And some of those weren't just acting roles. Go »
Robert Kirkman
His zombie-filled comics for Image and Marvel have inspired a successful transition to television. Go »
Duncan Hines
Thanks to his pioneering reviews, finding a good place to eat on the road is a piece of cake. Go »
Miskel Spillman
You don't have to be famous to host Saturday Night Live, if you know how to mail a postcard. Go »
Theresa May
She may not last until December if she can't fix the mess created by "Leavers." Go »
Jeff Goldblum
He has starred in several successful franchises, including Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Thor, Cats & Dogs, and Law & Order. Go »
David Duke
When Louisianians voted him into office, did they consider his being a Grand Wizard of the KKK to be valuable work experience? Go »
Mary Mallon
She must have been the most popular cook in New York City, because people were dying to taste her cooking. Go »
Joel McHale
His starring roles involved adventure reporting, community college attending, and pop-culture soup talking. Go »
Lynn Hauldren
His commercials built a Chicago carpet empire on the strength of a very catchy phone number, 800-588-2300. Go »
Tim Schafer
His biggest hits have been full, grim, brutal, and broken. Go »
Julianne Moore
Her movies have concerned alright children of single men, forgotten ended affairs with Don Juans who don't can't evolve into ideal husbands, and surviving psychos like Hannibal Lecter non-stop for hours and nights for up to nine months. Go »
Brandon Tartikoff
The visionary executive who rescued NBC and spearheaded so many pop-cultural landmarks of the 1980s (The Cosby Show, L.A. Law, Cheers, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Family Ties, and many more) deserved more of a tribute than having Punky Brewster's dog named after him. Go »
Bryton Mellott
His criminally unpatriotic choice of expression might have made him an actual criminal under Illinois law. Go »
Shane Dawson
Anybody can complain on YouTube about how uncool it is to take a selfie. It takes more effort to write a book about hating yours. Go »
Margaret Keane
This artist had an eye-opening day in court when she revealed that her husband's famous paintings were in fact her own. Go »
Raj Patel
This British-American academic is hungry for economic change. Go »
Khizr Khan
A father's love for his deceased son (and the constitution) trumped other speakers at a recent convention. Go »
Thomas Jefferson
Americans both black and white can claim this independence-declaring founding father to be their ancestor, but they can't claim him to be James Madison. Go »
Hillary Jordan
This Dallas native confronts the muddy matter of skin color in her novels, quite literally in one sci-fi book. Go »
Robert Redford
Stings, candidates, chases, and horse whisperers have this leading man in common. Go »
Nelly Furtado
According to pop-music folklore, she's a loose and promiscuous maneater. Go »
Jann Wenner
His long-running music magazine gathers no moss, but his artist selection for a certain hall of fame gathers plenty of controversy. Go »
Monique Pressley
If you're a successful black entertainer accused of doing horrible things to women, you should hire a successful black woman like this to defend you. Go »
Strom Thurmond
This Southern segregationist made Senate history with an epic 24-hour filibuster and an epic 49-year term that saw him still serving South Carolina at 100 years of age. Go »
Jack LaLanne
This San Franciscan spoke often on the benefits of nutrition and exercise, keeping up his famous 2-hour daily workout routine until the day before he died at 96. Go »
Caesar Cardini
Though he may never have conquered Rome, his namesake creation has taken up occupation of many dinner tables. Go »
Simone Biles
This all-around champion from Ohio has become a gymnasitc superstar in Rio. Go »
Nicole Maines
Her lawsuit over bathroom access was a royal pain to her school district in the New England state that shares her name. Go »
Walter Kirn
After early success writing about a teenager who sucks his thumb, the future of his writing career is no longer up in the air. Go »
Dick Morris
His strategizing made Bill Clinton a crossover figure (even prostitutes listened in), but now he's one of Hillary Clinton's sharpest critics. Go »
John Hetlinger
This talented American got a chance to sing in concert with Drowning Pool. Go »
Robert Englund
His portrayal of a claw-fingered monster has given bad dreams to more people than the population of the island nation with which he shares a name. Go »
Ryan Lochte
This blue (silver? green?)-haired athlete is likely to be better remembered for a false police report about armed robbery than anything he did in the pool at Rio. Go »
Omran Daqneesh
A boy in an ambulance might finally open the world's eyes to the suffering and misery in Syria. Go »
Lil Poopy
Rap, like everything else, is just a game (albeit a shitty one) when you haven't yet reached puberty. Go »
Lewis Carroll
This English author remains beloved for his writings about a girl who drank a shrinking potion, a grinning and disappearing cat, an insane tea-drinking hatter, a decapitation-obsessed crimson queen, and a nonsensical dragon made of gibberish. Go »
Tom Vilsack
Obama's longest-serving secretary knows plenty about Iowan agriculture. Go »
Eugene Stoner
The Vietnam War wouldn't exactly have been fought with sticks and stones if this gun designer's weapons hadn't existed, but he did lift a burden from the soldiers all the same. Go »
George A. Romero
The recent fad of zombie entertainment owes a debt to this influential filmmaker, who is still living (not dead). Go »
