Winter 2017
Samir Mehta won this round on February 24, 2017. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Jesse King (86 goos solved), Russ Wilhelm (85 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (84 goos solved), Steve West (84 goos solved), Justin Woods (81 goos solved), Samir Mehta (79 goos solved), Chris Lemler (76 goos solved), Matthew Preston (54 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (42 goos solved), Joanna Woods (24 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (6 goos solved), Ryan Dunn (6 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (4 goos solved).
Beck
You'd have to be a loser not to appreciate the sea change that this experimental musician brought to many genres. Go »
Heather Boushey
She's an economist first, a mommy second, and a Clinton supporter third. Go »
Dennis Quaid
He's been a test pilot, a climatologist, Jerry Lee Lewis, an aging quarterback and aging pitcher, a poisoning victim, and Doc Holliday. Go »
Demi Lovato
She loves to keep fans guessing: First she's a family member of a purple dinosaur, then she's starring in a series about the weather, then her career peaks after cardiac arrest. Go »
Chip and Joanna Gaines
This married couple has fixed up the ailing HGTV with a hit series about renovations. Go »
Matt King
This very British comedian has appeared in very British shows like Doctor Who, The IT Crowd, and Peep Show. Who's the king? Go »
Morgan Spurlock
He's currently producing a documentary in which he becomes a celebrity goo to see what effect it has on him. Go »
Charles Wood
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Go »
Lisa Kudrow
She has been a web-based therapist, a high school reunion attendee, a college dean mediating a neighborly dispute, and a mobster's psychiatrist's wife, but she'll always be best known as a friend to five young single New Yorkers. Go »
Kacey Musgraves
This Texas-born, Nashville-based star has an address in a whole new trailer park since competing on the pageant that is reality television. Go »
Rami Malek
Considering how robotic he is on teleivision, it's strange to think that he'll soon play Freddie Mercury. Go »
Flea
He's a bass player, not a blood-sucking insect known for appearing in miniature circuses. Go »
J. Fred Muggs
If you thought Billy Bush was the least evolved simian among the Today show cast, you weren't watching in the 1950s. Go »
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This Austrian composer was such a devout Catholic that he took his love of God as a name. Go »
Gucci Mane
What do an animal's hair and a leather handbag company have in common? This rapper. Go »
Kellyanne Conway
She's the first female campaign manager to lead a successful campaign for U.S. president. Go »
Dwyane Wade
After spending most of his career wading around swampy Miami, this unusually-spelled Chicagoan is back in his windy hometown again. Go »
Michael Apted
This British director of films about super spies and fantasy lands has fourteen lifetimes of experience in cinema. Go »
Mike Myers
He's the funnyman behind Shrek and Austin Powers, not the masked murderer from the Halloween movies. Go »
DJ Snake
This DJ has had such a twisty, serpentine career that his debut album is an encore. Go »
Joseph Haydn
This Austrian composer of chamber music was the father of the symphony and the brother of Michael, but for the love of God, he was not Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Go »
Lizzie Magie
How appropriate it is that her board game about the dangers of capitalism was stolen by an unbrotherly corporation and turned into a celebration of making profit. Go »
Henry Heimlich
Hopefully no one will get choked up at his funeral in a few days. Go »
Charles Delavan
Another Clinton email scandal: One typo by this IT staffer may have changed the course of world affairs. Go »
David Baldacci
He had an absolutely powerful debut novel, but he's been stuck in a no-man's-land of diminished sales ever since. Go »
Michael Mvogo
Do you think you can just walk in here and identify this guy faster than Canada could? Go »
Elbridge Gerry
This Massachusetts governor redrew electoral districts to give his party an advantage, and ever since then the process was named after him. Go »
Krysten Ritter
She's been a drug addict on AMC, a superhero on Netflix, and a b---- on ABC. Go »
Duke Ellington
This pianist and member of jazz royalty did mean a thing, and did have that swing. Go »
D'Angelo
He doesn't know how it feels to be a lady, but he does know how it feels to come back after fourteen years without recording music. Go »
Joel Mercado-See
Calling him Kung Fu is a big mistake unless you want Superman to come after you when he leaves town. Go »
Nichole Nordeman
This Colorado-born singer must have been brave to enter the business as a wide-eyed amateur. Go »
Mila J
When she called from a Los Angeles area code, Prince answered the phone and put her in a music video. Go »
Rod Stewart
Some goos have all the luck. Go »
Dana Rosemary Scallon
She represented her country in Eurovision and in the European Parliament, albeit at two very different times in her life. Go »
Jason Bateman
Depending on when you first noticed him, you might know him as a young boy on the prairie, a teen mourning his sitcom mom, a basketball-playing werewolf, a stockbroker living with his brother, a real-estate developer in the middle of a dysfunctional family, a hopeful father adopting a teenager's baby, a friend stuck in the body of Ryan Reynolds, the victim of identity theft, or a con-artist fox. Go »
Fred DeLuca
The original name of his sandwich shop, Pizza Marines, didn't work out, so he named it after a subterranean transit system instead. Go »
Mark Sutton
He helped James Bond bring Olympic glory to London, but it's his accidental death that really gave his legend wings. Go »
Pat Morita
What do Happy Days, The Karate Kid, Mulan, and Sanford and Son have in common? Go »
Kim Dotcom
Information wants to be free, and so does this copyright-infringing mega-entrepreneur. Go »
Sheldon Richardson
On the field, he's a powerhouse defensive end, barreling towards you at 140mph. Off the field, he's a reckless stoned driver, barreling through Missouri at 140mph. Go »
Katy Perry
She's now wide awake after a very successful teenage dream, going loud with songs about roaring and fireworks. Go »
Bill Withers
Despite the fact that there wasn't no sunshine, and the fact that she kept using him to lean on, he spent a lovely day holding hands with Grandma, just the two of them. Go »
Gideon Sundback
Zip It! Go »
Levi Oleesky
Oh no, oh no! His belt caused an unsanitary situation. Go »
Abraham Zapruder
When this Dallas businessman brought his camera to watch a presidential motorcade, he unintentionally filmed one of the most important 26 seconds of footage in American history. Go »
Glenn Hall
He's played for three midwestern rivals, and he's so respected at goaltending that they call him "Mr. Goalie," but he's not Darren Pang. Go »
Paul McLoone
Never listen to the tone beneath this goo's voice. But if you do, don't let the chain of love end with you alone. Go »
W. Bruce Cameron
He used to terrorize his teenage daughter's prospective boyfriends, but now a different member of the family has given his life (and writing career) new purpose. Go »
Charlie Day
From fistfighting Ice Cube to suffering horrible boss Jennifer Aniston, his career is as bright as a sunny day (especially in Philadelphia). Go »
Alex Malarkey
People shouldn't have been so quick to believe this boy's story about visiting Heaven. After all, his last name is another word for falsehood. Go »
Brooklyn Decker
She's the daughter of Liam Neeson and Jane Fonda, and the wife of Dennis Quaid and Andy Roddick. Go »
Amanda Knox
When Italy needed a sexy young American scapegoat for a lurid murder case, they knocked on her door. Go »
Kenneth Cole
He came out of Brooklyn as a movie producer, became a successful clothing and shoe man, and is now New York political royalty. Go »
David Phillips
12,150 cups of pudding can make you famous around the world, and you can go anywhere to find out. Go »
Candace Payne
The simple joys in life can lead to a whole lot of views on YouTube. Go »
Paul Teutul
Chopping your own son out of your reality TV show is how you have to roll. Go »
Michael Che
This comedian had a brief job working daily until he updated his career to work only on Saturday night. Go »
Rachel Held Evans
This Tennessee-based blogger has spent years (one in particular) being a devoted Christian and not being a monkey. Go »
Barron Trump
He'll be the White House's newest youngest resident, once he finishes his current school year in Manhattan. Go »
Jodie Sweetin
Being the middle child in the house is sweet, and so is being the middle adult two decades later, especially when your family is a high-ranking poker hand. Go »
Matt Peckham
This leftie disc golf master from Rock Hill, winner of (just) over 50 tournaments in his professional career, has innova-ted new designs in the sport. Go »
Martin Lawrence
Outside of his eponymous sitcom, he's best known for being a big mother and a bad boy. Go »
James Mattis
Trump might have no better friend, and ISIS no worse enemy, than this enraged canine. Go »
David Attenborough
Brits understand the natural world much better thanks to this documentarian with two famous brothers. Go »
Sylvester Stallone
He's played several iconic movie tough guys, from a Vietnam vet to a Philadelphia boxer, but his latest roles have been expendable. Go »
Henry Ian Cusick
It would have been scandalous if he were to have lost any of the one hundred or so roles he has played. Go »
Awkwafina
Her raps about Power Rangers and the mayor of her native NYC are definitely more interesting than a bottle of water. Go »
Alison Brie
From Mad Men to Community to BoJack Horseman, this actress gravitates toward the cheesiest parts. Go »
The Amazing Johnathan
This magician will use every trick in the book to get you to laugh. Go »
Alessia Cara
She had the must "hear" song of 2015 and a beautiful follow-up the next year. Go »
Chris Jericho
Hey, you stupid idiots. You just made the list. Go »
James Corden
Brits know him as a flabby sitcom star and stage actor. Americans know him as a talk show host who drives around singing karaoke with celebrities. Go »
Werner Thomas
This composer of a traditional song at wedding receptions nearly caused me to cancel mine. Go »
Adam Vinatieri
This kicker, who has worn blue for teams in the northeast and midwest, is old enough to have seen the seventh Super Bowl, which is almost as many Super Bowls as he has played in. Go »
Woody Guthrie
This land will always be his land. Go »
Dick Wolf
This action-show producer with an action-hero name has created a television-show empire out of multiple franchises about law enforcement and the Windy City. Go »
Frederick Douglass
This abolitionist is an example of somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more. Go »
Tombili
Try to be as relaxed as this Istanbulite and you might never get up again. Go »
James Valentine
Adam Levine stops singing whenever this guitarist jams through another solo. Go »
Harry Wayne Casey
This sunny singer loves to get down once, boogie twice, and shake four times. Go »
Gina Rodriguez
Her character on a hit series may lack certain experience, but she has had plenty of other experience in her career, starring in everything from a soap opera to an industrial disaster movie to a hip-hop indie drama. Go »
Jim Morrison
His band's first hit really lit the fire of their career. Everywhere they went, people thought they were strange. In the end, he broke on through to the other side. Go »
Katherine Johnson
Hollywood is over the moon about this West Virginia-born mathematician and navigator. Go »
Kyrie Irving
This basketball champ believes that the Earth is flat, despite moving to America from the furthest possible country on the opposite side of the planet. Go »
Benjamin Netanyahu
This national leader, the first of his nation to be born there, is no reckless yahoo when it comes to diplomacy with the United States. Go »
Audrey Murdick
Her husband keeps making public appearances with dummies, but this fitness trainer isn't one of them. Go »
Ted Danson
He's been a magazine editor, a crime scene investigator, an afterlife architect, an irritable doctor, a corrupt billionaire, and a North Dakota sheriff, but none of them will ever be as famous as his bar owner and retired pitcher. Go »
Jon Secada
Neither of the days that this Cuban-American won his Grammy awards were just another. Go »
