Summer 2018
Chris Lemler won this round on September 1, 2018. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (84 goos solved, a perfect score), Chris Lemler (79 goos solved), Samir Mehta (79 goos solved), Matthew Preston (74 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (61 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (48 goos solved), Scott Hardie (19 goos solved), and Erik Bates (9 goos solved).
Meghan Markle
The newest member of Britain's royal family is already used to fame, after acting in several Hollywood productions in her native Los Angeles. Go »
Evan Spiegel
He's a famous billionaire who married a model, but he doesn't like to show his face for more than 24 hours. Go »
Chiwetel Ejiofor
To Benedict Cumberbatch, he's been both a slave and a sorcerer. Go »
John McCarthy
His language was created to enhance communication, rather than impede it as the name implied. Go »
Jeff Gutt
This singer, who excelled in a TV competition by singing from his diaphragm, is not afraid of a "curse" after his two predecessors in a famous band both died. Go »
Abby Lee Miller
She wasn't really a mother but she really did dance, and she really did go to prison for not really being broke. Go »
Kiki Camarena
This DEA agent was less than a month from his transfer stateside when his murder sparked a row between Reagan and de la Madrid and forced the closing of the border. Go »
Danielle Steel
No living author has sold as many books as this stainless scribe. Go »
Bill Budge
Even though he didn't enjoy playing them, this game designer didn't budge from his passion of programming popular Apple games and software. Go »
Nikko Locastro
For this St. Louisan, life is flying high, but passing 100 career wins would be a plus. The most exciting part is he won the USDGC. Go »
Jeff Sessions
His session as the nation's top lawman may be coming to a close. Go »
Joshua Jackson
He's been in movies about ducks, skulls, and intentions, but he's best known for his work in television shows about an affair, a fringe, and a creek. Go »
Nigel Lythgoe
So you think this pop producer is idle? Think again, Superstar. Go »
Lois Lowry
Her books about a Holocaust survivor, an emotional rememberer, and a short teller of tall tales have made her a beloved children's author. Go »
Annie Edson Taylor
Good thing she didn't land on the Maid of the Mist. Go »
Fred Astaire
This carefree daddy long legs flew down to Rio to stay at a Holiday Inn for a royal wedding, put a top hat on his funny face, followed a fleet to an Easter parade, and asked a damsel in distress three little words: Shall we dance? Go »
Kate Spade
Her life recently ended, but she'll live on in the popular fashion accessories that bear her digging-tool name. Go »
Pythagoras
It's not as popular as E = mc², but this ancient philospher's calculation that a² + b² = c² continues to be a cornerstone of children's first geometry classes. Go »
XXXTentacion
This Miami-based rapper lived an X-rated life until his death in a robbery this week. Go »
Neil Harbisson
You install one antenna in a man's skull and suddenly he acts like he has changed species. Go »
Brittany Howard
Her Southern home state shakes, rattles, and rolls when she unleashes her thunderous voice. Go »
Yanela Sanchez
This crying Honduran toddler became the poster child for suffering at the United States border. Go »
Gilbert Baker
Gay pride got very colorful after this artist designed a representative flag. Go »
John Jakes
He took us on a journey through 120 years of family history, but not once was Krypton ever mentioned. Go »
Jason Momoa
This actor is the intersection between many pop-culture franchises: Game of Thrones, Baywatch, the DC Extended Universe, Stargate, and Conan the Barbarian. Go »
Ickey Woods
You can be insured that he always celebrates achieving his goals, even if it's just buying lunch meat. Go »
Jon Hamm
After the World Cup, I've got to get my friend John ham. Go »
Leslie Odom Jr.
This Tony winning actor is known nation-wide as a smash hit, to be sure, sir. Go »
Frank Rosenthal
Casino sports books exist thanks to this organized crime visionary. Go »
Travis Reinking
Waffle House's harshest critic. Who's the king? Go »
Dennis Lindsey
Although his role has a checkered past, he remains jazzed about it in general. Go »
Narendra Modi
Leading the world's largest democracy can make a man moody. Go »
John Steinbeck
Stories of the Dust Bowl won this author a Pulitzer and a Nobel prize. Go »
Scott Pruitt
President Trump's pledge to drain the swamp was undermined by the ethics scandals of this (recently ex-) cabinet member, whose job was in fact to protect swampland. Go »
Amy Bloom
Her writing career blossomed when she turned away from being a therapist full-time. Go »
Khloé Kardashian
If it's tough keeping up with which member of the wealthy reality-show family this is, she's the one who was married to a Los Angeles Laker. Go »
Pedro Martínez
This Dominican pitcher became one of the best of all time by exercising total control of the ball. Go »
Brittany Murphy
Sadly, her appearances in The Dead Girl, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and Girl, Interrupted were prophetic. Go »
A.A. Milne
Most of his animal characters were named like their species, but for some reason the bear was named after poo. Go »
Christine McVie
Rumors have it that the band had something perfect when this songbird joined. Then again, I may be lying to you. But, if I am, it' just one itty-bitty, teeny-tiny one. Go »
Bob Orton Jr.
This Cowboy's wife is a nurse, one of his sons is a mixed-martial arts fighter, and his manager has a lot of heart. He likes to ride the Stallion or even listen to the theme song to Bonanza. Go »
Frank Morris
Until he and a pair of brothers made their famous escape attempt, the success of which has never been determined, he was known as inmate AZ1441 on the island. Go »
Reginald VelJohnson
He's best known for playing two cops: One in Chicago raising a large family with a loud nerdy neighbor, and another in Los Angeles helping a fellow cop battle terrorists at a high-rise office. Go »
Chester Carlson
Copying the ideas of this inventor would infringe on several of the patents he owned. Go »
Jim Broadbent
Merlin's Beard! Don't get yourself greatly misshapen trying to guess this one. If you can can can, you may be wise enough to be sent to the Citadel! Go »
Andy Samberg
His best-known roles include a detective in Brooklyn, a hotel guest in Transylvania, an a not-ready-for-primetime-player on a lonely island. Go »
Helen Hunt
'90s audiences were mad about this TV wife and her movies about tornadoes, charity, OCD, a marooning, and gender-based telepathy. Go »
Zheng Shusen
He could create a unibrow with just one hair. Go »
Richard Keith
This talented musician is the last surviving cast member of the show he loved. Go »
Stevie Nicks
The dreams of so many players were poisoned as if with belladonna after a recent landslide of guesses for this rumoured street angel turned out to be trouble in paradise. Go »
Morgan Freeman
He played a longtime prison inmate named Red, and he co-starred in a Bruce Willis movie called Red, but not at the same time. Go »
J.B. Smoove
Contrary to the titles of his best-known TV appearances, his comedy is not deaf, his Hollywood marriage isn't real, and he's not particularly enthusiastic. Go »
John Coltrane
This saintly saxophonist played for a monk. Go »
Ginnifer Goodwin
Once known for being the younger wife, she has since gained success with Disney & ABC playing a gray rabbit, an orange fairy, and a white teacher. Go »
Jim Davis
His works include a western, some insects, and a tuber, but his most famous characters revolved around a cat. Go »
Draymond Green
You shouldn't apologize for being on Snapchat, but he should apologize for posting his one-eyed snake on it. Go »
Michael Cohen
This leaky lawyer's presidential protection is formally finished. Go »
George R. Kelly
Despite his associations with a deadly kind of gun (not to mention an R&B star charged with child pornography), this Federal prisoner died of natural causes. Go »
F.D.C. Willard
For all of his published scholarly works, he has yet to author a paper on felis domesticus. Go »
Neymar
This soccer star is best known in the United States for his on-field dramatics, instead of his ability. Go »
Leo Laporte
Screen saver not working? Try calling this twit for help. Go »
Ellie Kemper
If working in a difficult office didn't break her, nothing can. Go »
Betty Lou Oliver
On one doubly unlucky day in the 1940s, she survived the fall that King Kong did not. Go »
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Her ancestors fled Europe aboard the most famous ship to settle the New World, but she was in the very illegal business of bringing people together, not apart. Go »
Paul Horner
His fake news may have helped cause the biggest news event of 2016. The following year, he lost his life to a health epidemic that you might have heard about in the real news. Go »
Dak Prescott
He was born in Louisiana and played football in two neighboring states, even though he was named after two other states far away. Go »
Aelita Andre
Another Picasso? This extremely talented young artist gained international recognition at age four after selling a collection of abstract paintings in shows from Italy to Hong Kong, including one for $24,000. Go »
Rashida Jones
She has two homonymic projects: An upcoming Christmas movie, and a crime thriller now playing on cable TV. Go »
Anna Todd
She wrote after before she wrote before after she wrote. Go »
Fred Rogers
In his 50 years on television, only once did this child entertainer, and neighbor to us all, appear as someone other than himself. Go »
Jess
Being legal age to drink, you'd think she would quit acting like a big baby. Dating could be hard when she calls him Daddy. Go »
Anna Faris
She's been friends and just friends, a hot chick and a southern Belle, scary and smiley, a mom and a mama's boy, overboard with a broken back and lost with a chance of meatballs. Go »
William Kamkwamba
Ever since improving his village in Malawi, he has been an electrifying public speaker. Go »
Omarosa Manigault
Her time spent being apprenticed to a reality TV star didn't prepare her for very different work in a presidential administration. Go »
Lee Iacocca
This Pennsylvanian championed the mustang project in the 1960s. We're not talking horses here, though; just horsepower. Go »
Francis of Assisi
This minor friar is the original environmentalist. Go »
Lee Child
It's not a reach to imagine this thriller novelist pleased that his work comes between Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie. Go »
Hillary Clinton
She was betrothed to and betrayed by Bill, blocked and brought on by Barack, and berated and beaten by Donald. Go »
Martin Bryant
Australians surrendered their right to bear arms thanks to this Tasmanian devil. Go »
Leonard Skinner
This gym teacher was so reviled by some of his students, they named their (very successful) band after a mockery of his name. Go »
Juanita Broaddrick
She was forced to bite her lip for far too long, but in the #MeToo era, attitudes toward her 1999 allegations of rape by a high-ranking politician are broadly changing. Go »
William Howard Hughes
He worked for the Air Force and shared a name with a famous aviator, but recently his long flight came to an end. Go »
Billy Ocean
Do you know the difference between a sea and an ocean? This guy probably does, considering that he's named after one and his best-known hit is about a queen of another. Go »
Leonard Bernstein
One of the Massive geniuses of American music is known for his original compositions about west sides, wonderful towns, and waterfronts. Go »
Janelle Monáe
She keeps recording albums about artificial life, but she seemed plenty alive herself in two Oscar-nominated 2016 films. Go »
Seth Rollins
You wouldn't think this performer from Davenport, IA would need to hide behind a shield. Using a finishing move named after a dog food brand would be dangerous if you landed head first. Go »
James Gunn
This director is like Chekhov's gun: He has be fired before the third act. Go »
Kevin Kwan
His novel about billionaires in his native Singapore have made him crazy rich. Go »
Jack Kerouac
On the road to writing his biggest success, this author generated a beat for us to read by. Go »
