Steve West won this round on August 28, 2020. There were 90 goos.

Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (90 goos solved, a perfect score), Denise Sawicki (86 goos solved), Samir Mehta (86 goos solved), Chris Lemler (80 goos solved), Erik Bates (80 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (79 goos solved), Steve West (76 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (24 goos solved), Scott Hardie (9 goos solved), and Matthew Preston (1 goo solved).

Richard III

This transitional British monarch was found below his own initial in a modern parking lot. Go »

Danny McBride

This funnyman has flown in the air to the tropics and taken the express train far eastbound in pursuit of vice. Go »

Lauren Morelli

She didn't just realize that she was gay when writing love scenes for Netflix. She fell in love with one of the actresses. Go »

John le Carré

He wasn't a tinker or a tailor or a soldier, but he really was a spy. Go »

Adam Lanza

This Connecticuter decided to go on a killing spree first the mother and then 28 people in a grade school. Go »

Peter O'Toole

He wasn't of Venice, or La Mancha, or Arabia, but his characters were. Go »

John K. Hanson

He started a business that took recreational travelers a long way from the Iowa county that inspired the name of the company and product. Go »

Yvette Nicole Brown

This undead superfan is the mother of a community executive. Go »

Elizabeth Gibson

In NYC, one man's trash... Go »

Brad Culpepper

This native Floridian survived plenty of trials as a Gator and Buccaneer. Now, everyone in Tampa looks up to him as he faces a different kind. Go »

Michael Schur

He went from wanting to fire a former member of the Big Red Machine from his commentary to creating groundbreaking sitcoms. Tremendous. Go »

Mabel King

She was a sitcom mama and a stage witch. Who's the king? Go »

George Floyd

A social movement has had new life breathed into it because he couldn't. Go »

Ray Lamb

This former pitcher wore a lot of uniforms in his career, two of which were retired by Los Angeles, one before him and another after. Go »

John Candy

One of Hollywood's sweetest stars was as at home (alone) in heavy makeup in SpaceBalls as he was making a splash in his most beloved role in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Go »

Rebekah Jones

How many Floridians are dying of COVID-19? The state doesn't want this fired data scientist telling you differently than they do. Go »

Steven Mnuchin

How many other cabinet members have produced DC and Lego movies? Go »

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Her BBC shows sound like they're about a worthless dog and the night before a murder, and she portrayed one of the most LEET robots in the Star Wars canon. Go »

Susan Bennett

If you search for help with this goo using Apple products, this might be the first time where you can hear the answer in the celebrity's own voice. Go »

Gordon Granger

The Lone Star state was the last to enforce freedom, after his general order that has been celebrated ever since. Go »

Belita Moreno

This Texan-born actress played the role of a mother of a son who owns a factory, a waitress, a woman in a retirement home, and if you can't remember this then you might remember my name if you find the answer. Go »

Jason Brennan

This DC-based professor would prefer an epistocracy in which most voters have a civic duty *not* to vote. Go »

Alex Blumberg

Hopefully, your reply to this goo will bloom into a "yes, yes, yes", and we can all go out for drinks after. Go »

Joseph Pujol

Many people make a living cutting cheese but this performer was an artiste. Go »

Aaron Eckhart

He was the white knight in The Dark Knight, he was one of the men in In the Company of Men, and he was the I in I, Frankenstein. Go »

Madison Cawthorn

This 24-year-old motivational speaker has a lot to motivational speak about: Becoming paraplegic before he could enter the U.S. Naval Academy, being millions of dollars in debt as a teenager, and now, all but certainly becoming a U.S. representative from North Carolina. Go »

Neil Gorsuch

He's no Merrick Garland, but based on a recent ruling, he might be no Antonin Scalia either. Go »

Suzanne Vega

This left-leaning folk artist wrote a song about Jerry Seinfeld's favorite restaurant, and became the first artist in the mp3 format. Go »

Ibram X. Kendi

If you want to be against racism, you may as well learn how from this American university professor who has made it his career. Go »

Juliane Koepcke

This teenager did what no one else on her Peruvian flight could. Go »

Joakim Noah

This two-time American all-star with the Brazilian fiancée didn't disappoint his Swedish mother when he joined the French national basketball team. Go »

John Waters

This director is known for his love of kitsch, including such obsessions as polyester, hairspray, and pink flamingos. Go »

Greta Thunberg

For teenagers around the imperiled world, this Swede has created a climate of demanding change. Go »

Vince Staples

This rapper may be a big fish in his native L.A., but is he as popular as D.J. Office D-Po or the rapper OfficeMAX? Go »

Calvin Coolidge

This New Englander remains the only American president born on America's birthday. Go »

Lilly Singh

This Canadian comedian built an international following with her super-funny YouTube content and little show on NBC. Go »

Joan Allen

This actress won praise for her roles in films about a pleasant village, a political contender, a bewitching trial, a resigned president, and angry benefits. Go »

Larry Collmus

This announcer from Maryland has always been dreaming about calling races since being 18 years old. Go »

Ken Hubbs

This baseball player's logical cure for fear of flying was to learn to fly. He got license and died in a snowstorm flight. Go »

Bill Mumy

Danger! Danger! Don't get lost searching for this goo. I could babble on for ages about him. Go »

Duke Kahanamoku

He wasn't actually Hawaiian royalty, but he may as well have been, considering his revered status as an athlete, gold-medaling in one water-based sport and bringing another to global popularity. Go »

Boris Epshteyn

This Moscow native is now a senior figure in his second Trump campaign, leaving behind his job making political commentary in nearly 200 local TV markets. Go »

Marcel Proust

The French have lost a lot of time searching for meaning in his novels. Go »

Wesley Snipes

He's been a basketball player who could jump, a vampire-hunting half-vampire, a passenger somewhere in the fifties, and a man known primarily for demolishing. Go »

David Copperfield

This magician, who has no relation to a Dickens character, is known for making his relationship with a supermodel appear and disappear. Go »

James Baldwin

He may have lived and died in France, but he was a native son of Harlem and wrote about Memphis's most famous street. Go »

Bong Joon Ho

He's made movies about a tutor, a train, and tentacles. Go »

Brian Kemp

This governor is no peach to the people who criticize him for electoral interference during his campaign or for his broad restrictions on local safety measures during the coronavirus outbreak. Go »

Piotr Młodożeniec

It turned out that a set decoration by U2 and a best-selling bumper sticker could not co-exist peacefully with the original artwork by this Polish graphic designer. Go »

Will Rogers

There was no will after he died in an Arctic plane crash, but he did tell people what epitaph he wanted. Go »

Cesar Sayoc

He went from body-building by Miami to bomb-building by mail. Go »

Jadakiss

His first rap trio sounds like something you'd eat on a bagel. His later rap collective sounds like it was run by Teddy Roosevelt. Together, this meant that he had a lot of people to kiss. Go »

Diego

By the time you produced 900 children and 2000 grandchildren, you might be ready to retire on an uninhabited island too. Go »

Sherb Noble

When his friend invented soft-serve ice cream, he knew it would be a best-seller in his royal restaurant when he couldn't give it away fast enough. Go »

Bob Bell

This actor was a real bozo when in Chicago performing live on TV. Go »

Louise Brown

42 years ago today, a baby was born that changed the conception of humanity forever. Go »

Richard Armitage

North or South, his adamantium claws will make toothpicks of a wooden shield. Go »

Eduard Haas

Marge Simpson is the overwhelming leader in size of this inventor's confection dispenser. Go »

Jerry Stiller

He's best remembered for his relationships with his TV son Jason Alexander, his TV daughter Leah Remini, his real son Ben Stiller, and his real wife Anne Meara. Go »

Nathan W. Pyle

His planet is so strange that it's as if the inscrutable blue aliens are us. Go »

Rosemary Kennedy

She is credited with inspiring her brothers John, Edward, and Robert to push for legislation protecting people with disabilities, and inspiring her sister Eunice to launch the Special Olympics. Go »

Wendy Williams

After years of starting celebrity feuds on her radio show, this alliterative host is now a daytime TV queen. Go »

Ahmad Khan Rahimi

For three days, residents of New Jersey and Manhattan felt the explosive rage of this Afghan-born resident, whose own nickname was Mad. Go »

Myka Stauffer

This family vlogger's little bundle of joy became a big bundle of public rage when she decided not to keep him. Go »

Jessica Brown Findlay

She's best known for period dramas (Harlots and Downton Abbey) and alternate-reality sci-fi (Winter's Tale and Brave New World). Go »

Hugh Jackman

He left his native New South Wales for a career in North America, cutting his teeth in theater before his big break bearing adamantium claws. Go »

Phoebe Bridgers

This genius recorded an album about a Marvel Comics vigilante even though she's still in community college. Go »

Parker Schnabel

He gets a rush from exploring his Alaskan mine, but he has also gotten a happy-trails feeling by exploring the world. Go »

Seth Godin

He's one of the most influential marketing minds of the digital age, ever since his late-nineties job at Yahoo!, which sure beat writing novels about video games. Go »

Nipsey Russell

Don't give this comedian from Georgia your password or else looking for this answer will not match in this game. After you find this picture, you will tell the truth. Go »

Antonio Stradivari

The various instruments built by this Cremonese, most especially violins, are said to be so distinct that their sonic qualities have never been replicated. Go »

Chelsea Peretti

The legend of this American citizen's big mouth scored just shy of 100. Go »

Carlos Villarías

I vant to suck your sangre. Go »

Diego Luna

This Mexican actor is best known for starring in spin-offs of Star Wars, Dirty Dancing, and Narcos. Go »

JT LeRoy

For a Gen-X novelist concerned with deceit in the hearts of fictional characters, he (she?) sure went to a lot of trouble to commit deceit in public appearances as a fictional author. Go »

Billy Woods

In the heart of Florida, a sheriff has gone beyond refusing to enforce an ordinance requiring masks; he has banned masks from the premises of his entire department. Go »

Larry Nassar

The prolific medal-winning of his team was overshadowed by his prolific sexual abuse of them. Go »

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

He may be one of the winningest drivers of the modern era, the fourth driver in his famous family, and the second to bear his forename, but he'll always be number eight to his fans. Go »

Lester Speight

He never played professional football (not for lack of trying), but he did have a hit series of commercials for Reebok in which he played a professional football player in an office setting, and he had a recurring voice role in an Xbox war game series in which he played a retired "thrashball" player. Go »

Gilda Radner

One of the original not-ready-for-primetime players remains one of the most missed. Go »

Ricky Jay

He wasn't just a practitioner of magic until his 2018 death. He was a historian of the art. Go »

Q

Quick question: Which quasi-king (or queen?) of 4chan, without qualm, took up the digital quill to quicken a once-quaint, now-quantifiable movement that, for all its quirks and queasy qualities, won't quit trying to quell a global conspiracy between a quite enormous quantity of quarry, even if their quest is quixotic? Go »

Howard Scott Warshaw

Now that he's a psychotherapist, he could help some of the people whose childhoods he ruined by making one of the most difficult, frustrating, and hated video games of all time, a game so bad that it almost killed the industry. Go »

K.K. Slider

Every Saturday night, he sings "Mee Way Oh" to people all over the world. Go »

Brie Bella

This Diva from California said that a little Birdie told her that she was coming, but marrying a WWE superstar would make that statement true. Go »

Annie Lennox

In the 1980s, sweet dreams were made of this former tourist and future diva whose hits kept coming like rain. Go »

Brant Bjork

This jammer of a mustachioed cat probably wouldn't like the climate in Iceland. He prefers the heat of the desert. Go »

Earl Warren

Despite exhaustive research, his group's conclusion remains subject to exhaustive scrutiny and doubt. Go »

Miranda Kerr

This angelic Australian model is known for her marriages to a Hollywood elf and a snappy CEO. Go »

Bela Lugosi

If you watch the classic 1931 film Dracula in its original English, you'll be spellbound by this Eastern European actor in the lead role. Go »

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