Summer 2020
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 »
