Fall 2020
Chris Lemler won this round on November 27, 2020. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (90 goos solved, a perfect score), Denise Sawicki (89 goos solved), Samir Mehta (88 goos solved), Chris Lemler (86 goos solved, a perfect score), Erik Bates (86 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (84 goos solved), Steve West (84 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (58 goos solved), Scott Hardie (8 goos solved), Ryan Case (5 goos solved), David Mitzman (2 goos solved), and Josh Biederman (1 goo solved).
Henry Rollins
When his opinions could no longer be contained to what he could scream in a punk rock song in the 80s, he raised the flag of his own record label to publish spoken-word albums, and rolled around the world as a comedian, presenter, actor, author, and activist. Go »
Ronnie Coleman
He's no lightweight baby: He was so determined to be one of the best bodybuilders in the world that the sport left him paralyzed, and still he lifts. Go »
Edward Austin Tracy
This American spent so long in Beirut (not entirely by choice) that when he finally returned to the West, he wanted to EAT. His first request was a Big Mac and a Coke. Go »
Viola Davis
This actress has been in violent productions about suicide, widows, prisoners, a disappearance, going to jail, not backing down, and getting away with murder. Go »
DaBaby
Blame it on needing cash for a baby sitter: This rapper has already recorded three hit albums despite being in the infancy of his career. Go »
Colin Farrell
He's been villains to Daredevil and Batman, cops chasing Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner, and historical figures Alexander and Jesse James. Go »
Mimi Faust
If you made a deal with the devil to get famous on reality TV, it would look something like the career of this hip hop producer's wife in Georgia. Go »
Franz Ferdinand
History remembers this Austria-Hungarian heir for his association with World War I, but he didn't live to see it. Go »
Crazy Horse
This Lakotan general rode his distinctive horse into battle many times in the Black Hills War, and into American history. Go »
Molly Hatchet
The South still tells stories about a ghost who decapitates her male victims, based on a real story from the 1800s of a prostitute who murdered her client with a particular weapon. Go »
Jethro Tull
This British agriculturalist invented a horse-drawn seed drill and a horse-drawn hoe, revolutionizing the industry. Go »
John "Dropkick" Murphy
His wrestling career gave him his violent nickname, but this medical doctor spent much of his life devoted to helping alcoholics at his Massachusetts facility, who needed a place to get sober before rehab existed. Go »
Gretna VanFleet
She's a bluegrass musician who plays the piano, organ, dulcimer, and violin, but she's far more famous in rock & roll as the family friend who inspired the name of a 2010s band before they blew up in popularity and left small-town Michigan behind. Go »
Lulu Hurst
This illusionist from a southern U.S. state had a brief but wonderful career demonstrating feats of strength on stage. Go »
Ana Suda
¿Hablas español? Call the oro y plata police! Go »
Jonathan Banks
If your boss is being a wiseguy and you need a break, you better call this hitman. Go »
Jack Harlow
This rapper has released singles about a Disney princess, a DC Comics hero, a classic British film director, and a cold dessert, but only one single has gotten his career finally popping this year. Go »
Ricky Wysocki
A disc golfer with numbers like 38008 is outstanding. This Ohioan teamed up with 64 players but finished 2nd at USDGC two times one in 2012 and the other in 2015. Go »
Squanto
The last of his kind helped the Pilgrims get the tiniest quantum of a foothold in the New World. Go »
Randy Rainbow
This political song parodist has been criticized for off-color jokes. Go »
Oney Judge
She was an unfree freewoman, after escaping from the first first family. Go »
Laura Dekker
Magellan was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth. In 2012, this New Zealander set a similar record. Go »
Donald Trump Jr.
This apple didn't fall far from the tree, campaigning on behalf of his father, co-running the business on behalf of his father, and co-judging a reality show on behalf of his father. Go »
Wendy Bergen
When she claimed to report objectively about a bloody sport in Denver, it turned out that she had a dog in the fight. Go »
Breonna Taylor
Louisville police slept on their civic responsibility to this citizen. Say her name. Go »
Fredrik Backman
This Swedish novelist's books about an elderly curmudgeon (soon to be played by Tom Hanks) and a star athlete who commits rape have made him an international bestseller. Go »
Rita Moreno
Where on Earth is this actress now? After a long career that took her from her native Puerto Rico to New York's Upper West Side to the slums of Beverly Hills to a very different land of Oz, she now just takes things one day at a time. Go »
Dave MacPherson
Plenty of Angelinos make an annual visit to Disneyland. This one was there before all of the others. Go »
Bryson DeChambeau
This golfer is newly open about how science helps him win so many championships. Go »
Madame de Pompadour
This royal mistress's namesake has been sported by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Brian Setzer. Go »
Stan Musial
This redbird hall-of-famer is The Man. Go »
Paige Pierce
This Texan can really pierce a hole out on the course. Don't take page #29190 out of this Texan's book. Go »
Val Kilmer
He played the chilly Iceman in a mid-80s action movie about top fighter pilots, and he's expected to reprise the role soon in the long-delayed sequel. Go »
Charles Woodson
As a Wolverine, he played both offense and defense to lead Michigan to a 1997 championship. Now he's considered one of the NFL's greatest-ever defensive players. Go »
Stephanie Abrams
She has covered many a Storm in her nearly two decades with The Weather Channel, from which she broadcasts to America every morning from her TV studio headquarters. Go »
Betty Friedan
She sparked a revolution in feminism with her 1960s book about women's Mystique. Go »
Frank Richards
When jumping into a pool, a belly flop is more painful than a Cannonball. This iconic stunt performer did something even more painful with both. Go »
Steve Wynn
Is it amusing that this prolific casino developer, whose works include the Mirage, is named for what you want to do in one? Go »
Francis Ford Coppola
One of Hollywood's most celebrated filmmakers (and filmmaking family patriarchs) is responsible for films about an American general, a godfather, a conversation, a vampire, and an Apocalypse. Go »
Bing Crosby
Besides his successful careers in live comedy and film acting, he recorded a series of hit songs that included "White Christmas" and "Quicksilver." Go »
Jake Gyllenhaal
He's played a gay cowboy, a Spider-Man villain, and a prince of Persia, but none of that prepared him to star in Nightcrawler. Go »
Denis Leary
This foul-mouthed, frequently angry Boston-Irish comic was a strange choice to cast in a children's movie, playing a Sabretooth tiger in a historical Ice Age. Go »
Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi
This Yemeni terrorist, who has been called the Mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole, lived (barely) to see 2019. Go »
Shin Lim
This Singaporean illusionist rarely speaks in his up-close Magik act, where he manipulates cards with the manual dexterity he learned from his training as a pianist. Go »
Hikaru Nakamura
Trying to earn a living on Twitch during a pandemic must have been risky, but chess players are used to making a bold Gambit. Go »
Jim Morrison
This poet-singer became a legend in the late-60s counter-culture, weaving the anagram Mr. Mojo Risin' into his lyrics. Go »
Megan Fox
She's been in movies about Transformers and Ninja Turtles, but her latest movie is Rogue. Go »
Elizebeth Smith Friedman
During the Prohibition and WWII, there was practically no Cypher that couldn't be figured out by this celebrated cryptologist, who worked in partnership with her husband William. Go »
Antony Starr
Before his starring role as a superhero in The Boys, he starred in Banshee. Go »
Boy George
This androgynous and colorful singer scored a hit with his band in the 1980s about a lizard experiencing Karma. Go »
Devin Booker
This young athlete went pro for Phoenix in 2015 after just one year at the University of Kentucky. Go »
Jason Becker
ALS robbed this promising San Francisco musician of his ability to shred on the guitar, but he can still communicate and compose via software that watches him Blink. Go »
Patrick Doyle
Like turning over a new Domino, he oversaw a record-setting corporate turnaround in the fast-food industry that started when his company apologized for being terrible. He was hired a year later and named the best CEO of 2011 by CNBC. Go »
Billie Joe Armstrong
He and his colorful bandmates re-popularized punk rock in the 1990s, with hit albums like Nimrod. Go »
Charlize Theron
Sure, it was a Longshot for her to star in a romance with Seth Rogen. That's why they called it that. Go »
Marshawn Lynch
His career with the Seahawks can apparently be turned on and off again, just like the Beast mode that gave him his nickname. Go »
Thomas Becket
He had only a brief career as a Bishop in England, but since his 1170 assassination, he has become among the most venerated saints in the Catholic Church and Anglican Church. Go »
Angel Olsen
This indie rocker from St. Louis has become a critical darling for having the voice of an Angel. Go »
Chares of Lindos
One of ancient history's best-known sculptors didn't live to see his final creation, a Colossus of a statue, become finished. Go »
David Berkowitz
He terrorized New York in the mid-70s with a handgun, supposedly on orders from a dog named Sam, but he was also a Pyro believed to be behind numerous arsons. Go »
Nick Frost
With his frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, this British comic actor has made a number of well-regarded films, including the Cornetto trilogy, that have made him as famous as his namesakes Emma and previous goos David, Robert, and Honor. Go »
David Belasco
This playwright and producer, the first to adapt Madame Butterfly to the stage, was among the foremost Americans devoted to the theater in the late 1800s. The Belasco Theatre is named in his memory. Go »
Shaggy 2 Dope
Unlike this dopey rapper, the X-Men villain Magneto never wondered of magnets, "How do they work?" Go »
Valerie Harper
Valerie went on without her character, but her character went on without The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Go »
Drew Scanlon
His meme was not the sort of blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind, as it has lasted for three years so far. But he's tried to do some good with his 15 minutes of fame, raising money for a multiple sclerosis charity. Go »
Hans Christian Andersen
This prolific Danish author gave the world an ugly duckling, a little mermaid, a snow queen, an emperor's new clothes, and Thumbelina. Go »
Robert Ivan Nichols
After surviving 52 minutes of hell, this Purple Heart recipient started (and abandoned) a family, stole an identity of a young boy, and maybe became a serial killer, before committing suicide. Go »
Tarrare
Long before today's professional competitive eaters, this Frenchman made a freak-show living eating anything and everything, and briefly tried serving in the military as a courier by using his stomach. Go »
Telma Hopkins
Shut your mouth! She's been such a prolific sitcom cast member that you can't even remember whether her name is Jess, Isabelle, Addy, Rachel, Dolores, Phyllis, Marilyn, or Ruth. Go »
King Von
It's not just a crazy story that this Chicago-based rapper died in a shootout in Atlanta. Who's the king? Go »
Phoolan Devi
Lots of government officials go to jail. This royal robber committed crimes first and then was elected. Go »
Scot Halpin
For one night in 1973, this fan lived a rock & roll dream come true when he got to play almost a whole show with the band, even though if you mentioned him to most rock historians today, they'd ask, "Who?" Go »
Bob Eubanks
This radio personality can be a card shark on the game show The Newlywed Game. Go »
Daniel Daly
This honor medalist didn't want to live forever, but now he does, remembered as the fightin'est Marine of them all. Go »
Ninja
This Twitch (later Mixer) streamer is popular for building a relationship with his Fortnite-loving fans, despite being named after a silent Japanese tradition. Go »
Freddy Sez
This lifelong Yankees fan became so beloved by the sport that one of his lucky frying pans is in a museum and the other is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Go »
Ty Pennington
His childhood interests in woodworking, landscaping, and graphic design helped him do extreme makeovers of traded spaces in reality television. Go »
Dustin Hoffman
He's known for movies about boys (Midnight Cow, Choir) and men (All the President's, Rain, Marathon, Little Big, Death of a Sales). Go »
Candace Nelson
She launched the cupcake craze in Beverly Hills, making them so popular that she was able to found a "cupcake ATM," and she has extended her sweet career into reality television. Go »
Peter Staley
This AIDS activist spent the 1980s learning how to survive the kind of widespread health crisis that we all face today. Go »
Ricky Martin
This singer's "crazy life" has included performing in a boy band, being called the King of Latin Pop, being the first Latin pop star to come out as gay, and an Emmy nomination for playing an Italian fashion designer. Go »
Jurnee Smollett
This actress has been acclaimed for shows about horrors both fictional and real: vampires, H.P. Lovecraft, slavery, and high-school football. Go »
Octavia Butler
As a fledgling writer, she found a way to sow and harvest ideas like wild seeds. In adulthood, her talents made her a master mind. Go »
Didier Drogba
He had a dominant career playing professionally for Chelsea F.C., but he's also quite accomplished with his native Ivory Coast's national team. Go »
General Butt Naked
His name is not a joke: He really did command his troops into battle while naked. And it's even less funny when you learn about the atrocities that he committed, including cannibalism and human sacrifice. Go »
Bob Seger
Many of his biggest hits involve nights: The Hollywood kind, the kind with heartache, the kind we've got, and the kind with moves. Go »
Nathan Apodaca
Now, here you go again. You say you want your freedom. Well, who am I to keep you down? It's only right that you should play the way you feel it. Go »
Marcel Duchamp
When cross-dressing, this artist probably wouldn't have been able to use the public version of one of his most famous works. Go »
Todd Newton
This St. Louisan wants you to hit all the whammies so you lose all your money and put it in to his big bank. Go »
