Fall 2021
Samir Mehta won this round on November 26, 2021. There were 90 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (90 goos solved, a perfect score), Samir Mehta (90 goos solved, a perfect score), LaVonne Lemler (87 goos solved), Denise Sawicki (86 goos solved), Steve West (84 goos solved, a perfect score), Chris Lemler (74 goos solved), Richard Slominsky (69 goos solved), Matthew Preston (57 goos solved), Erik Bates (53 goos solved), Aaron Shurtleff (32 goos solved), Scott Horowitz (18 goos solved), Scott Hardie (6 goos solved), and Jesse King (1 goo solved).
Horace Gray
You say "tomayto" and I say "tomahto." However pronounced, the ruling opinion of this Supreme Court justice says it's a vegetable. Go »
Jim Belushi
He succeeded his deceased brother on Saturday Night Live but found greater success in a 2000s sitcom, according to him. Go »
Macaulay Culkin
He enjoyed so much success playing Kevin McCallister that it required no stretch of imagination to cast him as Richie Rich. Go »
Halston
This Studio 54 regular first came to national attention when designing a pillbox hat worn by someone becoming the first lady. Go »
Billy Tyne
Thirty years ago, this George Clooney lookalike took his boat to go fishing off the Boston coast and didn't come back. Go »
Francisco Goya
This Spaniard lost his mind and its container. Go »
Jack Dorsey
If you want to make card payments on a mobile phone, or write about it in 280 characters or less, then you need this guy's popular technologies. #busyCEO Go »
David Angell
This producer must have had angelic good taste in television to co-create hits like Wings and Frasier. Go »
Barbara Olson
The wife of George W. Bush's solicitor general was a regular commentator on CNN and Fox News. Go »
Berry Berenson
She went from posing for photographers to taking pictures herself. She's also remembered for her horror-movie husband and son, both of whom were psychos. Go »
Ron Bucca
The only FDNY fire marshal ever killed in the line of duty is honored every year by the DIA with an counter-terrorism award given in his name. Go »
John O'Neill
Conspiracy theories that focused on who had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks have often involved this FBI counter-terrorism expert, who investigated the 1993 WTC bombing and expected it to happen again. Go »
Garnet Bailey
He won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins, but after he died working for the Kings, they remembered him the next time they won the cup by bringing it to his memorial. Go »
Kevin Cosgrove
When he called 911 on 9/11, he wasn't ready to die. Nobody that day was. But if his last words could outlive him this long to memorialize the lost and prosecute the guilty, maybe they can live on forever, so that we never forget. Go »
Felix Trench
He's pretty happy considering he's best known for running a funeral home on a trivial island. Go »
Cecil Rhodes
Not only a famed scholarship but an entire country were named after this businessman. Go »
Bert Kreischer
This stand-up comic is such a party machine that a movie was made about his endless college partying. Go »
Kem Nunn
This Californian author turned to his lifelong love of surfing for stories like a federal agent forced to surf while undercover and an HBO series about a surf shop owner from Ohio. Go »
Michael Rooker
Long before his days playing a galactic guardian, he starred in the films Slither, Whisper, Jumper, Super, Deceiver, Cliffhanger, Freeway Killer, Shadow Builder, Days of Thunder, and Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer. Go »
Ian MacKaye
After kicking around the punk rock scene in a minor band and a fake one, he went on to found a notable record label whose name literally means lack of harmony. Go »
Walter Cronkite
Americans trusted him every evening to cover WWII and Vietnam, the deaths of Kennedy and Lennon, the Moon landing and the Watergate scandal, and so much more. And that's the way it was. Go »
Joanna Newsom
Sorry to keep harping on it, but this classical instrumentalist has taken some deep dives into unusual music, when she's not embodying a Thomas Pynchon character. Go »
Jordan Peele
After mad success peeling back the layers of his many weird characters in sketch comedy, he transitioned to the horror genre, reviving The Twilight Zone and getting an Oscar for writing a popular horror film in 2017. Go »
Dan Blocker
Playing a gentle giant for all but the final year of Bonanza (he died suddenly during the off-season) did not reflect the violence in his real life, such as receiving a Purple Heart for the wounds that he suffered in the Korean War. Go »
David Fumero
This Cuban actor decided that if he only had one life to live, he wanted to spend it with his co-star. Go »
Jonah Peretti
If you have ever shared someone else's post on Facebook or retweeted someone else's tweet on Twitter, thank this inventor of reblogging, who is today the CEO of a media empire that he once called an "Internet popularity contest." Go »
Beth Dover
She played a mad housemaid in a period comedy and a prison official who became a de-facto inmate. Go »
Kevin Bacon
His on-screen enemies have included enormous underground worms, a preacher who doesn't like dancing, superhero mutants in the 1960s, a serial killer whose cult abducts his son, a failing spacecraft en route to the Moon, ghosts in his Chicago neighborhood, a family on a whitewater rafting trip, and Jason Voorhees, Go »
The Edge
This behatted musician got his geometric nickname from an Irish street gang around the time that he formed a band with classmates Larry, Adam, and Bono. Go »
Jason Kander
This intelligent, millennial, former secretary is on a mission to end voter suppression. Go »
Bill Morgan
Luckiest man alive? This Australian won the lottery twice after reviving from a coma. Go »
Jake Johnson
He's been in a few movies about dinosaurs and mummies, but his career has been in a slump ever since he parted ways with the new girl in town. Go »
Doris Day
As a singer, she dreamed of things getting better, so she went into movies. After a calamity and a thrill happened to her, she moved over into an eponymous sitcom. Go »
Caleb Moore
The world of competitive snowmobiling got smaller after one winter game in 2013. Go »
Betty Mahmoody
This Pulitzer-nominated author and her daughter have kind things to say about the many Iranians who helped them, but they still probably won't recommend visiting the country after their year-and-a-half-long extended stay. Go »
Jean Rook
She expressed her opinions daily in her column, and was the first lady to write in the Sunday paper as a private eye (at least in parody form). Go »
Queen Harrison
This upstate New Yorker might be able to capture the king. but putting him in checkmate might not be that easy unless she was running and jumping over hurdles and finishing in 55.88 several Olympics ago. Go »
Evelyn King
After you get done capturing this piece to end the game, you may need sparkling wine to celebrate your victory. Who's the king? Go »
Charles R. Knight
Only to move three places on the board isn't very far, but some prehistoric animals have traveled much further, all the way into modern museums and the popular imagination, thanks to this painter who did his best work at night. Go »
Emily Wickersham
This TV actress plays a special agent named after a chess piece and may remember me as a P.I. Go »
Keith-Lee Castle
This British actor wouldn't trade places with anyone after a successful film career playing a weasel in the willows, a psycho opposite Chucky, and a vampire diarist (after coincidentally being Dracula on TV). Go »
Rick Harrison
This star from North Carolina may not be able to pawn away his queen's silver and gold to his own shop. Go »
Stan Kroenke
Owning an arsenal of sports teams made him the envy of fans from Colorado to England, but relocating a St. Louis team to Los Angeles and trying to launch a closed "super" soccer league made him their enemy. Go »
Tommy Orange
This Oklahoma tribal citizen and Oakland native is better than okay, says the Pulitzer Prize committee that made him a finalist. Go »
Barkevious Mingo
Woof! Do you love me? Are you riding... to the Super Bowl before you sign with the Colts, and the Seahawks, and the Texans, and the Bears... Go »
Gigi Wu
A hundred mountaintops and almost a hundred bikinis ultimately led this hiker to hypothermia. Go »
Jack Kirby
He served in WWII just like his first popular superhero creation, but this artist is remembered better for his later service to Marvel in co-creating three of their most popular teams: The Avengers, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, leaving the company in part due to resentment at Stan Lee hogging all of the credit. Go »
Sean Penn
This actor's roles as Sam, Welsh, Milk, and Spicoli are as well known as his marriages to Madonna, Robin Wright, and Leila George. Go »
Christopher Meloni
His TV roles have been as varied as a summer camp cook, an alcoholic who befriends a unicorn, an inmate in love with his cellmate, a centuries-old vampire, and a former SVU detective now investigating organized crime. Go »
Chris McCandless
Whether he was a heroic explorer in an American rugged-individualist tradition, or a fool who got himself killed through insufficient supplies and underestimating Alaska's harsh natural conditions, when it came to controversy, he didn't miss the bus. Go »
Tim Robbins
He killed a Hollywood screenwriter who he thought was sending him death threats on postcards, then he escaped from a Maine prison with the help of a Rita Hayworth poster, but he was so haunted by childhood trauma that he falsely confessed to the murder of a friend's daughter knowing that he'd be killed for it. Go »
Jung Ho-yeon
She went from runway hit on Korea's Next Top Model to runaway hit on Netflix's Squid Game. Go »
Darryl McDaniels
Sadly, this rapper may have lost some credibility by becoming a Sarah McLachlan fan, but it literally saved his life. Go »
The Kid Laroi
His aspirations to be the GOAT (he's still a young one) could take him far from his native Waterloo if he remains at the top of charts with his worldwide collaborations. Go »
Eddie Bauer
He went from rackets to jackets. Go »
Troye Sivan
After a happy little debut, this wild youth bloomed into a revelation. Go »
Noodle
If you can recognize this sleepy fortune-telling pug, then it must be a bones day for you. Go »
Norman Bridwell
This children's book author had a (very) big hit on his hands when he invented a colorful pet for a girl named after his own daughter. Go »
Aldous Huxley
This philosopher perennially challenged us to open new doors (including the doors) and to see the world anew. Go »
Ken Page
His old, original 5th book has several of him in its 34 chapters. But you probably prefer his boogie. Go »
Ronnie Wood
This multi-instrumentalist played with a legendary band for a decade and a half before being financially recognized as an official member. Go »
Brandon Brown
This NASCAR driver has a lot more people cheering for him after a recent win at Talladega, but the fans don't seem too fond of Joe Biden. Go »
Dave Raymond
He earned a delicious nickname on the basketball court that helped him and his brother market their barbecue sauce, which led him to his current business as a restaurateur. Go »
Caroline Calloway
This self-acknowledged scam artist makes fans wonder what she and her ghost writer were like before their public falling out. Go »
Captain Beefheart
This avant-garde musician didn't serve in the military, but he did lead a magical music band to a cult following, while singing about crows, trout, and other beasts. Go »
Teri Garr
She was a dancer for Howard Hawks, a girlfriend to Francis Ford Coppola, an assistant to Mel Brooks, a wife to Carl Reiner and Steven Spielberg and Robert Altman, an actress for Sydney Pollack, a mother to Michael Apted and Peter Farrelly, a waitress for Martin Scorsese, a judge for Nora Ephron, and an aunt to Paul Feig. Go »
Suzanne Simard
Our understanding of the interconnected forest has grown exponentially thanks to this Canadian mother stumper. Go »
Kourtney Kardashian
The oldest sister in her famous family is no less controversial than her siblings, from bad acting and failed relationships to a recent engagement to a punk rocker. Go »
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
This German military officer's legacy went up in flames after he invented a new form of transportation. Go »
Robert Atkins
His eponymous diet, now a brand continuing in his name since his 2003 death, helped countless people drop the pounds by dropping the carbohydrates. Go »
Stephanie Land
Her experiences cleaning houses and surviving on welfare have made her a better writer and helped her land a TV adaptation deal. Go »
Penelope Laingen
A Tony Orlando lyric gave her the colorful inspiration to rally Americans around the hope of her husband's return. Go »
Anthony Anderson
He played cops in Law & Order, K-Ville, Scream 4, and The Departed, but you may know him better as a sort-of Black father or as a game show host. I'm telling you the truth! Go »
Paul Freshour
During his decade of incarceration, the residents of his Ohio town continued to receive the threatening letters that started his alleged campaign of terror against one family in particular. Go »
David McCampbell
One of the Navy's deadliest pilots once shot down an average of a plane every ten minutes for an hour and a half. Go »
Carl Tanzler
Grave robbing is illegal even if you're in love with the corpse. Living with the body for several years afterwards is just sick. Go »
Melvyn Bragg
Lord! In our time, for an octogenarian to still be on the air is something to boast about. Go »
Nikola Jokić
This European center is nicknamed after a playing card, but there's nothing leisurely about his high-altitude performance on the court. Go »
Ötzi
This Italian is a longtime fan of dabbing. Go »
Chris LeDoux
Not many country musicians are also rodeo champions, but with the support of Garth Brooks in his prime, one can do anything. Go »
Emily Morse
Countless podcast listeners have had sex with her, because it doesn't take decoding a signal to figure out that she is a sex addict. Go »
Judith Krantz
She waited half a century to start writing, but she found bonkbuster success writing about lovers, secrets, and shopping. Go »
Lupita Nyong'o
For the last few years (less than twelve), she's been all but a slave to the Disney company, playing an animated wolf in the jungle, an animated smuggler in a galaxy far far away, and a special-forces operative in Wakanda. Go »
Gabriel García Márquez
This Colombian author wrote in solitude, but his flair for magical realism made him a beloved national icon and a Nobel winner in the 1980s. Go »
Cyrano de Bergerac
This French novelist had plenty of panache, but there's no record of him helping another man to woo the woman he loved. Go »
Fatboy Slim
This big beat DJ with an oxymoronic name has collaborated with countless musicians, but he's best known for his music videos starring Spike Jonze and Christopher Walken. Go »
David Pastrňák
As a check master (or is it Czech master?), he currently plays right wing for a bearish hockey team. Go »
Azealia Banks
This Harlemite debuted with a tribute to her area code, but she broke big with her first (and so far only finished) album. Go »
Martin Handford
Where's his inspiration? Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Hans Jürgen Press. Go »
