Current Goos
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, August 13, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, August 20
category:
Education
clue: She has sung to toddlers billions of times on YouTube, but her outspoken criticism of ICE and Israel has made her voice controversial.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, August 19
category:
Literature
clue: The reception greeting her second book has been the opposite of calamitous, which should be helpful in making it a success like her first.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, August 18
category:
Television
clue: Her real family included opera singing, Vaudeville performing, and stage acting. Her screen Family sang about days that were and called her a dingbat.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Monday, August 10, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, August 17
category:
Movies
clue: His problem is that two other somebodies share his name: His MCU co-star and his MCU character.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Sunday, August 9, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, August 16
category:
Art
clue: She wasn't a polymath from Pennsylvania. She was a journalist who discovered a love of photography as art, who used her connections with the White House and other institutions to take pictures of such notable Americans as Mark Twain, William Howard Taft, Edith Wharton, George Washington Carver, Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Coit Gilman, Booker T. Washington, George Dewey, Isadora Duncan, and Teddy, Edith & Alice Roosevelt.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
You're Not My Real Founding Fathers!: America loves its Founding Fathers, and the nation's 250th anniversary makes for a fine opportunity to celebrate them. But wait—who are these imitators? These are actors, and musicians, and authors, and athletes! Their John Hancocks are very similar, but these aren't the real Founding Fathers! Starting apropos on Father's Day, here are a whopping fifty goos to challenge your knowledge of patriotic trivia. Can you identify these fifty fake signatories to a Declaration of Independence that never was? With luck, you\ll hold these goos to be self-evident.Know the answer? Please log in or register in order to guess.

This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Saturday, August 8, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, August 15
category:
Family
clue: He wasn't a surveyor from Georgia. He was a Silver Star vet, aviation enthusiast, and venture capitalist who used his family's retail fortune to fund scholarships.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
You're Not My Real Founding Fathers!: America loves its Founding Fathers, and the nation's 250th anniversary makes for a fine opportunity to celebrate them. But wait—who are these imitators? These are actors, and musicians, and authors, and athletes! Their John Hancocks are very similar, but these aren't the real Founding Fathers! Starting apropos on Father's Day, here are a whopping fifty goos to challenge your knowledge of patriotic trivia. Can you identify these fifty fake signatories to a Declaration of Independence that never was? With luck, you\ll hold these goos to be self-evident.Know the answer? Please log in or register in order to guess.

This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Friday, August 7, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, August 14
category:
Television
clue: He isn't a secretary from South Carolina. He's an actor who stayed in a Mexican resort that turned out to be a place far more good for his health than the Swedish commune he visited a few summers ago.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
You're Not My Real Founding Fathers!: America loves its Founding Fathers, and the nation's 250th anniversary makes for a fine opportunity to celebrate them. But wait—who are these imitators? These are actors, and musicians, and authors, and athletes! Their John Hancocks are very similar, but these aren't the real Founding Fathers! Starting apropos on Father's Day, here are a whopping fifty goos to challenge your knowledge of patriotic trivia. Can you identify these fifty fake signatories to a Declaration of Independence that never was? With luck, you\ll hold these goos to be self-evident.Know the answer? Please log in or register in order to guess.
Recent Goos
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John Langdon Down
Down is the doctor who first described Trisomy 21, better known as Down syndrome or Down's syndrome. He classified different types of it using terms such as Mongolism that are considered racist today. The clue references the Disturbed song "Down with the Sickness" with its gibberish refrain. Go »
Alice Hamilton
Hamilton was an industrial health & safety expert who specialized in lead exposure. Her decades of work led to some of the first workman's compensation laws in the country and is credited with inspiring the founding of OSHA. Go »
Johnny "J"
Johnny Lee Jackson produced many hit records for Death Row including several of 2Pac's albums. He died from a fall while incarcerated on drunk driving charges in 2008. Go »
Willie Huber
The German-born Huber played ten seasons in the NHL, where at 6'5" and 225 lbs. he debuted as the biggest player in NHL history. He played in 1983 NHL All-Star Game while still a member of the Detroit Red Wings. Go »
George H. Ross
Ross was a senior legal counsel of the Trump Organization, known for his frequent appearances in The Apprentice as an advisor to Donald Trump. Go »
Penny Johnson Jerald
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Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Byrd was nominated for a Tony Award in 2003 for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. He appeared in Spike Lee's TV series She's Gotta Have It and his films He Got Game, Clockers, Bamboozled, Girl 6, Chi-Raq, Get on the Bus, Red Hook Summer, and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Go »

