Current Goos
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, July 23, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, July 30
category: 
Sports
clue: He isn't a lawyer from New Jersey. He's a retired broadcaster whose career spanned numerous sports, networks, and decades, having called such memorable moments as Carlton Fisk's winning homer in game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Michael Jordan's buzzer-beater in game 1 of the 1989 NBA Playoffs, and Dan Jansen's gold-medal finish at the 1994 Olympics.
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: Wednesday, July 22, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, July 29
category: 
Journalism
clue: She isn't a merchant from New York. She's a beauty queen who spent two decades at KTLA, though her path to fame did briefly get perilous due to a conflict of interest dating the mayor.
intended difficulty: medium
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: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, July 28
category: 
Crime
clue: He isn't a statesman from Virginia. He's a convicted murderer with what must have been an expensive collection of head coverings.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm
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: Monday, July 20, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, July 27
category: 
Hoaxes
clue: He wasn't a songwriter from New Jersey. He was a horseman who definitely performed for the Ringling Brothers, probably didn't do tricks for Buffalo Bill, and almost certainly didn't race across Arabia.
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: Sunday, July 19, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, July 26
category: 
Television
clue: He wasn't a merchant from Connecticut. He was a Kit who made a Katt.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
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, July 18, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, July 25
category: 
Government
clue: He isn't a lawyer from South Carolina. He's a Congressional representative from central North Carolina, whose wife worked for Kellyanne Conway.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
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, July 17, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, July 24
category: 
Internet
clue: He isn't an investor from New York. He's a cyber-criminal who went on to co-found the influential Y Combinator and the not-so-influential Yahoo! Store, although he is the "RTM" in the proprietary RTML language of the latter.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
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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James McHenry
McHenry was acting Attorney General in the second Donald Trump administration from January 20 to February 5, 2025, while Trump's permanent nominee Pam Bondi awaited confirmation by the Senate. Go »
Richard Speight Jr.
In Supernatural, Speight played the archangel Gabriel, who pretended to be the trickster god Loki. In Band of Brothers, he played Warren "Skip" Muck, who was killed in a foxhole during the Battle of the Bulge. Go »
El Gerry
Gerardo Acuña Capetillo, known by his stage name El Gerry, has recorded hit songs that include "Recuérdalo Bien" ("Remember It Well") Luis Ángel "El Flaco" and "Prometiste Volver" ("You Promised to Return") with Moy Bobadilla. Go »
Grizzly Adams
John "Grizzly" Adams was a famed outdoorsman of the mid-1800s, popularly known for trapping grizzly bears and surviving many deadly encounters and dangers. His menagerie became a zoo in San Francisco, which inspired other zoos across the country, including the Bronx Zoo which remains the home of grizzly bears to this day. The 1977-1982 TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams depicted a fictionalized version of Adams from 1977 to 1982. One of Adams's grizzlies was the model of an 1855 painting by Charles Nahl that was eventually standardized as the bear on the California flag. Go »
Jimmy Smits
Smits's best-known TV roles include L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and The West Wing. Go »
Matt Thornton
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John Williams
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