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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Saturday, July 12, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, July 19

category: Music

clue: This jazz singer may have inspired a tequila-and-lime cocktail, a self-centered puppet diva, and a beautiful American rose, all of which share versions of her name.

intended difficulty: hard

solved by: Steve West and Richard Slominsky

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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Friday, July 11, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, July 18

category: Government

clue: This longtime movie-industry bureaucrat opposed VCRs and invented the X and NC-17 ratings, maybe to prevent audiences from seeing any violence as graphic as what he witnessed on November 22, 1963.

intended difficulty: easy

solved by: Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky

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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Thursday, July 10, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, July 17

category: Movies

clue: Take over an iconic superhero role from Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill? No sweat.

intended difficulty: very easy

solved by: Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and Stan Iwanchuk

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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, July 16

category: Theater

clue: The town of Cody, Wyoming is named after him, even though he's named after bison. He became famous for killing an enormous number of them, as he boasted about in his hugely successful Old West traveling theater show.

intended difficulty: very easy

solved by: Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and Stan Iwanchuk

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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, July 15

category: Television

clue: One can't help but wonder how her most famous character, a psychiatrist to a New Jersey mobster, would psychoanalyze some of her other notable roles, like a wife to a Irish mob associate, a mother to a teen-aged heroin addict, and a medical researcher trapped in the rainforest.

intended difficulty: very easy

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky

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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Monday, July 7, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, July 14

category: Paranormal

clue: His statement that it was not a weather balloon that he had investigated three decades earlier in New Mexico blew up like Bikini Atoll.

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and Stan Iwanchuk

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This goo is worth a point in July 2025.

publication date: Sunday, July 6, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, July 13

category: Music

clue: In her sexy live performances and in her resilience to chronic pain, this singer is neither as wooden nor as breakable as her stage name implies.

intended difficulty: hard

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky

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