publication date: Sunday, August 19, 2007 (part of Round XXXI)

category: Movies

clue: This Massachusetts-born actor was a math genius at MIT, a social-climbing serial killer from Boston, and a mole in the Massachusetts state police, but ironically he was bourne to play a globe-trotting amnesiac assassin.

explanation: Damon played a math genius at MIT in Good Will Hunting, a social-climbing serial killer from Boston in The Talented Mr. Ripley, a mole in the Massachusetts state police in The Departed, and a globe-trotting amnesiac assassin in The Bourne Identity. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Justin Woods, Denise Sawicki, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Erik Bates, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Tony Peters, Scott Horowitz, Lori Lancaster, Chris McKinnon, Michael Paul Cote, Jackie Mason, Shawn Brandt, Wendy Hampson, Greg Bair, Justin Hampson, Jason Evans, Sam Boyarsky, Phyllis Joy, and Vance Tucker

player landmarks: This was the last goo solved by Phyllis Joy.


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