Tim Scott
publication date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 (part of January 2024)
category: 
Government
clue: This southern senator won't be the Republican nominee for president in 2024.
explanation: Scott, senator from South Carolina, suspended his presidential campaign in November 2023. more…
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
trivia: This goo inspired the "Tom Scott Plus" theme. When Scott Hardie looked up YouTuber Tom Scott online, he found a large number of like-named people in the results, including animator TomSka and politician Tim Scott. The number of variations on the common name so amused him that he couldn't resist making a silly theme out of them for the goo game.
Tom Scott Plus: Popular and prolific YouTube star Tom Scott has been all over the globe, teaching viewers about all sorts of amazing places, and he recently celebrated his retirement with an elaborate helicopter stunt. His success is even more remarkable given his common name and how hard he can be to look up online, given the staggering number of Tom Scotts in the world. Which one of these seven would-be Tom Scotts is the real one is something you might not know.Similar Goos
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After gaining early fame for teaching Britons about the zombie apocalypse and how to talk like a pirate, he went on to teach YouTube viewers about the basics of language, geography, and science, despite technical difficulties along the way. Go »
Tom Scott
Here's the express form of his long resume: He played on "Billie Jean," "Saving All My Love for You," and "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" He was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live and co-founded the Blues Brothers Band. He wrote the theme songs for Family Ties and Starsky and Hutch. He was the musical sideman to Pat Sajak and Chevy Chase in their late-night talk shows. Go »
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TomSka
He took over Edd Gould's world, made a "movie" about four consecutive keys on a keyboard, and made another web series so hyper that it's named after two words of comic book onomatopoeia. Go »
