Current Goos
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This celebrity goo was created by Samir Mehta.
Scott Hardie may have altered Samir's goo before publication.
publication date: Friday, April 3, 2026 (part of April 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Friday, April 10
category: 
Business
clue: You've heard of King Cotton in the U.S. confederacy. Mix that up, travel about 10,000 miles, and jump forward a few decades to find this dude who was one of the most successful businessmen of his colonial era.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: no one yet
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, April 2, 2026 (part of April 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, April 9
category: 
Science
clue: With age comes wisdom: He's the oldest person to go so far away, having lived almost since the last trip there.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 (part of April 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, April 8
category: 
Music
clue: Heya! This lovely rapper-singer, the only half of his Atlanta duo born in Atlanta, knows that roses smell so fresh.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Tuesday, March 31, 2026 (part of March 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, April 7
category: 
Television
clue: He skated to success in numerous Kevin Smith and Chipmunk movies, but you know his name in his best-known role on TV, as a small-time thief trying to repair his karma.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Monday, March 30, 2026 (part of March 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Monday, April 6
category: 
Radio
clue: Up first, this radio host goes from the morning edition of a news program to explaining today in its entirety. Who's the king?
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Sunday, March 29, 2026 (part of March 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, April 5
category: 
Sports
clue: He played under the other famous Coach K (as in Knight) before breaking his record as a coach himself, as part of the Blue Devils dominating college basketball for much of his 42-year tenure.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Saturday, March 28, 2026 (part of March 2026) - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, April 4
category: Music
clue: This British singer didn't want to be a slave to his former band, and refused to stick together in favor of a solo career. But his popularity didn't travel across the water to the States, where his music sales stayed in limbo.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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Recent Goos
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Jean-Jacques Muyembe
The virus that came to be called Ebola was first investigated by Congolese microbiologist Muyembe. He sent samples to Belgian-British microbiologist Peter Piot for further research, and in the Western world, Piot long received the credit for the virus's discovery. Changing attitudes around colonialism and Western minimizing of the contributions of Africans has led to a growing recognition of Muyembe's role as discoverer or co-discoverer. Go »
Julius Sämann
Sämann's inventions include the Little Trees brand of air fresheners. Go »
Clancy Brown
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Andy Borowitz
Once a television comedy writer, Borowitz is a humorist best known for The Borowitz Report, a long-running satirical series about politics and current events. He also edited an anthology called The 50 Funniest American Writers, and won an NAACP Image Award for co-creating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Go »
Democritus
Democritus was an ancient philosopher best remembered today for his atomic theory of the universe, which proposed the concept of atoms long before they were proven by science. His original works are all lost, and he is remembered only through quotes and descriptions by other people, who referred to him as the "laughing philosopher" because of his cheerful nature. Go »
J.G. Ballard
Ballard's novels include Crash, High-Rise, and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun, all of which were adapted to film, as well as The Drowned World. Go »
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
Lonstein Gruss is today the founder of the successful Shoshanna fashion line. In 1993, when 17 years old, she met and started dating 39-year-old Jerry Seinfeld at the height of his TV success. The couple broke up after 4 years. Go »
