Goats
LeBron? Jordan? Wilt? Russell? Or is the NBA GOAT this 7'2" legend, a 6-time NBA MVP & 6-time NBA Champion
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
This city hosted the 1932 Summer Olympics, with events held at the Memorial Coliseum, which would later host another Summer Olympics in 1984
Los Angeles
The Chicago White Sox are the favorite team of this figure who represents the papacy.
Pope Leo XIV
Despite a popular myth about its memory lasting only three seconds, experiments have shown that this common pet fish can learn routines and remember them for much longer
Goldfish
A 1980 dungeon crawling RPG that originated a genre of games named after it with the suffix either lite or like
Rouge
Before accepting her 2024 Olympic all-around gold, this gymnast put on a diamond-encrusted GOAT necklace, & who's arguing?
Simone Biles
This German mathematician, known as the “Prince of Mathematicians,” shares his name with a unit of magnetic field strength and a famous law in electromagnetism.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
This actor refused to wear a New York Yankees hat while filming Gone Girls due to his fandom for the Boston Red Sox causing a pause in production
Ben Affleck
In this children's book by Marcus Pfister, a fish with iridescent scales learns that giving away what makes him special can help him make friends
The Rainbow Fish
Although the term “friendslop” wouldn't become popular until years later, many consider this 2018 multiplayer game the retrospective origin of the genre.
Among Us
MLB GOAT debates often involve Shohei Ohtani vs. this legend, the last before Ohtani to star as both a hitter & a pitcher
Babe Ruth
This English Romantic poet wrote the 1819 poem Ode to a Nightingale, reflecting on mortality, beauty, and the relationship between imagination and the natural world
John Keats
After a legendary 21 year career Justin Verlander recently retired however outside the world of sports his wife is probably more famous as she is a superstar model.
Kate Upton
In SpongeBob SquarePants, this background fish became an internet meme because of his repeated anguished shout about a particular part of his body.
Fred
AAA games have larger development and marketing budgets than other games. This 1997 game, with a $40–45 million budget, is often considered the first AAA game.
Final Fantasy VII
in 2021 this 4-time Super Bowl-winning QB said Tom Brady had surpassed him as the NFL's GOAT; Niners fans may still disagree
Joe Montana
These pairs of molecules are non-superimposable mirror images of each other, much like a person's left and right hands. They share the same connectivity but differ in their three-dimensional arrangement
Enantiomers
This New York city planner cause the then Brooklyn Dodgers to leave to Los Angeles as he didn't approve their plan to build the Dodger Dome in Fort Greene, Brooklyn in the 1950s
Robert Moses
Sometimes proposed as an explanation for historical sea-serpent sightings, this extraordinarily long, ribbon-shaped deep-sea fish can reach lengths exceeding 25 feet
Oarfish
Released in 1978, this text-based multiplayer game is considered one of the earliest virtual worlds and helped establish the foundations of the MMORPG genre, decades before games like World of Warcraft.
MUD1 (multi-user-dungeon)
"She's the GOAT", said Michael Phelps of this U.S. swimmer at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, & he should know
Katie Ledecky
This pioneering photographer and filmmaker took the 1942 photograph American Gothic, Washington, D.C., depicting government worker Ella Watson holding a broom and a mop in front of an American flag
Gordon Parks
This Actor played for 10 MLB teams in one day during 2015 spring training as a charity fundraiser and filming for an HBO special named for him taking the field
Will Ferrell
In Irish legend, this fish gains all the world's knowledge by eating hazelnuts that fall into a sacred pool. Its wisdom can be transferred to whoever eats it, and it becomes famously associated with the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill
Salmon of Knowledge
Pokémon popularized monster collecting, but this 1985 RPG let players recruit enemies into their party by talking to them, making it an early predecessor of the monster-taming genre.
Cosmic Soldier