An Fear Beag

I’m in for Round 2. Just have to hope now that two of Markb4’s oldies don’t decide to croak it in the next 10hrs.

Henry Gray scores for a few players including your truly. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/music/article_99a7dcb6-f450-11e9-8291-0742ebb5a887.amp.html Gives me a little breathing room in my match, and certainly spices up the skinny/Sir creep tie!

Anything before September would be earlier than expected

4 hits so far, and we are not yet through the first week of February. Its fair to say that this is not going well!

What’s the cut off time? 11.59?

1. George Alagiah 2. John Andretti 3. Frankie Banali 4. Susan Bayh 5. Pope Benedict XVI 6. Bob Barker 7. Noel Conway 8. Olivia de Havilland 9. Jimmy Carter 10. Jill Gascoine 11. Henry Gray 12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 13. David Hagen 14. John Lewis (WC) 15. Sam Lloyd 16. Olivia Newton-John 17. Pat Smullen 18. Genesis P-Orridge (WC) 19. Harry Reid 20. Yoo Sang-chul 21. Tom Smith (WC) 22. Nobby Stiles 23. Jean-Louis Trintignant 24. Alex Trebek 25. Tim Smith 26. Bob Dole 27. Bill Turnbull 28. Chris Doleman (WC) 29. Tabare Vazquez 30. Kirk Douglas 31. David Gulpilil 32. Dewayne Lee Johnson 33. Peter Tobin 34. Lee Kerslake 35. Michael Robinson 36. Tim Bilton 37. Anthony Lormor 38. Kerri Parker 39. William Frankland 40. Chitetsu Watanabe 41. Deborah James 42. Terry Jones 43. Willie Nelson 44. Prince Philip 45. Leslie Phillips 46. Jana Bennett 47. Greg Gilbert 48. Jimmy Greaves 49. Daniel Arap Moi, (WC) 50 Vicki Phelan SUBS Mikhail Gorbachev Vera Lynn Robert Fyfe Hugh Downs

Old Crem might be hanging that quote up on the dressing room wall before the first round match - you are obviously not giving him/her much chance against JK I've been doing my scouting on MarkB4 - a first round exit last year gives me some hope. happy to have avoided some established forum names in the first round. However the "reward" is to face Alt Obits guy in the second round - that's a toughie for whoever gets through.

David Graham, the former Irish Cricketer, is listed on three teams, including the theme teams #1 Hits and I Hear Voices. Two different David Grahams (and given that the third team Worm Fodder are all household names, I suspect they meant a different David Graham as well.) Incidentally , if it is considered bad form to point out errors, please say stop before I piss people off.

I see that Conway Berners-Lee was picked as a Joker in a Theme Team. If he dies for a second time, will that fact alone guarantee him a QO this time around?

Thanks Clorox. Somehow I had completely missed your post on 24th December, so I had no idea I was in the lead. It came as quite a pleasant surprise today when I saw that I had won it. I am still completely bewildered by the scoring system in this game, so I don't really know HOW I won it, but I'll happily take it!! Thanks for running the game - it seems like a lot of hard work for little reward.

Definitely a tough group to pick from: Good health to all 25 of you! 1. PAUL GASCOIGNE 2. BILLY CONNOLLY 3. DICK VAN DYKE 4. QUEEN ELIZABETH II 5. DODDIE WEIR 6. LINDA NOLAN 7. JUNE BROWN 8. ANGELA LANSBURY 9. BARBARA WINDSOR 10. ROLF HARRIS 11. MICHAEL ROBINSON 12. BETTY WHITE 13. POPE BENEDICT 14. HENRY KISSINGER 15. LITTLE RICHARD 16. JIMMY GREAVES 17. PRUNELLA SCALES 18. GREG GILBERT 19. JIMMY CARTER 20. VERA LYNN 21. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 22. LEON SPINKS 23. GIANLUCA VIALLI 24. GEORGE ALAGIAH 25. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN SUBS: Stirling Moss Bob Barker

Congratulations DI on a fantastic victory - never in doubt for the last few months. We were all playing for the minor places. Well done Dr.T for a valiant defence of the title. I'm pretty chuffed with my 3rd place finish- very much beginners luck. I suspect though that I will spend the next 10 years fruitlessly trying to match it. Thanks Spade for hosting - I can only begin to imagine the amount of work that went into it.

I'd like to enter too please. I suspect that my research skills are insufficient to pick up the obscure Ecuadorian town councillors or Lithuanian backgammon players that are necessary to do well in this competition, but I might as well give it a go. About three quarter of the entrants so far seem convinced that they will be knocked out in the first round, so with a good draw maybe the dizzy heights of the second round are within reach.

Apologies for the late entry (Still a little earlier than last year!) 1. Alex Trebek 2. Belinda Sykes 3. Bill Turnbull 4. Bob Dole 5. Bob Gibson 6. Bob Weighton 7. Chris Doleman 8. David Gulpill 9. Daniel Arap Moi 10. David Hagen (WC) 11 Frankie Benali 12. Genesis P-orridge 13. George Alagiah 14. Harry Reid 15. Jean Louis Trintagent 16. John Lewis (American politician) 17. Kane Tanaka 18. Kirk Douglas 19. Litsa Menounos 20. Olivia Newton John 21. Pat Smullen 22. Peter Tobin 23. Roberta McCain 24. Terry Jones 25.Tom Smith SUBS: Denis Goldberg Prince Philip Jimmy Carter

Pete Frates makes it 18 hits for me. Assuming the pool is resurrected, that should hopefully leave me in a decent position. (although who knows, given the oddities of the scoring system).

They seek him here, they seek him there...…… Once You Go Black is my main team. Been lurking around here for a while but only signed up this year. Haven't posted much, mainly because I keep forgetting my password!

Could I make an appeal for points for Grace Catherine Jones (died 7th June). She is on my list as Catherine Grace Jones, which might be because I submitted my team with the surnames first, or might simply be because I made a balls of it and got her name mixed up. Either way, that’s who I intended (honestly!).

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9289663/britains-oldest-woman-grace-jones-dies-112/amp/ a 5th hit for me. All a little too soon I fear.

Why the two 5s?

Especially not if, as stated in the article, the lions were kept in separate pens. Shooting one may have been necessary, but why the need for the other? And has no-one there ever heard of tranquilizer guns?

Kevin Roche is a hit for me. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/distinguished-irish-architect-kevin-roche-dies-aged-96-1.3812597?mode=amp

My first ever unique hit in the DDP, and first hit for my theme team, provided he gets a QO. What are his chances? (I’m new to this!)

There looks to be a few theme teams that are not marked as such, including my own Irish-themed team, The Sick-bed of Cuchulainn. There is also a biographical error on one of my picks. Brian Kennedy represented Ireland in the 2006 Eurovision, not the UK as stated. The UK was of course represented that year by the music legend that was Daz Sampson.

Sorry for the late entry. I’ve been sitting on the list for a week, watching wildcards drop off. Hopefully these will all still be alive in 36 hours time to take to the start line. 1. Kathleen Blanco (WC) 2. Leah Bracknell (WC) 3. Pete Frates 4. Bill Freehan 5. Jill Gascoine 6. Greg Gilbert 7. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 8. Bob Hawke 9. Clive James 10. John Andretti 11. Dewayne "Lee"Johnson 12. José José 13. Lee Kerslake (WC) 14. Dilip Kumar 15. John McCririck 16. Andrew McGahan 17. Olivia Newton-John 18. Fernando Ricksen 19. Nobby Stiles 20. Jean-Louis Trintignant (WC) 21. Bill Turnbull 22. Marieke Vervoort 23. Bob Barker 24. Sonali Bendre 25. George Alagiah 26. Beth Chapman 27. Johnny Clegg 28. John Cocks 29. Olivia de Havilland 30. Tim Conway (WC) 31. Bob Dole 32. Kirk Douglas 33. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho 34. Peter Jonas 35. Pauline Hunt 36. Tanya Gendle 37. Kerri Parker 38. Deborah James 39. Stirling Moss 40. Leslie Phillips 41. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi 42. Prince Philip 43. Vicky Phelan 44. Mike Willesee 45. Valerie Harper 46. Genesis P-Orridge 47. Robert Mugabe 48. Linda Nolan 49. Jimmy Greaves 50. Samu Anoa'i

Also hope I have the rules right on this. June Brown in at No. 8. Everyone else drops down a place. I better put in a sub this time, Angela Lansbury please. Do do I need to edit my original post?