Great Uncle Bulgaria

Ha, beat you, I've got 37 uniques across 3 teams. Doubtless none of them will die though....

1. Paul Gascoigne 2. Queen Elizabeth 3. Barbara Windsor 4. Leon Spinks 5. Linda Nolan 6. Pope Benedict 7. George Alagiah 8. Rolf Harris 9. Terry Jones 10. Billy Connolly 11. Jimmy Carter 12. Bill Turnbull 13. Dick Van Dyke 14. Gianluca Vialli 15. Mikhail Gorbachev 16. Prunella Scales 17. June Brown 18. Jill Gascoine 19. Angela Lansbury 20. Olivia De Havilland 21. Prince Philip 22. Betty White 23, Henry Kissinger 24. Michael Robinson 25. Olivia Newton-John Sub Alex Trebek Thanks for running. GUB

Saw Jo Jo Rabbit last night. Odd mixture of surreal comedy (10 year old Hitler Youth member has an imaginary friend a la Harvey but in this case it is Adolf Hitler rather than a giant rabbit) and 'Anne Frank' style jew hiding in the attic serious story. The juxtaposition of (only intermittently successful) comedy and tragedy didn't really work for me. Wouldn't recommend.

Telegraph journalist who writes comment pieces in which anecdotes about herself feature heavily. Has written 3 books about herself in the last 5 years. Has slept with Russell Brand and probably lots of other 'slebs' if you can be bothered to look it up online (I can't)

Thanks for running YW - using the (UK football) League Two principle, whereby 23rd and 24th get kicked out of the league, I avoided relegation by the narrowest of margins, so a storming success by my standards! Well done to CC for winning.

Mais.. le singe est dans l'arbre.

Interestingly did some research amongst the occupants of (a) the burrow and (b) the office (populations 4 and 10 respectively) and they came up with the same 4 names (plus Pistorius) but no more, so SC does have a point there, I would say very few UK paralympians (and certainly no Belgian ones, no one had a clue who Verwoort was) are household names. The office has a golden postbox immediately outside in honour of some local paralympian rower from 2012 but none of the people working inside have any idea who she is. While I respect and admire their achievements, many of the competitors in various events seem very unevenly matched even at the very top and I don't find much of it particularly entertaining (who in all honesty carries on watching Wimbledon when Federer finishes and the wheelchair players come on?) it strikes me that some medals are won not on the track but at the classification assessment when some apparently relatively able bodied athletes succeed in persuading people they should be allowed to compete with people with missing limbs (particularly in swimming events - which I used to watch a reasonable amount of as one of the young wombles used to swim competitively - where even finals are very unevenly contested ).

Womble up this rubbish, and put them in the bin... 15 in all. Vera Lynn D Arap Moi Kirk Douglas Bob Dole Bob Barker Leslie Phillips Nobby Stiles Stirling Moss Alex Trebek Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tom Smith (Joker) Peter Sutcliffe David Attenborough Wm Gates Snr Genesis P-Orridge Thanks for running GUB

So his claim to fame is an unusual stage name rather than his music. Ah well, look forward to his equally 'famous' but memorably monikered bandmates PinkFloyd Cornflakes and Deuteronomy Shreddies appearing on the list in future years then :-)

Yes, but a significant percentage of the adult population (at least those aged between say 35 and 65) has heard of Pulp, unlike throbbing gristle, who I cannot recall ever having had a hit single or album (which I concede is no arbiter of quality, but it is a reasonable proxy for fame). IMHO there are a lot of old pop stars from the late 50s through to early/mid 60s still knocking around who are all well into their 80s, most of whom would have been better picks from a fame perspective. Just my opinion of course. fwiw I don't see what Bill Gates' Dad is doing on the list either. Or, if he qualifies, why (say) Jackie Stallone and Roberta McCain do not.

I'd never heard of him either until I came on here and I like to kid myself I know quite a lot about obscure pop/rock acts from the 1970s & 1980s. He's clearly famous around these parts but would bet 99% of the UK population has never heard of him.

I'll have a go again please...

Why? She's not even the illest looking country singer in the picture you posted. One to drop, I would have thought (see also Cleo Laine)

1. Stirling Moss 2. Cynthia Morey 3. Leslie Phillips 4. Vera Lynn 5. Rosalynn Carter 6. Anne Buydens Douglas 7. Richard Bonynge 8. Nobby Stiles 9. David Attenborough 10. Bill Kenwright Sub Pete Murray Larry King

The great creatress Elizabeth Beresford died this day in 2010, aged 84. A wombling unmerry Christmas.

I wish you (all) a wombling merry Christmas

Well, I sucked at all of them, except the Inverse (DI one) in which I find myself unexpectedly top quartile/in the lower reaches of the top ten last time I looked. (And even that team was only saved from mid-table mediocrity by Carol Channing helpfully dying just before the start line as opposed to just after). Got squonked by Banana in the first round of the Cup, although I wasn't the only one to suffer that fate in that compettion. Overall a big fat E-. Next year I aspire to be E+, i.e. marginally better than this year but still worse than just about everybody else on here.

Morning after election (when I posted above) 50-1 10th favourite (in a field of only 12 MPs), a week later 5-2 2nd favourite. (And bearing in mind this is a pretty 'woke' party, someone who is (a) female (b) of Palestinian descent and (c) has overcome mental health problems has to be a good shout). if only I was as good at tipping people to snuff it.....

Saw Emeli Sande the other night. Has developed an unfortunate tendency to include trite moralising/self help cliches in both her lyrics and between song patter. More pleas for world peace than a 1980s Miss World competition. When she shut up and got on with it very good concert though.Great voice and still has that wide range, although think she may regret writing some of those songs on 'Our version of events' in such stratospheric keys in years to come - one or two early high notes were hit but only just and we didn't get 'My kind of love', although we did get all the other hits. The new album has 2 or 3 very good tracks but most of it falls some way short of 'Events'.

My bunch of clean living survivors are in. Chosen primarily for their fun-sounding names - Thangam Debbonaire and Zarah Sultana being particular favourites.

Fancy Liverpool amd Man City to go through, Leipzig are better than their CL pedigree/history suggests and BM will stuff Chelsea.

I'm guessing Cardin, unexciting pick who no one seems very interested in. But I know you won't confirm or deny :-)

Lib dem. Tactically last time, this time in fairness on her own merits. Think if you have a fiver to waste, she (Layla Moran) might be a good long shot for the next leader.

My team's in too, that's the wooden spoon taken care of.

no, too much organisation gone into it.