Bibliogryphon

Twitter is full of unsubstantiated rumours about flights and trains being suddenly cancelled across China and that Xi Jinping has been placed under house arrest following a military coup. All seems to be coming from Indian sources with no journalistic confirmation.

Louise Fletcher is @Toast second unique hit but she only has one other unique so James Sikking will be added to all her Olympians as possible winning hits. I think to win with your only three uniques would be a remarkable achievement.

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Mrs Biblio thinks they are fantastic

Fair enough I will reluctantly go for Billie Elish instead

Princess Aiko of Japan

Really would need a unique to churn the pot

Edward is the oldest surviving descendant of George V. The first 62 of the current line of succession are all descendants of George V The next person in line 63rd is David, Duke of Fife (b.1961) who is descended from George V's sister Louise. Harald V (b.1937) is descended from his only other sister to have issue Maud, who married Prince Carl of Denmark who eventually became King Haakon VII of Norway in 1905. The only people who are older than Charles in that first group of 62 are Edward, Duke of Kent (b.1935) 40th in line Princess Alexandria (b. 1936) 56th in line Prince Michael of Kent (b.1942) 51st in line Richard, Duke of Gloucester (b.1944) 30th in line

Twelve players now have one hit. No-one has two yet

Updating the list of ending picks to include all of @Captain Hemlock unique picks - There are 14 This list is now longer than any individual category It can't go on much longer 1. John Aniston (ro) 2. Lou Antonio (cc) 3. Oded Balilty (da) 4. Jacqui Banaszynski (da) 5. Sal Bando (ch) 6. Tony Blair (ar) 7. Walt Bogdanich (ch) 8. Vasily Borisov (to) 9. Peter Brooke (ph) 10. Gordon Brown (cw) 11. Irene Camber (to) 12. Kenneth Clarke (ro) 13. Nick Clegg (ch) 14. Donald L. Coburn (ar) 15. Dave Concepcion (ch) 16. James Darren (ar) 17. Maureen Dowd (ch) 18. Charlie Falconer (cw) 19. Norman Fowler (ro) 20. Tom Gayford (ro) 21. Gordy Giovenelli (to) 22. Halina Gorecka (da) 23. Judy Grinham (ti) 24. John Gummer (ti) 25. Harriet Harmen (da) 26. Roy Hattersley (ro) 27. Spencer Haywood (ch) 28. Marianna Hill (ch) 29. Douglas Hurd (ro) 30. Margaret Jay (cc) 31. Micheal Jopling (ba) 32. Jackie Joyse-Kerse (ch) 33. Olga Korbut (ch) 34. Nancy Kovack (da) 35. Tony Kubek (ar) 36. Vern Law (cc) 37. Nigel Lawson (sp) 38. James Mackay (bp) 39. Jean Claude Magnan (da) 40. John Major (ar) 41. Ken McMullen (ar) 42. John McPhee (cc) 43. Joanna Miles (ti) 44. John Morris (bp) 45. Siddhartha Mukerjee (ch) 46. Koji Murofushi (to) 47. Julie Newmar (ph) 48. Marsh Norman (ar) 49. John Nott (ph) 50. Ethan Phillips (ch) 51. Franco de Piccoli (ti) 52. Horacio Pina (da) 53. Michael Portillo (ch) 54. Boog Powell (ch) 55. John Prescott (cw/sp) 56. Jeff Reardon (da) 57. Daniel Revenu (da) 58. Bob Richards (to) 59. Bob Robertson (ar) 60. Andrew Robinson (ar) 61. Marilynne Robinson (da) 62. Bill Rodgers (bp) 63. Janet Royall (da) 64. Gillian Shepard (cw) 65. Chris Smith (da) 66. Jack Straw (da) 67. Carel Struycken (ar) 68. Norman Tebbit (ro) 69. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (ti) 70. Osamu Watanabe (ch) 71. George Young (ar) 72. Anthony Zerbe (ro)

They did the same on Radio 4 with I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Just A Minute and eventually they settled on good hosts so I'll give each one a go but Sally has not done well so far.

Could be a shock end to the game if Nick Clegg is the winning hit!!!

Are they experimenting with different co-hosts ala Dictionary Corner? But she is awful

Congratulations that will increase the out pool by about 14 or 15 names. @gcreptile less than half the players are in a winning position but only just.

I am not so sure. She has been reclusive but that does not mean she is as ill as all that it may have been a decision not to attend whereas the Duke we all clearly saw how frail he was. Either would be good but The Duke I think just has the edge

Yeah but you need to be careful using hos name alongside dead and pool.

Future Scavenger Hunt category? People who attended The Queen's Funeral

Surely go to Halloween costume this year must be Zombie Queen

Mustafa Dagistanli cc, ph Second hit in the Olympic category for both @CaptainChorizo and @Perhaps No new ways to win though

Is it possible this game may come to an abrupt end with no hits?

This is a much larger field than last time. I might avoid coming bottom

If he gets too old will he just regenerate into Patrick Troughton?

The media should demand that Prince Andrew's daughter does a walk about with the people waiting in line just so the can use that headline.

No every member of the Royal family gets to chuck an Intern in the hole

There will be a later private interment service