Bibliogryphon

Bad news folks. Work seems to have blocked the site. This may be just a new firewall. See if it clears in a few days.

Hate to point this out, but having too much time on my hands I've noticed Deathray appears to only have 4 cricketers. There was a bit of back and forth with Deathray's V but checking back he had Len Maddocks. Good Spot Rover

For me Muhammad Ali was the first recognisable international sportsman.

Wouk for me this time.

Just seen this vid and thought Francis Rossi was the Duke of Edinburgh.

Fairly balanced report on the BBC News tonight, basically he'd been seeking help because he was becoming hooked on painkillers which he was using to maintain his ability to perform. He should've based his style on Val Doonican I do get it that he got addicted but what I don't get is why he waited so long to do that hip surgery at first place.... well, poor man.... Cos he was PRINCE and he was FUNKY so he was probably in FUCKING DENIAL about the whole thing. could it have had something to do with him being a Jehovah's Witness?

If we have a hit before 12th June then we are still ahead of every year except 2008 which had already reached 9 hits by now. However this time last year we were in a 42 period where we had six deaths (one a week). However the early promise of this year seems to be fading.

Carla Lane was significant.

Erm, I count 15...? That is a much nicer number. My bad.

FTFY Listen here

Ok thanks for the corrections. Have edited the lists and my masterlist accordingly. I think the cricket one was the toughest for players to complete.

I hate to use Bowie for another example of album release But he didn't do a full media tour to promote it.

If anyone notices a mistake please let me know and I will see what can be done. Good luck to everyone. Waits...........

Masterlist #5 Artists who have appeared on a UK No.1 Hit Single 1. Marcia Barrett hj 2. Harry Belafonte ih, ro 3. Tony Bennett sw, ih, dr 4. Pat Boone ti, mc 5. David Cassidy to 6. Petula Clarke rp 7. Billy Connelly ti, hj 8. Vic Damone mc, ro 9. Dave Davies hj 10. Windsor Davies hj 11. Doris Day sw, rg, ti 12. Kiki Dee yw 13. Ken Dodd yw, cc, gr, ra 14. Judith Durham hj 15. Don Everly gr 16. Chris Farlowe yw, cc 17. Barry Gibb ih 18. Rolf Harris cc, ra 19. Tab Hunter mc, di 20. Plas Johnson rp, ro 21. Eden Kane rp 22. John Layton rp 23. Vera Lynn sw, rg, ti, ih, dr, ro, to 24. Paul McCartney rg, dr 25. John McVie ra 26. George Michael ih 27. Jane Morgan di 28. Des O’ Connor ra 29. Sinead O’ Connor rg 30. Cliff Richard ra 31. Keith Richards dr 32. Smokey Robinson yw 33. Mike Sarne rp 34. Peter Sarstedt di, gr, to 35. Kay Starr sw, rg, mc, dr, di, cc, ro, to 36. Tommy Steele ti 37. Nobby Stiles gr 38. Ricky Valance cc 39. Bill Wyman yw 40. Jimmy Young sw, mc, di, gr, to Note that Ken Dodd will score in two categories. The only person to do so. Again I had to look a few of these up but had to reject Roberta Flack because the best she managed was a #2.

Masterlist #4 Test Cricketers 1. Imtiaz Ahmed mc, di, ra, ro 2. Dennis Amiss yw 3. Ken Archer gr 4. Bob Barber ih 5. Jimmy Binks yw 6. Ian Botham rp 7. Donald Carr ra 8. Nari Contractor ti 9. Somachandra de Silva mc, rp 10. Ted Dexter to 11. Hubert Doggard gr 12. Graham Dowling hj 13. Ronald Draper cc 14. John Edrich hj, to 15. Datta Gaekwad gr, ra 16. C D Gopinath gr 17. Lance Gibbs di 18. Waqar Hasan hj 19. Ray Illingworth to 20. Doug Insole ti, rp, ro 21. Rohan Kanhai ti, ra, to 22. Imran Khan ti 23. Arun Lal gr 24. Len Maddocks ro, yw, dr 25. Roy Miller sw, rg, ih 26. Peter Pollock ti 27. John Richard Reid dr, di 28. Dick Richardson hj 29. Fred Rumsey yw 30. Ian Sinclair hj 31. Garfield Sobers cc, ra 32. Don Smith sw, rg, ih, mc, di, cc 33. James Taylor dr 34. Lindsay Tuckett sw, rg, ih, mc, dr, rp, di, ro, to 35. Shane Warne dr 36. John Watkins (SA) sw,rg, ih, cc 37. Everton Weekes sw, yw, rg, mc, rp, cc, ro I included this because I thought there should be a sport category and Cricket buffs are keen on keeping lists and statistics. Lots of new names here.

Masterlist #3 Participants in the US General Election 1. John B. Anderson sw, rp, di, gr, ro, to 2. Barbara Bush rg, ih, hj, rp 3. George H W Bush yw, rg, ih, dr, hj, di, cc, gr, ra, ro, to 4. Jimmy Carter yw, rg, ti, ih, dr, hj, cc, ra, to 5. Rosalynn Carter ti, ih, cc 6. Dick Cheney yw, ti, mc, ra, to 7. Lynne Cheney mc 8. Pat Choate rp 9. Ed Clark sw 10. Bob Dole sw, rg, mc, hj, di, ra, ro, to 11. Michael Dukakis yw, rp 12. Tipper Gore mc 13. Bo Gritz cc 14. La Donna Harris gr 15. Mary Alice Herbert cc 16. Lyndon LaRouche sw, ti, di, gr, ro 17. Walter Mondale sw, yw, rg, ti, ih, mc, hj, ra 18. Ralph Nader dr 19. Barack Obama dr 20. Ross Perot rp, gr, ro 21. Willie Mae Reid dr 22. Bob Richards di I am amazed at some of the Research that has gone into this there are names here that I had never even heard. I know now though.

Masterlist #2 Current and Former Members of the House of Lords 1. Anthony Armstong-Jones (Earl Snowdon) di, gr, ro, to 2. Derek Barber (Baron Barber of Tewkesbury) cc, ro, to 3. Jean Barker (Baroness Trumpington) dr 4. Betty Boothroyd hj 5. Bertram Bowyer (2nd Baron Denham), sw, rg, ih 6. Edwin Bramall (Baron Bramall) ra 7. Jane Campbell (Baroness Campbell of Surbiton) to 8. Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington sw, yw, rg, ti, ih, dr,rp, di, gr, ra 9. Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn ti 10. John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton rp, cc 11. Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender ti 12. Basil Feldman hj 13. Flora Fraser (Lady Saltoun) gr, ro 14. William Goodheart, Baron Goodheart rp 15. John Habgood (Baron Habgood) gr, ro 16. Douglas Hurd di 17. Jeremy Hutchinson di, ra, ro 18. Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding yw, ra 19. Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont rg, dr, to 20. Jill Knight (Baroness Knight of Collingtree) to 21. Robert Lindsay, Earl of Crawford ih 22. William Lloyd George (3rd Viscount Tenby) cc 23. Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood mc, hj 24. Charles Lyell (3rd Baron Lyell) sw 25. John McClusky, Baron McClusky ih 26. Malcolm Mitchell-Thomson (3rd Baron Selsdon) sw, ti 27. David Nickson (Baron Nickson) gr 28. Olive Nicol, Baroness Nicol mc, di 29. Donald Nicholls hj 30. Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies mc 31. Randolph Quirk hj 32. John Sainsbury, Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover mc 33. Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg mc 34. Colin Sharman, Baron Sharman yw 35. Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples rg, ih, dr 36. John Douglas Slim, Viscount Slim rg, ti 37. Francis Leonard Tombs, Baron Tombs yw, rp, cc 38. David Trefgarne (2nd Baron Trefgarne) sw 39. David Waddington (Baron Waddington) ra 40. Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock yw, cc 41. Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram dr 42. Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams rp

Masterlist #1 Actors in Doctor Who 1. Colin Baker cc 2. Tom Baker sw, rg, dr, ra 3. Keith Barron ra 4. Geoffrey Bayldon mc, gr, to 5. Honor Blackman mc 6. Brian Blessed ra 7. Claire Bloom ih 8. June Brown hj 9. Sonny Caldinez sw 10. Earl Cameron di 11. Tony Caunter ti 12. Ysanne Churchman sw 13. John Cleese rp 14. George A. Cooper to 15. Kenneth Cope gr 16. Bernard Cribbins dr 17. Windsor Davies ro 18. Ken Dodd hj, ro 19. Mark Eden di 20. Bella Emberg hj 21. Richard Franklin sw, rg, hj, cc 22. Hugh Futcher sw 23. Julian Glover ti, rp 24. David Gooderson mc 25. Prentis Hancock yw 26. Damaris Hayman to 27. Frazer Hines ti 28. Nerys Hughes rp 29. John Hurt ih, ra 30. Derek Jacobi dr 31. Milton Johns yw, ti 32. Katy Manning ih 33. Jean Marsh rg, ti, ih, ro, to 34. Sylvester McCoy rg 35. John Moreno cc 36. Geoffrey Palmer gr 37. Nicholas Parsons gr 38. Donald Pelmear mc 39. Peter Purvis dr 40. William Russell rg, ih, dr, di, cc, ra, ro 41. Peter Sallis di, ro, to 42. Catherine Schell rp 43. Leslie Schofield yw 44. Peter Thomas cc 45. Antony Webb mc 46. Laurie Webb di 47. Frank Windsor gr 48. Gabriel Woolf yw 49. Henry Woolf yw, hj 50. Peter Wyngarde rp Red indicates a unique pick. This is the category that got the most number of separate picks. Some are quite obscure and don't have Wiki pages so might require close following of Toby Hadoke's twitter account.

OK This is how the scoreboard will appear. Each player has five digits after their name and abbreviation these correspond to each category Doctor Who/Lords/US Elections/Test Cricketers/No.1 UK Singles If a player scores a hit then one of the numbers will change. If the player scores a unique hit the colour of the whole entry will change Black = 0, Green = 1, Orange = 2 and if they get three they win. SWITCH sw 0/0/0/0/0 YOUNGWILLZ yw 0/0/0/0/0 RADGUY rg 0/0/0/0/0 TIME ti 0/0/0/0/0 IMNOTHADES ih 0/0/0/0/0 MSC mc 0/0/0/0/0 DEATHRAY dr 0/0/0/0/0 HANDREJKA hj 0/0/0/0/0 ROCKHOPPERPENGUIN rp 0/0/0/0/0 DEATH IMPENDS di 0/0/0/0/0 CAPTAINCHORIZO cc 0/0/0/0/0 GCREEPTILE gr 0/0/0/0/0 ROTTON ALI ra 0/0/0/0/0 ROVER & OUT ro 0/0/0/0/0 TOAST to 0/0/0/0/0 I would like to thank all 14 players for getting the teams in on time and being so inventive. There are lots of unique picks and lots of ones that might slip under the radar if we are not careful. Anyone who i have had to go back to has also been very understanding about why I have questioned their picks. GAME ON!!!!!

Is he planning a bio pic where he stars as Ronnie Biggs in his final years because that is the look that he is rocking.

Paul Simon was on Radio 4 this morning talking about his new album. Nothing to see here.

Fourteen teams all verified.Will post Masterlists later today.

This really does feel like a long lull.

There are 14 confirmed entries. All entries need to be in today and I will put up the master lists and blank scoreboard on Thursday after making sure everything is OK. Good luck to everyone who has entered and I hope you will be as considerate as I have been if you have the good fortune to win.

Entries in by midnight BST will be included.