Theme Team League 2022

The theme team league shall appear here. It is manually updated so won’t be updated as often as the main scoreboard – typically once a month.

2 January – The deaths of Kathy Whitworth and Pope Benedict XVI ousted Gray Panthers from the summit in the final days of the year. The end result is a tie between Complications from a fall and Pazuzu XP, which Complications wins off having nine hits to Pazuzu’s eight.

Pos Team Theme Points
=1. Complications from a fall Dictators and other world leaders 64
=1. Pazuzu XP 1920s births 64
3. The DOA Tour Golfers 63
4. Gray Panthers Centenarians 62
=5. Gimme One Last Score . . . . Sportspeople 56
=5. Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2022 United Athletes 56
=7. #1 Hits UK chart toppers 54
=7. There is nothing like a dame (and the Women who gives them it) Dames and Her Maj 54
=9. Not Going in a Black Cab EastEnders 47
=9. The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn The Irish 47
11. Pazuzu Bad Boys Unsavoury characters 46
12. Great Gig in the Sky Musicians 45
=13. Dead Leaders World leaders 43
=13. Thanks for being a Sport Sportspeople 43
15. Pop goes the Wurzels Popsters 42
16. Dead Continent Asians 40
=17. Comedy Cremations Comedy actors 39
=17. THE FINAL WHISTLE Sportspeople 39
19. God’s Gonna Gettem G names 38
20. Decaying Orbit-uaries Space types 37
=21. CLOG POPPERS Popsters 36
=21. Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead 50s/60s rock and pop 36
=23. Hell to the Chief World leaders 35
=23. KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS Footballers 35
=23. Rockers who Rolled to the graveyard Rockers 35
=23. The Retched pong of Brit sit-com British sitcoms 35
=27. Old As Dirt Centenarians 33
=27. Sad Last Days National Enquirer “near death”s 33
=27. Sudden Death Football 33
=30. IT’S A COP-OUT 2022 Coppers 32
=30. The Elders of Reality TV Older reality TV stars 32
32. Jane’s Antique Wrinklies Old ladies 31
=33. Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food Authors 29
=33. Gone Solo Surviving halves 29
=35. Deutschland verabschiedet sich! Germans 28
=35. Snort the Ashes High-living musicians 28
=35. That’ll Be The Day … That I Die Early rockers 28
=38. DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home Past picks by the team runner 27
=38. Death to all but metal and Dame Shirley Bassey Rockers and their nan 27
=38. M6 Toll(ed) Midlands 27
=38. One Century Is Enough, Madam! Centenarian women 27
=38. Vive la France… et la mort The French 27
=43. House Of Soon To Be With The Lord Politicians 25
=43. That’s… Death! Entertainment figures 25
=45. Kiddyfiddler Harriers Paedos 24
=45. LEAD, FOLLOW AND DIE THIS YEAR World leaders 24
=45. Punk is Dead Punk musicians 24
=48. All Death Is Consolation Artists 23
=48. Perfect 10 Celebs with 10 letters in their names 23
=48. Slippery Soap Soap actors 23
=51. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERNS FRONT Western actors 22
=51. Breast in Peace Buxom celebs 22
=51. Reelin’ In the Years Centenarians 22
=54. Managing To Survive Football managers 21
=54. Ruling The Afterlife World leaders 21
=54. The Talking Dead TV hosts 21
57. Alternative in Death – The Right Deadlihood Award Recipients of the Alternative Nobel Prize 20
=58. Bobs ‘n Barbs Bobs and Barbaras 19
=58. Dropping Aitches H-surnames 19
=58. In The Hole! Golfers 19
=58. POPPED THEIR CLOGS Popsters 19
62. sid and marty coffin Sid and Marty Krofft 18
=63. Decomposing Blubber Lardarses 17
=63. Europe’s Covid Omicron Onslaught Europeans 17
=63. I Hear Voices Voice actors 17
=63. Laughter Kills Comedians 17
=63. Lullabye-bye of Broadway Broadway 17
=68. …and its goodnight from him Rons, Ronalds, Ronnies etc. 16
=68. Formula Fatality F1 16
=68. Kennedy Driving School Politicians 16
=68. Last Christmas Christmas-associated celebs 16
=68. Last of The Summer Winos Last of the Summer Wine 16
=68. Lt. Colonel Kilgore’s Ultimate Surf Party Vietnam figures 16
=68. Protectors, Persuaders and Prisoners in a Suitcase (Deceased) ITC actors 16
=68. The Politicorpses Politicians 16
=68. Waiting for Ugo Midlands footballers 16
=77. MAGA Hit List Trump non-fans 15
=77. Presiding Over Demise Political legislators 15
=77. Syndication Zombies US actors in eternal reruns 15
=77. Time Travellers, Astronauts and Spies Actors who portrayed one of the three 15
=81. ALLITERATIVELY ALIVE NO MORE Alliterative names 14
=81. The Right to Die Republicans 14
=83. Cashier Number 91 please! 1930 babies 13
=83. Political Correctness Gone Mad Politicians 13
85. 20 Crooners Croakin’ Crooners 12
=86. All these moments will be lost Sci-fi actors 11
=86. Awarded Oscarites Oscar recipients 11
=86. batstarlord of the whotreklock Nerd shows 11
=86. CRT to DOA TV presenters 11
=86. Rolls Off The Tongue Interesting names 11
=86. Soundtrack Of Our Lives Musicians 11
=86. Unpersons Big Brother participants 11
=93. Charles Taylor Is DEAD! Charles Taylors 10
=93. Dead And Dusted 2 70s musicians 10
=93. Dick Smith’s OzEDeath List Aussies 10
=93. Easy Peasy Japanesey Japanese people 10
=93. Lost of the Lost Actors in lost media 10
=93. Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten Obscurities 10
=93. Peace, Drugs, and Death 1960s counterculture figures 10
=93. Poets Passing Poets 10
=93. Poor Little Ghoul US charttoppers 10
=93. Rushing to Tim Horton’s for Maple Donuts Canucks 10
=93. Saints Elsewhere St. Elsewhere 10
=93. The Fat Lady’s singing… Opera 10
=93. Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! US TV 10
=93. Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy Star Wars 10
=107. Baby Kissers Taking a Big Sleep Politicians 9
=107. Dying Donkeys US Democrats who ran for President 9
=107. Grappling with Mortality Wrestlers 9
=107. Last ones! Last survivors 9
=107. Musical chairs Musicians 9
=107. Passing of the Passed Celebs the team runner passed by in the street 9
=107. Special:RandomInCategory/Living_people The 20 best picks of 4000 randomly generated Wikipedia bios 9
=107. St. Peter’s Warblers Musicians 9
=107. YOUREOUT Sportspeople 9
=116. in eternum+’s Wrinkly Dicks Detective fiction figures 8
=116. Nobel Notables Nobel laureates 8
=116. Oh Ronnie, Where Art Thou… Reagan associates 8
=116. Oscar Strikeouts Oscar nominees 8
=120. A Brush (or more) with the Law Ne’er do wells 7
=120. A Death Good Enough to Eat Food names 7
=120. Miscreants Criminals 7
=123. ARTHUR’S THEME – YOUR STARTER FOR TEN… Gameshow hosts 6
=123. BYE-BYE BORING BROADCASTERS 2022 Broadcasters 6
=123. Fireball’s Play Your Cadavers Right Gameshow hosts 6
=123. Gris Gris Reduplicated names 6
=123. Hits Of 36 Years Ago And Hits Today 1985 UK Top 30 hits 6
=123. Saturday Night Dead Saturday Night Live 6
=123. The Gallifrey Regeneration Game Doctor Who 6
=130. Apollogies For Still Living Astronauts 5
=130. Dead Beats Musicians 5
=130. Dr Who’s Next Doctor Who 5
=130. Ikea Nokia Lego Scandinavians 5
=130. The Survivors Last survivors 5
=135. American As Apple Pie Hispanics 0
=135. Body with No Arms No Legs Floating in Ocean Bobs 0
=135. Boom, Boom, Out go the lights Blues and beat musicians 0
=135. First Lady’s First First Ladies 0
=135. Fuck Your World Cup Qatari footballers 0
=135. Gammon Mousse Right-wingers 0
=135. Gay-Tes Of Heaven Gays 0
=135. Made In Detroit Michiganders 0
=135. No More Expenses UK MPs 0
=135. No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! Bond villains 0
=135. Old Lags and Old Slags Celebs who’ve had prison stints 0
=135. Sad to the Bone Goth musicians 0
=135. Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel Batman 0
=135. Saving Private Steven Spielberg associates 0
=135. Schaferknackered Weathermen 0
=135. Scrubber Out Porn stars 0
=135. Space Wasters Lice 0
=135. Thats a Rap Rappers 0
=135. The One Where Everyone Dies Friends 0
=135. The Writing’s On The Wall Singers 0
=135. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE Actors in TTSS adaptations 0
=135. Trans Girls Hit squad’s hit list T*RFs 0
=135. Weird with a Beard Bearded men 0
=135. Welcome To HeysHell Mid-80s Liverpool players 0
=135. Who Goes Before the 5-0 Arrives? Under 50s 0
=135. Wishful Thinking BoJo and friends 0
=135. Wishing (I Had an Obituary of You) 80s musicians 0