Theme Team League 2026

May 10th

It’s alliteration that pays out this week with Ted Turner resulting in the highest change on the board. Aaron Aardvark’s Alliteration Association’s second hit takes them up to joint 21st.

Position Team Points Hits Theme
1st Deutschland verabschiedet sich! 48 4 Germans
2nd LW’s Latest Hit 45 3 Music
3rd Dying Donkeys 33 3 US Democrat Politicians
=4th Jaydead 31 2 Names beginning with J
=4th Jextinction 31 2 Names beginning with J
=6th Elton Welsby’s Sporting Triangles 27 3 Sports Types
=6th Musicians We Lost in 2026 27 3 Musicians
8th The Sick-bed of Cuchulainn 27 2 The Irish
9th Fiona’s Reaping the Patricians 26 3 Politicians and Royalty
10th Sudden Death 24 3 Football
11th LW’s Protesticles 24 2 Activists and Protestors
12th EVIL PILES OF DOG EXCRIMENT 24 1 Criminals
13th OAP’s 22 3 Old American Poiliticians
14th death to all but metal and dame shirley bassey 22 2 Rockers and their nan
15th Perfect 10 19 2 People with 10 lettered names.
16th The Dead Kennedys 18 1 Kennedy Center honorees
=17th A Question of Sprouts 17 2 Sports
=17th They Think It’s All Over 17 2 Scottish Footballers
=19th KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS 16 2 Footballers
=19th Rolls Off The Tongue 16 2 Interesting Names
=21st Aaron Aardvark’s Alliteration Association 15 2 Alliterative Names
=21st MST3K Massacre 15 2 MST3K subjects
23rd sid and marty coffin 14 2 Sid and Marty Krofft
=24th Doubles to Finish 13 1 Names with double letters
=24th Great gig in the sky 13 1 Musicians
=24th Nature’s Way 13 1 Names Found in Nature
=24th Saturday Night Dead 13 1 Saturday Night Live
=24th Thanks for being a Sport 13 1 Sportspeople
=29th Fiona’s Immortals 12 1 Film and TV Personalities
=29th Francis Of Wrestle-Easy 2026 12 1 Wrestling
=29th You should be Ash – amed 12 1 Convicted and/or Suspected Criminals
=32nd Cardavers 11 2 Car Names
=32nd Made In Detroit 11 2 Connections to the Motor City
=34th  #1 Hits 11 1 UK Chart Toppers
=34th A la vie, a la mort 11 1 French People
=34th Hits Of 1980 And Hits Today 11 1 Hits of 46 Years Ago And Hits Today
=34th Norman Lear and All His Friends 11 1 Norman Lear and actors in his many sitcoms
=34th Trans Girls Hit squad’s hit list 11 1 T*RFs
=39th Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food 10 2 Authors
=39th D Ceased 10 2 Names beginning with D
=41st Bobbing For Apples 10 1 Bobs and Roberts
=41st Buying Max Yasgur’s Farm 10 1 Folkies
=41st Gone and Away 10 1 Soaps
=41st If your Mansion House Needs Haunting just call… 10 1 Actors to have played paranormal entities.
=41st Lt. Colonel Kilgore’s Ultimate Surf Party 10 1 Vietnam Figures
=41st M6 Toll(ed) 10 1 Midlands
=41st The Fat Lady’s singing… 10 1 Opera
=41st The Retched pong of Brit sit-com 10 1 British Sitcoms
49th Ncuti Bang Bang 9 2 Doctor Who
=50th A place in the dirt 9 1 Geographically themed names
=50th Complications from a fall 9 1 Dictators and other world leaders
=50th Final Adieu 9 1 Names beginning with A
=50th Hell to the Chief 9 1 World Leaders
=50th House Of Soon To Be With The Lord  9 1 Politicians
=50th Illinoying 9 1 People associated with Illinois
=50th JOCKS AWAY 9 1 Scots
=50th State Funeral 9 1 Heads of State
=50th There is nothing like a Dame 9 1 Dames, without their boss this time
=50th Traded to the Saints 9 1 NFLers
60th Big digits team 8 2 Centenarians
=61st Musical Chairs 7 1 Musicians
=61st Play Ball! 7 1 Sports
=61st Sickly Senators 7 1 US Senators
=61st The Cabinet of the Grim Reaper 7 1 US Cabinet Members
=61st Waiting For Ugo 7 1 Midlands footballers
=66th 20 Crooners Croakin’ 6 1 Crooners
=66th Drop Dead Diva 6 1 Extravagant women
=66th Forbes’ DL 6 1 Billionaires
=66th Let the Music Play Just a Little Longer 6 1 Musicians
=66th MAGA Hit List 6 1 Trump non-fans
=66th Oscar Strikeouts 6 1 Oscar nominees
=66th Sad Last Days 6 1 National Enquirer “near death”s
=66th We’re all Doomed! 6 1 Scots
=74th And the Nominees are… dead! 5 1 Oscar Nominees
=74th Boddies…By ‘eck you smell gorgeous tonight, petal! 5 1 People associated with Manchester
=74th Foreword by The Grim Reaper 5 1 Authors
=74th Hispanics and Lati-no’s 5 1 Hispanics
=74th No More Expenses 5 1 UK MP’s
=74th Not Going in a Black Cab 5 1 Eastenders
=74th Oldest living footballers 5 1 Take a guess!
=74th Slippery Soap 5 1 Soap Actors
=74th Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! 5 1 US TV
83rd Old As Dirt 4 1 Centenarians
   …and it’s goodnight from him 0 0 Rons, Ronalds, Ronnies etc.
  2026 Exit Draft 0 0 Sport
  All Death Is Consolation 0 0 Artists
  All these moments will be lost 0 0 Sci-fi Actors
  Alright Dave 0 0 A team of Daves
  American As Apple Pie 0 0 Hispanics
  And That’s a Rap 0 0 Rappers
  Animals to the Afterlife 0 0 Animal Names
  Apollogies For Still Living 0 0 Astronauts
  Armin Meiwes’s Prison Buddies 0 0 Criminals
  ARTHUR’S THEME 0 0 People born on the Day of the Dead
  Baby Kissers Taking a Big Sleep 0 0 Politicos
  BatStar Lord of the Who TrekLock 0 0 Nerd shows
  Beloved Farewell 0 0 Names beginning with B
  Big Man Top 40 Musicians 0 0 Musicians
  Boom, Boom, Out go the lights 0 0 Blues and beat musicians
  Broken Records 0 0 Musicians
  BY DESIGN 0 0 Designers and Inventors
  BYE-BYE BORING BROADCASTERS 2026 0 0 Broadcasters
  Cadaverous Mofos 0 0 The Wire
  Can’t Think of a Music Pun 0 0 Musicians
  CLOG POPPERS 0 0 Popsters
  Come on Karma, Where’s the F@@king Justice 0 0 Evading justice for how long?
  Comedy Cremations 0 0 Comedy Actors
  Complete Phallusies 0 0 Names with shlong slang in them
  CRT to DOA 0 0 TV presenters
  DCAU Demises 0 0 DC Animated Cinematic Universe
  Dead Beats 0 0 Musicians
  Dead Continent 0 0 Asians
  Dead Leaders 0 0 World Leaders
  Decaying Orbit-uaries 0 0 Space types
  Dieopics 0 0 Biopic Subjects
  Disney Remake Roast 0 0 Disney
  Don’t Eat Another Donut While You’re in the MRI Machine 0 0 Overweight People
  Dr Who’s Next 0 0 Doctor Who
  Easy Peasy Japanesey 0 0 Japanese People
  Epstein Island Flight 666 to Hell 0 0 Names in the Epstein files
  Epstein’s Enigmas 0 0 Names in the Epstein files
  Everybody’s Dead Daves 0 0 Daves
  Fireball’s Play Your Cadavers Right 0 0 Gameshow hosts
  Formula Fatality 0 0 F1
  God’s Gonna Gettem 0 0 Names beginning with G
  GoodKnight Vienna 0 0 Knights and Dames
  Grappling with Mortality 0 0 Wrestlers
  Gray Panthers 0 0 Centenarians
  Gris Gris 0 0 Duplicated Names
  Here’s Who You Could Have Won 0 0 Interesting Oldies
  He’s Not The Family Guy 0 0 Family Guy Voices
  Hospital Pass Footballers 0 0 Footballers
  I Hear Voices 0 0 Voice Actors
  I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together 0 0 Personalities on The Carol Burnett Show
  IN THE HOLE! 0 0 Golfers
  IT’S A COP-OUT 2026 0 0 Coppers
  It’s time to meet the music 0 0 Muppet Show Guest Stars
  Jane’s Antique Wrinklies 0 0 Old Ladies
  Last Christmas 0 0 Christmas-associated celebs
  Last of The Summer Winos 0 0 Last of the Summer Wine
  last ones alive 2026 0 0 Last surviving original band members
  Last Show Before Bedtime 0 0 70’s BBC Evening TV
  Laugh until… 2026 0 0 Comedians
  Lullabye-bye of Broadway 0 0 Broadway
  Miscreants 0 0 Morally Questionable People
  Nice! 0 0 Jazz Musicians
  No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! 0 0 Bond Villains
  Nobel Notables 0 0 Nobel Laureates
  Nonclave 0 0 Papal Candidates
  Old Hollywood 0 0 Actors aged 90+
  Once Shaggable, Now Baggable 0 0 Old ladies eyecatching in their heyday
  One Century is Enough, Madam! 0 0 Centenarian women
  Pantomime Pall 0 0 Pantomime Actors
  Passed The Rock 0 0 NBA Figures
  Passing of the passed 0 0 Celebs the team runner passed by in the street
  Peace, Drugs, and Death 0 0 1960s counterculture figures
  Pennsylvania’s Pushing Daisies 0 0 The Keystone State
  POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD 0 0 Politicians from the Asia-Pacific Region
  Poor Little Ghoul 0 0 US Chart Toppers
  Pop Goes the Wurzels 0 0 Popsters
  Punk is Dead 0 0 Punk Musicians
  Putting Death Over, Brotha! 0 0 Pro Wrestling
  Ready For My Closed Lid, Mr. DeMille 0 0 Ladies of Cinema
  Ruling the Afterlife 0 0 World Leaders
  Rushing to Tim Horton’s for Maple Donuts 0 0 Canucks
  Russian Box Players 0 0 Russians
  Scrubber Out 0 0 Pornstars
  Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead 0 0 50s/60s rock and pop
  She’s a Dead Skate, Charlie Brown 0 0 Ice Skaters
  Space Wasters 0 0 Morally Questionable People
  Special:RandomInCategory/Living_people 0 0 The 20 best picks of 4000 randomly generated Wikipedia bios
  Spoczywaj w pokoju 0 0 Polish and Polish-born people.
  Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2026 United 0 0 Athletes
  St. Peter’s Warblers 0 0 Musicians
  Thank You For The Music 0 0 Musicians
  Thanos Snapped 0 0 MCU Actors
  The Letter “R” Means Death 0 0 Names beginning with R
  THE LORD GOD SLAYED THEM ALL 0 0 Veterinarians
  The Real Hearsewives of Bravo 0 0 Stars of The Real Housewives Franchise
  The Survivors 0 0 Last Survivors
  The Talking Dead 0 0 TV Hosts
  The Tribe Has Spoken 0 0 CBS reality show contestants
  The Writing’s On The Wall 0 0 Singers
  They Were the World 0 0 We Are the World alumni
  They’re Alright As Long As You Don’t Mention Politics 0 0 Polarizing Political Figures
  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE 0 0 Actors in TTSS adaptations
  Turning Left 0 0 Racing drivers with at least 1 NASCAR Cup Series start.
  Unpersons 0 0 Big Brother Participants
  Vive la France… et la mort 0 0 The French
  Where are all the Garys and Simons? 0 0 Garys and Simons
  Who Goes Before the 5-0 Arrives? 0 0 Under 50’s
  Windsor’s OBE 0 0 Order of the British Empire recipients
  Wishing (I Had an Obituary of You) 0 0 80s musicians
  Wrestling To Stay Alive 0 0 Wrestling
  Ya Scouse B*stards 0 0 Scousers