Theme Team League 2026

October 18th

It’s decrepit Judo instructor Jack Hearn heading to a crypt that brings the biggest change this week, with A Question of Sprouts making it to twelfth place.

Position Team Points Hits Theme
1 Nature’s Way 76 6 Names Found in Nature. Allegedly.
2 Elton Welsby’s Sporting Triangles 73 6 Sports Types
3 Play Ball! 56 5 Sports
4 Doubles to Finish 52 3 Names with double letters
5 LW’s Latest Hit 50 4 Music
=6 A la vie, a la mort 48 4 French People
=6 Deutschland verabschiedet sich! 48 4 Germans
=8  #1 Hits 45 5 UK Chart Toppers
=8 Sudden Death 45 5 Football
10 The Sick-bed of Cuchulainn 40 4 The Irish
11 Traded to the Saints 39 4 NFLers
12 A Question of Sprouts 36 4 Sports
13 Jaydead 36 3 Names beginning with J
14 Cardavers 35 4 Car Names
15 OAP’s 33 5 Old American Politicians
16 Aaron Aardvark’s Alliteration Association 33 3 Alliterative Names
17 The Dead Kennedys 33 3 Kennedy Center honorees
18 Dying Donkeys 32 3 US Democrat Politicians
19 Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2026 United 32 2 Athletes
=20 Jextinction 31 2 Names beginning with J
=20 Passed The Rock 31 2 NBA Figures
22 Windsor’s OBE 30 4 Order of the British Empire recipients
23 LW’s Protesticles 30 3 Activists and Protestors
=24 BYE-BYE BORING BROADCASTERS 2026 29 3 Broadcasters
=24 Gone and Away 29 3 Soaps
=24 Pantomime Pall 29 3 Pantomime Actors
=24 Saturday Night Dead 29 3 Saturday Night Live
=28 death to all but metal and dame shirley bassey 28 3 Rockers and their nan
=28 JOCKS AWAY 28 3 Scots
=28 The Letter “R” Means Death 28 3 Names beginning with R
=28 Waiting For Ugo 28 3 Midlands footballers
32 Animals to the Afterlife 28 2 Animal Names
=33 KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS 27 3 Footballers
=33 Musicians We Lost in 2026 27 3 Musicians
=33 Turning Left 27 3 Racing drivers with at least 1 NASCAR Cup Series start.
36 Old As Dirt 26 4 Centenarians
=37 Fiona’s Reaping the Patricians 26 3 Politicians and Royalty
=37 Ruling the Afterlife 26 3 World Leaders
39 MST3K Massacre 25 4 MST3K subjects
40 House Of Soon To Be With The Lord  24 4 Politicians
=41 And the Nominees are… dead! 24 3 Oscar Nominees
=41 Let the Music Play Just a Little Longer 24 3 Musicians
=41 We’re all Doomed! 24 3 Scots
44 EVIL PILES OF DOG EXCRIMENT 24 1 Criminals
45 Final Adieu 23 4 Names beginning with A
=46 Complications from a fall 23 3 Dictators and other world leaders
=46 Great gig in the sky 23 3 Musicians
=48 Musical Chairs 22 3 Musicians
=48 The Retched pong of Brit sit-com 22 3 British Sitcoms
=50 Rolls Off The Tongue 21 3 Interesting Names
=50 Space Wasters 21 3 Morally Questionable People
52 No More Expenses 20 5 UK MP’s
53 sid and marty coffin 20 3 Sid and Marty Krofft
=54 Buying Max Yasgur’s Farm 20 2 Folkies
=54 Lullabye-bye of Broadway 20 2 Broadway
56 Perfect 10 19 2 People with 10 lettered names.
57 Laugh until… 2026 18 3 Comedians
58 Francis Of Wrestle-Easy 2026 18 2 Wrestling
59 CRT to DOA 18 1 TV presenters
=60 All Death Is Consolation 17 3 Artists
=60 Jane’s Antique Wrinklies 17 3 Old Ladies
=60 Slippery Soap 17 3 Soap Actors
=63 All these moments will be lost 17 2 Sci-fi Actors
=63 Complete Phallusies 17 2 Names with shlong slang in them
=63 Fiona’s Immortals 17 2 Film and TV Personalities
=63 They Think It’s All Over 17 2 Scottish Footballers
=63 You should be Ash – amed 17 2 Convicted and/or Suspected Criminals
68 Big digits team 16 3 Centenarians
=69 Baby Kissers Taking a Big Sleep 16 2 Politicos
=69 Bobbing For Apples 16 2 Bobs and Roberts
=69 If your Mansion House Needs Haunting just call… 16 2 Actors to have played paranormal entities.
=72 Decaying Orbit-uaries 15 2 Space types
=72 Hell to the Chief 15 2 World Leaders
=72 M6 Toll(ed) 15 2 Midlands
=72 Vive la France… et la mort 15 2 The French
=76 Gray Panthers 14 2 Centenarians
=76 Last Christmas 14 2 Christmas-associated celebs
=76 Oldest living footballers 14 2 Take a guess!
79 One Century is Enough, Madam! 14 1 Centenarian women
80 Drop Dead Diva 13 2 Extravagant women
81 Thanks for being a Sport 13 1 Sportspeople
=82 Comedy Cremations 12 2 Comedy Actors
=82 Foreword by The Grim Reaper 12 2 Authors
=82 Last Show Before Bedtime 12 2 70’s BBC Evening TV
=82 Laughing in the Face of Death 12 2 Funny People
=82 Not Going in a Black Cab 12 2 Eastenders
=82 Old Hollywood 12 2 Actors aged 90+
=82 Sad Last Days 12 2 National Enquirer “near death”s
=82 Sickly Senators 12 2 US Senators
=90 Everybody’s Dead Daves 11 2 Daves
=90 Made In Detroit 11 2 Connections to the Motor City
=90 Oscar Strikeouts 11 2 Oscar nominees
=93 Hits Of 1980 And Hits Today 11 1 Hits of 46 Years Ago And Hits Today
=93 Hospital Pass Footballers 11 1 Footballers
=93 Norman Lear and All His Friends 11 1 Norman Lear and actors in his many sitcoms
=93 Trans Girls Hit squad’s hit list 11 1 T*RFs
=97 Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food 10 2 Authors
=97 D Ceased 10 2 Names beginning with D
=97 Dieopics 10 2 Biopic Subjects
=97 God’s Gonna Gettem 10 2 Names beginning with G
=97 Hispanics and Lati-no’s 10 2 Hispanics
=102 Dead Leaders 10 1 World Leaders
=102 Easy Peasy Japanesey 10 1 Japanese People
=102 I Hear Voices 10 1 Voice Actors
=102 Lt. Colonel Kilgore’s Ultimate Surf Party 10 1 Vietnam Figures
=102 Nice! 10 1 Jazz Musicians
=102 Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead 10 1 50s/60s rock and pop
=102 The Fat Lady’s singing… 10 1 Opera
=102 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE 10 1 Actors in TTSS adaptations
110 Ncuti Bang Bang 9 2 Doctor Who
=111 A place in the dirt 9 1 Geographically themed names
=111 Illinoying 9 1 People associated with Illinois
=111 I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together 9 1 Personalities on The Carol Burnett Show
=111 It’s time to meet the music 9 1 Muppet Show Guest Stars
=111 State Funeral 9 1 Heads of State
=111 The Talking Dead 9 1 TV Hosts
=111 There is nothing like a Dame 9 1 Dames, without their boss this time
=118 Come on Karma, Where’s the F@@king Justice 7 1 Evading justice for how long?
=118 Ready For My Closed Lid, Mr. DeMille 7 1 Ladies of Cinema
=118 The Cabinet of the Grim Reaper 7 1 US Cabinet Members
=121 20 Crooners Croakin’ 6 1 Crooners
=121 Apollogies For Still Living 6 1 Astronauts
=121 Forbes’ DL 6 1 Billionaires
=121 Grappling with Mortality 6 1 Wrestlers
=121 MAGA Hit List 6 1 Trump non-fans
=121 Putting Death Over, Brotha! 6 1 Pro Wrestling
=127 Boddies…By ‘eck you smell gorgeous tonight, petal! 5 1 People associated with Manchester
=127 GoodKnight Vienna 5 1 Knights and Dames
=127 Peace, Drugs, and Death 5 1 1960s counterculture figures
=127 Pop Goes the Wurzels 5 1 Popsters
=127 Rushing to Tim Horton’s for Maple Donuts 5 1 Canucks
=127 Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! 5 1 US TV
133 Fireball’s Play Your Cadavers Right 4 1 Gameshow hosts
   …and it’s goodnight from him 0 0 Rons, Ronalds, Ronnies etc.
  2026 Exit Draft 0 0 Sport
  Alright Dave 0 0 A team of Daves
  American As Apple Pie 0 0 Hispanics
  And That’s a Rap 0 0 Rappers
  Armin Meiwes’s Prison Buddies 0 0 Criminals
  ARTHUR’S THEME 0 0 People born on the Day of the Dead
  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
  Cadaverous Mofos 0 0 The Wire
  Can’t Think of a Music Pun 0 0 Musicians
  CLOG POPPERS 0 0 Popsters
  DCAU Demises 0 0 DC Animated Cinematic Universe
  Dead Beats 0 0 Musicians
  Dead Continent 0 0 Asians
  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
  Epstein Island Flight 666 to Hell 0 0 Names in the Epstein files
  Epstein’s Enigmas 0 0 Names in the Epstein files
  Formula Fatality 0 0 F1
  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
  IN THE HOLE! 0 0 Golfers
  IT’S A COP-OUT 2026 0 0 Coppers
  Last of The Summer Winos 0 0 Last of the Summer Wine
  last ones alive 2026 0 0 Last surviving original band members
  Miscreants 0 0 Morally Questionable People
  No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! 0 0 Bond Villains
  Nobel Notables 0 0 Nobel Laureates
  Nonclave 0 0 Papal Candidates
  Once Shaggable, Now Baggable 0 0 Old ladies eyecatching in their heyday
  Passing of the passed 0 0 Celebs the team runner passed by in the street
  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
  Punk is Dead 0 0 Punk Musicians
  Russian Box Players 0 0 Russians
  Scrubber Out 0 0 Pornstars
  She’s a Dead Skate, Charlie Brown 0 0 Ice Skaters
  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.
  St. Peter’s Warblers 0 0 Musicians
  Thank You For The Music 0 0 Musicians
  Thanos Snapped 0 0 MCU Actors
  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 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
  Unpersons 0 0 Big Brother Participants
  Where are all the Garys and Simons? 0 0 Garys and Simons
  Who Goes Before the 5-0 Arrives? 0 0 Under 50’s
  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