Yeah, we’re sick. So what?

The 2000 game started on January 1st 2000 and ran until December 31st 2000. The winner was Steve Pugh.

The Lists

Steve Pugh

  1. The Queen Mother, 1900, royal
  2. Dame Barbara Cartland, 1901, author Deceased: 21st May 2000
  3. Sir John Gielgud, 1904, actor Deceased: 21st May 2000
  4. Anthony Powell, 1905, novelist Deceased: 28th March 2000
  5. Sir John Mills, 1908, actor
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911, ex-actor
  7. Sir Alec Guinness, 1914, actor Deceased: 5th August 2000
  8. Arthur C. Clarke, 1917, author
  9. Pope John Paul II, 1920, top catholic
  10. Michael Williams, 19??, actor

Paul Stevenson

  1. Hans Bethe, 1906, nuclear physicist, nobel laureate
  2. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1909, actor, statesman Deceased: 7th May 2000
  3. Ronald Reagan, 1911, actor, statesman
  4. Alastair Cooke, 19??, broadcaster
  5. Pope John Paul II, 1920, infallable, but not yet inanimate
  6. Ivor Cutler, 1923, poet laureate of Scotland
  7. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, Drinks Canada Dry
  8. Dudley Moore, 1935, actor, meant to be funny
  9. Vaclav Havel, 1936, poet, playwright, statesman
  10. Ian Dury, 1942, blockhead Deceased: 27th March 2000

Michael Doherty

  1. Queen Mum, 1900, drinks gin by the bucket
  2. Barbara Cartland, 1901, romantic novelist Deceased: 21st May 2000
  3. Bob Hope, 1903, Some nearly dead geezer. Oh, does jokes
  4. Michael Foot, 1913, ex-leader of the Labour Party
  5. Spike Milligan, 1918, comedian
  6. Pope John Paul II, 1920, pontif
  7. Walter Matthau, 1920, actor Deceased: 1st July 2000
  8. Ennio Morricone, 1928, composer
  9. Acker Bilk, 1929?, jazz musician
  10. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, Travelling Vodka Salesman

Andrew Brennand

  1. Bob Hope, 1903, won't spring eternal
  2. Kirk Douglas, 1916, Spartacus!
  3. Pope John Paul II, 1920, he's pope
  4. Sir John Gielgud, 1904, man with bulbous nose, actor Deceased: 21st May 2000
  5. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, most likely dead already
  6. Vaclav Havel, 1936, as Paul says "one lung and a chain smoker"
  7. Mike Yarwood, ????, impressionist painter
  8. Ray Bradbury, 1920, author of Farenheit 451 - but is that hot enough for a cremation?
  9. Charles M Schulz, 1922, curtains for Peanuts Deceased: 12th February 2000
  10. Dudley Moore, 1935, Peter Cook's straightman

Chris Bell

  1. The Queen Mother, 1900, She's got to go sooner or later
  2. General Augusto Pinochet, 1915, If natural causes don't get him, the chair will
  3. Spike Milligan, 1918, Comedian who can't remember his own name
  4. John Glenn, 1921, It could be one space mission too many
  5. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, A popular choice, with good reason
  6. Larry Hagman, 1931, Already on his second liver
  7. Ian Dury, 1942, Blockhead with cancer Deceased: 27th March 2000
  8. Alex Higgins, 1949, Snooker player with throat cancer, apparently
  9. Shane MacGowan, 1957, Singer with a soon to be non-functioning liver
  10. Holly Johnson, 1960, Frankie Goes To AIDS Clinic

Olly Betts

  1. Dame Ninette de Valois, 1898, founder of Royal Ballet
  2. Sir John Gielgud, 1904, Actor and luvvie Deceased: 21st May 2000
  3. Sir George Edwards, 1908, aeronautical engineer
  4. Sir Ernest Gombrich, 1909, historian
  5. Max Perutz, 1914, biologist
  6. The Rev Prof Owen Chadwic, 1916, historian
  7. Prof Francis Crick, 1916, discovered DNA
  8. Sir Andrew Huxley, 1917, noble prize winner
  9. Dame Cicely Saunders, 1918, founded hospice movement
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918, free man