# Celebrity Death Pool 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193 "2013-12-01T06:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 64
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1261 "2014-05-20T02:27:10Z")
Quote: (CNN) – Australian motor racing legend Jack Brabham – a three-time Formula One world champion and the only driver to win the title in a car bearing his name – has died aged 88. [http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/sport/...html?hpt=hp\_t2](http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/sport/...html?hpt=hp_t2) A unique pick for BACI, getting them on the board for 12 points. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1262 "2014-05-20T04:47:13Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/sport/motorsport/formula-one-jack-brabham-dead/index.html?hpt=hp\_t2](http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/sport/motorsport/formula-one-jack-brabham-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) 3-time F1 champion — quite impressive. The other 3-time champions are Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, and Jackie Stewart. And the only drivers with more championships are Alain Prost and Sebastian Vittel with 4 each, Juan Manuel Fangio with 5, and Michael Schumacher with 7. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1263 "2014-05-20T16:37:07Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **DeathMistress** I think you should add… > > 1. 0 A biiiiiiiiiiiig buncha luuuuuuuuuuzrrrrrrs!!! > > Hey, it’s my only hope of gettin’ on the score board. 😃 Some way, some how, I would still end up under you. Wait -------- let me rephrase that. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1264 "2014-05-20T18:04:37Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Some way, some how, I would still end up under you. > > Wait -------- let me rephrase that. I’m flattered. Or disturbed. Kind of hard to tell which. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1265 "2014-05-22T19:22:36Z")
[QUOTE=Bullitt] …a name like that was just a wonderment to my eyes and ears. Efrem Zimbalist, junior… [/QUOTE] Old Benny Hill joke: Who had the least imaginative parents? The parents of Efrem Zimbalist _junior_. ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1266 "2014-05-25T20:43:12Z")
General Wojciech Jaruzelski: [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/wojciech-jaruzelski-poland-communist-leader-dies](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/wojciech-jaruzelski-poland-communist-leader-dies) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1267 "2014-05-26T04:17:23Z")
Premislaus and guylevesque each get ten points for the Polish dictator. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1268 "2014-05-26T13:25:39Z")
1 Randy Seltzer 112 2 0 2 Registered at Last 97 2 1 3 Gleena 70 2 0 4 CAMJAY77 61 1 0 4 Captain Klutz 61 1 0 4 Kitten Mitten 61 1 0 7 Cumbrian 55 1 0 8 bowler girl 54 1 1 9 Shaggy Z 51 1 0 10 Premislaus 42 2 1 11 Quartz 40 1 1 12 Fleetwood 39 3 1 13 Fear Itself 38 1 1 14 guylevesque 34 3 0 15 Schnitte 30 2 0 16 The Vorlon 26 1 1 17 SCAdian 25 2 1 18 12543 16 1 0 18 Allecher 16 1 0 18 Bewildebeest 16 1 0 18 Face Intentionally Left Blank 16 1 0 18 Jeep’s Phoenix 16 1 0 18 Mona Lott 16 1 0 18 Oakminster 16 1 0 18 panache45 16 1 0 18 santorum 16 1 0 18 Shirley Ujest 16 1 0 18 smithsb 16 1 0 29 amarinth 15 1 0 29 anyrose 15 1 0 29 arara123 15 1 0 29 Archeonomist 15 1 0 29 ataraxy22 15 1 0 29 critter42 15 1 0 29 imthjckaz 15 1 0 29 jtgain 15 1 0 29 Labtrash 15 1 0 29 MadTheSwine 15 1 0 29 Maus Magill 15 1 0 29 notfrommensa 15 1 0 29 racer72 15 1 0 29 Sami41 15 1 0 29 Sarabellum1976 15 1 0 29 SpazCat 15 1 0 29 Squonk 15 1 0 29 Tazmanian Devil 15 1 0 29 TexCat 15 1 0 29 tim-n-va 15 1 0 49 Invisible Chimp 13 1 1 50 BACI 12 1 1 51 Borborygmi 11 1 1 52 Dung Beetle 9 1 0 52 Kolak of Twilo 9 1 0 52 rucciface 9 1 0 52 Tread 9 1 0 56 Clothilde 7 1 0 56 Dusty Rose 7 1 0 56 Idle Thoughts 7 1 0 56 Spoons 7 1 0 56 vivalostwages 7 1 0 56 WalterMitty 7 1 0 62 Paul Parkhead 6 1 1 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1269 "2014-05-26T15:58:04Z")
Where am I? Oh yeah, next to the goose egg. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1270 "2014-05-26T16:35:40Z")
By this time last year, I think I was in the top twenty – and then no one on my list died for the whole rest of the year. Now, I’m el-zilcho too, so I’m expecting a mass-dropping-dead come the next few months. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1271 "2014-05-26T17:22:41Z")
That’s the spirit! Enough of this shit, I’m hoping for mass deaths too. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1272 "2014-05-27T12:37:37Z")
Long time soap actor [Matthew Cowles](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/25/matthew-cowles-dead_n_5390086.html) dead at 69. He was married to his more famous wife Christine Baranski for 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1273 "2014-05-28T02:10:41Z")
Here’s a Kansas death, of a former US senator. Dr. Bill Roy, one of the few people who have doctorates in both medicine and law. He must have really liked going to school!😃 > **[Former Congressman, Topeka physician Bill Roy dead at 88](https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2014/05/26/former-congressman-topeka-physician-bill-roy-dead-88/16668183007/)** > > William “Bill” Roy, a retired Topeka physician and former Democratic member of Congress, died early Monday at the age of 88. > “He was a kind and gentle person,” said Dan Lykins, a Topeka lawyer and … ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1274 "2014-05-28T13:39:50Z")
Maya Angelou? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1275 "2014-05-28T13:43:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Maya Angelou? [Confirmed](http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/us/maya-angelou-obit/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1276 "2014-05-28T13:48:38Z")
That really saddens me. I started reading Angelou’s works about a year ago. I recommend her to everyone. She is as good as it gets. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1277 "2014-05-28T15:23:51Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > That really saddens me. I started reading Angelou’s works about a year ago. I recommend her to everyone. She is as good as it gets. Why does the caged bird sing? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1278 "2014-05-28T16:52:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why does the caged bird sing? Because someone actually picked up some Death Pool points today? (No, not me, alas. I’m still tied for 63rd.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1279 "2014-05-28T20:21:57Z")
[Malcom Glazer (owner of the Tampa Bay Bucs and Manchester United) passed away](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/billionaire-and-nfl-team-owner-glazer-died-85). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1280 "2014-05-28T20:43:00Z")
With the death of Angelou **Invisible Chimp** moves up to 16th place, and becomes the first player to have more than one unique pick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=65)