# Celebrity Death Pool 2020

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** death-pool\
**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229 "2019-12-01T07:28:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/97 "2019-12-28T14:36:12Z")

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> [@Baker](#):
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> In case anyone wants to know, Alex Trebek has become the first celebrity to hit 20 picks this game!
> 
> Top thirteen are:
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> Alex Trebek 20  
> Jimmy Carter 18  
> Donald Trump 15  
> Prince Phillip 9  
> Ruth Bader Ginsburg 8  
> Olivia Newton John 7  
> Kirk Douglas 6  
> Sam Lloyd 6  
> Betty White 5  
> Bill Cosby 5  
> Queen Elizabeth II 5  
> Sean Connery 5  
> Tommy Chong 5

As **Little Nemo** said a couple of Decembers back,

> [@Celebrity Death Pool 2018](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/131):
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> The problem with picking people this age is that they’ve spend decades not dying and they’ve gotten really good at it.

So keep that in mind, folks, when you put extremely old people like Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Carter, and Betty White on your lists. They’ve all gotten really, really good at making it through another year. 😃

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