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The 12 Blogs of Christmas: One. The This Time Next Year Game
Welcome to my annual celebration, the Twelve Blogs of Christmas. I'll be posting something hopefully interesting (be it review, comedy, article... stuff) here every day for the next twelve days, and, as those of you who've been around for the last few years will know, there are surprises, celebrity guests, and an increasing sense of desperation. (And look, we've got Laurie Pink providing Paul and Mike cartoons again! I'll make a big fuss of her website tomorrow.) This year, I'll be featuring, among other things: why I hate in-jokes; starstruckness; Skyrim follies and my rules of social networking.
To those who are surprised that this is starting already: it might be an idea to get the Christmas shopping in.
It's great to be able to start with some very happy news. My editor at Tor, the (life changing notes, really, I'll tell you about them tomorrow) very talented Julie Crisp, has just given birth to a baby girl! Aww!
And, in an unabashed rip-off of my Christmas format, Lauren Beukes has decided to (not cash in at all) with her own Recommended Reading Gift Guide to which, in a spirit of selflessness, I've made a contribution.
And here, look to the right, Saucer Country cover and launch date. Click on the cover for the full solicitation.
Anyway, to business. In the past the 12 Blogs have sometimes featured a Very Difficult Quiz, which made people run away screaming. This year, our game is one anybody can play, and to which nobody yet knows the right answers (hopefully). The winner will receive some brilliant prizes (and those who've played quizzes here before know I don't stint on those), including some comics goodies, some Doctor Who freebies, and a signed hardcover edition of my forthcoming novel Cops and Monsters. Yes, that's right, even though it comes out next October. Because we won't know who the winner is until this time next year.
Here's how it works. Below is a list of thirty questions about things that might happen between now and December 13th, 2012. In order to enter, simply post a reply in the Comments section of any of this year's 12 Blogs, with your answers to all 30. (It doesn't matter if you see each other's answers, because everyone starts from a position of ignorance.) Answers posted after midnight GMT on December 24th (that's the end of Christmas Eve), won't count. Hopefully this should be reasonably international, so foreign readers with even a vaguely Anglophile nature shouldn't feel left out. Some of these require pure guesses, with some of them more educated guesswork can narrow it down. A bit. Some internet homework may be needed. You get a point for each correct answer. Please put your name on your entry. I'll announce regular leaderboard points tallies throughout the year, whenever points are scored. My decision is final. Your statutory rights are not affected (because I don't know what those are). Okay, here we go...
1: Name *one* musical act, other than any that took part in (that is, was a contestant in) TV talent show The X Factor, that will have a UK Number One single (on the standard chart the BBC use) between February 1st, 2012 and December 13th, 2012.
2: Who will be the British Prime Minister at midnight on December 12th, 2012?
3: Who will be credited as writer on the last issue of Action Comics that comes out before December 13th, 2012?
4: Name *one* writer (apart from Steven Moffat) who will write a script in the next season of Doctor Who (specials and charity episodes don't count).
5: Will life on another planet (not necessarily intelligent life) be generally regarded by the scientific community as having been discovered before December 13th, 2012?
6: Which book will win Best Novel at the 2012 Hugo Awards?
7: What about Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form at the same Awards?
8: Will any of the 2012 Academy Award (Oscar) nominees for Best Picture be (within a generous description) in the genres of science fiction, fantasy or horror?
9: Name *one* historical figure (apart from H.G. Wells) whose name will be mentioned in a new episode of Warehouse 13 broadcast in the UK before December 13th, 2012.
10: In the three Test Matches played between England and the West Indies in May and June 2012, which England bowler will take the most wickets?
11: Will any more missing episodes of Doctor Who be discovered before December 13th, 2012? (I know some of you are just going to say 'I hope so', but only concrete answers get you points.)
12: Name *one* author with a story in the June 2012 cover dated edition of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
13: Name *one* (with all episodes existing) Doctor Who story that will still not have been released on DVD (in the UK) by December 13th, 2012.
14: Name *one* (new, not reprint) Marvel Essentials volume that will be released (in the USA) between June 1st, 2012 and December 13th, 2012. (You don't have to give a volume number, just name a series.)
15: Which musical act will provide the main title theme song of the 2012 James Bond movie, Skyfall?
16: Will the physics community generally accept (to what they call a 5-sigma level of uncertainty) the discovery of the Higgs Boson before December 13th, 2012?
17: And for that matter, will they, in the same way, before the same date, accept that neutrinos (in that particular well- reported experiment or any other) can travel faster than the speed of light?
18: Name a DC New 52 comic (one of the 52 launched under that banner) that won't have an issue released in August, for whatever reason. ('They'll all have one' is allowed, and what I'd hope for.)
19: Other than The Lizard, name another villain who'll appear in the movie The Amazing Spider-Man. Or will there not be any other?
20: In what month of 2012 will the Archbishop of Canterbury retire? Or not this year at all?
21: Name *one* song performed or heard in Glee in a new episode shown between March 1st 2012 and December 13th, 2012. (Let's go with UK broadcast dates, which are just a couple of days after the US ones.)
22: Of the actors who have played the Doctor (in any medium), who will have the most Twitter followers at midnight on October 1st, 2012? (Genuine accounts only. Anyone within 100 either way gets a point.)
23: And how many Twitter followers will I have at midnight on August 1st, 2012? (Don't be rude, now. Same rule as for question 20.)
24: Which country will top the official medal table at the end of the London Olympic Games in 2012?
25: Will Captain Britain appear in at least a single panel of any new Marvel (US) comic released in September 2012?
26: Who will get the Republican nomination for US President? (Just a name, please, not an essay.)
27: Will Kate Bush release any new music (that is to say, any track that has so far been unreleased) between January 1st 2012 and December 13th, 2012?
28: Will Peter Dinklage's character Tyrion Lannister slap anyone onscreen in Season Two of Game of Thrones?
29: Will the makers of the upcoming (2013) Star Trek movie reveal that the character of Khan will be appearing in that movie before December 13th, 2013?
30: Who will win this year's Boat Race? Oxford or Cambridge? Or will both sink?
And that's it. I suppose it's possible that someone might try and actually alter some of these outcomes in order to win. Frankly, I think that'd be fun. (Good look with the Archbishop.)
On each of the 12 Blogs this year (well, I say each, let's see how it goes), we'll be catching up with a creator and asking what they're doing during the festive season. We start with a Mr Neil Gaiman, who writes:
'I'm flying to Australia with Amanda tomorrow night. She is doing a New Year's Eve gig in Melbourne, then rehearsing and doing a Dresden Dolls tour downunder. I'm giving a talk in Melbourne on Friday (following Tom Stoppard onto the stage: I'll be a one man anticlimax). So I'll be in Melbourne for Xmas, with my friends the Nicholls-Coneys. It will be an awful lot like Tim Minchin's song 'White Wine in the Sun', only with someone else's family instead of my own. But some friends become family, over time. After Xmas, I'll do An Evening With Neil Gaiman in Sydney, with the amazing FourPlay String Quartet, and then rejoin Amanda for her "Trash Masquerade" New Year's Eve Party. It may be something like this...'
Thanks for that, Neil, and I hope you have a lovely time.
'I'm flying to Australia with Amanda tomorrow night. She is doing a New Year's Eve gig in Melbourne, then rehearsing and doing a Dresden Dolls tour downunder. I'm giving a talk in Melbourne on Friday (following Tom Stoppard onto the stage: I'll be a one man anticlimax). So I'll be in Melbourne for Xmas, with my friends the Nicholls-Coneys. It will be an awful lot like Tim Minchin's song 'White Wine in the Sun', only with someone else's family instead of my own. But some friends become family, over time. After Xmas, I'll do An Evening With Neil Gaiman in Sydney, with the amazing FourPlay String Quartet, and then rejoin Amanda for her "Trash Masquerade" New Year's Eve Party. It may be something like this...'
Thanks for that, Neil, and I hope you have a lovely time.
I look forward to the first answers to today's game. Tomorrow, I'll be catching you all up on the more personal details of the year, and looking ahead. Until then, Cheerio!
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Can you clarify "took part in TV talent show X-Factor"? Do you regard Cheryl Cole, or anybody who at some point performed a single on the damned show as "taking part"?
Just did an edit to qualify that: *been a contestant in*. Thanks for seeing that.
1:
Florence and the Machine
2:
Boris Johnson
3:
Alexander Narkiavich
4:
YOU! Paul Cornell
5:
No
6:
Fate of Worlds, by Larry Niven
7:
Fenton
8:
Yes
9:
Define historical. If you mean "dead dude" then:
Abraham Lincoln
(You never said they had to be sci-fi related, and he WAS an inventor!)
10:
Graham Onions
11:
No
12:
Allen M Steele
13:
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
14:
Fantastic Four
15:
Queen
16:
Yes
17:
No
18:
They'll all have one
19:
Does Flash Thompson count?
20:
February
21:
I just called to say I love you- Stevie Wonder
22:
Matt Smith
23:
21212
24:
China
25:
No
26:
Newt Gingrich (ahahahahahahahaha!)
27:
Yes
28:
Yes
29:
No, and I hope you mean 2012
30:
Oxford
Oh my actual cheesus, I finished!
1) Bruno Mars
2)David Cameron
3)Grant Morrison
4) Toby Whithouse
5) No
6) Reamde (Neal Stephenson)
7) The Wedding of River Song
8) no
9)Teddy Roosevelt
10) Chris Tremlett (Oh, don't mock my choice, it's not like I have a clue about the game!)
11) Yes, perhaps as many as 2.
12) Paul Cornell!
13) Ambassadors of Death
14) Essential Daredevil vol. 3
15) Lady Gaga
16) yes
17) no
18) The Savage Hawkman
19)Proto-Goblin
20) He won't.
21) You and I (Lady Gaga's song, not the one recorded by the Monkees, or the one recorded by Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart)
22) Mark Gatiss
23) 19,372
24) USA
25) No
26) Mitt Romney
27) No
28) Repeatedly!
29) Yes
30) Oxford
1: Adele
2: Hopefully someone new to the political scene who tells the truth, but probably Cameron who will attempt to hold on to any vestige of power no matter what happens
3: Who will be credited as writer on the last issue of Action Comics that comes out before December 13th, 2012?
4: Hopefully Neil Gaiman will do another one
5: No
6: Fuzzy Nation
7: Too many to choose from
8: Not unless Avatar 2 comes out tomorrow… and even then Avatar is merely Dances with Wolves… Maybe someone should do Sci-Fi Casablanca…
9: Jules Verne
10: Adil Rashid
11: Yes
12: John Scalzi
13: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
14: Essential Heroes For Hire
15: Adele
16: No
17: No, like the Higgs at best it’ll be Sigma 3 for decades
18: Justice League International
19: The Vulture
20: August
21: Rocket Man during a Guest appearance by William Shatner
22: David Tennant
23: 25k
24: China
25: Probably not, but hopefully he’ll be running the Secret Avengers with Meggan, Pete Wisdom, Venom, War Machine, Ant Man and Black Widow - unless Remender messes up the characterisation and relationships so lovingly crafted in Captain Britain and MI 13
26: Sarah Palin in a surprise result
27: No
28: Yes
29: No
30: Cambridge
Ads
1. Lady Gaga
2. David Cameron
3. Grant Morrison
4. Gareth Roberts
5. I thought it already had. No then.
6. One that hasn't been announced yet.
7. An episode of Doctor Who that we don't yet know about.
8. Yes
9. JFK
11. No.
14. Fantastic Four
16. No
17. No
18. Mister Terrific
19. No, unless you count Flash Thompson.
20. Between mid-August and mid-September (is that fair, given it covers a month's period? If not, then just August)
21. Edge of Glory.
22. Matt Smith. All he has to do is open an account, presto...
23. 19,250.
24. Great Britain!
25. Yes
26. Mitt Romney
27. Yes (but only a B-side)
28. Yes
29. You mean 2012 I take it? No.
30. Oxford
1. Rihanna
2. David Cameron
3. Grant Morrison
4. Gareth Roberts
5. No
6. Embassytown by China Miéville
7. Doctor Who episode
8. Yes
9. JFK
10. –
11. No
12. –
13. –
14. Avengers
15. Adele
16. Yes
17. No
18. They’ll all have one
19. Green Goblin
20. October
21. Edge of Glory- Lady Gaga
22. David Tennant
23. 18k
24. USA
25. Yes
26. Mitt Romney
27. No
28. Yes – hopefully many
29. No
30. Oxford
1: ---
2: David Cameron
3: Grant Morrison
4: Jon Fay
5: no
6: ---
7: ---
8: no
9: Edgar Allen Poe
10: ---
11:Yes; 2 episodes were found just recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16136521
12: ---
13: The Mind of Evil
14: X-men
15: Lady Gaga
16: no
17: no
18: Animal man
19: Green Goblin
20: Not this year
21: Fuck you
22: Colin Baker
23: 500,000
24:Jamacia
25: yes
26:Rick Perry
27: no
28: no
29: yes
30: Cambridge
1. The Wombles (in a surprise post-Christmas revival)
2. David Cameron
3. You
4. Also you.
5. No
6. Reamde
7. No idea, but probably a Doctor Who ep.
8. No
9. Ada Lovelace
10. Not a clue. I couldn't even name one much less say which were good...
11. Yes, and it'll be something from Marco Polo.
12. Adam Christopher
13. Ambassadors of Death
14. Avengers
15. Bloody Coldplay.
16. Yes
17. No
18. Red Hood
19. Rhino
20. Not at all
21. Carry On Wayward Son
22. Colin Baker
23. 1.3 million. (I don't know, I just made that up).
24. USA
25. No
26. Newt Gingrich
27. No
28. I hope so (yes)
29. No
30. Both will sink, but Cambridge will stage a remarkable underwater comeback to cross the line 4 fathoms down.
Ed H
1: Bruno Mars
2: Boris Johnson
3: Brian Clevinger
4: Gareth Roberts
5: No
6: Anomaly: Peter Cawdron
7: Ben 10 Alien Force uhhhhhhh
8: No
9: Jules Verne
10: Kevin Pietersen
11: No
12: Stephen King
13: They will all have been released
14: X-Men
15: Wolfmother
16: No
17: Yes
18: Men Of War
19: Mysterio
20: Not at all
21: Vengeance (The Pact) - Blue Oyster Cult
22: David Tennant
23: 18,459
24: China
25: No
26: Mitt Romney
27: No
28: Yes
29: Yes
30: Oxford
1: Keane. (What? A boy can dream.)
2: David Cameron (A guess based on timing of general elections.)
3: You! (See also #1.)
4: Mark Gatiss.
5: No, but only because these things tend to move very slowly in the scientific community.
6: Catherynne Valente's Deathless.
7: Doctor Who, "Closing Time"
8: Yes.
9: Oscar Wilde.
10: Um. Steven Finn? I know nothing about cricket but I like his name.
11: No.
12: Elizabeth Bear.
13: The Ambassadors of Death.
14: Iron Man.
15: Lady Gaga. (It would be epic!)
16: Yes.
17: No.
18: Catwoman.
19: No proper appearances by others, but they'll set the stage with heavy insinuation for the next film.
20: He'll stay on past the Winter Solstice, just to be sure the world doesn't end. After that, maybe he'll aim for 2013?
21: Aqua, "Barbie Girl."
22: Colin Baker.
23: 20k.
24: USA.
25: Yes.
26: Mitt Romney.
27: Yes.
28: Very yes.
29: No, but the rumor will persist. (Were Ricardo Montalban still alive, my answer would be very different indeed.)
30: Oxford.
(Please note that I don't necessarily endorse some of these answers!)
1: Rihanna
2: David Cameron
3: Grant Morrison
4: Mark Gatiss
5: No
6: Reamde
7: The Doctor's Wife
8: No
9: Tesla
10: Pass
11: No
12: Paul McAuley
13: Death to the Daleks
14: Avengers
15: Trent Reznor
16: No (they'll get close, but not to that level of certainty)
17: No (see above)
18: Justice League
19: Norman Osborn (in cameo)
20: Not retiring
21: Don't Stop Believing
22: Colin Baker
23: 21,000
24: The USA
25: No
26: Romney.
27: No
28: Hopefully, yes.
29: Yes
30: Oxford
1: One Direction
2: David Cameron
3: Alan Moore
4: Jack Thorne
5: No
6: The Islanders - C. Priest
7: The Wedding of River Song
8: No
9: Nikola Tesla
10: James Anderson
11: Yes
12: Connie Willis
13: Terror of the Zygons
14: Captain America
15: Rufus Wainwright
16: No
17: Yes
18: Nightwing
19: No other
20: November
21: Jessie J - Price Tag
22: Colin Baker
23: 23, 196
24: USA
25: No
26: Mitt Romney
27: Yes
28: Yes
29: Yes
30: Oxford
1: Rizzle Kicks
2: David Cameron
3: Grant Morrison
4: Mark Gatiss
5: No
6: Among Others (Jo Walton)
7: The Doctor's Wife (Neil Gaiman)
8: Yes
9: Howard Hughes
10: Graeme Swann
11: No
12: Paul Cornell
13: The Mind of Evil
14: Excalibur
15: Marina and the Diamonds
16: No, only to 3 or 4 sigma
17: Experimentally yes, interpretation will be controversial for a decade at least, involving competing redefinitions of the words 'speed', 'travel', 'faster' and/or 'light'
18: Hawk and Dove
19: Only the Lizard as a super-powered antagonist
20: August
21: Love Will Tear Us Apart
22: David Tennant
23: 15,000
24: The USA
25: yes
26: Gingrich.
27: No
28: Yes
29: Yes
30: Cambridge
1: Lady Gaga.
2: David Cameron.
3: Grant Morrison.
4: Mark Gatiss.
5: No.
6: Miéville's Embassytown
7: 'The Doctor's Wife'
8: No. Unless 'Tree of Life' counts, then Yes.
9: Tesla.
10: James Anderson.
11: No.
12: Paul Cornell.
13: 'The Mind of Evil'
14: Iron Man.
15: Adele.
16: Yes.
17: Yes.
18: 'Hawk and Dice'
19: If Flash counts then yeah.
20: Not this year.
21: Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga.
22: Colin Baker.
23: 17750
24: Which country will top the official medal table at the end of the London Olympic Games in 2012?
25: Yes.
26: Mitt Romney.
27: No.
28: No.
29: No.
30: Cambridge.
1: Rihanna
2: Call me Dave
3: Grant MOrrison? Or has he announced his intention to leave?
4: Mark Gatis
5: No. Though more will accept that it's possible.
6: A Dance with Dragons
7: An episode of Game of Thrones. If forced to say exactly which, episode 8, The Pointy End. It's going to be George's year.
8: At least one will be genre, provided we allow a broad definition. It won't win.
9: Howard Carter. I have no idea what warehouse 13 is...
10: Swann
11: No. Though I hope I drop points here.
12: James Murrow
13: The Mind of Evil
14: Warlock
15: Rihanna
16: No, but they'll be close
17: Definitely not.
18: They will all have one, as a matter of principle. Plenty won't make issue 13 though, OMAC and Voodoo for starters.
19: The Vulture
20: He will remain in office
21: London Calling
22: Matt Smith (given that he's got a higher profile and double @SawBonesHex's current followers)
23: 21,345
24: China to get the most golds again, USA to get most overall medals
25: Yes. A Secret Avengers if no-where else.
26: Romney
27: Sorry, no.
28: You bet he will
29: No. At least I hope not.
30: Oxford
1: Lady Gaga
2: David Cameron
3: Grant Morrison
4: Gareth Roberts
5: No
6: GRR Martin - A Dance with Dragons
7: The Doctor's Wife
8: Yes
9: Tesla
10: James Anderson
11: No
12: Paul Cornell (Bribe's in the mail.)
13: Ambassadors of Death
14: The Amazing Spider-Man
15: Adele
16: Yes
17: No
18: They'll all have one
19: The Green Goblin
20: Not happening
21: Edge of Glory
22: Mark Gatiss
23: 20250
24: China
25: No
26: Mitt Romney
27: No
28: Yes
29: No
30: Oxford
Lee Sailor
Thanks for all these. All carefully noted. Vagueness like 'probably a Doctor Who episode' for the Hugo category won't get you a point, though!
1. Adele
2. David Cameron
3. grant Morrison
4. Tom Macrae
5. No
6. A Dance of Dragons
7. Game Of thrones
8. Yes
9. Edgar Allan Poe
10. James Anderson
11. No
12. Paul Cornell
13. The Mind Of Evil
14. The Avengers
15. Adele
16. Yes
17. yes
18. All Star Western
19. No other
20. Not this year
21. Rolling In The Deep - adele
22. Colin Baker
23. 19,000
24. USA
25. Yes
26. Mitt Romney
27. no
28. Yes
29. Yes
30. Cambridge
That was tough! I did this at work and it felt like work!!
1: Rihanna
2: David Cameron
3: Grant Morrison
4: Mark Gatiss
5: No
6: Zone One by Colson Whitehead
7: The Doctor's Wife
8: Yes (Hugo, probably)
9: Charles Darwin
10: Stuart Broad? I have no idea.
11: No
12: Connie Willis
13: The Ambassadors of Death
14: Daredevil
15: Adele
16: Yes
17: No
18: Resurrection Man
19: Norman Osborn
20: August
21: I’m a Survivor.
22: Tom Baker
23: 24,000
24: USA
25: Yes
26: Romney
27: Yes
28: Yes
29: No
30: Oxford
1: Rihanna
2: David Cameron
3: Grant Morrison
4: Gareth Roberts
5: No
6: Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge
7: The Doctor's Wife
8: Yes
9: Nikola Tesla
10: Chris Tremlett
11: No
12: Robert Reed
13: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
14: Iron Man
15: Rihanna
16: Yes
17: No
18: Men of War
19: No other
20: He won't retire
21: We Found Love - Rihanna
22: Colin Baker
23: 20,000
24: USA
25: No
26: Mitt Romney
27: Yes
28: No
29: No
30: Oxford
1. Rhianna
2. David Cameron
3. Grant Morrison
4. Mark Gatiss
5. No
6. A Dance with Dragons
7. The Doctor's Wife.
8. Yes
9. Edison
10. James Anderson
11. No
12. Paul Cornell
13. Ambassadors of Death
14. The Avengers
15. Lady Gaga
16. No
17. No
18. Justice League International
19. The Green Goblin. (cameo)
20. Not this year
21. Wuthering Heights (I don't believe this one for a second, but it's an amusing thought.)
22. Colin Baker
23. 19,534
24. USA
25. Yes
26. Mitt Romney
27. No
28. Yes
29. No.
30. Cambridge
1. Rebecca Black (please!)
2. David “Fannybaws” Cameron [sad face]
3. Grant Morison (I hope)
4. Mark Gatiss
5. Sadly not, but they might find some microbes on Europa (Its a moon, I’m pedantic)
6 & 7. I know nothing of these “Hugos”
8. or “oscars”
9. Conrad Veidt
10. James Tredwell (I have never knowingly understood a Cricket match, but I do like listening to the radio 4 commentators talking about clouds)
11. The two missing “The Reign of Terror” episodes will be found the day after the reconstructions are finished. The “Invasion” ones might turn up too.
12. Mark Gatiss
13. Ambassadors of Death :(
14. Man Thing vol. 3 (just because I’m puerile and think that “Giant Size Man Thing” is the funniest comic title I’ve ever seen.)
15. Rebecca Black (again, please!)
16. no
17. I hope so (so yes, out of shear optimism)
18. They’ll all have one
19. The Rhino
20. not in 2012
21. Rammstein’s Du Hast
22. Joannah Lumley
23. 18,000
24. Belize
25. …yeah
26. Rod Blagojevich (he’ll switch parties)
27. probably some b sides at very least
28. you lost me at Dinklage what an actor. And yes.
29. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
30. Cambridge (you say this is “reasonably international”? That’s the most middle class English question ever ;) )
1. Lady Gaga
2. David Cameron
3. Grant Morrison
4. Neil Gaiman
5. No
6. Rule 34 by Charles Stross
7. The Doctor's Wife
8. Yes
9. Jules Verne
10. Kevin Pietersen
11. Yes
12. Alan M. Steele
13. The Mind of Evil
14. Thor
15. Lady Gaga
16. No
17. No
18. Mister Terrific
19. No others
20. July
21. The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
22. Matt Smith
23. 22458
24. USA
25. Yes
26. Mitt Romney
27. Yes
28. Yes
29. Yes
30. Cambridge
1 - Rihanna
2 - David Cameron
3 - Grant Morrison
4 - Gareth Roberts
5 - No
6 - Embassytown
7 - The Doctor's Wife
8 - Yes
9 - Tesla
10 - Adil Rashid (I've just copied this from someone else - I actually know the names of No Cricketers. Ahem.)
11 - No, alas.
12 - Mary Robinette Kowal
13 - The Mind of Evil
14 - Avengers
15 - Adele
16 - Yes
17 - No
18 - They'll all have one.
19 - Not be any other.
20 - Not this year.
21 - Born This Way
22 - Mark Gatiss
23 - 18 500
24 - USA
25 - Yes
26 - Romney
27 - Yes
28 - Yes
29 - Yes
30 - Oxford. Though I think it's terribly mean putting a "both sink" option in there as it's so very tempting to choose.
1: GWAR
2: Alan Moore, to begin his thousand-year reign.
3: Joe Casey
4: Geoff Johns
5: Yes
8: Yes, all of them.
9: Tesla
11: Yes
12: Mark Millar
14: ROM: Spaceknight
15: The Roots
16: Yes
17: Yes
18: Justice League, Jim Lee can't be arsed to stop drawing a page just because all the space is filled.
19: Hypno-Hustler
20: March
21: Hitler was a Sensitive Man by Anal Cunt
23: 40000
24: Sealand
25: Yes.
26: Rowdy Roddy Piper
27: Yes
28: Yep.
29: Nope.
30:They will form the boat racing supergroup Camford.
1. Lady Gaga
2. David Cameron, regrettably
3. Si Spurrier
4. Mark Gatiss
5. No
6. Empire State
7. An episode of Fringe.
8. No
9. Richard Nixon
10. Swann
11. Yes – from Zambia
12. Lauren Beukes
13. Terror of the Zygons
14. New Mutants
15. Adele
16. Yes
17. No
18. Batgirl
19. Electro
20. April
21. Santa Baby
22. Tom Baker
23. 18,888
24. USA
25. NO
26. Mitt Romney
27. No, unless remixes of pre-existing tracks count – if they do, then yes
28. Yes
29. No.
30. Cambridge
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR GAME
1: Jesse J
2: David Cameron
3: Paul Cornell
4: Paul Cornell (I really really hope)
5: Nope
6: I Partridge by Alan Partridge
7: Misfits, series 3 final episode
8: Yes (War Horse and Hugo)
9: President Nixon (Until I read this question I'd never heard of Warehouse 13).
10: Sorry, I'm Scottish and therefore do not recognise Cricket as a sport.
11: Nope.
12: Paul Cornell
13: Dimensions In Time, Children In Need Special
14: Ghost Rider 2099
15: Coldplay
16: Yes.
17: No.
18: Frankenstein Agent Of Shade
19: Man-Wolf / John Jonah Jameson
20: June
21: Little Does She Know (originally by the Kursaal Flyers)
22: Colin Baker
23: 22,347
24: USA
25: Yes
26: Mitt Romney
27: No
28: Yes (I have never seen Game Of Thrones)
29: No
30: Oxford
- Kev F
1. Adele
2. David Cameron
3. JMS
4. Toby Whithouse
5. Yes, microbes etc.
6. Something by Neil Gaiman
7. Doctor Who.
8. No.
9. Abe Lincoln
10. Graham Onions
11. No.
12. Max Brooks
13. Terror of the Zygons
14. Essential Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD volume 1.
15. Florence and the Machine
16. Yes.
17. No.
18. Batgirl
19. No other villains.
20. Not retire at all.
21. Pricetag - Jessie J
22. Colin Baker.
23. 18,000
24. USA
25. Yes, Secret Avengers definitely.
26. Michelle Bachmann
27. Yes.
28. Yes.
29. Yes, haven't they already?
30. Cambridge.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Paul!
Cheers,
Dean.
And we're under the wire with minutes to spare I hope.
1: McFly
2: Bloody Cameron
3: Garth Ennis (I know nothing about comics)
4: Toby Whitworth
5: No
6: A Dance With Dragons - Martin
7: The Doctor’s Wife
8: Yes (Hugo probably)
9: Augustus Caesar
10: Graham Swan (we were going to say Draco Malfoy, but apparently that’s not that one’s real name)
11: No
12: Connie Willis
13: The Sensorites
14: Uncanny X-Men
15:Adele
16: Yes
17: No
18: They’ll all have one
19: Silvermane (no, I have no idea whatsoever, I just looked at the Wikipedia list of Spiderman’s enemies and picked the coolest name)
20: Not this year
21: Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
22: Matt Smith
23: 25,000
24: USA
25: Yes
26: Romney
27: No
28: No
29: Yes
30: Oxford
Now back to finish wrapping the kids' stockings