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The zombie apocalypse has finally started and you have to survive. You get to have four people in your group of survivors to help out. But the thing about survivors is that you never know who you're going to wind up with.

To figure out who your survivors are, you must go to Wikipedia and hit the "random article" button. The first four PEOPLE to appear are the members of your team, the first place to appear is WHERE you'll be making your stand

For example:
I am making my stand at Milk River in Jamaica with Albert Percy Blesing (Former Australian Politician and farmer), Ivica Dragutinović (A Serbian footballer), Grant Random (American DJ) and Otto Martins Glória (A Brazilian football player)

Here you are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Now, get started!!!

Thiago Quirino, Brazilian football striker
Kim Merritt, former American long distance runner
Chuck Eidson, a profesional basketball player
Philotheus Boehner, a distinguished Franciscan scholar
At the Trairi River in Brazil.
Beat that!

Kept getting dead people, but didn't think they would count - surely they'd be on Team Zombie...

Ended up with this merry bunch;

#1 - Hinderk "Beekiller" Bleker, a Dutch politician
#2 - Júnior full name Manoel de Oliveira da Silva Júnior, a Brazilian footballer currently playing for Greek club Ergotelis
#3 - Rosanne Somerson, an American born woodworker
#4 - Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev, the chairman of the LDPR parliamentary group of the Russian State Duma and the LDPR Youth Organization.
Location - Palkumbura, a village in Sri Lanka

FTW

Giulio Benso, a painter
Navin Lakhumal Hiranandani, a famous surgeon
Germán Alemanno, a Striker
Fred Beasley, an American Football player

Haili, a village in Vihula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.

I got a good team here!

On the Akashi Kaikyo bridge in Japan with:

Marta Figueras-Dotti, retired golfer
Matt Thompson, animator
Gregory H. Williams, 27th President of the University of Cincinnati
Joe J. Plumeri, Chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings

In the scenic village of Pattinarendrapur in Khutahan, Uttar Pradesh India; Myself, Mamoru Mohri (Japanese Astronaut), Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (an apparently Javan noted mechanical engineer), Saint Baudolino (Italian hermit/saint), and abolitionist Jean Lowry Rankin stand against the undead threat. A mechanical enginner and astronaut to gadgeteer, a saint for holy power, and a woman to cook for us; how could we lose?

My Epic stand against the Walking Dead will take place in South Beach Miami and my elite strike force shall be made up of myself,Pierre Bernard (Graphic Designer),Susanne Karsfendt (A Criminology Prof.), Dario Baldauf (An Austrian Football player) and last,but certianly not least... fitness guru Richard Simmons.
...I am so fething dead.

FITZZ wrote: My Epic stand against the Walking Dead will take place in South Beach Miami and my elite strike force shall be made up of myself,Pierre Bernard (Graphic Designer),Susanne Karsfendt (A Criminology Prof.), Dario Baldauf (An Austrian Football player) and last,but certianly not least... fitness guru Richard Simmons.
...I am so fething dead.

Richard simmons fighting zombies. . . .

1. Me
2. Dwight Hoard, Basketball Player
3. Vladamir Putin, a hulk of a president
4. Earl Simmons

In the northern area of Sweden, in a long abandoned castle.

Altgeld Hall, built in 1897 on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, United States, this is where Deadshane and his band of undead killers will create a beacon of light against the darkness of the undead.

My team consists of...

Mark Bowen.

Mark Bowen is an American science writer. He received a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. He is a rock-climber, and a mountain-climber who summited on Mount Kilimanjaro.

R. Kelly
"I wanna piss on you!"


Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967[1]), better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an R&B singer-songwriter, arranger, performer and record producer.[2] Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993 with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of major hit singles including "Bump N' Grind", "Your Body's Callin'", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm a Flirt", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet".

Bailey Jay
"So, you're the last living 'girl'? Well....ok I guess....Don't tell Mark or R.Kelly though, ok? Will it make me gay or weird or something?" -Deadshane in a moment of desperation.

Bailey Jay (born November 5, 1988 in Richmond, Virginia, United States) is a transsexual pornographic actress. In 2011, she won the AVN Award for Transsexual Performer of the Year. She also co-hosts the podcast "Bailey Jay Radio" with her photographer Matthew Terhune.




....better to die now.

1) Eloy Perez (born October 25, 1986, in Rainier, Washington) is a undefeated professional boxer in the Super Featherweight division.

Off to a nice start already.

2) Grady A. Wallace, was an All-American basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Still doing good. No dead weight so far.

3) Alesha Anjanette Dixon (born 7 October 1978)[1] is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model and television personality.

So we're not dealing with a total sausagefest.

4) Catalina Mercedes "Katty" López Samán (born February 27, 1983 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian beauty pageant contestant who won Miss Ecuador 2006. She competed in the third season of the Univision reality series Nuestra Belleza Latina in the United States and came in third place.

And we knock another one out of the park.

And we'll be trying to survive at.... Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. Oh bloody hell. First of all I'm in Cincinnati which is bad enough but now zombies on top of it? Nothing like trying to survive at ground freaking zero.

Oh yeah, sure. The second place to come up is of course in fething paradise.
Afono

And place number three is incredibly defensible. Buzludzha

feth you wikipedia, feth you.

Ok, so I get a real good set of people but a really gakky spot to make our stand.

It appears I'll be making my last stand with a pair of soccer players from Nigeria (Chinedu Ezimora) and South Korea (Moon Ki-Han) along with a Serbian academic (Slobodan Samardžić) and Australian writer (Drusilla Modjeska).

And all of us stuck up in Carlyle, Saskatchewan (population 1,200).

At least we're in a reasonably defensible spot. Although it appears that the zombie apocolypse occurred during the annual Rural Saskatchewan Soccer Tournament and Academic Roundtable.

Truly an unfortunate series of events.

Team:
1. Choi Jong-Hyuk, a South Korean soccer midfielder.
2. Humphrey Attewell, a British trade unionist and politician
3. Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth
4. William Paterson, a Michigan Politician

Location: Port Wakefield Circuit, South Australia

So, somehow I ended up in the Arrondissement de Vire (France), killing zeds with:

Arthur "Ticker" Mitchell - Cricket player
H. Busso Peus - German jurist and politician
John Johnson - American football defensive tackle
Dave Connell - Irish football player (you know, the "other" football :p )

Nothing too exciting.

What is with all the athletes?

My last stand will be in ...... Lasowice Wielkie Agro Lawi ... a village in Poland, with 171 inhabitants.

My mates are:

Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909, Taftville, Connecticut – 14 April 2005, San Francisco) was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory withSamuel Eilenberg.

So a zombie mathematician

Paul Grier Mccorkle (December 19, 1863 - June 2, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.

A zombie politician.

Rasmutis Višinskis (born October 12, 1957) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m event.

a 53 year old russian who played in the water.

Jonathan Schwartz (born in New York City in 1938) is an American radio personality, known for his devotion to traditional pop music

a 73 year old radio guy

..... Feth..... why even try

Location: Gosau Formation, a dinosaur-bearing (how cool is that...) mountain formation in lower Austria

1. Julie Stevens (actress: ,,the avengers")
2. Sami Solanki (swiss astronomer)
3. Aleksandar Kobac (serbian composer; 300 hits)
4. Harold Levine (professor emeritus for mathematics at Stanford University)

Place: Dikhololo, game preerve in south africa

1) André Parmentier (landscape architect)
2) John Hegarty was elected 43rd Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 2001 for a ten-year term.
3) Kieren John Perkins OAM (born August 14, 1973), is a former Australian professional swimmer

4) I give up, after 10 minutes hitting the random button article I still did not come up with the name of a hot chick. Therefore I refuse to contiue with this game because I will not, I will NOT face the end of the world without a hot chick by my side who I can die trying to save.

Location: Stord

Fire Team Bandit will consist of:
1.Myself (of course)
2.Adam Baboulas
3.Sherry Miller
4.Francis Edwin Elwell
5.Joan Horrach

Miller is 60 years old and Elwell died nearly 80 years ago... so I have a good zombie on my team?

My "elite" team and I will be making our stand in the town of Bryncoch, Wales. I guess it's good that I at least have a whole town to work with. So who's in this thing with me?

Hedwig Lachmann - German author, translator and poet. I guess we'll have someone to write about how awesome we are?

Lasairfhíona - Irish singer/songwriter. At least there's a woman in there. Haven't heard any of her stuff, but it can't hurt to have a singer around. Hopefully someone with actual survival skills is coming next.

Pavel Egorov - Russian pianist and scholar. I guess the zombies hit Bryncoch during some sort of arts festival. I'm pretty sure I'm already doomed. Who's my last team member?

Ron Wasserman - Another musician (reads article). Oh! OH! Responsible for composing the theme song to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! YEAH! I'm still doomed, but that is just awesome.

I'll be making my stand in Sefton, a suburb of Bankstown in the state of New South Wales, Australia

I'll be surviving with :
Shobu Kapoor a British actress

Captain Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi the first Saudi woman to become a commercial airline pilot.

Stephen Lord a British actor

Coco Fusco a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer

I think my best bet will be to push ole stevo down a flight of steps, blame some zombies, and get all giggity giggity with the three probably not horribly unattractive women until the zombies inevitably kill us all. Cause not a damned one of us have any real survival skills.

The Place: The Cleddau River in New Zealand

The Team (assuming only people who are alive):
Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz, a German electronic musician - 42 y/o
Daniel Harvey Judah, an American southpaw professional cruiserweight and light heavyweight boxer - 33 y/o
Michael Smith, an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events - 21 y/o
Roswitha Esser, a West German sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won two gold medals in the K-2 500 m event (1964, 1968) - 70 y/o

Team if dead people are allowed:
Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz, a German electronic musician - 42 y/o
Acumenus - Athenian physician - Age at death unknown
Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw MBE, a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong in the Second World War - Deceased at 94
Nicola Fabrizi, an Italian patriot, born at Modena. Fabrizi. Was one of the most militant and dedicated leaders of the Risorgimento, the movement aimed at the unification of Italy - Deceased at 80

and if you could have mythical beings, then this one would be 4th in my original team:
Qandisa (Qandiša) is a female mythological figure in Northern Moroccan mythology. Known in folk tales either as a goddess of lust, or simply as a female demon, she lives in springs and rivers. Qandisa seduces young men and then drives them insane. On the summer solstice, sacrifices are made to her. Qandisa is a possible version of an older goddess such as Astarte.

Looks like my squad and I will be hunkering down at Richmond Airport. How I got to Australia is beyond me. Still, could be worse, even though airports aren't exactly the most fortified positions most of the time, and theres the potential for a large population of travelers become zombies. Still, airports have lots of news stands and restaurants, which means food and basic medical supplies. I'm not sure what security measures they take in Australia, but we'd be able to liberate whatever weapons airport security had.

The first survivor I've got is Joey Waronker who is a drummer. Not good, but not bad either.

I've gotDerek Ufton an ex-cricket player/coach, who by this time is probably 100% geriatric. Were he younger, I'd view him as an asset, but I'd have to worry about his hip breaking probably, so he's more of a liability.

Next up is another athlete, Bernard Brito. Another semi-oldtimer, though he should be able to wield a bat still.

Rounding out the roup is Elgar Howarth who is both old, and a musician, and subsequently useless in this scenario.

Note that I disregarded people who Wikipedia had already confirmed as dead. They'd be on the zombies side, most likely.

This'll be an interesting apocalypse...

I love how all mine bar 1 are relatively young, with one guy a darts champ, and the other a professional boxer. The other is a musician, but she can provide the funky backing music for the slaughter, whilst the 70 year old canoer can sprint down the river to get help etc. etc. (Don't worry, we'll tie a note around her ankle in case she dies during the trip and she finds help (or help finds her).

So other than myself I get paired with:
1) Mark Bayliss (Australian football player)
2) Gina G. Turrigiano (U.S. neuroscientist)
3) Thomas D. Calnan (97 year old English pilot)
4) Wilburn Theodore Cole (Jamaican Ska vocalist)

Our best hopes for survival is for Mrs. Turrigiano to find a cure somehow. The old guy is gonna get eaten methinks, unless he has some awesome war stories then i guess we'll have to keep him alive.

Our hideout is going to be in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Zombies will freeze and become deadest in winter, right?

The Capivara River (Araçuaí River) is a river of Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil. Nicky Tyrone Little (born 13 September 1976) is a rugby union footballer. Philip J. Morrison is an American professor in physics at the University of Texas.Robert Brown (circa 1904 - 1985) was an All-American center who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1923-1925. Nina Arvesen (born May 16, 1961 in White Plains, New York) is an American actress of Norwegian extraction, best known for her performances on American soap operas.

So I have a rugby player, a professor, an actress, and a zombie.

Great.

well i'm making my last stand at Babel a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

With this team

1 - Panda Likoudis - Australian actor
2 - Joshua Lee "Josh" Holloway - American actor
3 - Ervin Katona - leading Serbian strongman competitor
4 - Richard Coates - professor of linguistics



And one if dead people count.

1 - Panda Likoudis - Australian actor
2 - Thomas H. Forsyth - American soldier in the U.S. Army (deceased)
3 - Siegfried Kalischer - A german neurologist (deceased)
4 - Jack Guynn - CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

I need to do it again. I can't find my list of names now, but I do remember some sketchy details. I think I was actually the weakest link unless you consider me the expert since I've read a couple of these zombie threads.

Place - A neuroscience research facility somewhere in Brazil. = probably where it all began and where the answers can be found.

Me - nobody = doesn't look good for me
The "milk shake" lady/singer = the necessary woman to procreate
A professional footballer = the distraction can run circles around the zombies and lead them astray
A biochemist = the one to find a cure
A professional hockey player (I think with the Swiss team) = the fighter

If dead people count:
#1-Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York c. 1355-1392
#2-Aaron Richmond, Performing arts manager
#3-Jim Sillars, Scottish Politician
#4-Sir Percival Jones Griffiths, prominent buisnessmen who worked with the Indian civil service c. 1899-1992.

If not:
#1-Jim Sillars still
#2-Segei Matveyev, Former Russian Olympic rower
#3-Julie Mayer, BBC Radio Leicester broadacster (fitting, since I'm from Leicestershire myself)
#4-Gennadiy Lastuin, Russian Olympic cross country skier.
So, I have some Russian athletes, an ageing politician (from Scotland, mind), and a radio presenter. Great.

I'm making my stand at Whitechapel station in London. How cruelly ironic.

Little lord Fauntleroy wrote:If dead people count:
#1-Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York c. 1355-1392
#2-Aaron Richmond, Performing arts manager
#3-Jim Sillars, Scottish Politician
#4-Sir Percival Jones Griffiths, prominent buisnessmen who worked with the Indian civil service c. 1899-1992.

If not:
#1-Jim Sillars still
#2-Segei Matveyev, Former Russian Olympic rower
#3-Julie Mayer, BBC Radio Leicester broadacster (fitting, since I'm from Leicestershire myself)
#4-Gennadiy Lastuin, Russian Olympic cross country skier.
So, I have some Russian athletes, an ageing politician (from Scotland, mind), and a radio presenter. Great.

I'm making my stand at Whitechapel station in London. How cruelly ironic.

Ooh! I love Whitechapel! Unless you are referring to Jack Ripper, in which case that is very ironic.