Its easy, TIS. This group would be for fun (the one I'm in off the boards costs $20).... everyone submits a list of 50 people. Put a short description by their name. An example is:

Lady Bird Johnson - former First Lady
Phil Rizzuto - baseball player
Tammy Faye Baker - tv evangelist

At the end of the year we total up who had the most correct picks and they win.

Simple.

(Fifty names is hard to come up with... start making a list now of old movie stars, tv personalities, etc., and then add names of famous people that you hear about being sick, etc. By the end of this year you should have 50 names).