The Teams

12/31/2014: After the draft last night, we ended up with these teams:

Team 1 "Giant Clam"

Taylor Swift {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Count Dracula {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Comet {Business, Science, & Technology}
Giant Clam {Business, Science, & Technology}
Mitch McConnell {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Republican Party (United States) {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Democratic Party (United States) {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Murphy's Law {OTHER}
Eiffel Tower {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
General Motors {Business, Science, & Technology}

Team 2 "Hot Chicks & Jesus"

Reese Witherspoon {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Katy Perry {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Stephen Hawking {Business, Science, & Technology}
Eclipse {Business, Science, & Technology}
Iran {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Fidel Castro {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Mila Kunis {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Angela Merkel {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Jesus {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Moon {Business, Science, & Technology}

Team 3 "50 Shades of Wiki"

Fifty Shades of Grey {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Julianne Moore {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Oculus Rift {Business, Science, & Technology}
ExxonMobil {Business, Science, & Technology}
Kim Jong-Un {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Wichita {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Lithuania {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Antonin Scalia {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Bob Dylan {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}

Team 4 "Farticles"

Jurassic Park {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
American football {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Bank {Business, Science, & Technology}
Netflix {Business, Science, & Technology}
OPEC {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Ruth Bader Ginsburg {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
NPR {OTHER}
Silicon Valley {Business, Science, & Technology}
Barack Obama {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Assassination of John F. Kennedy {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}

Team 5 "E-Cigs in Space"

Benedict Cumberbatch {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Stephen Colbert {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Hydraulic fracturing {Business, Science, & Technology}
Asteroid {Business, Science, & Technology}
Hillary Rodham Clinton {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Israel {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Quantitative easing {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Electronic cigarette {Business, Science, & Technology}
International Space Station {Business, Science, & Technology}
Beck {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}

Team 6 "The Google, The Veto, and the Mr. Mom"

Michael Keaton {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Green Day {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Petroleum {Business, Science, & Technology}
Google {Business, Science, & Technology}
Veto {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Iraq {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Japan {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Clint Eastwood {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Apple Inc. {Business, Science, & Technology}
Eminem {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}

Team 7 "Wiki Wiki What?!"

Chicago Blackhawks {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
NASCAR {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Snow {Business, Science, & Technology}
Tesla Motors {Business, Science, & Technology}
Fox News Channel {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Africa {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Deaths in 2015 {OTHER}
Walmart {Business, Science, & Technology}
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Central Intelligence Agency {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}

Team 8 "D's Asters"

SpongeBob SquarePants {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
Liam Neeson {Arts, Entertainment, and Sports}
El Niño {Business, Science, & Technology}
Koch Industries {Business, Science, & Technology}
John Boehner {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Ebola {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Pope Francis {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Bashar al-Assad {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}
Facebook {Business, Science, & Technology}
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act {Geography, Politics, Religion, and History}

Looks to me like everyone did a good job! Should be interesting to see how it plays out...