Top 5 of Everything ... and the occasional Top 10 and Top 15

These are my favourites not necessarily the "best" ...

Sports

Teams
1. Sydney Swans (AFL)
2. Cronulla Sharks (NRL)
3. Liverpool FC (English Premier League)
4. NSW Waratahs (Rugby Union)
5. Hockeyroos

Sports
1. AFL
2. Roller Skating
3. Gymnastics
4. Hockey
5. Swimming

Creative Arts

Books
1. Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
2. Prozac Nation (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
3. Beachmasters (Thea Astley)
4. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
5. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
6. Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
7. Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
8. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
9. Playing Beatie Bow (Ruth Park)
10. Dubliners (James Joyce)

Poetry (pre-1900)
1. I wandered Lonely as a Cloud (William Wordsworth)
2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
3. She Walks in Beauty (George Gordon, Lord Bryon)
4. First Love (John Clare)
5. La Belle Dame sans Merci (John Keats)

Poetry (post 1900)
1. Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
2. What the Chairman Told Tom (Basil Bunting)
3. Tell Me the Truth About Love (W. H. Auden)
4. Sometime During Eternity (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
5. The Ghost in the Martini (Anthony Hecht)
6. Variations on a Theme by Wiliam Carlos Williams (Kenneth Koch)
7. Why I am not a Painter (Frank O'Hara)
8. A Consumer's Report (Peter Porter)
9. I Missed His Book, but I Read his Name (John Updike)
10. Telephone Conversation (Wole Soyinka)
11. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (Craig Raine)
12. Flowers (Wendy Cope)
13. God, a Poem (James Fenton)
14. Persimmons (Li-Young Lee)
15. Resumé (Dorothy Parker)

Art
1. Water Lillies
2. Starry Night
3. The Scream
4. Forest Fires series
5. Sydney at Night

Bands
1. The Offspring
2. Metallica
3. Queen
4. The Beatles
5. Elvis

Songs
1. To Be With You (Mr Big)
2. Who Wants To Live Forever (Queen)
3. Imagine (John Lennon)
4. I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General (Gilbert & Sullivan)
5. Steven's Last Night in Town (Ben Folds Five)

Movies
1. Labyrinth
2. E.T.
3. Lock, Stock and Two Smocking Barrels
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Pulp Fiction

Television Shows
1. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2. Red Dwarf
3. The X-Files
4. QI
5. Dr Who

Movie Actors

Australia / New Zealand
1. Hugh Jackman
2. Sam Neill
3. Russell Crowe
4. Errol Flynn
5. Heath Ledger

Europe
1. John Hannah
2. Ewan McGreggor
3. Vinnie Jones
4. Kenneth Branagh
5. Hugh Grant

North America
1. Al Pacino
2. Harvey Keitel
3. Kevin Spacey
4. John Cusack
5. Oliver Platt

Television Actors

Australia / New Zealand
1. Simon Baker
2. Anthony Lapaglia
3. Daniel McPherson
4. David Wenham
5. Matt Passmore

Europe
1. Tim Roth
2. Robert Carlisle
3. Sam Callis
4. David Tennant
5. John Simm

North America
1. Michael Shanks
2. Gary Sinise
3. Don Johnson
4. David Duchovny
5. Vincent D'Onofrio

Comedians

1. Craig Ferguson
2. Jason Byrne
3. Paul McDermott
4. Eddie Ifft
5. Arj Barker