Matt Lucas as Daffyd - the only gay in the village - in Little Britain

Answer: All of them have featured in some of the most-read stories on the BBC Wales news website this year.

Proving that news is not always about politicians or governments, BBC Wales' news website looks back at some of the quirkiest, and most popular, stories of the year.

2004 began on a high as visitors to the site read that Pat Griffiths from Abergavenny, had won �8.4m on the lottery.

The newspaper editor, who was more used to writing the headlines than making them, quit work and vowed to spend more time developing her hill farm.

Another person who invested in Wales was actor Neil Morrissey, who extended his property empire in the west Wales town of Laugharne when he bought Brown's Hotel.

Every game should have one...a Subbuteo streaker

The star, who already owned two properties in the village, paid �670,000 at an auction for the pub which is said to have inspired poet Dylan Thomas.

In May, a row blew up when the UK's Eurovision entry, James Fox from Bargoed, south Wales, hit out at political voting after coming 16th in the contest.

With all that tension in the air, a diversion was needed, and it came from an unlikely source - a streaker.

The owners of a mid-Wales shop came up with the idea of the new accessory for football game Subbuteo, and sales of the figures, complete with chasing policemen, really took off.

Staying with bizarre sporting heroes, the mid-Wales town of Llanwrtyd Wells played host to a historic win in June as a man finally beat a horse in one of the UK's strangest races.

Huw Lobb, from London, took home �25,000 - one of the biggest unclaimed prizes in British athletics - after completing the 22-mile course in two hours, five minutes, and 19 seconds.

As summer progressed, two famous faces were spotted among the tourists heading for a break in Wales.

Huw Lobb was the first to beat the horses over a 22-mile course

Indiana Jones and Ally McBeal, aka Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, rented a canal boat in north Wales and even paid a surprise trip to Llangollen's International Eisteddfod.

But they were not the only unusual visitors to make the news.

In August, scientists revealed they thought they may know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.

The 2.75m-long (9ft) creature, now on display in Cardiff, was found near Harlech in 1988, more than 7,500km (4,700 miles) from its birthplace in the West Indies.

BBC Wildlife magazine reported a new study suggesting leatherbacks should be viewed as a UK/Irish species which simply visits the Caribbean to breed.

Wales erased

The European Commission staff who compiled the Eurostat Statistical Compendium found themselves on the rocks on the day the publication appeared in October.

Movie star Harrison Ford enjoyed a north Wales holiday

On the map on the front cover, Wales had been erased and replaced by the Irish Sea.

Needless to say, politicians lined up to criticise the "shocking omission" as Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock described it.

An apology, in the form of "a grovelling letter" sent to First Minister Rhodri Morgan soon followed.

Elsewhere, one of TV sensations of the year was cult comedy series Little Britain, starring David Walliams and Matt Lucas.

In the show, the west Wales village of Llanddewi-Brefi is home to Daffyd, "the only gay in the village".

And when the new series began in October, BBC Wales' news website sent our reporter Carl Yapp to the real Llanddewi-Brefi to find out what villagers made of their recent fame.

Finally, sick budgies, hitchhikers at the wheel and ice scrapers under the accelerator all came into the spotlight in December.

They were all given as excuses given by drivers who were caught speeding in mid and south Wales.

Staff at the Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership compiled the list to make motorists more aware of their speed.