tennantsbutterfly
Come on, Richard! Don't keep us in suspense!
Yes, sorry about that. I've been unexpectedly net-less for a week. It's been hell - when I've wanted to know the weather, I've had to
LOOK OUT OF A WINDOW. What manner of barbarian have I become?
Anyway, here's the answers and the lucky winner. Sorry to anyone who missed this quiz. But don't worry. When the new season starts, I'll knit more.
1)Voyage of the Damned's stout-hearted newspaper vendor; What links him to the Daleks and what links him to Donna? ANSWER: Bernard Cribbins plays Tom Campbell in
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., and if you ask me is the best thing in either Cushing movie. He's also playing a recurring part in Season Four of
NewWho, possibly as Donna's grandfather.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: tennantsbutterfly, Ceribri
B) 2) Which (non-telly) companion was born on the day the original Titanic sank?ANSWER: Charley Pollard from the Eighth Doctor audios.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: tennantsbutterfly, Ceribri
3)Why might inhabitants of the planet Zom think this Christmas Special should have been named Voyage of the Cursed? ANSWER: The comic strip in which they featured,
City of the Damned, was renamed 'City of the Cursed' when reprinted for the sensitive eyes of the American market.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: Ceribri
(tennantsbutterfly was
almost there, but didn't mention the Damned/Cursed name change)
4) Counting the TV series and the New Adventures, how many different incarnations of the Doctor were aboard the original Titanic?ANSWER: Three. We know either the first, second, or third was aboard from the Fourth's remark in
Robot, and that the Ninth was from
Rose. The New Adventure
The Left-Handed Hummingbird show the Seventh's doings on the ship.
I always thought it was a shame Jack and Rose never visited, just to cause cinematic confusion.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: tennantsbutterfly
5) Why might an old tutor of the Doctor's raise an eyebrow at this?ANSWER: In
The Invasion of Time then the Fourth Doctor tells Borusa that the sinking of the Titanic had "nothing to do with him". When in fact it looks like the bloody ship was positively crawling with Doctors.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: Nobody.
6) In which year is Voyage of the Damned set?ANSWER: Tricky one this.
The big clue is that the newspaper vendor establishes that
The Runaway Bride and
The Christmas Invasion took place on the previous two Chrimbos. So then you need to work out when
they took place.
Aliens of London/World War Three tells us that Rose first left with the Doctor in early 2005 and has been missing for twelve months. Since that was broadcast in 2005 it means that all the PowellEstateverse-set stories from then on
must be set at least a year later than the point at which they first went out on telly (or otherwise the continuity would explode and Harriet Jones would get removed from high office before she ever took it).
Therefore...
The Christmas Invasion = Christmas 2006
The Runaway Bride = Christmas 2007
Voyage of the Damned = Christmas 2008
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: Nobody. Not that I blame you!
7) "The constellation of Kasterborus", eh? Where would that be in relation to the Galactic Centre?ANSWER: 1001100 by 02.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: tennantsbutterfly, Ceribri
8 ) Where've we seen teleport bracelets like those before, and why would Tom Baker and the Daleks' creator have liked this question to be more relevant than it is?ANSWER: Well, the answer
I was thinking of...
Ship-to-Shore transport by terribly similar looking teleport bracelets was a feature of that
other BBC SF series,
Blake's Seven.
Both Terry Nation and Tom Baker wanted, at different points, to establish that
Doctor Who and
Blake's Seven shared a universe. The former by using the Daleks in a
Blake's Seven season cliffhanger, and the later by having a scene in which the Doctor and Blake ran past each other in a corridor while in the middle of their own separate adventures. Neither happened.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: Well, nobody made the
Blake's Seven connection, but both tennantsbutterfly and Ceribri offered good reasons why the Time Rings from
Genesis of the Daleks sort-of answer the question too. Since that
almost works, I'm giving them both half a point.
9)An allusion in Mr Copper's dialogue makes one tabloid rumour about Season 4 more credible. Which rumour and which allusion?
ANSWER: The line of Copper's is "If you could choose who lived and who died, it would make you a monster" is an inversion of Davros's claim that one able to control the life of death of others would be "set up among the gods". If you read the line as not just summing up the special but as establishing one of the themes of the coming season, then the papers' speculation that Davros will return in the finale suddenly sounds more plausible.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: tennantsbutterfly found the line in question, but read it in connection not to the Davros rumour, but to the rumour that a companion will die. Since that fits just as well, I'm giving a whole point here.
10) What condition is arguably shared by both the Doctor Who characters to have been played by Jessica Martin?ANSWER:Martin's played Mags in
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, who was a werewolf, and now has provided the voice for Elizabeth II, who's suspected of being one.
ANSWERED CORRECTLY BY: tennantsbutterfly, Ceribri
And the Winner Is...tennantsbutterfly, with six and a half points to Ceribri's five and a half.
Pretty close, and very well played both of you. Those questions were horrible. So much so that I'm almost glad I'm still offline for a bit so you can't both beat me to death with virtual sticks.
If you've a postal address you feel is safe to divulge, then PM it my way Ms Butterfly and all 432 mint pages of
AHistory are on thier way to you.
smile Thanks for playing both of you! And if you fancy it, I think I'll be doing another once we've seen
Partners in Crime.
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