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1) How was the Fourth Doctor brought into the orbit of Sarah Lancashire's most famous role by a romantic gesture?

THE ANSWER: Sarah Lancashire's best known for playing Coronation Street's Racquel Watts who had a star named after her. The Fourth Doctor novel The Romance of Crime features this star (though by the 24th century it's come to be known as Rakklewotts)

DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly got that Racquel had been bought a star, so gets half a point.

ANYTHING TO ADD? : The reason for this unofficial micro-crossover was Gareth Roberts writing for both. This sort of thing happened a lot once Who writers all started getting jobs on soaps. Other good examples include a character's plan to open a guest house in the village of Cartmel being refered to as 'the Cartmel Masterplan', and a wheelchair-bound character in (farm-based soap) Emmerdale being given lines of Davros's dialogue during a story about genetically modified crops.





2) Election Special! What concern of Hilary Clinton's does Donna share in this episode ?

THE ANSWER: Where all the bees are going. Clinton's a sponsor of the Pollinator Protection Act which funds research into the declining honey bee population.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly. Somehow. Wow.





3) And why would that matter also be a serious worry to a turquoise jellyfish confronting the Sontarans?

THE ANSWER: The game Destiny of the Doctors reveals that bees are a terible weakness of the Sontarans. At one point the player character, a turquoise jellyfish thing, has to defeat them using a beehive.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly.

ANYTHING TO ADD? :I've not seen The Poison Sky yet, so don't spoil it for me if the world is saved by turquoise jellyfish things brandishing beehives. But somehow I don't think that's on the cards.




4) Look! It's Bernard Cribbins, living legend and voice of the Wombles! But which televised source suggests the Wombles exist in the Whoniverse?

THE ANSWER: The Infinite Quest. The Doctor namechecks Madame Cholet, the Womble chef.


DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly.

ANYTHING TO ADD? : It's nice to see that it's not just the Clanger and Teletubby-loving Master who likes blurring the lines between Doctor Who and other kids shows.





5) Look! It's Bernard Cribbins, living legend and Tom from Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD ! But which two elements originating in the Cushing films have become part of New Who?

THE ANSWER: New series Daleks measure time in 'Rels'. Previously Daleks only did this in the Cushing films.

The Cushing films were also the only place prior to 2005 where the TARDIS doors inside the console room actually looked like the backs of the exterior doors.


DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly, [Swift], Ceribri all had very clever tries, thinking along the lines of humanoid slave races and Daleks having a colour-coded command structure. But sadly that stuff can't count because it was all in the original serials from which the films were adapted rather than being stuff that was first seen in the films.





6) And for that matter, how did an element originating in the Cushing films accidentally become part of a Tom Baker story?

THE ANSWER: I love this one. smile There's a scene in Genesis of the Daleks where the Doctor remembers the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth... or at least there would be, but Terry Nation got the specific details wrong and has him remembering the version of events that happened in the Cushing film rather than the version that happened in the Hartnell serial.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : 'Fraid not.

ANYTHING TO ADD? : Only lots of fan theories to explain this if anyone's interested. smile





7) The scenes where the Doctor and Donna keep almost meeting...and then accidentally avoiding each other at the last second is a set piece borrowed from stage farce. But which was the first ever Doctor Who story to use this joke?

THE ANSWER: The Romans does a more sedate version of the gag with Barbara.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly and [Swift].




8 ) And what was unusual about the way it was used in a Fifth Doctor story?

THE ANSWER: Mawdryn Undead is the story, and the unusual thing is that the two people that do the comedy 'almost-meeting' are in fact time-displaced versions of the same person - the Brigadier.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : No. But I bet you all knew it.






9) OMG, ROSE! And speaking of Roses...what has a large apricot-coloured rose got to do with Doctor Who and the Silurians and what has a bushy rose with white petals (and dramatic pinks bits round the edges) got to do with The Highlanders?

THE ANSWER: Very few Doctor Who actors ever seem to have had varities of rose named after them, but Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Highlanders feature the guys who did. Hannah ('Kirsty') Gordon gets to be the white rose and Fulton ('Dr. Quinn') Mackay gets to be the apricot one.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly got Fulton Mackay, so gets another half-point.

ANYTHING TO ADD? : There's something very wrong with a world in which nobody's ever named a rose after Lalla Ward.






10) Why might Ceres and Eris be slightly affronted by one of Wilf's comments?

THE ANSWER: Wilf claims that Venus is the only planet named after a woman. Even though Ceres and Eris are just dwarf-planets (or former dwarf planets in one case), the goddesses involved would probably think that's close enough for them to take offense.

DID ANYONE GET IT? : tennantsbutterfly, [Swift], Ceribri






The Final Scores...


As I said at the start, these are so horrible that anyone who any of them can hold thier head up high. But here's who got what...

Ceribri - 1
[Swift] - 2
tennantsbutterfly- 6

Katy, I think I speak for us all when I say there's no possible reaction to your research skills here except awesome awe that's jaw-to-the-floor. biggrin

Well done!

*takes a bow* Thank you!

If you do a Fires Of Pompeii one, do you want me to keep away so other people get a chance to win? xd

NEXT QUIZ, PLEASE! xd

Don't worry.
Easy mistake. No arse-ness apparent.

I'm definately going to stick another quiz up at the end of the season, so if the anser to one of those questions turns out to be 'A Comedy of Errors' then you can think of yourself as just having got in early. wink

Didn't do the quiz (and judging by the obscurity of some of the questions, I'm glad I didn't!) but I do remember watching Genesis of the Daleks once and subsequently pointing out to people who probably couldn't care less that when the Doctor mentioned The Dalek Invasion of Earth he said that those events occured in the year 2000, when in actual fact the story was set in 2167.