This is the eighth Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest. The rules are unchanged from DWRE7.
SHORT RULES
The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your objective is to give an answer that
(1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
0. Give a surname shared by two or more characters (whether or not they happen to be related). Where characters are given only one name, that is assumed to be a first name and not a surname. 1. Give a word which appears before the word "particle" or the word "energy" to describe a fictional phenomenon in the Doctor Who universe. 2. Name a Doctor Who episode which, on its first UK transmission, gained ratings of 10million viewers or more. 3. Name a character who is killed directly as a result of The Doctor's actions. 4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved within that story. 5. Name a person who has been credited as writer on more than four professional, authorised Doctor Who stories in other mediums, but who has never been credited as writer on a television episode of Doctor Who. 6. Name a character who appears onscreen in at least one episode, and is mentioned but does not appear in at least one other. 7. Name a person who has been credited in more than one capacity on episodes of Doctor Who, and who has been credited at least once as either writer or director. For the purposes of this question, writer and script / story editor should be regarded as synonymous. 8. Name a story which was repeated on BBC terrestrial television in a different version to its first broadcast. 9. Name a story which has one or more missing episodes. (An episode is missing if the majority of the footage is not known to exist. Quality of footage known to exist is not a factor.)
LONG RULES
In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 19 January 2007. It is of course essential that nobody sees the answers given by other entrants before the deadline, so please do NOT post your answers here!
If there are fewer than 10 entrants, I may not bother working out who's won, so if this sounds like fun, do encourage others to play.
Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers.
YOUR ATTENTION IS SPECIFICALLY DRAWN TO RULE 3. Please supply the information asked for and only the information asked for. If you supply two answers, I will take the first one. By way of example, in DWRE2 one question read: "Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical doubles. Name one of these doubles". Those who submitted "Romana / Princess Strella" were deemed to have answered "Romana" (the first of two answers given) and this was marked wrong, since I asked for the name of the double, not the name of the regular character. You have been warned.
1. Answers For each of the questions above, your objective is to give an answer that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible. Feel free to use any reference material you like to RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough possible answers for your liking, you are expected to choose on your own which one to submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance: this is meant to be a game of wits.
2. Scoring The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number of people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent. A wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty. This is the median of: - the number of entrants - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer - double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right or wrong) as each other on the question
2.1 More Specific Variants On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else. In that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if the two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant will be scored as if they are the same.
2.2 Scoring Example Say I ask for someone the Doctor has kissed. There are 27 entrants: 19 say "Rose" or "Rose Tyler", 2 say "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler", 4 say "Captain Jack", 1 says "Daphne Ashbrook" and 1 says "Lynda Moss". The 4 people who answered "Captain Jack" get 4 points each. Since "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" is a more specific variant of "Rose Tyler", those who said "Rose Tyler" get 21 points each, and those who said "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" get 2 points each. The Doctor never kissed actress Daphne Ashbrook (although he may have kissed Grace Holloway) nor Lynda Moss, so those answers are both wrong. The persons who gave them both get the penalty score, which is the median of: - number of entrants = 27: - sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6: - double the most popular answer's count = 21 x 2 = 42: or in this case, 27.
3. Entries Entries must be emailed to me personally by email: tomsalin...@googlemail.com. Do NOT post your answers on the the forum! In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization, English usage, or other such matters of form. Sometimes a specific question may imply stricter rules, though. And if you give an answer that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you intended, I will normally take it as written. Once you intentionally submit an answer, no changes will be allowed, unless I decide there was a problem with the question. Similarly, alternate answers within an entry will not be accepted. Only the first answer that you intentionally submit counts.
3.1 Clarifications Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail in this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific answer, and I mustn't do that.) In order to be fair to all entrants, I must insist that requests for clarification must be emailed to me, NOT POSTED in any mailing list. But if you do ask for clarification, I'll probably say that the question is clear enough as posted. If I do decide to clarify or change a question, all entrants will be informed.
3.2 Supporting Information It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information to justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for it if I need to. If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your answers, you are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they are not part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as long as you're clear.
4. Scope Unless a question indicates otherwise, all questions refer to the transmitted episodes of the BBC television series "Doctor Who" in its original run from 1963 to 1989, the TV Movie of 1996 and the current series which began in 2005. Only episodes transmitted at the time of posting (in this case 11 January 2007) are included, and all other Doctor Who related works are excluded. This excludes audio plays, comic strips, spin-offs, TARDISodes, novelisations and probably more.
4.1 "Story" refers to one or more episodes, generally with the same production code, writer and director, which tell a complete tale. For the avoidance of doubt, the list of stories with their correct names is taken to be the list presented on the Outpost Gallifrey Episode Guide, with the exceptions that "Children in Need Special" and any stories listed under "Other Stories" are excluded. "The Trial of a Time Lord" is considered to be an honorary story title, as are the individual episode titles for modern two-parters (which are generally referred to by both episode titles, thus: "The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances").
Anything which is seen only in the "Previously on..." or "Next week on..." segments of the 2005- series is not deemed to be part of that story. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be part of that story.
4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are companions).
4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely referred to in dialogue or implied. If a character is clearly heard to speak, then they, and the actor who played them, are deemed to have "appeared" regardless of whether we see them or not. "Appears with" means that the two characters featured at least once in the same scene, with the exception that a character who appears in a scene only in "flashback" footage shot for a previous episode is not deemed to have "appeared with" any other characters in the scene.
4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth. In the absence of other clear evidence, a character is considered a member of an alien race if they do not look entirely human, or if despite looking human, their planet of birth is not Earth and they are not referred to as human (or it can be shown that they are not accurately referred to as human).
4.5 "Actor" includes both male and female performers, but excludes stunt-people, stand-ins doubling for a credited actor etc. unless the question indicates otherwise. Generally a performer who does not receive a credit is not regarded as an actor.
4.6 Unless otherwise specified, different incarnations of the same character are the same character and will be treated as equivalent answers, and equivalent to specifying
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tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote: > This is the eighth Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest. The rules are > unchanged from DWRE7.
> SHORT RULES
> The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your > objective is to give an answer that
> (1) is correct, and > (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
> ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
> 0. Give a surname shared by two or more characters (whether or not they > happen to be related). Where characters are given only one name, that > is assumed to be a first name and not a surname. > 1. Give a word which appears before the word "particle" or the word > "energy" to describe a fictional phenomenon in the Doctor Who > universe. > 2. Name a Doctor Who episode which, on its first UK transmission, > gained ratings of 10million viewers or more. > 3. Name a character who is killed directly as a result of The > Doctor's actions. > 4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor > Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a > previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved > within that story. > 5. Name a person who has been credited as writer on more than four > professional, authorised Doctor Who stories in other mediums, but who > has never been credited as writer on a television episode of Doctor > Who. > 6. Name a character who appears onscreen in at least one episode, and > is mentioned but does not appear in at least one other. > 7. Name a person who has been credited in more than one capacity on > episodes of Doctor Who, and who has been credited at least once as > either writer or director. For the purposes of this question, writer > and script / story editor should be regarded as synonymous. > 8. Name a story which was repeated on BBC terrestrial television in a > different version to its first broadcast. > 9. Name a story which has one or more missing episodes. (An episode is > missing if the majority of the footage is not known to exist. Quality > of footage known to exist is not a factor.)
> LONG RULES
> In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by > email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 19 January > 2007. It is of course essential that nobody sees the answers given by > other entrants before the deadline, so please do NOT post your answers > here!
> If there are fewer than 10 entrants, I may not bother working out who's > won, so if this sounds like fun, do encourage others to play.
> Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers.
> YOUR ATTENTION IS SPECIFICALLY DRAWN TO RULE 3. Please supply the > information asked for and only the information asked for. If you supply > two answers, I will take the first one. By way of example, in DWRE2 one > question read: "Some regular or recurring characters have met their > identical doubles. Name one of these doubles". Those who submitted > "Romana / Princess Strella" were deemed to have answered > "Romana" (the first of two answers given) and this was marked > wrong, since I asked for the name of the double, not the name of the > regular character. You have been warned.
> 1. Answers > For each of the questions above, your objective is to give an answer > that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people > as possible. Feel free to use any reference material you like to > RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough possible answers > for your liking, you are expected to choose on your own which one to > submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance: this is meant to be > a game of wits.
> 2. Scoring > The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final > score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your > answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number of > people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent. A > wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty. > This is the median of: > - the number of entrants > - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer > - double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right > or wrong) as each other on the question
> 2.1 More Specific Variants > On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer > that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else. In > that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if the > two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant will be > scored as if they are the same.
> 2.2 Scoring Example > Say I ask for someone the Doctor has kissed. There are 27 entrants: 19 > say "Rose" or "Rose Tyler", 2 say "Cassandra in the body of Rose > Tyler", 4 say "Captain Jack", 1 says "Daphne Ashbrook" and 1 says > "Lynda Moss". The 4 people who answered "Captain Jack" get 4 points > each. Since "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" is a more specific > variant of "Rose Tyler", those who said "Rose Tyler" get 21 points > each, and those who said "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" get 2 > points each. The Doctor never kissed actress Daphne Ashbrook (although > he may have kissed Grace Holloway) nor Lynda Moss, so those answers are > both wrong. The persons who gave them both get the penalty score, which > is the median of: > - number of entrants = 27: > - sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6: > - double the most popular answer's count = 21 x 2 = 42: > or in this case, 27.
> 3. Entries > Entries must be emailed to me personally by email: > tomsalin...@googlemail.com. Do NOT post your answers on the the forum! > In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization, > English usage, or other such matters of form. Sometimes a specific > question may imply stricter rules, though. And if you give an answer > that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you > intended, I will normally take it as written. Once you intentionally > submit an answer, no changes will be allowed, unless I decide there was > a problem with the question. Similarly, alternate answers within an > entry will not be accepted. Only the first answer that you > intentionally submit counts.
> 3.1 Clarifications > Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail in > this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be > provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific > answer, and I mustn't do that.) In order to be fair to all entrants, I > must insist that requests for clarification must be emailed to me, NOT > POSTED in any mailing list. But if you do ask for clarification, I'll > probably say that the question is clear enough as posted. If I do > decide to clarify or change a question, all entrants will be informed.
> 3.2 Supporting Information > It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information to > justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for it if I > need to. If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your > answers, you are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they > are not part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as > long as you're clear.
> 4. Scope > Unless a question indicates otherwise, all questions refer to the > transmitted episodes of the BBC television series "Doctor Who" in its > original run from 1963 to 1989, the TV Movie of 1996 and the current > series which began in 2005. Only episodes transmitted at the time of > posting (in this case 11 January 2007) are included, and all other > Doctor Who related works are excluded. This excludes audio plays, comic > strips, spin-offs, TARDISodes, novelisations and probably more.
> 4.1 "Story" refers to one or more episodes, generally with the same > production code, writer and director, which tell a complete tale. For > the avoidance of doubt, the list of stories with their correct names is > taken to be the list presented on the Outpost Gallifrey Episode Guide, > with the exceptions that "Children in Need Special" and any stories > listed under "Other Stories" are excluded. "The Trial of a Time > Lord" is considered to be an honorary story title, as are the > individual episode titles for modern two-parters (which are generally > referred to by both episode titles, thus: "The Empty Child / The > Doctor Dances").
> Anything which is seen only in the "Previously on..." or "Next > week on..." segments of the 2005- series is not deemed to be part of > that story. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be > part of that story.
> 4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two > or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following > all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier > Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers > have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are > companions).
> 4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely > referred to in dialogue or implied. If a character is clearly heard to > speak, then they, and the actor who played them, are deemed to have > "appeared" regardless of whether we see them or not. "Appears with" > means that the two characters featured at least once in the same scene, > with the exception that a character who appears in a scene only in > "flashback" footage shot for a previous episode is not deemed to > have "appeared with" any other characters in the scene.
> 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth. In the absence > of other clear evidence, a character is considered a member of an alien > race if they do not look entirely human, or if despite looking human, > their planet of birth is not Earth and they
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:18:09 -0000, tomsalin...@googlemail.com
<tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Due to popular demand, the deadline has been put off by a further week. > The contest will close at noon on Friday 26 January.
An error in one of the rules has been brought to my attention. I'm not sure when this error occurred, as at least some earlier versions have the correct wording.
--- 4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are companions). ---
In the first sentence, the word "episodes" should read "stories".
I don't believe that any questions in DWRE8 are affected by this error, but if you feel that you would have given a different answer had you seen the correct wording, then send me an email.
<tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is the eighth Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest. The rules are > unchanged from DWRE7.
> SHORT RULES
> The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your > objective is to give an answer that
> (1) is correct, and > (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
> ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
> 0. Give a surname shared by two or more characters (whether or not they > happen to be related). Where characters are given only one name, that > is assumed to be a first name and not a surname. > 1. Give a word which appears before the word "particle" or the word > "energy" to describe a fictional phenomenon in the Doctor Who > universe. > 2. Name a Doctor Who episode which, on its first UK transmission, > gained ratings of 10million viewers or more. > 3. Name a character who is killed directly as a result of The > Doctor's actions. > 4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor > Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a > previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved > within that story. > 5. Name a person who has been credited as writer on more than four > professional, authorised Doctor Who stories in other mediums, but who > has never been credited as writer on a television episode of Doctor > Who. > 6. Name a character who appears onscreen in at least one episode, and > is mentioned but does not appear in at least one other. > 7. Name a person who has been credited in more than one capacity on > episodes of Doctor Who, and who has been credited at least once as > either writer or director. For the purposes of this question, writer > and script / story editor should be regarded as synonymous. > 8. Name a story which was repeated on BBC terrestrial television in a > different version to its first broadcast. > 9. Name a story which has one or more missing episodes. (An episode is > missing if the majority of the footage is not known to exist. Quality > of footage known to exist is not a factor.)
> LONG RULES
> In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by > email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 19 January > 2007. It is of course essential that nobody sees the answers given by > other entrants before the deadline, so please do NOT post your answers > here!
> If there are fewer than 10 entrants, I may not bother working out who's > won, so if this sounds like fun, do encourage others to play.
> Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers.
> YOUR ATTENTION IS SPECIFICALLY DRAWN TO RULE 3. Please supply the > information asked for and only the information asked for. If you supply > two answers, I will take the first one. By way of example, in DWRE2 one > question read: "Some regular or recurring characters have met their > identical doubles. Name one of these doubles". Those who submitted > "Romana / Princess Strella" were deemed to have answered > "Romana" (the first of two answers given) and this was marked > wrong, since I asked for the name of the double, not the name of the > regular character. You have been warned.
> 1. Answers > For each of the questions above, your objective is to give an answer > that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people > as possible. Feel free to use any reference material you like to > RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough possible answers > for your liking, you are expected to choose on your own which one to > submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance: this is meant to be > a game of wits.
> 2. Scoring > The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final > score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your > answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number of > people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent. A > wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty. > This is the median of: > - the number of entrants > - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer > - double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right > or wrong) as each other on the question
> 2.1 More Specific Variants > On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer > that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else. In > that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if the > two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant will be > scored as if they are the same.
> 2.2 Scoring Example > Say I ask for someone the Doctor has kissed. There are 27 entrants: 19 > say "Rose" or "Rose Tyler", 2 say "Cassandra in the body of Rose > Tyler", 4 say "Captain Jack", 1 says "Daphne Ashbrook" and 1 says > "Lynda Moss". The 4 people who answered "Captain Jack" get 4 points > each. Since "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" is a more specific > variant of "Rose Tyler", those who said "Rose Tyler" get 21 points > each, and those who said "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" get 2 > points each. The Doctor never kissed actress Daphne Ashbrook (although > he may have kissed Grace Holloway) nor Lynda Moss, so those answers are > both wrong. The persons who gave them both get the penalty score, which > is the median of: > - number of entrants = 27: > - sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6: > - double the most popular answer's count = 21 x 2 = 42: > or in this case, 27.
> 3. Entries > Entries must be emailed to me personally by email: > tomsalin...@googlemail.com. Do NOT post your answers on the the forum! > In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization, > English usage, or other such matters of form. Sometimes a specific > question may imply stricter rules, though. And if you give an answer > that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you > intended, I will normally take it as written. Once you intentionally > submit an answer, no changes will be allowed, unless I decide there was > a problem with the question. Similarly, alternate answers within an > entry will not be accepted. Only the first answer that you > intentionally submit counts.
> 3.1 Clarifications > Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail in > this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be > provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific > answer, and I mustn't do that.) In order to be fair to all entrants, I > must insist that requests for clarification must be emailed to me, NOT > POSTED in any mailing list. But if you do ask for clarification, I'll > probably say that the question is clear enough as posted. If I do > decide to clarify or change a question, all entrants will be informed.
> 3.2 Supporting Information > It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information to > justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for it if I > need to. If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your > answers, you are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they > are not part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as > long as you're clear.
> 4. Scope > Unless a question indicates otherwise, all questions refer to the > transmitted episodes of the BBC television series "Doctor Who" in its > original run from 1963 to 1989, the TV Movie of 1996 and the current > series which began in 2005. Only episodes transmitted at the time of > posting (in this case 11 January 2007) are included, and all other > Doctor Who related works are excluded. This excludes audio plays, comic > strips, spin-offs, TARDISodes, novelisations and probably more.
> 4.1 "Story" refers to one or more episodes, generally with the same > production code, writer and director, which tell a complete tale. For > the avoidance of doubt, the list of stories with their correct names is > taken to be the list presented on the Outpost Gallifrey Episode Guide, > with the exceptions that "Children in Need Special" and any stories > listed under "Other Stories" are excluded. "The Trial of a Time > Lord" is considered to be an honorary story title, as are the > individual episode titles for modern two-parters (which are generally > referred to by both episode titles, thus: "The Empty Child / The > Doctor Dances").
> Anything which is seen only in the "Previously on..." or "Next > week on..." segments of the 2005- series is not deemed to be part of > that story. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be > part of that story.
> 4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two > or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following > all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier > Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers > have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are > companions).
> 4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely > referred to in
Welcome back! A very small field saw Dave Woodley come out on top with an excellent score of 10! Familiar faces are throughout the top 5, with previous multi-winner Wilf just scraping into the top 10.
DAVE WOODLEY GRAHAM KEELING JONATHAN MORRIS
0 Issigri Rowse Ollis
1 Time Huon Psychic
2 Curse of Peladon 1 The Romans 2 The Romans 1
3 Midge Stor Solon
4 UNIT date The Eye of Harmony is Daleks evolved from K 5 John Peel Peter Anghelides Jonathan Morris
6 Linx Ian Chesterton Queen Victoria
7 Norman Stewart Derrick Sherwin Morris Barry
8 TV Movie The Evil of the Dalek Carnival of Monsters
9 The Savages The Enemy of the Worl The Faceless Ones
To review the scoring: The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number of people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent. A wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty. This is the median of: - the number of entrants - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer - double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right or wrong) as each other on the question
Here is the complete list of answers given. Each list shows correct answers in the order worst to best (most to least popular).
Posting the questions on rec.arts.drwho did not result in any vandalism, so I'll probably post DWRE9 there too. Whether or not there will be a DWRE10 will depend on me thinking of enough questions, and getting a bigger turn-out next time.
0. Give a surname shared by two or more characters (whether or not they happen to be related). Where characters are given only one name, that is assumed to be a first name and not a surname.
3 Briggs (Benjamin, Samantha) 2 Tyler (Jackie, Rose) 2 Maxtible (Theodore and Ruth) 2 Ollis (Mr and Mrs) 1 Blake (Josiah, Ursula) 1 Clanton (Ike, Phineas) 1 Jenkins (The Faceless Ones, The Doctor Dances) 1 Smith (Mickey, Sarah Jane) 1 Williams (Petra, Allison) 1 Wright (Barbara, Pte) 1 Issigri (Dom and Madeline) 1 Jackson (Ben and sailor in Enlightenment) 1 P (Priscilla and Silas) 1 Reynolds (Captain and Superintendent) 1 Rowse (Hilda and Bert) 1 Scarlioni (Count and Countess) 1 Scarman (Lawrence and Marcus) 1 Travers (Prof and Anne) Wrong 1 Seeley 1 Turlough
Four people submitted answers in the form "Fred and Betty Davis". Usually, if a word is asked for, the first word in the answer is deemed to be the answer. Here, I asked for a surname, and so I've - reluctantly - allowed what looks like the surname to stand as the answer.
The entrant who submitted "Polly and Barbara Wright" is therefore deemed to have submitted the answer "Wright" which is correct, since even though Polly's surname was never given on-screen, there was a Private Wright in The Silurians. I'm less convinced about "Vislor and Malkon Turlough" since I don't believe Turlough's brother's full name is ever stated. It may be reasonable to assume that he's called "Malkon Turlough" but in this game, we deal only in what is known, not what can be assumed.
One of the "Tyler"s was "Pete and Pete Tyler" (parallel world) which is unnecessarily ingenious, since "Tyler" is a correct answer in any case.
1. Give a word which appears before the word "particle" or the word "energy" to describe a fictional phenomenon in the Doctor Who universe.
The collision on "Huon" was to be expected, as I suppose was the collision on "artron" - but the double collision on "Mandragora" and "Helix" was a surprise. Note that since I asked for a word, more specific variant scoring does not apply. This was the one question which nobody got wrong.
2. Name a Doctor Who episode which, on its first UK transmission, gained ratings of 10million viewers or more.
2 Curse of Peladon 2 (11m) 2 Rose (10.8m) 2 The Crusade 1 (10.5m) 2 Time Flight 1 (10m) 1 Black Orchid 2 (10.1m) 1 City of Death 3 (15.4m) 1 City of Death 4 (16.1m) 1 Curse of Peladon 1 (10.3m) 1 Daleks Master Plan 3 (10.3m) 1 Day of the Daleks 2 (10.4m) 1 Galaxy 4 3 (11.3m) 1 Masque of Mandragora 4 (10.6m) 1 The Creature from the Pit 3 (10.2m) 1 The Daleks 7 (10.4m) 1 The Rescue 2 (13m) 1 The Romans 1 (13m) 1 The Romans 2 (11.5m) 1 The Time Warrior 4 (10.6m) 1 The Web Planet 1 (13.5m) Wrong 1 City of Death (episode asked for, story given) 1 The Face of Evil (episode asked for, story given)
Easy to research and hard to get wrong, unless you failed to specify a particular episode. I'm not sure what a story gaining ratings of over 10 million would mean, unless it was a single-episode story. Does it mean at least one episode getting over 10 million? More than half its episodes getting over 10 million? The average rating across all episodes being over 10 million?
3. Name a character who is killed directly as a result of The Doctor's actions.
3 Solon 2 Kamelion 1 Cyber Controller 1 Cyberleader 1 Eldrad 1 Goth 1 Graff Vynda-K 1 Mawdryn 1 Midge 1 Monarch 1 Quillam 1 Shockeye 1 Slaar 1 Stor 1 Sutekh Wrong 1 Fibuli (Mentiad's actions) 1 Harrison Chase (tried to kill the Doctor instead of saving himself) 1 Imperial Dalek giving count-down (not named) 1 Pangol's clones (not one person) 1 Sara Kingdom (chooses to return to The Doctor) 1 Stevens (commits suicide) 1 Margaret Slitheen (regressed to an egg, not killed)
What does "directly killed" mean? I take it to mean that there was no opportunity for any one else (including the victim) to intervene. The Doctor takes an action which irrevocably results in the death of another person. I thought Kamelion and Shockeye would sweep the board, but there are a number of other unarguable cases.
In the "no" pile, we find Harrison Chase who pulls the Doctor in to the composting machine after him, rather than climbing out himself. Stevens is freed from mind control by the Doctor (in The Green Death) but then takes his own life.
Mr Fibuli, in The Pirate Planet is killed because The Doctor commands the Mentiads to destroy a piece of equipment. Therefore The Mentiads are the ones directly responsible. They could (in theory) have refused the order. Likewise, Sara Kingdom chose to return to the Doctor and the Time Destructor, thereby bringing about her own death.
4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved within that story.
5 UNIT date 1 51st century has working, practical time machines 1 Dalekanium is an unstable explosive 1 Daleks evolved from Kaleds 1 Name of the Inn Ian remembers 1 Sontarans have extra fingers 1 Spelling of For[e]man 1 TARDIS doors can be safely opened 1 The Eye of Harmony is in the TARDIS 1 The TARDIS is in a state of temporal grace 1 Zoe does/does not know what candles are Wrong 1 Colour schemes of renegade and imperial Daleks 1 Ease of travel between parallel worlds 1 Impossible to see the Big Bang 1 K9 has never spun in circles before 1 Mars was destroyed by the Fendahl 1 McCoy is not the Seventh Doctor 1 Regenerations since Sarah last met The Doctor 1 TARDIS not sucked into void 1 The Doctor is Half Human 1 The Doctor is able to fly the TARDIS (The Time Monster)
No surprise to see the UNIT date error featured prominently here. In fact one entrant who submitted this answer commented "N.B This is possibly the dullest answer ever and will no doubt score highly". Different people phrased it differently, but Mawdryn Undead was always to blame, so these answers have all been taken to be equivalent.
That Sontarans have extra fingers is a contradiction explicitly because they are a cloned race. Other differences between aliens of the same race in different stories can be taken to be natural variation and
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> Wrong > 1 Ian Marter (Target books only) > 1 Nigel Robinson (two original novels only) > 1 Robert Shearman (wrote Dalek)
> Lots of choice here and so a flat field, but I didn't want to tie you > down to a single medium. The big question here was: does adapting > televised stories for Target books reach the standard of "credited as > writer"? After much agonising, I'm going to say "no."
Ok. I always knew it was a risk going for Marter. I should've stuck with my first instinct and gone with John Wagner (DWM comic strips) instead. I would've got third place then...
>> Wrong >> 1 Ian Marter (Target books only) >> 1 Nigel Robinson (two original novels only) >> 1 Robert Shearman (wrote Dalek)
>> Lots of choice here and so a flat field, but I didn't want to tie you >> down to a single medium. The big question here was: does adapting >> televised stories for Target books reach the standard of "credited as >> writer"? After much agonising, I'm going to say "no."
>Ok. I always knew it was a risk going for Marter. I should've stuck >with my first instinct and gone with John Wagner (DWM comic strips) >instead. I would've got third place then...
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Many thanks for the competition - always enjoyable.
I just wanted to comment about the lack of entries - it seems the time allowed for the competition this time was very short (a week?).
Certainly in my case I saw the comp on the day I went on a weeks holiday (no internet!) and by the time I returned it was finished.
Can the comps perhaps run for a bit longer in future to allow for those taking holidays? I think the Xmas period might have been a bit of a special case though, but it might be worth considering.
> 4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor > Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a > previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved > within that story.
> 5 UNIT date > 1 51st century has working, practical time machines > 1 Dalekanium is an unstable explosive > 1 Daleks evolved from Kaleds
What story contradicts the fact that Daleks were evolved from Kaleds?
>> What story contradicts the fact that Daleks were evolved from Kaleds?
>The first one says the Daleks evolved from Dals.
>Cameron
Dals --> Kaleds --> Daleks. -- Member - Liberal International This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Birthdate: 29 Jan 1969 Redhill Surrey England
>>>> What story contradicts the fact that Daleks were evolved from >>>> Kaleds?
>>> The first one says the Daleks evolved from Dals.
>> So Dals are not Kaleds?
>Maybe. Or maybe not. Either way, it's not explained in the story.
Someone forgot to keep an eye on continuity. -- Member - Liberal International This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Birthdate: 29 Jan 1969 Redhill Surrey England
>Hmm, isn't there a contradiction here? The Cyber Controller >and Cyberleader weren't named either, but you marked those as correct.
What about the old Emperor Dalek. -- Member - Liberal International This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Birthdate: 29 Jan 1969 Redhill Surrey England
<tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is the eighth Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest. The rules are > unchanged from DWRE7.
> SHORT RULES
> The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your > objective is to give an answer that
> (1) is correct, and > (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
> ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
> 0. Give a surname shared by two or more characters (whether or not they > happen to be related). Where characters are given only one name, that > is assumed to be a first name and not a surname. > 1. Give a word which appears before the word "particle" or the word > "energy" to describe a fictional phenomenon in the Doctor Who > universe. > 2. Name a Doctor Who episode which, on its first UK transmission, > gained ratings of 10million viewers or more. > 3. Name a character who is killed directly as a result of The > Doctor's actions. > 4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor > Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a > previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved > within that story. > 5. Name a person who has been credited as writer on more than four > professional, authorised Doctor Who stories in other mediums, but who > has never been credited as writer on a television episode of Doctor > Who. > 6. Name a character who appears onscreen in at least one episode, and > is mentioned but does not appear in at least one other. > 7. Name a person who has been credited in more than one capacity on > episodes of Doctor Who, and who has been credited at least once as > either writer or director. For the purposes of this question, writer > and script / story editor should be regarded as synonymous. > 8. Name a story which was repeated on BBC terrestrial television in a > different version to its first broadcast. > 9. Name a story which has one or more missing episodes. (An episode is > missing if the majority of the footage is not known to exist. Quality > of footage known to exist is not a factor.)
> LONG RULES
> In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by > email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 19 January > 2007. It is of course essential that nobody sees the answers given by > other entrants before the deadline, so please do NOT post your answers > here!
> If there are fewer than 10 entrants, I may not bother working out who's > won, so if this sounds like fun, do encourage others to play.
> Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers.
> YOUR ATTENTION IS SPECIFICALLY DRAWN TO RULE 3. Please supply the > information asked for and only the information asked for. If you supply > two answers, I will take the first one. By way of example, in DWRE2 one > question read: "Some regular or recurring characters have met their > identical doubles. Name one of these doubles". Those who submitted > "Romana / Princess Strella" were deemed to have answered > "Romana" (the first of two answers given) and this was marked > wrong, since I asked for the name of the double, not the name of the > regular character. You have been warned.
> 1. Answers > For each of the questions above, your objective is to give an answer > that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people > as possible. Feel free to use any reference material you like to > RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough possible answers > for your liking, you are expected to choose on your own which one to > submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance: this is meant to be > a game of wits.
> 2. Scoring > The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final > score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your > answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number of > people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent. A > wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty. > This is the median of: > - the number of entrants > - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer > - double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right > or wrong) as each other on the question
> 2.1 More Specific Variants > On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer > that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else. In > that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if the > two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant will be > scored as if they are the same.
> 2.2 Scoring Example > Say I ask for someone the Doctor has kissed. There are 27 entrants: 19 > say "Rose" or "Rose Tyler", 2 say "Cassandra in the body of Rose > Tyler", 4 say "Captain Jack", 1 says "Daphne Ashbrook" and 1 says > "Lynda Moss". The 4 people who answered "Captain Jack" get 4 points > each. Since "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" is a more specific > variant of "Rose Tyler", those who said "Rose Tyler" get 21 points > each, and those who said "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" get 2 > points each. The Doctor never kissed actress Daphne Ashbrook (although > he may have kissed Grace Holloway) nor Lynda Moss, so those answers are > both wrong. The persons who gave them both get the penalty score, which > is the median of: > - number of entrants = 27: > - sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6: > - double the most popular answer's count = 21 x 2 = 42: > or in this case, 27.
> 3. Entries > Entries must be emailed to me personally by email: > tomsalin...@googlemail.com. Do NOT post your answers on the the forum! > In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization, > English usage, or other such matters of form. Sometimes a specific > question may imply stricter rules, though. And if you give an answer > that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you > intended, I will normally take it as written. Once you intentionally > submit an answer, no changes will be allowed, unless I decide there was > a problem with the question. Similarly, alternate answers within an > entry will not be accepted. Only the first answer that you > intentionally submit counts.
> 3.1 Clarifications > Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail in > this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be > provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific > answer, and I mustn't do that.) In order to be fair to all entrants, I > must insist that requests for clarification must be emailed to me, NOT > POSTED in any mailing list. But if you do ask for clarification, I'll > probably say that the question is clear enough as posted. If I do > decide to clarify or change a question, all entrants will be informed.
> 3.2 Supporting Information > It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information to > justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for it if I > need to. If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your > answers, you are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they > are not part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as > long as you're clear.
> 4. Scope > Unless a question indicates otherwise, all questions refer to the > transmitted episodes of the BBC television series "Doctor Who" in its > original run from 1963 to 1989, the TV Movie of 1996 and the current > series which began in 2005. Only episodes transmitted at the time of > posting (in this case 11 January 2007) are included, and all other > Doctor Who related works are excluded. This excludes audio plays, comic > strips, spin-offs, TARDISodes, novelisations and probably more.
> 4.1 "Story" refers to one or more episodes, generally with the same > production code, writer and director, which tell a complete tale. For > the avoidance of doubt, the list of stories with their correct names is > taken to be the list presented on the Outpost Gallifrey Episode Guide, > with the exceptions that "Children in Need Special" and any stories > listed under "Other Stories" are excluded. "The Trial of a Time > Lord" is considered to be an honorary story title, as are the > individual episode titles for modern two-parters (which are generally > referred to by both episode titles, thus: "The Empty Child / The > Doctor Dances").
> Anything which is seen only in the "Previously on..." or "Next > week on..." segments of the 2005- series is not deemed to be part of > that story. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be > part of that story.
> 4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two > or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following > all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier > Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers > have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are > companions).
> 4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely > referred to in dialogue or implied. If a character is clearly heard to > speak, then they, and the actor who played them, are deemed to have > "appeared" regardless of whether we see them or not. "Appears with" > means that the two characters featured at least once in the same scene, > with the exception that a character who appears in a scene only in > "flashback" footage shot for a previous episode is not deemed to > have "appeared with" any other characters in the scene.
> 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth. In the absence > of other clear evidence, a character is considered a member of an alien > race if they do not look entirely human, or if despite looking human, > their planet of birth is not Earth and they are not referred to as > human (or it can be shown that they are not accurately referred to
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