This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
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 **
THE QUESTIONS
0. Name two companions who met each other in exactly one story
1. Give a word associated with "Doctor Who" which returns 250,000 or more hits from an uncustomised Google search, according to the approximate count given at the top of the first results page.
2. Name a three-word story title which amounts to a concrete noun-phrase describing a person or thing seen in the story. (Definitions: a noun-phrase is one or more words which together function as a noun, such as "long scarf". A concrete noun is one referring to a physical object, such as a scarf, rather than something intangible like an idea.)
3. Give a nickname that one Doctor Who character has used for another.
4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely conceal the performer within.
5. Name an actor who has appeared in speaking, credited roles (and not just as a voice) in four or more separate stories and who has played two or more different characters.
6. Name a character who appeared in exactly one episode of a multi-episode Doctor Who story, and who did not die in that episode.
7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
8. Name a woman who has written or directed an episode of "Doctor Who"
9. Name a story which featured the return appearance of a character not seen during the present or previous season.
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In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 4 August 2006. 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. You can expect an acknowledgement when I read your entry. If this bounces, it won't be sent again.
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 26 July 2006) 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 (http://www.gallifreyone.com/epguide.php), 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 episode. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be part of that episode.
4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two or more consecutive stories. For the avoidance of doubt, the following all have companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers have companion status (Harry Sullivan, Liz Shaw 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.
RULE CHANGE 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.
RULE CHANGE 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 that character without reference to incarnation. In other words, "Romana", "Romana I" and "Romana II" are all the same answer.
5. Judging As moderator, I will be the sole judge of
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tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote: > This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor > rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By > popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
> 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 **
> THE QUESTIONS
> 0. Name two companions who met each other in exactly one story
> 1. Give a word associated with "Doctor Who" which returns 250,000 > or more hits from an uncustomised Google search, according to the > approximate count given at the top of the first results page.
> 2. Name a three-word story title which amounts to a concrete > noun-phrase describing a person or thing seen in the story. > (Definitions: a noun-phrase is one or more words which together > function as a noun, such as "long scarf". A concrete noun is one > referring to a physical object, such as a scarf, rather than something > intangible like an idea.)
> 3. Give a nickname that one Doctor Who character has used for another.
> 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in > costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely > conceal the performer within.
> 5. Name an actor who has appeared in speaking, credited roles (and not > just as a voice) in four or more separate stories and who has played > two or more different characters.
> 6. Name a character who appeared in exactly one episode of a > multi-episode Doctor Who story, and who did not die in that episode.
> 7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose > name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
> 8. Name a woman who has written or directed an episode of "Doctor > Who"
> 9. Name a story which featured the return appearance of a character not > seen during the present or previous season.
> ---
> In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by > email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 4 August 2006. > 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. You can expect an acknowledgement when I > read your entry. If this bounces, it won't be sent again.
> 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 26 July 2006) 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 > (http://www.gallifreyone.com/epguide.php), 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 episode. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be > part of that episode.
> 4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two > or more consecutive stories. For the avoidance of doubt, the following > all have companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier > Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers > have companion status (Harry Sullivan, Liz Shaw 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.
> RULE CHANGE 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth. In > the absence of other clear evidence, a character is considered a member > of
> 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in > costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely > conceal the performer within.
I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
> > 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in > > costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely > > conceal the performer within.
> I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: > does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows > the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
> Michael
I have a similar question....what if the eyes are also covered but you can see the actors cock sticking out?
>> 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in >> costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely >> conceal the performer within.
>I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: >does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows >the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
>Michael
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>>> 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in >>> costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely >>> conceal the performer within. >> I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: >> does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows >> the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
>> Michael
> I have a similar question....what if the eyes are also covered but you can > see the actors cock sticking out?
> VAMBO
Vambo, If you aren't going to have fun THEN DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME REPLYING!!!!! It ruins it for everyone else when a small-minded, petty little man like yourself make comments like that.
> >>> 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in > >>> costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely > >>> conceal the performer within. > >> I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: > >> does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows > >> the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
> >> Michael
> > I have a similar question....what if the eyes are also covered but you can > > see the actors cock sticking out?
> > VAMBO
> Vambo, > If you aren't going to have fun THEN DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME > REPLYING!!!!! It ruins it for everyone else when a small-minded, petty > little man like yourself make comments like that.
Yeah, now that he's said that, nobody can safely suggest the Groiniads from "Doctor Who and the Invisible Codpieces".
-- Remove caps to communicate more easily.
"twat ... bogey nosed newbie" - Steve F "a prize prick ... lol" - FairPlay "another person for the killfile" - DBurns "Another case of evidence I wish to ignore" - The Doctor
>I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when >Hazel got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: >> VAMBO wrote: >> > "Michael Kilpatrick" <mich...@mtkilpatrick.SPAMfsnet.co.uk> wrote in message >> > news:uqOdnTwUu6s1PVXZnZ2dnUVZ8smdnZ2d@pipex.net... >> >> tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> >>> 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in >> >>> costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely >> >>> conceal the performer within. >> >> I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: >> >> does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows >> >> the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
>> >> Michael
>> > I have a similar question....what if the eyes are also covered but you can >> > see the actors cock sticking out?
>> > VAMBO
>> Vambo, >> If you aren't going to have fun THEN DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME >> REPLYING!!!!! It ruins it for everyone else when a small-minded, petty >> little man like yourself make comments like that.
>Yeah, now that he's said that, nobody can safely suggest the Groiniads >from "Doctor Who and the Invisible Codpieces".
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Michael Kilpatrick wrote: > tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > 4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in > > costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely > > conceal the performer within.
> I'm wondering if you could clarify this just to avoid any confusion: > does a costume which completely covers the performer yet which allows > the viewer to see the performer's eyes, and only the eyes, count?
> Michael
Hi Michael
In accordance with the rules, I would prefer it if you would email requests for clarification and not post them here.
In this case, I am satisfied that the question is clear enough as it stands.
> This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor > rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By > popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
> 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.
done! hopefully better than my 27th place last time!
Major ChrisB <cgbrannigan-remo...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
><tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote in message >news:1153922376.092686.250400@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >> This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor >> rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By >> popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
>> 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.
>done! hopefully better than my 27th place last time!
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> In article <sV4zg.31632$my2.14...@fe48.usenetserver.com>, > Major ChrisB <cgbrannigan-remo...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>><tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote in message >>news:1153922376.092686.250400@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >>> This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor >>> rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By >>> popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
>>> 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.
>>done! hopefully better than my 27th place last time!
> As soon as I have time, I my try for better.
beware however, apprently the six doctor refering to Peri as Tits McGhee is not an acceptable answer for number 3
Major ChrisB <cgbrannigan-remo...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>"The Doctor" <doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message >news:eaj4pb$374$4@gallifrey.nk.ca... >> In article <sV4zg.31632$my2.14...@fe48.usenetserver.com>, >> Major ChrisB <cgbrannigan-remo...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>><tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote in message >>>news:1153922376.092686.250400@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >>>> This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor >>>> rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By >>>> popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
>>>> 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.
>>>done! hopefully better than my 27th place last time!
>> As soon as I have time, I my try for better.
>beware however, apprently the six doctor refering to Peri as Tits McGhee is >not an acceptable answer for number 3
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This is the fifth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. By popular demand, this contest once again spans 1963-2006.
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 **
THE QUESTIONS
0. Name two companions who met each other in exactly one story
1. Give a word associated with "Doctor Who" which returns 250,000 or more hits from an uncustomised Google search, according to the approximate count given at the top of the first results page.
2. Name a three-word story title which amounts to a concrete noun-phrase describing a person or thing seen in the story. (Definitions: a noun-phrase is one or more words which together function as a noun, such as "long scarf". A concrete noun is one referring to a physical object, such as a scarf, rather than something intangible like an idea.)
3. Give a nickname that one Doctor Who character has used for another.
4. Name an alien race played (at least at times) by performers in costumes where those costumes have always been designed to completely conceal the performer within.
5. Name an actor who has appeared in speaking, credited roles (and not just as a voice) in four or more separate stories and who has played two or more different characters.
6. Name a character who appeared in exactly one episode of a multi-episode Doctor Who story, and who did not die in that episode.
7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
8. Name a woman who has written or directed an episode of "Doctor Who"
9. Name a story which featured the return appearance of a character not
otherwise seen during that story's season or the previous season.
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In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 4 August 2006.
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. You can expect an acknowledgement when I read your entry. If this bounces, it won't be sent again.
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 26 July 2006) 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 (http://www.gallifreyone.com/epguide.php), 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 episode. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be
part of that episode.
4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two or more consecutive stories. For the avoidance of doubt, the following all have companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers have companion status (Harry Sullivan, Liz Shaw 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.
RULE CHANGE 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.
RULE CHANGE 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 that character without
reference to incarnation. In other words, "Romana", "Romana I" and "Romana II" are all
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38 entrants battled it out this time, with Andrew Hodson achieving a first place score of 400, just pipping John Dorney and Wilf who were joint second with 480.
Here are the top answer slates (slightly abbreviated). Use a monospaced font for proper alignment.
ANDREW HODSON JOHN DORNEY WILF
0 Steven/Sarah Captain Jack/Mickey Tegan/Kamelion 1 Ood Auton Eccleston 2 The Space Museum The Leisure Hive An Unearthly Child 3 Doughnut Chunky My Little Father 4 Plasmatons Arcturans Gastropods 5 Lalla Ward Roy Skelton William Hartnell 6 Empress Griffin Roald 7 The Rod of Rassilon The Game of Rassilon The Const. of Kast. 8 Jane Baker Paddy Russell Mary Ridge 9 Time and the Rani Survival Monster of Peladon
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).
0. Name two companions who met each other in exactly one story
4 Mel/Ace (Dragonfire) 3 Brigadier/Nyssa (Mawdryn Undead) 3 Captain Jack/Mickey (Boom Town) 3 Dodo/Polly (The War Machines) 3 Sarah/Tegan (Five Doctors) 3 Susan/Tegan (The Five Doctors) 3 Turlough/Peri (Planet of Fire) 2 Dodo/Ben (The War Machines) 2 Susan/Turlough (The Five Doctors) 2 Tegan/Kamelion (The King's Demons) 1 Barbara/Steven (The Chase) 1 Brigadier/Ace (Battlefield) 1 Ian/Steven (The Chase) 1 Jamie/Peri (The Two Doctors) 1 K9/Mickey (School Reunion) 1 Sarah/Turlough (The Five Doctors) 1 Steven/Sarah (Dalek Masterplan) 1 Susan/Brigadier (The Five Doctors) 1 Vicki/Katarina (The Myth Makers) Wrong 1 Brigadier/Turlough (met twice)
"Met" was clearly intended to mean "interacted with" and not "encountered for the first time". Nobody tried this second interpretation, although I did get a couple of emails on the subject.
Correct answers to this question fell into two categories: hand-overs and reunions, with The Five Doctors providing a lot of the latter. There were traps however, The Brigadier met Turlough in Mawdryn Undead as well, for example. I also wondered if someone would try The Brigadier and Tegan but no-one did. One entrant claimed that Nyssa and Turlough is a correct answer since they have no scenes together in Terminus but - thankfully - I haven't had to rule on this, since the entrant in question submitted another answer first.
The "obvious" answer of Sarah and Rose was not given by anyone, although School Reunion did provide a right answer in the form of K9/Mickey. K9/Rose and Sarah/Mickey would also have been fine. I am allowing Mickey's companion status (generally thought to have begun at the end of School Reunion) to have retrospective effect, making Jack/Mickey a right answer for Boom Town.
Mel and Ace's handover seems to be fondly remembered, maybe as the last such in the classic series (and in some ways, the last to date) and maybe as a defining scene for the Seventh Doctor.
1. Give a word associated with "Doctor Who" which returns 250,000 or more hits from an uncustomised Google search, according to the approximate count given at the top of the first results page.
Verifying the number of results here was not difficult (nor was getting a good score), but I did have to rule on what constituted "associated with Doctor Who". With 40+ years of history, it is hard to find a word not associated with Doctor Who in some way, and so I have confidently ruled that "Jack" (the entrant was thinking of Captain Jack) and "Lime" (the entrant was thinking of Lime Grove) are not associated with Doctor Who strongly enough to make the grade. Having ruled "Jack" wrong, I was tempted to rule "Polly" wrong as well, but I decided that "Polly" is a regular character in the series, whereas "Jack" was not (it was always "Captain Jack").
The three borderline cases were "Yeti", "Companion" and "Quarks" and after some ruminating, I have let "Companion" and "Yeti" through but ruled "Quarks" wrong. To my mind, they are all just barely associated with Doctor Who, but "Companion" refers to the way the whole series works, and the Yeti were iconic returning monsters, whereas "Quarks" refers to a single story and one that was never part of the series' mythos.
"Target" is wrong on the basis that, unless specified, questions refer to the TV series only.
2. Name a three-word story title which amounts to a concrete noun-phrase describing a person or thing seen in the story. (Definitions: a noun-phrase is one or more words which together function as a noun, such as "long scarf". A concrete noun is one referring to a physical object, such as a scarf, rather than something intangible like an idea.)
5 The Space Museum 3 The Deadly Assassin (i.e. The Master) 2 An Unearthly Child (i.e. Susan) 2 The Celestial Toymaker 2 The Leisure Hive 1 Planet of Giants (i.e. Earth) 1 The Empty Child (i.e. Jamie) 1 The Idiot's Lantern (i.e. a television set) 1 The Invisible Enemy (i.e. the prawn) 1 The Mysterious Planet (i.e. Earth) 1 The Pirate Planet 1 The Time Meddler (i.e. The Monk) Wrong 2 The King's Demons (plural) 2 The Space Pirates (plural) 2 The Two Doctors (plural) 2 The War Machines (plural) 1 Arc of Infinity (abstract) 1 Carnival of Monsters (abstract) 1 The Hand of Fear (4 words) 1 The Happiness Patrol (abstract) 1 The Ice Warriors (plural) 1 The Indestructible Man (books not included) 1 The Sun Makers (plural) 1 The Three Doctors (plural) 1 The Underwater Menace (abstract)
This question received more different wrong answers than any other DWRE question! Apparently, some people stopped reading after "noun-phrase" and failed to spot that I had specified "a person or thing" - singular! Some also ignored the importance of the word "concrete" and submitted abstract nouns such as "The Happiness Patrol" or "Arc of
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> I am fairly convinced that The Dalek Emperor in The Parting of the Ways > is not the one seen to be destroyed in The Evil of the Daleks unless > anyone else knows different. However, I know from DWRE1 that the > Cybercontroller in Attack is the same as the one in Tomb despite their > different appearances.
Tom...I dispute the fact the Dalek Emperoror in POTW is proven to be a different character from Evil. Evil took place long after POTW in the Dalek timeline so it's very possible it IS the same character. Perhaps the Dalek Emperor somehow survived Rose's attack by dimension jumping in the same way as the black Dalek did in Doomsday?
All Im saying is we have seen the Master supposedly "die" many times in the history of the show but yet he always makes a return appearance. Never have we speculated that it wasn't the same Master. The same with Davros. In POTW Eccles Doc appears to actually recognise the Dalek Emperor - even before they were introduced - which makes it seem they have met before at some time...perhaps in Evil of the Daleks.
Unless you can say with certainty that the two empererors are indeed different characters (which I dont think anybody can) then I'd like to campaign for my answer to question 9 to be re-evaluated and my score adjusted accordingly.
> I am fairly convinced that The Dalek Emperor in The Parting of the Ways > is not the one seen to be destroyed in The Evil of the Daleks unless > anyone else knows different. However, I know from DWRE1 that the > Cybercontroller in Attack is the same as the one in Tomb despite their > different appearances.
Tom...I dispute the fact the Dalek Emperoror in POTW is proven to be a different character from Evil. Evil took place long after POTW in the Dalek timeline so it's very possible it IS the same character. Perhaps the Dalek Emperor somehow survived Rose's attack by dimension jumping in the same way as the black Dalek did in Doomsday?
All Im saying is we have seen the Master supposedly "die" many times in the history of the show but yet he always makes a return appearance. Never have we speculated that it wasn't the same Master. The same with Davros. In POTW Eccles Doc appears to actually recognise the Dalek Emperor - even before they were introduced - which makes it seem they have met before at some time...perhaps in Evil of the Daleks.
Unless you can say with certainty that the two empererors are indeed different characters (which I dont think anybody can) then I'd like to campaign for my answer to question 9 to be re-evaluated and my score adjusted accordingly.
I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when tomsalin...@googlemail.com got out a spraycan and scrawled the following:
> 7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose > name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
> Style points (but no actual points) if you avoided the The Five Doctors > drinking game by picking an answer which did not include the word > "Rassilon". Penalty points if your answer is in the form "The > [BLANK] [BLANK] of [BLANK]" or some other such variation.
Hmm... as you've correctly caught me out on other answers by impressive use of pedantry, I'm going to have to complain about this one.
Where did you specify that [BLANK] cannot include spaces?
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"twat ... bogey nosed newbie" - Steve F "a prize prick ... lol" - FairPlay "another person for the killfile" - DBurns "Another case of evidence I wish to ignore" - The Doctor
> > I am fairly convinced that The Dalek Emperor in The Parting of the Ways > > is not the one seen to be destroyed in The Evil of the Daleks unless > > anyone else knows different. However, I know from DWRE1 that the > > Cybercontroller in Attack is the same as the one in Tomb despite their > > different appearances.
> Tom...I dispute the fact the Dalek Emperoror in POTW is proven to be a > different character from Evil. Evil took place long after POTW in the > Dalek timeline so it's very possible it IS the same character. Perhaps > the Dalek Emperor somehow survived Rose's attack by dimension jumping > in the same way as the black Dalek did in Doomsday?
> All Im saying is we have seen the Master supposedly "die" many times in > the history of the show but yet he always makes a return appearance. > Never have we speculated that it wasn't the same Master. The same with > Davros. In POTW Eccles Doc appears to actually recognise the Dalek > Emperor - even before they were introduced - which makes it seem they > have met before at some time...perhaps in Evil of the Daleks.
> Unless you can say with certainty that the two empererors are indeed > different characters (which I dont think anybody can) then I'd like to > campaign for my answer to question 9 to be re-evaluated and my score > adjusted accordingly.
> Bazza
Sorry, bazza, that's not the way it works. You don't get to jump to a conclusion - or worse make some stuff up - and say "it's not contradicted in the series, so it's a right answer". Your answer has got to be unambiguously supported in the series. Is it possible the two Dalek Emperors are one and the same? Yes, but it's nowhere stated. On the other hand, both got destroyed, they look completely different, the Daleks relate to them differently and "Emperor" is a title that could be passed from Dalek to Dalek. Your score remains unchanged.
> I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when > tomsalin...@googlemail.com got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: > > 7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose > > name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
> > Style points (but no actual points) if you avoided the The Five Doctors > > drinking game by picking an answer which did not include the word > > "Rassilon". Penalty points if your answer is in the form "The > > [BLANK] [BLANK] of [BLANK]" or some other such variation.
> Hmm... as you've correctly caught me out on other answers by impressive > use of pedantry, I'm going to have to complain about this one.
> Where did you specify that [BLANK] cannot include spaces?
Did you imagine that whole paragraphs could fill that blank!?
>The Face of Po wrote: >> I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when >> tomsalin...@googlemail.com got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: >> > 7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose >> > name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
>> > Style points (but no actual points) if you avoided the The Five Doctors >> > drinking game by picking an answer which did not include the word >> > "Rassilon". Penalty points if your answer is in the form "The >> > [BLANK] [BLANK] of [BLANK]" or some other such variation.
>> Hmm... as you've correctly caught me out on other answers by impressive >> use of pedantry, I'm going to have to complain about this one.
>> Where did you specify that [BLANK] cannot include spaces?
>Did you imagine that whole paragraphs could fill that blank!?
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> The Face of Po wrote: > > I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when > > tomsalin...@googlemail.com got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: > > > 7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose > > > name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
> > > Style points (but no actual points) if you avoided the The Five Doctors > > > drinking game by picking an answer which did not include the word > > > "Rassilon". Penalty points if your answer is in the form "The > > > [BLANK] [BLANK] of [BLANK]" or some other such variation.
> > Hmm... as you've correctly caught me out on other answers by impressive > > use of pedantry, I'm going to have to complain about this one.
> > Where did you specify that [BLANK] cannot include spaces?
> Did you imagine that whole paragraphs could fill that blank!?
Provided that the whole block of text
(1) was mentioned in the show and (2) was definitely a thing belonging to or associated with the Time Lords
, yes.
What bothers me is that a space most certainly _is_ a kind of "blank" - more so than a letter or number. So I'd initially interpreted [BLANK] as being equivalent to the regular expression ".*", which means "anything except a line-ending", and that would probably rule out paragraphs. But as a "line-ending" is completely different beast in regexps than in TV shows, I suppose another definition has to be sought.
Maybe you could have a question involving scanning, in which [BLANK] should only be one syllable? ;-)
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> I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when > tomsalin...@googlemail.com got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: > > The Face of Po wrote: > > > I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when > > > tomsalin...@googlemail.com got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: > > > > 7. Name anything belonging to or associated with the Time Lords whose > > > > name follows the pattern "The [BLANK] of [BLANK]".
> > > > Style points (but no actual points) if you avoided the The Five Doctors > > > > drinking game by picking an answer which did not include the word > > > > "Rassilon". Penalty points if your answer is in the form "The > > > > [BLANK] [BLANK] of [BLANK]" or some other such variation.
> > > Hmm... as you've correctly caught me out on other answers by impressive > > > use of pedantry, I'm going to have to complain about this one.
> > > Where did you specify that [BLANK] cannot include spaces?
> > Did you imagine that whole paragraphs could fill that blank!?
> Provided that the whole block of text
> (1) was mentioned in the show > and > (2) was definitely a thing belonging to or associated with the Time Lords
> , yes.
> What bothers me is that a space most certainly _is_ a kind of "blank" - > more so than a letter or number. So I'd initially interpreted [BLANK] > as being equivalent to the regular expression ".*", which means > "anything except a line-ending", and that would probably rule out > paragraphs. But as a "line-ending" is completely different beast in > regexps than in TV shows, I suppose another definition has to be sought.
I think you would be safe to assume that an understanding of regular expressions is not required to correctly interpret the meanings of questions in DWRE quizzes.
tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote: > The Face of Po wrote:
>> What bothers me is that a space most certainly _is_ a kind of >> "blank" - more so than a letter or number. So I'd initially >> interpreted [BLANK] as being equivalent to the regular expression >> ".*", which means "anything except a line-ending", and that would >> probably rule out paragraphs. But as a "line-ending" is completely >> different beast in regexps than in TV shows, I suppose another >> definition has to be sought.
> I think you would be safe to assume that an understanding of regular > expressions is not required to correctly interpret the meanings of > questions in DWRE quizzes.
Since we like getting nostalgic about old BBC shows, don't forget what Terry Wogan always used to say on Blankety Blank: 'Remember, although it says Blank on the card, your answer can be Blankety Blank or even Blankety Blanks,' meaning that one, two or three word Blanks were allowed.
That's pretty much become the default rule in fill-the-blank games (well, for anyone of the right generation to have watched that show as a kid, anyway) so you should've told us if you weren't following those rules.
>I think you would be safe to assume that an understanding of regular >expressions is not required to correctly interpret the meanings of >questions in DWRE quizzes.
Exciting times I see.
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