This is the third Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below.
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 a military rank held by a human we have seen.
1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one other character, but who is later seen to be restored to life (but not necessarily perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later in this character's personal timeline.
2. Identify a robot we have seen.
3. Name a person who has contributed to episodes of Doctor Who in at least two different capacities, but who has never appeared in the programme as an actor.
4. Name an actor who has appeared as named members of at least two different alien races. For the purposes of this question, "appeared" does not include voice-only contributions.
5. Name a website, existing before 26 June 2006, for which Doctor Who or some aspect of it, is the whole or major focus.
6. Name a non-fictional person we have seen. Names of actors are not correct answers, unless they are playing themselves.
7. Name a Doctor Who script-editor. A person is a Doctor Who script-editor if they are credited as such on at least one episode.
8. Name a story featuring at least two of the ten official Doctor Who actors in some form.
9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
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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 7 July 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 June 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").
RULE CHANGE: 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 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).
RULE CHANGE: 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 are deemed to have "appeared" regardless of whether we see them or not.
4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth.
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.
5. Judging As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct, and whether two answers with similar meaning are considered the same, different, or more/less specific variants. I will do my best to be fair on all such issues, but sometimes it is necessary to be arbitrary. I may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and it affects the high finishers.
6. Results Results will normally be posted within a few days of the contest closing. They may be delayed if I'm unexpectedly busy or for technical reasons.
> 1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one > other character, but who is later seen to be restored to life (but not > necessarily perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later > in this character's personal timeline.
It has been pointed out to me that "restored to life" could be taken to imply that a genuine resurrection must have taken place, despite my use of the phrase "believed dead".
I am therefore changing the wording of this question, in accordance with rule 3.1 as follows:
1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one other character, but who is later seen to be alive (but not necessarily in perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later in this character's personal timeline.
I do not believe that this affects any answers to this question submitted already.
> This is the third Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor > rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below.
> 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 a military rank held by a human we have seen.
Seargent (Benton)
> 1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one > other character, but who is later seen to be restored to life (but not > necessarily perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later > in this character's personal timeline.
Captain Jack Harknes
> 2. Identify a robot we have seen.
SV7
> 3. Name a person who has contributed to episodes of Doctor Who in at > least two different capacities, but who has never appeared in the > programme as an actor.
David Whitaker
> 4. Name an actor who has appeared as named members of at least two > different alien races. For the purposes of this question, > "appeared" does not include voice-only contributions.
Paul Kasey
> 5. Name a website, existing before 26 June 2006, for which Doctor Who > or some aspect of it, is the whole or major focus.
The Tardis Builders Guild>
> 6. Name a non-fictional person we have seen. Names of actors are not > correct answers, unless they are playing themselves.
King Richard
> 7. Name a Doctor Who script-editor. A person is a Doctor Who > script-editor if they are credited as such on at least one episode.
Dennis Spooner
> 8. Name a story featuring at least two of the ten official Doctor Who > actors in some form.
The Arc of Infinity
> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
> In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by > email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 7 July 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 June 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").
> RULE CHANGE: 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 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).
> RULE CHANGE: 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 are deemed to have "appeared" regardless > of whether we see them or not.
> 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth.
> 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.
> 5. Judging > As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct, and > whether two answers with similar meaning are considered the same, > different, or more/less specific variants. I will do my best to be fair > on all such issues, but sometimes it is necessary to be arbitrary. I > may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and it > affects the
Morbius wrote: > <tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:1151334105.556738.84140@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > > This is the third Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor > > rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below.
> > 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 a military rank held by a human we have seen.
> Seargent (Benton)
> > 1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one > > other character, but who is later seen to be restored to life (but not > > necessarily perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later > > in this character's personal timeline.
> Captain Jack Harknes
> > 2. Identify a robot we have seen.
> SV7
> > 3. Name a person who has contributed to episodes of Doctor Who in at > > least two different capacities, but who has never appeared in the > > programme as an actor.
> David Whitaker
> > 4. Name an actor who has appeared as named members of at least two > > different alien races. For the purposes of this question, > > "appeared" does not include voice-only contributions.
> Paul Kasey
> > 5. Name a website, existing before 26 June 2006, for which Doctor Who > > or some aspect of it, is the whole or major focus.
> The Tardis Builders Guild>
> > 6. Name a non-fictional person we have seen. Names of actors are not > > correct answers, unless they are playing themselves.
> King Richard
> > 7. Name a Doctor Who script-editor. A person is a Doctor Who > > script-editor if they are credited as such on at least one episode.
> Dennis Spooner
> > 8. Name a story featuring at least two of the ten official Doctor Who > > actors in some form.
> The Arc of Infinity
> > 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
> Paul McGann
> > ---
> > In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by > > email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 7 July 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 June 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").
> > RULE CHANGE: 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 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).
> > RULE CHANGE: 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 are deemed to have "appeared" regardless > > of whether we see them or not.
> > 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth.
> > 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
> > You posted the competition! What's the point if you don't want anyone to > > reply with the answers???
> > Morbius
> From original post:
> ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
> hth
Ah. Well he really should have been a bit more clear about that. When you post questions on a newsgroup some people are bound to answer. Not everyone reads all of the small print.
>> > You posted the competition! What's the point if you don't want anyone >> > to >> > reply with the answers???
>> > Morbius
>> From original post:
>> ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
>> hth
> Ah. Well he really should have been a bit more clear about that. When you > post questions on a newsgroup some people are bound to answer. Not > everyone > reads all of the small print.
> Morbius
Well, you'll know for next time.
Perhaps Tom could rename it the DON'T POST ANSWERS HERE contest DPAH3 :)
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> 0. Name a military rank held by a human we have seen.
Lots to choose from! Brigadier, Corporal, Seargent, Lance-Corporal, Captain.
> 1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one > other character, but who is later seen to be restored to life (but not > necessarily perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later > in this character's personal timeline.
Any one of the Doctor's companions could fall into this catagory! You should re-phrase the question.
but I will go for good old Davros
> 2. Identify a robot we have seen.
Mechanoid, Chumblie, VOC robots, Yeti, War Machines, Toymakers robot, Cybermat, Quarks, Mining Robot, K1 (Giant Robot)...the list is huge. You shoulod be more specific! The show spans 43 years!
> 3. Name a person who has contributed to episodes of Doctor Who in at > least two different capacities, but who has never appeared in the > programme as an actor.
Barry Letts?
> 4. Name an actor who has appeared as named members of at least two > different alien races. For the purposes of this question, > "appeared" does not include voice-only contributions.
Michael Wisher
> 5. Name a website, existing before 26 June 2006, for which Doctor Who > or some aspect of it, is the whole or major focus.
Not very hard! Outpost Gallifrey but there are loads!Again..be more specific! How are we to know which one you are thinking of????
> 6. Name a non-fictional person we have seen. Names of actors are not > correct answers, unless they are playing themselves.
Leonardo Da Vinci (City of Death)
> 7. Name a Doctor Who script-editor. A person is a Doctor Who > script-editor if they are credited as such on at least one episode.
You could have any of these....
David Whitaker
Dennis Spooner
Donald Tosh
Gerry Davis
Peter Bryant
Victor Pemberton
Derrick Sherwin
Terrance Dicks
Robert Holmes
Anthony Read
Douglas Adams
Christopher H. Bidmead
Anthony Root
Eric Saward
Andrew Cartmel
Elwen Rowlands
Helen Raynor
Simon Winstone
> 8. Name a story featuring at least two of the ten official Doctor Who > actors in some form.
The Three Doctors, the Two Doctors, The Five Doctors...need I go on ? Way too easy!
> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
Not even worth answering....any fan worth his salt can answer this one!!!!
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Please try harder next time and ask questions with only ONE specific answer!
How are we meant to know what answer your thinking of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Please try harder next time and ask questions with only ONE specific > answer!
> How are we meant to know what answer your thinking of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Dick
Oh no, not another!
Don't post answers here, Dick!
Also the whole point is, there ARE multiple answers and you are supposed to find the one the fewest other people will give.
Read the original post again (not just the questions) and it will all become clear. You'll be surprised just HOW MUCH you missed the point here, and how that could've been avoided by reading.
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The point is explained perfectly clearly, and the instruction not to post answers here is immediately above the questions, indicated by asterisks and capital letters.
I have done my best to make it idiot-proof, but nothing - alas - can be made troll-proof.
> Also the whole point is, there ARE multiple answers and you are supposed to > find the one the fewest other people will give.
> Read the original post again (not just the questions) and it will all become > clear. You'll be surprised just HOW MUCH you missed the point here, and how > that could've been avoided by reading.
I would like to apologise to Tom for wrecking his competition. I didn't fully read the rules and jumped right in at the deep end! Sorry Tom! please don't be dis-heartened and please don't give up! Hopefully the idiots like me amongst us understand now!
> > Also the whole point is, there ARE multiple answers and you are supposed > to > > find the one the fewest other people will give.
> > Read the original post again (not just the questions) and it will all > become > > clear. You'll be surprised just HOW MUCH you missed the point here, and > how > > that could've been avoided by reading.
> I would like to apologise to Tom for wrecking his competition. I didn't > fully read the rules and jumped right in at the deep end! Sorry Tom! please > don't be dis-heartened and please don't give up! Hopefully the idiots like > me amongst us understand now!
> Apologies once more!
> Dick
If its of any help I've tried to recall my post from the news server.
> > Also the whole point is, there ARE multiple answers and you are supposed > to > > find the one the fewest other people will give.
> > Read the original post again (not just the questions) and it will all > become > > clear. You'll be surprised just HOW MUCH you missed the point here, and > how > > that could've been avoided by reading.
> I would like to apologise to Tom for wrecking his competition. I didn't > fully read the rules and jumped right in at the deep end! Sorry Tom! please > don't be dis-heartened and please don't give up! Hopefully the idiots like > me amongst us understand now!
> The point is explained perfectly clearly, and the instruction not to > post answers here is immediately above the questions, indicated by > asterisks and capital letters.
> I have done my best to make it idiot-proof, but nothing - alas - can be > made troll-proof.
> Pity.
> Cheers
> Tom
Sorry Tom won't happen again. I also didn't fully read all of the rules. Please don't give up on this.
> The point is explained perfectly clearly, and the instruction not to > post answers here is immediately above the questions, indicated by > asterisks and capital letters.
> I have done my best to make it idiot-proof, but nothing - alas - can be > made troll-proof.
> Pity.
> Cheers
> Tom
If you (or someone) ever did decide to do anothe of these, it might be an idea to not post the questions here, but email the questions to those who request them? Trouble is that's more work, but might cut down the accidents and carelessness.
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Marnok.com wrote: > <tomsalin...@googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:1151401317.421469.133460@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > > The point is explained perfectly clearly, and the instruction not to > > post answers here is immediately above the questions, indicated by > > asterisks and capital letters.
> > I have done my best to make it idiot-proof, but nothing - alas - can be > > made troll-proof.
> > Pity.
> > Cheers
> > Tom
> If you (or someone) ever did decide to do anothe of these, it might be an > idea to not post the questions here, but email the questions to those who > request them? Trouble is that's more work, but might cut down the accidents > and carelessness.
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> This is the third Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor > rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below.
> 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 a military rank held by a human we have seen.
> 1. Name a character who at some time is believed dead by at least one > other character, but who is later seen to be restored to life (but not > necessarily perfect health). "Later" should be taken to mean later > in this character's personal timeline.
> 2. Identify a robot we have seen.
> 3. Name a person who has contributed to episodes of Doctor Who in at > least two different capacities, but who has never appeared in the > programme as an actor.
> 4. Name an actor who has appeared as named members of at least two > different alien races. For the purposes of this question, > "appeared" does not include voice-only contributions.
> 5. Name a website, existing before 26 June 2006, for which Doctor Who > or some aspect of it, is the whole or major focus.
> 6. Name a non-fictional person we have seen. Names of actors are not > correct answers, unless they are playing themselves.
Clarrification on this question please. Some people have responded with non-fictional characters played by actors. Do you mean a person appearing who plays themself?
> 7. Name a Doctor Who script-editor. A person is a Doctor Who > script-editor if they are credited as such on at least one episode.
> 8. Name a story featuring at least two of the ten official Doctor Who > actors in some form.
> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
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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 7 July 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 June 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").
> RULE CHANGE: 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 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).
> RULE CHANGE: 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 are deemed to have "appeared" regardless > of whether we see them or not.
> 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth.
> 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.
> 5. Judging > As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct, and > whether two answers with similar meaning are considered the same, > different, or more/less specific variants. I will do my best to be fair > on all such issues, but sometimes it is necessary to be arbitrary. I > may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and it
> > ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST > > ANSWERS HERE **
> Ah. Well he really should have been a bit more clear about that. When > you post questions on a newsgroup some people are bound to answer. > Not everyone reads all of the small print.
Small print? A headline in capital letters highlighted by asterisks is small print? You're joking, right?
"dick stagg" <gre...@freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > 7. Name a Doctor Who script-editor. A person is a Doctor > > Who script-editor if they are credited as such on at least one > > episode.
> You could have any of these....
> David Whitaker > Dennis Spooner > Donald Tosh > Gerry Davis > Peter Bryant > Victor Pemberton > Derrick Sherwin > Terrance Dicks > Robert Holmes > Anthony Read > Douglas Adams > Christopher H. Bidmead > Anthony Root > Eric Saward > Andrew Cartmel > Elwen Rowlands > Helen Raynor > Simon Winstone
No. Some of those weren't _credited_ as script editor even though they did edit scripts.
>> > You posted the competition! What's the point if you don't want anyone to >> > reply with the answers???
>> > Morbius
>> From original post:
>> ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
>> hth
>Ah. Well he really should have been a bit more clear about that. When you >post questions on a newsgroup some people are bound to answer. Not everyone >reads all of the small print.
In a contest, no answers posted from other posters. -- Member - Liberal International This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Beware Linux the MS Windows of Unix! Demand UseNet an integral part of Internet!
>> You posted the competition! What's the point if you don't want anyone to >> reply with the answers???
>> Morbius
>From original post:
>** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
Makes full sense. -- Member - Liberal International This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Beware Linux the MS Windows of Unix! Demand UseNet an integral part of Internet!
>You posted the competition! What's the point if you don't want anyone to >reply with the answers???
This reminds me of the Prisoner. -- Member - Liberal International This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Beware Linux the MS Windows of Unix! Demand UseNet an integral part of Internet!
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