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. Give a word which refers to something Venusian mentioned by any character or seen on-screen. In other words, if mention is made of "Venusian Artichokes" in The Terror of Evil, then "Artichokes" would be a correct answer.
1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than a simple re-rendering of the same name.
2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The Doctor.
3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical doubles. Name one of these doubles.
4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the televised story on which it was based.
5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been seen in The Doctor's possession.
7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition, which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
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 23 June 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.
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 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").
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.
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.
On 12 Jun 2006 08:39:51 -0700, tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
>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.
When are you going to post the results for the first contest? I don't "do" OG, so giving me a link to that again will not work.
-- If I had something cool to say, I would put it here...
> This is the second Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor > rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. This > contest is also available at the Outpost Gallifrey bulletin board. > http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2526008#post2526008
> 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. Give a word which refers to something Venusian mentioned by any > character or seen on-screen. In other words, if mention is made of > "Venusian Artichokes" in The Terror of Evil, then "Artichokes" > would be a correct answer.
Akaido
> 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in > the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be > treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than > a simple re-rendering of the same name.
The Doctor/Salamander The Doctor/Meglos Doctor
> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The > Doctor.
Inside the Spaceship AKA Edge of Destruction AKA Beyond the Sun
> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical > doubles. Name one of these doubles.
The Docdtor - Android double Android Invasion
> 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written > neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the > televised story on which it was based.
Ark In Space - Ian Marter
> 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should > complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
...doesn't feature a regular companion?
> 6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular > purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been > seen in The Doctor's possession.
Sonic Screwdriver
> 7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
Verity Lambert, John Wiles, Innes Lloyd, Peter Bryant, Derrick Sherwin, Barry Letts, Philip Hinchcliffe, Graham Williams, John Nathan-Turner, Alex Beaton, Matthew Jacobs, Phil Collinson
> 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK > on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition, > which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 > official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
Does "Withnail and I..." count?
> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
William Hartnell - but this is a daft question as there are more than just ten. The first Doctor was also played by Richard Hurndall (officially)
I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when John Pertwee got out a spraycan and scrawled the following:
> On 12 Jun 2006 08:39:51 -0700, tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >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.
> When are you going to post the results for the first contest? > I don't "do" OG, so giving me a link to that again will not work.
The results were posted in the same newsgroup thread as the original questions:
"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
>> 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. Give a word which refers to something Venusian mentioned by any >> character or seen on-screen. In other words, if mention is made of >> "Venusian Artichokes" in The Terror of Evil, then "Artichokes" >> would be a correct answer.
>Akaido
>> 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in >> the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be >> treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than >> a simple re-rendering of the same name.
>The Doctor/Salamander >The Doctor/Meglos Doctor
>> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The >> Doctor.
>Inside the Spaceship AKA Edge of Destruction AKA Beyond the Sun
>> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical >> doubles. Name one of these doubles.
>The Docdtor - Android double Android Invasion
>> 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written >> neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the >> televised story on which it was based.
>Ark In Space - Ian Marter
>> 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should >> complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
>...doesn't feature a regular companion?
>> 6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular >> purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been >> seen in The Doctor's possession.
>Sonic Screwdriver
>> 7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
>Verity Lambert, John Wiles, Innes Lloyd, Peter Bryant, Derrick Sherwin, >Barry Letts, Philip Hinchcliffe, Graham Williams, John Nathan-Turner, Alex >Beaton, Matthew Jacobs, Phil Collinson
>> 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK >> on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition, >> which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 >> official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
>Does "Withnail and I..." count?
>> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
>William Hartnell - but this is a daft question as there are more than just >ten. The first Doctor was also played by Richard Hurndall (officially)
>Will this do Tom?
Sure, unless you go back and read the part where he says DON"T ANSWER IN THE NG!
-- If I had something cool to say, I would put it here...
<gkenning...@claIrVOYaNT.coLD.DuCk> wrote: >I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when >John Pertwee got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: >> On 12 Jun 2006 08:39:51 -0700, tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> >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.
>> When are you going to post the results for the first contest? >> I don't "do" OG, so giving me a link to that again will not work.
>The results were posted in the same newsgroup thread as the original >questions:
I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when John Pertwee got out a spraycan and scrawled the following:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:59:53 +0100, "Keith Morby" > <morbiusmass...@freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >Will this do Tom?
> Sure, unless you go back and read the part where he says DON"T ANSWER > IN THE NG!
If you pay attention to Mr Morby's posting history, you might come to the conclusion that he only posted *because* he'd read that bit, because he knows exactly what kind of response it will cause. And that you (and I too, because I chose to reply to this) have bitten, just as he intended.
-- 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
<gkenning...@claIrVOYaNT.coLD.DuCk> wrote: >I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when >John Pertwee got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: >> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:59:53 +0100, "Keith Morby" >> <morbiusmass...@freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> >Will this do Tom?
>> Sure, unless you go back and read the part where he says DON"T ANSWER >> IN THE NG!
>If you pay attention to Mr Morby's posting history, you might come to >the conclusion that he only posted *because* he'd read that bit, because >he knows exactly what kind of response it will cause. And that you (and >I too, because I chose to reply to this) have bitten, just as he >intended.
That, or he is a dumbass...
-- If I had something cool to say, I would put it here...
> > 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The > > Doctor.
> Inside the Spaceship AKA Edge of Destruction AKA Beyond the Sun
Wrong. Susan is a Gallifreyan.
> > 7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
> Verity Lambert, John Wiles, Innes Lloyd, Peter Bryant, Derrick Sherwin, > Barry Letts, Philip Hinchcliffe, Graham Williams, John Nathan-Turner, Alex > Beaton, Matthew Jacobs, Phil Collinson
Wrong. The question asked for ONE.
> > 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK > > on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition, > > which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 > > official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
> Does "Withnail and I..." count?
Withnail and I is a movie, not a television drama of comedy program.
> > 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
> William Hartnell - but this is a daft question as there are more than just > ten. The first Doctor was also played by Richard Hurndall (officially)
> 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in > the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be > treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than > a simple re-rendering of the same name.
Sarah-Jane Smith, Sarah Smith
> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The > Doctor.
Robot
> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical > doubles. Name one of these doubles.
Brigadier
> 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written > neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the > televised story on which it was based.
Seeds of Doom, Phil Hinchcliffe wrote the Novel, Terrance Dicks wrote the screenplay
> 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should > complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
It is the only story where we see no companions.
> 6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular > purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been > seen in The Doctor's possession.
K-9
> 7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
Russell T Davis
> 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK > on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition, > which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 > official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
All Creatures Great and Small
> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
>> 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in >> the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be >> treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than >> a simple re-rendering of the same name.
> Sarah-Jane Smith, Sarah Smith
No. That's a simple re-rendering of the same name.
>> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The >> Doctor.
> Robot
No. K'anpo/Cho'je appears in a flashback at the start.
>> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical >> doubles. Name one of these doubles.
> Brigadier
No. He never actually met the Brigade Leader or Brett Vyon.
>> 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written >> neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the >> televised story on which it was based.
> Seeds of Doom, Phil Hinchcliffe wrote the Novel, Terrance Dicks wrote > the screenplay
Technically a correct answrer, but Robert Banks Stewart wrote the screenplay.
>> 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should >> complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
> It is the only story where we see no companions.
Yay, you did it! You got one 100% right!
>> 6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular >> purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been >> seen in The Doctor's possession.
> K-9
And again!
>> 7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
> Russell T Davis
Wrong. He's an executive producer.
>> 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK >> on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this >> competition, which has over the course of its run featured at least >> two of the 10 official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, >> speaking roles.
> All Creatures Great and Small
Yes.
>> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
> Paul McGann
Yes.
But you should've sent your answers to Tom by email. Answers posted to the group don't count. Sorry.
>Lio Convoy <liocon...@iwonttellyou.com> wrote: >>> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical >>> doubles. Name one of these doubles.
>> Brigadier
>No. He never actually met the Brigade Leader or Brett Vyon.
>>> 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in >>> the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be >>> treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than >>> a simple re-rendering of the same name.
>> Sarah-Jane Smith, Sarah Smith
> No. That's a simple re-rendering of the same name.
>>> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The >>> Doctor.
>> Robot
> No. K'anpo/Cho'je appears in a flashback at the start.
>>> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical >>> doubles. Name one of these doubles.
>> Brigadier
> No. He never actually met the Brigade Leader or Brett Vyon.
>>> 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written >>> neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the >>> televised story on which it was based.
>> Seeds of Doom, Phil Hinchcliffe wrote the Novel, Terrance Dicks wrote >> the screenplay
> Technically a correct answrer, but Robert Banks Stewart wrote the > screenplay.
>>> 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should >>> complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
>> It is the only story where we see no companions.
> Yay, you did it! You got one 100% right!
Not entirely. You can't complete "It is the only story which..." with "It is the only story where we see no companions"
You could complete it with "features no companions."
>>> 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in >>> the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be >>> treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than >>> a simple re-rendering of the same name.
>> Sarah-Jane Smith, Sarah Smith
Sarah-Jane and Sarah are two different names, not just a simple re- rendering. T;would be the same as Jean-Luc Picard vs Jean Picard.
> No. That's a simple re-rendering of the same name.
>>> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The >>> Doctor.
>> Robot
> No. K'anpo/Cho'je appears in a flashback at the start.
They were not part of the story, they were part of the previous story. K'anpo had nothing to do with Robot, and flashbacks to previous episodes don't count. Same thing as the flashback of the Ship hitting Big Ben before the story of Boomtown started, had nothing to with the story at all.
>>> 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical >>> doubles. Name one of these doubles.
>> Brigadier
> No. He never actually met the Brigade Leader or Brett Vyon.
He met himself, although older. Rose also met her identical double, albeit as a baby. Then we have Mickey meeting Rickey.
>>> 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written >>> neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the >>> televised story on which it was based.
>> Seeds of Doom, Phil Hinchcliffe wrote the Novel, Terrance Dicks wrote >> the screenplay
> Technically a correct answrer, but Robert Banks Stewart wrote the > screenplay.
Really? Hmmmmm. I have the novelization, and it said based off a Terrance Dicks screenplay.
>>> 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should >>> complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
>> It is the only story where we see no companions.
> Yay, you did it! You got one 100% right!
>>> 6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular >>> purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been >>> seen in The Doctor's possession.
>>> 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK >>> on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this >>> competition, which has over the course of its run featured at least >>> two of the 10 official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, >>> speaking roles.
>> All Creatures Great and Small
> Yes.
>>> 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
>> Paul McGann
> Yes.
> But you should've sent your answers to Tom by email. Answers posted to > the group don't count. Sorry.
Sorry, I don't email people I don't know, especially when there is no real prize. Now if I were to win something nice, like the Season28 DVD set......
Please don't post answers in any public forum. It spoils the game for other people.
And please, don't mark the answers which might be posted here. Not only will this tip off other people as to potential traps, but also you may make different decisions from me.
If you are thinking of entering, please don't read these posts. Experience of these contests on rec.puzzles suggests that this kind of behaviour doesn't affect the outcome much (although it's obviously hard to know for sure) but it still seems rather childish and unnecessary to disregard such simple and plainly stated requests.
If you don't wish to play, by all means leave well alone.
John Pertwee wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:12:35 +0100, The Face of Po > <gkenning...@claIrVOYaNT.coLD.DuCk> wrote:
> >I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when > >John Pertwee got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: > >> On 12 Jun 2006 08:39:51 -0700, tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >> >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.
> >> When are you going to post the results for the first contest? > >> I don't "do" OG, so giving me a link to that again will not work.
> >The results were posted in the same newsgroup thread as the original > >questions:
>John Pertwee wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:12:35 +0100, The Face of Po >> <gkenning...@claIrVOYaNT.coLD.DuCk> wrote:
>> >I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when >> >John Pertwee got out a spraycan and scrawled the following: >> >> On 12 Jun 2006 08:39:51 -0700, tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> >> >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.
>> >> When are you going to post the results for the first contest? >> >> I don't "do" OG, so giving me a link to that again will not work.
>> >The results were posted in the same newsgroup thread as the original >> >questions:
This is the first reminder posting for the second Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There have been a few minor rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. This contest is also available at the Outpost Gallifrey bulletin board. http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2526008#post2526008
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. Give a word which refers to something Venusian mentioned by any character or seen on-screen. In other words, if mention is made of "Venusian Artichokes" in The Terror of Evil, then "Artichokes" would be a correct answer.
1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than a simple re-rendering of the same name.
2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The Doctor.
3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical doubles. Name one of these doubles.
4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the televised story on which it was based.
5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been seen in The Doctor's possession.
7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition, which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
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 23 June 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.
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 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").
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.
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.
This is the second and final reminder posting for the second Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There have been a few minor rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. This contest is also available at the Outpost Gallifrey bulletin board. http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2526008#post2526008
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. Give a word which refers to something Venusian mentioned by any character or seen on-screen. In other words, if mention is made of "Venusian Artichokes" in The Terror of Evil, then "Artichokes" would be
a correct answer.
1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than a simple re-rendering of the same name.
2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The Doctor.
3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical doubles. Name one of these doubles.
4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the televised story on which it was based.
5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been seen in The Doctor's possession.
7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who".
8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK on a mainstream channel prior to the first posting of this competition,
which has over the course of its run featured at least two of the 10 official actors to have played The Doctor in credited, speaking roles.
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 23 June 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.
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 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").
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.
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.
These are the results of the second Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest. Once again, my thanks to Mark Brader, rec.puzzles King of Rare Entries Contests, as well as to all the entrants.
There were 29 entrants, down on the 42 for DWRE1, but still a decent number. And the winner is... NathanTheWhovian - who took the hard road by including a wrong answer, but nevertheless ended up with a very admirable 576. Second was Rob_C with 1728 and JesseS is just a few points behind in third, up from fifth place last time. Here are their answers (use a monospaced font for proper tabular alignment - this probably means doing "view source").
NATHANTHEWHOVIAN ROB_C JESSES
0 Feet Hopscotch Miles 1 Gulliver/A Stranger Davros/Emperor Dalek Reporter/Newsreader 2 [WRONG] Masque of Mandragora The Silurians 3 Omega Ann Talbot Princess Strella 4 Enemy of the World The Daemons The Twin Dilemma 5 Bernard Horsfall dies Features Elgin Features Runcible 6 The Nemesis Statue Ganymede Driver Reacting vibrator 7 Mal Young John Nathan-Turner Phil Collinson 8 Mrs Bradley Mysteries Jonathan Creek The Bill 9 William Hartnell * Colin Baker Colin Baker
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). >>> indicates that the "more specific variant" scoring was used.
Early in the contest, a couple of oafs posted answers in public news groups. Worse, others attempted to score these answers. I doubt that either of these actions has skewed the results much, but where news group answers have also been given by other entrants, they have been indicated. A * indicates the answer given by "Keith Morby" and a ~ indicates the answer given by "Lio Convoy".
0. Give a word which refers to something Venusian mentioned by any character or seen on-screen. In other words, if mention is made of "Venusian Artichokes" in The Terror of Evil, then "Artichokes" would be a correct answer.
9 Hopscotch 7 Lullaby 4 Aikido * 2 Shanghorn 2 Feet 2 Seas 1 Karate 1 Ouja 1 Miles
Hopscotch and Lullaby were the clear favourites here, in fact "Hopscotch" was the worst correct answer in DWRE2! I would also have accepted "eyes" or "eye" since the lullaby referred to means "close your eyes my darling, well three of them at least". "Venusian Ouja" I think is Benton referring to the Doctor's exotic martial arts in a faintly sarcastic manner, and I was tempted to rule this one wrong since it is likely a misnomer. However I think this answer is correct, given the wording of the second sentence of my question. The "Seas" are the Metal Seas of Venus mentioned by Susan in Marco Polo. While not fitting the template "Venusian xxx", this is still a correct answer.
Note that entrants were asked to supply "a word" and yet many submitted answers in the form "Venusian xxx". See question 3 for more on this issue.
1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in the closing credits. Answers referring to the same character will be treated as equivalent. "Different names" means more different than a simple re-rendering of the same name.
5 The Master (Castrovalva, Time-Flight, et al) 4 Bennett / Koquillion (The Rescue) 3 George Cranleigh / The Unknown (Black Orchid) 2 The Doctor 2 Omega / The Renegade (Arc of Infinity) 1 Kamelion / King John (The King's Demons) 1 Davros / Emperor Dalek (Remembrance of the Daleks) 1 K'anpo Rimpoche / Cho-Je (Planet of the Spiders) 1 Reporter / Newsreader (Aliens of London / The Christmas Invasion) 1 Weng-Chiang / Magnus Greel (The Talons of Weng-Chiang) 1 Hallett / Grenville / Enzu (Terror of the Vervoids) 1 Gulliver / A Stranger (The Mind Robber) Wrong 2 Corporal Benton / Sgt Benton / RSM Benton (no change in name) 1 The Brigadier / Brigade Leader (different characters, no change in name) 1 Vivien Fay / Cessair of Diplos (only credited as Fay) 1 Edgeworth / Azmael (only credited as Edgeworth) 1 Melkur / The Master (Melkur was the Master's Tardis)
Apparently, the second sentence of this question prompted some headscratching, but I don't know how I could have made it any clearer. I didn't wish to mark, for example, "Bennett" and "Koquillion" as separate answers, since they both refer to the same character. Thus, if two people answer "Bennett" and three people answer "Koquillion", they should each get five points. Hence: "Answers referring to the same character will be treated as equivalent".
I have not been able to check this, but I don't believe that "James Stoker as Sir Gilles Estram" was seen in the end-credits of The King's Demons (only in the Radio Times), but this does not make "The Master / Gilles Estram" a wrong answer, since the character referred to is The Master, and he certainly has also been credited as Kalid and Portreeve, to name but two. Any answer referring to The Master was a correct answer - in fact, they were all the same correct answer. On this basis "George Crangleigh / The Shape" was marked correct, and equivalent to the, more accurate answer, "George Cranleigh / The Unknown". Melkur, however, was never a name used by The Master, and so this answer is wrong.
"The Doctor" is just about a correct answer, having been referred to as "The Doctor", "Doctor Who" and (in the TV Movie) "Old Doctor". However, in general, changes of title or rank only were not sufficient. Gulliver is credited as "A Stranger" in episode one of The Mind Robber and Hallett is named as both "Grenville" and "Enzu" in the titles of Terror of the Vervoids. Susan Engel however, is only credited as Vivien Fay in The Stones of Blood, and similarly Maurice Denham is only credited as playing "Edgeworth".
I was very tempted to rule K'anpo Rimpoche / Cho-Je wrong on the basis that they may be the same person, but they are clearly different characters, but on reflection decided that - while such a definition of character may be defensible - it wasn't fair to rely on it where it hadn't been specified in the question.
The * answer appeared to be two answers to question 3 (I have no idea why) and the ~ answer was "Sarah Jane Smith / Sarah Smith" which is wrong.
2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The Doctor.
6 The Highlanders 4 Doctor Who and the Silurians 2 The Smugglers 2 The Myth Makers 2 The War Machines 2 Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1 Black Orchid 1 The Space Pirates 1 The Reign of Terror 1 The Masque of Mandragora 1 Robot ~ 1 Father's Day 1 Marco Polo 1 The Enemy of the World 1 The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances Wrong 1 The Green Death (Metebelis III) 1 The Sea Devils (The Master)
The "obvious" answer here is a 60s historical and nobody was foolish enough to suggest one featuring Susan. Many people thought that they'd be sneaky and pick a Pertwee story with earthly monsters, hence a strong showing for The Silurians. Of course, you have to steer clear of The Master if you're going to do that.
The Reapers escape definition as characters and so Father's Day scrapes in, but the spear-chucking natives
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"Robot" is of course a wrong answer to question 2 (due to the appearance of Cho-Je at the beginning), but other than for the entrant who submitted it, there are no changes to the score table.
tomsalin...@googlemail.com wrote: > "Robot" is of course a wrong answer to question 2 (due to the > appearance of Cho-Je at the beginning), but other than for the entrant > who submitted it, there are no changes to the score table.
Somewhere in time and space, tomsalin...@googlemail.com said:
> 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The > Doctor. > 1 Marco Polo > The "obvious" answer here is a 60s historical and nobody was > foolish enough to suggest one featuring Susan.
... except for this one.
Shannon
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Here are my final rulings and the updated scoresheet for DWRE2
Devices: Do not include passports and crystals. My earlier ruling STANDS. Aliens: The following stories all include alien companions and are disallowed as correct answers: Black Orchid, The Reign of Terror, Marco Polo. However, since Robot picks up from Planet of the Spiders after Cho-Je disappears, he cannot be said to "feature" and so Robot is a correct answer. Doubles: The Abbot of Amboise never actually met The Doctor, so this is an incorrect answer. I am satisfied that my wording was sufficiently clear in my intent to disallow characters meeting themselves as correct answers and so these answers remain incorrect. Producers: I am satisfied that my wording was sufficiently clear in my intent to admit those who performed producing duties of some sort but held a title other than that of simply "producer" and so these answers remain correct.
Below is the corrected scoretable. There are no changes in the top 10.
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