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 **

QUESTIONS

0. Name a person we have seen who was a member of UNIT other than The
Brigadier, Captain Yates, or Sgt Benton
1. Name a word which occurs in at least two Doctor Who story titles.
For the purposes of this question, "word" does not include words of
three letters or fewer.
2. Name an alien race which appears in at least four separate stories.
3. Name an alien race which appears in exactly one story.
4. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
5. Name any performer who has played The Doctor on the BBC tv series
other than the official 10.
6. Name a character other than The Doctor who has been played by more
than one actor (programme credits will be used to determine this).
7. Name a character, other than The Doctor or a companion, who has
appeared in more than one story and was always played by the same actor
(again, going by programme credits).
8. Name a character other than a companion who has travelled in the
TARDIS with the Fifth Doctor.
9. Name a married couple we have seen.

LONG RULES

In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by
email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 9 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.

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
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. Where
story names are in issue, the most common name will be used. This will
generally be the name used for the DVD, VHS or novelisation ("The
Daleks", rather than "The Mutants" or "The Dead Planet" for example).
For the avoidance of doubt "Mission to the Unknown" is one story and
"The Trial of a Timelord" is four stories.

4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two
or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following
all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers
have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are
companions).

4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely
referred to in dialogue or implied.

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.

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.

Have fun!

Cheers

Tom

news:1149008586.536036.194430@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Sounds like fun but what's the prize?????

Bazza

Glory!

Cheers

Tom

Two days to go.

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 **

QUESTIONS

0. Name a person we have seen who was a member of UNIT other than The
Brigadier, Captain Yates, or Sgt Benton
1. Name a word which occurs in at least two Doctor Who story titles.
For the purposes of this question, "word" does not include words of
three letters or fewer.
2. Name an alien race which appears in at least four separate stories.
3. Name an alien race which appears in exactly one story.
4. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.
5. Name any performer who has played The Doctor on the BBC tv series
other than the official 10.
6. Name a character other than The Doctor who has been played by more
than one actor (programme credits will be used to determine this).
7. Name a character, other than The Doctor or a companion, who has
appeared in more than one story and was always played by the same actor

(again, going by programme credits).
8. Name a character other than a companion who has travelled in the
TARDIS with the Fifth Doctor.
9. Name a married couple we have seen.

LONG RULES

In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by
email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 9 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.

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
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. Where

story names are in issue, the most common name will be used. This will
generally be the name used for the DVD, VHS or novelisation ("The
Daleks", rather than "The Mutants" or "The Dead Planet" for example).
For the avoidance of doubt "Mission to the Unknown" is one story and
"The Trial of a Timelord" is four stories.

4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two
or more consecutive episodes. For the avoidance of doubt, the following

all have honorary companion status: Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart, Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey. No other UNIT soldiers
have companion status (Harry Sullivan and Jo Grant obviously are
companions).

4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely
referred to in dialogue or implied.

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.

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.

Have fun!

Cheers

Tom

These are the results of the inaugural Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest.
My thanks to Mark Brader, whose example on rec.puzzles I have emulated,
whose rules I have adapted and whose automated scoring script he was
kind enough to provide (although, alas, I was unable to deploy it as it
was quite beyond me).

There were 41 entries which was very gratifying - certainly enough to
encourage me to repeat the experiment. Entrants are denoted by their
userid if I have it, their first and last names if I don't, or their
email addresses as a last resort. A couple of people contacted me via
Outpost Gallifrey mail, or through an email account other than the one
specified. These entrants were not penalised - but please don't do
it again!

And the winner is... Toby H with a score of 960. Face of Po, came
second with 1,890, Jonny Morris was very close behind with 1,920, with
Wilf also doing well with 3,456. All other entrants scored 10,000+.
Here are their answers (use a monospaced font for proper tabular
alignment).

     TOBY H         FACE OF PO      JONNY MORRIS    WILF
0    Pte Upton      Sgt Osgood      Sgt Duffy       Jo Grant
1    Galaxy         From            Power           Child
2    Time Lords     Sontarans       Guardians       Alzarians
3    Tythonians     Mandrels        Didonians       Tractators
4    Troughton      Pertwee         Pertwee         McCoy
5    Gordon Craig   Rich. Hurndall  Albert Ward     Tip Tipping
6    Chicki         Jamie           Malpha          [WRONG]
7    Jeff Garvey    Mike Yates      Pete Tyler      The Inquisitor
8    Bilton         Will Chandler   Richard Mace    The White Guardian
9    Mr/Mrs Leeson  Scarlionis      K/Q Hearts      Strickson/Brennan

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 table of scores.

RANK     SCORE    ENTRANT             Q0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9

1          960    Toby H               1  1 10  1  4  2  6  1  2  1
2        1,890    Face of Po           1  1  2  1  5  9  7  1  3  1
3        1,920    Jonny Morris         1  1  3  2  5  1  4  2  4  2
4        3,456    wilf                 3  2  2  2  4  3 WR  1  1  1
5       20,412    Rob Ocelot           1  1  3  1  6 WR  7  3  3  1
6       23,040    Guy Leopold          3  2  4  1  5  3  4  4  2  2
7       28,080    Wooders              3  2 WR  3  5  3  1  1  1  4
8       38,400    Aloysius             2  1 10  1  4  2  6  5 WR  1
9       38,880    Michael Collins      3  3  3  1  5 WR  4  1  1  4
10      38,880    John Pertwee         1  2  2  1  6 WR  6  3  5  1
11      43,200    Mike Hall            2  3  4  1  5 WR  1 WR  1  2
12      75,600    Howard A Treesong    1  1  3  2  5 WR  7 WR  2  1
13     105,600    Jesse Smith          1  5  2 WR 11  1  6  4  2  2
14     157,950    Professor            1  5 13  3  5  9  3  3  2  1
15     171,072    Alocin               3  2  4  2 11  9  4  3  3  1
16     194,400    Ice Warrior          3  1 10  2  1 WR WR  5  1  3
17     194,400    Whofan               3  2  6 WR  1  9  1  5  3  4
18     205,920    Doc Filth            1  1 WR  2 11  6  6 WR  1  1
19     247,104    dorneyfamily         3  2 WR  1 11  3  6  4  2  1
20     288,000    macracadabara        2  5  2  1  5 WR  4  5 WR  1
21     308,000    rob_c                1 WR 10  1 11  1  7  5 WR  1
22     316,800    Chris Gerardy        2  2  2  5 11 WR  1  5  4  2
23     384,000    Skarasen             1  5 10  5  4  2  1  3 WR WR
24     388,800    Ed Rackstraw         3  1  6  1  6  6  6  5  5  4
25     432,000    genesisrockz         1  2 10 WR  6  6  3  2  5  2
26     475,200    Llama Roddy          1 WR 10  1 11  6  6  4  1  3
27     539,136    Alboreto             2  2 WR  1  4  9 WR  2  2  3
28     661,500    HolmesBaker         WR  1 10  2  5  3  7  3  5  3
29     777,600    NathantheWhovian     1  4  6  2  5 WR WR  5  3  1
30   1,036,800    Trevor Gensch        3  4  3  2  5 WR  4  5 WR  1
31   1,080,000    sontaran             1 WR 10  5  5  9  6  1  4  2
32   1,235,520    Fortmap              1  4 WR  2 11  3  4  5  3  3
33   1,296,000    Neil Toynay          1  4 10 WR  4  9  3  5  2  3
34   1,612,800    Ssarl                1  1 10  5  6  7  6  2 WR WR
35   1,728,000    The Doctor           1  2  4 WR  5 WR  6  5  4  2
36   2,041,200    darkstar             3  3  6  3  4  9  7  5  5  2
37   2,073,600    cols123              2  5  6  2  6  6  6  5 WR  2
38   2,534,400    artyclarty           3  2  6 WR 11  2  1  5 WR WR
39   9,828,000    Robot Porter         3 WR 13  5  5 WR  7  1 WR  1
40  24,883,200    cyber_dalek          3  3  3 WR  4  9  4 WR WR WR
41  49,420,800    angela.orac          3 WR WR WR 11  6 WR  1 WR  1

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 "more specific variant" scoring was used.

0. Name a person we have seen who was a member of UNIT other than The
Brigadier, Captain Yates, or Sgt Benton

3       Capt Munro (Spearhead from Space)
3       Capt Turner (The Invasion)
3       Cpl Bell (Mind of Evil)
3       Jo Grant
3       Zbrigniev (Battlefield)
2       Col Faraday (The Android Invasion)
2       Cpl Palmer (The Three Doctors)
2       Sgt Walters (The Invasion)
1       Bill Filer (Claws of Axos)
1       Capt Hawkins (The Silurians)
1       Col Crichton (The Five Doctors)
1       Cpl Champion (The Ambassadors of Death)
1       Cpl Forbes  (Spearhead from Space)
1       Cpl Norton (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
1       Flt Lt Lavel (Battlefield)
1       Harry Sullivan
1       Liz Shaw
1       Maj Beresford (Seeds of Doom)
1       Pte Bryson (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
1       Pte Johnson (The Ambassadors of Death)
1       Pte Upton (Doctor Who and The Silurians - uncredited)
1       Pte Wright (Doctor Who and The Silurians)
1       Pte Wyatt (Inferno)
1       Sgt Duffy (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
1       Sgt Hart (Doctor Who and The Silurians)
1       Sgt Henderson (The Seeds of Doom)
1       Sgt Osgood (The Daemons)
Wrong
1       Sarah Jane Smith (not a member of UNIT)

A nice easy question to start you off. (Too easy, I had a similar
question which I should have used instead. Maybe in DWRE2?) Fairly easy
to get a 1 with a bit of thought or research and nobody got worse than
a 3.

For some reason, while Jo seemed to be thought of as an "obvious"
answer (which some people chose because it was "too obvious") only
one person opted for Liz Shaw.

Bill Filer is said to be from "Washington HQ". I assume that this
means "UNIT Washington HQ" since if he was FBI or CIA or somesuch
he presumably would have said so.

I'm not aware of Sarah ever having officially joined UNIT, but if
anyone can cite an occasion where it is made clear that she has, let me
know and I will amend the scoresheet accordingly. Had it come up, I
would have ruled that The Doctor was not a member of UNIT.

1. Name a word which occurs in at least two Doctor Who story titles.
For the purposes of this question, "word" does not include words of
three letters or fewer.

5       Doctor(s)
4       Terror
3       Dalek(s)(')
3       Seeds
2       Child
2       Earth
2       Evil
2       Fear
2       Warrior(s)(')
1       Curse
1       Deep
1       Enemy
1       From
1       Galaxy
1       Invasion
1       Makers
1       Mind
1       Planet
1       Power
1       Three
Wrong
1       Attack ("Graske" is not a story)
1       Four (one story only)
1       Ones (one story only)
1       Polarity (does not appear in any story titles)
1       War (three letters only)

Also fairly easy, but there were a couple of traps here. I treated
Dalek, Daleks, Dalek's and so on as the same word (which if nothing
else resolves the various renderings of "The Daleks' Master Plan"),
and treated hyphenated words as separate. As far as I can tell,
treating titles like "Earthshock" or "Mindwarp" as two words
would not have created any more right answers, but I wouldn't have done
so even if it had.

The entrant who submitted "ones" suggested that this occurred in
"The Faceless Ones" and "The Stones of Blood", but I asked for
a word occurring in a Doctor Who story title and while the sequence of
letters O-N-E-S may occur in "The Stones of Blood", the word
"ones" does not. This was therefore marked wrong.

Interestingly, my four character minimum - which was designed to
remove "the", "of", "and" etc. from play - ruled out
"Ark", "Web", "Day" and "War" which would otherwise
have been acceptable. This caught out one entrant. It failed to rule
out "from", but alas there was no smart-arse collision on that
word. Shame!

The entrant who submitted "Attack" fell foul of my definition of
story which fairly clearly excluded interactive games. I elected to
differentiate between "Four" and "4", ruling that "Galaxy
4" does not include the word "four". It is possible to find the
name of serial T rendered as "Galaxy Four" in a few places,
including on the cover of the Target book, but most reference guides
give "Galaxy 4" and the BBC audio CD concurs, so "Galaxy 4" it
is.

In order of frequency, the qualifying words were: Dalek(s)(') in 14
stories, Planet in 9 stories, Space 7 stories, Time 7 stories, Death 6
stories, Invasion 6 stories, Doctor(s) 5 stories, Terror 5 stories,
Cybermen 4 stories, Evil 4 stories, Warrior(s)(') 4 stories, From 3
stories, Monster(s) 3 stories, World 3 stories and all the following in
2 stories: Android(s), Child, Claw(s), Curse, Deep, Earth, Enemy, Fear,
Galaxy,  Game(s), Maker(s), Mind, Peladon, Pirate(s), Power, Rani,
Robot(s), Seed(s), Three. Isn't that interesting?

2. Name an alien race which appears in at least four separate stories.

13      Gallifreyans

6       Ice Warriors
4       Daleks
3       Cybermen
3       Guardians
2       Alzarians
2       Sontarans
2       Trions
Wrong
4       Yeti (not a race)
2       Thals
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Following some debate and corrections on Outpost Gallifrey, I have
reconsidered some of my rulings, and corrected a couple of other errors
(including reinstating a missing answer-slate).

Rulings

· The Savages: The Savages takes place on an unnamed planet and that
the entrants answer referred to all the human-like characters on that
planet. Those referred to as "savages" are, I think, the same race
as the others, else the point of the story is lost, and from an earth
colony or not, they count as alien. My earlier ruling is REVERSED.

· Tegan: Sian Pattenden received no on-screen credit for her role as
the young Tegan, and so does not meet the required standard for
"actor" as indicated in the question. My earlier ruling STANDS.

· The Valeyard: Being derived from 100% Doctor, does not make him the
same person as The Doctor, any more than I would be the same person as
my identical twin (if I had one). He is a separate character, and the
credits reflect this. (Arguably The First Doctor is a separate
character from The Second Doctor, despite the fact that they are
supposed to be the same person. But that's not an issue I have to
consider here.) In any case, my earlier ruling STANDS.

· The Watcher: A borderline version of the case above, complicated by
the fact that Gibbs received no on-screen credit and we know nothing
about how he came to be. Had he received an on-screen credit, it would
no doubt have been "The Watcher" and not "The Doctor". Absent
any concrete evidence as to his status, I can't conclude that he is
The Doctor. My earlier ruling STANDS.

· The Cyber Controller: Attack of the Cybermen clearly implies that
the chap with the domed head and the paunch is the same character as
the one electrocuted in the Tombs on Telos. Regardless of the fact that
Peter Hawkins provided the "Cybermen voices", it is Michael
Kilgarriff who is credited as "Cyberman Controller" and so this is
therefore a correct answer. My earlier ruling is REVERSED. AotC still
stinks on ice, however.

One or two other small errors in scoring have also shown up - sorry
about that.

Here are the corrected scores and answer-slates...

Face of Po has dropped to third place, with Jonny Morris now equaling
Toby H's top score. JesseS leaps to 5th and Doc Filth to 6th.

RANK     SCORE    ENTRANT             Q0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9

 1       1,920    Jonny Morris         1  1  3  2  5  1  4  2  4  2
 =       1,920    Toby H               1  2 10  1  4  2  6  1  2  1
 3       3,780    Face of Po           1  1  3  1  5  9  7  1  4  1
 4       4,032    wilf                 3  2  2  2  4  3 WR  1  1  1
 5      10,560    JesseS               1  5  2  1 11  1  6  4  2  2
 6      28,028    Doc Filth            1  1 WR  2 11  7  7  1  1  1
 7      28,080    Wooders              3  2 WR  3  5  3  1  1  1  4
 8      34,560    Guy Leopold          3  3  4  1  5  3  4  4  2  2
 9      42,336    Rob Ocelot           1  1  3  1  7 WR  7  4  4  1
10      43,200    Mike Hall            2  3  4  1  5 WR  1 WR  1  2
11      56,000    Aloysius             2  1 10  1  4  2  7  5 WR  1
12      75,264    Beyondthevoid        4  2  3  1  7  2  7  4  4  2
13      75,600    Howard A Treesong    1  1  3  2  5 WR  7 WR  2  1
14      77,760    Michael Collins      3  3  3  2  5 WR  4  1  1  4
15      79,380    John Pertwee         1  2  3  1  7 WR  7  3  5  1
16     210,600    Professor            1  5 13  3  5  9  3  4  2  1
17     226,800    Ice Warrior          3  1 10  2  1 WR WR  5  1  3
18     247,104    dorneyfamily         3  2 WR  1 11  3  6  4  2  1
19     304,128    Alocin               4  2  4  2 11  9  4  3  4  1
20     316,800    Chris Gerardy        2  2  2  5 11 WR  1  5  4  2
21     360,000    macracadabara        2  5  2  1  5 WR  4  5 WR  1
22     514,500    Ed Rackstraw         3  1  5  1  7  7  7  5  5  4
23     528,000    artyclarty           3  2  1 WR 11  2  1  5 WR WR
24     588,000    genesisrockz         1  2 10 WR  7  7  3  2  5  2
25     628,992    Alboreto             2  2 WR  1  4  9 WR  2  2  3
26     640,000    Skarasen             1  5 10  5  4  2  1  4 WR WR
27     720,720    Llama Roddy          1 WR 13  1 11  7  6  4  1  3
28     756,000    HolmesBaker         WR  1 10  2  5  3  7  3  5  3
 =     756,000    NathantheWhovian     1  4  5  2  5 WR WR  5  3  1
30   1,235,520    Fortmap              1  4 WR  2 11  3  4  5  3  3
31   1,260,000    sontaran             1 WR 10  5  5  9  7  1  4  2
32   1,296,000    Trevor Gensch        3  4  3  2  5 WR  4  5 WR  1
 =   1,296,000    Neil Toynay          1  4 10 WR  4  9  3  5  2  3
34   1,540,000    rob_c                1 WR 10  1 11  2  7  5 WR  2
35   1,782,000    Whofan               3  2  5 WR 11  9  1  5  3  4
36   2,268,000    darkstar             4  3  5  3  4  9  7  5  5  2
37   2,352,000    Ssarl                1  1 10  5  7  7  6  2 WR WR
38   2,940,000    cols123              2  5  5  2  7  7  6  5 WR  2
39   3,024,000    The Doctor           1  3  4 WR  5 WR  7  5  4  2
40  16,380,000    Robot Porter         4 WR 13  5  5 WR  7  1 WR  1
41  31,104,000    cyber_dalek          3  3  3 WR  4  9  4 WR WR WR
42  84,084,000    angela.orac          3 WR WR WR 11  7 WR  1 WR  1

0. Name a person we have seen who was a member of UNIT other than The
Brigadier, Captain Yates, or Sgt Benton

4    Capt Munro  (Spearhead from Space)
3    Capt Turner (The Invasion)
3    Cpl Bell (Mind of Evil)
3    Zbrigniev (Battlefield)
3    Jo Grant
2    Cpl Palmer (The Three Doctors)
2    Sgt Walters (The Invasion)
2    Col Faraday (The Android Invasion)
1    Cpl Forbes (Spearhead from Space)
1    Col Crichton (The Five Doctors)
1    Sgt Osgood (The Daemons)
1    Sgt Hart (Doctor Who and The Silurians)
1    Flt Lt Lavel (Battlefield)
1    Cpl Champion (The Ambassadors of Death)
1    Bill Filer (Claws of Axos)
1    Pte Johnson (The Ambassadors of Death)
1    Sgt Duffy (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
1    Pte Upton (Doctor Who and The Silurians - uncredited)
1    Harry Sullivan
1    Pte Wright (Doctor Who and The Silurians)
1    Maj Beresford Seeds of Doom)
1    Capt Hawkins (The Silurians)
1    Liz Shaw
1    Pte Wyatt (Inferno)
1    Pte Bryson (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
1    Sgt Henderson (The Seeds of Doom)
1    Cpl Norton (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
Wrong
1    Sarah Jane Smith

1. Name a word which occurs in at least two Doctor Who story titles.
For the purposes of this question, "word" does not include words of
three letters or fewer.

5    Doctor(s)
4    Terror
3    Dalek(s)(')
3    Seeds
2    Warriors(s)(')
2    Child
2    Evil
2    Galaxy
2    Fear
2    Earth
1    Invasion
1    From
1    Enemy
1    Mind
1    Planet
1    Curse
1    Three
1    Deep
1    Power
1    Makers
Wrong
1    Attack ('Graske' is not a story)
1    Ones (one story only)
1    Four (one story only)
1    War (three letters long)
1    Polarity (does not appear in any story titles)

2. Name an alien race which appears in at least four separate stories.

13   Gallifreyans
     >>>   10   Time Lords
5    Ice Warriors
4    Daleks
3    Cybermen
3    Guardians
3    Sontarans
2    Alzarians
2    Trions
1    Ice Warriors
Wrong
4    Yeti (not a race)
2    Thals (Three stories only)

3. Name an alien race which appears in exactly one story.

5    Rills (Galaxy 4)
3    Monoids (The Ark)
2    Didonians (The Rescue)
2    Visians (Daleks Master Plan)
2    Tractators (Frontios)
2    Drahvin (Galaxy 4)
2    Xeraphin (Time-Flight)
2    Dulcians (The Dominators)
1    Vervoids (Terror of the Vervoids)
1    Tigellans (Meglos)
1    Mandrels (Nightmare of Eden)
1    Savages (The Savages)
1    Rutans (The Horror of Fang Rock)
1    Xerons (The Space Museum)
1    Aridians (The Chase)
1    Stigorax (Fiffi in The Happiness Patrol)
1    Taran (The Androids of Tara)
1    Bandrils (Timelash)
1    Urbankans (Four to Doomsday)
1    Tythonians (The Creature from the Pit)
1    Logopolitans (Logopolis)
1    Tetraps (Time and the Rani)
1    Vrood (= Voord The Keys of Marinus)
Wrong
2    Sensorites (appeared in flashback in The Mind of Evil)
2    Zygons (appeared in flashback in Mawdryn Undead)
1    Terileptils (also seen briefly in Time-Flight))
1    Troglodytes (not alien)
1    Zarbi (appeared in flashback in The Mind of Evil)

4. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor.

11   Peter Davison
7    Paul McGann
5    Jon Pertwee
5    Tom Baker
5    William Hartnell
4    Sylvester McCoy
4    Patrick Troughton
1    Colin Baker

5. Name any performer who has played The Doctor on the BBC tv series
other than the official 10.

9    Richard Hurndall (The Five Doctors)
7    Edmund Warwick (Hartnell double, Dalek Invasion of Earth)
3    Tip Tipping (McCoy stunt double)
3    Brian Proudfoot (Hartnell double, The Reign of Terror)
2    Gareth Milne (Davison stunt double)
2    Gordon Craig (Hartnell double, The Tenth Planet)
2    Terry Walsh (Pertwee and Tom Baker stunt double)
1    Albert Ward (Hartnell hand double, The Celestial Toymaker)
1    Chris Jeffries (Troughton double, The Wheel in Space)
Wrong
4    Adrian Gibbs (did not play The Doctor)
2    Michael Jayston (did not play The Doctor)
2    Trevor Martin (not in BBCtv series)
1    Sylvester McCoy (one of the 10)
1    Douglas Camfield (not a performance)
1    Rowan Atkinson (not in BBCtv series)
1    Robert Holmes (not a performance)

6. Name a character other than The Doctor who has been played by more
than one actor (programme credits will be used to determine this).

7    Jamie
7    Borusa
6    Chicki
4    Davros
4    Malpha
3    K9
1    Queen Xanxia
1    The Master
1    Xoanon
1    Eldrad
1    Trantis
1    Omega
Wrong
1    The Castellan (different characters)
1    Cyber Controller (different characters)
1    Cyberleader (different characters)
1    The Myrka (not actors)
1    Tegan (Janet Fielding only credited actor)

7. Name a character, other than The Doctor or a companion, who has
appeared in more than one story and was always played by the same actor
(again, going by programme credits).

5  
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