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This is the second Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor SHORT RULES The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your ** 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 1. Identify a character referred to by two or more different names in 2. Name a story which features no alien characters other than The 3. Some regular or recurring characters have met their identical 4. Name a target novelisation of a "Doctor Who" story written 5. Name one unique feature of The Deadly Assassin. Your answer should 6. Name a fictional device, self-contained and serving a particular 7. Name one of the producers of "Doctor Who". 8. Name a television drama or comedy programme, transmitted in the UK 9. Name one of the ten actors who have officially played The Doctor. --- In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by If there are fewer than 10 entrants, I may not bother working out who's Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers. 1. Answers 2. Scoring 2.1 More Specific Variants 2.2 Scoring Example 3. Entries 3.1 Clarifications 3.2 Supporting Information 4. Scope 4.1 "Story" refers to one or more episodes, generally with the same 4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two 4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to merely 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth. 4.5 "Actor" includes both male and female performers, but excludes 5. Judging 6. Results Cheers Tom
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
objective is to give an answer that
(1) is correct, and
(2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
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.
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.
Doctor.
doubles. Name one of these doubles.
neither by Terrance Dicks, nor the original, credited author of the
televised story on which it was based.
complete the sentence: "It is the only story which..."
purpose (rather than a component of something larger), which has been
seen in The Doctor's possession.
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.
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!
won, so if this sounds like fun, do encourage others to play.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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").
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).
referred to in dialogue or implied.
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.
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.
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.