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This is the eighth Doctor Who Rare Entries Contest. The rules are SHORT RULES The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your (1) is correct, and ** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE ** 0. Give a surname shared by two or more characters (whether or not they LONG RULES 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. YOUR ATTENTION IS SPECIFICALLY DRAWN TO RULE 3. Please supply the 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 Anything which is seen only in the "Previously on..." or "Next 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. In the absence 4.5 "Actor" includes both male and female performers, but excludes 4.6 Unless otherwise specified, different incarnations of the same 5. Judging 6. Results Cheers Tom
unchanged from DWRE7.
objective is to give an answer that
(2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
happen to be related). Where characters are given only one name, that
is assumed to be a first name and not a surname.
1. Give a word which appears before the word "particle" or the word
"energy" to describe a fictional phenomenon in the Doctor Who
universe.
2. Name a Doctor Who episode which, on its first UK transmission,
gained ratings of 10million viewers or more.
3. Name a character who is killed directly as a result of The
Doctor's actions.
4. Describe a piece of information given during an episode of Doctor
Who (by any means) which appears to contradict information given in a
previously-broadcast episode, and which contradiction is not resolved
within that story.
5. Name a person who has been credited as writer on more than four
professional, authorised Doctor Who stories in other mediums, but who
has never been credited as writer on a television episode of Doctor
Who.
6. Name a character who appears onscreen in at least one episode, and
is mentioned but does not appear in at least one other.
7. Name a person who has been credited in more than one capacity on
episodes of Doctor Who, and who has been credited at least once as
either writer or director. For the purposes of this question, writer
and script / story editor should be regarded as synonymous.
8. Name a story which was repeated on BBC terrestrial television in a
different version to its first broadcast.
9. Name a story which has one or more missing episodes. (An episode is
missing if the majority of the footage is not known to exist. Quality
of footage known to exist is not a factor.)
email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 19 January
2007. 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.
information asked for and only the information asked for. If you supply
two answers, I will take the first one. By way of example, in DWRE2 one
question read: "Some regular or recurring characters have met their
identical doubles. Name one of these doubles". Those who submitted
"Romana / Princess Strella" were deemed to have answered
"Romana" (the first of two answers given) and this was marked
wrong, since I asked for the name of the double, not the name of the
regular character. You have been warned.
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.
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 (in this case 11 January 2007) 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,
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").
week on..." segments of the 2005- series is not deemed to be part of
that story. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be
part of that story.
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).
referred to in dialogue or implied. If a character is clearly heard to
speak, then they, and the actor who played them, are deemed to have
"appeared" regardless of whether we see them or not. "Appears with"
means that the two characters featured at least once in the same scene,
with the exception that a character who appears in a scene only in
"flashback" footage shot for a previous episode is not deemed to
have "appeared with" any other characters in the scene.
of other clear evidence, a character is considered a member of an alien
race if they do not look entirely human, or if despite looking human,
their planet of birth is not Earth and they are not referred to as
human (or it can be shown that they are not accurately referred to as
human).
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.
character are the same character and will be treated as equivalent
answers, and equivalent to specifying that character without reference
to incarnation. In other words, "Romana", "Romana I" and
"Romana II" are all the same answer.
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.
tomsalin...@googlemail.com