There was an astonishing crowd at Trivia Night this month. Neptune Coffee was pretty much full to capacity. We want to thank everyone who came out, we had a great time hosting and hope that people had a good time playing!

We are tremendously excited for next month’s Trivia Night which will be April 16. The theme is going to be Swords and Sorcery (think movies like Conan, Red Sonja, Beastmaster, Clash of the Titans, etc) and the good people over at Wizards of the Coast (the publishers of Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering among other things) have fielded a team and will be competing and handing out prizes to worthy opponents!

If you weren’t able to make it last night, all the questions are under the fold. The winning team missed only two questions. How would YOU have done?

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• Round 1
• Round 2
• Round 3
• Round 4
• Name the Actor
• Name the Character
• Tie Breaker Questions

Round 1

1. When did the first episode of the new series air in the UK?
   • Answer: March 26, 2005
2. What British actor did Russel T Davies first approach to play the Ninth Doctor?
   • Answer: Hugh Grant
3. What search engine does Rose use when searching for information on The Doctor in the episode “Rose”
   • Answer: search-wise.net, which is an actual page for a dummy search engine specifically made for TV and film productions to use. Check it out!
4. From the perspective of Rose’s personal time-line, when was the first time that she met The Doctor?
   • Answer: New Years Day 2005 in the episode “The End of Time” – It could be argued that the first time was November 7, 1987 when she was a baby in the episode “Father’s Day” but that time-line was technically erased at the end of the episode and besides I didn’t think about that when I wrote this question (we accepted that answer on the Trivia Night).
5. Other than Rose Tyler, who were the other companions of the Ninth Doctor (who traveled with him in the TARDIS)?
   • Answer: Adam Mitchell and Jack Harkness
6. The Ninth Doctor upgrades Rose Tyler’s cell phone giving it “universal roaming” capable of making calls across time and space. What other companions also received phones with universal roaming?
   • Answer: Martha Jones and Donna Noble
7. In episode “The End of the World”, as the Earth enters the final stages of oblivion, what piece of classical music does Cassandra elect to play on her “MP3 player”?
   • Answer: Toxic by Britney Spears
8. How did writer Russell T Davies come up with the name for the Torchwood institute?
   • Answer: It is an anagram of Doctor Who
9. The entire series of thirteen episodes for the Ninth Doctor is cleverly set in only four different locations. What are they?
   • Answer: London, Utah, Cardiff and a space station orbiting Earth. (London is the set for seven episodes including “World War Three” and “The Empty Child”. An underground base in Utah is the set for “Dalek”. Cardiff (where production of the show is based) is the set for “The Unquiet Dead” and “Boom Town”. The final location is a space station orbiting Earth for the other four episodes including “The End of the World” and “The Parting of the Ways”.)
10. What was Donna Noble’s job before she started traveling with The Doctor?
    • Answer: Temp secretary at H.C. Clements

Round 2

1. What relation was the gas mask child in “The Doctor Dances” to the character Nancy?
   • Answer: her son
2. Who is the Bad Wolf?
   • Answer: Rose Tyler
3. Before becoming Prime Minister, what district was Harriet Jones the Member of Parliament for?
   • Answer: Flydale North
4. What planet are the alien Slitheen family from?
   • Answer: Raxacoricofallapatorius
5. What is Donna Noble wearing when she first meets The Doctor?
   • Answer: A wedding dress
6. What is the name of the order of Catkind nuns that run the hospital on New Earth in the episode of the same name?
   • Answer: The Sisters of Plenitude
7. Who is the one person (other than The Doctor himself) who is confirmed as knowing The Doctor’s real name?
   • Answer: River Song
8. The Ninth Doctor is the only incarnation who was not faced which major villain on-screen?
   • Answer: The Master (Although the Master wasn’t introduced until the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) stories, the First (Richard Hurndall – for the late William Hartnell) and Second (Patrick Troughton) Doctors have crossed paths with the Master in the 20th Anniversary special The Five Doctors.)
9. Which of the other incarnations does The Tenth Doctor claim is his favorite?
   • Answer: The Fifth
10. What does TARDIS stand for?
    • Answer: Time and relative dimension in space

Round 3

1. What causes the Ninth Doctor to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor?
   • Answer: He absorbed the TARDIS’ Time Vortex from Rose Tyler
2. What are the Tenth Doctor’s first words after regenerating in the episode “The Parting of the Ways”?
   • Answer: “Hello. oh… new teeth, that’s weird.”
3. How old does the Tenth Doctor claim to be?
   • Answer: 900 years plus or minus, 903 or 906
4. What actress was the voice for Cassandra O’Brien in the episodes “The End of the World” and “New Earth”?
   • Answer: Zoë Wanamaker (Madame Hooch in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
5. How fast can Donna Noble type?
   • Answer: 100 words per minute
6. What three actors are the only ones to have played the same characters in both the original series and the new series?
   • Answer: Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) and John Leeson (K-9)
7. What does UNIT stand for?
   • Answer: Unified Intelligence Taskforce (or United Nations Intelligence Taskforce)
8. What Australian pop singer played the character Astrid Peth in the episode “Voyage of the Damned”?
   • Answer: Kylie Minogue
9. In what year in Earth’s past are the Doctor and Martha trapped in the episode “Blink”?
   • Answer: 1969
10. Which of the Tenth Doctor’s hands is cut off during his battle with the Sycorax in “The Christmas Invasion”?
    • Answer: Right

Round 4

1. Karen Gillan, who plays the Eleventh Doctor’s companion Amy Pond, appeared in an episode of Doctor Who with the Tenth Doctor. What part did she play?
   • Answer: A Soothsayer in “The Fires of Pompeii” in Series 4
2. Who are the four members of the Cult of Skaro?
   • Answer: Dalek Sec, Dalek Caan, Dalek Jast, Dalek Thay
3. What was the location of the major battle between the Daleks and the Cybermen on Earth in the episode “Doomsday”?
   • Answer: Canary Wharf in London
4. What job does Martha Jones take on while the Doctor is disguised as Professor John Smith in the episode “Human Nature”?
   • Answer: A maid
5. Georgia Moffett, who played the part of Jenny in the fourth series episode “The Doctor’s Daughter” is the real-life daughter of which Doctor?
   • Answer: She is the daughter of Peter Davison, who starred as the Fifth Doctor from 1982-1984
6. What substance was the Nestene Consciousness able to manipulate in the episode “Rose”?
   • Answer: Plastic
7. In addition to many episodes of Dr. Who, Russel T Davies has written two spin off series’ for the BBC. What are they?
   • Answer: Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
8. What is the title of the play that Shakespeare is trying to finish in “The Shakespeare Code”?
   • Answer: Love’s Labour’s Won
9. Which famous building was damaged by a flying saucer in the episode “Aliens of London”?
   • Answer: Big Ben
10. In how many episodes of Doctor Who did David Tennant play The Doctor?
    • Answer: 48 (51 if you include the mini-episodes Children in Need Special, Time Crash and Music of the Spheres). This question has been slightly modified. On the Trivia Night I didn’t specify episodes of what series and it was correctly pointed out that if you add up his appearances on other shows and voice acting in which Tennant played The Doctor the total is actually closer to 68.

Name the Actor

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Name the Character

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Tie Breaker Questions

1. There is mention of the Tenth Doctor using an item made of dwarf-star alloy. What was it and how was it used?
   • Answer: Chains, used to imprison Father-of-Mine in the episode “The Family of Blood”
2. When The Doctor introduces himself to Queen Victoria’s guards in the episode Tooth and Claw he uses the name “James McCrimmon”. What is the significance of that name?
   • Answer: James “Jamie” McCrimmon was a former companion of the Second Doctor – Jamie McCrimmon is Scottish and the Doctor is pretending to be a Scotsman.
3. What are the six words the Doctor uses to destroy Harriet Jones status as Prime Minister?
   • Answer: “Don’t you think she looks tired?”
4. Name all of the Tenth Doctor’s companions and be ready to defend the inclusion of any companions on your list.
   • Answer:
     • Rose Tyler (traveled with The Doctor in the TARDIS)
     • Mickey Smith (traveled with The Doctor in the TARDIS)
     • Jackie Tyler (rode once in the TARDIS and assisted in The Battle of Canary Wharf)
     • Donna Noble (traveled with The Doctor in the TARDIS)
     • Martha Jones (traveled with The Doctor in the TARDIS)
     • Captain Jack Harkness (traveled with The Doctor in the TARDIS)
     • Sara Jane Smith (former companion, assisted with resolving the events in “School Reunion”)
     • Astrid Peth (was accepted by The Doctor as a companion but died before she could travel with him)
     • Christina de Souza (Assisted with events in “Planet of the Dead”, would have traveled with The Doctor had he not been afraid of losing another companion)
     • Adelaide Brooke (traveled briefly with The Doctor after being rescued from Bowie Base One on Mars but later killed herself to restore the time-line)
     • Wilfred Mott (Donna Noble’s grandfather, traveled with The Doctor in the TARDIS)