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1. When the Doctor first meets little Amelia outside after he crashes the TARDIS, what food does he ask her for?


Answer: An apple

Interesting Information:
After the tenth Doctor regerates into the eleventh incarnation, played by Matt Smith, his TARDIS becomes damaged and crashes in the backyard of young Amelia Pond. When he pops out of the TARDIS, surprising the young child, he asks her for an apple and claims that's all he can think about. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who": "The Eleventh Hour"
 
Some incorrect choices:
Fish fingers, Toast, Yogurt

2. How many episodes of "Classic Who" aired prior to the movie with Paul McGann?


Answer: 694

Interesting Information:
"Classic Who" had 694 episodes with 154 different serials. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Classic Who" Quiz
 
Some incorrect choices:
569, 347, 1259

3. Professors Yana and Thascalos were aliases used by which villain?


Answer: The Master

Interesting Information:
Professor Yana was introduced in the season three episode "Utopia" as a man who was trying to save the remainder of the people left in the universe. However, when the Doctor arrives it sets loose memories locked away inside his fog watch which reveals to him his true identity. Afterwards, he goes back to Martha's time to become Prime Minister and take over the Earth. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Quiz 5
 
Some incorrect choices:
Daleks, The Silence, The Great Intelligence

4. Which volcano does the Doctor and his companion watch explode in season 4?


Answer: Mount Vesuvius

Interesting Information:
In this episode Donna and the Doctor land in ancient Rome, but don't realize until later that they're in Pompeii-on volcano day. When they realize this the Doctor tries to leave to avoid disrupting a fixed point in time but Donna is determined to save the people. After finding out that the activity of the mountain is caused by an alien, the Doctor realizes that he is in fact the cause of the volcano eruption when he and Donna must destroy the mountian (and thus the city) in order to save the Earth from the alien invasion. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Trivia 4
 
Some incorrect choices:
Krakatoa , Mount St. Helens , Eyjafjallajokull

5. What enemy do the Doctor and Rose face in the episode "Rose"?


Answer: Autons

Interesting Information:
Rose first encounters these aliens in the basement of the department store she works at when the Doctor takes her hand and says "Run". Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Trivia 3
 
Some incorrect choices:
Cybermen, Slitheen, Gelf

6. What is the most invaded planet in the galaxy?


Answer: Tivoli

Interesting Information:
Their anthem is "Glory To (Insert Name Here)" and their cities are designed to be comfortable for the invading armies. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Quiz 2
 
Some incorrect choices:
Vortis, Skaro, Mondas

7. How long was it between the air dates of the finale of the last "Classic Who" series "Survival" and the premiere of the "New Who" episode "Rose"?


Answer: 15 years

Interesting Information:
"Survival" aired on December 6, 1989 and "Rose" aired on March 26, 2005. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Trivia 1
 
Some incorrect choices:
20 years, 17 years, 13 years

8. Head of Scientific Research at UNIT, this cunning lady has met The Doctor multiple times. She helped him deal with small black cubes, the Zygons and even the terrifying Daleks!


Answer: Kate Stewart

Interesting Information:
Kate Stewart was the person described! River Song was Amy and Rory's daughter, and didn't face the Shakri, while although Martha worked at UNIT, she never dealt with the Zygons! Kate Stewart was the only person who fits the description! Kate Stewart was played by Jemma Redgrave in the revived series of "Doctor Who" from 2012. Difficulty: Average.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" - Who's That Character?
 
Some incorrect choices:
River Song, Martha Jones, Clara Oswald

9. When the Doctor meets Amelia Pond, what is it that he eats and actually likes?


Answer: Fish fingers and custard

Interesting Information:
It is the only thing he did not spit out or call evil or bad. Although in my opinion the bread and butter scene was the funniest: "And stay out!" Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" - "Eleventh Hour"
 
Some incorrect choices:
Tacos, Nachos, Bean burrito

10. What episode did River Song first appear in?


Answer: "Silence in the Library."

Interesting Information:
"Silence in the Library" was the first one of two parts. When The Doctor is trapped in a Library with Donna a group of archaeologists bursts in and one of them introduces herself as Professor River Song. Difficulty: Average.

From Quiz: River Song
 
Some incorrect choices:
"Forest of the Dead.", "Time of Angels", "Midnight."

11. What are the first aliens we see in this episode?


Answer: Headless Monks

Interesting Information:
Although the Cybermen are one of the first alien species' seen, the Headless Monks are technically the first, as they were behind Madam Kovarian when she was taking Melody. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who": "A Good Man Goes to War"
 
Some incorrect choices:
Sontarans, Silurians, Cybermen

12. According to the Doctor, what are the Judoon?


Answer: Police-for-hire

Interesting Information:
These police-for-hire are menacing monsters with tough, leathery skin, and heads that strangely look like a rhino's. They're hunting down a murderous Plasmavore who's pretending to be a human on and hiding in a hospital on Earth. Difficulty: Very Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 12 (2005-2008)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Firemen-for-hire, Dentists-for-hire, Doctors-for-hire

13. What did Cassandra claim she was the last of?


Answer: human

Interesting Information:
Top 10 Cassandra Facts
1. She claims her father was a Texan and her mother was from the Arctic desert...but she also talks about when she 'was a little boy'!
2. When the Doctor first meets Cassandra she'd had 708 operations which resulted in her looking like a trampoline!
3. When she's disguised as Rose, Cassandra carries a perfume bottle filled with a spray that knocks people out.
4. Cassandra has a surprisingly good knowledge of computers.
5. She loves banned technology, including teleportation and psycho-grafting.
6. A side-effect of all Cassandra's cosmetic surgery is the constant need for special moisturizer.
7. Nobody knows her precise age, but Cassandra thinks she doesn't look a day over 2,000!
8. when Cassandra jumps into other people's bodies she can tap into their emotions and feelings.
9. She was married at least five times.
10. There are many unconfimed rumors about her early life, including a career as an actress and her involvement in the deaths of many of her husbands. Difficulty: Very Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 11 (2005-2008)
 
Some incorrect choices:
trampoline, clone, sheep

14. What particles did the Empress need to release her babies?


Answer: Huon particles

Interesting Information:
The Doctor thinks that the only remaining remnant of Huon energy is hidden deep inside the TARDIS, but the Empress has been making Huon particles using the river Thames. Difficulty: Average.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 10 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Ham particles, Human particles, Hamster particles

15. Who DIDN'T travel through from the parallel world?


Answer: Rose the dog

Interesting Information:
If the strange desire to control an army of metal men ever comes over you, here's how to do it...
1. First you'll have to get caught by the Cybermen, which is rather scary...
2. Next, get upgradred by having your brain surgically removed and inserted into a cyber suit. Most people would stop before they got this far - it's way too painful to be worth it!
3. Practice your marching skills and work your way up the cyber ranks until you're second in command.
4. Wait for the current Cyber Leader to meet a sticky end...
5. Then download the software upgrade patch and enjoy the power! Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 8 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Mickey Smith, Pete Tyler, Jake Simmonds

16. Who did the robots travel through time to find?


Answer: Reinette Poisson

Interesting Information:
The beautiful Madame De Pompadour made sure that the Doctor could return to his TARDIS through her fireplace. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 7 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Queen Victoria, Jackie Tyler, Elton Pope

17. What were the Cult protecting through the void?


Answer: Genesis Ark

Interesting Information:
Hidden inside this piece of Time Lord technology were millions of imprisoned Daleks, ready to take over the world. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 6 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Oaisis Ark, Noah's Ark, The Ark of Destiny

18. When the Slitheen crashed a spaceship into Big Ben, what was the pilot?


Answer: A pig

Interesting Information:
The Slitheen crashed their ship into the Thames to create a diversion. The ship's alien pilot was really a pig they'd modified. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 3 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
A sheep, A horse, A cow

19. What was Mickey called in the parallel universe?


Answer: Ricky

Interesting Information:
The Preachers grab Mickey off the street because they think he is Ricky, their leader, but actually they are parallel twins! Difficulty: Very Easy.

From Quiz: 'Doctor Who' 2 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Mac, Colin, Mike

20. What name was given to the huge Dalek leader?


Answer: Emperor Dalek

Interesting Information:
More than just an Emperor, he became the Dalek's God after surviving the Time War and rebuilding an army of Daleks. Difficulty: Very Easy.

From Quiz: 'Doctor Who' 1 (2005-2007)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Dalek Prince, Godfather Dalek, King Dalek

21. Who was the first person to portray the Doctor in this story?


Answer: Rowan Atkinson

Interesting Information:
Atkinson had long wanted to portray the Doctor, and jumped at the chance in this charity special, which was broadcast on BBC1 on March 12, 1999. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death"
 
Some incorrect choices:
Adrian Edmundson, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy

22. In "The Christmas Invasion," The Doctor and Rose return to London. Who is the prime minister at the time?


Answer: Harriet Jones

Interesting Information:
We first met her in "Aliens in London". Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 2005-2006
 
Some incorrect choices:
Tony Blair, Gwen Wendells, Winston Churchill

23. Where did The Doctor and Rose first meet Captain Jack?


Answer: World War II

Interesting Information:
Jack was floating in an invisible spaceship on the top of Big Ben. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: Doctor Who
 
Some incorrect choices:
Cardiff during the Blitz, Platform One, Satellite Five

24. Who was the 9th Doctor played by?


Answer: Christopher Eccleston

Interesting Information:
He only did 1 series. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 2005 - 2006
 
Some incorrect choices:
David Tennant, Billie Piper, Peter Kay

25. Who plays the Doctor in the 28th series?


Answer: David Tennant

Interesting Information:
David Tennant's real name is David McDonald but that name was already registered with the Actor's Equity so after reading an interview in 'Smash Hits' with The Pet Shop Boys he changed his name to Tennant after The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant!

Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: Doctor Who
 
Some incorrect choices:
Christopher Eccelston, Noel Clarke, John Barrowman

26. The ninth Doctor regenerated into the tenth Doctor in 'The Parting of the Ways', but why did he have to regenerate?


Answer: He absorbed the time vortex in order to save Rose Tyler's life.

Interesting Information:
The Doctor sent Rose to Earth but Rose was determined to save him. So she looked into the time vortex, and it got inside her head. She took the time vortex and poured through every single Dalek's head and turned them to dust. Having the time vortex in her head, Rose Tyler would have died. So the Doctor took the time vortex and saved Rose's life. That doesn't mean it was a happy ending The Ninth Doctor was about to regenerate into The Tenth Doctor. He explained to Rose what was going to happen, and then in a burst of light he changed into The Tenth Doctor. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: 'Doctor Who'- The Tenth Doctor
 
Some incorrect choices:
He was exterminated by one of the Daleks., He created the Delta Wave which killed the Daleks, everyone on Earth, and also killed him., Captain Jack turned out to be a traitor and handed the Doctor over to the Daleks.

27. When little Amelia takes the Doctor into her room to show him the crack in her wall, what item does he use to press against her wall to listen to the other side?


Answer: Drinking glass

Interesting Information:
Young Ameila, who is afraid of the crack that has appeared on her bedroom wall, calls for help. When the Doctor shows up, and after he eats, he goes up to her bedroom to investigate. There is a drinking glass with some water inside that he proceeds to dump out onto the floor and then use to try and hear what it making noise on the other side. Difficulty: Average.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who": "The Eleventh Hour"
 
Some incorrect choices:
Stethoscope, Paper towel tube, Funnel

28. What were the first and last air dates for "Classic Who"?


Answer: 1963 and 1989

Interesting Information:
The first episode aired on 23 November 1963 and the last aired on 6 December 1989. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Classic Who" Quiz
 
Some incorrect choices:
1989 and 2005, 1963 and 1996, 1954 and 1989

29. What was the name of the small disc that the Doctor was trapped in for four and a half billion years?


Answer: Confession Dial

Interesting Information:
The confession dial was introduced in the episode "The Magician's Apprentice" and was brought back in the final 3 episodes of the ninth season. The Time Lords trap the Doctor inside where he is stuck in a loop of dying and reloading himself for over 4.5 billion years while running away from a creature from his nightmares, all in order to get the Doctor to reveal what he knows about "The Hybrid". He eventually escapes where he then returns to Gallifrey and banishes the President and High Council, disgusted that they had turned his confession dial into a torture chamber. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Quiz 5
 
Some incorrect choices:
Truth Revealer, The Hybrid, Confession Disk

30. In which century was the Doctor's friend Jack born?


Answer: 51st

Interesting Information:
Captain Jack Harkness made his first appearance in the episode "The Empty Child" as an ex-Time Agent trying to con the Doctor and Rose. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Trivia 4
 
Some incorrect choices:
52nd, 21st, 41st

31. How old was Amy when she died (according to her tombstone)?


Answer: 87

Interesting Information:
In the episode "The Angels Take Manhattan" a tombstone is shown, reading,
"In loving memory of Rory Arthur Williams aged 82 and his loving wife Amelia Williams aged 87". Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Trivia 3
 
Some incorrect choices:
85, 83, 89

32. The Doctor and Martha are watching what play in "The Shakespeare Code"?


Answer: Love's Labour's Lost

Interesting Information:
This is the second episode to feature Martha! Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Quiz 2
 
Some incorrect choices:
Love's Labout Won, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet

33. When the Doctor regenerated into Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, how many times had the Doctor regenerated?


Answer: 14

Interesting Information:
The Doctor has regenerated into 15 different versions, although not all were in the traditional sense.
Between Doctors Eight and Nine (Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston) there is what was called the War Doctor (John Hurt) that was first introduced in "The Name of the Doctor" and featured mostly in the episode "The Day of the Doctor", the show's 50th Anniversary special. Although not shown much, he is still the Doctor.
During the episode "The Stolen Earth" the Doctor is fatally wounded and- not wanting to change- channels his regeneration energy into a spare hand he had thus creating what we would call TenToo (or the Metacrisis Doctor). Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" Trivia 1
 
Some incorrect choices:
15, 13, 16

34. From a parallel Earth, this soldier helped the Doctor defeat the Cybermen. He made enemies with Mickey Smith, but they later travelled the world together to defeat the remaining Cybermen.


Answer: Jake Simmonds

Interesting Information:
Jake Simmonds was the person described! Yvonne Hartman fought the Cybermen, but never originated from a parallel Earth, Mrs Moore died while fighting them and Journey Blue was from a totally different series! Jake Simmonds appeared multiple times throughout the second series of "Doctor Who" in the episodes: "Rise of the Cybermen", "The Age of Steel" and "Doomsday", all of which aired in 2006. Jake Simmonds was played by Andrew-Hayden Smith. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" - Who's That Character?
 
Some incorrect choices:
Dr. Rajesh Singh, General Asquith, Captain Jack

35. What happened to the Doctor's sonic screwdriver?


Answer: It burns out

Interesting Information:
But at the end of the episode, he gains a new one.
He never leaves his sonic behind, because it is very handy, and helps on a massive scale. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" - "Eleventh Hour"
 
Some incorrect choices:
It gets crushed, It gets eaten by Prisoner Zero, It gets taken

36. What is River Song's first line to the Doctor in "Time of Angels"?


Answer: Follow that ship

Interesting Information:
River falls on top of the Doctor then gets up and says 'follow that ship' whilst looking at the now-escaping ship. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: River Song
 
Some incorrect choices:
Hello Sweetie, I always know, River Song

37. According to River, where did Stevie Wonder sing?


Answer: Under London bridge in 1814

Interesting Information:
It was River Song's birthday, when The Doctor took her to 1814 and had Stevie Wonder sing for her. Since he is blind, they took advantage of him and took him to 1814, but he never knew. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who": "A Good Man Goes to War"
 
Some incorrect choices:
By the ocean in 1902, By the Eiffel tower in 1820, In front of Big Ben in 1836

38. What did Lilith use to make Shakespeare write her words?


Answer: A puppet

Interesting Information:
5 Creepy Curses.
1. Lilith uses a spooky doll to make Shakespeare announce the performance of "Love's Labours Won" - a play he hasn't written.
2. Dolls and puppets can be so powerful that when Lilith uses one against Lynley, the Master of the Revels, it makes him spew water before killing him with an invisible blow to his chest.
3. The puppet isn't always needed for Carrionite cruelty though - Lilith turns into an old hag before killing Dolly Bailey.
4. Sometimes just a death touch is enough - Mother Doomfinger kills Peter Streete by putting her finger on his chest.
5. Lilith even turns Shakespeare into a human puppet when she drugs him and makes him write her Carrionite words into his play. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 13 (2005-2008)
 
Some incorrect choices:
A puppy, Threats of violence, Asking really nicely

39. What did the Judoon use to take the hospital to the Moon?


Answer: H2O scoop

Interesting Information:
The Judoons' leather clothes are designed for strength and protection. The Roman centurion-style skirt allows them to move with ease. Difficulty: Hard.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 12 (2005-2008)
 
Some incorrect choices:
Icecream scoop, Nitrogen scoop, Poop scoop

40. Where was Cassandra hiding in the New New York hospital?


Answer: In the basement

Interesting Information:
A loyal servant, Chip worships his mistress, and Cassandra treats him like a pet. He's a force-grown clone, modelled on Cassandra's favourite pattern. Unfortunately, as a clone-thing, he only has a half-life, which means he won't live for long. Difficulty: Easy.

From Quiz: "Doctor Who" 11 (2005-2008)
 
Some incorrect choices:
In intensive care, In the TARDIS, In the bathroom
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