Steven Moffat Preview Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rowan Atkinson

The comedic spoof was commissioned for the 1999 Red Nose Day charity telethon. At that time, "Doctor Who" was not on the air, and it took a fond look back at the classic villains: the Master and the Daleks. The story made fun of some of the plot holes from the classic series as well as taking the ability to manipulate time to the most absurd degree possible. Through it all, Steven Moffat revealed his flair for taking seemingly disconnected plot points and bringing them together for a successful conclusion of the story.

The short special also utilized the Doctor's regeneration ability by also casting Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley as the Doctor in the closing sequence as the Doctor was killed multiple times.

Answer: Captain Jack Harkness

Captain Jack Harkness from the 51st century was a former time agent gone rogue. Believing the Doctor and Rose to be time agents, he suckered them into a con using a Chula ambulance crashed into Earth during the World War II air raids of London. When everything went wrong, he became extremely helpful in rescuing the Doctor and Rose.

He earned enough points to become a companion for the rest of the first series. His flirtatious personality and action star heroics made him a nice contrast to the more introspective Doctor. Jack would later star in the spin-off show, "Torchwood" and would reappear in future episodes of "Doctor Who".

Answer: Go to your room!

Steven Moffat managed to take the simple phrase, "Are you my Mummy?" and making it one of the most chilling to come out of "Doctor Who". People all over London were becoming zombies with gas masks calling out for their mummies, and the Doctor realized it all came down to one four-year-old child. "The Empty Child" ended with the Doctor, Rose and Jack surrounded by the gas mask people. One touch would make you like them.

When "The Doctor Dances" began, the Doctor took the stern voice of an angry parent and told the gas mask people to "go to your room".

It was a shot in the dark, but it worked as they wandered back to their beds like scolded children. The Doctor was exceedingly glad, because "those would have been terrible last words."

Answer: Banana daiquiri

The story began on a 51st century spaceship (also the same era that Captain Jack called home), which had an 18th century fireplace looking into France. While Rose and Mickey stayed on the ship for the most part, the Doctor would swing into France, and he met and snogged the Madame de Pompadour.

After Rose and Mickey were captured, the Doctor returned from a French party apparently drunk and stated that he may have invented the banana daiquiri two centuries early. He also imparted the wisdom to "always bring a banana to a party" before rescuing the pair.

Answer: Clockwork men

The clockwork men were beautiful examples of space-age clockwork, that even the Doctor admired. As they were stalking the Madame de Pompadour by creating holes through time into the pages of her life, they dressed the part as French aristocrats. She first encountered them as a child and called them the nightmares of her childhood, but the Doctor assured her that they had nightmares about him. Through this story, Steven Moffat taught the audience to be afraid of broken clocks.

The clockwork men would break the clocks so that no would notice the second ticking sound.

Answer: They made her feel sad.

You may ask like Sally's friend, Kathy, about why sad is good. Sally's response was, "It's happy for deep people." Sally first caught onto the mystery when taking pictures of an old house. Larry described it as "Scooby-Doo's house". During her nighttime photography, she discovered a message from the Doctor behind the wallpaper telling her to duck.

It was dated from 1969. Later, she would open up a shop that sold rare DVDs and antiquarian books.

Answer: The angels have the phone box.

Larry never could figure out the DVD which sometimes responded to what you said. The guys on the internet were always trying to decipher the random comments. Then one night, he learned that Sally provided the other half of the conversation. The Doctor had a copy of the finished transcript that he would receive from Sally after most of the events of this story. That's time travel for you.
The episode was based on a short story also penned by Steven Moffat, titled "What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow".

Answer: The Fifth Doctor

Peter Davison who originated the role of the fifth Doctor reprised it for this special. In the following season, Davison's daughter, Georgia Moffett, would play the Doctor's daughter. The short plot consisted of each Doctor's TARDIS being in the exact same place and getting stuck. Moffat explained the fifth Doctor's age through the words of the tenth Doctor, "Mind you, a bit saggier than I ought to be. Hair's a bit greyer. That's 'cause of me, though. Two of us together has shorted out the time differential." The tenth Doctor was able to separate themselves by remembering what he did when he observed it as the fifth Doctor.

Answer: The Dark

In this story, Moffat claimed that fear of the dark was not irrational. Any shadow could be Vashta Nerada, piranhas of the air. They were sometimes visible as dust in a sunbeam. According to the Doctor, the Vashta Nerada hatched from trees and usually hunt in forests.

In this story, they hatched from the books. So he did provide an innocent object that could be turned into something scary: books. Enjoy your next visit to your local library!

Answer: Everybody lives.

"Everybody lives," the Doctor shouted in "The Doctor Dances" with glee and triumph. In most "Doctor Who" stories at least one person died. "Forest of the Dead" cheated a bit by providing a virtual reality life and existence for the dead. This line was used when a virtual River Song told the story of the Doctor to her virtual children.

This story also took place in the 51st century, like "The Girl in the Fireplace". River Song carried a squareness gun, which Jack Harkness also carried.