Doctor Who - Series 8 Trivia

1. What fruit, a favorite of Santa Claus, showed up repeatedly during "Last Christmas"?

From Quiz Last Christmas

Answer: Tangerine

The episode opens with Santa Claus crashing on Clara's roof, where he is arguing with his elves about tangerines. The Doctor tells him "Nobody likes tangerines." When Santa Claus shows up a second time, a tangerine rolls through the door. And at the end, there is a tangerine sitting on Clara's windowsill. This is not the first time tangerines have made a appearance on "Doctor Who." The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) pulled one out of his pocket during "The Christmas Invasion" and used it to get rid of the Sycorax Leader (Sean Gilder).The Tenth Doctor used the word "satsuma", the British phrase for tangerines, which traces to their origins from Satsuma, Japan.

From Quiz "Doctor Who" Season 8

Answer: She didn't want him to stay so that he could go back home to Gallifrey

Missy told the Doctor the coordinates of Gallifrey and Clara didn't tell the Doctor that Danny was dead, so that he would go home without worrying about her.

From Quiz "Doctor Who" - Series 8

Answer: Deep Breath

It is named after the section of the episode which sees the protagonists holding their breaths to avoid detection by killer Clockwork Droids.

From Quiz Death in Heaven

Answer: 91

Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) estimated there were 87, and Missy (Michelle Gomez) corrected her, stating there were 91 Cybermen. The Doctor noted that would be one for every major city in England. Missy had established cyber-bases all around the world. She even made a few Pounds charging people to take pictures with "the metal men." The Cybermen fanned out from London and exploded, turning into clouds which spread Cybermen pollen over cemeteries. The pollen re-animated the dead and turned them into new Cybermen.

From Quiz Death in Heaven

Answer: Jenna Coleman has gained prominence over Peter Capaldi

Just before the opening title sequence begins, we see Clara emerging from behind a desk as the Cyberman in the room senses her presence. She then tries to convince it not to kill her by pretending that she is the Doctor. The titles then roll with Jenna Coleman's name appearing first, followed by Peter Capaldi's and then a glimpse of her eyes rather than his, effectively breaking the fourth wall and suggesting that, for this brief moment, outside the events of the episode, Clara is the lead character.

From Quiz Dark Water

Answer: traffic accident

Danny is talking on the phone with Clara when he is hit by a car while crossing the street. Clara has just confessed to Danny that she loves him, and she is prepared to tell him the rest of her Doctor secrets. After Danny is killed. a heartbroken Clara demands that the Doctor bend the laws of time in order to save him.

From Quiz Dark Water

Answer: He is hit by a car

The episode opens with Clara declaring her love for Danny on the phone. When she says it, the line goes quiet. Clara assumes he's just being quiet because she had just told him, repeatedly, to "shut up, shut up, shut up" because she had something to say to him. After a few more seconds of silence, a woman's voice is heard. She says that she found the phone on the ground after Danny was hit by a car while crossing the road. Clara drops her phone and rushes to the scene of the accident.

From Quiz The Doctor Visits the Forest

Answer: Trafalgar Square

The statue of Lord Nelson is a dead giveaway, especially when it almost crushes the Doctor and Clara. The Doctor arrives in Trafalgar Square, only to find it completely covered in forest. "We're in the middle of London," says Maebh. "No, we're in the middle of a forest," insists the Doctor. Trafalgar Square has shown up in a variety of "Doctor Who" stories over the years, on television and in prose and audiobooks. It was where the TARDIS was set down by UNIT in "The Day of the Doctor" (2013). Trafalgar Square has been one of London's most important public spaces since 1840, and it is often used as an establishing shot for London in films and television. The statue of Lord Nelson has been there since 1843. The square is named after the Battle of Trafalgar, a naval victory by Nelson in 1805.

From Quiz In the Forest of the Night

Answer: A glass of Coke

Maebh arrives at the TARDIS, having been chased by an unseen threat. She asks the Doctor to help her and he allows her to enter. Maebh is in awe of the TARDIS when she goes inside. The Doctor comes up to her and explains that the TARDIS being bigger on the inside is a bit like a small glass of Coke with a lot of sugar in it. He questions why she didn't mention it (as is customary for new arrivals). She assumes it's supposed to be bigger on the inside so that's why she doesn't say anything. The Doctor seems surprised because "most people are confused by that".

From Quiz Flatline

Answer: Bristol

The Doctor and Clara land in Bristol, which has been plagued by a large number of disappearances. The Doctor is hindered in his efforts to help because the TARDIS is rapidly shrinking, so Clara does most of the heavy lifting in this episode, with one dramatic Doctor scene at the end. Bristol is the largest city in southwestern history. People have been resident in the area for at least 60,000 years. It was chartered as a city in 1155, and for centuries was one of the largest cities in England. Bath is also in southwestern England and is famous for ancient Roman spas dating to the first century. Brighton is a beach community in the south of England, and is a popular vacation spot. Blackpool is Clara Oswald's hometown. It is located in northwest England, around 25 miles from Liverpool. It is a popular seaside resort.

From Quiz Flatline

Answer: Bristol

As usual, the Doctor is taking Clara back home after another of their adventures. On this occasion, he's got her back at the "same time, same place...ish" because the TARDIS is picking up some strange readings. Clara then notices the doors to the TARDIS are a lot smaller than they normally are. They go outside to see the TARDIS has shrunk. While the Doctor seems more concerned with the size of the box, Clara spots a sign that has "Bristol" written on it and gets annoyed that they're 120 miles away from where they should be.

From Quiz Mummy on the Orient Express

Answer: "Don't Stop Me Now"

In what the Doctor believed would be their last adventure, he took Clara for a ride on the Orient Express (in space). As they entered, he noted that it had a 1920s atmosphere. Which it sort of did, since Foxes was performing a jazz rendition of a 1970s rock song. She was performing "Don't Stop Me Now", which was sung by Freddie Mercury of Queen and released in January 1979. At the time, it was not a major hit (#86 on the Billboard charts) but it has grown in popularity and is now one of Queen's bigger hits. "Don't Stop Believing" was released by Journey in 1981. It reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song had a major revival in 2009 when it was performed on the pilot episode of "Glee." "Don't Stop (Thinking about Tomorrow)" is from the 1977 Fleetwood Mac alnum "Rumors". It peaked at #3 on the Billboard 100. The campaign of Bill Clinton helped revive the song in the 1990s. "Don't Stop the Music" is a 2007 song by Trinidadian pop star Rihanna. It was a #1 hit in Europe and Australia, and a #3 hit on the Billboard 100. The singer was British pop star Foxes (real name: Louisa Rose Allen). She began performing in London in 2011, and has had several top 20 singles. She won a Grammy Award for "Best Dance Recording" for "Clarity" with Zedd (2014).

From Quiz Mummy on the Orient Express

Answer: 66

Flickering lights. A temporary power drain. Start the clock. In the pre-titles sequence, an old woman sees the mummy coming towards her. However, only she can see it; to everyone else in the car, it just looks like an old woman shouting at thin air. As the clock counts down and the mummy gets closer, stretching its arms out to touch her, she becomes hysterical. The clock hits zero and the woman is dead. As we later find out, "They that bear the Foretold's stare have 66 seconds to live." But why?

From Quiz Kill the Moon

Answer: 45 minutes

As Clara was giving the speech, the clock was at 45 minutes, and she said 45 minutes in her speech. The terrible decision was whether or not to set off nuclear bombs on the moon, which would save the Earth but destroy a new and unique lifeform.

From Quiz Kill the Moon

Answer: 2049

The date is shown right at the very beginning of the episode. The fact that the events are playing out in the near future is addressed; Clara knows that the Moon doesn't get destroyed in 2049 because she has travelled further into the future and has seen the Moon. A return to the notion of "fixed points in time" and time being in flux also features in this episode, as the fate of the Moon and the Earth is decided.

From Quiz The Doctor is "The Caretaker"

Answer: Sand piranhas

The Doctor said "Before we starve, we'll be eaten by the sand piranhas." This was during a montage showing the Doctor and Clara on adventures, interspersed with scenes of dates with Danny Pink. Sand spiders are a real species. They are part of the genus Sicarius, and are also known as assassin spiders. They are found in southern Africa. They are highly venomous, but rarely bite humans. Sand sharks are real. They are mackerel sharks of the family Odontaspididae, and are also known as sand tiger sharks or gray nurse sharks. They rarely attack humans. Sand worms, at least ones large enough to eat you, are confined to the world of fiction, in films such as "Dune" (1984), "Tremors" (1990) and "Beetlejuice" (1988).

From Quiz The Caretaker

Answer: They're chained up on a desolate, rocky plain

Without any explanation of how they got there, "The Caretaker" opens with the Doctor and Clara chained up and left for dead on an alien planet. With the sun blazing down on them, Clara is convinced that they can't escape and that this is the end for them. However, the scene shifts to Clara hurriedly entering a pub to meet Danny, apologising for being late. Danny notices that she is "brown... very brown" and that she "wasn't that brown this morning". Clara quickly blames it on a sunbed. In the scenes that follow, the Doctor tempts Clara to meet "fish people" (when she meets Danny later in a taxi, she blames the fact that she's wet and has a bit of seaweed in her hair on a "freak shower"), and the two are running down a narrow corridor and trying to avoid being shot at (before Danny arrives at Clara's flat after she gets back and asks if she's ready to go for a run with him; Clara later returns to the apartment absolutely exhausted after two lots of running).

From Quiz Time Heist

Answer: The Teller

The telepathic monster was "The Teller." It had the power to read minds, and was especially good at detecting guilt; a useful skill for the security officer at a bank. The Teller was capable of sucking people's minds dry, turning them into "soup". The creature was telepathically linked to the owner of the bank. I'd say more, but ... spoilers.

From Quiz Time Heist

Answer: "Why is your face all coloured in?"

Getting ready for her second date with Danny Pink, the Doctor tries to convince her to go with him to the Satanic Nebula, the Lagoon of Lost Stars, and Brighton. Clara declines because she has plans. Again, the Doctor has seemed to have lost his "human touch" as he fails to realise that Clara wants him to compliment, or at the very least acknowledge, her appearance. The Doctor asks if she's taller, to which Clara points out she's wearing high heels (which he hadn't noticed). Just as she's about to leave, the TARDIS phone rings and, unable to ignore it, the Doctor answers. The pair suddenly find themselves in a strange room with no memory of how they got there, though this is put down to them having just touched memory worms (which erased their recent memories).

From Quiz The Doctor "Listens"

Answer: Sitting on top of the TARDIS

The Doctor was sitting atop the TARDIS, which was hovering in space. He was apparently deep in meditation, then climbed down and posed several questions. Self-answered questions appear to be one of the quirks of the Twelfth Doctor. The Doctor does show up in Clara's apartment, and on the last planet in the universe, but later on in the episode. The preview for "Time Heist" shows the Doctor and Clara in a bank vault. "Listen" explores the issue of whether the Doctor, who has fought the scariest monsters in the universe, has a boogeyman himself.

From Quiz Listen

Answer: Pufferfish

By himself in the TARDIS, the Doctor wonders why "we talk out loud when we know we're alone". He mentions that evolution has perfected survival skills, writing these on a blackboard. We see him in a tree, looking at a lioness take down a wildebeest as an example of a perfect hunter. He is then at the bottom of the ocean, looking out from the TARDIS at a pufferfish, deeming that to be something that exhibits perfect defence. The Doctor then asks, "Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding?" If such a creature existed, perfectly created by evolution to remain hidden, there would be no way of knowing if it actually existed. Putting down his piece of chalk, he then wonders what would happen if, suddenly, you "chose to speak aloud". "What would such a creature want? What would it do?" he asks. He turns round to pick up the chalk again, and it is not where he left it. Instead, it rolls toward him on the floor before he notices that "LISTEN" has been written on the blackboard.

From Quiz Robot of Sherwood

Answer: A spoon

"I am the Doctor, and this is my spoon!" Yes, the Doctor manages to defeat Robin Hood in a sword fight using a spoon... and his wits. "It's my box!" declares the Doctor. Tom Riley played Robin Hood. He has been acting since 2006, and is probably best known for the BBC medical drama "Monroe" and for playing Leonardo da Vinci in "Da Vinci's Demons," a Starz-television drama about the early life of the Italian artist.

From Quiz Robot of Sherwood

Answer: A spoon

After emerging from the TARDIS, the Doctor declares that there's "no damsels in distress, no pretty castles, no such thing as Robin Hood." Suddenly, an arrow embeds itself in the TARDIS, startling the Doctor. Robin Hood then reveals himself, and the two have a brief verbal exchange (mostly trading insults) before Robin draws his sword and the two begin swordfighting (although the Doctor chooses to brandish a spoon).

From Quiz Into the Dalek

Answer: Journey Blue

Journey Blue is the name of the soldier. She loses her brother at the start of the episode, and then joins the Doctor on the mission inside the Dalek. Towards the end, Journey asks the Doctor if she can come aboard the TARDIS. The Doctor says she is "nice, kind and brave" but turns down Blue's request. Zawe Ashton played Journey. She is probably best known as Violet "Vod" Norsdtrom on the BBC comedy "Fresh Meat." Ashton has won a lot of "newcomer" awards in recent years. She is also a talented writer, winning several poetry slam competitions and having several plays performed.

From Quiz Into the Dalek

Answer: Aristotle

In an action-packed pre-opening titles sequence, Lieutenant Journey Blue is piloting the Wasp Delta, a small but agile spacecraft on the run from a much larger ship. As Journey pilots the ship, she sends a distress call to the mothership, the Aristotle, requesting assistance for her and her wounded brother. The advancing ship, guns blazing, is revealed to be piloted by Daleks and as the Wasp is finally shot down, Journey screams and suddenly finds herself aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor having just saved her (but not her brother) a second before the Wasp exploded.

From Quiz Deep Breath

Answer: A giant dinosaur

A tyrannosaurus rex is wading in the Thames, looming over Big Ben. The dinosaur traveled to London when it swallowed the TARDIS. But have no fear, the Paternoster Gang (Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax) are on hand to investigate. The clock tower was completed in 1858. Long known simply as "the clock tower," the name was changed to Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to celebrate Elizabeth II's 60th anniversary as monarch. The tower is an establishing shot for London in many films and television programs, and has been destroyed several times on "Doctor Who."

From Quiz Deep Breath

Answer: "Shush."

Still reeling from his sudden regeneration and being pursued by a Tyrannosaurus rex, the Doctor emerges from the TARDIS and proceeds to confuse Strax with one of the Seven Dwarves and refers to Vastra and Jenny as "the green one and the not green one". He also forgets Clara's name, claiming that "names aren't my area".

From Quiz Last Christmas

Answer: Dream Crabs

The threat this time were dream crabs, nasty creatures which attach to your face and suck out your brain. They keep you in a dream state so you don't realize what is happening. They bore a strong resemblance to the face huggers from the science fiction classic "Alien" (1979). The mention of the film inspired one of Peter Capaldi's best lines: "There's a horror movie named 'Alien'? That's really offensive. No wonder everybody keeps invading you." The Dream Lord, an evil side to the Doctor's personality, was in "Amy's Dream". Dream Eaters come from the "Doctor Who" spinoff series "K-9" (March 2010).

From Quiz "Doctor Who" - Series 8

Answer: vaporized by Dalek antibody

After her death, she reappears in 'heaven' and is greeted by the mysterious Missy.

From Quiz Death in Heaven

Answer: Bowtie

When we last saw Osgood in "The Day of the Doctor" she had been wearing the Fourth Doctor's signature scarf. This time, Osgood had on a bowtie, even stating "bowties are cool," which the Eleventh Doctor was found of saying. Her costume was a mix of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. UNIT arrested both Missy and the Doctor. The Doctor was made "President of the Earth" to fight off the Cybermen. Celery was one of the signature accessories of the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), while the question mark sweater was worn by the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy). Osgood was played by British comedienne Ingrid Oliver. She has been active in comedy since 2005, mostly on television. Oliver and Lorna Watson make up the comedy team of Watson & Oliver.

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