Is There a Doctor in the House? Quiz

Answer: Doctor Who

Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) was one of the Tenth Doctor's companions, and the first black companion in the TV series. She was a medical student working at Royal Hope Hospital in London, which was transported to the Moon by the rhino-like Judoon. When the Doctor posed as a patient, she noticed he had two heartbeats.

While with the Doctor, she had encounters with Daleks, William Shakespeare, the Master - who kidnapped her family - and the Sontarans, among others. The Sontarans created a clone of her, transferring the original's memories to the clone, but the Doctor figured out she was a fake from her scent, and she died after the Doctor rescued the real Martha.

After leaving the Doctor, she joined UNIT (who fans of the Third Doctor's run might remember) and married Mickey Smith, Rose Tyler's former boyfriend.

Answer: Naruto

Sakura Haruno (later Uchiha) is a teenage ninja in Masashi Kishimoto's manga 'Naruto'. Unlike her more powerful team mates, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, she comes from an ordinary family and is considerably weak, although intelligent and with good chakra control.

After Sasuke defects from their home village of Konoha, Sakura resolves to become stronger so that she and Naruto can rescue Sasuke together, and she will no longer be a burden to her team mates. She trains under Tsunade, the Fifth Hokage and a skilled medic in her own right, for three years and learns how to use chakra to increase the power of her punches, as well as healing and surgical techniques.

She heals several characters in the second half of the series, such as Kankuro, brother of the Fifth Kazekage Gaara; Hinata Hyuuga, Naruto's future wife; and Naruto himself, even pumping his heart while giving him artificial resuscitation. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, she gains a seal on her forehead after storing chakra there, which increases her powers.

In the novels, she opens a paediatric clinic.

Answer: Star Trek

He's a doctor, not a mechanic! Leonard 'Bones' McCoy was the resident doctor of the Starship Enterprise in the original 'Star Trek' series. Born in the USA in 2227, he was one of the more emotional members of the Enterprise crew, in contrast to the stoic and logical Mr Spock, and acted as a conscience-like figure to Captain Kirk.

The nickname 'Bones' comes from 'Sawbones', an old nickname for surgeons (though in the 2009 movie, it comes from a line about McCoy's ex-wife leaving him 'nothing but my bones'). McCoy was later promoted to branch admiral of Starfleet Medical, and had a cameo in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in 1987.

He was played by DeForest Kelley in the original series and Karl Urban in the 2009 movie.

Answer: Transformers

Yes, even giant robots need doctors! Ratchet is the Chief Medical Officer of the Transformers and fittingly turns into an ambulance. He has a variety of equipment, such as arc welders and laser scalpels. His storyline varies depending on the continuity, but generally he is portrayed as an irreverent joker (and is supposedly a party 'bot, though this rarely comes up in canon).

In the cartoon, he became friendly with the human mechanic Sparkplug Witwicky, an ally of the Transformers who sometimes helped him with repair work.

In the live-action films, where he was played by Robert Foxworth, he was a member of the original team of Autobots who landed on Earth looking for the AllSpark, along with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Jazz and Ironhide, and transformed into a Hummer search-and-rescue vehicle.

In the 1986 animated film, he was killed by Megatron in gun mode.

Answer: Firefly

Simon Tam (Sean Maher) is the doctor of the Serenity crew in 'Firefly' and the older brother of River Tam, a traumatised prodigy and human weapon hunted by the Alliance. Simon is a genius and somewhat socially awkward - although not to the extent that River is - and will do anything to keep River safe after saving her from the Academy, where she was subjected to experiments that drove her insane.

A kind-hearted but pragmatic man, Simon struggles to adapt to the spartan living conditions on board the Serenity after living a life of luxury with his upper-class family.

In 'Serenity', the film of 'Firefly', Simon is wounded while holding off the Reavers, a bunch of cannibalistic humans. River throws his medical kit to him before massacring the Reavers in revenge.

Answer: The Hunger Games

Primrose Everdeen is the younger sister of Katniss, the heroine of Suzanne Collins' 'Hunger Games' series. In the films, she is played by Willow Shields. She is the reason for Katniss entering the Hunger Games in the first place; she is chosen as the female tribute for District Twelve, but Katniss volunteers to go to the Games in her place. Mrs Everdeen is a healer and apothecary, and Primrose helps her with her patients.

When the survivors of the District Twelve bombing are evacuated to District Thirteen, Primrose helps heal the wounded and aspires to become a doctor. Primrose is deployed to the Capitol as a nurse to save Capitol children during a bombing attack; Katniss recognises her by her braid and untucked shirt.

She is killed by a second wave of bombs before Katniss can reach her, and Katniss discovers President Coin is behind the bombing, which was designed to look like a Capitol attack.

She later shoots Coin dead in revenge.

Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Dr John Watson is probably one of fiction's most famous sidekicks; he's Sherlock Holmes' partner and the narrator of most of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about the great detective, playing the role of Holmes' biographer. He is more of an everyman figure, compared to the eccentric Holmes.

He is a qualified surgeon and former soldier - Holmes even deduces that he served in Afghanistan after noticing his tan - who retired from the British Army after being injured at the Battle of Maiwand. In 'The Sign of the Four', he gets engaged to Mary Morstan, a governess, although she later dies and Watson moves back in with Holmes in 'The Adventure of the Empty House'.

He has been played by Robert Duvall, Jude Law, Donald Houston, Ben Kingsley and many others over the years in films, and by Martin Freeman in Steven Moffat's 'Sherlock' series.

Answer: The Chalet School

Dr John 'Jack' Maynard is one of the doctors at the Sonnalpe Sanatorium in the Tyrol in the early years of Elinor M Brent-Dyer's 'Chalet School' series, and the brother of Mollie Maynard, the Chalet School's original maths mistress. He becomes friendly with Joey Bettany, the series heroine, and marries her after she leaves school in 'The Chalet School in Exile'. Along with Joey, geography teacher Miss Wilson, fellow doctor Gottfried Mensch and several of the girls, he is forced to go into hiding for several days after an encounter with local Nazis.

He serves as a Navy doctor during the war years and is feared dead in 'The Highland Twins at the Chalet School', though he is later revealed to have survived. By the end of the series, Jack and Joey have eleven children, including triplets Len, Con and Margot, as well as a few foster children.

He later becomes head of the Swiss branch of the Sanatorium.

Answer: Lost

Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) is one of the leading characters of 'Lost' and one of the survivors of the ill-fated Flight 815. He is a spinal surgeon who married one of his patients, Sarah Wagner, only for the marriage to end in divorce, and also has a complicated relationship with his abusive father.

He becomes the leader of the Flight 815 survivors, albeit reluctantly, and later the protector of the mysterious island. While on the island, he falls in love with Kate Austin, a criminal on the run, and regularly tries to save people, only for it to end in disaster.

At the end of the series, he dies after being stabbed in the side by the Man in Black, a mysterious figure made of smoke who impersonates various dead people, although not before he kicks the Man in Black off a cliff.

Answer: The Wheel of Time

Nynaeve al'Meara is the Wisdom of Emond's Field, and one of the major characters of Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel of Time' series. She is relatively young for the position, which means she has to work extra hard to be taken seriously. She is skilled in the use of herbs and later learns how to use Healing magic; she is a wilder, a woman who can channel without being taught, and is one of the strongest living channellers, even unable to undo Stilling (when a female channeller is depowered).

When Moiraine Damodred of the Aes Sedai comes to Emond's Field on Winternight and takes a group of teenage villagers with her, Nynaeve comes along to keep an eye on them, and goes to the White Tower to train as an Aes Sedai.

She falls in love with Lan Mandragoran, Moiraine's Warder, and later marries him and bonds him as her own Warder after Moiraine's disappearance. Nynaeve can only channel when she is angry, which causes her a lot of problems early in the series, though this changes after she nearly drowns in 'A Crown of Swords'.

As an Aes Sedai, she joins the Yellow Ajah, who specialise in healing.