"Doctor Who": Connect the Plot Points Online Quiz | Television

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1. During the series one episode, "Boom Town", the Doctor parked the TARDIS in Cardiff to soak up energy. What feature in Cardiff, first seen in "The Unquiet Dead" would energize the TARDIS?

Answer: The rift

The rift was a break in time and space. Previously the bodiless Gelth had attempted to use the rift to come through and possess the bodies of human corpses. Gwyneth initially established a bridge for the Gelth and later destroyed it. The Doctor was later seen recharging the TARDIS in "Boom Town" and "Utopia". Captain Jack Harkness who was trapped without time transport kept an eye on the refuel point waiting for the Doctor.

This was mentioned in the spin-off show "Torchwood" in the episode, "Fragments".

He caught up in "Utopia". The rift was a major plot point in "Torchwood". Eve Myles who played Gwyneth also starred in "Torchwood" as Gwen alongside John Barrowman in his Captain Jack role.

2. The episode, "Bad Wolf", unwillingly transported the Doctor, Rose and Jack into dangerous reality television programs. These games were placed in a setting that the Doctor and Rose had visited before in "The Long Game". What name did they associate with this place?

Answer: Satellite Five

Satellite Five was a news broadcasting station for the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Unfortunately all the news was manipulated by the mighty Jagrafess who was actually enslaving the human world. With the help of Cathica, the Jagrafess was destroyed, but mankind was weakened with the sudden loss of news programming. Satellite Five was transformed into the game station, where people were automatically transmitted into reality game shows that killed the losers.

At first the Doctor took the blame for this twisted human world until he learned that the Daleks were behind the whole plan, including the earlier installation of the Jagrafess.

3. The phrase, "Bad Wolf," followed the Doctor and Rose throughout series one until Rose learned its true meaning, acting upon it in "The Parting of the Ways". Which of the following was NOT how the message "bad wolf" was given?

Answer: Read in the broadcast news in "The Long Game"

"Bad Wolf" was mentioned in almost every story in the first series. At first, the Doctor believed that it was a warning or something malicious was stalking them. It was Rose who put the puzzle together as a message that she could help the Doctor. With Mickey and her mother's help, Rose looked into the time vortex and became the Bad Wolf.

She was behind the actual scattering of the message to bring herself to the moment she was needed. To save her life, the Doctor took the time vortex out of her head, but he was forced to regenerate.

In "Tooth and Claw", a werewolf type creature recognized the wolf inside Rose. In series four episode "Turn Left", she told Donna to give the message, "Bad Wolf," to the Doctor. Her return was heralded by the words "Bad Wolf" displayed everywhere including on the TARDIS.

4. While "Bad Wolf" was the key phrase in series one, "Torchwood" was the all-important phrase in series two. However, the first mention of Torchwood came from series one. How was Torchwood introduced?

Answer: During a game show in "Bad Wolf"

Rose was trapped in a futuristic version of "The Weakest Link" with the Anne Droid. Torchwood was the correct answer to what remains was the Great Cobalt Pyramid built on. According to other references, the Torchwood Institute began under Queen Victoria to protect the British empire from alien threat, including the Doctor.

It was named after the Scottish estate where the queen was threatened by a werewolf alien in "Tooth and Claw". Torchwood's power was first seen in the "Christmas Invasion" when they destroyed the Sycorax ship. Torchwood London was responsible for helping the Cybermen come into this world and the release of the Dalek void ship.

The television show followed the adventures of a different branch of Torchwood than the London branch the Doctor encountered.

5. In the series two episode, "New Earth" the Doctor and Rose visit the new home for humans after the death of the Earth. Which previously encountered character did they meet?

Answer: Lady Cassandra

Lady Cassandra, voiced by Zoe Wanamaker, was out for revenge after the Doctor had destroyed her evil plot and skin in "The End of the World". Her latest goal was to use a psychograft to put her mind into a new body. Lady Cassandra prided herself on being the last pure human and knew that Rose was also a pure human. Over the course of the episode, she took over the bodies of Rose, the Doctor, a sick clone and her forced grown clone, Chip. Chip was a faithful servant to Lady Cassandra, but his life was nearly over.

After realizing that she had lived long enough, the Doctor took Lady Cassandra/Chip to one of Lady Cassandra's happiest moments of her life and died in the arms of a younger Cassandra.

6. In "Gridlock", the Doctor discovered his old friend, the Face of Boe. They had met in "The End of the World". In "New Earth", the Face of Boe was supposedly dying and would impart his words of wisdom to a traveler like himself in the end. What dying words did the Doctor finally hear from the giant face in "Gridlock"?

Answer: You are not alone.

The Doctor lost Rose Tyler at the end of the second series in "Doomsday". Although now traveling with Martha, the Doctor wore his loneliness on his sleeve. He was the last of the Time Lords as their planet, Gallifrey, was lost in the Time War. Despite Boe's words, the Doctor did not take hope in them and informed Martha that they were all gone. Little did he know, that there was one surviving Time Lord that would appear for the third series finale.

The Face of Boe made the news in "The Long Game" when he was pregnant.

He was also the answer to a question in "Bad Wolf" as the oldest inhabitant of the Isop Galaxy. "The Last of the Time Lords" implied that the Face of Boe was a greatly aged Captain Jack Harkness.

7. The TARDIS threw Martha, the Doctor and surprisingly Captain Jack Harkness into the far, far distant future at the end of the universe in "Utopia". They met the genius Professor Yana who was building a spaceship for mankind's future. Martha found a possession of Professor Yana's which clued her in that he was a Time Lord masquerading as a human. Which object did Martha recognize from the Doctor's time as a human in "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood"?

Answer: A fob watch

When the Doctor was hiding from the Family of Blood, the Doctor was able to become human and hid his Time Lord consciousness in the fob watch. Since part of the transformation included amnesia and a human back story, the fob watch also had a perception filter so that the human version would not pay attention to the watch.

When opened, it would release the Time Lord consciousness and reverse the transformation. Martha recognized the Gallifrey markings on the back. Racing to tell the Doctor, she reminded him of the words the Face of Boe had spoken. Unfortunately this particular Time Lord was the evil Master who went on a rampage of destruction and slavery. Professor Yana was brilliantly played by Derek Jacobi. John Simm took over the part when the Master regenerated.

8. "Partners in Crime" opened series four, and the Doctor brought a new permanent companion, Donna Noble, into the TARDIS. Most episodes when a companion joined the Doctor for more adventures included an introduction story, but he had met Donna before. Which episode fully featured Donna in her first adventure (NOT a 30 second teaser)?

Answer: Runaway Bride

Donna Noble first appeared in the last seconds of "Doomsday", but her first full adventure was in the following Christmas episode which flowed from the end of "Doomsday". She was transported to the TARDIS by the huon particles which she had unknowingly been infected with.

At the time she was on her way up the church aisle to be married. The Doctor speculated that all of her hormones and her mental state activated the particles. The Doctor invited her to come with him at the end of the day, but she declined as the Doctor's way of life scared her.

She did tell him to find someone. Regretting this decision later, she attempted to track him down by investigating cases that would interest him. She succeeded in "Partners in Crime".

9. The return of Rose Tyler was a highly anticipated event throughout series four, but there were other story lines feeding into the big finale. In "Stolen Earth", the Shadow Proclamation explained that many worlds have been taken. Throughout their travels, the Doctor and Donna recalled other planets that had disappeared, which were considered cold cases by the Shadow Proclamation. Which of the following was NOT one of those planets?

Answer: Messaline

"Partners in Crime" explained that the Adipose had to seed the Earth to help reproduce after their breeding planet, Adipose 3, was lost. Miss Foster told the Doctor that she did not know why as politics were not her concern. The Pyroviles came to Earth in "Fires of Pompeii" after losing their home planet.

In the episode, "Midnight", Dee Dee Blasco mentioned to the Doctor that she had earned Professor Hobbes attention by writing a paper on the Lost Moon of Poosh. Once these planets were put together with the other cases, the Doctor saw that they did fit together in a beautiful pattern. Of course, the Daleks were behind the entire theft and were hiding them all in the Medusa Cascade, another key word for series four.

10. "The End of Time" featured the return of Gallifrey, long thought lost forever by the Doctor. Which plot point from the previous episodes was the key to the Time Lord strategy for their return?

Answer: The sound of drums in the Master's head

The episode "Utopia" first mentioned that the Master was haunted by the sound of drums in his head. The Doctor always took this to be a symptom of the Master's insanity. In the first part of "The End of Time", the Master forced the Doctor to listen to his mind and was vindicated when the Doctor acknowledged the sound's existence. Part two revealed that the Time Lords had retroactively placed the sound in the Master's mind to create a link outside of the time-locked war that would consume the planet and its people.

A "Whitepoint Star" was also sent to establish a physical link. Knowing that the Time Lords planned to end time, the Doctor destroyed them again by sending them back to the Time War with the help of the Master.

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"Doctor Who": Connect the Plot Points Quiz

Not all "Doctor Who" episodes were disconnected. Can you remember how points from previous episodes came into play in future adventures? All stories came from the Russell T. Davies era (2005-2010).

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