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"Doctor Who": "Robot" Trivia Quiz

This quiz is about the serial "Robot", the first "Doctor Who" story to feature Tom Baker in the role of the Doctor.

A multiple-choice quiz by vig407. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
vig407

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
254,784

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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732

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Question 1 of 10

1. What was the name of the UNIT Medical Officer, whom the Brigadier put in charge of the Doctor after his regeneration? Hint

Lt. Harry Sullivan

Dr. Rutherford

Captain Ian Marter

Dr. Kettleworth

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Question 2 of 10

2. According to the Doctor, the Brigadier's full name is Alastair Gregory Lethbridge Stewart.

True

False

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Question 3 of 10

3. What was the first outfit that the Doctor wore after getting dressed in the TARDIS? Hint

A Pierrot clown

A viking

A king (from a deck of cards)

His soon-to-be usual attire with his slouch hat and scarf

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Question 4 of 10

4. What was the proper name of the research facility that Sarah Jane wanted to get a visitor's pass for? Hint

Think Tank

Frontiers of Science

Emmett's Electronics

National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research

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Question 5 of 10

5. What word did the Doctor say that he never cared for? Hint

Impregnable

Invulnerable

Unsinkable

Unstoppable

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Question 6 of 10

6. The full name of the Robot was Experimental Prototype Robot K-1.

True

False

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Question 7 of 10

7. SRS was a radical group dedicated to vast changes in society. What did "SRS" stand for? Hint

Society for the Reformation of Science

Scientific Reclamation Society

Science Reformation Society

Scientific Reform Society

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who designed and built the Robot? Hint

Hilda Winters

J. P. Kettlewell

Andrew Jellico

Joseph Chambers

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Question 9 of 10

9. The Robot stole the plans for the disintegrator gun from Cabinet Minister Joseph Chambers.

True

False

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Question 10 of 10

10. What finally destroyed the Robot? Hint

Sarah Jane talked it into surrendering

The disintegrator gun

A metal virus

The Doctor talked it into surrendering

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What was the name of the UNIT Medical Officer, whom the Brigadier put in charge of the Doctor after his regeneration?

Answer: Lt. Harry Sullivan

Harry (Ian Marter) didn't know it at the time, but he was about to become one of the Doctor's companions (and be featured in a number of his pivotal adventures in this regeneration).

2. According to the Doctor, the Brigadier's full name is Alastair Gregory Lethbridge Stewart.

Answer: False

The Doctor recites his name as 'Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart'. He had him briefly confused with both Alexander the Great and Hannibal.

3. What was the first outfit that the Doctor wore after getting dressed in the TARDIS?

Answer: A viking

The Doctor seemed to handle this regeneration (and the confusion surrounding it) much better than his predecessors, getting acclimated to his new form much more quickly than his second or third incarnations.

4. What was the proper name of the research facility that Sarah Jane wanted to get a visitor's pass for?

Answer: National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research

While it was referred to several times as a Think Tank, the name of Sarah Jane's (Elisabeth Sladen) visitor's pass was clearly "National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research". Hilda Winters (Patricia Reynolds) was the Director and Arnold Jellico (Alec Linstead) was his secretary.

5. What word did the Doctor say that he never cared for?

Answer: Impregnable

He disliked the word because it was too much like "unsinkable", which reminded him of the Titanic. In this case, he was borne out, as the Robot still managed to burrow in and make off with the focusing generators at Emmett's Electronics.

6. The full name of the Robot was Experimental Prototype Robot K-1.

Answer: True

Winters had set the Robot on Sarah Jane as a joke, ordering it to kill her in order to prove to the reporter that it could not contravene it's prime directive to "serve humanity and never harm it" and "replace the human being in a variety of difficult and dangerous tasks". The Robot told Sarah Jane that a conflict in its prime directive causes an imbalance in its neural circuits.

7. SRS was a radical group dedicated to vast changes in society. What did "SRS" stand for?

Answer: Scientific Reform Society

The group was actually led by Winters, and were using the Robot to gain the pieces they needed in order to blackmail the world into instituting their plan to rule the world by a self-appointed elite.

8. Who designed and built the Robot?

Answer: J. P. Kettlewell

Kettlewell had constructed the Robot out of a living metal, which he had invented and had the capacity to grown like a living organism. He was also, a member of the SRS (though Sarah Jane didn't know he was one of the prime forces in the group).

9. The Robot stole the plans for the disintegrator gun from Cabinet Minister Joseph Chambers.

Answer: False

The Robot has stolen the plans in his initial foray in the first episode.

Chambers had the destructor codes that could launch all the world's nuclear missiles. They had been given to Great Britain as part of an agreement between Russia, America and China. The Robot killed him and stole them so that the SRS's blackmail plot could be put into play.

10. What finally destroyed the Robot?

Answer: A metal virus

The Doctor and Harry created an active solution of a metal virus (from Kettlewell's notes). The Brigadier had tried to stop the Robot with the disintegrator gun, but it reacted with the living metal and caused the machine to grow to giant-size. The Doctor splashed a pail of the virus on the Robot, which caused it to turn red and threw its growth mechanism into reverse.

The Robot simply disappeared, and Sarah Jane and Harry joined the Doctor in the TARDIS for a new adventure.

Source: Author vig407

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