Halfway Out of the Dark: "Doctor Who" Quotes Quiz

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1. During the memorable climax of a season 2 episode, the Doctor faces his demonic enemy and says boldly, "I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demigods and would-be gods; out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing...just one thing...I believe in her." Of course he's talking about his companion, Rose Tyler, but on what planet is the Doctor trapped when he says this?

Answer: Krop Tor

The Doctor is facing a gigantic Beast who is somehow linked with all of humanity's ideas of evil incarnations, such as Satan. He knows he has to make a dangerous choice that could endanger Rose's life, but he trusts that she is more than just a victim. He must have a strong faith in Rose to face such a creature with so much certainty!

Krop Tor is the planet miraculously orbiting around a black hole in "The Satan Pit", the episode this quote is from, as well as the preceding episode "The Impossible Planet".

2. After his adventures with L.I.N.D.A. and the Abzorbaloff in "Love and Monsters", Elton Pope reflects by saying, "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, 'Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.' But the truth is: the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder." How does he finish this line?

Answer: "And so much better."

This episode, "Love and Monsters", takes place during season 2. Elton, the main protagonist of the episode, has documented his adventures in a video diary, and he directs these words to his camera at the end of the episode. With multiple run-ins with the Doctor and a life-threatening alien from another planet, it's no wonder he comes to this conclusion. Discovering that there's more to living than the every day routine is a common theme for the Doctor's companions; when they experience what it's like to travel through time and space, it is often hard to go back.

But the danger they often encounter while traveling in the TARDIS is almost always worth it.

3. In a season 3 episode, who is the Doctor speaking to when he says, "Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person"?

Answer: Lazarus

In the episode "The Lazarus Experiment", the Doctor says this to Lazarus when the latter defends his desire to live forever by saying, "One lifetime's been too short for me to do everything I'd like. How much more I'll get done in two, or three, or four." The response is even more meaningful coming from the Doctor, who has lived for over 900 years at the time of this episode.

He doesn't consider the length of his life to be of nearly as much value as what he does with those years.

4. During a highly emotional scene in season 3, someone describes the Doctor by saying, "He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And...he's wonderful." Who says this, and whom is he/she most directly addressing?

Answer: Timothy; John Smith/the Doctor

One of the most highly emotional scenes in David Tennant's run as the Doctor, this description of him comes from "The Family of Blood", the second part of the story that begins with "Human Nature". Timothy, a school boy, is trying to make John Smith (the human Doctor) understand why he needs to bring the Doctor back.

Although the question is posed to him by Joan Redfern, Timothy turns to John/the Doctor to give his answer. This description of the Doctor, like many others throughout the series, captures both the Doctor's goodness and his extraordinary power.

5. Someone tells the Doctor, "We must look like insects to you." He responds by saying, "I think you look like giants." To whom is he speaking?

Answer: Wilfred Mott

This occurs near the very end of the tenth Doctor's life, midway through the second half of "The End of Time." When the Doctor tells him he's 900 years old, Wilfred is shocked and, like others who have met the Doctor, wonders what he must think of humans in comparison. The Doctor has to convey once again that the length of a life isn't what makes a person "big" or "small" in his eyes.

6. In one of her early episodes on the show, Amy Pond says, "What if you were really old and kind and alone? Your whole race dead. No future. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old and that kind and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry." Who or what is she talking about?

Answer: Both of these

This takes place during the season 5 episode "The Beast Below", when Amy realizes that setting the star whale free from its captivity won't cause the death of everyone on the ship. The star whale is carrying the ship willingly, because it heard the children crying and couldn't bear to see them suffer. Amy knows that the whale will stay because she's seen another instance of someone who has suffered and lost its family, someone old, alone, and yet kind, and unable to bear hearing the cry of children-the Doctor.

7. After taking Vincent van Gogh home and returning to his gallery at the museum, the Doctor tells Amy, "Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them ____" ... what?

Answer: unimportant

This scene is at the end of the season 5 episode "Vincent and the Doctor". Amy is upset because she thinks since "time can be rewritten," Vincent won't kill himself after the difference she and the Doctor have made in his life. But when they return to the museum, nothing has changed.

The Doctor tries to remind her that they still made a difference, saying, "We definitely added to his pile of good things."

8. "Halfway out of the dark" is a recurring theme in one of the "Doctor Who" special episodes. Which of the following characters is most strongly associated with this quote?

Answer: Kazran Sardick

This is from the 2010 episode "A Christmas Carol". Kazran explains that "On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact midpoint, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say 'Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark.'" This day falls on Christmas, or the Winter Solstice. Later, the Doctor uses "halfway out of the dark" to refer to Kazran's development as a person, as he is becoming less bitter and hateful and learning to love.

9. "I am and always will be the optimist-the hoper of far-flung hopes, the dreamer of improbable dreams." This is said to Amy by whom - the Doctor or his Ganger?

Answer: Ganger

This is from the season 6 episode "The Almost People", a continuation of "The Human Flesh". Although Amy thinks it's the original Doctor who is saying this, it's actually revealed at the end of the episode that the Doctor and his Ganger switched shoes to prove that Amy (and the others) are prejudiced against the Gangers. Of course, technically it's Amy's Ganger that he is speaking to, as is revealed at the end of the episode.

10. This last one is almost as menacing as it is inspiring. In an epic season 6 episode, the name of the asteroid military base "Demon's Run" is attributed to the first line of the following poem: "Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies, Night will fall and the dark will rise When a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; The battle is won but the child is lost." The poem also applies, of course, to the Doctor, who in this episode assembles an army of past allies and friends to rescue Amy and her daughter. The last line contains another important plot point. Who recites the poem in voice-over during the battle at Demon's Run?

Answer: River Song

This poem is from the season 6 episode "A Good Man Goes to War", in which the title and poem both allude to the Doctor. A few minutes before the battle takes place, the Doctor asks Madame Vastra why they want Amy and Rory's part-Time Lord daughter. "Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?" he asks. Madame Vastra replies, "Well, they've seen you." This exchange, and the episode in general, deals with the show's frequently recurring theme of the death and destruction that seems to follow the Doctor wherever he goes.

He often saves entire worlds of people, but at a price.

Source: Author closetpoet17

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A brief quiz about some of the more inspiring words of the Doctor and his friends. This quiz covers episodes from the Doctor's tenth and eleventh regenerations only.

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