World Enough and Time Trivia Quiz

Answer: 400 miles

The ship is 400 miles long. When the Doctor, Bill and Nardole arrive, the ship is in the process of falling into a black hole. Somehow, it manages to reverse its fall, but the shift alters the nature of time in the ship. Time at the bottom of the ship is moving at a much faster rate than time at the top.

Answer: crisps (potato chips)

The Doctor is eating a bag of crisps - potato chips for non-Brits. There is a lot of food in this episode - Steve Moffat must have been hungry when he was writing. Bill and the Doctor eat chips in one scene, Bill eats a bacon sandwich and Nardole has a Jaffa cake.

The Doctor eats sushi in "The Return of Dr Mysterio" (2016). Jelly babies have shown up frequently throughout the history of "Doctor Who", particularly with the Fourth Doctor. They are a gummy candy in the shape of babies. While Missy mentions beans and toast, there did not seem to be any on hand. Beans and toast, a very common British breakfast food, has also been mentioned frequently on the show. Crosse and Blackwell actually marketed "Doctor Who" baked beans during the Tom Baker era.

Answer: chest

Bill has a rather enormous hole in the center of her chest when she is shot by the blue alien. Fortunately (or not?), the ship has a hospital facility that is able to repair her. Unfortunately, those repairs are the first steps towards turning Bill into something very different. She was on Floor 1056 of the spaceship.

Answer: good and bad

The options are pretty simple, good or bad. Bill, probably wisely, chooses good. Being that "Doctor Who" is one of the most British things on the planet, tea shows up quite frequently on the program.

The Eleventh Doctor was actually offered tea by the Daleks in "Victory of the Daleks" (2010). Both the Third and Fourth Doctors were big fans of tea. The Third Doctor even used it to solve a physics problem regarding time.

Answer: Exodus

The operation is Exodus and it involved the crew members being upgraded, at which point they can take control of the ship. We learn what they are being upgraded into at the end of the episode. The Master does state that it is the "genesis of the Cybermen."

Operation Gibbon was mentioned by the Eleventh Doctor in "Hide" (2013). It was a real operation during World War II. Operation Double was central to the plot of "The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion" (2015). It involved the settlement of the Zygons among the human population.

Answer: Venusian aikido

He uses Venusian Aikido, a favorite of the Third Doctor. The Third Doctor used it against a wide variety of human opponents. This is not the first time the Twelfth Doctor has used his aikido skills; he also used them against the sheriff's henchmen in "Robot of Sherwood" (2014).

Nardole displayed his skills with Tarovian martial arts in "The Lie of the Land" (2017), using a neck pinch to disable an opponent. The Tenth Doctor was skilled at Amortorian jiu-jitsu in the novel "The Story of Martha: Star Crossed" (2009) . The Third Doctor uses Martian karate in the novel "Inferno" (1984).

Answer: Mondas

Mondas is the home planet of the cybermen. It is a parallel of Earth, where the originally human inhabitants began to alter themselves with cybernetic implants until they eventually became entirely mechanical creatures. Mondas originally shows up in "The Tenth Planet" (1966) which was William Hartnell's last story, and the first to feature regeneration.

Skaro is the home planet of the Daleks. Metebelis 3 was visited by the Third and Fifth Doctors, and is home to psychically charged blue crystals. Mars is home to the Ice Warriors, as we saw in "Empress of Mars" (2017).

Answer: John Simm

John Simm returns as Harold Saxon/The Master. Simm first appeared as The Master during the Tenth Doctor trilogy "Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords" (2007) and returned for David Tennant's swan song in "The End of Time" (2009-2010).

He has been working in British television since the early 1990s. Science fiction fans may also recall him from "Life on Mars" (2006-07).

Noted Shakespearean actor Derek Jacobi played Professor Yana, a disguised version of the Master in "Utopia" (2007). He regenerated into Simm at the end of the episode.

Anthony Ainley would be quite a casting coup, as he died in May 2004. Ainley served as the Master from 1981 to 1987, working with the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors.

Eric Roberts played the Master in the 1996 television film. Roberts was the first American to play one of the central characters in the "Doctor Who" universe. He is the older brother of Julia Roberts.

Answer: Doctor Who

Michelle Gomez spends several minutes riffing on the central conceit of "Doctor Who": that nobody knows what the Doctor's real name is. She calls herself "Doctor Who" and adds that Bill is exposition and Nardole is comic relief. By the end, Peter Capaldi gets in on the joke as well, stating that his real name is "Doctor Who".

It's fairly certain this is a gag, because in "The Name of the Doctor" (2013), the Great Intelligence uses the phrase "Doctor Who" outside of the Doctor's tomb several times, and it does not open.

Answer: Rachel Talalay

Rachel Talalay has become Moffat's go-to person for season enders. She directed "Dark Water/Death in Heaven" in 2014 and did brilliant work on "Heaven Sent" and "Hell Bent" in 2015. This year, she directs "World Enough and Time" and the series ten closer "The Doctor Falls" (2017).

Talalay has experience working on surreal films - she started out as an assistant for John Waters in the early 1980s. She worked on several "Nightmare on Elm Street" films and is the only woman to direct a film in the series, "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (1991). Talalay has worked in television since 1995. -

It is a season ender, so naturally Steven Moffat wrote it. He has written more hours of "Doctor Who" than anyone, and has been show runner since 2010. Moffat announced he would be leaving the show at the end of 2017. Moffat has penned some of the best episodes of the modern era, including "Blink" (2007) and "Listen" (2014).

Nicholas Briggs returns as the voice of the Cybermen. He has also been the voice of the Daleks since 2005.

Oliver Lansley was the guy behind the blue makeup as Jorj. He is probably best known as Stuart on "Misfits" (2013) and as Robin on "Whites" (2010), a series that he created and wrote.