Dr. Who Trivia Quiz

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• Publication: The WMHT Program Guide
• Date: Aug. 1983
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• Page: 9
• Language: English

The Dr. Who Gospel according to Nigel Robinson

1. Who were the "Three Who Rule"?
2. Who was the leader of the Zygons stranded on Earth?
3. Which common Earth substance proved an effective defense against the Fendahleen?
4. What was the Zygma Experiment?
5. Which of the Doctor's old foes actually dared to invade Gallifrey?
6. What is the most dangerous addictive drug in the Universe? and on which planet did Tryst find it?
7. What does the acronym TARDIS stand for?
8. Why did the Doctor install a randomizer in the TARDIS?
9. Which alien race constructed android copies of, among others, the Doctor, Sarah, Harry and Benton?
10. The Earth's solar system orginally contained a fifth planet between Mars and Jupiter. What became of it?
11. How do the Usurians hope to gain power in the Galaxy?
12. What was to be found in the Pyramids of Mars?
13. For what special purpose was the Leisure Hive built?
14. Why did the Doctor steal a TARDIS and leave Gallifrey?
15. How did the Doctor come to learn of the Vardans' plan to invade Gallifrey?
16. How did the Doctor finally defeat the Company on Pluto?
17. What is the Skarasen?
18. How did Professor Kettlewell's robot become a Giant Robot?
19. Who imprisoned the Doctor and Romana in a Chronic Hysteresis?
20. The zoologist Tryst invented the CET machine, other-wise known as the Continuous Event Transmitter. What was it and why did it go wrong on the space cruiser Empress?
21. What was the Oracle?
22. Who was Taren Capel?
23. Why was the Skarasen so necessary to the Zygons' survival?
24. Who was the Commander of the Space Ark Nerva when the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrived there? After he was taken over by the Wirrrn, who replaced him as Commander?
25. Who were the two Security Agents for the Company on board the Sandminer? Why were they there?
26. How was the Nucleus and its Swarm finally destroyed?
27. How did the Doctor defeat Taren Capel?
28. Why was the fourth Doctor forced to regenerate?

Answers on page 40

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DR. WHO TRIVIA QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Zargo, Camilla and Aukon, the servants of the Great Vampire in E-Space.
2. Broton.
3. Salt.
4. The time travel experiment of Magnus Greel, who escaped justice in the 51st century by travelling back in time to the 19th century.
5. The Sontarans.
6. Vraxoin ('vrax'). Tryst found it on Eden.
7. Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.
8. To escape the vengeance of the Black Guardian of Time.
9. The Kraals.
10. It was put into a time loop by the Time Lords to counter the menace of the Fendahl.
11. By economic manipulation and extortion.
12. The Eye of Horus, the control point of the force field which kept Sutekh imprisoned in Egypt, and which was protected by the Guardians of Horus.
13. To promote understanding between alien races.
14. Because he was bored with the Time Lord lifestyle and wanted to observe the Universe at first hand.
15. He received a telepathic warning from the Matrix.
16. The Doctor blew the economy apart by introducing a 2 per cent growth tax, index-linked, into the Company's computer.
17. The Loch Ness Monster, half-animal, half-machine, created by the Zygons.
18. By absorbing the energy from the Disintegrator Gun, which the Brigadier used in an attempt to destroy it.
19. Meglos.
20. It was a device which imprisoned living samples of a planet's flora and fauna on laser crystals. It started to malfunction when the Empress and

Hecate crashed into each other as they were leaving hyper-space and the matter interfaces were rendered unstable.

1. The ship computer of the P7E which developed megalomaniac tendencies and ruled the planet which surrounded P7E.
2. Otherwise known as Dask, he was a madman who organized the robots' revolt on the Sandminer.
3. They fed on its milk.
4. Noah. He was succeeded by Vira.
5. Poul and the robot D84. They were there because of written threats from Taren Capel of a robot rebellion. 26. The Swarm's incubation chambers on Titan were blown up by the Doctor. (The idea was Leela's although the Doctor later claimed it was his!)
6. He released helium into the air, so changing Taren Capel's voice, and a robot (SV7), unable to recognize its master's voice, killed him.
7. Because his body was shattered when he fell from the tower of the Pharos Project on Earth.

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