TARDIS32's Tough Quiz Questions - An Unearthly Child

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So because of what I had said in the 61st Anniversary Quiz, about how if I made a quiz it would be difficult questions, I wanted to challenge myself to create tough quiz questions for a Doctor Who serial, starting with the first one. I have 5 questions per episode and a couple of bonus multiple answer questions, I think ranging from medium difficulty to very difficult if you’re not reading the transcript and the wiki as I was when writing them. If people like this, I could continue my way through in my spare time.

The Questions and Answers:

  1. Susan is listening to John Smith and the Common Men when Ian and Barbara talk to her. John Smith was a stage name for what actual name? Aubrey Waites.
  2. Additionally, what band did “John Smith” start his career with? Chris Waites and the Carollers.
  3. Susan does not know how British currency works in the first episode, believing them to be on the decimal system. How many years early was she, if this episode takes place in 1963? 8 years (Decimalisation was in 1971).
  4. Susan is given a problem involving the main three dimensions (length, width, height) and can’t solve it because of missing dimensions. Ian understands time must be the fourth, but Susan states the fifth dimension to be space. Why does that not make any sense? Space would be formed by the combination of the first three dimensions, length, width, and height.
  5. When we see the Doctor for the first time, he was wearing a hat. What is the name for the kind of hat he was wearing? Astrakhan (also known as Karakul, Qaraqul, Uzbek hat, or Jinnah cap).
  6. Za is the tribe’s leader, Hur is his mate, and Kal is the one trying to take over the tribe. What is the name of Hur’s father, the only other named caveman in this story? Horg.
  7. Famously, the Doctor mentions that the TARDIS camouflaging system wasn’t working, but earlier, what piece of TARDIS equipment did he say was also not functioning? The Yearometer.
  8. The Doctor is captured after he does a rather unusual activity for the character, what was he doing? Smoking a pipe.
  9. The cavemen worship a god they call Orb. What is Orb? The Sun.
  10. The Cave of Skulls is so named because it was full of skulls and other bones. What did all the skulls have in common, aside from being human skulls? They were split open.
  11. “Fear makes companions of all of us, Miss Wright,” is the famous line by the Doctor. How, as we find out much later, did the Doctor learn this lesson originally? Clara Oswald told it to him when he was a child, believing her to be a dream.
  12. What task did the Doctor assign Barbara when they were trying to figure out how to escape the cave? Focus on remembering the way back to the TARDIS.
  13. Why does the Old Woman free the TARDIS team? She doesn’t want the tribe to learn fire
  14. What dead animal does Barbara trip over, alerting Za and Hur to their position? A Boar.
  15. The Doctor picks up a rock clearly to bash the injured Za’s skull in. What excuse does he use when Ian stops him and asks what he’s doing? He says he wanted to get Za to use the rock to draw a map back to the TARDIS.
  16. Why does Kal think Za’s knife is a bad knife? It doesn’t show what it does
  17. Why, according to Ian, is the firemaker the least important person in their “tribe?” Because everyone knows how to make fire.
  18. Za is played by Derek Newark. When he returns to Doctor Who, which character does he play? Greg Sutton (in Inferno)
  19. The Old Woman is played by Eileen Way. When she returns to Doctor Who, which character does she play? Karela (in The Creature from the Pit). Bonus point for an old woman in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
  20. Hur is played by Alethea Charlton. When she returns to Doctor Who, which character does she play? Edith (in The Time Meddler)

Bonus #1. The three TARDIS travelers other than the Doctor had different working names that were changed before the final version. 1 point for each you can name. Bridget or Biddy (Susan), Lola McGovern (Barbara Wright), Cliff (Ian)
Bonus #2. Aside from the first one, name each individual part to this story. 1 point for each. “The Cave of Skulls,” “The Forest of Fear,” “The Firemaker.”

Feel free to provide feedback, or even add questions if you think you have something good to add.

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These are really hard!

I’m impressed by this quiz, which, even when I have watched An Unearthly Child, I fear I will fail!

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REALLY hard. :tired_face: I rewatched An Unearthly Child quite recently but that didn’t help much. 2/20 + 1 point from Bonus #2.

This one I got right because The Eight Doctors revisited this particular plot.

The only other question I was confident I knew the answer to :joy: Somehow this dialogue made an impression…

I only remember the second episode, because I thought the Chinese translation 枯骨洞 was a neat choice.

That makes little sense because 燧人 for the fourth episode is much better. They were this sort of mythical figure that discovered fire, who supposedly lived in the palaeolithic period. They even got a mausoleum that charges ￥20 per ticket.

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I got 6 points:

4, 9, 11, 17, and 2 points from bonus #2

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1, 2 and 3 = no idea! (0 points)

4 = length, width and heighth together make space (1 point)

5 = I know this, but can’t remember (0 points)

6 = I don’t ever remember hearing the name :laughing: (0 points)

7 = I don’t remember, the radiation counter? (0 points)

8 = He smokes a pipe, it’s the first and last time! (1 point)

9 = the Sun! (1 point)

10 = I can’t remember! (0 points)

11 = The clue’s in the question! It was said to him by Clara! (1 point)

12 = Lookout? (0 points)

13 = She doesn’t want them to show how to make fire (1 point)

14 = Don’t remember, a deer? (0 points)

15 = He claims he wants Za to draw them a map back to the TARDIS (1 point)

16 = Classic scene! It’s because the knife doesn’t show what it does! (1 point)

17 = because everyone in their tribe can make fire (1 point)

18 = he’s Sutton in Inferno! (1 point)

19 = I just watched this; she’s the villain in The Creature from the Pit (1 point)

20 = I can’t remember the name, but it’s in The Time Meddler (0,5 points)

Bonus 1 = no idea!

Bonus 2 = The Cave of Skulls, The Forest of Fear and The Firemaker (3 points).

10,5/20 + 3 points! Not bad!

This was a tough one, but I liked the questions! Well done! Keep them coming!

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9/20 + 2 bonus points
Quite pleased with that actually :slightly_smiling_face:

That was really difficult questions :grin:
Loved it :+1:

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I’ve typed all these before revealing the answers:

  1. Reverend Aubrey Waites
  2. Chris Waites and the Carollers
  3. 10
  4. Space would be covered by the first three dimensions
  5. Astrakhan
  6. Horg
  7. The scanner
  8. Smoking a pipe
  9. The Sun
  10. They had been split open.
  11. Clara grabbing his leg in the barn.
  12. Make a fire.
  13. Because she doesn’t want them to make fire believing it will doom the tribe.
  14. Pig/Boar
  15. He was going to get him to use the stone to show them the way out of the forest
  16. It does not show that it murdered the Old Woman (which it didn’t)
  17. They can all make fire.
  18. Greg Sutton in Inferno
  19. The Creature from the Pit (name of the character escapes me)
  20. Edith in The Time Meddler
    Bonus #1 - Cliff, Lola, Bridget, Miss McGovern
    Bonus #2 - The Cave of Skulls, The Forest of Fear, The Firemaker.

21 or 22 if you count my answer to the one about Clara. I’m annoyed at 19) because my head was saying Kareela but I doubted myself.

Really good questions - and a couple I nearly included in my round - 6), 13) and 16) were all linked to things I considered.

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I got 18 out of 20 plus all the bonuses. But that’s only because I’m a big First Doctor fan and I’ve either read the novelisation or watched the story more times than I can remember. There were a couple of lucky guesses there and, with Question 19, I only really got the bonus part of the question.

I would certainly like to try more of these quizzes. Good work!

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Very well done. And I’ll give you the one. Was preparing the one round for the 61st helpful in this?

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Well played. Yeah I think it’s been received well, so I think I’ll continue. I guess I gotta think of 35 questions for The Daleks (honestly, that fifth and sixth episode might be a struggle to get 5 each for). The range of different scores is also nice to see, so I think that means the questions were still fair, even if not easy.

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I cane up with one question for The Daleks:

How long do the characters spend wasting everyone’s time inside the caves?

Answer: Too bloody long!

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Yes, some of those longer stories will be quite a challenge if you want to do 5 questions per episode. I look forward to your eventual 60 question Daleks Masterplan quiz.

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To be fair, I’ve done quite a fair bit of deep diving into that first story for various reasons so I know it pretty well. The decimalisation question was a stinker though as my history isn’t that good (that happened 4 years before I was born).

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I was right. Episode 6 of The Daleks is not providing much to make into questions.

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