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Nf-From: nemesis.UUCP!quiz    Oct 14 22:33:00 1992


By custom, the instructions for participating in the Dr. Who Quote Quiz
are reposted at roughly the halfway mark.  Due to several factors, it
is entirely possible for someone to start playing now and win either
division, so if you missed out on the first few weeks, don't worry.
Even Perot could win!

Quiz 5 is due next week (21st), so you can certainly get in on 6 of the
ten quizzes that are planned.  Good luck to all.

(To those who have already read the instructions this fall, there are no
 new changes, so you can skip all of this.)
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Welcome to the Fall 1992 Dr. Who Quote Quiz Competition.  Starting in 1989,
the first biannual Quote Quiz was conducted on this network with North
American distribution.  Since that time, the competition has come from all
over the world.

My name is Frank Durda (pronounced 'Dur' as in durable and 'da' as in Panda),
from Fort Worth Texas, USA.  (32 39 40.5 N / 97 21 54 W)  I have been
running the quiz since I managed to win Gordon Hogensons contest in the
Spring of 1990.  We all have Gordon to thank for thinking up the format,
and I will continue to reuse some of his rules and other organization.

Instructions for participating in the Doctor Who Quiz for Fall 1992 - look
them over, as some things have changed [since last year].  Most of this 
information describes how the quiz is assembled, and that should help
simplify the task of finding the answers.

1.	The quiz is broken into two divisions.  Division A will generally have
	five questions each week.  (Some weeks have a different format or more
	questions.)  These will be of the same difficulty as those found in
	earlier quizzes, ie, some will seem easy, some will be tough.  The
	easy questions should be used as placeholders, to assist in tracking
	down the harder ones.

	Division B will typically only have two questions per week.  These will
	probably be simple for people who have all the books and video tapes,
	but hopefully will be just right for the people who have seen
	some or most of the shows, and don't have tape/book archives.
	Division B usually provides hints and/or riddles to help limit the
	number of possible stories.
	
	You may compete in either division, but please, not both.  Once you
	start in one division, you can switch to the other, and you can even
	go back to the original division.  You may change divisions TWICE.
	For example, if you start in division A and then at some point you
	decide that division A is not for you, you can switch to division B.
	You could start in division B, switch to division A for a few weeks
	and then if you find the going too tough, you can go back to
	division B and stay there for the rest the competition.

	The scoring for each division is not the same, and to keep things fair,
	your final score will be adjusted if you change divisions.

	Both divisions will have their own winners.


2.	Division A questions may come from ANY story.  The story or episode
	need not exist in the BBC archive at all to be used in Division A.
	However, quotes that come from not-normally-accessible ("unfair")
	stories, (which are not distributed by the BBC for one reason or
	another) will be marked with an asterisk (*).  Season 26 and
	Tomb of the Cyberman are now considered "fair".

	Division B questions only come from stories that have been shown
	in most USA markets.  This eliminates the "unfair" story quotes,
	which are not shown because they are incomplete or completely
	missing from the BBC archives.  Care is also be taken to
	avoid quotes that disappear in episode vs movie format edits.

3.	The questions are in chronological order of broadcast (unless noted)
	WITHIN your division.  Don't let questions in the other division
	throw you.  HOWEVER, UNLIKE PREVIOUS quizzes, some of the questions
	may be in the form of a word-picture rather than a quote.  For
	example, 
		"As _________ looked through the cell door, he was frustrated.
		 There, weakened to the point of death was his long-time
		 enemy, completely at his mercy.  He could destroy him in an
		 instant, and settle many scores.  But he needed him alive.
		 He MUST stay alive, at least until ____________ could
		 complete his plan."
	When you encounter one of these, you are to supply the name of the
	person who would be seeing and thinking whatever it is, and the
	story where this scene occurs.  Sometimes these will come from
	novelizations, BUT NOT ALWAYS!


4.	There is a common element to the STORIES from which the questions come.
	It will typically will involve the title, setting, villain, plot or
	length of the stories, but there is no restriction on this feature.
	IMPORTANT!  Division A and B probably WON'T share the same common
	element.  For example, one week division B might be quotes from
	Dalek stories, and division A quotes would be from stories where
	Tom Baker trips or stumbles.  JUST KIDDING, but you get the idea.

	For themes, we have used first and last stories of seasons, stories
	with regeneration sequences or other significant events, even quotes
	from the 4th story from various seasons.  This makes it possible to
	draw quotes from stories that don't have a lot of similarities to
	other stories.   Once you have identified the location of a quote
	or two, a little book keeping may help locate others.  Ask yourself:
		(1)	Do they share a word, phrase or syntax in the title?
		(2)	Do they have the same number of episodes?
			(Probably not the theme if it is a 4-parter.)
		(3)	Is the same villain or companion in both?
		(4)	Are they both in the same area (same planet, solar
			system, or perhaps same filming location)?
		(5)	Does the same character or actor appear in
			both?   An actor may not be playing the same character!
		(6)	Is the story at the same position in a season?
		(7)	Is there a common plot element?
		(8)	Was the writer, director, producer, etc. the same?
		(9)	You get the idea...

	On the other hand, the common theme is never drawn from some minor
	detail of the story, such as "stories where the companion screams",
	"stories when you can see the boom mike", or "stories where the
	 writer was sacked", etc.


5.	Each quiz will have up to TWO weeks to solve, although a new quiz
	may overlap the due date of another.  The reason for this is that many
	people complained that if they got busy one weekend, they had no
	real chance to compete against those persons who never leave their
	terminals.  The deadline for a given quiz will be included with the
	quiz.  Answers MUST BE PROVIDED BY E-MAIL only, and 23:00 CST/CDT is
	the deadline hour at nemesis (this location).


6.	When turning in your answers, list the person who said the quote,
	including which Doctor if the Doctor said it (unless it is clear
	from the story you name).  Also give the story title.
	Episodes names are acceptable, but not required EXCEPT in season 23
	(The Trial of a Time Lord). 

	Division B players are allowed to use their descriptive talent
	to describe what is going on and where for PARTIAL OR FULL
	credit, instead of providing the speaker and the story name.
	The amount of credit depends on how much detail can be provided.  
	
	Division A players can only get partial credit for describing
	where a quote comes from in lieu of "who and what story". 
	
	If you can't think of the story name or the character name, you
	may use your descriptive talent to describe what is going on and
	where (for partial credit.)

	Note that this is subjective call and you must give as much
	information as you can remember to use this method.  If the quote
	says something like, "I thought I'd never die in Italy with
	Jellybabies on my breath", don't turn in an answer saying the Doctor
	is about to die in Italy.  (NO, that is not a real quote... at least
	I don't think so.)

	(I reserve the right to use neutral persons or previous winners as
	 judges for this.)


7.	Along with your answers, you must include YOUR FULL name on
	EACH quiz.  Handles, login or account IDs ARE NOT acceptable.
	Part of this makes it possible to construct mail aliases to get 
	your scores back to you.  (It would also help if you used the
	same name each week, ie keep it "Bob", don't alternate with "Robert".)
	PLEASE limit your signature field to four (4) lines or less (USENET
	standard).  I get an incredible amount of mail every day and really
	don't want to have to wade through pictures of the Simpsons, or
	anything else that can be drawn in 80 x 24 ASCII.  I have to hang on
	to all that mail, you know.


8.	Season 23 stories are to be considered separate as follows:
	The Mysterious Planet, 4 episodes (7A)
	Mindwarp, 4 episodes (7B)
	Terror of the Vervoids, 4 episodes (7C-1)
	The Ultimate Foe, 2 episodes (7C-2)

	I strongly recommend that you obtain a story guide if you don't
	already have one.  A story guide will provide you with episode counts,
	all the story titles and their broadcast dates, writers, directors,
	even which companions were present.  These are the very things that
	can get used as a theme.   (We have used n-part stories as a theme.)
	There are also books that provide summaries and character names that
	are useful to those who don't have the tapes. 
	
	I will repost my story guide to the net shortly, as it provides
	information more relevant to the quiz than the one in the FAQ and
	others that have been posted (IMHO).  [This was posted in the past
	week.]


9.	Scores are as follows:
	Division
	A	B
	0	0	Incorrect Story and Person, or no guess
	1	2	Correct Person, Wrong Story
	2	2	Correct Story, Wrong Person
	3	3	used in special circumstances
	4	4	Correct Person and Story
	Note that if you play in division A for a while and then switch
	to division B, your points will be adjusted to the division B scale.

Notes:
"Correct Person" is defined as either a correct name, title, description, or
	actors name, sufficient to completely define the character.
	(If you give the actors' name, I don't need their performance history,
	 car preferences and birth date, their name will do nicely.)
"Correct Story"  is defined as the correct title including alternates
	(spelling is not a factor, but don't hit me with working titles)


10.	You can get bonus points by reporting similar quotes that you
	encounter when trying to solve the quiz.  The amount of the bonus
	(no more than 8 points) will be determined by the similarity of
	the quote.  Hopefully this will make-up for time that is wasted
	looking up a quote you remember, only to find out that it is similar
	but not the desired quote.  (Similar quotes that appear in public
	databases will not be accepted.)


11.	After I receive your answers, I will send out mail with your score. 
	On six-week (or so) intervals, a public posting will be made showing
	the top players to-date in their divisions.  Please keep your own
	tally of your score and report promptly when my sums deviate from yours.
	As Gordon would say, "I am not mistake-proof".


12.	Should you wish to change your answers, you may do so as long as they
	are RECEIVED HERE by the 23:00 CST/CDT deadline.


13.	Answers should be sent to:	quiz@nemesis.lonestar.org
				or	...quiz%nemesis@utacfd.uta.edu
				or	...utacfd!nemesis!quiz
				or	...letni!rwsys!nemesis!quiz
	"utacfd" is an internet site, one hop away, and should always be
	the fastest route.

	PLEASE DO NOT POST an answer to the net.  If someone goofs, even
	if it is a non-contestant, full credit is given to all active players.


14.	If you plan on being out of town for a while, you can request advance
	copies of the quizzes.  Give me plenty of notice, as I will be tuning
	the later quizzes based on the results of the early ones, so I may
	not have them ready until the last minute.  Also, please don't abuse
	this service by asking for numerous weeks in advance.


15.	You may use whatever source of information you choose--novelizations,
	story synopses, your personal collections, friends (but please
	credit them), and, of course, the episodes themselves.  However,
	someone-else's (not created by you) "quote server" MAY NOT be used,
	and if a quote from the quiz appears on one of these systems, it will
	be treated like an answer posted to the net (no points for anybody).
	These servers may eventually force the quiz to be abandoned, as it
	will become necessary to use quotes so obscure that the servers won't
	have them, and you probably could not find them.
	
	When sources differ on a quote, the surviving video tape is the final
	authority.  Division A players:  If there is no surviving video tape,
	then the surviving audio tape is the authority.  If there is no audio
	tape, then the novelization I have is the authority.

16.	If you have won an official Dr. Who Quote Quiz previously, you will
	not be scored.  (You three know who you are.)   Let someone else
	have a go.  (If you won Division B before, you may play in A.)


17.	Right now it appears we have enough time for at least 10 quizzes.  At
	the end of that time, the winners will be announced (or confirmed).
Example Quiz.	
Division A  (Same sample quiz given for Spring 1991, and was a real quiz once)
1.	"Well, why don't you just pander your medieval, old-fashioned
	 superstitions and take them for me.  After all, it would save
	 me having to put make-up on and a mask and dance around a fire
	 in order to get rid of evil spirits."

2.	As she listened to the unseen voice, the bowl bobbed up and down
	in the air, as its contents were ground and mixed by unseen hands.  

3.	"I got lost in the time vortex.  The TARDIS brought me home."

4.	"My biorhythms must be at an all-time low."

5.	He was furious that The Doctor was not moving to help him.  The Doctor
	was just standing there.  ___________ realized that if assistance
	didn't come quickly, he would be destroyed.  He quickly changed his
	tack and began pleading for The Doctor, to put past differences aside
	and come to his rescue.  But help didn't come.

When attacking the quiz, you would perhaps recognize 4 and 2 instantly, 4
being Tom Baker in "The Pirate Planet", and 2 being Jo Grant in "Planet of
the Daleks".  Hmmm, the villains are different, the companions are different,
even the number of parts (episodes) are different.  So you might ponder
further and recall either 3 or 5, 3 being Jon Pertwee's regeneration scene in
"Planet of the Spiders", or 5, which is The Master being toasted in "Planet
of Fire".  At this point, the fact that all the stories have the word
"Planet" in the title becomes apparent.  That means 1 must be "The Dead
Planet" (also known as "The Daleks"), "Planet of Giants", "The Web Planet", or
"The Tenth Planet".  We can eliminate "The Tenth Planet" because it is an
"unfair" story, and no "*" was listed by the quote.  A little more thought
or research would give us Barbara in "The Web Planet" as the source of that
last quote.


Division B
1.  "This isn't Earth.  This isn't real wood, it's some kind of artificial
     material, like plastic.  These aren't real trees, and you're not
     the real Sarah!"

2.  "Killing you once was never enough for me, Doctor.  How... how
     gratifying to do it three times over!"

Hint:	"She traveled with me for a time."  *

Both quotes are loaded with clues as to their locations.  Chances are
real good that the Sarah that is mentioned is the companion Sarah, who
appears in 19 stories.  A little more thought gives us the Doctor saying
this in "The Android Invasion".  The hint tells us the companion is the same
in both stories.  In this story the Doctor only has one companion, so we
should follow Sarah.  The second quote must occur in a story after the
first, which gives us 5 possible stories where Sarah appears.  We suspect
that the speaker is a long-time foe, such as the Master, and there is only
one possible story where the Master and Sarah are present: "The Five
Doctors", which is the correct answer.  Hints or riddles may appear
with division B quizzes to describe the common theme.  Now, without looking,
which three Doctors does the Master intend to kill?  (Sorry, no points.)

*  I expect Dr. Who experts are already writing responses about this 
   particular hint.  Yes, I know the quote comes from a line regarding
   Victoria, but it *was* said to Sarah.  Nayyah.  :-)

Here is an example of what your answer email should look like:

---------------------------------------------
My guesses for Quiz 0, Division A:

1.	Susan Foreman, The Web Planet	
2.	Jo Grant, Planet of the Daleks
3.	The Doctor, Planet of the Spiders
4.	Tegan, Planet of Fire
5.	?

John Smith
noone@nowhere.edu
OR if that doesn't work where you live, give a lengthy !-style address,
starting at someplace well known:
...uunet!groucho!chico!harpo!nowhere!noone
---------------------------------------------
Note that something was written for Quote 5, even though John didn't have
a clue to the answer.  This is perfectly acceptable, and can actually
prevent mistakes.  

There is no need to include the original quotes in the answer mail, and
I would prefer not to see them.   

For these answers, John Smith would score 2+4+4+1+0 = 11 points


I encourage everyone to participate--of course it helps if you have free time,
a complete tape collection, and all of the books, but if you do not have
these facilities there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do well.
The Fall 1989 & 1990 winner, Andrew Vignaux, hadn't seen a single Hartnell
episode and had a tape collection that only included seasons 14 through 23.  

If you plan to participate regularly, I will put you on the e-mail list, so
that you need not locate the quizzes on the network each week.  

OK, Now that all this stuff is past us, bring on the quiz!

QuizMaster    quiz@nemesis.lonestar.org|"Exactly, And later, when this
            quiz%nemesis@utacfd.uta.edu| planet is in ruins, I shall
	   ...uunet!utacfd!nemesis!quiz| take over."
	   ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!quiz |Who said it and What story?


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