Random Pursuit:The Cheese of Rassilon

Random Pursuit episode 30, posted November 22, 2023.
Game Show episode 218
A special Doctor Who 60th anniversary edition played with three Doctor Who Trivial Pursuit editions.
Because all three editions used are very similar, rolling the same number twice in a row let contestants choose the category for their next question rather than the edition as it does normally.
Host: Erika Ensign
	Scorekeeper: Steven Schapansky
	
==== Contestants ====
* Annette Wierstra
* Antony Johnston
* Heather Berberet
* Jason Snell
==== Editions ====
* Doctor Who (2013 - UK)
* Doctor Who (2013 - US)
* Doctor Who (2018)
== Round 1 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Annette 	5 	Doctor Who (2018)Monsters 	What kind of creature took over the body of MI5 officer Margaret Blaine? 	Slitheen 	✅ 	[1]
Annette 	1 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Time Lords 	What does the Master steal from the 10th Doctor to power his paradox machine? 	His TARDIS 	❌ 	
Antony 	1 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Time Lords 	What does the Master steal from the 10th Doctor to power his paradox machine? 	His Tardis 	✅ 	
Antony 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Sheila Hancock guest starred in The Happiness Patrol with the Seventh doctor. She was married to an actor famous for his portrayal of which TV detective: Maigret, Poirot, Morse or Barnaby?	Morse 	❌ 	
Heather 	1 	Doctor Who (2018)Time Lords 	What strange suggestion does the First Doctor make to Cameca, an Aztec lady? 	He accidentally proposes to her	✅ 	[2]
Heather 	1 	Doctor Who (2018)Companions 	Which of the third Doctor's companions leaves him after falling in love with Professor Clifford Jones? 	Jo Grant 	✅ 	[3]
Heather 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Cast, Crew & Beyond	John Cleese guest starred in a Fourth Doctor Adventure. But which of these film franchises has he not appeared in as of 2013: Harry Potter, James Bond, Shrek, or Ice Age? 	Ice Age 	✅ 	
Jason 	5 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Monsters 	What does the GI in Dr. Simeon's GI Institute stand for? 	Great Intelligence 	❌ 	
1: Annette's answer of Raxacoricofallapatorius (being their home planet) was accepted.2: Heather's answer of "Hot Chocolate" was accepted as the Doctor unwittingly proposed to Cameca when he shared cocoa with her.3: Free choice of edition and category
=== Round 1 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Heather 	3
Annette 	1
Antony 	1
Jason 	0
== Round 2 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Annette 	1 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Time Lords 	What was the name of the mobile phone and broadband network that Harold Saxon used to hypnotize the UK into voting for him: Archduke, Archangel, Arch Enemy or Archway?	Archangel 	✅ 	
Annette 	2 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Companions 	What links the Second Doctor adventure Enemy of the World, with the Tenth Doctor story Voyage of the Damned? 	There are characters named Astrid in both.	❌ 	
Antony 	5 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Monsters 	Which deranged genius invents a Reality Bomb designed to destroy all matter in the universe but him and his creations? 	Davros 	✅ 	
Antony 	1 	Doctor Who (2018)Time Lords 	What spare anatomical part does the Tenth Doctor carry around in a jar? 	A hand 	❌ 	
Heather 	2 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Companions 	Captain Jack Harkness assumed the identity of a 1940s Air Force volunteer. But what century was he originally from? 	The 51st century 	❌ 	
Jason 	1 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Time Lords 	When the Tenth Doctor is transformed into a teacher named John Smith, what name does he give the diary that he fills with tales of monsters and other worlds? 	A Journal of Impossible Things 	✅ 	
Jason 	4 	Doctor Who (2018)Years & Dates 	In the alternate timeline created by River Song to save the Doctor's life, which wonder of the world housed Area 52? 	The Great Pyramid of Giza 	✅ 	
Jason 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Which 1980s alternative comedian guest starred in Revelation of the Daleks: Alexei Sayle, Adrian Edmondson, Rick Mayall and Dawn French? 	Alexei Sayle 	✅ 	
=== Round 2 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Heather 	3
Jason 	3
Annette 	2
Antony 	2
== Round 3 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Annette 	3 	Doctor Who (2018)Episodes & Stories 	Complete the story title: [Blank] in Venice 	Vampires in Venice 	❌ 	[1]
Antony 	5 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Monsters 	What alien race had Prisoner Zero escaped from? 	The Atraxi 	❌ 	
Heather 	3 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Episodes & Stories	At the end of Asylum of the Daleks, what does Oswin Oswald remove from the database of the Dalek parliament?	She removes all memories of the Doctor, so they have no idea who he is!	✅ 	
Heather 	4 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Years & Dates 	In what year was A Christmas Carol by the Doctor's friend Charles Dickens published? 	1843 	❌ 	
Jason 	4 	Doctor Who (2018)Years & Dates 	In which year was the Time Rotor, a component of the TARDIS console, first mentioned? 	1965 	❌ 	
1: In some placed the episode is called The Vampires of Venice
=== Round 3 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Heather 	4
Jason 	3
Annette 	2
Antony 	2
== Round 4 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Annette 	4 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Years & Dates 	In which year did the Doctor liberate and free the Ood by destroying the Halpen business empire? 	4126 AD 	❌ 	
Antony 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Apart from appearances in Doctor Who, what musical achievement links comedians Hale and Pace and stand-up Peter Kay? 	Number 1 singles for Red Nose Day	✅ 	
Antony 	1 	Doctor Who (2018)Time Lords 	What race evolves into the Master's allies, the Toclafane, trillions of years in the future? 	The human race 	❌ 	
Heather 	4 	Doctor Who (2018)Years & Dates 	With whom did the Eleventh Doctor visit California at Christmas 1952 alongside Abigail Pettigrew? 	Kazran Sardick 	❌ 	
Jason 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Michael Sheard played a villainous headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks. But what was the name of the TV school where he portrayed the strict Mr. Bronson?	Grange Hill 	❌ 	
=== Round 4 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Heather 	4
Antony 	3
Jason 	3
Annette 	2
== Round 5 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Annette 	5 	Doctor Who (2018)Monsters 	How many limbs do the spider-like Racnoss have? 	Ten 	❌ 	
Antony 	4 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Years & Dates 	What colloquial name for chaos is derived from the Bethlehem Royal Hospital, which the Tenth Doctor and Martha visited with William Shakespeare in the 1500s? 	Bedlam 	✅ 	
Antony 	4 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Which European city's canals were filled with 10,000 male Saturnynians? 	Venice 	✅ 	[1]
Antony 	5 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Monsters 	The Haemovariform was brought to the Torchwood Estate by Father Angelo and the Brethren, but what monstrous form did it take: Werewolf, Vampire, Sea Monster, or Wicked Witch?	Werewolf 	✅ 	
Heather 	2 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Companions 	What is the name of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's wife in the 1989 story Battlefield: Doris, Doreen, Donna or Dolores? 	Doris 	✅ 	
Heather 	4 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Years & Dates 	What famous Battle of 1815 was John Smith, the teacher created by the Chameleon Arch, teaching his pupils about? 	Waterloo 	❌ 	
Jason 	3 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Episodes & Stories 	What was the name of the story that featured Idris, a patchwork human body filled with the TARDIS matrix by a sentient asteroid? 	The Doctor's Wife	✅ 	
Jason 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Which Liverpudlian psychic appeared as himself in Army of Ghosts? 	Derek Acorah 	❌ 	
1: Free choice of edition and categoryErika didn't give the edition this question actually came from.
=== Round 5 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Antony 	6
Heather 	5
Jason 	4
Annette 	2
== Round 6 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Annette 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Doctor Who director Euros Lyn also directed some episodes of which TV crime drama featuring a famous detective conceived by Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss.	Sherlock 	✅ 	
Annette 	5 	Doctor Who (2018)Monsters 	How many people are trapped in the cloud belt above Sardicktown? 	Over 4000 	❌ 	
Antony 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Cast, Crew & Beyond	What TV comedy from the late 90s early 2000s links the recent Doctor Who episodes The Long Game and Human Nature? 	Spaced. Simon Pegg and Jessica Hines guest starred in those Doctor Who stories.	✅ 	
Antony 	3 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Episodes & Stories 	In The Curse of the Black Spot, what is the name of Henry Avery's son? 	Toby 	❌ 	
Heather 	3 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Episodes & Stories 	In the story Blink, how many DVDs did the Tenth Doctor hide Easter egg messages on: 17, 19, 20, 40? 	17 	✅ 	
Heather 	6 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Cast, Crew & Beyond	Kate O'Mara played the Rani twice. But in which big budget American drama of the 1980s did she play another scheming villain? 	Dynasty 	✅ 	
Heather 	5 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Monsters 	What creature, defeated by the Second and Tenth Doctor, resembles a giant crab? 	The Macra 	✅ 	
Jason 	1 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Time Lords 	What race evolves into the Master's allies, the Toclafane, trillions of years in the future? 	 	✅ 	[1]
Jason 	2 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Companions 	What event inspired Susie Brooke to become an important space pioneer? 	Her grandmother's death 	✅ 	[2]
Jason 	5 	Doctor Who (2018)Monsters 	What does the Tenth Doctor describe Bannakaffalatta as when he first sees him: A talking conker, a spiky coconut, a hedgehog head or a blowfish? 	A talking conker 	✅ 	
1: The human race2: Jason's answer of "the disaster at the Bowie base" was accepted as it was the original cause of her grandmother's death.
=== Round 6 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Heather 	8
Antony 	7
Jason 	7
Annette 	3
== Final Round ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Heather 	1 	Doctor Who (2018)Time Lords 	What did the Rani's scientifically enlarged mouse eat that led her to exile from Gallifrey? 	The President's cat 	❌ 	
Annette 	5 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Monsters 	Who are the intergalactic pest controllers who send the millions of cubes to Earth to wipe out the "Human Plague"? 	The Shakri 	❌ 	
Antony 	1 	Doctor Who (2018)Time Lords 	What vehicle does Jackson Lake have that he calls his TARDIS? 	A hot air balloon 	✅ 	
Antony 	3 	Doctor Who (2018)Episodes & Stories 	In Forest of the Dead, what name did the acronym CAL stand for? 	Charlotte Abigail Lux 	❌ 	
Jason 	3 	Doctor Who (2013 - UK)Episodes & Stories	In Love and Monsters, the doctor managed to restore the life essence of some of the Abzorbaloff's victims. But how was Ursula forced to spend the rest of her days: as a face on a concrete slab, in an oven, trapped in a book or stuck on a computer screen?	As a face on a concrete slab	✅ 	
Jason 	4 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Years & Dates 	Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. destroying the city of Pompeii and which huge rock and lava creatures? 	Pyroviles 	❌ 	
=== Final Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Antony 	8
Heather 	8
Jason 	8
Annette 	3