"Doctor Who": "Robot" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lt. Harry Sullivan

Harry (Ian Marter) didn't know it at the time, but he was about to become one of the Doctor's companions (and be featured in a number of his pivotal adventures in this regeneration).

Answer: False

The Doctor recites his name as 'Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart'. He had him briefly confused with both Alexander the Great and Hannibal.

Answer: A viking

The Doctor seemed to handle this regeneration (and the confusion surrounding it) much better than his predecessors, getting acclimated to his new form much more quickly than his second or third incarnations.

Answer: National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research

While it was referred to several times as a Think Tank, the name of Sarah Jane's (Elisabeth Sladen) visitor's pass was clearly "National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research". Hilda Winters (Patricia Reynolds) was the Director and Arnold Jellico (Alec Linstead) was his secretary.

Answer: Impregnable

He disliked the word because it was too much like "unsinkable", which reminded him of the Titanic. In this case, he was borne out, as the Robot still managed to burrow in and make off with the focusing generators at Emmett's Electronics.

Answer: True

Winters had set the Robot on Sarah Jane as a joke, ordering it to kill her in order to prove to the reporter that it could not contravene it's prime directive to "serve humanity and never harm it" and "replace the human being in a variety of difficult and dangerous tasks". The Robot told Sarah Jane that a conflict in its prime directive causes an imbalance in its neural circuits.

Answer: Scientific Reform Society

The group was actually led by Winters, and were using the Robot to gain the pieces they needed in order to blackmail the world into instituting their plan to rule the world by a self-appointed elite.

Answer: J. P. Kettlewell

Kettlewell had constructed the Robot out of a living metal, which he had invented and had the capacity to grown like a living organism. He was also, a member of the SRS (though Sarah Jane didn't know he was one of the prime forces in the group).

Answer: False

The Robot has stolen the plans in his initial foray in the first episode.

Chambers had the destructor codes that could launch all the world's nuclear missiles. They had been given to Great Britain as part of an agreement between Russia, America and China. The Robot killed him and stole them so that the SRS's blackmail plot could be put into play.

Answer: A metal virus

The Doctor and Harry created an active solution of a metal virus (from Kettlewell's notes). The Brigadier had tried to stop the Robot with the disintegrator gun, but it reacted with the living metal and caused the machine to grow to giant-size. The Doctor splashed a pail of the virus on the Robot, which caused it to turn red and threw its growth mechanism into reverse.

The Robot simply disappeared, and Sarah Jane and Harry joined the Doctor in the TARDIS for a new adventure.