The Right Way To Travel Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rise of the Cybermen

Believing the Time Vortex to have disappeared completely, the Doctor theorises that the TARDIS is stuck in the Void, the nothingness between dimensions. Upon opening the TARDIS doors, the Doctor, Rose and Mickey find themselves on Earth. However, they immediately notice things are amiss, the most odd being that Rose's father is alive (she witnessed his death during 'Father's Day', a Ninth Doctor episode).

As the episode's title suggests, the Cybermen are the menace, having last appeared in the Seventh Doctor story 'Silver Nemesis' (though these were Mondas Cybermen rather than the Tenth Doctor's Cybus Cybermen).

Answer: The Parting of the Ways

Attempting to save Rose from the oncoming Dalek army, the Doctor coaxes her into entering the TARDIS before remotely sending her back to her own time. Furious at this, Rose remembers the TARDIS has telepathic powers and decides the only way to get back to the Doctor is to pry open the console and merge her mind with that of the TARDIS.

It returns to the Doctor and, now channelling the Time Vortex, Rose vanquishes the Daleks. However, she is too weak to contain the immense power of the Vortex, so the Doctor returns the favour and saves Rose by absorbing the power from her and returning it to the TARDIS. Doing so, though, leads to his regeneration into the Tenth Doctor.

Answer: The Sound of Drums

In the preceding episode, 'Utopia', the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrive in the year 100 trillion to find a new incarnation of the Master. When he is shot and shuts himself in the Doctor's TARDIS to regenerate, the Doctor locks the controls, only allowing it to travel between the last place it visited, which was twenty-first century England.

The Doctor, Martha and Jack then use Jack's vortex manipulator to travel to the same time period as the Master where they attempt to thwart his plans. They discover he has rigged the TARDIS to create a paradox, letting in the Toclafane from the year 100 trillion (who are later found to be the humans of that time period) to wipe out the population of the planet.

Answer: The Pandorica Opens

The mysterious cracks in time encountered throughout the preceding episodes are discovered to be caused by the TARDIS exploding. This, in turn, causes the universe to disappear. Wanting to prevent this from happening, an alliance of all of the Doctor's greatest enemies lure him into a trap and imprison him in the Pandorica to stop him piloting the TARDIS and causing the explosion. Little do they know that River Song can also fly the TARDIS, and the event happens anyway.

In the next episode, 'The Big Bang', the Doctor and company go about restoring the universe, using the Pandorica and the billions of atoms still contained inside it.

Answer: The End of Time, Part 2

After saving Wilfred Mott from exposure to radiation by exposing himself to it instead, the Doctor begins the regeneration process, deliberately delaying it so he can see his former companions one last time before he goes. After this, the radiation coursing through his body takes its toll and he stumbles into the TARDIS where he sadly begins to regenerate. Having delayed it for so long, the eventual force of the regeneration causes the TARDIS console to ignite, the windows to smash, and even the supporting pillars around the console to collapse.

When the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor makes his appearance, the TARDIS spins out of control and crash lands in Leadworth in 1996.

Answer: Last of the Time Lords

Setting up the events for the following episode 'Voyage of the Damned', the TARDIS collides with an outer space replica of the 'Titanic'. This happens because the TARDIS' shields are down. However, it's not stated in 'Last of the Time Lords' that this is the cause, but rather in the Children In Need special episode, 'Time Crash', set between 'Last of the Time Lords' and 'Voyage of the Damned', in which the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS collides and merges with the Fifth Doctor's.

Answer: The Doctor's Wife

Lured to this 'pocket' universe by a message from another Time Lord, the Doctor lands the TARDIS, only to have it lose all power completely. It is later discovered that the 'soul' of the TARDIS was transferred into a woman called Idris (thus revealing the TARDIS to be the titular wife of the Doctor).

The landmass upon which they landed turns out to be a sentient entity called the House, which takes over the TARDIS when Amy and Rory are locked inside by the Doctor to keep them safe. Now in control, the House messes with Amy and Rory's minds, sending them down endless corridors, separating them and even accelerating Rory's life to his eventual death.

The House is defeated when, after the Doctor and Idris pilot a makeshift TARDIS, arrive in the Doctor's TARDIS and its soul leaves Idris and returns to the console.

Answer: The God Complex

The TARDIS lands inside a hotel and the Doctor and company discover that each room contains the worst fear of one of the hotel's guests. The corridors shift constantly, creating a labyrinth so complex that it is very easy to become lost. This is how the Doctor loses track of the TARDIS' location.

The hotel is later revealed to be an illusion, concealing a prison housing a malevolent minotaur that feeds on the faith that people fall back on when confronted by their worst fears.

Answer: Amy's Choice

Controlled by the mysterious Dream Lord, the Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves dropping in and out of various states of consciousness in which they are either inside the TARDIS heading ever closer towards a burning star, or in Leadworth where Rory and a pregnant Amy are living their life without the Doctor but are pursued by the deadly Eknodine.

When the Doctor works out what is going on, after they all die in the Leadworth 'dream' and wake up in the doomed TARDIS heading for a star, he sets the TARDIS to explode, knowing that scenario is also a dream.

The trio return to consciousness in the real world, with the Doctor explaining that all the events they just experienced were caused by psychic pollen which got into the TARDIS' time rotor and produced the hallucinations, with the Dream Lord being a personification of his dark side.

Answer: Blink

Having fallen victim to the Weeping Angels themselves, the Doctor and Martha are stuck in 1969. The Weeping Angels survive by sending people back in time with a single touch and feeding off the energy of the years they could have lived. The Doctor rather accurately describes them as 'creatures of the abstract' because of this technique.

They can only be stopped, however, by looking at them, which causes them to become locked in a stone state. Only when they are not being observed can they move, and they do so with incredible speed, disappearing in the blink of an eye (hence the episode's title). Using other victims of the Angels, the Doctor is able to send messages through time to Sally to warn her of the menacing Angels and to get her to place a disc into the TARDIS console to send it to 1969. Sally later encounters the Doctor and Martha, who have yet to encounter the Angels, and provides them with all the information they need to save themselves in their future (and Sally's past).