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Quiz: A Brief History of Spoons in Doctor Who

Doctor Who fans love a bit of whimsy, and similarly like a good challenge. We all need a lighter topic from time to time, and we haven’t had a quiz in ages, so…

1. The Fourth Doctor claimed he had a few things which gave him an advantage, and named two: one was a teaspoon; what was the other?

2. Which story does the quote come from?

3. In which story did the Doctor encounter a threat from the Spoonheads?

4. In which of these stories does the Doctor not play the spoons? Time and the Rani, The Happiness Patrol, or The Greatest Show in the Galaxy?

5. In Robot of Sherwood, the Doctor famously used his spoon for sword-fighting, but before that, what was he eating with it?

6. The Doctor and companions are famous for causing a stir, but it’s usually metaphorical. In which stories did we see these literal uses of spoons?

7. The Matrix’s famous tag line was ‘There is no spoon.’ Which Doctor Who story invented the Matrix 23 years before the film?

8. And which Twelfth Doctor story has characters ‘waking up’ to their matrix-esque reality?

9. In which pair of consecutive episodes does the Doctor use a spoon to eat soup?

10. What was the name of early Who Script Editor, and writer of The Romans?

11. The Thirteenth Doctor made her new sonic screwdriver with spoons, but what were the spoons made from?

12. In Dalek, what did Henry Van Statten tell Adam to do with Rose?

13. In The Devil’s Chord, Maestro appeared reflected in a spoon. Name any 2 other things they were reflected in during that scene.

14. When the Doctor fed the Time Window screen with a spoon given to him by a kind woman, what was the first memory it generated?

Jot down your answers somewhere (but if you want to comment, please mark your message as containing spoilers, just in case) — then come back tomorrow, when all the answers will be revealed!

Bar Nash-Williams

Quiz: A Brief History of Spoons in Doctor Who

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