The Second Doctor Who Quiz Book

by Nigel Robinson

Do you know which empire succeeded the Manussan empire? Or what ECCO was? Or how the Menoptera were armed?

Nigel Robinson has compiled a Second Doctor Who Quiz Book to test your knowledge of the ever-expanding Whoniverse. Over 1,000 questions and answers will tell whether you know who's who and what's what in all matters relating to the extraordinarily widely travelled Doctor.

Genres: Doctor Who, Nonfiction

125 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1984

About the author

Nigel Robinson is an English author, known for such works as the First Contact series. Nigel was born in Preston, Lancashire and attended St Thomas More school. Robinson's first published book was The Tolkien Quiz Book in 1981, co-written with Linda Wilson. This was followed by a series of three Doctor Who quiz books and a crossword book between 1981 and 1985. In the late 1980s he was the editor of Target Books' range of Doctor Who tie-ins and novelisations, also contributing to the range as a writer.

He later wrote an original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Apocalypse, for the New Adventures series for Virgin Publishing, which had purchased Target in 1989 shortly after Robinson had left the company. He also wrote the New Adventure Birthright, published in 1993.

In the 1990s, Robinson wrote novelisations of episodes of The Tomorrow People, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Baywatch and the film Free Willy. Between 1994 and 1995, he wrote a series of children's horror novels Remember Me..., All Shook Up, Dream Lover, Rave On, Bad Moon Rising, Symphony of Terror and Demon Brood.In 1996 he continued to write the Luke Cannon Show Jumping Mysteries series,containing four books, namely The Piebald Princess, The Chestnut Chase, The Black Mare of Devils Hill and the last in the series, Decision Day for the Dapple Grey. By 1997 he had also penned a trilogy science fiction novels First Contact, Second Nature and Third Degree.

His most recent work was another quiz book, this time to tie in with the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a collection of trivia questions about episodes of Doctor Who. (The title means that it's the second such book, not a book full of questions about the second Doctor.) I didn't sit and read it as one normally does, but in company with other fans; one person would read a section and the others would say "Wow, I don't know," and then the questioner would read the answers. We found the questions to be -way- too hard on average, but it was fun for those who enjoy such pursuits.

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of two trivia books from my youth that I -- newly minted young super-geek-fan -- obsessed over, until I knew all the answers by heart. The questions were all hard enough that knowing the answers warmed my snug 12-year old heart. Such is fan-boy-geek life. :)