U.N.I.T. Initiation Test (game)

U.N.I.T. Initiation Test
Main character(s):	UNIT
Featuring:	Slitheen
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini UK
Writer:	Justin Richards or Gareth Roberts
Artist:	Ben Morris
Release details
Genre:	Science fiction
Printed in:	Doctor Who Annual 2006
Release date:	September 2005
Format:	Quiz
Doctor Who Annual 2006 fiction
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U.N.I.T. Initiation Test was the fourth game and eighth work of fiction exclusively published in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 in September 2005 by Panini UK and the BBC. The quiz game featured an original illustration by Ben Morris, while the writing of the Annual's puzzles was collectively attributed to Justin Richards and Gareth Roberts. Though shaped like a quiz game, it was mostly a medium to reveal new and unexpected information about the Doctor Who universe: the questions were about trivia not covered in any preexisting Doctor Who story.

This game is not considered a valid source on this Wiki, as it essentially casts the reader (or, as it were, player) as an aspiring staffmember at UNIT, thereby arguably breaking the fourth wall.^{[disputed statement]}

As UNIT had yet to be reintroduced to the television series under the new title of "Unified Intelligence Taskforce" following the United Nations' legal action against the BBC, the game still refers to it by its Classic Series designation of "United Nations Intelligence Taskforce".

Publisher's summary

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To join the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, you must be capable of lateral as well as logical thinking.

The questions below are taken from the most recent UNIT Aptitude Test — see how you get on. But beware, the answers are not always quite what you might expect.

Characters

• Slitheen family
• Autons
• UNIT

References

• There exists a Dalek Alphabet; in a trick question, it is pointed that "the Dalek Alphabet", as a phrase, contains 16 letters, but the actual number of letters in the Alphabet is not stated.
• It takes one Auton ten minutes to fill a bath using both taps.
• The Slitheen family are from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius.
• No Daleks possess invisibility.

Notes

• In an allusion to the question about the Autons and the bathtub, the illustration features a Raxacoricofallapatorian (presumably a Slitheen) taking a bath while being waited on by an Auton butler.

Continuity

• The statement that no Daleks are both deadly and invisible is likely a reference to Planet of the Daleks.