Defend This (video game)

Defend This
Main enemy:	n/a
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC
Developer:	Sequence
Release details
Platform:	Online
Genre:	Quiz
Release date:	17 June 2006
Format:	Adobe Flash game

Defend This (later: Defending The Earth or Defend the Earth!) was an online game published on the BBC's Doctor Who website.

Scenario

Are you good enough to join LINDA? Take the test!

How to play?

To join LINDA the player has to answer a number of Questions of Doctor Who. If he needs help he can click on the hint button and will get more information. The pc mouse is needed for round 1-4 and the keyboard is needed in round 5.

Round 1

• At least two of five questions have to be answered right to get into the next round. Select one right answer out of three answers.

Round 2

• At least three of five questions have to be answered right to get into the next round. Select one right answer out of three answers.

Round 3 & 4

• At least four of five questions have to be answered right to get into the next round. Select several right answers out of several answers.

Round 5

• All five questions have to be answered right to join LINDA. This is the only round were the answers have to be typed. After the player has answered all questions right he gets a certificate that he has defended the Earth and lived. The player can repeat each round countess times.

Questions

Round 1

• 1) What is the motto of the British Rocket Group?
  • A. To infinity... and beyond
  • B. Mankind's destiny in the stars
  • C. The love of heaven makes one heavenly
• 2) Who was the believer that ran this site before Mickey?
  • A. Linda
  • B. Clive
  • C. Trish
• 3) What is government minister Sylvia Delaine chairman of?
  • A. The North Sea Boating Club
  • B. The UFO Research Committee
  • C. The International Lifeboat Association
• 4) Who does Sophie Collins work for?
  • A. SD6
  • B. MI5
  • C. CTU
• 5) Where in the U.K. were an alien sword and a suspicious satsuma recently discovered?
  • A. Brockley
  • B. Deffrey Vale
  • C. Milton Keynes

Round 2

• 1) Who drew this image of an alien creature?
  • A. Squidbaby23
  • B. Spacepig06
  • C. Zombiegran801
• 2) Where can you hear this music?
  • A. Millingdale Ice Cream website
  • B. Geocomtex website
  • C. Deffrey Vale High School website
• 3) In which decade was this picture taken?
  • A. 1970's
  • B. 1980's
  • C. 1990's
• 4) Which of these is not an interest / hobby of this man?
  • A. Material Arts
  • B. The 'Alien' films
  • C. Pirate Radio
• 5) Which location is missing from this map?
  • A. Leamington Spa
  • B. The Gower Peninsula
  • C. The Glen of Saint Catherine

Round 3

• 1) According to the Western Mail, where was the Blaidd Drwg nuclear plant nearly built, before Mayor Margaret Blaine won the project for Cardiff?
  • A. Dungeness
  • B. The Republic of Cornwall
  • C. The Isle of Dogs
• 2) Where are alien objects most commonly traded by collectors?
  • A. The Grey Market
  • B. The Black Market
  • C. eBay
• 3) Which strange phenomenon occurred in Deffry Vale shortly before the high school blew up?
  • A. Lights in the sky
  • B. Glowing oil in the reservoir
  • C. Dogs howling at the moon
• 4) What did Daniel Llewellyn study at university?
  • A. Cosmology
  • B. Chronology
  • C. Areology
• 5) According to our exclusive security camera footage, what time do the Shop Window Dummies begin their rampage?
  • Set Time: 32:26 or 32:27

Round 4

• 1) Which four words are missing from the wire's last message?
  • 1. Transmit
  • 2. Feast
  • 3. Spread
  • 4. Hunger
  • 5. Closedown
  • 6. Prey
• 2) Which three of these military personnel are members of UNIT?
  • 1. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
  • 2. Unknown male solider
  • 3. General Asquith
  • 4. Unknown male solider
  • 5. Major Blake
  • 6. Sally Jacobs
• 3) Which of these six people are believed to be travelling companions of the Doctor?
  • 1. Sarah Jane Smith
  • 2. Mr Finch
  • 3. Captain Jack
  • 4. Victor Kennedy
  • 5. Rose Tyler
  • 6. Margaret Blaine
• 4) Which of these people were members of L.I.N.D.A.?
  • 1. Elton Pope
  • 2. Mickey Smith
  • 3. Mr Skinner
  • 4. Jackie Tyler
  • 5. Ursula Blake
  • 6. Clive Finch
• 5) Which of these symbols is not a Krillitane symbol?
  • The symbol that looks like a circle

Round 5

• 1) Some observatories have recently detected an unusual signal emanating from the surface of the Moon. Where exactly?
  • Tycho or Tycho Crater
• 2) What killed Sir Thom MacLeish?
  • Poison
• 3) What is the Sycorax for "You are very funny cattle"?
  • SOO GAN PRACTEEL GATZAA
• 4) A number of unexploded German bombs were recently discovered during refurbishment of the London Underground. What was the unusual phrase written on all of them?
  • SCHLECHTER WOLF
• 5) What's the toll-free technical support number for Geocomtex?
  • 555-236-801

Story notes

• The games' webpage is titled "Defending the Earth! Because friends stick together".

External links

• Defend This - The game