The Tenth Doctor
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50 free The Tenth Doctor trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
David Tennant's Tenth Doctor is the version of the Time Lord many viewers picture first: the pinstripe suit, the long brown coat, the fast talk and the heartbreak. His run turned the revived Doctor Who from a comeback into a phenomenon, and its episodes remain favourites for rewatching. This quiz covers the whole era, from his first festive special to the regeneration that ended it and his return for the anniversary. Expect questions on Rose, Martha and Donna, on the Daleks, the Master and the scariest one-off monsters, on the famous people he meets in history, and on the actors and writers who made it all. It is written for anyone who watched along. The early questions are gentle, and the later ones reward fans who remember guest stars, filming locations and behind-the-scenes stories.
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Q 01Which former chart-topping pop singer plays Rose Tyler, the companion the Tenth Doctor loses to a parallel universe?
Billie Piper
Billie Piper was 15 when her debut single entered the UK chart at number one, years before she stepped aboard the TARDIS as Rose.
Q 02Which sketch-show comedian plays Donna Noble, the Chiswick temp who travels with the Tenth Doctor?
Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate's casting was kept so secret that her first scene, at the very end of Doomsday, was filmed with only a minimal crew.
Q 03Which aliens in the Tenth Doctor episode Blink send victims back in time and freeze whenever they are watched?
Weeping Angels
Weeping Angels came to writer Steven Moffat after he saw an angel statue in a graveyard while on a family holiday.
Q 04Which doomed ocean liner shares its name with the starship the Tenth Doctor boards in Voyage of the Damned?
Titanic
Titanic is an interstellar cruiser from the planet Sto in this story, and the cruise line's ousted boss deliberately sets it on a collision course with Earth.
Q 05Which monarch knights the Tenth Doctor and then banishes him after a werewolf attack at a Scottish estate?
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria owns the Koh-i-Noor diamond that finally kills the beast, by focusing moonlight through a telescope built as a trap.
Q 06Which playwright do witch-like Carrionites bewitch into rewriting a play in a Tenth Doctor story set in 1599?
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is tricked into ending his lost play Love's Labour's Won with words meant to free the Carrionites from imprisonment.
Q 07Which crime novelist helps the Tenth Doctor solve murders at a 1926 house party stalked by a giant wasp?
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie really did vanish for days in 1926, and the episode invents its own answer by setting the story on the day she disappears.
Q 08Which actor became the Eleventh Doctor when the Tenth Doctor regenerated at the end of The End of Time?
Matt Smith
Matt Smith spoke first lines written by incoming showrunner Steven Moffat, who took over the script the moment the regeneration ended.
Q 09Which Australian pop star plays the waitress Astrid Peth in the Tenth Doctor's 2007 Christmas special?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue had the part written specially for her, and her fame was credited with much of the episode's huge audience.
Q 10Which alien-hunting institute is teased throughout the Tenth Doctor's first series before getting a spin-off show?
Torchwood
Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who, first used as a decoy title while the revived show was filming so its episodes were not intercepted.
Q 11Which actress plays Martha Jones, the medical student who joins the Tenth Doctor after her hospital lands on the Moon?
Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman had already appeared in the previous series finale as Adeola, a character later explained away as Martha's cousin.
Q 12Which Doctor Who actor plays the Master when the villain hypnotises Britain into electing him Prime Minister?
John Simm
John Simm's Master was promoted with a spoof party political broadcast in which Sharon Osbourne and McFly backed his campaign.
Q 13Which veteran actor plays Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of Donna Noble, alongside the Tenth Doctor in The End of Time?
Bernard Cribbins
Q 21Which future Oscar nominee plays Sally Sparrow, who trades messages across time with the Tenth Doctor in Blink?
Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan won a Constellation Award for this single episode, two years before An Education brought her a first Oscar nomination.
Q 22Which future Doctor plays Caecilius, a Roman the Tenth Doctor saves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi's own Doctor later works out that he chose this face as a reminder of the man he was persuaded to save.
Q 23Which mistress of Louis XV is stalked through her life by clockwork androids in The Girl in the Fireplace?
Madame de Pompadour
Bernard Cribbins had faced the Daleks long before, playing a policeman companion in the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Q 14Which former companion, an investigative journalist, does the Tenth Doctor meet again while undercover at a school?
Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith's return led the BBC to approach actress Elisabeth Sladen about a spin-off of her own, The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Q 15What finally forces the Tenth Doctor to regenerate after he takes Wilfred Mott's place in a locked control booth?
Radiation
Radiation floods the booth with the Doctor inside instead of Wilf, and he holds off the change long enough to visit his old companions.
Q 16Which planet does the Master drag into orbit around Earth in the Tenth Doctor's final story?
Gallifrey
Gallifrey is pulled out of the Time War through a diamond that Rassilon sends to Earth, until the Doctor destroys the gem and cuts the link.
Q 17Which brand of canvas trainers does the Tenth Doctor wear in different colours to match his pinstripe suits?
Converse
Converse trainers completed a look that David Tennant said was inspired by an outfit Jamie Oliver wore on the chat show Parkinson.
Q 18Which Swansea-born writer ran Doctor Who as showrunner for the whole of the Tenth Doctor's original era?
Russell T Davies
Russell T Davies revived the show in 2005 after making his name with Queer as Folk, and returned to run it again in 2023.
Q 19On which planet does the Tenth Doctor visit Bowie Base One, a human colony doomed to explode in 2059?
Mars
Mars got a base named after David Bowie, the writer and singer of a famous hit about life on that planet, as the production team confirmed.
Q 20Which fruit does the Tenth Doctor throw at a button to send the treacherous Sycorax leader falling to his death?
A satsuma
A satsuma he had just found hits a control that folds away part of the ship's wing, dropping the leader, who had surrendered and then attacked from behind.
Madame de Pompadour went to actress Sophia Myles without an audition, and the spaceship hunting her turns out to carry her name.
Q 24Which former James Bond plays Rassilon, the Time Lord president who returns in the Tenth Doctor's final story?
Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton also narrates the opening of the story, and his voice led the teaser trailer shown at Comic-Con in 2009.
Q 25Which actor plays the War Doctor opposite the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in the 50th anniversary special?
John Hurt
John Hurt played a previously unseen incarnation, the one who fought in the Time War, invented specially for the anniversary story.
Q 26Which Tudor queen does the Tenth Doctor accidentally court, marry and abandon in The Day of the Doctor?
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I had already been seen ordering his execution in an earlier episode, a grudge the anniversary special finally explained.
Q 27Which rhino-like police-for-hire transport a London hospital to the Moon in the Tenth Doctor story Smith and Jones?
Judoon
Judoon scanners are fooled when the fugitive they are hunting drinks the blood of the hospital's chief and so registers as human.
Q 28Which servant race, sold as slaves by a company for 200 years, do the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble resolve to free?
The Ood
The Ood carry part of their brain in their hands, which the company cuts away and replaces with a translation sphere to keep them obedient.
Q 29Which Doctor Who villains does businessman John Lumic create by sealing human brains in metal suits on a parallel Earth?
Cybermen
Cybermen were given a new Earth-born origin in this story, and the parallel world it introduced kept returning to the series.
Q 30Which old enemy, thought killed in the Time War, returns to fight the Tenth Doctor in The Stolen Earth?
Davros
Davros was pulled out of the war by Dalek Caan, and his comeback plan begins with the theft of Earth and 26 other planets.