The Thirteenth Doctor
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50 free The Thirteenth Doctor trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor was the first woman to pilot the TARDIS on television, and her era took Doctor Who in new directions: a crowded ship of companions, history lessons with real stakes, and a rewrite of the Doctor's own origins that fans still argue about. This quiz covers her whole run, from the moment she falls out of the sky to the regeneration that ends it. Expect questions on Yaz, Graham, Ryan and Dan, on the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Master, on the famous people she meets in the past, and on the actors and writers behind the episodes. It is written for anyone who watched along, with gentler questions up front and deeper cuts for fans who know their guest casts and behind-the-scenes stories.
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Q 01Which civil rights figure does the Thirteenth Doctor protect from a time-travelling criminal in 1955 Alabama?
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is the target of Krasko, a racist criminal from the future who cannot kill, so he tries to nudge history off course by keeping her bus from filling up.
Q 02Which former Doctor's face does Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor take on when she regenerates on a clifftop?
David Tennant
David Tennant returned as the Fourteenth Doctor, who is alarmed to find that his new face matches the one he wore in his tenth incarnation.
Q 03In which English city does the newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor crash to Earth and meet her first three companions?
Sheffield
Sheffield also supplies her new sonic screwdriver, which she builds from scrap metal and proudly says is forged from the city's steel.
Q 04Which British quiz show host played retired bus driver Graham O'Brien, who travels with the Thirteenth Doctor?
Bradley Walsh
Bradley Walsh, the host of The Chase, was once a professional footballer on the books at Brentford before he turned to comedy and acting.
Q 05In a cliffhanger set in a 1967 English village, the Thirteenth Doctor is herself turned into which classic monster?
Weeping Angel
A Weeping Angel form overtakes the Doctor as she is recalled to Division, the secretive organisation she served before her memories of it were erased.
Q 06The Thirteenth Doctor gatecrashes a stormy 1816 gathering at Villa Diodati that inspired which famous Gothic novel?
Frankenstein
Frankenstein was conceived there by Mary Shelley, though the Doctor's party arrives to find her future husband Percy missing and the guests more interested in dancing.
Q 07In Jodie Whittaker's last full episode, the Master takes the place of which historical figure in 1916 Russia?
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin's face starts replacing those in famous paintings, the first clue to the Master's plan to steal the Doctor's body through a forced regeneration.
Q 08Jodie Whittaker's casting as the Thirteenth Doctor was revealed on television straight after which 2017 sporting event?
Wimbledon men's final
The Wimbledon men's final reveal showed her in a grey overcoat and black hoodie, months before her real costume was unveiled.
Q 09What infests a new luxury hotel owned by American tycoon Jack Robertson in an early Thirteenth Doctor adventure?
Giant spiders
Giant spiders emerge from abandoned mine tunnels beneath the hotel, which one of Robertson's companies had used as a dump for industrial waste.
Q 10What traps the Thirteenth Doctor in a Manchester storage facility with Daleks shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve?
A time loop
A time loop keeps resetting the evening, and each reset is one minute shorter, so the Doctor has only until midnight to find a way out.
Q 11Which Broadchurch creator was Doctor Who's showrunner for the whole of the Thirteenth Doctor's era?
Chris Chibnall
Chris Chibnall made a pact with his star at the outset to do three series and then leave together, and the pair handed back the TARDIS keys in 2022.
Q 12Which actor plays the Master opposite the Thirteenth Doctor, first posing as an MI6 agent known as O?
Sacha Dhawan
Sacha Dhawan's Master shrank the real O to a tiny corpse and stole his identity, a deception that holds right up to the cliffhanger of Spyfall.
Q 13Which stand-up comedian played Liverpool food bank volunteer Dan Lewis in the Thirteenth Doctor's last series?
John Bishop
Q 21Which Scottish actor plays witch-hunting King James I when the Thirteenth Doctor visits 1612 Lancashire?
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming's King James takes Graham for the one in charge and assumes the Doctor is merely his assistant.
Q 22Which immortal former companion steals a spaceship to send the Thirteenth Doctor a warning about a lone Cyberman?
Jack Harkness
Jack Harkness teleports Graham aboard his stolen ship by mistake, taking him for the Doctor, in a return the show had kept as a surprise.
Q 23Which computing pioneer does the Thirteenth Doctor pull into an 1834 invention exhibition while escaping the Kasaavin?
Ada Lovelace
John Bishop was born in Liverpool himself and was a semi-professional footballer before he took up comedy.
Q 14Which former Hollyoaks actor played probationary police officer Yasmin Khan throughout the Thirteenth Doctor's travels?
Mandip Gill
Mandip Gill's Yaz stayed to the very end, and her feelings for the Doctor became the first same-sex romance between the Doctor and a companion.
Q 15Which condition makes riding a bike a struggle for the Thirteenth Doctor's young companion Ryan Sinclair?
Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia affects Ryan's coordination, and viewers first meet him failing to stay on his practice bike, moments before he stumbles on an alien pod.
Q 16Which rhino-headed police force arrests the Thirteenth Doctor and locks her in an asteroid prison for decades?
The Judoon
The Judoon seize her just as she is about to take off, and she spends decades in the cell before an old friend breaks her out.
Q 17Which clone warrior race replaces Russia as Britain's enemy when the Thirteenth Doctor visits the Crimean War?
Sontarans
The Sontarans are driven back when the Doctor poisons their supply system, only for a vengeful British general to bomb their retreating ships.
Q 18Which pioneering nurse does the Thirteenth Doctor meet at Sevastopol during a Crimean War rewritten by aliens?
Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman, had gone to the Crimea to set up her British Hotel for sick and convalescent officers.
Q 19Which historical upheaval is unfolding when the Thirteenth Doctor takes Yaz to meet her young grandmother Umbreen?
The Partition of India
The Partition of India looms over Umbreen's wedding to Prem, a Hindu man she intends to marry even though her own family is Muslim.
Q 20Which actor's Twelfth Doctor regenerated into Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor in a 2017 Christmas special?
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi bowed out in Twice Upon a Time, whose last scene leaves the brand-new Doctor falling out of her own TARDIS.
Ada Lovelace then grabs the Doctor's hand and lands with her in wartime Paris, where the pair are rescued by British spy Noor Inayat Khan.
Q 24Which rival inventor stirs up protesters against Nikola Tesla in the Thirteenth Doctor's 1903 New York adventure?
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison is the Doctor's first suspect when Tesla is ambushed, but the real threat is the Skithra, aliens whose ship is cobbled together from stolen parts.
Q 25Which small creature that eats non-organic material threatens a hospital ship carrying the injured Thirteenth Doctor?
A Pting
A Pting really craves energy, so the Doctor feeds it the ship's own bomb and then jettisons the well-fed creature into space.
Q 26In a mirror world reached from a Norwegian cabin, the sentient Solitract speaks to the Thirteenth Doctor as what?
A talking frog
A talking frog with the voice of Graham's late wife Grace is the form it chooses, and the Doctor has to explain that the two of them cannot co-exist.
Q 27Which everyday packaging material becomes a murder weapon at the galactic retailer Kerblam in a Thirteenth Doctor story?
Bubble wrap
Bubble wrap is weaponised by maintenance worker Charlie, who wants the deaths of Kerblam's customers blamed on automation so that human jobs are saved.
Q 28Which warlike race sends Tzim-Sha to hunt a human in the Thirteenth Doctor's first full adventure?
The Stenza
The Stenza hunt is a ritual to earn leadership, and the Doctor, who insists on calling the hunter Tim Shaw, turns his own DNA bombs back on him.
Q 29Which Australian flight attendant, a companion of the Fifth Doctor, returns for the Thirteenth Doctor's last adventure?
Tegan Jovanka
Tegan Jovanka, played again by Janet Fielding, destroys a Cyberman converter inside UNIT headquarters while fellow returnee Ace takes on the Daleks.
Q 30Which earlier showrunner returned to run Doctor Who once the Thirteenth Doctor's era ended in 2022?
Russell T Davies
Russell T Davies had revived the series in 2005, and he wrote the closing moments of the Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration episode himself.