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Pedantism is entirely fine in a geek quiz Isaac Send a noteboard - 15/04/2012 04:22:33 PM
1. (1 point) Name the TV show revolving around a doctor who travels through time in machine disguised as a phone booth?

Or a police box? I feel that if I'm able to be annoyingly pedantic, I should get bonuses for that. Dr. Who


Of course phone booth is a setup for question #2, and being annoyingly pedantic is an important attribute to geekdom... however in this case a police box is a type of phone booth originating in the United States in Albany, NY in 1877, the year after Bell's patent... they spread around the East Coast quite a lot before jumping the Atlantic, they picked up a lot of bells and whistles since they served as something of mobile offices for the police before radios made it easier to communicate on the move, but they are a type of phone booth, or call box or phone kiosk. So in this case phone booth is correct in the same way Timmy's pet mammal, Lassie, was also his dog
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