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Time Travel

TV

Quantum Leap

  1. What city in which state is Sam Beckett's home town?

  2. What is Sam's birthdate and birthyear?

  3. What is the name of the computer at Project EVIL Quantum Leap?

  4. What one time MTV personality guest starred in one episode as a stripper, and how did she get the part?

  5. When Zoë (from Project Evil Quantum Leap) leaps into a prison warden in the second Evil Leaper episode, she has a hologram companion (the equivalent of Al). What is his/her name?

  6. What was the name of the first episode?

  7. What was the name of the last episode?

  8. On the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap, what does the abbreviation GTFW stand for?

  9. Normally, as the theory goes, you can only leap back in time as far as your birthday. However, there was one (and only one) notable exception. When (what year) did Sam leap back to, who did he leap into in that episode, and why was this leap possible?

  10. Explain the theory behind project Quantum Leap (i.e. how quantum leaping works).

  11. What is Al's last name?

  12. Al's first wife went on, in time, to marry another man. What was her name, and why did she marry someone else?

  13. Finally, what recently deceased comedian played "Gooshie," the little computer operator with bad breath?

Land of the Lost

  1. What were the names of the forest ranger and his two children that get transported to The Land of the Lost?

  2. What were they doing when they were "transported"?

  3. What was the name of their cave home?

  4. What controlled the alien land?

Time Trax (Sorry)

  1. What is the name of the cop protagonist?

  2. With what futuristic organization is he associated?

  3. What is SELMA?

  4. What does SELMA stand for?

Dr. Who

  1. What does TARDIS stand for?

  2. This name for the Doctor was only used twice: In "The Armageddon Factor" and "The Happiness Patrol." What is it, and how did the Doctor get it?

  3. What were the last words spoken on the last episode (so far) of the TV show?

  4. What was the name of the 30th Anniversary Special?

  5. A one-hour pilot, intended as a spinoff of Dr. Who was aired in 1981. What was it called, and what two companions of the Doctor did it feature?

  6. Given a quote, tell which number Doctor said it, and the episode in which it was said.

  7. Finally, on what day an year was the first episode of Dr. Who aired, and when was the last one?

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

  1. What was the title of their segment of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle"?

  2. In the title sequence for this segment, what is the last person we see?

  3. What device do the two use to travel back in time?

  4. How would Mr. Peabody introduce Sherman?

  5. Whom did P&S have to pick a fight for in an English gym?

  6. What did P&S trick Richard the Lion-Hearted into believing?

MOVIES

Back to The Future

  1. What speed must the DeLorean attain to travel through time, and how much energy does it need?

  2. Name every year that Marty travels to:

  3. Name both of Marty's parents, and actor (who rules!) and actress who play them in the first movie.

  4. Name every character in all three movies played by Thomas F. Wilson

  5. What rock star appears in the first movie?

    The second movie?

    And what Band appears in the third movie?

  6. What is the theme of the prom at Hill Valley High that Marty's parents (as teenagers) go to in the first movie?

  7. What does Marty's mother think his name after she finds him lying in the road in front of her house?

  8. In the Third Movie, what does Marty tell people his name is?

  9. What are the name of Doc Brown's two kids?

  10. What is the name of Doc Brown's awesome dog?

  11. Finally, what is the device that makes time travel possible?

Bill and Ted

  1. Give the full name of both Bill and Ted (as they introduce themselves), and name the actors who play them. Specify who plays who.

  2. What is the name of Bill and Ted's band? You will get NO POINTS WHATSOEVER if you misspell it.

  3. The second movie, "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" originally had another title. What was it?

  4. Name everyone that Bill and Ted bring back with them in the first movie to help with their history report.

  5. How do Bill and Ted describe the year 470 BC?

  6. What is the name of George Carlin's character?

  7. What year does he travel back to 1988 from in the first movie?

  8. Who plays "The Most Important Person in the World?"

  9. In the second movie, how do Bill and Ted escape Death?

Name the Movie:

As it says, name the movie from a plot description:

  1. The aircraft carrier Nimitz sails into a timestorm and comes out in 1941, right before the attack on Pearl Harbor

  2. A 1943 experiment in radar cloaking and a 1984 experiment in missle deflection somehow merge to create a time vortex. A sailor (David Herdeg) enters the vortex, goes to the future, and falls in love

  3. Malcom McDowell as H.G. Wells travels to San Francisco in the 1970's. chasing after Jack the Ripper, and the two chase each other in an attempt to regain the key to Wells's machine

  4. Kris Kristoferson stars in this movie about infertile people from the future who kidnap potential plane crash victims just before their accident, and use them to breed and work in the future

  5. Two whales, George and Gracie, provide the key to the salvation of all of human civilization. The only catch is, they have to get to the 23rd century in order to do it.

LITERATURE

Short Stories

Give the title and author:

  1. A boy never ages, and listens to the radio stations that haven't broadcast in years play new episods of "The Shadow".

  2. A collection of the novellas "Flash Crowd", "You'll Take the High Road", and "Rumfuddle", by three different authors.

  3. The short story on which the movie "Terminator" is purportedly based

  4. The short story parodied on the Simpsons Halloween special with the line "Stupid bug...you go 'squish' now."

    Where does this story get its name from

  5. Two boxes of toys from the future get sent to the past, and one ends up in the modern day, where some children find it.

  6. A recruiting officer for the Temporal Bureau eventually becomes his own mother and father through a series of sex-change operations and time travel in this short story.

  7. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, and he is one of a select group employed outside of Time, in Eternity, to affect Reality Changes. His job is to rearrange past and future events according to the dictates of the Allwhen council. Name this novel

Connecticuit Yankee

  1. What title does the Connecticut Yankee adopt as a member of King Arthur's Court?

  2. Why was a peasant punished for saying that Morgan Le Fay had red hair?

The Time Machine

  1. To what year in the far future does the Time Traveller go?

  2. What are the name of the two races he meets there?

  3. What is the name of the female creature who follows him around?

REAL SCIENCE

  1. An especially cool part of time travel is that it may be possible someday. Answer these questions about the science behind real time travel:

  2. One possibility for travelling through time is navigating inside and/or around a black hole. However, not all black holes are "navigable." How is a "navigable" black hole different from other black holes?

  3. Scientists have hypothesized the existence of conduits in spacetime that link two diferent points in both space and time. What are such passages called?

  4. What is the disadvantage of using the aforementioned conduits for time travel?

  5. Frank Tipler, the guy who claims to have found a physical proof that human souls will eventually be resurrected before the end of the universe, theorizes that a giant cylinder, spinning in space, could provide a means for travelling in time. How fast would such a cylinder have to rotate to make time travel possible?

Essay/Project:

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