Time Travel

TV

1. What city in which state is Sam Beckett's home town?
   Elk Ridge, Indiana

2. What is Sam's birthdate and birthyear?
   August 8, 1953

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

4. What one time MTV personality guest starred in one episode as a stripper, and how did she get the part?
   Julie Brown, her brother Paul is the show's producer

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?
   Thames

6. What was the name of the first episode?
   Genesis

7. What was the name of the last episode?
   Mirror Image

8. On the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap, what does the abbreviation GTFW stand for?
   God, Time, Fate, or Whatever (accept also "Whoever")

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).
    Take a piece of string, etc. Let Brian do this.

11. What is Al's last name?
    Calavicci

12. Al's first wife went on, in time, to marry another man. What was her name, and why did she marry someone else?
    Beth, she thought Al was dead (he was a POW in Nam)

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

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?
   Rick, Will, and Holly Marshall

2. What were they doing when they were "transported"?
   Rafting down the Colorado River

3. What was the name of their cave home?
   High Bluff

4. What controlled the alien land?
   Pylons (Pyramid-like objects)

Time Trax (Sorry)

1. What is the name of the cop protagonist?
   Darien Lambert

2. With what futuristic organization is he associated?
   The Fugitive Retreival System

3. What is SELMA?
   A holographic image that gives Darien any information that he needs.

4. What does SELMA stand for?
   Special Encapsulated Limited Memory Archive

Dr. Who

1. What does TARDIS stand for?
   Time and Relative Dimensions in Space

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?
   Theta Sigma, a Time Lord nickname given to him when he was at the Academy on Gallifrey

3. What were the last words spoken on the last episode (so far) of the TV show?
   There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, the seas sleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger; somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold! Come on Ace, we've got work to do!

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

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?
   K-9 and Company, Sarah Jane Smith and K-9

6. Given a quote, tell which number Doctor said it, and the episode in which it was said.
   • "Careful, careful -- I might explode!"
     4th Dr, "Revenge of the Cybermen"

   • "It is rather a pity, in way. Now the universe is down to 699 wonders."
     3rd Dr, "Death to the Daleks"

   • "Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind I've even encountered!"
     3rd Dr, "Frontier in Space"

   • "Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."
     2nd Doctor, "The Wheel in Space"

7. Finally, on what day an year was the first episode of Dr. Who aired, and when was the last one?
   November 23, 1963, Dec. 6, 1989

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

1. What was the title of their segment of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle"?
   Peabody's Improbable History

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

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

4. How would Mr. Peabody introduce Sherman?
   as "my boy, Sherman"

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

6. What did P&S trick Richard the Lion-Hearted into believing?
   that the magic token he had made him brave enough to go out and face Saladin

MOVIES

Back to The Future

1. What speed must the DeLorean attain to travel through time, and how much energy does it need?
   88 MPH, 1.21 Gigawatts

2. Name every year that Marty travels to:
   1885, 1955, 1985, 2015

3. Name both of Marty's parents, and actor (who rules!) and actress who play them in the first movie.
   George and Lorraine McFly, Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson

4. Name every character in all three movies played by Thomas F. Wilson
   Beauford "Mad Dog" Tannen, Biff Tannen, and Griff Tannen

5. What rock star appears in the first movie?
   Huey Lewis

   The second movie?
   Flea

   And what Band appears in the third movie?
   ZZ Top

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
   Alex Winter plays Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Keanu Reeves plays Ted Theodore Logan

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

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

4. Name everyone that Bill and Ted bring back with them in the first movie to help with their history report.
   Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln

5. How do Bill and Ted describe the year 470 BC?
   A time when much of world looked like the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy"

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

7. What year does he travel back to 1988 from in the first movie?
   2688

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

9. In the second movie, how do Bill and Ted escape Death?
   They "Melvin" him

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
   The Final Countdown

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
   The Philadelphia Experiment

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
   Time After Time

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
   Millenium

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.
   Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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".
   "Jeffty is Five" by Harlan Ellison...and no, "Jeffty" is not a typo

2. A collection of the novellas "Flash Crowd", "You'll Take the High Road", and "Rumfuddle", by three different authors.
   "Three Trips in Time and Space" by Jack Vance, John Brunner, and Larry Niven

3. The short story on which the movie "Terminator" is purportedly based
   "Soldier" by Harlan Ellison

4. The short story parodied on the Simpsons Halloween special with the line "Stupid bug...you go 'squish' now."
   "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury

   Where does this story get its name from
   "The Time Machine"

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.
   "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett

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.
   "All You Zombies" by Robert Heinlein

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
   The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

Connecticuit Yankee

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

2. Why was a peasant punished for saying that Morgan Le Fay had red hair?
   because "after a lady attains a certain social status, her hair becomes 'auburn'" or something to that effect

The Time Machine

1. To what year in the far future does the Time Traveller go?
   802,701 AD

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

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

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?
   it rotates

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?
   wormholes

4. What is the disadvantage of using the aforementioned conduits for time travel?
   You could only travel back as far as the wormhole's lifetime

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?
   1/2 the speed of light

Essay/Project:

Build a time machine, and bring it down to the station to be turned in when you turn in this bonus. Explain how it works and prove it (use as much space as necessary).

Finally,

Travel to the future, and prove that you have done so by sending an e-mail message to 97baw@williams.edu from the date January 8, 2035 at precisely 12 midnight. In your message, be sure to tell Brian what it's like in the future, and whether or not people are still wearing pants.