Time travel

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1. Who invented the flux capacitor?

Nikola Tesla ✓

Emmett Brown ✓

Stephen Hawking ✓

Guglielmo Marconi ✓

2. To explore time travel, Project Tic-Toc built a device called the Time Tunnel. Who owned Project Tic-Toc?

The US government ✓

An eccentric billionaire ✓

A national security agency ✓

Arizona Institute of Technology ✓

3. What does Hermione Granger's time turner look like?

A cog ✓

A compass ✓

A fob watch ✓

An hourglass ✓

4. TARDIS

Travel and Return Device In Situ ✓

Time and Relative Dimension in Space ✓

The All Realms Directional Synchronizer ✓

Teleportation and Recall, Diffusion Immersion Spectrum ✓

5. In Tom's Midnight Garden, what is hidden in the past so that Tom can find it in his own time?

Ice skates ✓

His time travel diary ✓

A photograph of him in the old garden ✓

One of Charles Dodgson's logic puzzles ✓

6. Who invented the term 'time machine' and the concept behind it?

Jules Verne ✓

C. S. Lewis ✓

H. G. Wells ✓

John Wyndham ✓

7. What time travel device is used by assassins who work for the Temps Commission?

Briefcase ✓

Stopwatch ✓

Wristwatch ✓

Telephone booth ✓

8. In the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, how does the astronaut Taylor learn that he has travelled through time?

A Detroit Tigers calendar in the laboratory ✓

A tree that he planted as a child is gigantic ✓

He finds the Statue of Liberty partially buried ✓

The apes are excited by the discovery of his rocket, which has been missing for decades ✓

9. Which of these people was not visited by Mr Peabody and Sherman using the Wayback machine?

Mata Hari ✓

Confucius ✓

Annie Oakley ✓

Queen Victoria ✓

10. What do Bill and Ted do when they visit the past on their excellent adventure?

Abduct famous people ✓

Carve their names into historic sites ✓

Persuade Christopher Columbus not to turn back ✓

Fail to notice significant events going on around them ✓

11. In what year does Charlotte get stuck in Charlotte Sometimes?

1888 ✓

1918 ✓

1928 ✓

1948 ✓

12. In the film Sleeper, a man wakes up 200 years in the future, when scientists know that what is good for you?

Champagne ✓

Steak, and cream pies ✓

Bathing in very cold water ✓

Spending more time asleep than awake ✓

13. What theory posits that time travel may be impossible because a person travelling to the past would change the world in a way that would make their own life different or non-existent?

Time loop theory ✓

Static regression ✓

The wormhole paradox ✓

The grandfather paradox ✓

14. In The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, a group of 14th century Cumbrian villagers dig a tunnel to seek a great church that will protect them from the Black Death. Where do they find the church?

The Vatican in 1508 ✓

Edinburgh in 1888 ✓

New York City in 1978 ✓

New Zealand in 1988 ✓

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