The Time Machine Trivia

1. Who scored the music for this movie?

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt, born 1967, is a German composer. Among his other notable works are the soundtracks to the movies "K-19: The Widowmaker" and "The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl". The list of composing credits amassed by John Williams is virtually endless, but his best known works are the scores to "Star Wars", "Superman", and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". There was life after the new wave band Oingo Boingo split up, as proven by former member Danny Elfman's ability to not only compose catchy TV theme music but movie scores such as "Batman" and "Darkman". Following a 12 year stint as Yes' guitarist, South African-born Trevor Rabin found a home in Hollywood as a movie soundtrack composer.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells wrote the book which inspired the movie. Melville wrote "Moby Dick", R. L. Stine wrote the "Goosebumps" books and there is no H. E. Wells!

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: George Pal

George Pal was not only a director, but also a producer, writer, and cinematographer. He first received acclaim for his "Puppetoons," but soon became the force behind some of the most successful fantasy films of the 1950s. In 1953, he produced another film based on an H.G. Wells novel, "The War of the Worlds."

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: New York City

Alexander Hartdegen is shown to be a young professor, teaching physics at Columbia University in uptown Manhattan.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Parkes/MacDonald

In the beginning of the movie, it say a Parkes/MacDonald Production.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: David Duncan

David Duncan also was part of the team of writers that conceived the 1966 movie, "Fantastic Voyage." The other choices listed for this question were the other writers who are credited for contributing to "Fantastic Voyage."

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: The Future Is Now

The year 2030 is his first stop before proceeding on into the future after realizing he couldn't save his fiancee, Emma. He sees the billboard and hears a recording talk about the first detonations for the planned colonization of underground living on the moon.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Simon Wells

Simon Wells directed this one and the rest of the choices are fictional.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: "Excuse me, Mr. Filby!"

The first line was from an unidentified man on a bicycle, who almost hit David Filby as he crossed the street in front of George's house.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce plays Alex, the main character in this movie.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: January 5, 1900

We know it is January 5, 1900, for that is when George made the appointment on his calendar for the group to meet for dinner. The story begins when he comes back from the future on January 5th, then he starts to tell the story of what happened five days earlier, beginning on December 31, 1899 - that's the evening he made the appointment, and we watch him do it. Make sense? Alright, let's start again. The movie opens on January 5, 1900, when George comes back from the future. He then tells the story of what happened on December 31, 1899, beginning with the last time they all met, he revealed his time machine, and he started his first journey. So the whole movie is a flashback narrated by George ending once again on January 5th.

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: Unified Field Theory

After Alexander finds out that the public library information unit is a compendium of all human knowledge, he puts it to the test by asking it what it know about different areas of science, physics and engineering - all areas concerning the field of time travel. Although unified field theory, a term coined by Albert Einstein, is a branch of physics dealing with relativity and electromagnetism, it is not one of the areas Alexander queries the unit on.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Alexander Hartdegen

In the beginning, we see his full name on the door to his office and on it. It reads Alexander Hartdegen.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: "I'm all right. Some food, a drink."

George is played by Rod Taylor, who went on in 1963 to star in the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds" as Mitch Brenner.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Professor

We also see on his office door under his name that he is an associate professor, but he does also invent items in his spare time.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot went on to greater fame playing Giles French, the butler on "Family Affair," and the voice of the narrator of Walt Disney's "Winnie the Pooh." Whit Bissell who played Walter Kemp, had other brushes with time travel on television, first, in 1966, he was a regular on Irwin Allen's "The Time Tunnel." Then he appeared on an updated TV version of "The Time Machine" in 1978. Tom Helmore, who played Anthony Bridewell, was Gavin Elster in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" a few years prior to this.

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: He's a "wandering idiot".

The villagers were contemplating throwing him into the river, possibly thinking that this stranger might be an enemy. After telling Mara the truth that he came from the past in a machine, she thought it best to provide another explanation to her people, telling them that "he hit his head and he's a wandering idiot".

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Columbia University

David, his best friend, said an associate professor at Columbia University shouldn't associate with Einstein.

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: Dinosaurs

After Mara is captured by the Morlocks, Alexander and Mara's little brother, Kalen, find out that the Vox unit, with its photonic memory core, is still functioning after 800,000 years. It says to Alexander, "Can you even imagine what it's like to remember everything?" Then adds, "I remember this six year old girl who asked me about dinosaurs 800,000 years ago," and finally, "And yes, I even remember you.... time travel, practical application."

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: David

David was a professor at Columbia University as well.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: Rod somehow cut his left index finger, and he smears blood on the time machine.

On the DVD it can be seen clearly. Rod Taylor was bleeding all over the time machine when he lovingly caresses it, just before he unscrews the lever. You might say he gave it a proper christening, without hitting it with a bottle.

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: The food supply

After going underground in his attempt to find Mara, he discovers that the Morlocks are cannibals, capturing the Eloi for food. Then Alexander meets the Morlock leader (brilliantly played by Jeremy Irons) who to his surprise, can not only speak English, but is imbued with telepathic and telekinetic abilities. The Morlocks' ancestors were once humans who had to live underground after the moon broke apart, and even they evolved into different castes, such as the type confronted by Alexander. When the Morlock leader refers to the Eloi as food, and Alexander questions him, he (the Morlock leader) becomes enraged, asking who is he to question 800,000 years of evolution.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: bowler hats

While walking home, Alex was telling David that he did not want his students to be the same as everyone else and wear identical bowler hats.

From Quiz The Time Machine (2002)

Answer: Further into the future

When Alexander and the Morlock leader start fighting, he pushes the lever forward, into the future, as a way of distancing him both from Mara and as a way of getting rid of him. After the Morlock leader is pushed out of the machine and its sphere of influence, where he is seen to age rapidly and disintegrate, the machine stops at the year 635,427,810 and Alexander encounters an Earth depicted as a barren, rocky landscape underneath a darkened sky with clouds of black smoke. This is more in keeping with the original written version. In the book, the time traveler goes forward in time about 30 million years, showing a similar kind of fate for the Earth.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: Einstein

Alex was assisting Einstein with his inventions.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: 6:31 PM

George, in his voice-over narration, mentions that it was 6:31 when he started, and 8:09 on the clock in his laboratory when he first stops.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: red

She was wearing a red outfit the night she died.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: September 13, 1917

George stops, walks across the street, and sees David Filby's son, James, and, at first, mistakes him for David Filby.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" Movie Quiz

Answer: sapphire

She saw it and called it a mood ring but he told her that it was a birthstone ring. He also said he thought she would like it and she told him he thought right.

From Quiz "The Time Machine" (1960)

Answer: H. George Wells

Although no one in the film ever refers to Rod Taylor as anything but 'George,' the plate is a tribute to the original author, H.G. Wells. In the original book, H.G. Wells, did not name the character, the narrator just referred to him as 'the time traveller.'

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