44 Time Travel in Movies Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: The Borg

"Star Trek: First Contact" was a 1996 film featuring the cast of the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Set in the 24th century, the USS Enterprise became involved in a battle with the Borg who were attacking the Earth. After the Borg cube was destroyed, a spherical escape pod traveled back in time to 21st century Earth where they assimilated the planet in the past. The Enterprise follows the Borg ship to the past to prevent them from assassinating Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), the man who designed and flew the first spacecraft to use warp drive.

Answer: 1980s

Released in 2001, this Richard Kelly-directed film is based in the year 1988, weeks before the U.S. presidential election that saw George H.W. Bush victorious. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the title role, with notable performances from Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze and Jena Malone, among others.

Answer: Frequency

Trivia Bit - "Anachronisms: During a 1969 sequence, a wide-angle camera scans Manhattan (from Queens). On the left, for an instant, the completed World Trade Center is visible. It was not completed in 1969." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: author

In "Back to the Future", Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels back in time from 1985 to 1955 using Doc Brown's (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean time machine, where he encounters his teenage mother and father. He rescues his father George (Crispin Glover) from being hit by a car, which actually prevents George from meeting his mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson). Marty has to get his parents to fall in love with each other before their high school dance or Marty and his siblings will be erased from existence. Marty is successful in hooking up his parents and even gives George a stronger sense of courage, which he uses to fight off the bully Biff Tannen (Thomas Wilson). When Marty returns to 1985 he finds out his father has become a successful author instead of being a lowly employee of Biff's.

Answer: Attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941

A United States Aircraft carrier encounters a strange fog and is transported to a time just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. The crew encounters 40's style music on the radio, a Japanese Zero Scout plane and the Pacific Fleet, including the Arizona still safe in Honolulu. Starring in the movie and faced with the decision of to stop the attack or let history go its way are Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Charles Durning. Question by Illini43.

Answer: 1

In 'The Terminator', two individuals travel back in time from the year 2029, a nearly indestructable cyborg called simply a 'Terminator' (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), a human being sent to stop the Terminator by any means necessary. The mission of the Terminator: to find and kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton).

Answer: Kate & Leopold

Trivia Bit - "In the film's original edit, Stuart was Leopold's descendant, which was Stuart's reason for specifically tracking him down. Criticism that this plotline also meant that Kate was Stuart's ancestor, and therefore Stuart's and Kate's earlier relationship was incestuous, lead to those scenes being cut." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: Luke

Luke and his friends are at a carnival for the last day of summer, and Luke has anxiety about performing with his band, Steel Monkey, in front of the entire junior high on his first day there. Luke wishes that it could be the last day of summer always in the movie "The Last Day of Summer" and gets his wish. However, he discovers that it's not all that it's jazzed up to be and realizes that, to break the time loop, he has to be a better person and to make his situation better by making good choices and taking more risks.

The movie starred Jansen Panettiere and Alexandra Krosney and was directed by Blair Treu. It received mixed reviews.

Answer: Kyle Reese

In the first "Terminator" film, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is sent back in time from the year 2029 to 1984, where he must prevent the assassination of Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) by a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Sarah is the mother of John Connor, the leader of a resistance group fighting against the machine army in the future. Kyle is killed in the past, but ends up becoming John Connor's biological father after he develops a relationship with Sarah.

Answer: "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys

While in his car agent Doug Collins, played by Denzel Washington, hears the song by The Beach Boys, while tending to Claire. By the end of the movie he is again in his car talking to Claire Kuchever, played by Paula Patton, who has just survived a very exciting day in her home of New Orleans. He has a feeling of deja vu when the classic song, "Don't worry Baby" starts to play. Question by Illini43.

Answer: 30 years

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is inadvertently sent back 30 years in time, through a set of circumstances out of his control. He meets his teenaged mother and father in the year 1955, and nearly creates a rift in the space-time continuum as a result. Only through the assistance of Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) can things be set right.

Answer: three

In "The Voyage Home" (1986), Kirk & Co. slingshot around the Sun to 1986, in order to bring some humpback whales back to their time.
In "Generations" (1994), Picard and Kirk find themselves in the Nexus, where Kirk is reliving elements of his life after retiring from Starfleet; the two of them later join forces to fight Dr. Tolian Soran on Veridian III in the 24th Century.
And in "First Contact" (1996), the crew of the Enterprise-E help Zephram Cochrane repair and fly Man's first warp ship, the Phoenix, while fighting the Borg at the same time.

Answer: Back to the Future

Trivia Bit - "The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test." (trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: Tomorrow

In the 2014 film "Edge of Tomorrow", Tom Cruise stars as Major William Cage, a public relations officer that has been sent to the front lines in order to cover an invasion of human forces against the aliens. However, Cage has been demoted to private for insubordination and is sent to J-Squad, a group of troublemakers and unruly characters. Cage goes off to battle and faces alien forces. He finally manages to kill one of them, despite having no combat training, but is mortally injured as well. Cage is covered in the alien's blood and wakes up to relive the entire day over again. He meets the fighter Rita Vrataski, played by Emily Blunt, who gives him training and helps him focus on what the mission actually is.

"Edge of Tomorrow" received many positive reviews and is based off of a Japanese science fiction novel called "All You Need Is Kill" by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.

Answer: Wolverine

In "X-Men: Days of Future Past", the mutants of the future are facing extinction at the hands of robotic sentinels. To try and save mutantkind, they decide to send the mind of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back in time to the 70s. He must work with the X-Men from the past to prevent Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from assassinating Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), the man who designs the sentinels. The assassination of Trask would cause humanity to side against mutants and develop more advanced sentinels in the future. Wolverine and the past X-Men are successful in preventing the assassination and he later wakes up in an alternate future, where life for mutants has changed for the better.

Answer: Bill Clinton

The footage of Bill Clinton is taken from an real press conference regarding the discovery of a meteorite found in the Arctic, believed to be from Mars. Question by tag2371

Answer: Terry Gilliam

The story upon which 'Twelve Monkeys' is based is actually derived from a French movie by Chris Marker entitled 'La Jetée'. Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt also help make this film an engaging one to watch.

Answer: In a taxi

Harris is a taxi driver who picks up Penny and begins a mildly flirtatious relationship with her. Harris is tasked with delivering Penny to a remote location but she inexplicably disappears from his cab. When Harris calls the dispatcher, he is told to get back to his job. However, Harris resets the meter and, all of a sudden, he relives picking up Penny again. Harris eventually finds meaning in his job, which is more than just ferrying people to their final destination, and has a on-and-off relationship with Penny when he does get to drive her.

"The Fare" stars Gino Anthony Pesi and Brinna Kelly, who also wrote the movie, and was directed by D.C. Hamilton.

Answer: The Spy Who Shagged Me

"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" was the second film in the Austin Powers comedy film franchise. In the year 1999, Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) travels back in time to 1969, where he sends his henchman Fat Bastard (Mike Myers) to steal the mojo from a still frozen Austin Powers (Mike Myers). In 1999, Austin is having fun with a woman when he suddenly feels the loss of his mojo. He travels back to 1969 himself where he teams up with female secret agent Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) in order to thwart Dr. Evil's plans and return his mojo to his frozen body.

Answer: Warp power

James Cromwell plays Dr. Zefram Cochrane, who test pilots the first warp drive ship to be eventually seen by a passing Vulcan ship. The crew of the Enterprise have to follow a Borg ship back in time to the 21st century, help a local group in Montana, and to preserve human history. Question by Illini43.

Answer: Army of Darkness

Trivia Bit - "That beat-up Olds that goes through time with Ash belongs to director Sam Raimi. He included it in most of his early movies, each time more banged up than the last. The items in the trunk of the Olds are not product placements; they're what Sam Raimi actually had in his trunk." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: On a train

Colter Stevens is a US Army pilot whose last memory had him in Afghanistan. However, he keeps waking up on a train as someone else entirely, a teacher named Sean Fentress and he is with an old friend of his, Christina. However, the train they are on blows up and Stevens awakens in a capsule where he is briefed that he is on a mission to identify the bomber of the train, as that explosion has already happened and they are trying to prevent a bigger future explosion. The Source Code is a machine that uses the memories of the dead people on the train to recreate the last eight minutes before they died.

The 2011 movie "Source Code" was a success which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan and was directed by Duncan Jones.

Answer: wristwatch

In the 2014 movie "Interstellar", Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and several astronauts travel through a wormhole searching for a planet suitable for permanent colonization. Cooper's daughter Murphy had been receiving weird omens in the library and on her watch prior to Cooper's departure. Cooper's journey takes him to planets located near a black hole which slows down time for the astronauts. Hours on the planet become years back on Earth. Later in the film, in order to save his crew mate Amelia (Anne Hathaway), Cooper must fly his ship towards the black hole. Alien beings manage to save Cooper by placing him inside a tesseract, a five-dimensional structure from which Cooper can move across time and space. He attempts to communicate with young Murphy by knocking books off the shelf and using her watch to send a message from the tesseract via Morse code.

Answer: He thinks his girlfriend has been killed.

Mel Gibson plays Daniel, who eventually is unfrozen 53 years after entering the experimental device made by his best friend, Harry Finley. Elijah Wood plays Nat Cooper who, along with a friend, discovers him in the back of a warehouse. After looking for Harry and finding he has been killed, Daniel loses hope of discovering of what has happened. He then finds Susan Finley, who tells him that the love his life, Helen, did not die, but is alive and divorced in her old home town. Question by Illini43.