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1. The "Back to the Future" trilogy follows the adventures of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and his eccentric scientist friend, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd). In which of these movies did Marty jeopardize the timeline with a book?
2. In "Time After Time" (1979), we learn that legendary British author H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has built an actual time machine, and that one John Lesley Stevenson (David Warner) is really Jack the Ripper, and he has stolen Wells' time machine. When the time machine returns to his lab, Wells goes after Jack the Ripper. In what city did he find himself?
3. Through "Nemesis," how many "Star Trek" films have dealt with time travel?
4. In "The Time Machine" (2002), Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) constructs a time machine of his own. When his fiancée, Emma (Sienna Guillory) is killed, he tries to go back in time to save her. When his efforts prove fruitless, he travels forward, ultimately landing 800,000 years into the future. There, Alexander befriends a race of people who are peaceful and live off the earth. What are these people called?
5. In the "Terminator" films, there was a time portal in the year 2029 that allowed the Terminator cyborgs (and Kyle Reese) to go back in time, so that each could take on his (or in the case of "T3," her) mission in the past. But anyone going through the portal appeared on the other side in the nude. Why?
6. "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) chronicles the adventures of two dim-witted would-be rock star high school students (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) as they travel through the history of our world -- in a phone booth! Can you name the high school that Bill and Ted attended?
7. In "The Final Countdown" (1980), a modern-day US Navy aircraft carrier encounters a strange storm which takes the ship back to the days prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in 1941. What was the name of the aircraft carrier?
8. In "Back to the Future, Part II", how many characters (including different versions of Marty McFly) did Michael J. Fox play?
9. In "Timecop" (1994), a cop named Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a member of the T.E.C., whose duty is to preserve history so that the timeline remains constant. What does "T.E.C." stand for?
10. In "Freejack" (1992), a race car driver named Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is thrown forward in time a split second before his car crashes during a race. When he reaches his destination, he realizes that his body is to be occupied by the soul of a dying man (Sir Anthony Hopkins). What rock star played Alex's pursuer, Victor Vacendak?
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