Time Travel in the Movies Trivia Quiz

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: 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: 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: The Philadelphia Experiment

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: Donnie Darko

Trivia Bit - "The movie was shot in 28 days, exactly the time-span of the movie itself, and on a budget of under $5 million." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: The Voyage Home

Trivia Bit - "The people that Chekov and Uhura ask for directions to the 'nuclear wessels' are not actors, including the woman who directs him to Alameda. The scene was filmed with a hidden camera on a San Francisco street." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Trivia Bit - "When Bill reads the assignment to Ted, he says, 'Express to the class how an important historical figure from each of your time periods would view the world of San Dimas, 1988.' His lips are actually saying, 'San Dimas, 1987' and the '1988' was dubbed later because of a delay in the movie's release." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Trivia Bit - "Dr. Evil calls one of his creations "The Alan Parsons Project", spoofing the name of a band that enjoyed popularity during the late '70s and early '80s. Coincidentally, 1999 was also the year Alan Parsons released his album 'The Time Machine', and a remix of the title track includes snippets of Dr. Evil's dialogue from the movie." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)

Answer: Time After Time

Trivia Bit - "When Wells gives a false name to the police, he uses 'Sherlock Holmes'. And one of the police officers is named Inspector Gregson, a character from the original Sherlock Holmes stories. Also, director Nicholas Meyer wrote 'The Seven Per-cent Solution', which is considered to be one of the best Sherlock Holmes story not written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." (Trivia courtesy of IMDb.com)