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1. In the season 2 episode, "Back There", a young professor had a heated debate with colleagues at a social club regarding the possibility of changing past events if one were able to travel back in time. Leaving, the professor finds that he has stepped into the past, via the Twilight Zone. He tried in vain to stop a national tragedy from occurring. What was the event that he was trying to stop?
2. OK, this one may be difficult. "The Twilight Zone" revisited the idea of changing the past, when Paul Driscoll used a time machine with the hope that he could stop the bombing of Hiroshima, assassinate Adolph Hitler before the start of WWII, and prevent the sinking of the Lusitania during WWI.
What was the title of this 4th season episode?
3. A WWI British pilot landed his plane at an American military airfield in France, more than 40 years after the end of the war.
Do you recall the title of this episode?
4. This episode also involved going back in time in order to change the outcome of an earlier military conflict. It the episode, a modern day National Guard tank crew goes back in time to assist Col. Custer and his men in the Battle of Little Big Horn. What is the title?
5. In the April 7, 1961 episode, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim", a family of pioneers was lost in the desert on their way to California. To make matters worse, a young boy was dangerously ill with a fever and near death. The father went over a ridge to look for water and food, when he mysteriously encountered a modern day roadside diner. He was given medicine by a doctor at the diner, which ultimately saved his son's life. What was the futuristic medicine that he was given at the diner?
6. In the episode, "Odyssey of Flight 33", a passenger airliner descended into the past. What was the name of the airport where the air traffic controller had never heard of "jet" aircraft?
7. In this 5th season episode, "The Long Morrow", an astronaut who was about to leave on a forty year interstellar mission, regretfully had to say goodbye to his true love, forever. You see, he was to be put in suspended animation for most of the journey, and would return to Earth at roughly the same physical age as when he left. His lady fair, however, would be seventy years old.
To prove his love and devotion to his sweetheart, he had himself removed from the suspended animation apparatus, enduring the journey alone for forty years and returned to Earth as a seventy year old man. But this is "The Twilight Zone"; what happened?
8. Do you recall the title of this episode?
A New York taxi driver sees future events on his TV, with tragic results.
9. Name the episode. An elderly man, living in a boarding house for senior citizens, picks up radio broadcasts from the past on an antique radio.
10. We'll end this quiz with my favorite episode of "The Twilight Zone". In this offering entitled, "A Kind of Stopwatch", Patrick McNulty drops his time-stopping device, freezing all motion, presumably forever. Where is McNulty when this event takes place?
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