Quarantine Quizzes: Geek round 4

QUARANTINE QUIZZES Geek round 4: Time travel

1. When Doc and Marty travel to the future, what year do they visit?

2015

2. Which of these is a common time travel theory? a) The uncle dilemma b) The grandfather paradox c) The ancestor fallacy ​b) The grandfather paradox - Any aspect of past time travel could result in travelers accidentally killing their ancestors or changing events so that they could not have been born.

3. Who wrote The Time Machine? ​H.G. Wells

4. Einstein’s theory of relativity overturned whose previous theory of the “clockwork universe”? ​Isaac Newton. His theory compares the universe to a mechanical clock. Einstein's theory however says that time slows down or speeds up depending on how fast you move relative to something else.

5. What is Bill & Ted’s time machine disguised as? ​A phone booth

6. In Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, what time travel device does Professor McGonagall entrust to Hermione?​ A time turner

7. What “J” refers to a one hundredth of a second? ​A jiffy

8. Which of these is a theoretical method for time travel? a) Cosmic strings b) Cosmic holes c) Cosmic bridges ​a) Cosmic strings. Two strings parallel to each other could, in theory, bend space-time in such a particular configuration that it might make time travel possible.

9. In the movie "X-Men: Days of Future Past", which character is sent back in time to prevent an assassination?​ Wolverine

10. In the Busted song ‘Year 3000’, a time traveller from the future tells the boys that not much has changed, but...? ​They lived underwater