The Post Quiz: Time Travel Devices

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Ah, time. It is so fleeting – like tears in rain. Everybody wants to time travel. But how?

The Post Quiz: Time Travel Devices

Michael J Fox as Marty McFly in a scene from the 1985 movie 'Back to the Future'

How do you get to the past or the future?

Short answers.

  1. What did Marty McFly use to get back to the future?
  2. What extra quality does the Doctor's TARDIS have that makes space/time travel so convenient?
  3. What makes time travel possible in Star Trek's 'City on the Edge of Forever'?
  4. What's the name of Dr Peabody's time machine?
  5. This theoretical (but real-life) time machine might cause the Grandfather Paradox.
  6. What time travel device does DC Comics use?
  7. What device does Quentin Collins build in his basement (of course) in Dark Shadows?
  8. In Irwin Allen's legendary TV series, how did his travellers move through time?
  9. What imaginative name did HG Wells give to his time-travel device?
  10. In the 1970 illustrated novel Time and Again, how did author Jack Finney's protagonist move through time?

Did you remember all this, or do you wish you had a time machine to go back and find the movies, books, and articles? Click on the picture for answers instead.

Actor David Tennant as the tenth 'Doctor Who'. Graphic by Jimster.
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