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1. (1 point) Name the TV show revolving around a doctor who travels through time in machine disguised as a phone booth?

5. (1 pts) This 2004 movie dealing with time travel stars Ashton Kutcher in one of his rare non-comedy roles, and deals with a common theme of time travel, that to change the past only makes things worse.

6. (2 pts) This book, written way back in 1895 and mostly taking place about then and in year 802,701 A.D. is generally considered the first major time travel story. The main character of the story eventually travels all the way to the year 30 Million AD where the only life left on a Dying Earth are large red crabs and the butterflies they chase.

What’s the name the Book?

… and the Author?

7. (3 pts) Many sci-fi plots are set in the Dying Earth sub-genre, but are particularly common as one of the various, often dystopian futures encountered by time travelers. Just as common is the Twenty Minutes in the Future Crapsack world ruled by homicidal machines bent on enslaving or exterminating humanity. Probably the best known of these, this series of movies features a time machine that only works on naked people, had its first installment come out in 1984.

What the name of that first movie?

Who played the killer robot in that movie?

8. (2 pts) This famous writer wrote about time travel and robots, especially the latter, though typically his robots were anything but homicidal, his best known work dealing with time travel was titled, ‘The End of Eternity’. His other debatably well known time travel work did involve killer robots, as well as mutants, though he did not write it but rather revised the English translation of this French animated sci-fi movie made in 1988, whose English version includes voices done by a number of notable actors, including Penn and Teller, in which Teller actually speaks.

Who is the writer?

10. (3 pts) Killer robots and mutants are pretty common in the time travel but so are killer cyborgs. This time traveler, played by Tom Baker from 1974 to 1981, regularly traveled through time and relative dimensions in space often fighting a species of genocidal cyborgs from the planet Skaro who sought to exterminate just about everyone.

Name the character

… and the genocidal species of cyborgs?


Those were the ones I got, though the donuts should've been enough of a clue... I guessed Futurama, so at least I had the creator right. And yeah, should've known the Tardis as well.

I feel like I should get bonus points for having gotten nine points without having seen or read a single one of the works referred to (okay, I've seen some Simpsons episodes, obviously, but not that one).
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