"The Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. In the prologue, the Traveller explains how he built a time-machine and tested it. Traveller used it to travel to the future and back to his own time. What year does the Traveller call his time period? 1991 1951 1851 1891

2. On the Traveller's first trip back to the future, how many days forward was the time-machine to go? 347 165 321 292 495 940 123 456 789 468 902 564

3. What is the being that the Traveler injured/killed with a poker stick? Quantrills Ancients Human Morlocks

4. The Traveller, during his first trip forward, was imprisoned in a cage. How is the cage described? A cave-like environment. Arches of energy set to deliver electrical charges. A traditional jail cell. A clear material that felt like warm leather.

5. One of the captors, Nebogipfel, took the responsibility of the Traveller. Nebogipfel learns how to speak English and eventually allows the Traveller out of his cage. Where did Nebogipfel take him? Directly back to earth. His first stop was his time-machine. Into another confinement area, this time with solid walls. Into the sphere, showing him where and how they lived.

6. The Traveller managed to re-claim the time-machine; using the time-machine he went back to his era (not the exact year). Who did the Traveller confront in this era? Himself at thirty Himself at twenty-four Himself at twenty-six Himself at twenty-eight

7. The Traveller named the younger version of himself Moses, why did he call himself (the younger) that? It was Traveller's father's name. It is their shared first name, which neither of them used. It has significant biblical meaning for Traveller.. For no particular reason other than the Traveller liked the name.

8. While the three of them (Traveller, Nebogipfel, and Moses) were discussing the issues of time travel a group of people arrived to take the three of them into custody. Where and when did this group come from? This group was French from the year 2050. The group of people were English from the year 1938. They were the Eloi, from the first time line. A future version of the Traveller.

9. Nebogipfel and the Traveller took a prototype of a time-machine to escape the war torn world. Since the time-machine was a prototype, and not tested, when did these two end up? The Iron Age Paleocene Era One million years in the future. They stayed in 1938, the prototype machine did not work.

10. British soldiers found the Traveller and Nebogipfel and had set up a boot camp; unfortunately the Germans found them also. The Germans dropped a bomb on the British settlement, destroying almost everything as well as killing three quarters on the soldiers. In the wake of this destruction, how do the Traveller and Nebogipfel manage to continue with time-travel? Traveller and Nebogipfel put their efforts towards building a colony with the survivors since everyone had to live their lives out in the distant past. The Morlocks in the future built a time-machine to rescue Nebogipfel, and he insisted the the Traveller be rescued also. A small two man time-machine was hidden in the jungle. Nebogipfel scavenged through the wreckage, gathering enough parts to build a new time-machine.

11. In the time-machine seasons and civilizations pass in a blur; were the Traveller and Nebogipfel able to determine if the colony, New London, survived? It died out within a few generations probably due to the smallness of the gene pool. There was no evidence of New London surviving beyond the departure of the Traveller and Nebogipfel. It survived to become a hunter-gatherer civilization losing all the technological advances it had. The Traveller and Nebogipfel watched New London grow and thrive over millions of years. New London, by 1891, had already moved to the stars.

12. When the time-machine halts in the world left by New-London, what is wrong with the Earth? The Traveller calls it a "Green Earth" one that is continuously exposed to filtered sunlight. Nebogipfel calls it a "White Earth" because it has entered a permanent ice age. The earth is in perfect balance with no mammalian life forms. The earth is a dead rock.

13. What are the inhabitants of the new world called? Constructors Temporalists Humans A race of females able to reproduce without males.

14. Where do the Traveller and Nebogipfel, in the new time-machine, travel to after the new world? The Traveller and Nebogipfel travel approximately one million years forward in time. Back to the beginning of New London to try to make changes in the time-line. The time-travel is complete so Traveller and Nebogipfel stay there. The Traveller and Nebogipfel are aimless, there is no set destination.

15. What is the Traveller's name? We never learn it. Dean Andrews Micheal O'Conner Morgan Clark