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Time Flies Like an Arrow Trivia Quiz

All the novels in this quiz feature some kind of time travel in the plot. How many of them can you remember?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
322,648

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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383

Question 1 of 10

1. "Time Traders" is the first in a series of books in which the main characters travel back to ancient times and live as natives there. They have to blend in and remain undetected by the bad guys whilst spying on them and thwarting their evil plans.
Who wrote the seven books of this series? Hint

Andre Norton

Harry Harrison

Ursula K Le Guin

Poul Anderson

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Question 2 of 10

2. Simon Hawke wrote the "Time Wars" series of twelve books between 1983 and 1991. Which is the first volume of the series? Hint

The Khyber Connection

The Argonaut Affair

The Dracula Caper

The Ivanhoe Gambit

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Question 3 of 10

3. In a novel by Stephen Brust, the house band of a bar travel through time, one step ahead of annihilation, and must save the world. The whole bar travels with them, and they also find time to play a few gigs and serve some food from the grill at each stopping place and time they find themselves in next. Which bar is this? (The name of the bar is part of the title of the book) Hint

Cowboy Feng's

Pirate Mike's

Dolly's

Salome Stewart's

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Question 4 of 10

4. In the book "Follow me Down", by Julia Hearn, Tom must travel back in time to save a group of people who are being kept prisoner for a particular reason. Why are they being held? Hint

Pickpockets and thieves

As sideshow freaks

Prisoners of war

They are the 'Princes in the Tower'

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Question 5 of 10

5. In "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper, Will and Merriman use an unusual method to travel back in time to the Christmas party at the Hall, so that Will can witness the remaking and hiding of the Sign of Wood. How do they get there? Hint

The Lady summons them with her ring

Through the Doors

Via the case of the Grandfather clock in the Great Hall

By singing "Good King Wenceslas"

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Question 6 of 10

6. Much of the storylines of "The Number of the Beast" and "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", by Robert A. Heinlein, depend on time travel. In these books, the characters move through time via "n-dimensional non-Euclidean geometry" and "Jake's caltrops" and use sentient spaceships to ride in as they go. Which of these characters is actually a human being of species Homo sapiens, and not a 'computer/spaceship hardware' person? Hint

Dora

Pallas Athene

Tamara

Gay Deceiver

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Question 7 of 10

7. In the short story "Stitch in Time", one Arthur Batley is brought forward fifty years from his own time, quite by accident, when he wanders into the catchment field of an experiment into transdimensional travel. Fortunately the scientific team in his future are able to return him to his own time, and he survives the experience. Who wrote "Stitch in Time", which was published in the anthology "Consider Her Ways and Others"? Hint

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Stephen King

John Wyndham

Orson Scott Card

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Question 8 of 10

8. In "Daemons are Forever", Eddie Drood and his beloved Molly must go both back and forwards in time to find the people who can best help them save the world from the soul sucking Loathly Ones. They go backwards using Merlin's Mirror, but how do they go forwards? Hint

They use Merlin's Mirror again

Through the secret passage in the attics of Drood Manor

The Blue Fairy takes them

Ivor the Time Engine

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Gunpowder Empire" tells us of the Solter family from 21st century America who spend their summers living as merchants and traders in the Roman Empire. They pop back and forth through time via a "Gateway" as easily as they would take a plane or bus, and think nothing of it, until the Gateway stops working with Mom and Dad in their own time, and their children in Roman times.
What is the name of their teenage son? Hint

Jonas

Josh

Jonathan

Jeremy

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Question 10 of 10

10. In "The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis, the main character goes back in time to gather information for her Doctoral thesis. Unfortunately she ends up in a rather dangerous situation; what is this danger? Hint

The Battle of Hastings in 1066

In Atlanta, Georgia in 1864

In Hiroshima in August 1945

The Black Death plague of the 1340s

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Andre Norton

In her lifetime Andre Norton wrote over 200 books, and some were still being published well after her death in 2005.
"Time Traders" was first published in 1958 and followed by the next three volumes of the series up until 1964. In the 1990s, Norton began a collaboration with Sherwood Smith, and they wrote a further three books together, with "Atlantis Endgame", the final story, being published in 2002.

2. Simon Hawke wrote the "Time Wars" series of twelve books between 1983 and 1991. Which is the first volume of the series?

Answer: The Ivanhoe Gambit

In "The Ivanhoe Gambit" we meet 'the team' of Lucas and his men, and they meet Andre Cross who will also become a valuable member of the crew. The premise of the series is that wars from the present will be fought out on the major battlefields of the past, unnoticed in the chaos. Huge numbers of troops are "clocked back" through time to fight alongside the armies of the time, and when things go wrong the entire timeline can be changed in an instant...

Answer: Cowboy Feng's

"Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille" was first published in 1990.
The house band and staff members are the "last hope" for mankind as an evil genius tries to wipe out the human race with a series of well placed nuclear bombs. The bar has a handy knack of jumping through time and space in the nick of time, taking everyone inside it along for the ride.

4. In the book "Follow me Down", by Julia Hearn, Tom must travel back in time to save a group of people who are being kept prisoner for a particular reason. Why are they being held?

Answer: As sideshow freaks

When he was just a toddler, Tom accidentally discovered the 'time passage' in the cellar which takes him back to the eighteenth century. He befriends a young girl who is being held in the cellar and, with her companions, is exhibited as a freakshow. Once Tom is a teenager he is able to help his friend get out of the situation in the nick of time to save her life.
"Follow me Down", also titled "The Sign of the Raven", was first published in 2003.

Answer: By singing "Good King Wenceslas"

Will sings the part of the page, and Merriman sings the King. Will gradually becomes aware that other voices are joining in, and he and Merriman "step forward together" into the past. As well as witnessing the making and hiding of the Sign, Will is also given the Gift of Gramarye and thus completes the Circle of the Old Ones.
"The Dark is Rising" is the second of the five books in Susan Cooper's much loved series, and was first published in 1973. The first book is "Over Sea, Under Stone", first published in 1965.

Answer: Tamara

Tamara is the only one of the choices listed who is actually a human being all the time. Dora is a space ship, Gay Deceiver is a small flying sports car (albeit one with two onboard bathrooms which are only there on the inside), and Pallas Athene is a computer who will one day become a person if she's a good girl...
"The Number of the Beast" was first published in 1980, whilst "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" was published in 1987, and was the last of his books to be published during Heinlein's lifetime.

Answer: John Wyndham

"Consider Her Ways and Others" was first published in 1961. John Wyndham also wrote "The Day of the Triffids" (1951) and "The Midwich Cuckoos" (1957), both of which have been made into films.

Answer: Ivor the Time Engine

Ivor the Time Engine lives in the museum in the grounds of Drood Manor and has been kept primed by his engineer, ready for the day he would be needed. Eddie, Molly, and Tony the engineer travel thousands of years into the future to rescue Giles Deathstalker and bring him back to the present so he can help the Family fight the Loathly Ones.
The "Secret Histories" books are by Simon R. Green, and the first in the series, "The Man With the Golden Torc" was first published in 2007. "Daemons are Forever" is the second book, and was first published in 2008.

Answer: Jeremy

"Gunpowder Empire" is the first volume of Harry Turtledove's "Crosstime Traffic" series. Each book features a different family of "crosstime traders" who live and work as merchants or shop keepers in a different timeline, and send back goods and raw materials that their home timeline desperately needs.
It was first published in 2003.

Answer: The Black Death plague of the 1340s

Set in Oxford, "The Doomsday Book" has both the Black Death in the late 1340s, and an outbreak of virulent flu in the present day for the characters to contend with.
First published in 1992, it won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Connie Willis.

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