Time, to You, is Worth Saving Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Daleks

Davros: "The Daleks shall become lords of time! We shall become all-"
The Doctor: "-powerful! Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Etcetera, etcetera!"

The above quote is from "Remembrance of the Daleks", which is also the first story where the Daleks conquer their greatest enemy other than the Doctor: stairs! They can now hover.

The Daleks began very early on in the show's history, in its second serial, simply titled "The Daleks". When the 2005 remake came about, "Dalek" was the sixth episode of the first series, so again making an early debut. Of all the Dalek episodes across both eras of the show, "Genesis of the Daleks" is probably the most noteworthy, where the Doctor is tasked with travelling back in time to sabotage the Daleks: either to prevent their creation, or significantly weaken them somehow.

Understandably, this event is considered significant in terms of the Time War, the conflict that chronologically takes place between the end of the Classic era of "Doctor Who" and TV movie yet before the beginning of the new series.

Answer: Time loop

This film has permeated popular culture so much that the term "groundhog day" is understood to mean a day that keeps repeating over and over, even by some people who have never seen the film. The film is named as such due to the day that is constantly repeating is the 2nd February, which is itself known as Groundhog Day.

This is apparently from a tradition that dates back to 1887 and is due to observing the behaviour of a groundhog: if it sees its shadow and gets scared, it will retreat, which foretells a continuation of winter weather. If it doesn't see its shadow and thus isn't scared, this portends an early spring.

Answer: Quantum Leap

"Quantum Leap" kept its protagonist, Sam, tethered to the future by his relationship with Al, who appeared as a hologram that for the most part could only be witnessed by Sam, while Sam appeared to others in the physical appearance of the person whose life he had jumped into (with the exception of some small children etc seeing him as himself).

For the most part, "Quantum Leap" focused on small personal stories that didn't necessarily have a huge impact on the timeline itself, just on an individual person's future. Toward the end of its run, people of more historical significance did appear: for instance, leaping into Lee Harvey Oswald, and Donald Trump appears as a character briefly in "It's a Wonderful Leap" (although played by an actor). "Killin' Time" was also a noteworthy episode for exploring the present day world of Quantum Leap more than usual, when the very dangerous individual that Sam has leaped into managed to escape the Waiting Room.

Answer: Time turner

Leaving aside the ethics of allowing a student to have a time travel device and just stating that she can't discuss it (although permission was sought from the Ministry of Magic), the time turner also plays into the climax of this book. Harry and Hermione later use it to go back in time, save Buckbeak and also save Sirius from the dementor's kiss.

In the original timeframe, Harry is inexplicably sure he was saved by his father, but it turns out he actually witnessed his future self saving them from the dementors.

Answer: Darkseid

There's a significant knock-on effect from this series of events. As Bruce is assumed dead, it means Dick Grayson must become Batman, and he makes Damian his Robin, which leads toward Tim creating his new identity as Red Robin and running off to prove that Bruce isn't dead as it seems that nobody believes him. Bruce, meanwhile, travels very far back in time and is periodically jumped forwards, yet leaves behind clues that Tim manages to track.

As for why they assumed Bruce was dead? The body found was actually a clone of his.

Answer: death

Before a character's death would actually be slightly more accurate, since he can also rewind the time of animals, too. Unlike some time travel stories which are big on not changing the past or paradoxes, Sissel routinely rewinds time to help stop characters from dying.

He also possesses the ability to manipulate objects and travel through telephone lines, so by manipulating objects in the vicinity he can create some very unlikely (and often humorous) circumstances that lead people to live. There's a serious plot at its core though: about a prisoner who's about to be executed, about somebody else who may have similar powers to Sissel, about a conspiracy and of course there's the question that's most important to Sissel himself: who killed him and why?

Answer: Dark Shadows

"Dark Shadows" is a show that shifted gradually over time: it started very much as a soap, very gothic looking and with hints at ghosts but for a while nothing overtly supernatural until the brief appearance of a ghost. The first really supernatural cented storyline centred around the phoenix, but the one that most people will remember is the arrival of Barnabas the vampire. This is considered to be an opening point to the show for many: when the show began to be released on DVD, this is where they started from, despite it actually being episode 210 (and parallel plotlines going on where a viewer starting at this point would not have full context from). They did eventually go back and release the beginning of the series too.

"Dark Shadows" eventually started with some time travel storylines, visiting 1795, 1840 and 1897 for instance. With often one character from the present as a focal point, the other actors were then cast in different roles, often as their own ancestors. This meant that one actor could play a lot of different roles on the show at different times and almost gave it a theatre troupe sort of feel. It also meant that the show could kill off a lot of characters without worrying as they would retain the actor and as long as any characters who were needed to have descendants were alive, it worked out fine for the narrative.

This was a popular enough show that it saw multiple other types of media: "House of Dark Shadows", "Night of Dark Shadows" both in the early 1970s, and much later the 2012 "Dark Shadows" by Tim Burton, featuring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. There was also a 1991 reimagining of the series which only lasted for twelve episodes.

Answer: Me

Extracts from Kayo's essay, which is really quite haunting: "On that island, I think about the town I left behind." ... "Mom eats, as if nothing has changed." ... "When I think about the town without me, I feel a sense of relief."

Also released as an anime in 2016, "Erased" is the story of Satoru, a deliveryman who dreams of being a famous manga artist who has an unusual ability that he calls "Revival": where he will relive a brief span of time before something horrible happens, and it keeps repeating until he finds the problem and solves it. This, he notes, often seems to impact negatively on him and his own safety.

Through a certain series of events, Satoru gets thrown into a massive Revival, where he is thrown back into his body as an eleven year old, just before a series of deaths among the local children. Although he knows who was originally convicted of those crimes, Satoru disbelieves it, and seeks out to save those children (complicated by Kayo's horrible home situation) and find the real culprit. But there always seems to be a price for Satoru meddling in time...

Answer: There's no electricity or plug sockets

"Day of the Tentacle" is the humorous 1993 sequel to "Maniac Mansion", which itself was from 1987. A LucasArts adventure game, "Day of the Tentacle" featured a return to the Edison mansion, as Bernard had received a message from Green Tentacle telling him that Purple Tentacle had become an insane genius after drinking toxic waste from Dr Fred's Sludge-O-Matic machine, so Bernard goes to rescue them, somehow managing to forget about what had happened to Purple Tentacle.

Unfortunately, on being released, Purple Tentacle is free to get on with conquering the world, leaving Dr Fred with only one option: turning off the machine in the first place.

Bernard: "Isn't it a little late for that, Doctor?"
Dr Fred: "Of course. That's why we'll have to do it... YESTERDAY! To the time machine!"

Unfortunately, due to Dr Fred only using an imitation diamond, it goes wrong, leaving Hoagie stranded in the time of the founding fathers, and Laverne 200 years in the future, which is ruled by tentacles now. And thus begins a series of time travel puzzles: passing objects through time, making changes in the past to affect the future (eg using wine in the past to become vinegar in the future), in the goal of turning off that Sludge-o-Matic machine and returning everybody to their correct times.

Answer: faster

Written by Claire North, "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" features a somewhat unique take on time travel. Unlike most Ouroborans (the name for those who keep repeating their life), Harry retains memory of his previous lives and builds upon that, and this is a secret that must be kept, as well as his origin point: the origin point of an Ouroboran is ultimately their greatest weakness, especially when they are small and defenseless.

At some point, things shift: some Ouroborans seem to not be being born at all. Others die, permanently. The end of the world creeps forward. Technology creeps forward. It's evident that somebody has knowledge of time that they shouldn't, and Harry needs to protect himself while doing his best to stop the damage to the time stream.