Quantum Leap Trivia

1. In the Season 5 "Quantum Leap" premiere, Sam leaps into various stages of a real person involved in the JFK assassination. Who does he leap into?

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 5

Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald

This episode, titled simlply "Lee Harvey Oswald", is an extra-long, drama filled episode that pulls together a range of factual events from Oswald's life. The episode has several firsts, the main one being that Sam leaps into seven different timeframes of the same person's life, and not all in chronological order. The big reveal at the end of the episode is that Jackie Kennedy originally died in the assassination; so while Sam is unsuccessful in saving JFK, he is there all along for the purpose of saving Mrs Kennedy.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 4

Answer: Sam and Al have swapped places

Due to a lightning strike at the end of season 3, Sam becomes the hologram and Al is the person assigned the mission. It is indeed before Sam's lifetime (1945) but Sam is not the one who makes the leap. Al ends up saving the person he leaps into from being murdered; while in the 'real' timezone, Sam remembers he is married and reunites briefly with his wife.

From Quiz Putting things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 3

Answer: Sam leaps into himself as a teenager

This is in fact part one of a two part episode. While Sam's mission (according to Al, at least) is to simply win his high school basketball tournament, he also wants to fix a few other events in his life. This includes his sister marrying an abusive man, his father dying of a heart attack, and his brother dying in Vietnam. Sam wins the match and leaps out: into the Vietnam War alongside his brother (which begins part two).

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 2

Answer: The project's funding is being threatened

The removal of funding for the project would of course strand Sam in the past. But in a lucky coincidence, the girl he saves goes on to become the head of the board deciding whether or not to continue the funding, which she does of course.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 1

Answer: Albert

Albert "Al" Calavicci is an Admiral who has been married 5 times. Being a hologram, he can only help the main character, Sam, by talking to him and showing him things (including how to fly a plane!). Al's habit of walking through objects disturbs Sam on several occasions in season 1.

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: his wedding

Al says, "I'd like to fix your flat tire, but..." and she replies, "but you're late for your wedding and that's your only tux."

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: Troian

Deborah Pratt, or Mrs. Donald Bellisario, co-stars in this episode as Troian. Troian believes she hears her husband Julian speak to her; who has been dead for 3 years. Sam leaps in as Dr. Mintz, a parapsychologist there to determine whether or not Troian is insane. It turns out that Troian's brother Jimmy is the one trying to drive her insane and to get her to commit suicide by drowning in the same lake her former husband is in. Carolyn Seymour plays the part of Miss Stoltz, Troian's housekeeper who turns out to be a ghost. You might remember her as Zoe, the evil leaper's equivalent to Al.

From Quiz Guest Stars on 'Quantum Leap'

Answer: Dennis Wolfberg

Dean Stockwell was Al, Scott Bakula - Sam and Deborah Pratt was the voice of Ziggy.

From Quiz 'Quantum Leap' Guest Stars

Answer: Bob Saget

Bob Saget (Danny Tanner on 'Full House') played Macklyn 'Mack' MacKay in this episode.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 5

Answer: They both remain stranded on the island

Vanessa is played by none other than Brooke Shields, who fits nicely into the role given her fame for the "Blue Lagoon", a movie about being stranded on a deserted island. The twist to the story is that Niko originally rescued both he and Vanessa given his navigational skills, but Sam's lack of these talents mean they have time to fall in love and stay on the island.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 4

Answer: He's a male hairdresser

Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a male hair stylist in California in 1983. His quest is to save a single mother and her child, who witnessed a murder.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 2

Answer: He is Samantha, a girl

Sam's task is to save Samantha's best friend, Gloria, who commits suicide. Al has big issues with Sam's appearance as a long-legged blonde!

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: Lisa

Sam leaps in to a young Navy Ensign nicknamed "Bingo" in 1957. "Bingo" turns out to be Al who is charged with raping and murdering his commanding officer's wife. Sam unknowningly compromises the situation and Al is convicted and sentenced to the gas chamber on October 6, 1960. Before the sentence is passed, Al is replaced by co-star Roddy McDowall who plays Sengen (St. John), Sam's new connection to the future. According to Sengen, "Ziggy" is now called "Alpha" and Tina is married to Gushi. By episodes end, Sam finds a cigar in Al's car that did not belong to him. As it turns out, Chip, Al's wing man, is the one who used Al's car the night of the murder and accidently killed the commander's wife. Thankfully Al was around for future episodes!

From Quiz Guest Stars on 'Quantum Leap'

Answer: Teri Hatcher

'Star-Crossed': June 15, 1972. Teri Hatcher appeared in 'Tomorrow Never Dies.'

From Quiz 'Quantum Leap' Guest Stars

Answer: Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green on 'Friends') played Kiki Wilson in this episode.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 5

Answer: Leon escapes from the waiting room

Sam leaps into a strange situation: he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation where he is the person with the gun. Sam succeeds in his mission to save Leon from being killed without a trial (and later, after changing history, he also saves the mother and daughter). But he can't leap until Leon is back in the safety of the waiting room, which Al finally manages to arrange. We see an interesting insight into the "futuristic" world outside the Quantum Leap project for the first time in this episode.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 4

Answer: Sam leaps into an animal

Sam leaps into Bobo, a chimp being tested for the chimp astronaut program. Sam's job is to stop Bobo (and other chimps) from being taken off the astronaut program and moved into the very dangerous (in fact deadly) helmet testing area. Sam escapes and saves the life of a man to prove Bobo's worth.

From Quiz Putting things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 3

Answer: First

Sam's mission on this leap is to save the career of a fellow contestant, who originally posed for nude photographs. At the same time, he has to maintain at least third in the contest to ensure the girl he leaps into, Darlene, can go on to college with the prize money. He surprises everyone (including himself) by winning the pageant!

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 2

Answer: Radio DJ

Sam leaps into Chick Howell, a controversial DJ at an Illinois radio station where the local government are trying to ban rock and roll music. Chubby Checker makes a cameo appearance in this episode.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 1

Answer: Reuniting his future fiancee with her father

Sam becomes Gerald Bryant, a university professor who is in a relationship with a student. In the original timeline, his student marries the teacher and it ends very badly. But Sam manages not only to convince her to marry her true sweetheart, but also to reunite Donna (his future fiancee) in an attempt to stop her from abandoning Sam at the altar.

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: 6

In the episode "Star-Crossed", Al tells Sam that of his six doctorates, one of them is not psychology. The three that he does name are medicine, quantum physics (obviously), and ancient languages.

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: Fire

This episode featured Sam as a Ray; a black medical student dating a white woman named Susan at the start of the 1965 Watts riots. Naturally Susan's policeman father nor Ray's brother Lonnie approve of the relationship. Lonnie kidnaps Susan and threatens to kill her if one more black person is killed in the riots and Susan's father plans her rescue. Although Sam convinces Lonnie to surrender, he's shot on the orders of Susan's father by a sharpshooter. Ray and Susan marry and stay in Watts to provide medical treament to those in need.

From Quiz Guest Stars on 'Quantum Leap'

Answer: Jason Priestley

'Kamikaze Kid': June 6, 1961 Jason was a member of a school gang.

From Quiz 'Quantum Leap' Guest Stars

Answer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tommy Solomon on '3rd Rock From the Sun') played Kyle in this episode.

From Quiz 'Quantum Leap'

Answer: Dennis Wolfberg

Dennis Wolfberg was a very funny comic. He appeared at clubs in Washington, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Florida and New York, and a representative said he was twice named America's top male comic in votes by club-goers and owners nationwide. In 1990 he won an American Comedy Award as best male stand-up. He died in 1994 of skin cancer.

From Quiz Putting things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 3

Answer: His boss can see and hear Al

Sam and Al re-create the scenes from "A Christmas Carol" by showing Sam's boss (Michael Blake) the ghosts of past, present and future. In the process, it sparks a romance between Blake and the Salvation Army Captain (Laura) and they eventually marry.

From Quiz Putting Things Right: "Quantum Leap" Season 1

Answer: The nuns need a new chapel

Sam not only wins the fight, but he pays off the people who are asking him to lose by betting big on the Ali-Foreman fight (which he knows the result of, having lived through it). The nuns get their new chapel and Sam leaps again.

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: $48,000

Sam knew the outcome of the fight and had Dixie bet all of their savings on it. The grand total came to $48,000: $20,000 for them, $20,000 for the church, and $8,000 for the mob boss.

From Quiz Quantum Leap

Answer: States

Sam leaps in to his great grandfather who is a northern civil war officer named Captain John Beckett on September 20, 1862. Sharing his great grandfather's DNA, he finds himself in the barn of a Virginian woman named Olivia; who not only wants to turn him in to the southern army, but is also his future great grandmother with whom his argues with constantly. Not only does Sam win the affections Of Olivia, but also her slave Isaac, who is a part of the undergroung railroad. As it turns out, Isaac takes the last name of King because he felt like a king as a free man. It turnes out that Isaac is the great grandfather of Martin Luther King.

From Quiz Guest Stars on 'Quantum Leap'

Answer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

'Permanent Wave': June 2, 1983. Sam is a hairdresser and has to protect Joesph and his mother.

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