I Solved a Question From the Future

Inconceivable! episode 24, posted April 10, 2019.
Game Show episode 107
==Panelists==
* Host: Dan Moren
* Scorekeeper: Lex Friedman
====Team 1====
*James Thomson (“He took some convincing to get here, but we assure you he won’t get off Scot free”)
*Jean MacDonald (“Now that she’s on her second episode, she’s no longer a guinea pig”)
*Jason Snell (“He’ll be well behaved this time, we swear”) [Captain]
====Team 2====
*Annette Wiestra (“It’s her first time on, so we’ve yet to hear an Earp out of her”)
*Monty Ashley (“After I edit this, you’ll know for sure he’s the real villain”) [Captain]
*Erika Ensign (“We’ve regenerated these questions just for her”)
== Round 1 - Books of the Year ==
There are lots of stories involving time travel. Identify a book and author from the years the characters travel to and from.
For example: 1889 to 529 would be “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Years 	Book 	Author 	Contestant	Points awarded
1999 to 1357 	Timeline 	Michael Crichton	James 	5
2011 to 1958 	11/22/63 	Steven King 	Annette 	0
1970 to 1882 	Time and Again 	Jack Finney 	Jean 	0
2054 to 1348 	Doomsday Book 	Connie Willis 	Monty 	10
2021 to 1942 	Weapons of Choice 	John Birmingham 	Jason 	10
2055 to 66,000,000 BC	A Sound of Thunder	Ray Bradbury 	Erika 	8
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 15
* Team 2: 18
== Round 2 - Fake Off ==
Given a word from a work of speculative fiction (TV, movies, comics etc.) find the correct answer from the three definitions given.
Team 1 answers
Category: Sci-Fi Technology
Points wagered: 5
Points lost: 5
Word: A. T. Field (Listener word, suggested by listener Alex Levine)
Reader 	Definition 	Correct Answer	Chosen Answer
Annette	An A. T. Field is an Anomalous Tellurium Field which happens when Tellurium is paired with Lithium. Together they create a nearly self-perpetuating electrical field that increased the range of spaceflight. The A. T. Field was discovered in the year 2053 and was also the inception of the Gaspro war for the only known Tellurium mines in 2054.	 	X
Monty 	It’s actually pronounced “Eighty” field and it stands for Atomic Tesla Field. It was used in the show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. You know the launch sequence that they reused in the original Battlestar Galactica series? In Buck Rogers you could hear someone saying “Charge the A.T. Field” just as the ships are launching . 	 	
Erika 	It’s totally an Absolute Terror field which is a force field barrier that is produced by the creatures that are called Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion. It’s like orange and it kind of goes “brzp brzp brzp” and has an octagon that pulses. 	X 	
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 10
* Team 2: 18
== Round 3 - A Person of Many Names ==
Many identities have been held by more than one person in fiction. I’ll give you a series of three fictional characters. If you can get to alternate identity of these people on first name I’ll give you 10 points, on the second name 7 points and if it takes the third name you’ll get 4 points.
For example: Given Cummerbund, Ryan and Westley the answer would be the Dread Pirate Roberts
Names 	Identity 	Contestant	Points awarded
Terry McGinnisJean-Paul Valley(Bruce Wayne) 	Batman 	Annetta 	7
WanKyoshi(Ang) 	The Avatar 	James 	7
Julie WalkerChristopher WalkerKit Walker 	The Phantom 	Monty 	4
Mattie FranklinJulia CarpenterJessica Drew 	Spider-Woman	Jean 	4
Cassian AndorAlexandr KallusAhsoka Tano 	Fulcrum 	Erika 	2 (Later reduced to 1 pity point)
Isabel de RomeuAlejandro Murrieta(Don Diego de la Vega)	Zorro 	Jason 	7
Names in parentheses were not required by the contestants to get the answer.
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 28
* Team 2: 31
== Round 4 - Fake Off: Faker, Furiouser ==
Team 2 answers
Category: Fictional Materials
Points wagered: 3
Points won: 3
Word: Arenak
Reader	Definition 	Correct Answer	Chosen Answer
James 	As I’m sure everyone here knows, Jedi lightsabers are typically built using crystals as a power source. What you may not know is that during the time of the great Sith war, at least according to the Knights of the Old Republic games and books they were also built using stones, specifically Arenak stones mined on the planet Kadril. 	 	
Jean 	Arenak is a synthetic metal and it is vastly superior to steel. It is usually transparent and it requires salt to make it. 	X 	X
Jason 	People care about Dune in the Dune series by Frank Herbert and his son (and a lot of other people) because it is the only place in the galaxy where you can get the spice Melange which is a drug that is useful in navigating the galaxy. What you may not know is that Arenak is the rare element found on Arrakis that bubbles to the surface and is then refined but the sand worms to make Melange.	 	
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 28
* Team 2: 34
== Round 5 - Spyence-Fiction Double Feature ==
(Devised by Tony Sindelar)
To celebrate the release of a much heralded new Sci-Fi spy thriller, we’ve mashed up a Sci-Fi movie with a spy movie. Divine the title of the new movie from the melded plot.
Clue 	Answer 	Contestant	Points awarded
A secret agent must learn from his deaths to stop a media mogul from starting a war 	Edge of Tomorrow Never Dies 	James 	10
A man mistaken for a spy who doesn’t exist evades capture by androids run amok 	North by Northwestworld 	Annette 	10
Equipped with special sunglasses, a spy uncovers subliminal messages from a Caribbean dictator who is trafficking drugs	They Live and Let Die 	Jean 	10
After aliens destroy the world’s most famous landmarks a police detective must stop a mysterious international assassin	Independence Day of the Jackal 	Monty 	10
A CIA agent teams up with a KGB agent to track down an alien who has convinced a widow to take him to Arizona 	Starman from Uncle 	Jason 	5
A young intelligence analyst’s colleagues are all murdered, so he flees back in time to the Wild West 	Back to the Future Part Three Days of the Condor	Erika 	0
After the final round Lex retroactively reduced the pity points awarded for the fifth question in round 3 from 2 to 1.
=== Final Standings ===
* Team 1: 53
* Team 2: 53