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1

On Infinity Train, a passenger may go home once the glowing number on their hand reaches what value?

Zero opens a portal home, because the number tracks the emotional problems a passenger still has to face and falls as each one is resolved.

2

In Infinity Train Book Two, Jesse gives the name Alan Dracula to which kind of silent, shapeshifting animal?

A deer of the white-tailed kind, Alan Dracula serves as a steed for MT and Jesse and once camouflaged MT from the mirror police.

3

The creator of Infinity Train has summed up the series as a kids' version of which horror franchise?

Saw fits, he says, because each season is a morality play built around machinery designed to help people overcome personal issues and appreciate life.

4

Which talking corgi king of Corginia joins Tulip and One-One on their journey in Infinity Train Book One?

Atticus first appeared in the 2016 pilot short, where he decides that Tulip is the one who can defeat a creature stalking his kingdom.

5

Which family upheaval is Tulip Olsen struggling to accept when she is pulled aboard the Infinity Train?

Her parents' divorce leaves Tulip stranded when a scheduling mix-up means neither parent can take her to camp, so she runs away and meets the train.

6

Books Three and Four of Infinity Train left Cartoon Network to premiere on which streaming service?

HBO Max was meant to carry the show from the start, but the service launched later than planned, so the first two books aired on cable instead.

7

In Infinity Train Book Two, what must be done to a talking toad before his car's exit door will open?

Kick him: that is the only rule of the blank white Toad Car, yet Jesse cannot do it without his number rising, so the group is stuck there overnight.

8

Which actress voices both Tulip Olsen and her escaped mirror double across Infinity Train Books One and Two?

Ashley Johnson voices three roles in the series: Tulip, her freed reflection MT, and the menacing robot that assists the train's false Conductor.

9

Which gang of passengers, led by Grace and Simon, tries to keep its numbers high in Infinity Train?

The Apex believe the train is a reward for staying aboard, so they vandalize cars and attack denizens to push their numbers up instead of down.

10

After Infinity Train vanished from streaming in 2022, its creator told fans they would have to resort to what?

Online piracy was his blunt advice, posted in his Twitter bio after every reference to the show was scrubbed from Cartoon Network's social accounts.

11

In Infinity Train Book One, Tulip runs away from home hoping to reach a camp devoted to which subject?

Game design camp in Oshkosh is the goal, and seven months after leaving the train Tulip finally heads there, at peace with the changes in her family.

12

In the Infinity Train Book Two finale, Mirror Tulip picks which new name after reaching Jesse's world?

Lake is the name she picks after looking at her new surroundings, having escaped by bouncing Jesse's number off her metallic skin onto her own hand.

13

Kez, who guides Ryan and Min-Gi through Infinity Train Book Four, is a talking version of which object?

A service bell of the kind found on a concierge desk, Kez has made enemies in car after car through thoughtless behavior she struggles to own up to.

14

Amelia seizes control of the Infinity Train in the hope of recreating which person she has lost?

Her late husband, Alrick, was a fellow student she grew up with and married, and Tulip finally talks her into trying to move on from his death.

15

Infinity Train Book One, the story of Tulip Olsen's journey through the cars, carries which subtitle?

The Perennial Child was made as a self-contained miniseries, and only after it ended did Cartoon Network announce the show would go on as an anthology.

16

In which Infinity Train Book One car does Tulip's reflection start acting on her own and break free?

The Chrome Car is where Mirror Tulip swaps places with Tulip and then refuses to swap back, wanting to escape and control her own life.

17

Which episode closes Infinity Train Book One, with Tulip urging the elderly Amelia to move on from her grief?

The Engine sits at the very front of the train, where One-One reclaims his place as the real Conductor and creates a new exit to send Tulip home.

18

Cartoon Network posted the 2016 Infinity Train pilot short, a day after its app debut, on which website?

YouTube viewers watched the short a million times in its first month, and a fan petition with over 57,000 signatures then pushed for a full series.

19

Which purple gorilla acts as guardian to the young girl Hazel in Infinity Train Book Three?

Tuba comes along because Hazel refuses to travel with Grace and Simon without her, and the gorilla distrusts them both.

20

Which tentacled robot enforces Amelia's rule over the Infinity Train and attacks Tulip's group in Book One?

The Steward causes the flooding in Corginia by pulling glowing orbs out of panels in the train, and it flees the first time it sees One-One.

21

Which former storyboard artist created Infinity Train and also voices Sad-One, the gloomy half of One-One?

Owen Dennis conceived the idea in 2010, six years before the pilot appeared, and he also voices the talking toad that Jesse meets in Book Two.

22

Before making Infinity Train, its creator worked as a storyboard artist on which Cartoon Network series?

Regular Show employed him as a writer and storyboard artist before the warm reaction to his 2016 pilot short won him a series of his own.

23

Which Ghostbusters actor voices the talking corgi king who travels with Tulip in Infinity Train Book One?

Ernie Hudson voices a character who is shot with a ray gun and turned into a monster near the end of Book One, before Tulip finds a way to change him back.

24

Which Star Trek actress voices the Cat, the con artist and collector who recurs across Infinity Train?

Kate Mulgrew plays a Cat who runs a variety of businesses on the train, and the creator lists her series Star Trek: Voyager among his influences.

25

Which Game of Thrones actress voices Amelia, the passenger who overthrew One-One, in Infinity Train?

Lena Headey returns as Amelia in Book Three, where the character works with One-One to undo the mistakes she made on the train.

26

Which New Zealand comedian voices Randall, the self-duplicating water blob of Infinity Train?

Rhys Darby plays Randall in three of the four books, and a short reveals that every living water inhabitant of the Beach Car is another Randall.

27

Which Oscar-winning actor voices the giant Pig Baby that Ryan and Min-Gi must feed in Infinity Train Book Four?

J. K. Simmons voices a giant sentient piglet raised by a small porcelain cow creamer, who chases Kez for having made her ward cry.

28

The creator of Infinity Train names which classic computer game as a primary influence since age 13?

Myst kept its hold on him into the show itself, and as a teenager he built point-and-click adventure games and mods for Half-Life 2.

29

Infinity Train was animated with traditional methods by Sunmin Image Pictures, a studio in which country?

South Korea is home to the Seoul studio, which drew each episode after a two-person storyboard team had spent five weeks boarding it.

30

A CBR review favorably compared Infinity Train Book One to which previous Cartoon Network animated miniseries?

Over the Garden Wall also aired its ten chapters two a night across five nights, the same schedule Infinity Train Book One kept in August 2019.

31

Which episode opens Infinity Train Book One, as Tulip Olsen wakes among snowmen and first meets One-One?

The Grid Car, named for a car whose grid builds countless cubes, is also where Tulip first spots the number glowing on her hand.

32

Which episode opens Infinity Train Book Two, with a disguised MT hiding from the mirror police?

The Black Market Car is full of strange alien creatures, and one of them exposes MT by examining her with a glass eye the police can jump through.

33

Which episode opens Infinity Train Book Three, with Grace and Simon separated from their young followers?

The Musical Car has the gang wreck a stage show, then a second raid goes wrong when the cars shift, pinning Simon under debris and stranding the two leaders far from base.

34

Which episode opens Infinity Train Book Four by introducing Ryan, Min-Gi and their band Chicken Choice Judy?

The Twin Tapes follows the two friends from a school competition that Min-Gi backs out of to the moment both are pulled off a train bound for New York.

35

At the end of Infinity Train Book Four, Ryan and Min-Gi's band finally performs in which New York city?

Utica is where Chicken Choice Judy play the song that gives the finale its title, and an audience member asks whether they have it on cassette.

36

Which song, remembered from a family car trip, does Tulip sing to unlock the Crystal Car in Infinity Train?

Word Up by Cameo works where her first attempts fail, because the exit only opens for a song that has personal meaning to the singer.

37

Which ransacked Infinity Train car serves as headquarters for the gang of kids led by Grace and Simon?

The Mall Car is where Grace returns at the end of Book Three to dissolve the gang and tell its members to find their own answers.

38

In which Infinity Train Book Three car does Simon let Hazel's gorilla guardian fall beneath the train's wheels?

The Color Clock Car hides a green key for a red lock, a puzzle Simon solves by noticing that his travelling companion is colorblind.

39

Which roach-like creatures prowl the barren ground outside the Infinity Train and drain the life from their victims?

Ghoms attack Tulip the first time she steps off the train in Book One, and in Book Three one of them drains Simon of his life force.

40

Infinity Train Book Three reveals that young Hazel is one of Amelia's creations, part human and part which animal?

Turtle is right: Hazel's number never glows, and she turns out to be a failed attempt by Amelia to recreate someone she had lost.

41

The idea for Infinity Train came to its creator on waking in a dark plane cabin flying home from which country?

China was where the flight began, and he woke on it to find a quiet, dark cabin full of people staring into screens, which struck him as creepy.

42

Infinity Train Book One earned a 2020 nomination for Best Special Production at which annual ceremony?

The Annie Awards nomination arrived at the 47th ceremony, by which time Cartoon Network had already turned the one-off miniseries into an anthology.

43

The unproduced fifth book of Infinity Train was fully scripted in which format, centered on Amelia's story?

A movie was the plan, but Cartoon Network Studios passed on the finished script because it felt the story lacked a way in for children.

44

Compared with Tulip's journey in Book One, when is Infinity Train Book Four, the story of Ryan and Min-Gi, set?

Decades earlier is right: Book Four unfolds while Amelia is still establishing control over the train and One-One is a single whole robot named One.

45

In Infinity Train Book Four, Ryan and Min-Gi plan to tour all of which country before playing New York?

Canada is the tour the friends plan for after high school, but only Ryan sets out, while Min-Gi stays behind working at a diner and applying to universities.

46

In Infinity Train Book Four, which dessert do Ryan and Min-Gi bake to finally satisfy the giant Pig Baby?

Brownies come out perfect only after the pair scrape butter out of a microwave, left there when Kez was expelled from the kitchen car for melting a lot of it.

47

After reliving her memories on a videotape, Tulip hides the number on her hand under what in Infinity Train?

A glove lets Tulip ignore her number until Mirror Tulip persuades her to take it off, revealing that the count has dropped all the way to 3.

48

Which object's small mirror lets Tulip carry her reflection out to the next car in Infinity Train Book One?

Her pocket knife works because Mirror Tulip cannot step outside the car unless there is a reflective surface for her to travel in.

49

Infinity Train Book Three reveals which first name for the Cat, who abandoned Simon when he was ten?

Samantha admits she regrets leaving Simon as a boy, then hands him a miniature tape extractor that he later turns on Grace.

50

A phone video in Infinity Train Book Two shows Jesse letting bullies mistreat which person close to him?

His brother Nate is the victim in the video, and once home Jesse reconciles with him before the train pulls him back to rescue MT.

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