Q 01/05

In the Quantum Leap episode The Wrong Stuff, Sam leaps into which animal at Cape Canaveral in 1961?

A) A chimpanzee

B) A beagle

C) A dolphin

D) A rhesus monkey

Answer · why

A) A chimpanzee

A chimpanzee named Bobo is Sam's host, the only time he leaps into something other than a human being. He has to get Bobo into the space programme bef...

Q 02/05

Which real-life assassin does Sam leap into at several points over six years in Quantum Leap's fifth-season opener?

A) Mark David Chapman

B) Sirhan Sirhan

C) Lee Harvey Oswald

D) James Earl Ray

Answer · why

C) Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald was someone the show's creator had actually met while both were serving in the Marine Corps. In the story, Sam's real mission turns ...

Q 03/05

Which famous radio sex therapist does Sam leap into on Quantum Leap, with the real woman playing herself?

A) Dr. Joyce Brothers

B) Dr. Ruth Westheimer

C) Dr. Barbara De Angelis

D) Dr. Susan Forward

Answer · why

B) Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Dr. Ruth Westheimer spends the episode in the project's waiting room, where she helps Al face his fear of abandonment while Sam hosts her radio call-i...

Q 04/05

In Quantum Leap's Halloween episode The Boogieman, Sam accidentally feeds plot ideas to which future horror author?

A) Dean Koontz

B) Peter Straub

C) Clive Barker

D) Stephen King

Answer · why

D) Stephen King

Stephen King turns up as a boy called Stevie, a friend of the horror novelist Sam has replaced in Maine in 1964. Sam's offhand remarks are meant to se...

Q 05/05

What does the closing caption of Quantum Leap's final episode say became of Dr. Sam Beckett?

A) He woke up in 1999

B) He became Al's hologram

C) He never returned home

D) He retired to Hawaii

Answer · why

C) He never returned home

He never returned home, the caption says, and it famously misspells his surname with a single T. Another card adds that Al and his first wife stayed m...