Q 01/05

Which fellow director did Bryan Singer consult about time travel before making X-Men: Days of Future Past?

A) Robert Zemeckis

B) James Cameron

C) Christopher Nolan

D) Rian Johnson

Answer · why

B) James Cameron

James Cameron, the maker of The Terminator, spent two hours talking it through with him; Singer came away insisting on fixed rules, with Wolverine as ...

Q 02/05

Which Jim Croce song plays during Quicksilver's slow-motion showpiece in X-Men: Days of Future Past?

A) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

B) Time in a Bottle

C) Operator

D) I Got a Name

Answer · why

B) Time in a Bottle

Time in a Bottle plays as he strolls round the walls, nudging guards and bullets aside; the sequence runs to only 29 shots, yet took a team of 70 arti...

Q 03/05

Who plays Bolivar Trask, the scientist behind the Sentinels, in X-Men: Days of Future Past?

A) Josh Helman

B) Peter Dinklage

C) Michael Fassbender

D) Nicholas Hoult

Answer · why

B) Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage said the part attracted him because it was 'not written to be a dwarf'; the writer credits his humanity with making audiences hope the ...

Q 04/05

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, whose power sends a person's consciousness into the past?

A) Bishop's

B) Blink's

C) Professor X's

D) Kitty Pryde's

Answer · why

D) Kitty Pryde's

Kitty Pryde's phasing is stretched into a new power for the film: in the comic she makes the trip herself, but in 1973 the character would have been '...

Q 05/05

Why is Wolverine, not Professor X, sent back to 1973 in X-Men: Days of Future Past?

A) Only he knew Trask

B) Xavier is needed in 2023

C) Only he can survive it

D) His mind can't be read

Answer · why

C) Only he can survive it

Only he can survive it: a trip that far back would kill anyone who cannot heal, and the writers liked that the ageless Hugh Jackman could plausibly pl...

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