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1) What car does Doc Brown use to build his time machine?


When designing the time machine, director Robert Zemeckis chose the DeLorean for its distinctive gull wing doors and futuristic look, which he hoped would make it more plausible that people in 1955 would mistake it for an alien spacecraft.

2) What song does Marty play in his audition for Battle of the Bands?


The buttoned-up judge with the megaphone is actually award-winning musician Huey Lewis, of Huey Lewis and the News, whose songs "The Power of Love" and "Back in Time" are featured on the movie's soundtrack. The song Marty's band plays for the audition is a remix of "The Power of Love" as well. Unfortunately, they are just "too darn loud."

3) What is the name of Doc Brown's sheepdog?


Einstein is present at the Twin Pines Mall parking lot, where Doc Brown conducts his first time travel experiment, with Doc controlling the DeLorean via remote, Einstein sitting inside it, and Marty filming.

4) In the Back to the Future universe, what makes time travel possible?


The flux capacitor requires 1.21 gigawatts of electrical power to operate, which is roughly equivalent to the power produced by 15 typical commercial airplane jet engines.

5) Where does Doc get the plutonium to power his time machine?


He obtains the plutonium from a group of Libyan terrorists by promising to build them a bomb with it.

6) What year does Marty find himself trapped in?


After the Libyans shoot Doc, Marty is forced to flee in the DeLorean and finds himself transported to November 5, 1955, without any plutonium for a return trip.

7) Whose farm does Marty crash into when he first arrives in the past?


He crashes into the farm of Old Man Peabody, who has a son named Sherman. This was in tribute to a segment in the The Bullwinkle Show (1959-1963), "Peabody's Improbable History", featuring the intelligent talking dog Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman, who travel to different times in history using the W.A.B.A.C. Machine.

8) When Doc Brown learns that Ronald Reagan is President in 1985, who does he imagine as Vice President?


DOC BROWN: Ronald Reagan?!? The actor?!? Then who's vice-president? Jerry Lewis?!? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!

9) What is the only thing capable of generating the necessary 1.21 GW of electricity Marty needs to get back to the future?


Doc Brown laments that there's no way to know when or where lightning will strike, but Marty shows him a flyer from the future that recounts a lightning strike at the town's courthouse that coming Saturday.

10) In 1955, people keep referring to Marty as a member of which military division?


People are constantly mistaking Marty for a member of the Coast Guard because they think his orange "Class 5" down vest is a life jacket.

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