1. 2000
   2011
2. 2029
   2040

"The Terminator: 2029" was a video game released in 1992 by Bethesda Softworks for the PC. The first-person grid-based game takes place in the future as the player shoots their way through cyborgs throughout eight different missions.

1. Sarah Connor
   Kyle Reese
2. Ed Traxler
   John Connor

Sarah Connor received her own television series titled "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," released in 2008. The show was well-liked by fans, but it only ran for two seasons, ending in 2009.

1. Lola
   L7
2. The Matrix
   Skynet

In 2000, a four-part comic-book story came out that pitted Superman against an army of Terminators. In the comic book, titled "Superman vs. The Terminator: Death of the Future," Skynet teams up with the Superman villain Cyborg to take down the Man of Steel.

1. Rebel Alliance
   The Resistance
2. The Society
   The Federation

Though the military started it, John Connor becomes one of the lead members of the Resistance. John is suited for this position after training for years in the jungles of South and Central America with his mother, where he learned to use hit-and-run-style tactics against more powerful foes.

1. A robotic invasion
   The destruction of all machines
2. The death of all humans
   A nuclear attack

When the first movie came out, the original date for Judgement Day was August 29, 1997. However, because of the alternate timelines due to time travel, the date changes throughout the various movies.

1. His target
   Clothing
2. Guns
   A car

The way that time travel works in the "Terminator" universe is that only organic material can travel through time. A human or cyborg who time travels will arrive without any clothing or weapons.

1. A police office
   A diner
2. A nightclub
   A warehouse

Located on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, the nightclub where Sarah goes to hide before she is confronted by the Terminator is called "Tech Noir." The name combines two styles of film used to make the movie: film noir and sci-fi.

1. Its eye gets damaged.
   It doesn't have eyes.
2. Both eyes are completely black.
   It can't see without them.

The iconic sunglasses Arnold Schwarzenegger wore in "The Terminator" are Gargoyles ANSI Classics. Clint Eastwood, as Harry Callahan, previously wore these sunglasses in the film "Sudden Impact."

1. A tanker truck explosion
   Crushed in a hydraulic press
2. A pipe-bomb explosion
   With a grenade launcher

When Sarah Connor crushes the Terminator in the hydraulic press, the only part of the machine that's left is its arm, which had reached out of the press to strangle her. This arm would later be a critical component in the creation of Skynet.

1. State hospital
   Prison
2. A nunnery
   Rehab

Sarah spent the years between the first and second movie training her son to embrace his role as humanity's protector in the future. However, she also tries to stop the rise of the machines by destroying a computer company, leading to her imprisonment at the state hospital.

1. His adopted father
   The neighbor
2. A police officer
   His teacher

The cyborg that disguises itself as a police officer isn't the only cyborg sent back into the past. The other machine is modeled after the Terminator from the first movie, but this time, he's been sent back to protect John Connor.

1. Ed Traxler
   Ginger Ventura
2. Hal Vukovich
   Miles Dyson

The role of Miles Dyson was offered to Denzel Washington before the casting of Joe Morton. Washington decided to turn down the role because he thought the character was portrayed as a coward.

1. "No Fate"
   "Judgement Day"
2. "End It"
   "Terminator"

"No Fate" became an important quote for the "Terminator" franchise, representing the human ability to make their own decisions. John Connor later brings it back up at the end of "Terminator Salvation" when he says, "There is no fate but what we make."

1. Kill the lead scientists
   Download all of their data
2. Continue to work on the project
   Destroy the chip obtained from the cybernetic arm

After breaking into the Cyberdyne building and placing the bombs throughout the lab, Miles Dyson is shot by SWAT team members. Knowing he will die, Dyson decides to stay behind to complete the mission while the others escape.

1. Blows itself up
   Goes back to the future
2. Asks to be lowered into molten steel
   Gets chained and thrown into the ocean

The Terminator is programmed in a way that does not allow it to destroy itself. Despite opposition from John Connor, it asks Sarah Connor to lower it into a container of molten steel, ending a potential threat down the line should its programming be altered.

1. A cyborg kills her.
   She dies of leukemia.
2. She kills herself to save John.
   John kills her to change the future.

One would think that a warrior like Sarah Connor would go out on the battlefield, but the "Terminator" series decides to pull back on the action when it came to her death. Instead of a blaze of glory, Sarah dies more subtly from leukemia.

1. T-800
   T-900
2. T-1000
   T-X

While casting "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," casting went through thousands of actresses before finally deciding on Kristanna Loken to play T-X. The audition process was strange, as Loken had to walk around a hallway as if she were a robot while stopping and shooting occasionally.

1. Detective
   U.S. Senator
2. Air Force general
   U.S. diplomat

A member of the United States Air Force, General Robert Brewster oversaw the Cyber Research Systems, which was responsible for Skynet. Though he oversaw the program, Brewster was never in favor of allowing the machine to control itself; instead, he hoped to keep a human operating it.

1. To stop a computer virus
   A war breaks out
2. To stop the Terminator
   Pressure to complete the project

Believing that a foreign entity was trying to hack their systems, General Brewster was convinced to turn on Skynet so that it could protect itself. However, the virus was a trick launched by Skynet, resulting in it becoming self-aware.

1. A nuclear base
   Skynet's system core
2. Terminator technology
   Weapons to stop T-X

General Brewster informs John Connor and Kate Brewster that they could destroy Skynet if they head to Crystal Peak. However, once they get there, the area is revealed to be a fallout shelter, where they survive the coming nuclear attack.

1. 2009
   2011
2. 2018
   2023

Set in 2018, "Terminator Salvation" is the first film in the "Terminator" franchise set after Judgement Day. However, the timeline has yet to reach the point where cyborgs are sent back into the past to change the future.

1. Dying in the hospital
   On death row
2. In an ambulance
   At his home

After donating his body to Dr. Serena Kogan for medical purposes, Marcus Wright is transformed into a human-machine hybrid who maintains his heart and brain. When he's revived in the future, Marcus has no knowledge of this until a mine explodes, exposing his metal endoskeleton.

1. An underground bunker
   A school
2. A subway station
   A submarine

The name of the submarine where the Resistance Headquarters is located is called the USS Wilmington. Built by the U.S. Navy, this submarine was of the Los Angeles class, managing to survive Judgement Day and carryout a fight against Skynet.

1. Kyle Reese
   John Connor
2. Kate Connor
   Hugh Ashdown

Skynet discovers that Kyle Reese is the father of John Connor, the result of Kyle being sent into the past to protect Sarah Connor. To keep this from happening, Skynet puts him number one on its hit list.

1. To obtain workers
   For their stem cells
2. To convert to cyborgs
   To convert to energy

The stem cells that Skynet acquires in the events of "Terminator Salvation" lead to the creation of the T-800 cyborg, the first cybernetic organism. This new organism cannot only infiltrate the Resistance but is also capable of going back into the past.

1. Blows himself up
   Seres as a distraction
2. Donates his heart
   Drives a helicopter into a cyborg

After reviving Marcus Wright, John Connor is impaled with a steel bar by a T-RIP cyborg. Marcus is able to destroy the cyborg, but John is in serious condition. Knowing that he had his own second chance at life, Marcus decides to give John a second chance as well.

1. Time Displacement Equipment
   Total Destruction Equalizer
2. Tactical Death Equipment
   Terminator Display Educator

The Time Displacement Equipment is not only capable of sending living tissue backward in time but also forward in time. Catherine Weaver uses the machine for this purpose in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."

1. Kyle Reese
   Sarah Connor
2. T-800 Terminator
   John Connor

Operation Chrono was the battle that led to Skynet realizing that it needed to destroy John Connor in the past before he could lead the Resistance. Ultimately, the operation leads to the events of 1984.

1. Pops
   Tom
2. Robo
   Nuke

Before Pops was sent back to 1973 to protect Sarah Connor, its memory was wiped so that no one would know who sent it. When Pops arrives, it finds Sarah, but her parents are killed by the T-1000. Pops then takes it upon himself to raise Sarah.

1. 1997
   2003
2. 2017
   2029

Due to alterations in the past, Skynet does not come online in 1997 as it had originally occurred. Instead, it was moved to 2017, which Kyle Reese realizes when he's in the process of going back to 1984 to find Sarah Connor.

1. T-1000
   T-3000
2. T-5000
   T-8000

As John sends Kyle Reese back in time, he is attacked by a disguised cyborg named Alex. During the attack, John is transformed into the T-3000 and travels back to 2014, where he helps create the Genisys Program that later becomes Skynet.

1. Los Angeles
   New Mexico
2. Washington D.C.
   Colorado

In "Terminator 5: Genisys," there was an extended film script that included events surrounding the Colorado Unit's attack on Skynet. The extended scene states that the war is over and Skynet has been defeated.

1. Detective Harding
   Detective O'Brien
2. Detective Cheung
   Detective Timmons

It's revealed that Detective O'Brien was one of the cops at the department store in "The Terminator." During this event, O'Brien finds out that a robot has been sent back from the future, which shapes his view around Sarah and Kyle when they tell him their story.

1. Water
   Fire
2. Magnetic fields
   Radio waves

The T-3000 uses a magnetic field to hold itself together, which is why other magnetic fields interrupt this process and damage its body. When the T-3000 loses its organic skin, it is destroyed by the Time Displacement Machine, which rips apart inorganic matter.

1. T-X
   T-1000
2. Guardian
   Rev-9

The Rev-9 is an advanced Terminator unit with the ability to separate its endoskeleton from its organic skin. Each of these separate units is able to fully function on its own, making it quite the danger to its target.