In The Time Machine (1960), the time traveler goes to the year 802,701. George, the inventor played by Rod Taylor, travels forward from Victorian-era London and eventually stops on October 12, 802,701.
In that distant future, humanity has split into two distinct species: the peaceful, surface-dwelling Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. The Eloi live among ruins and appear carefree, but the Morlocks secretly maintain the machinery and prey on the Eloi at night.
The date is a memorable detail from George Pal’s 1960 film adaptation of H. G. Wells’s 1895 novel. The movie also shows George stopping at several nearer points in history, including World War I, the Blitz, and a nuclear catastrophe in 1966 before continuing into the far future.
A common mix-up is confusing the film’s exact date with the novel’s less precisely specified future setting. The 1960 film clearly identifies the destination as October 12, 802,701, making 802,701 the canonical quiz answer.