Small Robots by AlexanderD

Champion(s):

VenguswamyK
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi


Runner(s)-Up:

SegalP
"Fool me once, shame on you... but teach a man to fool me, and I'll be fooled for the rest of my life."


Quiz Description

The mothership had a 1DS about Giant Robots which was a lot of fun. This quiz is about robots - real and fictional - that are not so giant.

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Questions:

What actress played a voice input child identicant with, judging from her monotone voice and her penchant for literalism, a sketchy AI in a 1980s sitcom?

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Tiffany Brisette

The Dirt Dog and Model 401 are early budget models of what iRobot device?

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Roomba

What is the official name of the process (pictured here) by which "seats" featuring two small robots (and their humanoid) are entered into an existing film?

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Shadowrama

Identify the British game show (based on a short-lived US show of the same name hosted by Art James) where you would see THIS small robot.

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Catch Phrase

Name the small robot marketed by Heathkit from 1982 to 1995. Kits were available for $1500, while an already manufactured unit retailed for $2500. It later spun off "Jr." and "2000" models.

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HERO-1

Known for his work in quantum mechanics, what American theoretical physicist was first postulated by his former graduate student and collaborator Albert Hibbs the idea of a medical use for theoretical nanobots?

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Richard Feynman

Kantaroth, Sumilidon, and Metabee are all small robots on what anime series of the early 2000s?

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Medabots

QRIO robots were featured dancing to the music video for Beck's "Hell Yes" and on an episode of "Jeopardy!". What company manufactured the QRIO line of robots from 2003 until its discontinuation in 2006?

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Sony

Designed by Mark Tilden and released by WowWee Toys in 2004, what toy robot which sold more than 1.5 million units in that year was the subject of a 2013 live-action/CGI film where it was given the name "Cody"?

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RoboSapien

Addison Holley plays Anne, a child prodigy who creates her own robotic assistants while extolling the virtues of the scientific method in what Canadian children's series that has gotten play in the US on Amazon Video?

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Annedroids

Known in universe as Unit 22, Unit 1729, or 2716057, what is the last name of the fictional Mexican robot seen here?

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Rodriguez

What creator of "SimCity" also created Chiabot, a small fighting robot seen on seasons 1-5 of the original Comedy Central run of "Battlebots"?

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Will Wright