A RW Quiz

This is just to pass some time while I wait for stats for War of the Weapons, 20 questions:

Q1: Which was the first robot armed with a vertical flywheel.

Torque Of The Devil (series 1 heat E)'s rear 'weapon' might have counted as a flywheel, if it wasn't that then it was probably Daisy Chopper from series 3 heat N.

It was Daisy Chopper

Joey: 1


Q2: Which robot was labeled The Silver Woodlouse by Jonathan Pierce

Leighbot

Joey: 2

Q3: What was the fastest top speed of any competitor in Robot Wars?

Allegedly it was Facet (series 3 heat O) with 48mph, although that was dependent on its gearing and I don't think they ever used the lower ratio.

Demolisher (series 1 heat D) claimed 40mph but that was basically a remote controlled car, so I'd be very skeptical of that :P the closest to a realistic top speed was probably Schumey in series 2 heat E, with 30mph, but the answer you're looking for is probably Facet XD

Facet is correct

Joey: 3

Next question tommorow

GRAH A QUIZ STARTED AND I MISSED IT!

Q4: Which is the only tracked robot to win a major competition

Mortis won the War Of Independence special filmed before series 4, don't know if that counts?

No, Major means a main championship

is this just he british robot wars or r we including battlebots and us robotwars etc?

Slicer from the Dutch RW series 1?

Slicer is correct!

Only RW answers are acceptable, these include American, Dutch and German robot wars.

Joey: 4

I am useless.

Q5: Name the first 3 robots after Cassius to Self-Right?, Rollcages and Roll-Over Chassis do not count

Chaos 2 (series 3, heat E, final vs. The Big Cheese - The Big Cheese almost self righted itself in the same fight but the engine powering the hydraulics was down to half throttle so the arm didn't have she speed)
Mortis (series 3, heat F, first round vs. Ming)
(X-Terminator in series 3, heat K, final vs. Panic Attack doesn't count in my opinion since if I recall correctly PA was already lifting and driving forward with enough force to cause the robot to roll over and back onto its wheels.Your mileage may vary of course :proud:)
Prizephita (series 3, heat N, first round vs. Thing II - in the interests of being an incredibly sad git and winning the qu...um...not that...accuracy and a strong sense of fair play, I found the episode in the annals of YouTube - at half past two in the morning - and confirmed that Prizephita's boxing glove srimech did indeed see use once or twice before getting wedged in the side rail)

There is a grey area with robots like Stinger, Armour Geddon and Pussycat that have no real 'right' or 'wrong' way up and so could be seen as self righting before, but I've assumed those don't count?

:uhoh:

Joey: 5
Everybody Else: 0

Q6: Which robot was the first to deploy a smokescreen?

Tricky one this :P

Sat'Arn (series 1, heat D) had nasal smoke machines in the intro that the Barber brothers did, but they were never there when it was actually competing , so take that as you will.
Triterobot (series 3, heat L) did kind of use a smokescreen, but it wasn't an intentional one although Jonathan Pearce identified it as such - one of Triterobot's drive motors burnt out rather spectacularly, which created a lot of smoke and disabled most of the robot (they only had drive to one pair of wheels after that)

Many other robots just vented CO2 in sufficient quantities to be mistaken for smoke, or just caught fire :P so on that basis, I will say that no robot used a deliberate smokescreen other than Alex Holt's Scaramanga series, which don't really count due to not actually existing out of his rather treacherous brain.