Robot Quiz

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General Knowledge Quiz: Robots

This quiz was first used as our online 'pub-quiz' for Robotics Week 2020. It features sections on robots in literature, film and reality. It is a fun and challenging group activity.

Round One: Fictional Robots in Film

Name that Robot and Film

Below are the images of 6 different robots from various movies. We are looking for the name of the robot and the title of the film in which it featured.

A hovering white smooth robot unit with curved flipper-like arms and a head with a black screen lit with two blue eyes
Robot's Name:
Movie Title:
A black and silver sphere robot with a head unit that remains on top as it rolls across the terrain
Robot's Name:
Movie Title:
A humanoid robot with translucent white 'skin'/casing and blue eyes
Robot's Name:
Movie Title:
A military robot that runs on tracks with multiple weaponry systems. It has a head made up of two circular camera eyes, a light strip for the mouth and flaps that act as eyebrows to give various expressions
Robot's Name:
Movie Title:
A white with black joints humanoid robot. The head is a large sphere out of proportion with the rest. Has eyes that constantly appear miserable.
Robot's Name:
Movie Title:
Another humanoid based robot, though this one has a spherical body and is made up of bronze plates bolted together. Has the appearance of a Steampunk Victorian era robot, although the movie it is in was filmed long before the phrase Steampunk was coined.
Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

Emoji Movie Titles

We have used a variety of emoji to represent different movie titles. What are they?

Example: A star emoji followed by a crossed swords emoji= Star Wars

A robot emoji followed by a policeman emoji
Movie Title:
A knife emoji followed by a running person emoji
Movie Title:
An up arrow followed by a superhero emoji followed by the number 6
Movie Title:
A sun emoji, followed by an earth emoji, followed by a standing man emoji, followed by a octagonal red warning sign emoji
Movie Title:
Two birthday cake emojis followed by the number 100 and then a old man emoji
Movie Title:
A 'be quiet' emoji followed by a running person
Movie Title:

Movie Quotes

Here, we are looking for the name of the robot being discussed, and the movie from which the quote comes from.

"He's a robot from the future. Living tissue over a metal skeleton"

Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

"Half the people here wanna reprogram you. The other half wanna put a hole in your head"

Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

"You're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die."

Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

"What actually happened was we were working on him one day and suddenly he is struck by lightning. And, from this moment on, he's having a mind of his own. So, the government tried to destroy him so he ran away."

Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid."

Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

"I am only a machine. So I can not be sorry or happy, no matter what happens."

Robot's Name:
Movie Title:

Round Two: Fictional Robots in Literature

Who Wrote It?

In this section, we are looking for the author and story title referred to.

The three laws of robotics came from...

Author's Name:
Original Story Title:

The movie 'Blade Runner' came from...

Author's Name:
Original Book Title:

Zat the Martian Robot was from...

Author's Name:
Original Book Title:

Replacing women with beautiful, obedient robots was written about in 1972

Author's Name:
Original Book Title:

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." Is a quote from...

Author's Name:
Original Book Title:

Bonus Question

Which franchise gave us Ultron and which comic-book superhero originally created him?

Franchise:
Superhero:

Round Three: Real Robots

Name the Robot

Name the robot shown in each picture

A large white humanoid robot with the head of a teddy bear carrying a patient in its long arms
Robot's Name:
A silver robot dog with a black screen to display facial expressions
Robot's Name:
A short and chunky humanoid robot capable of jumping, running and climbing stairs
Robot's Name:
A humanoid robot designed to replicate a young child in movement and appearance. It is on a frame as the feet aretoo small to walk on.
Robot's Name:
A yellow and black robot on four legs capable of all-terrain navigation.
Robot's Name:
A giant grey armoured robot with KR 01 painted on one shoulder. It is much taller than the people surrounding it at the unveiling.
Robot's Name:

True of False

For this section you need to identify if the below statements are true or false

A modern washing machine could be considered a robot

True
False

The first robot was reportedly built in 1495

True
False

The word robot came from the Czech word for 'forced labour'

True
False

Robots featured in Greek Mythology

True
False

No-one has been killed by a robot

True
False

There were robots on the original series of Robot Wars

True
False

Record Breakers

The below questions are about Guiness World Records (correct at time of writing - June 2020) held by robots. Numeric answers within 5% accepted.

What is the furthest distance a robot has travelled on another world? (in km)

Answer:

RoboBee by Harvard Microrobotics is the smallest tethered flying robot, measuring in rice grains, how heavy is it?

Answer:

MONONOFU is the world's tallest humanoid robot at how many metres tall?

Answer:

In 2016 how many robots were used to break the world record for dancing in unison for over a minute?

Answer:

The longest journey by an unmanned autonomous surface vehicle was how many km?

Answer:

In 2016 Sub1 Reloaded set the world record for 'Fastest Robot to Solve a Rubik's Cube' in what time?

Answer:

Robot Wars

Name the following 'robots' from the BBC TV series Robot Wars.

One of the house robots. It has a snowplough on the front and bull-dozer scoop on the back.
Name:
A wedge-shaped white robot with some black stripes and chequered decals
Name:
A black robot with neon green decals, two large yellow wheels that allow it to run either way up and a spinning blade on the front.
Name:
A shiny silver, metallic robot that runs on 4 small wheels, has spikes across the engine compartment and sports a large silver and black spinning disc fitted with red metal blades.
Name:
A red and yellow wedge-shaped robot with a self-righting flipper.
Name:
A robot with a large metallic claw/beak. It has a very low ground clearance, a ramp into the pincher's range and four small blue wheels.
Name:

Robot Karaoke

This final, fun round is aimed at identifying the robot/android/AI singing the folowing 5 songs.

Song 1:

Name of robot/android/AI singing:

Song 2:

Name of robot/android/AI singing:

Song 3:

Name of robot/android/AI singing:

Song 4:

Name of robot/android/AI singing:

Song 5:

Name of robot/android/AI singing: