Hard Quiz Application

[griffin]

I think, given his popularity, Optimus Prime would be the topic to pick.

Bladestorm would be a good applicant.

[Bladestorm]

Bladestorm would be a good applicant.

Hahahaha.... NO.
My knowledge of Prime is not thorough enough for a Mastermind-esque quiz show (not that I've seen this show but I'm assuming it is along the same lines) particularly as I have very few of the comics other than recent releases and I am a truck not monkey gal. I suspect if you chose Optimus you would need to cover all forms of the name rather than a specific character unless you could get away with G1 Optimus Prime as the chosen topic.
I had a friend go on Mastermind back in the day and he was stomped into the floor because most of the questions they asked for his topic were so obscure. His shellacking experience put me off the idea of being on game shows for life.
If I can offer one bit of advice for those who are seriously going to apply, make sure to get another expert in your chosen field to coach you with a range of stupidly easy and ridiculously obscure questions (including facts broader than your chosen topic that may be considered by association) with a tighter timeframe than those set by the show to hone your skills.

[griffin]

Hahahaha.... NO.
My knowledge of Prime is not thorough enough for a Mastermind-esque quiz show (not that I've seen this show but I'm assuming it is along the same lines) particularly as I have very few of the comics other than recent releases and I am a truck not monkey gal. I suspect if you chose Optimus you would need to cover all forms of the name rather than a specific character unless you could get away with G1 Optimus Prime as the chosen topic.
I had a friend go on Mastermind back in the day and he was stomped into the floor because most of the questions they asked for his topic were so obscure. His shellacking experience put me off the idea of being on game shows for life.
If I can offer one bit of advice for those who are seriously going to apply, make sure to get another expert in your chosen field to coach you with a range of stupidly easy and ridiculously obscure questions (including facts broader than your chosen topic that may be considered by association) with a tighter timeframe than those set by the show to hone your skills.

Don't worry, it's not like Mastermind, as the first round of specialist subject questions have to be easy enough for other contestants to have a chance at answering them. It's only the final round that has the hard questions, but only if you are one of the last two people left. And I'd imagine that if you read through a few times the various TFwiki pages on Optimus Prime (cartoon, comics, movie, toys), you'd have a pretty good chance at the final round too... but I'd be wanting people to apply for the experience and fun of being on there to talk about your obsession with Optimus, and to enlighten the rest of Australia on the Transformers Brand. It's worth having a go at the application, and seeing how far you get... if they think your worthy, then it doesn't matter how much you think you don't know, as they want people with vibrant personalities more than they want know-it-alls (it just helps if you are both, and I think your Optimus obsession would count).

[BigTransformerTrev]

I chucked in an application, told them they could narrow it down to G1 if Transformers itself was too broad.

Totally f'ed up the test though. Accidentally pressed 'next' at the bottom of the screen instead of under the test questions, which in turn loaded the next page. By the time I got the test page to reload I'd lost about a minute of the 5 minutes allotted and as such missed a lot of Q's

[griffin]

Was there any mention of when the cut-off is for the current batch, to see if there is any time left to round up some others to apply (for specific areas of Transformers)?

[BigTransformerTrev]

Was there any mention of when the cut-off is for the current batch, to see if there is any time left to round up some others to apply (for specific areas of Transformers)?

Not that I saw. Just a big list of stuff already covered

[BigTransformerTrev]

Got an email back finally, saying that Transformers have now already been done. So guessing someone else here or else out in the wider TF community must have gone for it in either the same round I just did or else the same round you did Griffin and was successful.