Transformers featured on Hard Quiz episode May 13th

[Paulbot]

I’m looking forward to playing along tonight and seeing how I go. Of course much easier to play on your couch compared to in front of TV cameras and an audience!

[reillyd]

I don't know that I agree with their answers. Transformers was called Diakron/Diaclone, not Car Robots.

[Krayt]

WOOHOO!!!!!

[reillyd]

I hate to end the guesses, but it's me. Been lurking around here for ages. I hope I don't disappoint everyone.

Hey you won! Hard to be disappointed with that mate.

[Paulbot]

Great performance! Well done.

[griffin]

Congrats on winning.

I was really pleased to see Sebastian get to the final round, as I would have been really curious to see what HQ considered "hard" questions for Transformers.

(someone was a bit nervous... ...I would have been too)

I don't know that I agree with their answers. Transformers was called Diakron/Diaclone, not Car Robots.

Yeah, that bothered me as well... as it sounded like something they got from a retail product listing.
I would have only got four of the five correct in the first round though - I knew that Ratchet was originally written up as a female, but I didn't know (or remember) that it was based on a nurse from One Flew over the Cuckoos nest.

The final round questions...
- I didn't know the first one about the Designer's favourite toy being Perceptor. I would have guessed Sunstreaker (the first one) or Optimus.
- The second one about Kibble is something every fan knows about, and hates...
- The third one was about Gen1 Megatron's gun mode being from Man From Uncle is a Gen1 fan question.
- And the fourth question about what a toy turns into was something I expected they'd ask at some point, as one of the questions I had at the group interview was if I could recognise just about any toy and it's alt-mode.
(a pity you did so well that we didn't find out what the fifth questions was)


Soooooo jealous.

[M-bot]

Rocky start but you came home... um... HARD! Awesome job Sebimus!

(I totally didn’t know the Perceptor question, and guessed at the Man From UNCLE. Reckon I had the others).

[Paulbot]

I wanted to know the last question too.

But looking back over my answers, I wonder did the researchers just watch the Toys That Made Us episode because I think all of these topics might have been raised in that episode (including the Perceptor one).

[dirge]

I don't know that I agree with their answers. Transformers was called Diakron/Diaclone, not Car Robots.

"Car Robots" was a subline of Diaclone... which is what they were using. But it's still incorrect, given that the FIRST batch of Transformers included the Seekers, amongst others.

[jazzcomp]

Congrats Sebimus!