Q 01/05

Which Top Gear presenter hosted the first series of Robot Wars before being replaced for the second?

A) Richard Hammond

B) Jeremy Clarkson

C) James May

D) Quentin Willson

Answer · why

B) Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson fronted only the opening run, and during filming a robot's weapon flew off and lodged in a wall inches from him.

Q 02/05

Which Red Dwarf actor took over as host of Robot Wars from its second series until 2004?

A) Chris Barrie

B) Robert Llewellyn

C) Craig Charles

D) Danny John-Jules

Answer · why

C) Craig Charles

Craig Charles, who started out as a performance poet, signed off every episode with a short poem about the fighting machines. He played the slobbish D...

Q 03/05

Which Robot Wars House Robot carried a flamethrower, a weapon banned for the contestants' own machines?

A) Sergeant Bash

B) Dead Metal

C) Cassius Chrome

D) Mr. Psycho

Answer · why

A) Sergeant Bash

Sergeant Bash was exempt from the weapon rules that bound contestants, and in the first series it set the fur-covered robot Nemesis on fire.

Q 04/05

What name did Robot Wars give the square hole in the arena floor that eliminated any robot that fell in?

A) The Flame Pit

B) The Pneumatic Spikes

C) The Pit of Oblivion

D) The Dial of Doom

Answer · why

C) The Pit of Oblivion

The Pit of Oblivion arrived in the second series, a four-foot square hole painted black inside and part-filled with old tyres. A ball of white smoke m...

Q 05/05

Which flipper-armed machine is the only robot to win the UK Robot Wars championship twice?

A) Firestorm

B) Bigger Brother

C) Cassius

D) Chaos 2

Answer · why

D) Chaos 2

Chaos 2 won the third and fourth series back to back, and was the first robot to throw an opponent clean out of the arena.