Q 01/05

In Spare Parts, which supermarket item do the students use to soak up a leak inside their robot?

A) Diapers

B) Tampons

C) Sponges

D) Paper towels

Answer · why

B) Tampons

Tampons kept the water away from the circuits the night before the contest. In real life the idea was Lorenzo Santillan's, and he had to ask a strange...

Q 02/05

In Spare Parts, what name do the students give their robot after its glue fills the room with fumes?

A) Sticky

B) Dizzy

C) Stinky

D) Smokey

Answer · why

C) Stinky

Stinky got its name from the pungent glue that held it together. The real students assembled the whole frame in a single night, then painted it blue, ...

Q 03/05

Which famous university's well-funded team do the Carl Hayden students beat in Spare Parts?

A) Stanford

B) Caltech

C) Harvard

D) MIT

Answer · why

D) MIT

MIT sent a dozen students with corporate sponsorship behind them. The high schoolers had expected to finish somewhere in the middle and were privately...

Q 04/05

Which comedian, also a producer of the film, plays reluctant mentor Fredi Cameron in Spare Parts?

A) George Lopez

B) Cheech Marin

C) John Leguizamo

D) Paul Rodriguez

Answer · why

A) George Lopez

George Lopez made the film as the first project of a new film and television deal. Variety praised his mix of sincerity and self-deprecating humour in...

Q 05/05

Which Halloween star plays Karen Lowry, the principal who hires Fredi Cameron in Spare Parts?

A) Sigourney Weaver

B) Holly Hunter

C) Jamie Lee Curtis

D) Laura Dern

Answer · why

C) Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis plays the overworked head of Carl Hayden with a dry sense of humour. Variety's critic wrote that she steals every scene she appears i...