This Week's Quiz - Robots! - Trailers From Hell

He sells Arnold an Uzi in the original Terminator and gets blown away for his efforts. Who is he?

Dick Miller
Joe Turkel
Sid Haig

After appearing in one of the best-loved space operas in 1956, this iconic robot "starred" in another film, The Invisible Boy, a kid-friendly sci-fi lark from 1957. Who was that robot?

Robby the Robot
Gort
Tobor the Great

Lock Martin, the 7 foot, 7 inches tall actor who played Gort the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still, was working at what job when he was hired for the part?

Doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater
Star of Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in Peru, Indiana
Bouncer at Casa Manana Nightclub in Hollywood

In Ex Machina, Alex Garland's 2015 film about a female robotrix whose consciousness begins to expand on its own, the music from a classic science-fiction film is heard when she makes her first appearance. What's the film?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Day the Earth Stood Still

Rob Bottin, make-up master responsible for the werewolves in The Howling, went on to design a futuristic robot for this film.

RoboCop
The Terminator
Short Circuit

Yul Brynner's homicidal robot in Westworld is based on a character in what famous western?

The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Invitation to a Gunfighter

John Goodman, the avuncular, oversized star of Matinee and The Big Lebowski, also lent his voice to this oversized robot.

Hound in Transformers: Age of Extinction
Bigweld in Robots
Robot in Robot and Frank

The inspiration for the design of Star Wars' C-3P0 can be found in this film.

Metropolis
The Phantom Creeps
Target Earth

These steel-tentacled, motorized robots are the titular characters from what movie?

Gog
Tobor the Great
The Robot Vs the Aztec Mummy

George O'Hanlon voiced George Jetson, the working class everyman with a robot maid, in The Jetsons. O'Hanlon had a previous encounter with a robot in this sci-fi thriller from the fifties.

Kronos
The Colossus of New York
Robot Monster