"Beast Wars" - Season 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Energon

Energon is found in the forms of glowing blue crystals. It stores immense amounts of energy, but is also quite unstable. Many Energon deposits are destroyed throughout "Beast Wars" by the transformers in attempts to destroy each other. The fields caused by the Energon are the reason why the transformers need alternate beast modes. If they stay in robot mode too long, the fields will send them into stasis lock. Later in the series, in season three, we find out that the alien species, the Vok, seeded Earth with Energon, hoping that by the time humans came into existence, the Energon would have all transformed into stable Energon cubes, that the humans could have then used as a clean and efficient fuel source.

Answer: Tarantulas

Rhinox was a large and powerful transformer, but he was also gentle and peace-loving. He took on the role as scientist and technical engineer for the Maximals and came up with quite a few nifty gadgets.

Tarantulas was also an inventor, but he was more secretive and selfish. He had a personal, hidden lair where he could tinker with and invent things, and feast on any small organisms that happened to stumble in.

Other Predacons did invent their own things from time to time, but not nearly as often. Blackarachnia tended to build her own devices, such as bombs and explosives, to help her in her fight against the Maximals. Scorponok also had an array of missiles and cyber bees that had special effects, but more often than not, they didn't turn out quite as planed.

Answer: Waspinator

Waspinator originally got bits and pieces blown off in "Chain of Command" (fifth episode), and from then on, for the rest of the series, it was a bit of a running gag. Other characters also had to endure being shot into pieces, but not with the same frequency as Waspinator, and normally, it wasn't nearly as elaborate.

Answer: An Ant

Inferno's alternate mode is a fire ant. Tarantulas had originally wanted to make him another spider, but the pod had already chosen an alternate form. Inferno was a fanatic and psychotic. His beast mode circuits overrode most of his robot ones, and he viewed the stasis pod that he landed in as his colony.

He used his rather large weapons and flame throwers to attack anyone he deemed an enemy of the colony. After the pod was destroyed, his unwavering loyalty was switched to Megatron, whom he then referred to as "the Royalty" or "my queen", much to Megatron's disgust.

Answer: Dinobot

Dinobot was originally a Predacon in the pilot episode, and tried to overthrow Megatron for leadership of the Predacons. He was defeated by Megatron's second-in-command, Scorponok, and then went to challenge Optimus for leadership of the Maximals. He lost again, but was accepted into their ranks. Dinobot is known for having a short temper and often suggesting rather brutal, and non-Maximal, methods for solving any problems the Maximals may have.

In the second season, he did return to the ranks of the Predacons for the duration of one episode, "Maximal, No More".

Answer: Optimus Primal

Optimus Primal's name is a play on the name of the original leader of the Autobots from the Generation 1 series, Optimus Prime. Megatron is the name of the leader of the Decepticons from the Generaton 1 series, and of the leader of the Predacons in "Beast Wars" (Though both series are in the same continuity, the two Megatrons are different characters). Galvatron is also from the G1 series, and used to be Megatron, brought back from the dead by Unicron, the massive planet-eating transformer.

Optimus Primal's alternate mode is a Gorilla. He is generally calm, confident, and calculating, and never willing to leave a friend behind. He strongly believes in the Maximal code, and will try to avoid violence and bloodshed if at all possible, while still upholding his ideals.

Answer: A Bird

First introduced in the fifteenth episode, "The Spark", Airazor is the second female transformer to join the "Beast Wars". She barely survived her first day on Earth, as her stasis pod landed in a barren region that covered massive amounts of unstable Energon.

The lack of any animals to scan for an alternate mode plus the strong Energon fields (and the Predacons that were trying to disrupt Rhinox's attempts to save her) left much to be desired. However, at the last moment, after both Cheetor and Rhinox had tried to hold off the Predacons, a peregrine falcon flew overhead. Airazor flew out of her pod and easily defeated Terrorsaur as soon as she was activated. Like Tigatron, her memory circuits were damaged in the crash, and she had no recollection of who she once was before the war. Because of this, she also developed a strong affection for Earth.

Answer: Rattrap and Dinobot

Though the other Maximals trusted Dinobot, Rattrap was always weary due to Dinobot's history as a Predacon. Rattrap was always quick to accuse Dinobot of being a traitor when anything went wrong, and just generally did not trust him. Dinobot, who was a warrior at heart, despised Rattrap's tactics of stealth, and indirect combat.

The two came up with many insulting nicknames for each other, and tended to joust with words often. However, they did end up coming to respect one another, though neither would ever admit it.

Answer: Rattrap

Flight, in the beginning of the series at least, was a rare luxury that only some transformers had. The inability to fly played a key role in a few episodes in the first season, such as in the episode "Fallen Comrades" when the Maximals and Predacons were racing to a crashed stasis pod.

Of the original ten transformers from the first episode, only Optimus, Terrorsaur, and Waspinator could fly. Over the first season, Inferno and Airazor were added to that list. At the beginning of the second season, a transwarp wave hit Earth, and turned some transformers into Transmetals. Megatron and Cheetor both gained flight capabilities, and Silverbolt was introduced later. In the third season, Depthcharge was the final character to be added to the list of fliers.

Answer: Tigatron

Tigatron was the first transformer to be brought into the series after the pilot episode. He is a male transformer, though the tiger his pod scanned was female.

Blackarachnia was the first female transformer introduced to the "Beast Wars" as a black widow spider. She was ambitious and deceitful, like many Predacons, but ended up becoming a Maximal near the end of the Third season.

Airazor was the second female transformer in the "Beast Wars" and took on the role of aerial reconnaissance. She and Tigatron developed an affection for one another due to their mutual love for Earth. The two was caught in an alien trap in the second season and sent off to Nexus Zero, where they were held in stasis by the mysterious aliens. They were later merged together to create a single powerful entity, Tigerhawk, in the third season.