Episode 2: "Beast Wars" Part 2 Quiz

Answer: His swords

Optimus and Dinobot were fighting on a bridge, so the use of energy weapons would have been substantially more dangerous to both combatants due to the close-quarters nature of the fight. Dinobot's preferred weapons were close ranged ones, such as his spinning sword and velocirotor (a spinning pair of blades that also go by a variety of other names), and Optimus had to fight with weapons that could combat them. Optimus' weapon set included all of the weapons mentioned above, although you do not ever see his flail in the TV series (his toy came with one, though).

Answer: "Brutally"

Before he said "brutally", Dinobot charged his sword to punctuate his words. The two then engaged in a much faster paced fight. The two combatants were fairly well matched in this fight, but we never got to see the victor, as the Predacons eventually attacked and disrupted the fight. Optimus saved Dinobot from falling down the canyon, which made Dinobot feel that he owed Optimus something in return.

He would later save Optimus' life near the end of the episode, not as a fellow comrade, but to settle the debt.

Answer: Rattrap

In the previous episode, Optimus went to save Cheetor after Rattrap refused an order. Optimus explained that he would never send anyone to do anything he wouldn't be willing to do himself. Rattrap still remained flippant, even after Optimus saved him from falling, saying, "you're the leader, it's your, uh, job." Rattrap remained like this for the beginning of the series, always thinking of his self-preservation, although he did eventually become more of a team player, and started to be a little less selfish.

Answer: Rattrap

Rattrap would always be suspicious of Dinobot due to his Predacon heritage, and Dinobot would hate Rattrap for his lack of any noble desires (i.e. honor). The two would argue constantly, throwing insults back and forth, for the remainder of the series, although, eventually, a mutual respect does seem to grow between them.

Answer: Stonehenge

As the Maximals were making their way to the newly discovered Energon, Rhinox spotted an alien structure composed of a circle of stones, resembling Stonehenge, but with substantially more stones. This structure would be dubbed "Standing Stones" by the transformers, and was the first indication that there was a third party at work during the Beast Wars. Standing Stones would be visited later in the series.

Answer: Terrorsaur and Waspinator

Terrorsaur and Waspinator were the only two Predacons that could fly at the time, and could, therefore, easily cross the distance between the Predacons and Maximals without having to cross the valley that separated the two groups. They attacked the Maximals who were sheltered by overhanging rock.

After the land bound Maximals exchanged a few futile shots, Optimus activated his jets and went to deal with the two Predacons himself, using his shoulder cannons.

Answer: Optical Cannons

Dinobot's ranged attack is his Optical Cannons. His eyes start to glow green before he's about to use them. Despite these lasers coming from his eyes, his accuracy does not seem to be any better than any other transformer's.

Answer: Rhinox

As Dinobot was tracking Terrorsaur and Waspinator with his lasers, he swept across the overhanging rocks, which caused one large rock in particular to come loose and nearly crush Rhinox. Rhinox did not look impressed at all, and Rattrap quickly picked up on Dinobot's mistake, after the fighting had been resolved, to accuse Dinobot of being a traitor. Optimus stepped in to separate the two, and the Maximals continued to move towards the Energon mountain.

Answer: Tarantulas

The two factions got to the Energon at nearly the same time. They ran at each other in a chicken race with each member of both teams being paired with one from the other. Cheetor was paired with Waspinator, Dinobot with Scorponok, Rhinox and Terrorsaur, and Rattrap with Tarantulas.

Naturally, Megatron and Optimus, as leaders, fought each other. This battle of a gorilla and a tyrannosaurus fighting each other was reminiscent of King Kong, in which there is a similar fight.

Answer: Megatron's

The Energon fields so close to the source would be so strong, that, as robots, the transformers woud go into stasis lock in under a minute. In a last ditch effort to defeat Optimus Primal, while he was wounded, Megatron transformed and fired a single missile at Optimus. Megatron started to feel the effects of the Energon immediately.

As the missile was traveling towards Optimus, Dinobot ran in front of it and slapped it aside with his tail. This destabilized the mountain and the transformers evacuated the area as fast as possible, with the exception of Megatron, who has being slowed by the Energon fields.

The mountain exploded with Megatron jumping away. Dinobot explained that he was merely settling the debt he owed Optimus for saving him on the bridge earlier.