Toys and Crazes

What this quiz asks

• Which Danish company makes the famous interlocking plastic bricks?
• The teddy bear is named after which US president?
• Barbie was named after the daughter of the woman who created her.
• The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by a professor from which country?
• Which toy company makes Hot Wheels die-cast cars?
• Which handheld gadget with ball bearings became a playground craze in 2017?
• Which toy was popularised in the US in the 1920s by the Filipino-American businessman Pedro Flores?
• Select ALL of these toys that became crazes in the 1990s.
• Which dolls of the 1980s were each sold with their own adoption papers?
• The Frisbee got its name from a pie company.
• Before it became a children's toy, Play-Doh was sold as what?
• Was the Super Soaker water gun invented by an engineer who had worked on NASA space missions?
• How many different answers can a classic Magic 8 Ball give?
• The Slinky was invented after a naval engineer watched what fall off a shelf?
• Select ALL of these toys that first went on sale in the 1950s.
• Which 1964 Hasbro toy was sold as an action figure rather than a doll?
• The Etch A Sketch drawing toy was invented in which country?
• Frank Hornby, later famous for model trains, first invented which construction toy in 1901?
• How many coloured stickers are there on a standard 3x3 Rubik's Cube?
• Put these toys in order of first appearance, earliest first.