Toys

Question 1

How many pairs of transparencies (and, therefore, different 3-D images) are there on a View-Master reel?

Answer 1

Fourteen images = Seven pairs

Question 2

What were the original nine Beanie Babies?

Answer 2

(1) Legs the Frog (2) Squealer the Pig (3) Spot the Dog (4) Flash the Orca (5) Splash the Whale (6) Chocolate the Moose (7) Patti the Platypus (8) Brownie the Bear (9) Pinchers the Lobster

Question 3

Name of the line from Funko with dolls from Belle to Aquaman, or the kind of culture it represents.

Answer 3

Pop

Question 4

“Matroyshka” is the native name given to these classic toys.

Answer 4

Russian nesting dolls

Question 5

This toy was patented in the 1960s as a “liquid filled die agitator”.

Answer 5

Magic 8-Ball

Question 6

This classic drawing toy was once called Telecran, still its name in France.

Answer 6

Etch-a-Sketch

Question 7

The prototype for what 1970s Kenner action figure was filled with Karo syrup?

Answer 7

The secret of Stretch Armstrong: his stretchy limbs are filled with gelled corn syrup.

Question 8

A fictional species of immortal cyborg hero-warriors known as the Toa, who protect the Matoran from danger and safeguard the Great Spirit Mata Nui, form the basis for what line of toys produced and marketed by Lego beginning in the early 2000s?

Answer 8

Bionicle

Question 9

Produced starting in the 1950s by the manufacturing company Lesney Products & Co. Ltd., a diesel road roller, dump truck, cement mixer, Massey Harris tractor, London bus, Dennis fire engine, ERF petrol tanker, and Land Rover were among the first in what line of toys, named for the containers in which they were originally sold?

Answer 9

Matchbox