Other Games & Toys Trivia

1. Requiring wind for "lift" and lines (or tethers) to keep it from flying away which toy, originating in the 5th Century BC, can also be used as a piece of sporting equipment (if it is made big and strong enough)?

From Quiz Windy & Winding Toys

Answer: Kite

Mozi and Lu Ban, Chinese philosophers, are credited with inventing the kite in the 5th Century BC. The first paper kite was recorded as being used in 549 AD as a message for a rescue mission. Kites were initially used for scientific purposes, before being used for religions ceremonies and festivals, as well as being used as a toy. In order to fly, kites must be made of lightweight materials - at least light enough to be lifted and held by the wind, and with the many different uses today they must be robust and strong. Kites have many uses nowadays including (but not limited to) science & meteorology, sports equipment (such as kite surfing), or just as toys.

From Quiz Jaipur: Maharaja's Personal Trader

Answer: Sebastien Pauchon

Sebastien Pauchon was born in 1971 and was a professional billiards player. He was co-founder of GameWorks games publishing company. He stopped designing his own games in 2013 when he joined Space Cowboys. Klaus Teuber was the designer of "Settlers of Catan", Alan R. Moon was the designer of the "Ticket to Ride" series of games and Alex Randolph designed games such as "TwixT" and "Breakthru".

From Quiz GoBots

Answer: Tonka

Tonka adopted the GoBots designs from the Machine Robo series by Bandai in Japan. The original GoBots were small (only about three inches in height) die-cast metal toys. The GoBots were released in 1983, a year before the Transformers toy franchise debuted. Despite being released first, the GoBots did not compete well with the Transformers and were discontinued after 1987.

From Quiz History of The Transformers

Answer: Hasbro

Hasbro, Inc. is an American toy company founded in 1923 as the Hassenfeld Brothers company. They changed their name to Hasbro in 1968. They are known for producing the G.I. Joe and My Little Pony toy lines. Hasbro began producing Transformers in 1984 with many of the toy designs adopted from Japanese toy company Takara.

From Quiz Two Up

Answer: Swy

Two-up was popular during World War I, during which time the soldiers referred to the game as Swy (which may have come from the German Zwei, the word for two.) Its popularity continued through World War II.

From Quiz (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

Answer: He refused to shoot an injured bear captured for him

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was President of the United States from 1901 until 1909. Because of his sickly childhood, he grew up determined to be as fit as he could. Accordingly he became noted for his skill at various sports, his hunting skills, his bravery while a soldier, his masculine attitude to life, and his active and dynamic political personality. Such is the legacy he left on his death, he has since became known as one of the great American Presidents. A permanent memorial to that greatness is his positions as one of the four famous Presidents carved into the face of Mount Rushmore - and a teddy bear. The story behind the origin of the teddy bear springs from one of Roosevelt's many hunting expeditions. In 1902, when on one such, Roosevelt's attendants chased and eventually captured a bear that had put up a brave struggle to survive against the men and their dogs. Badly injured, and almost dead from its wounds, the bear was tied to a tree. The President was then brought to the poor creature and invited to shoot it himself to claim the bagging rights. An indignant Roosevelt refused point-blank to carry out such a despicable act, but ordered instead that the poor creature be immediately put out of its suffering by someone else. When the papers got hold of this story and printed it everywhere, a Russian Jewish emigrant, who owned a candy store and made stuffed toys at night, decided to make a stuffed bear to honour this act. So the little teddy bear was born.

From Quiz Games of Chance

Answer: Anzac Day

"Two Up" is played with two pennies resting on a board, the board is thrown in the air and how the coins fall deciding whether you win or lose. The person throwing the coins is called the ringer, after all bets have been placed the call of "come in spinner" is made and the coins are tossed. The outcome decides whether you win or lose, prior to the tossing you can bet on "heads", "tails" or "odds". The history of "Two Up" is now associated with Anzac Day resulting from Australian soldiers extensively playing the game during WW1.

From Quiz Hot Wheels: The Original 16

Answer: 1968

Although most of the original cars have 1967 stamped on their undercarriages, they were first sold the following year. Even though Mattel initially projected sales of 16 million, actual sales were 7 times their projections creating a black market until production could catch up.

From Quiz Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Answer: 42

Pips are the small colored (usually) dots on each side of a die. Opposite sides of a die will always add up to a value of seven. In other words, six will always be opposite one and two will always be opposite five. Each die will have 21 pips and a pair of dice would have 42. Dice and mathematics are intimately entwined.

From Quiz The Games People Play

Answer: A card game

Canasta is a form of rummy. It is normally played by four people in two partnerships with two standard decks of cards. Like rummy the idea is to make sets of cards, in this case seven of the same rank, and you go out by playing all of your cards. In the post World War II era when there was no television and money was short card evenings were a very popular form of entertainment.

From Quiz How to Eat a Horse

Answer: I won (one) a horse

This game requires finding an innocent who doesn't know what they are in for, and starting off with: Player 1 - I won (one) a horse Player 2 - I two a horse Player 3 - I three a horse The game continues until the eighth player announces, "I eight a horse", and everyone rolls around laughing. Nobody plays this game more than once without making sure they won't be the eighth contributor to the chain! A similar duping game involves keys and locks. Player one states that they are a certain type of lock, and player two responds that they are the same type of key: "I am a gold lock." "I am a gold key." After several reasonable materials, the first player says "I am a don (or mun) lock", after which the other player must admit to being a donkey or a monkey. Again, usually only played once.

From Quiz Wake Me Up Before You Pogo

Answer: 1919

In 1919 the owners of the Gimbel Brothers Department store were disappointed to discover that a shipment of pogo sticks which had been sent from Germany had arrived in poor condition. The wooden structure of the toys had warped and rotted, leaving them unsaleable. Remaining convinced that the basic concept was viable, they approached Illinois toy-maker George Hansburg, asking him to produce a more durable model. He created a metal pogo stick which received a US patent that same year.

From Quiz A Roll of the Dice

Answer: Cube

Traditional dies are cube-shaped, and have six sides. Each of the six sides is numbered from one to six.

From Quiz You Pick Scissors... I Pick Rock!

Answer: World RPS Society

The World RPS Society was founded in 1842 as a way to keep the fun in the sport. At the time a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors would be used to settle disputes, the result constituted a binding contract therefore taking the fun out of playing. The original name was The Paper Scissors Stone Club but as membership rose to over 10,000 they changed the name in 1925.

From Quiz Sport Stacking

Answer: Speed Stacking

Sport Stacking was once known as Cup Stacking. The sport was invented in the 1980s, but wasn't made world famous until the 1990s. Speed Stacking is the most common name used to refer to the sport.

From Quiz Master of the Mind

Answer: Pressman

Did you know that you can put a copyright on any original piece of your work? However, if someone steals the work (reproduces it without your permission) no legal action can be taken unless the copyright was purchased legally.

From Quiz Strat-O-Matic Baseball

Answer: 3

The game offers three levels of competition: the Basic, Advanced and Super Advanced versions. All three games can be played with the same set of cards. The Basic version of the card game is played with one side of the cards. The Advanced and Super Advanced versions are played with the other side of the cards and vary in the rules and charts they use.

From Quiz What Do You Know About Tangrams?

Answer: China

There is no historical record about the tangram puzzle. The first book was dated 1813 but by then, the puzzle was already centuries old.

From Quiz Yo-Yo's

Answer: Over 2000 years

The yo-yo is thought to have been invented in either China or Greece based on archeological finds in those area's. There is also evidence of yo-yo's in ancient Egypt. Although these toys weren't like the modern day toy they have a lot of similarities.

From Quiz The Game Called Rummikub

Answer: 2

The jokers are pictures of smiley faces and there are indeed 2 in every set.

From Quiz Tiddlywinks

Answer: Squop

The squop is the most fundamental shot in "Tiddlywinks". If your wink is covered by anther wink then it can not be played.

From Quiz Twister

Answer: red

Right hand is on red, left hand on green, left foot on blue and right foot on yellow.

From Quiz Yahtzee!

Answer: 63

You need 3 of each number to get to 63.

From Quiz Bumpers, Flippers and Plungers

Answer: Bagatelle

The history of modern pinball can be traced back to the late 1800s when a game called bagatelle was popular in Europe. A bagatelle table was essentially a wooden box, like a mini pool table, around which the ball was hit with a cue-like stick. The ball would bounce off the various pins that had been placed on the board to form pockets with scores on them. When the ball landed in one of these labelled pockets, the player was given the corresponding score. Pinball, as we know it today, was developed in the 1930s during the Great Depression where it provided cheap entertainment for the masses. They became known a "marble games" or "pin games" and their popularity grew. The first modern-looking, coin-operated pinball machine called a "whiffle board" was created in 1931, but it took until 1936 for the term "pinball" to be first used and recorded. Unfortunately, pinball faced opposition from lawmakers and social conservatives who believed it promoted gambling and juvenile delinquency and it was banned in many places. The introduction of solid-state technology and more complex game designs in the 1970's brought about a resurgence in popularity. However, the development of video games in the 1980s and 90s caused pinball's popularity to decline once more causing the closure of many manufacturers. Today, pinball is a mainly niche hobby enjoyed by enthusiasts and collectors with new machines only being produced by a small number of specialist manufacturers.

From Quiz Matryoshka - a Russian Toy

Answer: Linden wood

While you can find some cheap plastic sets made for very small children, a proper, traditional matryoshka set is made of wood, with a possible thin layer of cork at the separation surfaces to give a tighter fit.

From Quiz Windy & Winding Toys

Answer: Yo-yo

The yo-yo is known to have been in use for thousands of years, with Greek records describing and showing the use of a yo-yo since 440 BC. After going through a few small design changes, but basically staying the same since it was first invented, the yo-yo was inducted into the (USA) National Toy Hall of Fame in 1999.

From Quiz Jaipur: Maharaja's Personal Trader

Answer: Two

The game is for two players aged 12 and over and it is played as a best of three rounds competition. The winner of each round receives a "Seal of Excellence" token.

From Quiz GoBots

Answer: F-15 Eagle

Leader-1 was the commander of the Guardian GoBots. He transformed into a grey F-15 Eagle. In addition to his original toy design, Leader-1 was released as one of the larger Super GoBot toys. Leader-1 received a repainted figure later in the series, which was colored blue and white.

From Quiz History of The Transformers

Answer: Diaclone

Many of the original Transformers toys were taken from the Diaclone toy line produced by Takara in Japan. Optimus Prime, the Dinobots, the Insecticons and many of the original 1984-1985 Autobot cars and Decepticon jets were based off Diaclone figures. The Diaclone toys were initially designed to be battle mechs to be piloted by small humanoid figurines.

From Quiz Two Up

Answer: Anzac Day

Two-up is legally played on Anzac Day in pubs and clubs throughout Australia. It is considered to be symbolic of a shared experience with diggers through the ages. Two-up was played extensively by Australia's soldiers during World War I. Gambling games became a regular part of Anzac Day celebrations for returned soldiers, although two-up was illegal at all other times.

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