Are You Toying With Me? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Beanie Babies

The success of these stuffed toys was impressive considering they were just tiny plush bean bag animals, In 1997 McDonald's helped with their success by putting Teanie Beanie Babies in their Happy Meals. Cabbage Patch Kids took the world by storm in December, 1983 while creating riots in stores from people trying to obtain them. Furbies introduced the age of electronic dolls in 1997. Polly Pockets were little one inch dolls that came onto the scene in 1989.

Answer: Etch A Sketch

Although it was introduced in 1959 at the International Toy Fair in Germany, Etch A Sketch didn't hit the toy stores till 1960 when it became one of the most sought after toys. The other three, Mr Potato Head(1952), Colorforms(1951) and Pogo Stick(1957), were all popular toys of the decade.

Answer: Legos

Legos became the most popular construction toys since you can build almost anything with them. The colorful interlocking "bricks" kept kids busy for hours building everything from boats and airplanes to skyscrapers and robots, even using gears and other movable parts to make the objects come alive.

Answer: Spirograph

This geometric drawing toy utilized different sized plastic gears with holes in them which were pinned down onto the paper. Then, by inserting the colored pencils in one of the holes you moved the gears along another plastic shape which also had teeth like the gears. By doing so the pencil curved in all directions thus creating unusual shapes. "Colorform"(1951) utilized thin vinyl shapes which attached to a laminated board.

The sets which were mostly from comic strip themes like Popeye and Gumby you could change the characters arms legs and clothing to create your own cartoon scene.

Answer: Raggedy Ann

Raggedy Ann was the most popular doll for years of course until Barbie came along. The rag doll with red yarn hair and a triangular nose was first introduced in 1918 as part of the "Raggedy Ann Stories" series of books. Both "Rainbow Brite"(1983) and "Strawberry Shortcake"(1980) were first introduced as figures on greeting cards. Rainbow Brite was franchised by Hallmark cards while Strawberry Shortcake was used on American Greeting cards. Both later became real dolls as well as part of a television cartoon series.

Answer: Hula Hoop

Blair earned the nickname "Dizzy Hips" for his record breaking performance. The previous record was 107 hula hoops by Alesya Gulevich of Belarus, on June 15, 2009.

Answer: Cabbage Patch Kids

The Cabbage Patch Kids were the first of the Christmas time infatuation toys which took the world by storm and thus created the idea for the movie. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad as two fathers who promised to get their sons the latest toy phenomenon, the "Turbo-Man" action figure.

They waited too late however and now the toy was obviously sold out. So they begin a race against time and each other as they dash all over town trying to find the toy.

Answer: G.I. Joe

Although G.I. Joe wasn't used, there was an action figure soldier in the first Toy Story which was based on G.I. Joe. It was called "Combat Carl" which is the toy that nasty Sid next door strapped an M-80 to and blew him to pieces.

Answer: they utilize marbles

Hungry Hungry Hippos(1978) is a board game in which a lever on four sides is pushed to try and gather up as many marbles with your hippo's mouth as they roll out onto the playing board. Mouse Trap(1963) is also a board game in which a mouse trap is built using several different devices and each player's mouse moves around the board until someone activates the trap by turning a crank and a marble rolls through a kind of maze thus activating the different parts until a basket falls down and traps the mouse.

In spite of its name "Chinese Checkers"(1892) is neither a variation of checkers nor was it invented in China. The board game uses marbles moved across a hexagon shaped board. The object is to move your ten marbles from your triangle over to the opposite corner players triangle.

Answer: Hasbro

Hasbro is the second leading toy manufacture behind Mattell. By owning the subsidiary companies it has produced some of the best toys ever including Mr Potato Head, Play-Doh, and Easy Bake Oven. It is also the top manufacture of board games including Scrabble,Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit. Bandai is a Japanese toy manufacture which is third behind Mattell and Hasbro.

It produces video games such as Wii and is also a large producer of plastic model kits.