No one was alive then!
This classic toys quiz really means it when it says "classic." We ain't talking Transformers and Teddy Ruxpin here, kids. I only got four correct, even after using my patented SAT solving technology (throw out the high and the low and it's 50-50). I predict that you will do no better. Gauntlet, you are thrown. By the way, no cheating. BK, this means you.
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I managed to hit five right. Some of these are extraordinarily obscure... even if you were alive then.
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I answered six correctly. I refused to answer the Lego question on the grounds that the question does not specify the characteristics of the blocks.
Five.
By extremely lucky guessing I got six. Interestingly, I similarly refused to answer the Lego question. But that may just be that I'm protesting the fact that lego sets now are glorified model-building kits rather than playgrounds for the imagination.
The LEGO question refers to the "standard" 2x4 LEGO Brick. It's a long-standing trivia quesion that the LEGO Group has trumpeted on their web site and in their marketing literature for years. One of the answers no doubt refers to the combination of 2 bricks, and the other to the 6 bricks mentioned. Both figures are usually in TLG literature.
OK, scratch last LEGO comment. They give a different number from any of the choices on the quiz. Avoiding spoilers, they state: "There are (number) different ways of combining six eight-stud bricks of the same colour."; so no idea what the quiz is on about.
I got five right. This was owed mainly to the fact that I knew the yo-yo answer for a fact. Factor that out, and I basically got the "same four" you did.
Five - all guesses, though some more educated than others. The radio reception answer being made of metal, for example.
I got seven right, but three were guesses and the remainder were long standing trivia questions from 17 years of morning radio. :)
Five, and I only guessed on one, (the Barbie question). The ones I did get right were the Slinky/Radio one (which should be obvious given the amount of aluminum foil on antennas everywhere), the French court one (which I have no idea how I know, I just knew that the French loved yo-yos back in the day), the name of the Frisbee (which was invented by bakers flinging cardboard pie rounds after work), and the name of Tonka trucks (which I vaguely remember being associated with Minnesota somehow).
At least I beat dad. And I swear I didn't cheat. I swear. Really.
Got 6, with very little actually-remembered knowledge, mucho guessing. Although I did break out pen and paper for the slinky length question. Trick there was trying to remember how many coils one has...
And after trying to work out a combinations equation for the Lego question, I just decided it was a big number and guessed.
Nice work, all. I guess this means I suck at this test. I used up all my luck on the SAT.
Four, but I plead foul as these were all about American toys.
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