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Toys and fads trivia questions
“What everybody had to have” is how Rewind’s picker describes Toys and fads, a Pop culture branch with 18 questions. 8 of them are tied to a year (1943 to 1983), and the other 10 are not about a moment in time.
When the Toys and fads questions happen
8 of the 18 carry a year, the earliest 1943 and the latest 1983. By decade:
- 1940s: 1 question
- 1950s: 3 questions
- 1960s: 2 questions
- 1970s: 1 question
- 1980s: 1 question
Reading the Toys and fads questions
Questions here open in a few familiar ways: 9 start with “Which”, 6 start with “The”, 1 start with “Lincoln”. Four choices are shown each time, and the fact line that follows is at most 23 words.
Each answer and its fact were verified against a source page before the question was added.
A taste of Toys and fads
Here are two questions from the Toys and fads bank, taken from the older end of the branch and clear of the daily ten for the weeks around the day this page was built.
Question (1983): Which cloth dolls with plastic heads did Coleco ship 3.3 million of in 1983?
Answer: Cabbage Patch Kids. Coleco cancelled its advertising that year because it could not keep up with the orders it already had.
The wrong choices on the card were American Girl dolls, Strawberry Shortcake dolls, and Raggedy Ann dolls.
Checked against Cabbage Patch Kids (Wikipedia).
Question: The teddy bear is named after which US president?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt. It goes back to a 1902 hunt in Mississippi where he refused to shoot a bear that had been tied up for him.
The wrong choices on the card were Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Calvin Coolidge.
Checked against Teddy bear (Wikipedia).
How to choose Toys and fads in the game
Start from the title screen: Branches, then Toys and fads, then Play these. Add a second branch if you want more variety, or tap Mix to clear the choice. Anyone who picks the same branches on the same day gets the same ten questions.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
Next to Toys and fads in the picker
- Video games trivia: Arcades, consoles and classics (18 questions)
- Cartoons trivia: Saturday mornings and after school (18 questions)
- Ads and slogans trivia: Lines you can still finish (18 questions)
- Comics and books trivia: Heroes, villains and famous pages (18 questions)
Every branch is on the Rewind topics page, and the other daily games are on the topics hub.