Classic Outdoor Toys Trivia Quiz

Classic Outdoor Toys
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Classic Outdoor Toys
A moderate 12-question look at backyard favorites, inventive creators, toy-company origins, materials, and classic summer crazes.
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Classic Outdoor Toys trivia explores the familiar objects that filled yards, sidewalks, parks, and driveways. The questions move from popular postwar crazes into company origins, unusual inventions, drawing materials, competitive rope jumping, and early kite engineering.
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What This Quiz Covers

The quiz covers a postwar plastic-ring craze, steel pull wagons, organized two-rope jumping, pavement drawing materials, spring-powered bouncing, backyard water inventions, flying-disc branding, and early box-kite engineering.

Trivia Study Guide ›
  1. Which upholsterer invented the Slip 'N Slide after watching his son slide across wet painted concrete?
  2. Which Wham-O craze was inspired partly by bamboo rings used by Australian schoolchildren?
  3. Which Australian aviation experimenter developed the cellular box-kite design during the 1890s?
  4. What earlier product name did Wham-O use for its flying disc before adopting the familiar later brand?
  5. Which brand became famous for the bright red steel wagon introduced by Antonio Pasin’s company?
  6. Which NASA engineer developed the pressurized water blaster originally marketed as the Power Drencher?
  7. Which inventor created the modern latex water balloon while trying to make a waterproof sock?
  8. Which Filipino immigrant founded an American company devoted to the string toy in California during the 1920s?
  9. Which jump-rope style did New York City police officer David A. Walker help organize competitively in the 1970s?
  10. Which bouncing toy did George Hansburg patent in the United States in 1919?
  11. Which mineral is commonly molded into the thick drawing sticks used on driveways and pavement?
  12. Which name did Wham-O adopt for the flying disc it began selling nationally in the late 1950s?
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