Test your Fun Quotient with this Timeless Toys quiz

Published: Friday, Dec. 2 2005 12:00 a.m. MST

1. Name the timeless plaything that breaks each of the following "rules":

a. Don't throw the ball in the house

b. Don't play with your food

c. Boys don't play with "dolls"

d. Don't play on the stairs

2. Match the classic ad copy with the toy it was written to promote:

a. Own a bowlful of happiness.

b. You can't hurt babies or old people.

c. New gyroscopic air foil really sails!

d. Even grownups are google-eyed at its life-like capers.

e. 10 minutes' practice makes you chief witch-doctor in your neighborhood

f. New, amazing invention! It's crazy — people scoot like seals!

g. For educational color work

h. Go . . . Go . . . Go for three in a row!

i. Create colored pictures . . . with light!

j. Featuring the colorful, exciting SLAM-O-Matic

k. Over three billion combinations, just one solution.

l. It's Almost Alive!

Lite-Brite

Slip 'n Slide

Hula Hoop

Sea-Monkeys

Frisbee

Super Ball

Toss Across

Crayola crayons

Hands Down

Rubik's cube

Nerf ball

Slinky

3. In 1966, a company that was one of the world's largest producers of shower curtains was running its machines nonstop to make what classic game?

4. Who knew science was such fun! Match the toy with the science behind it:

a. Spirograph

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