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  1. 3. When Barbie broke up with Ken in 2004, she was briefly paired with what other B-doll, a surfer from Australia?
  2. 5. One of the world's oldest games is known as "draughts" in British English and what in American English?
  3. 6. Portrayed by Dolph Lundgren on film, which action figure was first released by Mattel in 1981?
  4. 8. The first widely marketed Chia Pet was released in 1982. What animal was it?
  5. 9. The first Troll Doll, created in 1959 by Thomas Dam for his daughter for Christmas, was made out of what?
  6. 11. An arctophile is a collector of which stuffed toys
  7. 14. Before it was colored, scented, and packaged in little yellow containers, Play-Doh was originally created by Kutol Products of Cincinnati, Ohio to clean what?
  8. 15. What popular toy was "discovered" during WWII as scientists were searching for a substitute product for rubber?
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  1. 1. John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, invented what popular architecture-adjacent toy?
  2. 2. How many differently shaped pieces were in the original game of Tetris?
  3. 4. In 1999, the National Security Agency banned what popular toy from its premises over concerns that the toy might be able to record and repeat classified information? Roger Shiffman, owner of Tiger Electronics, later stated that the toy "has absolutely no ability to do any recording whatsoever."
  4. 7. Calling all fans of Geoffrey the Giraffe...In what state, in the city of Rockville, did the first Toys "R" Us store open in 1957?
  5. 10. What is the name of the talking animatronic toy that was an "Illiop" but quite closely resembled a bear? The toy reached peak popularity in the mid-1980s and helped aid the launch of 1986's Nintendo Entertainment System.
  6. 12. Inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2000, what toy invented by Richard James in 1943 was used by the U.S. Army as radio antennas in the Vietnam War?
  7. 13. What toy was once banned in Japan because the motion of operating the toy was considered indecent?
  8. 16. Students at what Ivy League university used pie tins from the Frisbie Baking Company to play catch, thus giving birth to the flying disc that in its plastic form would ultimately be known as a "Frisbee"?