Fifteen Minutes to Clean the House Quiz

Answer: Monopoly

Steve left Monopoly on the floor, a game that was first called The Landlord's Game that was designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1903 and then made into Monopoly by the Parker Brothers in 1934. Originally, Parker Brothers did not accept Monopoly because they thought it was too complicated, it took too long to play, and it was very technical.

However, Parker Brothers decided to accept the game after a lot of copies were sold in Philadelphia.

Answer: Clue

In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt wanted to invent a game where the player can try and solve murders. He originally called it Murder!, but after he sold it to Waddington's, the name was changed to Cluedo (Clue in North American markets). The original Cluedo included ten characters, eleven rooms, and nine weapons.

Answer: Uno

Uno was a game created by Merle Robbins in Reading, Cincinatti, Ohio in 1971. It was later given to Mattel in 1992. Looks like Steve is going to be punished.

Answer: Chess

Chess originated in India around A.D. 600. The game was called Chatrang and the pieces were sixteen rubies and sixteen emeralds.

Answer: Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit was a game created by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in 1979. They allegedly decided to create Trivial Pursuit because some of their Scrabble tiles were lost. In 1988, the game's rights were licensed to the Parker Brothers.

Answer: Bingo

Bingo was invented back in 1929 in New York by Edwin Lowe. Edwin first got the idea by seeing a group of people playing a game called Beano in an Atlanta carnival. He liked the idea of Beano, so he took the game to New York to play with his friends. His game pieces were cardboard boxes, rubber stamps, and dried beans.

The game was called Bingo because one of Edwin's friends got excited when winning and shouted "Bingo" instead of "Beano".

Answer: Barbie

Barbie was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler. Ruth's inspiration for Barbie was from watching her daughter play with dolls and making them have adult roles. In 1956, Ruth went to Europe with her children and saw a German doll called Bild Lilli. She bought three of them and gave one to her daughter and the other two to her husband, a co-founder of Mattel. Ruth redesigned Bild Lilli and named it Barbie after her daughter, Barbara.

Her boyfriend, Ken Carson, was named after her son and was introduced in 1961.

Answer: Coleco

Cabbage Patch Kids were created by Xavier Roberts and made with the help of four other women. In 1982, Coleco was interested in the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and started producing them. They were produced by Coleco from 1982 to 1989 and had vinyl heads and fabric bodies. Hasbro, Mattel, Toys'R'Us, and Play Along have started producing their own Cabbage Patch Kids dolls when Coleco went bankrupt in 1989.

Answer: Ty Inc.

Beanie Babies were invented in 1993 by Ty Warner Inc, their company name at the time. The first nine Beanie Babies ever made were Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Spot the Dog, Flash the Dolphin, Splash the Whale, Chocolate the Moose, Patti the Platypus, Brownie the Bear, and Punchers the Lobster. Ty Inc. stopped production in 1999, but restarted it in 2000 with "The Beginning" Beanie Baby, named for the Beanie Babies' revival.

Answer: Slinky

The Slinky was invented in by Richard James, a naval engineer, in 1943. He was experimenting with springs that can support sensitive equipment on ships in rough seas when one of the springs got knocked from the shelf, fell to some book stacks, stepped onto a tabletop, and stepped onto the floor where it recoiled. Over the next few years, Richard experimented with more types of steel wires and found one that could walk.

He then took out a $500 loan and made 400 Slinkys, selling each one for $1. The Slinky then became a huge success, over 100 million being sold the first 2 years.