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50 free 90s Toys trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The 1990s toy aisle was a run of manias: virtual pets that died while you were at school, bean-stuffed animals traded like stocks, a giggling red Muppet that caused store stampedes. These 90s toys trivia questions cover the fads, the inventors behind them, the recalls and the numbers that made Toys R Us rich. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Built for a nostalgia night, a 90s party or anyone who still knows where their Pogs are.
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Q 01Which Japanese toymaker launched the Tamagotchi in 1996?
Bandai
The company had released the ill-fated Apple Pippin console just months earlier; the egg did rather better.
Q 02The name Tamagotchi combines the Japanese word for 'egg' with which English word?
Watch
In Japan the name is sometimes written Tamagotch, without the final i, to match the original English spelling.
Q 03Tamagotchi's two creators won a tongue-in-cheek 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in which field?
Economics
The citation dubbed Akihiro Yokoi and Aki Maita the father and mother of the toy.
Q 04How many buttons does a classic egg-shaped Tamagotchi have?
Three
Those three buttons were enough to feed, clean and scold a pet through every stage of its short life.
Q 05Which company created the Furby?
Tiger Electronics
Inventors Dave Hampton and Caleb Chung spent nine months building it after nine months of design work.
Q 06What is the name of the language a brand-new Furby speaks?
Furbish
The toy gradually swaps those words for English, a trick designed to look like it is learning from its owner.
Q 07In which year did the Furby first go on sale?
1998
Only 1.8 million shipped that first holiday season, then 14 million the following year.
Q 08Which US agency banned Furbies from its property in 1999 over recording fears?
The NSA
The toy's owner replied that Furby had absolutely no ability to do any recording whatsoever.
Q 09Roughly how many Furbies sold during the toy's original three-year production run?
More than 40 million
Its speech was translated into 17 languages, and it is often called the first successful home robot.
Q 10Who created Beanie Babies?
Ty Warner
He founded Ty Inc. in 1986 and deliberately restricted supply to small gift shops to build scarcity.
Q 11What are Beanie Babies stuffed with instead of conventional soft filling?
Plastic pellets
The under-stuffing is what lets the animals flop and pose, and it is where the name comes from.
Q 12Which animal was Pinchers, one of the nine original Beanie Babies?
A lobster
Some early tags misprinted the name as Punchers, which only made those versions more collectible.
Q 13At the height of the craze, what share of eBay's sales were Beanie Babies?
About 10%
People flipped them for as much as ten times retail, earning the toys the title of the first Internet sensation.
Q 21The 1990s Pogs revival is credited to a schoolteacher in which US state?
Hawaii
Blossom Galbiso used the caps in her fifth-grade math lessons in 1991 as a non-violent alternative to dodgeball.
Q 22Which engineer invented the Super Soaker?
Lonnie Johnson
He had the idea in 1985 while testing a refrigeration system and built the prototype from PVC pipe and a soda bottle.
Q 23What was the Super Soaker originally called when it went on sale in 1990?
Power Drencher
The 1991 rename came with a TV campaign that sold two million water guns in a single season.
Q 14Which fast-food chain sold miniature Teenie Beanies with its kids' meals?
McDonald's
The 1996 promotion marked the Happy Meal's 17th anniversary and caused its own round of shortages.
Q 15Which toy company produced the original Tickle Me Elmo?
Tyco
The company only held the plastic-toy license for Sesame Street at first, so the project briefly became Tickle Me Taz.
Q 16What animal was Tickles, the prototype toy that became Tickle Me Elmo?
A chimp
Inventors Ron Dubren and Greg Hyman pitched the giggling monkey, and the toy company liked the tech but not the animal.
Q 17By the end of 1996, scalpers were reselling Tickle Me Elmo for up to how much?
$1,500
The doll's official price was $28.99, and reports of violence over the limited supply made national news.
Q 18Which talk show host showed Tickle Me Elmo on air in October 1996, boosting demand?
Rosie O'Donnell
Peak demand and the stock shortages did not hit until nearly two months after her segment.
Q 19The name Pogs comes from a Hawaiian brand of what?
Juice
POG stood for passionfruit, orange and guava, and kids played with the drink's bottle caps before anyone sold the game.
Q 20In Pogs, what is the heavier piece you throw onto the stack called?
A slammer
Metal versions were banned in many games because they damaged the caps and gave the first player an unfair edge.
Q 24Which company originally sold the Super Soaker in 1990?
Larami
The inventor pitched it to the company's vice president at the New York Toy Fair, then sealed the deal in Philadelphia.
Q 25In which year was the original Bop It released?
1996
Designer Bob Welch also provided the voice that barks the commands on that first version.
Q 26Which English company first put Polly Pocket on shelves in 1989?
Bluebird Toys
Mattel distributed the line in the early 1990s and bought both the brand and the company outright in 1998.
Q 27Roughly how tall were the original Polly Pocket figurines?
Less than an inch
The compact-style cases snapped shut into a dollhouse, and the dolls folded in the middle to fit inside.
Q 28What feature did the 1990s Skip-It add to the ball on the end of its hoop?
A digital counter
Nickelodeon ads drilled the counter into a generation of kids, and the patent was filed by future Marvel boss Avi Arad.
Q 29The Talkboy recorder began as a prop in which 1992 film?
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Writer John Hughes asked for the prop, and the retail version only took off after the voice changer was added in 1993.
Q 30Sky Dancers, the pull-string flying dolls, were recalled in 2000 after how many reported injuries?
More than 100
Nearly 10 million were pulled; the foam wings had not prevented facial cuts and cases of temporary blindness.