# 🌀 The Yo-Yo Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What is the basic shape of a yo-yo?  
**Answer:** Two disks connected by an axle  
**Taglines:**  
- Geometry’s answer to boredom  
- Two wheels and a string walk into a bar  
- Looks like a dumbbell, acts like a diva  
- The donut wheel of frustration  
- Yin, yang, and yanked  

### 2. What motion defines a yo-yo's classic function?  
**Answer:** Spinning up and down a string  
**Taglines:**  
- Gravity meets ADHD  
- Toy or Newtonian experiment?  
- Repetitive fun, guaranteed  
- Up, down, existential crisis  
- It’s having a midlife crisis, constantly  

### 3. What ancient civilization used yo-yos over 2,500 years ago?  
**Answer:** Ancient Greece  
**Taglines:**  
- Plato probably walked the dog  
- Before TikTok, there was yo-yolk  
- Philosophers flexed their tricks  
- Yo-yos: older than democracy  
- Socrates slayed at “around the world”  

### 4. What toy company helped popularize the yo-yo in the U.S.?  
**Answer:** Duncan  
**Taglines:**  
- Duncan: slingin’ string since the Depression  
- More influential than most uncles  
- King of spin before DJs existed  
- Plastic with purpose  
- Powered by recess and disappointment  

### 5. What is the name of the yo-yo trick where it stays spinning at the bottom?  
**Answer:** Sleeper  
**Taglines:**  
- Lazy, but skilled  
- The trick that naps  
- Physics just vibing  
- Like your motivation—spinning but going nowhere  
- Sleepy time, string edition  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. A yo-yo returns to the hand due to the ______ of the string.  
**Answer:** Tension  
**Taglines:**  
- Like your family dinners  
- Physics: fun with frustration  
- Tension = the toy’s secret therapist  
- A string, a struggle  
- The comeback toy  

### 2. Yo-yos were originally made from materials like wood and ______.  
**Answer:** Metal  
**Taglines:**  
- Spin it old-school  
- Caveman-approved  
- Wood and metal: now with gravity issues  
- Heavy metal hobbies  
- Yo-yo: the OG fidget weapon  

### 3. In the 1920s, Pedro Flores began manufacturing yo-yos in ______.  
**Answer:** California  
**Taglines:**  
- West Coast throwdown  
- Silicon Valley wishes it was this fun  
- Cali: birthplace of cool spinny stuff  
- Sun, surf, and spin  
- Flores: the godfather of the yo  

### 4. Yo-yo competitions judge on style, creativity, and ______.  
**Answer:** Execution  
**Taglines:**  
- Yo-yo or Olympic event?  
- Precision with string-based weapons  
- Points for not hitting your face  
- Grace under tension  
- Nail it or tangle eternally  

### 5. The yo-yo was once used as a ______ weapon in the Philippines.  
**Answer:** Hunting  
**Taglines:**  
- Spin-to-kill  
- From squirrels to suckers  
- Yo-yos: now with bloodlust  
- Filipino ninjas said “catch these hands”  
- Before it was recess cool, it was deadly  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What does “yo-yo” loosely translate to in Tagalog?  
A) Go and return ✅  
B) Spin and win  
C) Bounce forever  
D) String magic  
**Taglines:**  
- The boomerang’s more stylish cousin  
- Yo-yo: Tagalog for “I’m not done yet”  
- Go, come back, repeat… life?  
- That’s some linguistic loop-de-loop  
- Filipino efficiency in toy form  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What part allows advanced yo-yos to sleep longer?  
A) Lighter string  
B) Ball bearing axle ✅  
C) Plastic rims  
D) Extra weight  
**Taglines:**  
- Ball bearings = sleep cheat code  
- Science meets show-off  
- Let it spin until it files taxes  
- Bearings: the real MVPs  
- Just vibing indefinitely  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What yo-yo brand is known for high-performance competition models?  
A) Mattel  
B) YoYoFactory ✅  
C) Hasbro  
D) Fisher-Price  
**Taglines:**  
- Spin harder, flex harder  
- YoYoFactory: where tricks are born  
- Pro-level string slingers  
- Not for amateurs or quitters  
- Mattel cries in Barbie  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What is the yo-yo trick where the string forms a triangle and the yo-yo bounces inside?  
A) Man on the Flying Trapeze  
B) Double or Nothing  
C) Eiffel Tower  
D) Rock the Baby ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- It’s a cradle, it’s chaos  
- Baby gets whiplash  
- One wrong move = string spaghetti  
- Parental stress in toy form  
- Rocking the baby like a stuntman  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What year did the yo-yo get inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame?  
A) 1999 ✅  
B) 1984  
C) 2005  
D) 2012  
**Taglines:**  
- ’99: party like it’s spinning time  
- Finally, some respect for gravity  
- A Hall of Fame full of string  
- Deserved it before fidget spinners were born  
- Yo-yo walked the dog all the way to glory
