Fads
Toys
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Canuck Currency
100

These had large embroidery of dogs on them with a leash going up to the waistline.

What are poodle skirts?

100

This toy came out in the 1950s and was round and used to spin around your waist

What is a hula hoop?

100

This was the Un-cola

What is 7-Up?

100

You often had to remove this if you had a flat rear tire

What is a fender skirt?

100

This Canadian organization is known as one of the most extravagant and creative coin-producers in the world.

Royal Canadian Mint

200

“Greasers” used Brylcreme to get this hairdo

What is a ducktail hairdo

200

This doll was introduced in 1909 and named for cupid. It had big eyes and only the arms were moveable.

What is Kewpie?

200

This cereal was endorsed by a werewolf

What is Fruit Brute?

200

You could collect these and get free merchandise with them

What are S & H Green Stamps?

200

This semiaquatic rodent has honourably graced the nickel since 1937.

Beaver

300

These were kids’ shoes of choice in the 1940s and 1950s

What are PF Flyers

300

This was the first "build-it-yourself" toy introduced in 1913

What is the Erector Set?

300

This was the official drink of astronauts

What is Tang?

300

In the early 1900s you could go into a store or restaurant, pay 5 cents, and see an x-ray of your foot on this device

What is the Foot-O-Scope?

300

This most common note sports a green portrait of Queen Elizabeth the II on one side and the Canadian National Vimy Memorial on the other.

$20

400

This was a popular game during the Depression era and most often played in church halls

What is Bingo?

400

This was originally called the “Pluto Platter”

What is the Frisbee?

400

These two types of chewing gum each had comic strips in them

What is Double Bubble and Bazooka?

400

These are springy projections mounted on a car to show when the driver is too close to the curb

What are curb whiskers?

400

This a bi-metallic coin bears an image of a polar bear.

Toonie or $2

500

This was the longest running fad of the 1920s and started with the discovery of a Pharoah's burial chamber

What is Tut-Mania?

500

This toy that was introduced in 1944 and is also a substance that is found in an egg

What is Silly Putty?

500

This mischievous kid and his dog are one of America’s oldest trademarks in childrens’ footwear

What is Buster Brown?

500

This is the colour of the flash bulbs used for colour film

What is blue?

500

When Samuel de Champlain founded the first colonial settlement at Quebec in 1608, this was the universally accepted medium of exchange.

Beaver pelt

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