By the Numbers
There were more than this many LEGO minifigures produced through 2014...
a) 50 billion
b) 5 billion
c) 15 billion
b) 5 billion
In January of 2022, LEGO said each year around 340 million LEGO minifigures are produced.
Ole Kirk Christiansen trained to become a:
a) carpenter
b) plastic engineer
c) toy maker
a) carpenter
Ole Kirk Christiansen trained to become a carpenter because as a child, he enjoyed carving figures out of wood.
In 1946, Ole made an important purchase, he bought a special machine that:
a) cut blocks of plastic
b) 3D printed
c) cast plastic into different shapes
c) cast plastic into different shapes
With this machine, Ole was able to begin making toys out of plastic instead of carving them out of wood.
A single LEGO brick can support the weight of:
a) 375,000 other LEGO bricks
b) a baby elephant
c) 2 electric cars
a) 375,000 other LEGO bricks
A single LEGO brick can support the weight of 375,00 other LEGO bricks on top before it is destroyed - this would be a tower of over 2.15 miles! One brick can withstand 950+ pounds!
There are about this many plastic LEGO bricks for each person in the world...
a) 94
b) 236
c) 64
a) 94
Now, there are only 86 LEGO bricks per person in the world according to BrickMcGee in 2022.
Ole Kirk Christiansen bought a shop in Denmark and built:
a) homes and furniture
b) toys
c) outdoor playgrounds
a)homes and furniture
Ole Kirk Christiansen didn't start out with making LEGOs, he first built homes and furniture.
a) rattles, cars, and trucks
b) more animals and yo-yos
c) dollhouses
a) rattles, cars, and trucks
Using the special machine that casts plastic into separate shapes Ole made plastic rattles, cars, and trucks.
The largest LEGO set is:
a) LEGO Eiffel Tower
b) UCS LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon
c) LEGO Art World Map
c) LEGO Art World Map
The Top 5 largest LEGO sets are currently:
There are more than this many ways to combine six 4x2 LEGO bricks...
a) 900 million
b) 915 million
c) 932 million
b) 915
"Let's say you have six "standard LEGO bricks" (the rectangular 4x2 bricks seen in the original LEGO patent). If you fit them together, how many possible structures can you make? This question was first officially "answered" in 1974, and LEGO mathematicians arrived at the number 102,981,500" (MentalFloss)
In the 1920s Ole began to build less expensive items, such as wooden ironing boards, stools, ladders, yo-yos, animals, and other toys because of the:
a) black plague
b) great depression
c) civil war
b) great depression
The Great Depression left people across the globe penniless and Ole's customers could no longer afford to buy houses or furniture.
Ole first called his plastic bricks:
a) automatic snapping bricks
b) binding bricks
c) automatic binding bricks
c) automatic binding bricks
Ole called them LEGO Automatic Binding Bricks. In 1953 Ole shortened the name of his invention to simply LEGO bricks.
There are more than this many tires made per year...
a) 420 million
b) 318 million
c) 200 million
b) 318 million
Over 318 million tires per year are made- 870,000 per day! LEGO is the world's largest tire manufacturer.
There are about this many different LEGO elements.
a) 3,200
b) 4,200
c) 5,200
b) 4,200
Some of the most popular and common LEGO pieces are bricks, plates, tiles, and tubes. You will almost always find these plastic pieces in any LEGO set you have.
Because yo-yos, animals, and other toys became Ole's best-selling items, Ole decided to focus on:
a) only selling toys
b) making more animals
c) making more yo-yos
a) only selling toys
Ole decided to focus only on toys. In 1934, Ole decided to give his toy business a name. He blended the words leg and godt into the word "LEGO". The two words mean "play well".
In 1955, Godtfred introduced the "LEGO System of Play" which included:
a) 50 LEGO Sets
b) 28 LEGO Sets and 8 toy vehicles
c) 12 LEGO house sets and 12 toy vehicles
b) 28 LEGO Sets and 8 toy vehicles
Godtfred introduced the LEGO System of Play which included 28 LEGO sets and 8 toy vehicles because he wanted children to be able to use LEGOs in more creative ways.
The first LEGO theme park was:
a) LEGOLAND in California
b) LEGOLAND in Denmark
c) LEGOLAND in the Bermuda Triangle
b) LEGOLAND in Denmark
The first LEGO theme park, LEGOLAND, opened in Billund, Denmark, in 1968.
There are about this many LEGO elements produced per second in 2013...
a) 2,250
b) 960
c) 1,750
c) 1,750
1,750 LEGO elements are produced per second. Around the holidays, there are about 30 LEGO sets sold every second!
LEGO became a family business when:
a) Ole's grandfather joined the business
b) Ole's son started designing with his father
c) Ole's brother began marketing with him.
b) Ole's son started designing with his father.
A few years after creating LEGO, Ole's son Godtfred started designing with his father. Now building LEGO toys was a family business.
Godtrfred filed a patent for his design which included
a) studs and tubes
b) nuts and bolts
c) studs
a) studs and tubes
Godtfred invented a new way of linking the bricks because the plastic bricks did not always stick together. His design had bricks with studs on top. He also added tubes so that the bricks snapped together and held tight.
LEGO's motto is:
a) unleash your creativity
b) fun to play with not to eat
c) only the best is good enough
c) only the best is good enough
"Only the Best is Good Enough" is a LEGO motto used since its founding in 1932 in Billund, Denmark, inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow through the power of play.