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140 free Lego trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Lego trivia questions with answers. From a small Danish carpenter's workshop to the world's largest toy company, Lego has been sparking creativity for over 90 years. This quiz covers everything from the origins of the interlocking brick to the blockbuster Lego movies, from the precision manufacturing process to the rarest minifigures worth thousands. Whether you're a casual builder or a devoted AFOL, these 140 questions will test the depth of your Lego knowledge.
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Q 01Which video-game hero became an electronic Lego figure in 2020, with small screens for his eyes, mouth and chest?
Mario
Mario's figure has a scanner underneath that reads the coloured bricks and codes he lands on, so he reacts as children steer him through courses they build themselves.
Q 02What does the name 'Lego' derive from?
The Danish for 'play well'
The Danish for 'play well' is 'leg godt'. The story goes that the founder held a staff contest for a company name, with a bottle of his homemade wine as the prize, and then picked his own entry.
Q 03What did Lego's 1958 patent add under each brick?
Hollow tubes
Hollow tubes under each brick grip the bumps of the one below, curing the early bricks' weak hold; a brick moulded in 1958 still locks onto one made today.
Q 04What material are modern Lego bricks primarily made from?
ABS
ABS replaced cellulose acetate in 1963; the older plastic warped and faded, while ABS keeps its colour and its clutch power for decades.
Q 05Who founded the Lego Group?
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Ole Kirk Christiansen started the firm in 1932; his son Godtfred, who joined him in the workshop, went on to patent the modern brick in 1958.
Q 06Which video game got its first Lego set in 2012 after fans backed it online?
Minecraft
Minecraft Micro World came out of Lego's fan-voting site in 2012; the game built of blocks then got a minifigure-scale Lego range of its own in 2014.
Q 07The 1978 Lego minifigure improved on its 1975 forerunner by adding what?
Movable arms and legs
Movable arms and legs set the 1978 minifigure apart from the 1975 figure, whose limbs did not move and whose head was blank; it also gained a printed face of two dots and a smile.
Q 08Builders nicknamed which Lego colour 'bley' after a mid-2000s change gave it a bluish tint?
Grey
Grey: Lego's 2004 sets swapped the old light and dark greys for bluish versions, to loud complaints from long-time fans, who shortened 'bluish grey' to 'bley'.
Q 09Which Lego theme was the company's first licensed product line?
Star Wars
Star Wars sets arrived in 1999, timed for The Phantom Menace; until then Lego had built only worlds of its own, and the licence has been renewed ever since.
Q 10What is the name of the programmable Lego robotics platform first released in 1998, developed with MIT Media Lab?
Lego Mindstorms
Lego Mindstorms was meant for children, yet company surveys found that most early hobbyists were adults; the line ran for 24 years before Lego retired it in 2022.
Q 11Who voiced Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014)?
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt voiced Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for 'the Special'; Pratt played Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy the same year.
Q 12Which 2021 Lego set became the largest ever released, with 11,695 pieces?
Art World Map
The Lego Art World Map (set 31203) has 11,695 pieces, a wall-mounted mosaic of 1x1 tiles that lets builders recolour the oceans.
Q 13What was the trade of Lego's founder before he started making toys?
Carpenter
He was a carpenter whose joinery business, squeezed by the Depression, turned to wooden toys; a pull-along duck was among the early hits.
Q 21On which platform can fans submit Lego designs that go to review at 10,000 supporter votes?
Ideas
Lego Ideas lets fans post designs; a project that gathers 10,000 supporters goes to an expert review, and approved sets are sold with the fan designer credited.
Q 22In the first half of 2015, Lego became the world's largest toy maker by revenue, overtaking which company?
Mattel
Mattel, maker of Barbie and Hot Wheels, took US$1.9 billion in the first half of 2015 to Lego's US$2.1 billion, barely a decade after Lego had come close to bankruptcy.
Q 23In the licensed Lego video games, what do players collect and spend as currency?
Studs
Studs are the games' money, spent on unlocking new characters and hints; a character who runs out of hearts breaks apart and drops some of them.
Q 14Which Canadian rival's Lego-compatible bricks survived a challenge at Canada's Supreme Court in 2005?
Mega Bloks
Mega Bloks won because Lego's patents on the brick had expired, and the court refused to let trademark law protect a shape that exists to make the bricks work.
Q 15How many ways can six standard 2x4 Lego bricks of one colour be combined?
About 915 million
About 915 million: the exact count is 915,103,765. For decades Lego quoted 102,981,500, a 1974 figure that only counted towers six bricks high, until a Danish mathematician redid the sum.
Q 16Which twin-sister duo sang The Lego Movie's 'Everything Is Awesome' with The Lonely Island?
Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara never shared a studio with the comedy trio: Tegan recorded the lead vocal, Sara sent her backing vocals from her apartment, and the rap was added separately.
Q 17Which Lego theme, launched in 2001, featured buildable action figures with ball-and-socket joints?
Bionicle
Bionicle became one of Lego's biggest sellers of the 2000s and grew into a franchise of its own; a planned twenty-year run ended after nine, in 2010.
Q 18Which animated sitcom's 2014 episode 'Brick Like Me' rebuilt its whole town in Lego?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons marked its 550th episode by having Homer wake in a Springfield made of bricks, where he must find a way out before he is stuck in plastic for good.
Q 19Which actor voiced Batman in The Lego Batman Movie (2017)?
Will Arnett
Will Arnett's Batman proved so popular in The Lego Movie that he got his own standalone film.
Q 20Which Lego theme began life as 'Legoland Town' and is one of the company's longest-running lines?
City
Lego City evolved from Legoland Town, the present-day setting that sat beside Lego's 'past' and 'future' themes; the City branding arrived in 2005.
Q 24Which rock duo's 2002 video for 'Fell in Love with a Girl' was animated entirely in Lego bricks?
The White Stripes
The White Stripes' clip was shot brick by brick by director Michel Gondry; it won three MTV Video Music Awards and helped push the duo into the mainstream.
Q 25Which company, also behind Madame Tussauds, runs the Legoland theme parks?
Merlin Entertainments
Merlin Entertainments took over the parks in 2005, when loss-making Lego sold them; the Lego founder's family kept a stake and in 2019 joined the buyout that took Merlin private.
Q 26What is the Lego Group's company motto?
'Only the best is good enough'
'Only the best is good enough' was coined by the founder in the 1930s, when Lego still made wooden toys; the Danish original, 'det bedste er ikke for godt', says literally that the best is not too good.
Q 27Which Top Gear presenter built a house out of Lego bricks for his 2009 series Toy Stories?
James May
James May's Lego house stood in a vineyard, but a plan to move it to Legoland Windsor collapsed over the cost, so it was taken apart and the bricks given to charity.
Q 28What happened to the Lego factory in Billund in 1942?
It burned down in a fire
It burned down in a fire started by a short circuit, which took the whole stock and every blueprint with it; the founder chose to rebuild out of a sense of duty to his workforce.
Q 29Which TV coffee shop became an official Lego set in 2019 after fans voted for the design?
Central Perk
Central Perk, the hangout from Friends, was designed by French fan Aymeric Fievet; Lego released it in 2019 to mark 25 years since the sitcom began.
Q 30What name did Lego give its first plastic building set, launched in 1949?
Automatic Binding Bricks
Automatic Binding Bricks carried an English name although Lego was a small Danish workshop; in 1953 they were renamed Lego Mursten, simply 'Lego Bricks'.