Lego Trivia for Kids
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50 free Lego Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Lego trivia for kids quiz is written for children aged roughly six to twelve, and for the grown-ups who play with them. The questions cover what the word Lego means, what the first toys were made of, why bricks have tubes underneath, how big Duplo bricks are, and how tall a minifigure stands. There are questions on the themes kids actually play with: Ninjago (Spinjitzu, the Green Ninja, the robot ninja), Lego Friends and Heartlake City, Lego City, Star Wars, Technic and Mindstorms robots. There are also questions about Legoland and Lego House in Billund, The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie, the Lego Masters TV show, and the record-breaking giant sets like the Colosseum. Nothing here needs a grown-up's knowledge, and every question is safe to read aloud in a classroom or at a birthday party. Older builders who want a challenge can move on to our main Lego trivia quiz or the hard Lego trivia quiz. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on Lego, its history and its themes, and each explanation adds one more fun fact.
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Q 01The name Lego is short for a phrase meaning what?
Play well
Lego is short for 'leg godt', which means 'play well'; the company later noticed that 'lego' can also loosely be read as 'I put together' in Latin.
Q 02In which country was Lego invented?
Denmark
Lego began in Denmark in 1932, in carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen's workshop in the small Jutland village that is home to the company to this day.
Q 03What were the very first Lego toys made of?
Wood
Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen made wooden piggy banks, pull toys and little vehicles from 1932.
Q 04When Lego held a competition to name the company in 1934, what was the prize?
A bottle of homemade wine
Ole Kirk Christiansen offered a bottle of homemade wine as the prize, then chose his own entry, Lego, over his other idea 'Legio', meaning a legion of toys.
Q 05After a yo-yo craze ended in the 1930s, what did Lego's founder do with the leftover yo-yo parts?
Used them as wheels on toy trucks
When the yo-yo craze collapsed, Ole Kirk Christiansen reused the leftover yo-yo halves: he used them as wheels on toy trucks, at a time so lean that farmers sometimes paid him in food.
Q 06What is on the underside of a Lego brick that helps it grip other bricks, added in 1958?
Hollow tubes
Hollow tubes inside the underside, patented on 28 January 1958, grip the studs of the brick below; before the tubes were added, early bricks did not hold together well.
Q 07Since 1963, Lego bricks have been made of which plastic?
ABS
ABS is non-toxic and does not warp or fade as easily as the older plastic did.
Q 08In what year did Lego first put instruction manuals inside its sets?
1964
Building instructions first came inside the box in 1964; Lego wheels had only arrived a couple of years earlier, in 1961 and 1962.
Q 09Duplo bricks are how many times bigger than a normal Lego brick in each direction?
Twice
Duplo bricks are twice the length, width and height of standard Lego bricks; the name comes from the Latin duplus, meaning double, and the two systems fit together.
Q 10Duplo bricks are designed for children of what age?
One and a half to five
Duplo is aimed at children from one and a half to five years old; the bricks are big enough to be easy to hold and much harder to swallow.
Q 11In which year did Lego launch Duplo, its range of big bricks for toddlers?
1969
Duplo launched in 1969 as a range of larger bricks for toddlers; the pieces are sized for small hands and the two systems were designed to connect.
Q 12The first Legoland park opened in 1968 in which town?
Billund
It sits right next to the original Lego factory and Billund Airport.
Q 13What is the name of the Legoland area made of miniature towns built from millions of bricks?
Miniland
Miniland is the heart of every Legoland, with landmarks and towns modelled in millions of bricks; the original Legoland set the pattern for all the later parks.
Q 21Of Lego's three original minifigure themes, which one represented the future?
Space
Space stood for the future in Lego's original trio of minifigure themes, alongside Castle for the past and a theme of everyday modern life for the present.
Q 22In which year was Lego's range of police, fire and airport sets renamed City?
2005
The police, fire and airport range was relaunched as City in 2005, after two years under the World City name, and has been one of Lego's biggest-selling themes ever since.
Q 23Which movie franchise became the first outside brand to get its own Lego sets, in 1999?
Star Wars
Star Wars sets tied in with The Phantom Menace in 1999, making it Lego's first licensed theme; the partnership was later extended through 2032.
Q 14How many people visited the first Legoland in its opening year?
625,000
Some 625,000 people visited the first Legoland in its opening season in 1968; the park started at about three acres and grew to more than eight times that size within twenty years.
Q 15Lego House, the visitor centre next to Lego's headquarters, is filled with roughly how many bricks?
25 million
Lego House, nicknamed the Home of the Brick, holds roughly 25 million bricks, including a 15-metre Tree of Creativity built from more than six million pieces.
Q 16In which year did the little Lego minifigure first appear?
1978
The minifigure as we know it, with posable arms and legs and a head that can turn, debuted in 1978 and was designed by Jens Nygaard Knudsen.
Q 17Roughly how many minifigures had Lego made by 2020?
Over 4 billion
Lego has produced over 4 billion minifigures, most of them unnamed police officers, astronauts, knights and other everyday characters rather than licensed stars.
Q 18How tall is a normal Lego minifigure?
4 centimetres
A standard minifigure stands about 4 centimetres tall, roughly four bricks high; nanofigures, used in big-scale models, are about the height of a minifigure's legs.
Q 19What did the very first minifigure faces look like?
Two black dots and a smile
The first minifigures all had the same simple face, two black dots and a smile, so that children's imaginations could decide who each figure was.
Q 20Which theme in 1989 got the first minifigures with beards, eye patches and different expressions?
Pirates
The Pirates theme of 1989 introduced the first minifigures with new facial expressions, beards and eye patches, plus hooks and peg legs in place of hands and legs.
Q 24What is the fictional martial art the Ninjago ninjas learn from Master Wu?
Spinjitzu
Spinjitzu is the spinning martial art Master Wu teaches the ninja; each of them is also an Elemental Master with a power of their own.
Q 25Who is the legendary Green Ninja who leads the Ninjago team?
Lloyd Garmadon
Lloyd Garmadon is the Green Ninja, the prophesied leader of the team; he is the son of Lord Garmadon, the show's early villain, and the nephew of Master Wu.
Q 26In Ninjago, Kai is the Elemental Master of what?
Fire
Kai, the red ninja, is the Elemental Master of Fire; his younger sister Nya is the Master of Water.
Q 27Which Ninjago ninja is actually a 'nindroid', a robot?
Zane
Zane, the white ninja and Master of Ice, has a robot girlfriend called Pixal.
Q 28What is the TV series about the ninja team that started in 2023 called?
Ninjago: Dragons Rising
Ninjago: Dragons Rising, launched in 2023, follows a new generation of ninja after the Merge; it succeeded the original Ninjago series that began in 2011.
Q 29Lego Friends is set in which made-up town?
Heartlake City
Lego Friends is set in Heartlake City, a fictional city; the line, launched in 2012, uses slightly bigger 'mini-doll' figures instead of regular minifigures.
Q 30Which of these was one of the five original Lego Friends characters?
Stephanie
Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia and Stephanie were replaced by a new, more diverse cast in 2023.