The LEGO Story Quiz

Ole Kirk Christiansen was a carpenter ...

• who was fired from his company

• who ran his own company

• had difficulty firing his last worker

Things got even worse:

• Ole had to raise his sons alone

• Ole's wife died of a heartattack

• Ole had 4 lazy sons

The visitor made a living from ...

• selling holes to foolish people

• buying and selling things in large quantities to other merchants

• checking the quality of toys

The wholesaler ..., which was a disaster.

• lost all his money and had to shut down his business

• decided not to buy the toy he had ordered from Ole

• didn't pay a good price for the toys, so Ole's family had a poor Christmas

Ole managed to ...

• trade all of his toys for groceries (=basic food)

• sell some of his toys for money and the rest for groceries

• sell all of his toys and bought a lot of food for Christmas

The name LEGO ...

• comes from a Danish phrase that means 'playing well'

• comes from a Latin phrase that means 'I put together'

• was suggested to him by a truckdriver

Ole's son ..., so he only painted the ducks twice, instead of three times.

• wanted to shirk (=avoid doing) his duties

• ran out of lacqueur (=transparent paint)

• wanted to save money

In Copenhagen Ole saw ...

• a moulding machine that could produce plastic blocks

• a new machine that could cut out wooden blocks

• a moulding machine and decided to stop producing wooden toys

Ole was the only one who ...

• wanted to produce plastic teddy bears

• thought that producing plastic bricks could become a thriving (=good) business

• liked building Lego houses from the bricks in the beginning

There was one problem with the Lego system:

• it took a long time to build them, because they weren't sticky enough

• the glue they sold to stick them together wasn't very good

• the parts didn't stick, so the Lego contructions easily fell apart