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BARBIE

1BArBIE celebrates her 60th birthday this month. What is the doll’s full name?

A. Barbette Simpson B. Barbara Millicent Roberts C. Barbra Edith Mattel D. Eleanor Barbary

2MATCH the number to the correct Barbie statistic:

1. 15 2. 28 3. 192 A. (Thousand pounds) — most expensive Barbie doll sold at auction. B. (Seconds) — fastest time to dress a Barbie doll. C. (Thousand) — largest collection of Barbie dolls.

3TrUE Or FALSE: If a Barbie doll were made life-size and to scale, she would have a 39in bust, an 18in waist and 33in hips. 4WHICH political leader was accused by their sister of cutting the hair off her Barbie dolls?

A. Donald Trump B. Jeremy Corbyn C. Nicola Sturgeon D. Angela Merkel

5WHICH is the best- selling Barbie doll in history?

A. Totally Hair Barbie, with tresses going down to her toes. B. The first black Barbie. C. Twiggy Barbie, based on the iconic British model and actress of the Sixties and Seventies. D. Aerobics instructor Barbie.

6TrUE Or FALSE: A Barbie was taken on the first Moon landing.

ANSWERS

1) B. Barbara Millicent Roberts BArBIe was invented by American ruth Handler, whose daughter was called Barbara. The first Barbie doll made her debut at the New York Toy Fair on March 9, 1959, wearing a black-and-white striped swimsuit. In 1961, Barbie was joined by boyfriend Ken (the name of Handler’s son).

2) 1C — German superfan Bettina Dorfmann has at least 15,000 dolls. She also runs a Barbie hospital, untangling matted hair and replacing missing limbs.

2B — Briton Catherine Lomas broke the Guinness World record in 2010, taking just 28 seconds to dress the doll.

3A — In 2010, a Barbie wearing a strapless black evening dress and a one-carat pink diamond necklace surrounded by three carats of white diamonds, sold for £192,000. 3) TRUE Her waist is 20cm smaller than a reference group of anorexic patients and her proportions would occur in less than one in 100,000 adult women, according to researchers. 4) C. Nicola Sturgeon THe Scottish First Minister’s younger sister, Gillian, said: ‘She used to tease me quite a bit and she used to cut the hair off my Barbie dolls, but apart from that she was a lovely sister.’ 5) A. Totally Hair Barbie, with tresses going down to her toes. reLeASeD in 1992, it has sold more than ten million dolls worldwide. 6) FALSE BUT Barbie did make her own (fictional) trip to space in 1965. Four years before man walked on the moon, Miss Astronaut Barbie was released.