Who Owns or Who Makes What? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Daimler AG

Freightliner Trucks is a division of Daimler Trucks North America, which itself is part of Daimler AG. In addition to medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks, Freightliner also builds buses for school systems and city transit systems.

Answer: Infogrames

Owned by Warner Communications during its heyday in the early 1980s, Atari produced a pioneering line of video game and home computer systems. Infogrames acquired Atari as part of its purchase of Hasbro Interactive.

Answer: Procter & Gamble

Charmin traces its roots to the Hoebing Paper Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin. When it was introduced in 1928, its light-blue packaging featured script lettering from a woman's hatbox and the silhouette of a woman's head from a cameo pin. The Charmin baby first appeared alongside the woman's head in 1953, then went solo in 1956.

In 1957, the Charmin Paper Company--Hoebing's name after 1950--was purchased by Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble. (Thanks to Charmin.com for the history of this well-known product!)

Answer: Ortega Taco Shells

Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, ConAgra Foods's brands also include Armour, Chef Boyardee, Hebrew National, and Van Camp's. The Ortega brand is owned by Nestle.

Answer: News Corporation

News Corporation's global reach includes 20th-Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting Corporation, and HarperCollins Publishing.

Answer: Unilever

A fixture on the oral hygiene scene for many years, Close-Up's promise is to give its user a dazzling smile and clean, fresh breath. Close-Up was a brand of Chesebrough-Ponds prior to that company's acquisition by Unilever in the 1990s.

Answer: Unilever Bestfoods

As popular as Hellman's Real Mayonnaise is, it is only sold east of the Rockies. That's because it has a twin, Best Foods Real Mayonnaise, that happened to be popular in the western United States when Best Foods took over Richard Hellman's, Inc., in 1932.

In recent years, both brands have launched health-conscious alternatives to their regular mayonnaise, as well as various types of mustard. (Thanks to the Hellmann's and Best Foods Mayonnaise website, www.mayo.com, for historical information.)

Answer: Cocoa Pebbles

Up until 1997, the Chex brand of cereals had been produced by Ralston Purina. General Mills' acquisition of Chex occurred four years before Nestle completed its purchase of Ralston Purina. Cocoa Pebbles and its stable mate, Fruity Pebbles, debuted in 1971 under the General Foods banner.

The Pebbles cereals have been a Kraft Foods brand since 1995. (Thanks to the Post Cereals, Nestle Purina and General Mills websites for historical information.)

Answer: McDonnell Douglas

The proud lineage of McDonnell Douglas also includes the durable DC-3 passenger/cargo plane, the DC-10 passenger jet, and the Mercury and Gemini space capsules. The company was headquartered in St. Louis prior to the acquisition.

Answer: Sega

Of the companies on this list, only Nintendo continues to make both video game consoles and software. The Dreamcast, released in September, 1999, was Sega's last system.