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Can you name the owners and parent companies of these products and services? Enter an owner in the box below Correctly named owners will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 4354 TV Shows (U.S.) 3194 Broadway Opening Lines 3120 You Do Know Jack 1352 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1297 Same Last Name 1119 And more...
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Product/Service	Owner
NBC Broadcasting
Doritos Chips
Kool-AID
ABC Broadcasting
Camel Cigarettes
Maytag Appliances
Milton Bradley Games
Xbox
Rice Krispies
Pillsbury
Old Navy Clothing

Product/Service	Owner
Tylenol
Taco Bell
Business Week Magazines
Duracell Batteries
Minute Maid Juices
Dairy Queen
MySpace
Sam's Club
Nickelodeon TV
9Lives Cat Food
People Magazine
Sporcle

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	zigra:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	26 points
	I am gutted that Shinehart Wig Company was not accepted for NBC.

	rockgolf:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	3 points
	I got less than half but I found this a very interesting quiz. Isn't Taco Bell's owner owned by Dorito's owner, though?

	Leeny:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:19 GMT	6 points
	Way harder than I thought! P&G should be spelled Procter & Gamble (not Proctor).

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	kmzh:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT	1 point
	rockgolf: They were spun off a while back, IIRC. Leeny: Yeah, definitely should be Procter and Gamble

	kmzh:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:21 GMT	3 points
	cotuitkid: Maybe you should tell that to http://www.pg.com/en_US/index.shtml Notice the copyright at the bottom.

	JohnJF:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	18 points
	I was half expecting some kind of conspiracy, like about how Freemasons own the federal government or something like that.

	mustango:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	1 point
	@rockgolf: They were, from 1977 until 1997.

	IWANTMY2DOLLARS:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:24 GMT	48 points
	I tried "Tom" for MySpace.

	Bartleby:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:34 GMT	17 points
	this quiz owned me.

	Tetti:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:51 GMT	6 points
	Leeny is right...it IS ProctEr and Gamble (I used to work there, and it does need fixing)

	leob:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:52 GMT	4 points
	There must be a way to avoid accidental prefix answers (requiring a longer pause for such answers, maybe?). I had no idea who owns NBC but got an extra point because I knew the owner of Pillsbury.

	zalagreensbury:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:53 GMT	9 points
	From all the taken down videos on youtube, i was under the impression the viacom owned a lot more.

	zalagreensbury:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	2 points
	I thought pillsbury owned pillsbury wtf, general mills got the dough boy working in a sweat shop probably.

	SPORKLER:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:05 GMT	22 points
	Taco Bells owns me everytime I go there...

	languid:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:20 GMT	2 points
	Sad I forgot GE owned NBC. I'm sorry Conan!

	ted:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:22 GMT	3 points
	I think RJR should count for R.J. Reynolds.

	JFX:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:24 GMT	4 points
	i just found out last week that Minute Maid was owned by Coca-Cola...definitely one of Sporcle's more interesting quizzes!

	buppyspek:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:28 GMT	1 point
	Gah, I should have known NBC from 30 Rock! I did get it, but only on accident.

	popkiller:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	6 points
	If this were the 80s, you could just type in "the Japanese" for everything. Followed by hysterical laughter.

	Reed:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT	5 points
	newscorp should definitely work for news corporation, I have heard the former numerous times, the latter not even once

	upa:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:36 GMT	2 points
	the only reason i got the nbc one is because of 30 rock

	GeoExpert:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:42 GMT	0 points
	I know this quiz is not talking about Milton Bradley the baseball player, but I was confused at first

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	Victor2K:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 01:17 GMT	3 points
	I was so sure that Sporcle would be bonus answer that it was one the first things I typed...

	Rackie:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 01:21 GMT	6 points
	I'm surprised Kelloggs wasn't accepted, ok it's not technically the name of the company, but I would have thought it'd be acceptable!

	Haunter:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 01:29 GMT	0 points
	Thanks to Sporcle, I know not to shop at Sam's Club!

	sevorak:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT	1 point
	Jordan: Your list is either wrong or several years out of date. Viacom doesn't own CBS or its subsidiaries like Showtime and Simon and Schuster, nor does it own Sega or EA. Comcast owns E! now. And those are just off the top of my head.

	zwieblekopf:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	1 point
	when did pepsi sell taco bell? I got doritos right because I was trying for taco bell.

	Dirty D:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 02:35 GMT	-4 points
	jordan get a life please

	Jordan117:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 02:38 GMT	4 points
	You're right, Brian, I am out of date -- I got the list from a blog post I'd read a few years ago, which in turn came from "America: The Book", if I recall correctly. I fixed errors where I saw them (Court TV -> TruTV, SciFi -> SyFy, etc.), but I guess the corporate world morphs faster than I thought.

	chikka2:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 02:53 GMT	3 points
	My mind has just been blown. wow.

	DWang:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 03:22 GMT	11 points
	is noone else flabbergasted that Berkshire owns DQ?

	Buzza:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 03:35 GMT	2 points
	Dwang: I was quite surprised the Oracle of Omaha is in the ice cream business. Perhaps it's time to buy some DQ stock.

	rachisawesome:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 03:38 GMT	-4 points
	wow good quiz completely stumped me ") (do you like my smiley????)

	HarryHop:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 03:40 GMT	1 point
	I got three. That included the most guessed answer and the least guessed... My mind works in strange ways.

	PlayhouseGang:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 03:57 GMT	0 points
	Shouldn't Rupert Murdoch count for NewsCorp? I know he's not the same as the company, but considering he is the founder, CEO, Chairman, and majority (voting) stock holder, it seems like his name should be accepted as well.

	Veni_Vidi_Vidic:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 04:10 GMT	-3 points
	I don't think the tag line for this quiz is very appropriate given that chocolate is toxic for cats (and dogs) and can be lethal to them. Every year thousands of animals die because their owners were ignorant of this.

	E_Li_Te:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 05:11 GMT	2 points
	IHOP owns Applebees!

	whysoserious:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 05:31 GMT	1 point
	I was surprised by quite a few of these. Stunned I didn't get the one for Nick and Milton Bradley Games... I remember I was stunned to find out that Coca Cola owns Sprite.