I only got 10% correct. Wow.
10% as well for me. Dum-Dum Pops and I are tight, yo.
40% for me. Not great, but compared to you two… 
Well… the problem with this test is that it’s not clear whether they’re talking about American companies, or companies whose products are manufactured in the US.
For example:
Glock pistols, Bilstein shock absorbers, and Bimbo baked goods are all made in the US (Smyrna, GA, Hamilton, OH, and Ft Worth, TX) but are products of foreign companies.
On the other hand, many domestic cars are made in Mexico and Canada, and the same holds for many other products produced by American companies but manufactured in other countries.
(FWIW, I got 50% on the test)
I got 80% right, but only after reading that people were having trouble. So by design I chose many brands that sounded foreign, assuming they were trick questions, and I was right.
I think I just proved I know how to take tests, not that I know anything about American brands.
I got 30% via guessing.
70%, much for the same reason as Telemark. But, I had the same reservations as bump. Seems disingenuous to claim a candy bar is un-American when it was made here, regardless of the parent company. (Likewise, can I claim Heinz Vegemite is American because of the parent company?)
Another example: Maker’s Mark.
Bourbon has to be made in the U.S. It is an exclusively American product regardless of who owns the company who makes it. Maker’s Mark was started by the Samuels family and is still distilled in the same building in Loretto, Kentucky it has always been distilled in; a building that is part of the national registry of historic places.
But even if you discount this, Maker’s Mark was indeed owned by UK-based Allied Domecq for a long time, but since 2005 has been jointly owned by Lincolnshire, IL based Fortune brands and French company Pernod Ricard. So Maker’s Mark is an American product in both production and at least partial ownership, which in today’s global economy is about as close as you’re going to get anyway.
And FTR, I got 30%.
70% Correct. I also used the “probably a trick question” mentality. Plus, a few of the manufacturers are clients of mine, so I was able to get a couple of them that way.
40% for me. Here’s my complete score (spoilered for the benefit of those who have yet to take the quiz):
[spoiler]1. Which one of these baby food brands is made by an American company?
Carnation is not correct.
Neosure is the correct answer.
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Which one of these butter or margarine brands is made by an American company?
Fleischmann’s is not correct.
Land O’ Lakes is the correct answer. -
Which one of these candy brands is made by an American company?
Correct
Dum Dum Pops is the correct answer. -
Which one of these food brands is made by an American company?
Correct
Azteca Tortillas is the correct answer. -
Which one of these pasta sauce brands is made by an American company?
Contadina is not correct.
Classico is the correct answer. -
Which one of these tuna brands is made by an American company?
Bumble Bee is not correct.
StarKist is the correct answer. -
Which one of these household cleaning brands is made by an American company?
O-Cedar is not correct.
Pine-Sol is the correct answer. -
Which one of these soap brands is made by an American company?
Correct
Irish Spring is the correct answer. -
Which one of these deodorant brands is made by an American company?
Correct
Pierre Cardin is the correct answer. -
Which one of these liquor brands is made by an American company?
Chivas Regal is not correct.
Dekuyper is the correct answer.[/Spoiler]
That’s a great point, and I’d like to think my confusion over that is what lead to my abysmal score.
I got 20%, mostly by guessing.
I think that the whole thing is purposefully misleading. For example, Best Foods was the “wrong” answer to one question. Now, I know that Hellman’s was an East Coast American brand, and that Best Foods was based in California. And it turns out (via Wikipedia) that, although they’re both still made in America, the company was acquired by Unilever in 1990. Does that really make them “not American?”
I’m pretty sure that is what they were going after, the corporate ownership.
Same strategy here, but I got 70%.
Seven .shows how well I can guess since I knew none for sure.
Well, remember, they’re not asking what products are American - they’re asking what brands are American. That’s two different things.
And I got 50%. Got fooled by Baby Ruth; didn’t know they’d been acquired since Babe Ruth’s time.
I also got 30% by guessing. I promise, I didn’t copy from your paper 
By that logic, are Volvo and Jaguar and Mazda “American” cars?
Something tells me the authors of that quiz would be outraged if I bought a Volvo and said I was driving an American car.
But since Volvo belongs to the American Ford Motor Corporation, then my Volvo IS an “American” car (even though it was made in Sweden) as as surely as my I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter is an English margarine (even though it was made in the USA).
I got 40%.
Like others I was frustrated by the clear concern in the test for company ownership, vice where a given product were manufactured, which I think is a more accurate way to judge whether a product is American or not.
For that matter, my general gut feeling is that the only point to concern for “buying American” that is legitimate is an effort to minimize transportation costs (economic and environmental) from global products.
50%