Test your own knowledge with our cereal trivia quiz
See if you can beat Fruity Pebbles “junkie” Robert Laplander’s score of 4 out of 10 on this trivia quiz.
All answers are cereal brands that may or may not be still produced. The same cereal may answer more than one question; the quiz is chronological.
Answers, with bonus trivia, are at the end.
1. In 1892 this cereal was created after inventor Henry Perky and business partner William Ford invented a machine that processed wheat into tiny shreds.
2. The initial batch of this cereal was created in 1906 by 44 employees in a newly-formed company in Battle Creek, Mich.
3. Female aviator Elinor Smith was featured on the back of this cereal box in 1934.
4. Track and field Olympic athlete Jesse Owens was the first black athlete depicted on what cereal?
5. What cereal was originally named Cheerioats?
6. This cereal sponsored the 1950s sci-fi radio show Tom Corbett: Space Cadet.
7. These two Post cereals, named after an animated TV character, were introduced
in 1970.
8. Naturalist Euell Gibbons pitched this “back-to-nature” cereal in the early 1970s.
9. Cosmo Kramer of TV’s Seinfeld accidentally poured tomato juice over this cereal in Jerry’s kitchen.
10. In season five, Paris Geller of TV’s "Gilmore Girls" exclaimed, “Cereal rocks!” and recommended this combination to Rory while at Yale.