The Cola Wars: Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi Quiz

John Stith Pemberton of Columbus, Ga., came up with Coca-Cola in 1886. North Carolinian Caleb Bradham developed "Brad's Drink," later known as Pepsi, in 1893.

Bradham and Pemberton were both pharmacists who sold their inventions in their own drugstores.

Guth also owned a candy company and didn't enjoy the fact that Coke wouldn't give him a deal on its syrup.

Pepsi started going after the African-American market in the '40s.

Pepsi has sponsorship deals with the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL, just for starters.

We all could've been spared decades of cola wars if Coke had only taken the chance to buy Pepsi back then.

It doesn't seem all that catchy today, but Pepsi hit it big in the late '30s by offering a 12-ounce bottle for a nickel, the same price as Coke's 6.5-ounce bottle. Those ads ran until 1950.

Polar bears have appeared in Coke's print ads since the '20s, and the first animated TV commercial aired in 1993.

Sprite is Coke, Slice is Pepsi and 7-Up is owned by Dr. Pepper (in the U.S.) and Pepsi (everywhere else).

Joan Crawford was married to Pepsi President Alfred N. Steele.

Pepsi started setting up simple taste tests against Coke in 1975.

There are no hard numbers on this, but the consensus is that Pepsi won. Coke apparently confirmed with their own controlled taste tests.

Perhaps as a result of the Pepsi Challenge, perhaps not, the company discontinued the original Coke, reformulated it as "New Coke" -- and consumers promptly revolted.

It took only three months for Coke to realize the error of its ways and reintroduce the original formula.

Stay with us here. The product that had been known simply as "Coke" for decades was brought back as "Coca-Cola Classic".

The news about Coke was considered so urgent that an ABC news alert interrupted "General Hospital."

Word is that Coke II is still out there, hanging on to a 0.1% market share.

The "classic" font size had been shrinking for years, and Coke finally deleted it in 2009.

Ray Charles crooned "You got the right one, baby" for Pepsi.

J-Lo did a Coke commercial in 1998, while Taylor Swift endorses Diet Coke.

Spears became a Pepsi spokesperson in 2001, and Beyoncé has done a number of Pepsi campaigns.

Joel screams, "Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore!" toward the end of "We Didn't Start the Fire."

Coke owns Dasani, Pepsi has Aquafina and Evian belongs to Danone, a French corporation.

Jeff Gordon joined the Pepsi fold in 1997.

The "mid-calorie" Pepsi Next was introduced in 2012.

The Buffalo area has always been a Pepsi stronghold.

In "Home Alone," Kevin's cousin Fuller wets the bed because he drinks too much Pepsi.

The Pepsi Center is home to the Colorado Avalanche and the Denver Nuggets.

Schweppes is Pepsi's ginger ale, and Seagram's belongs to Coke.

In 2008, "Beverage Digest" reported that Coke held a 42.7% market share to Pepsi's 30.8%