Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Question #28

Simple one.
X was first built by American Bantam in Butler, Pennsylvania for US Army Quartermaster Corps.

There are many explanations of the origin of the word X
It has been said that it carried the designation "GP", which phonetically became the word X

Many, suggest that soldiers at the time were so impressed with it that they informally named it after "Y the X", a character in the Popeye cartoons.

Identify X and Y.

Correctly answered by everyone. Highlight to view answer.
Answer: X = Jeep Y = Eugene

5 comments

Unknown said...

X = jeep

Anonymous said...

X-Jeep
Y-Eugene

-Abhhishek Mahipal

the novice said...

X-Jeep
Y-Eugene The jeep

Aviral Shrivastava said...

jeep...comes from GP or rather General purpose

Kaushik said...

X - Jeep

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