Sunday, May 3, 2009

Question 335

Robert Cade, Dana Shires, Harry James Free, and Alejandro de Quesada were the medical researchers at the University of Florida who created the original X in 1965.Football coach,Ray Graves, was frustrated with the performance of his team during the hot summer football practices, and asked the team doctor, one of Cade’s associates, for his insight. Cade and his research team then created X. The football team,coached by Ray Graves credited X with their first Orange Bowl win over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1967, and X became an instant phenomenon. The Yellow Jackets coach Bud Carson, when asked why they lost, replied: "We didn’t have X. That made the difference."What is X?

Answer: Gatorade. Cracked by Mihir, vigithedigi and Chithananda.