FIRST Jeopardy! (5/26)

[EddieMcD]

Last one before Double Jeopardy. 400 points: It's what the "X" means in "X men" (and no, it's not Xavier). Let's see how good you are with genetics.

[OneAngryDaisy]

The X-Factor gene?

[Melissa Nute]

It stands for nothing

[srawls]

What is the X chromosome?

[George1902]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
Last one before Double Jeopardy. 400 points: It's what the "X" means in "X men" (and no, it's not Xavier). Let's see how good you are with genetics.

Actually, in the Age of Apocolypse storyline, the X-Men were named after Xavier, but I guess we can't count alternate universes, eh?

The "X" originally stood for the "X-tra" powers that the mutants posessed (I swear... This was 1963, so give them a break!); however, it was recently changed to stand for the X-factor in a person's DNA that makes them a mutant.

Boy... such a misleading question! =-]

P.S. Is is sad that the only questions I've gotten 'til now were on pro wrestling and comics? See, Mom? Those weren't just wasted hours after all!

[EddieMcD]

It has to do with the mutated X chromozone. The X-Factor actually comes from that mutated gene, so, as much as I hate to say it, technically those answers are both right. So Daisy, consider yourself 400 points richer.