Yet Another Quiz

Alphabet quiz

When asked about his idols, X repliedRahul Dravid and Kevin Pietersen are his idols as he once said, “When I was growing up I used to bat at no.3 and was very defensive. I used to bat the majority of balls and Rahul Dravid was my idol.Identify X?

Carlos Braithwaite

X is a quick examination of the relevance of a number of objects which may or may not lead to a closer examination or acquisition/selection of (some of) these objects.It is a kind of orienting strategy that is formed by our “theories,” expectations and subjectivity". Dictionary.com defines it as "to glance at random through a book, magazine, etc.". Identify X.

Browse/browsing

Sports writer David Miller believed Johann Cruyff superior to any previous player in his ability to extract the most from others. He dubbed him "X in boots" for the complexity and precision of his passes and wrote: "Few have been able to exact, both physically and mentally, such mesmeric control on a match from one penalty area to another. Give X?

Pythagoras

X was an American businesswoman and inventor. Her most famous created is Y. Her husband Elliot Handler and his business partner Harold "Matt" Matson formed a small company to manufacture picture frames Z where X served as a President. Give X,Y and Z?

X=Ruth HandlerY= BarbieZ= Mattel Inc.

In 2008, Turkey’s 3rd largest town planned to sue Warner Bros. for using the town’s name without prior permission. According to the mayor of this town- “There is only one X in the world. The American producer used the name without informing us.”The town in Turkey takes its name from a unit of weight in Turkish and is way older than the character of the same name who debuted in 1939. Identify X and hence this famous character.

Batman

X is manufactured in India exclusively by inmates of Buxar jail

since 1930. 

The manufacture requires 67% relative humidity in open air.

Buxar jail located very close to Ganges provides the ideal

atmospheric condition to produce .Its length is ideally 1.6 times

the height of a human body. There is one manufacturing

machine at the Buxar central jail and eight prisoners make it

using the twist and torque technique. Once manufacture is

complete ripe banana is applied to it continuously for two days

to smoothen it. One of the personalities who had used it in

2013 was recently in news.

Manila rope or hangman’s rope.Afzal Guru

"Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio. A local poet, Thomas C. Land, wrote a popular song about Dula's tragedy after the hanging. This inspired X to compose the song Y in his lyrical style. Id X and Y. 

Bhupen Hazarika and Manuhe Manuhar Baabe.

 Mr. X is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He  lived in the fictional town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh (commonly referred to as Puddleby) with his many animals. He first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. He has a few close human friends, including Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg. The animal team includes Polynesia ,Gub-Gub ,Jip , Dab-Dab, Chee-Chee, Too-Too , the Pushmi-pullyu, and Whitey. Identify X ?

Dr Dolittle