Not exactly a Gossip Quiz conduced for an informal meet at Kozhikode on 13/2/17.

1. THE GOSSIP QUIZ
Rithwik K

2.  X was a slave who became a general in the army
of Y ruler of the Delhi sultanate from 1296 to 1316
A.D. He was originally seized by Y’s army after
the army conquered the city of Khambhat. It is
theorizedY fell in love with the effeminate beauty
of X, castrated and converted him to Islam.
 Called as "Thousand Dinar X", probably the
amount paid by sultan for his possession.The
sultan allegedly had homosexual relation with X.
 Just identify both.

5.  Following is an extract from an interview with a
lady named Pamela.
 Who are the two people referred here?
 “I strongly believe that they were essentially two
lonely people. His wife was dead, his sister was
posted abroad, his daughter was either looking
after her husband or was away with the women’s
movement. I think he was very alone and my
mother was a very introvert character herself.
Suddenly, they found they were two, who would
communicate with each other.”

8.  Evelyn Mase

9.  Winnie Madikizela

11.  Wives of Nelson Mandela.

12.  Olga Fikatova is a Czechoslovak and later
American discus thrower. She is best known for
winning gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics
and for her romance across ColdWar barriers
with American hammer gold medalist Hal
Connolly.
 Which famous couple were the witnesses at the
wedding ceremony of Olga and Hal?

16.  Regarded as the First superstar of Pakistan Cricket
team,he bowled Pakistan to its firstTest wins in India
and England—the Oval triumph of 1954 .In 1954, on
tour to England, the queen met the Pakistan team in
Buckingham Palace at a reception during the Lord’s
Test. She is said to have shaken hands with him, then
the rest of the team, before coming back to him,and
asking how his eyes were so blue.’
 Those eyes and his dance-floor moves also apparently
prompted a famous actress —shooting George
Cukor’s BhowaniJunction in Lahore—to insist on
dancing with him at the famous Faletti’s Hotel.
 Identify the cricketer and the actress.

20.  In 1946, he became the youngest minister in
Jawaharlal Nehru's interim government, the first
cabinet of India as a Labour Minister and also a
member of Constituent Assembly of India, where he
ensured that social justice was enshrined in the
Constitution.Who?
 The reason why he is featured in this quiz thanks to his
son Suresh Kumar who was infamously reported in X’s
Surya newspaper, having marital relationship with a
21-year-old woman.
 Who was the journalist?

24.  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis M Simons was
theWashington Post correspondent in Delhi when
the Emergency was imposed.
 During an interview he said “The incident occurred
at a private dinner party before the Emergency was
imposed. As is common practice among journalists, I
did not write about it immediately, but saved it for
later use.The story was picked up widely by other
foreign media outlets, including in an article in
the NewYorker magazine by the highly respected
writerVed Mehta.”
 What was this incident all about?

28.  "Big Boss-5" has stirred controversy as one of
the participants in the realityTV show asked
questions regarding the personal life of its
Nepali participant, Nihita Biswas.
 "Did you have sex with _______?" asked one of
the contestants, Mandeep Belvi. Nihita tried to
ward off the question, but her curious fellow
inmate would not give up and asked, "Why did
you marry him?“.
 Who were they referring to?

32.  A person explaining his part after an infamous dirty talk leaked on
internet.
 “I worked in a Bengali movie called Sesh Sanghat which was on
the Naxal issue. In fact, when the film, which espoused the cause
of the landless farmers, was a huge hit. I can speak chaste
Bengali, perhaps better than many residents of Kolkata. As a
fellow Bengali, my unqualified apology to X. Apart from the fact
that the age gap between me and her is huge, I have only seen X
twice in my life, that too, in a crowd. Once at the premiere of
Viruddh. At that point of time, I was very actively associated with
AB Corp, as everyone knows. I am, incidentally, still officially vice-
chairman of AB Corp; how far I am going to be there, I don't
know.The second time I saw her was at a special screening of
Lamha. Barring that, I have had no interaction whatsoever with
X.”
 Identify both the people involved.

35.  Hope Cooke remarried in 1983 to MikeWallace, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and
Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice.
 She wrote an award-winning memoir of her life in
______,Time Change:An Autobiography (1981),
and, with Jacques d'Amboise, publishedTeaching
the Magic of Dance.
 Who was her first husband?

39.  X never married but media tabloids speculated that she
may have had relationships with men in the film-industry
such as directorY as well as actors Kabir Bedi and Danny
Denzongpa.
 She was also rumoured to have had an affair with her co-
star of many films, Amitabh Bachchan, with whom she
later developed irrational fears as she accused him of
trying to kill her.
 Y later wrote and directed Arth (1982), a supposedly
semi-autobiographical film about his relationship with X,
and wrote and producedWoh Lamhe (2006) based on his
recollection and interpretation of his relationship with X
and without any inputs from her.
 Solve X andY.

42.  The most common story told about the
__________ _______ was that of the Maharaja of
Patiala, Bhupinder Singh, eloping with the British
Viceroy's daughter in 1892. He was banned by the
British from entering Shimla. So, he constructed a
summer capital for himself at a small village called
Chail.And the place of intersection of the Ridge
and the Mall, where he eloped with her, came to be
called as __________ _______ .
 What two worded name?

46.  In 1964, bookseller Ranjit Udeshi in Bombay was prosecuted
under Sec. 292 of the Indian Penal Code (sale of obscene books).
 Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra (AIR 1965 SC 881) was
eventually laid before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court
of India, where Chief Justice Hidayatullah declared the law on the
subject of when a book can be regarded as obscene and
established important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin test.
 The judgement upheld the conviction, stating that:
 When everything said in its favour we find that in treating with
sex the impugned portions viewed separately and also in the
setting of the whole book pass the permissible limits judged of
from our community standards and as there is no social gain to us
which can be said to preponderate, we must hold the book to
satisfy the test we have indicated above.
 Which book caused all this uproar?

49.  When they met for the first time she was married to a
person to whom she had been betrothed when she was a
child.The marriage was not a happy one. Her relationship
with him unfurled in the letters they wrote to each other.
He was in Lahore, she was in Delhi; between them, they
built a bridge of words, confidences and endearments. In
her letters, it’s obvious that she fell headlong in love with
him. She called him “Mera shayar”, “Mera mehboob”, “Mera
khuda” and “Mera devta”.
 In her autobiography, RasidiTicket, she writes about how
they’d sit in silence and gaze into each other’s eyes while
he chain-smoked his cigarettes. After he left, she picked up
the stubs left by him and smoked them, pressing her lips
upon the invisible imprint of his.
 Identify both.

52.  They are put through rigorous training at a special
academy and if they make it through the basic
training ordeal are experts with firearms and
martial arts making them trained killers.The
women who qualify for duty are required to be
virgins .
 They can dress in western style fatigues, can wear
make up, western hair styles, high heels, and other
clothing not deemed acceptable in the Muslim
world.
 Who are they?

55.  The director of Paris Match, Pierre Gallante, suggested
to X, who was returning to the Riviera in the spring of
1955 at the invitation of the organizers of the Cannes
Film Festival, that a meeting between X andY would
be a great photo opportunity.
 Afterward,Y’s confessor, a FatherTucker, who, likeY,
was an Irish Catholic with roots in Philadelphia,
worked as matchmaker. He wrote to X, thanking her
“for showingY what an American Catholic girl can be,
and for the deep impression this has left on him.”
 Identify the couple.