Cannot Place Gossip Quiz 2013

 Every table is a team.
 40 questions
 Questions on affairs, link-ups, family-
ties of famous and not-so-famous men
and women, follies and foibles, sex
and seduction.

 “Rumour has it” is a recurring theme
through the quiz. I have tried my best
to authenticate my answers.
 Please put away your electronic devices.
 QM’s decision is final.
 2 points per correct answer, no
negatives

Thanks to
All Members of Cannot Place
Audience
Participants

GOSSIP:
 The painting on the left by Nicholas Poussin now located at the Louvre
and the sculpture on the right by Giambologna now located at Florence
, all depict a seminal event in Roman history which took place in 750
BC.
 The event allowed artists to demonstrate their virtuosity in the depiction
of female as well as male figures in extreme poses, with the added
advantages of a titillating sexual theme. Name the Event
1

GOSSIP:
The Rape of the Sabine Women
In this episode, the first generation of Roman men
under Romulus acquired wives for themselves from
the neighboring Sabine families.
1

GOSSIP: 2
 This Sultan fell in love with a Turkish
slave, and their relationship became
widely regarded as the epitome of
idealized love in Islamic legend and
Sufi literature.
 As the story goes, slave asked the
Sultan who the most powerful man in
the kingdom was. When the Sultan
replied that it was himself, the slave
corrected him, claiming that in fact
he (slave) was the most powerful,
since Sultan was his slave. The “slave
to a slave” became a favorite trope in
Persian literature.
 Identify the Sultan and the Slave

GOSSIP:
 Mahmud of Ghazni, the Sultan.
 Malik Ayaz, the Slave.
2

GOSSIP:
Hampton Court, Greater London
3

GOSSIP:
Towards the
end of the
eponymous film
A (1992), this
much-married
person makes
an appearance
as himself
and recites a
portion of A‟s
speeches.
First Marriage
A
Connected with
1
Second Marriage In 2010, she attacked
her husband on TV
when interviewed by
2
Affair
Connected with
Identify A (the film), 1 and 2
4

GOSSIP:
Nelson Mandela starred in the 1992 film Malcolm X
(A) as himself. He makes an appearance in the end.
His first wife was Evelyn Ntoko Mase, who was one
of Jehovah‟s Witnesses (1).(Jehovah‟s W „s
illustrated magazine is The Watch Tower)
His second wife was Winnie Madikizela, who gave a
hugely controversial interview to Lady Nadira Naipaul
(2).
His third wife is Graca Machel- also one-time First
Lady of Mozambique
He proposed to Amina Cachalia after a long affair
before marrying Graca Machel.
4

GOSSIP:
“Sex was like itch to Jeevan; the urge to fornicate wasn't very
different from the urge to urinate. His need was quite simple,
his detractors said-- to wit, any female vaginal orifice.”
“ Indira Gandhi will never, repeat never, get over her complex-
·a very complex complex indeed, consisting of elements such
as a feeling of inferiority, sense of insecurity, and an
admission of inadequacy inside, a nagging awareness of
depthlessness coupled, above all, with the consuming
ambition to attain immortal fame eclipsing her great father.”
5
 Passages from the first draft of a controversial novel.
 The first draft was suitably modified (the name of the central
character was changed) and was published under a different
title.
Tell me the titles of the working draft and published work.

GOSSIP:
First draft : The Other Half
Second and Final draft :
The Insider
5

GOSSIP:
 The place X gets its name from the family that owns much of the area's
property,, immigrants from Hainan Island, China, who purchased the area in
1946.
 At that time it was an undeveloped plot of land on the outskirts of the city. A
small canal and a teakwood house were the only features. The family built
several shophouses, which were rented out and two roads named after X.
Sequences of “The Deer Hunter” was shot here. The place gained notoriety
throughout 60‟s till 90‟s till it lost its appeal to Y.
 The place Y was given its name by columnist Bernard Trink, after the
nickname of late T. G. Edwards, a retired American airman who settled here in
1977. A tall African-American, Edwards got his nickname because he often
wore a specific item of dressing while strolling down Y and the name stuck
since. In 2000, the Norwegian group Getaway People released a song about Y
Identify X and Y – where many a gossip originated.
6

GOSSIP:
X
The person after whose nickname Y
was named.
6

GOSSIP:
X = Patpong
Y = Soi Cowboy
6

GOSSIP:
Identify X from these two stories:
 Ex-UP governor Romesh Bhandari was once
introducing his wife to an august gathering. “Meet my
wife, the daughter of the Maharajah of Patiala,” he
said. X was next in line. “Meet my wife,” he said. “The
daughter of the Maharajah and the Maharani of
Patiala.”
 On another occasion X wrote : “whatever I am is
because of this College”. Mani Shankar Aiyar, just
standing behind him, saw X‟s praise for the college
and wrote “you are what you are. Why blame the
College??”
7

GOSSIP:
Identify X, Y and Z:
 Myself X started being linked with Y from our first collaboration in
celluloid which began from 1971 onwards.
 In 1974, after the premiere of Ishq Ishq Ishq at Metro cinema, Z
kissed Y in full view of the invited audience, congratulating her for
her sparkling performance in the film.
 Soon thereafter I wanted to tell Y that I love her. But before that we
decided to together attend a party. The first person who greeted Y
with a drunken drawl was Z again. The passionate way Z embraced
Y in full public view started me thinking. Then I remembered few
days back someone gossiped that Y had secretly gone to meet Z for
a screen test for the title role.
 On that moment I figured out that I had lost out to Z and quietly
walked out of the party ending my relationship with Y
8

GOSSIP:
X = Dev Anand
Y = Zeenat Aman
Z = Raj Kapoor
8

GOSSIP:
Identify X and Y :
 In 1930‟s Kolkata‟s Park Street, two Swiss gentlemen Mr X
and Mr Y, owned a tearoom which was named after their
surnames.
 Their partnership split when Mr X ran away with Mrs Y.
 Mr Y, in disgust and grief, opened up a bar Y just
diagonally opposite the road.
 X is currently known for serving an outstanding quality of
traditional English breakfast.
 Y is perhaps the ONLY bar in Kolkata (if not in India) where
Rabindrasangeet is sung by pub-singers, side-by-side with
„aaiye meherbaan‟ and „ajeeb dastan hein yeh‟.
9

GOSSIP:
X = Flury’s
Y = Trincas
9

GOSSIP:
Transcript of an alleged yet unconfirmed telephonic conversation between
two people. ID both X and Y going by prevailing gossipy leaks.
(veracity disputed). Both have hotly denied this.
X: : Very nice of you to have remembered me.
Y: : (Laughs) I toh always remember you.
X: : An old man like me.
Y: : Sorry…
X: : An old fossil like me…
Y: : Old fossil like you…
X: : ya ya…
Y: : I don‟t think age really matters… Does it?
X: : It matters between the legs na?
Y: : (Bursts out laughing) Oh God…ha ha ha ha…all right then…you try
removing time now… it‟s been almost a month now I‟ve not met…
10

GOSSIP:
X : Amar Singh
Y : Bipasha Basu
10

GOSSIP:
ID the person:
 The person X thought was his mother was in fact his grandmother. It
was the woman he knew as his sister who really gave birth to him.
 It was only at the age of seven, X heard his aunt ask the woman he
thought was his mother: "Have you heard from his mum?"
 X‟s real mother had had an affair with a married airman during WW2.
She was 16 when she gave birth to him in the back bedroom of her
mother and stepfather's two-bedroom house
 By this time, X knew that his "sister" was really his mother, and he
blurted out to her : "Can I call you Mummy now?“
 She refused.
 Everything in his life henceforth spiraled from that rejection. He
became a heroine addict.
 Winner of numerous Grammy Awards.
1

GOSSIP:
Identify the man along with his two wives- who
form an illustrious trio.
2

GOSSIP:
Raja Reddy
Radha Reddy
Kaushalya Reddy
The Kuchipudi dancing trio.
2

GOSSIP: 3
 Gossip has it that
when this famous
photograph was
taken, all the actors
were enjoying
looking at someone
who was doing
something .
Who and what was
he/she up to ?

GOSSIP:
All were smiling at Asrani who was busy
changing into the jailor dress in order to practice
his “jailor act”.
3

GOSSIP:
Identify both X and Y
 X sent Y a greeting card on his birthday on September 21, 2011 with hand-
written message stating – “The foundation of our relations is eternal and soon
we shall be just ourselves.”. It got leaked out and fuelled wild speculations
about an extra marital affair between X and Y. Both have since denied it.
 While X is a co-owner of a restaurant chain named : Polo Lounge, her
husband and father-in-law owns a controversial company called Galaxy Textile
Mills.
 Her paramour‟s name Y originates from the Arabic word meaning “saint” or
alternatively means “one without an equal”.
4

GOSSIP:
X : Hina Rabbani Khar
Y : Bilawaal Bhutto
4

GOSSIP:
 Her second husband was Mike
Wallace, Ph.D, a Pulitzer Prize-
winning historian and
Distinguished Professor of
History at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice.
Identify her more famous first
husband who she met for the first
time in the bar of the Windamare
hotel at Darjeeling.
5

GOSSIP:
Amercian wife of Chogyal of Sikkim, Mrs Hope
Cook.
Her first husband was 12th Chogyal (King) of
Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal.
5

GOSSIP:
 Atleast four hindi films
were made based on the
life of the person above.
Please look at the posters
of the two films and
identify them.
6

GOSSIP:
 There are many conflicting theories as to why this place is
named so.
 One theory suggests that the naming has got to do with the
elopement of Bhupinder Singh, the Maharaja of Patiala with
the daughter of the British viceroy. She was kidnapped
while taking a walk here.
 Another theory suggests that such is not the case. In 1892
Bhupinder was only an year old. Probably because of his
colourful nature and many wives, he is mistaken by local
historians. The real culprit could be his father Rajinder
Singh instead.
 However the undisputed fact remains that it‟s situated in an
Indian city where Mall road joins Ridge road on the west
side, just beside the Lala Lajpat Rai statue.
Name the exact place.
7

GOSSIP:
Scandal Point, Shimla
7

GOSSIP:
Identify the literary work and the Indian author:
 Sir Mohammad Hidayatullah is the only person to
serve as the Chief Justice of India, Vice President
and Acting President of India.
 As CJI, he presided over a landmark judgement in
a controversial case which came up in the
Supreme Court for review titled : Ranjit D Udeshi
vs State of Maharashtra (AIR 1965 SC 881)
 This case concerned a specific work of literature.
 One famous Indian author appeared in court to
argue in favour of this work of literature.
8

GOSSIP:
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Mulk Raj Anand
The judges upheld the
conviction.
8

GOSSIP:
 X‟s father Fazal Din, who owned a little agricultural land, was an inveterate
womaniser: he married 14 women in succession. Only one, Sardar Begum, bore
him a son . He divorced her to marry another. He took Sardar Begum to court,
alleging her son X was illegitimate. The Lahore High Court accepted her son‟s
legitimacy and appointed his mother his guardian.
 Hence X developed a strong mother-fixation and loathing for his father:
 X remained a bachelor all his life, yet he had two failed love affairs with a litterateur
and singer/actress.
 At one time, while attending a press conference, the litterateur wrote X‟s name
hundreds of times on a sheet of paper. The two of them would meet without saying
a word and he would puff away with his cigarettes, and after he left, she would
smoke the cigarette butts left by him.
 X could not marry the singer/actress due to religious differences. Only one song in
the 1959 film Didi was composed by her “Tum mujhe bhul bhi jao” which is said to
be reflective of her relationship with X.
Who was X, the litterateur and the singer/composer?
9

GOSSIP:
Sahir Ludhianvi
Amrita Pritam
Sudha Malhotra
9

GOSSIP:
 Khuswant Singh‟s novel “Burial at Sea”
depicts the escapades of four main
characters:
 Victor Jai Bhagwan- an Eton-educated
textile industrialist – also India‟s richest
 Ma Durgeshwari – the tantric with a pet
tiger
 Bharathi – Victor‟s headstrong daughter
who passed out of a finishing school at
Switzerland
 Swami Dhananjay Maharaj – Bharathi‟s
yoga teacher
Which four real life personas are these
characters loosely based on?
10

GOSSIP:
Jawaharlal Nehru
Shraddha Mata
Indira Gandhi
Dhirendra Brahamachari
10

GOSSIP:
 In 1995 on the eponymous TV show hosted by X,
Y related a story about how he had, in his youth,
had a letter published in a magazine in which he
described Mahatma Gandhi as a "bastard bania".
 The STAR TV show was widely criticized and
considered irresponsible for broadcasting the
story and it resulted in the cancellation of the
show.
Identify X and Y.
1

GOSSIP:
Nikki Bedi
Ashoke Row Kavi
1

GOSSIP:
Identify the French actor duly credited for the
original quote:
 Often wrongly credited with the quote “When you
marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy”,
Sir James Goldsmith once admitted, "I quoted him
at dinner, and it was pinned on me. I don't mind. ...
I just don't want to claim what's not mine.“
 The real quote indeed belonged to a French stage
actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and
playwright of the Boulevard theatre.
2

GOSSIP:
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry
2

GOSSIP:
 This 2012 film is named after a Tagore dance
drama and depicts the story of a choreographer
struggling with his gender identity.
 Rumour has it that the director of this film (who
also doubled up as the lead actor) lived together
with his male co-star during the shooting to get
more realistic. (Veracity disputed)
Which film?
3

GOSSIP:
 Around the last week of Feb 2013, a tweet made
news : “Barcelona FC does not wish to comment on
this because it has no documentary evidence that this
ever happened and, as a result we deny it”.
 Rumour has it that something indeed happened at the
insistence of former Barca President John Laporta
who appointed a company called Metodo 3 to
undertake a specific project sometime in 2008-09.
What ?
4

GOSSIP:
John Laporta
appointed a detective
agency called Metodo
3 to spy Gerald Pique’s
affair with Shakira and
investigate his
frequent visit to
nightclubs- which
could have been
damaging Pique’s form
on the pitch.
4

GOSSIP:
 This promising cricketer faced condemnation
when officially indicted for a “crime” which almost
ended his promising career.
 However rumour has it that he was a actually a
victim of circumstances.
 He was actually not guilty. But Lt Colonel Hemu
Adhikari, more a weak man than a peace-loving
manager, coaxed him into pleading guilty before
the magistrate in the mistaken hope that the
incident would not become a major issue.
Identify him.
5
Cricketing statistics on next slide>>

GOSSIP:
Sudhir Naik, in 1974.
Accused of stealing additional 2 pairs of socks
from Marks and Spencers.
5

GOSSIP: 6
Niece Uncle
His wife has
been
variously
referenced by
Fatboy Slim,
Mark Knoffler
and David
Bryne in their
works.
Her ex live-in
partner once
featured in an
essay which
was part of a
prescribed
textbook by
Bombay
University

GOSSIP:
Anita Advani.
Ferdinand Marcos
6

GOSSIP:
What am I talking about ?
 They had to be virgins
 They had to take a vow of chastity
 They must be tall
 They must undergo extensive training in martial-arts
and weapons handling at an all-female military
academy
 They must swear to lay down their lives for their
Commander
 They must not leave the side of their Commander,
night or day.
 They must wear elaborate uniforms, as well as make-
up (including lipsticks) and high-heeled combat boots.
 At any given point of time, they had to 40 in number.
7

GOSSIP:
“Amazonian Guards”, the all-female elite cadre of
bodyguards of Mohammad Gadhafi.
Aka The Revolutionary Nuns, Also the Green Nuns.
7

GOSSIP:
 Sisters Tamara and Irina Press from Soviet Union
set a combined 26 world records between 1959
and 1965.
 The duo won almost everything that there was to
win in track and field, except for distance running.
 They suddenly left the sporting scene in 1966.
What happened for the first time in 1966 which
was rumoured to have hastened their sudden
exit ?
8

GOSSIP:
Routine “sex-testing” at competitive games
competition began in 1966 with the 1966
European Athletics Championships.
 Rumour has it that the Press sisters were actually
male and therefore were female impersonators.
 There are no official proofs of disorders in sexual
development in this case.
8

GOSSIP:
 Bappi Lahiri started his career as a composer.
 Rumour has it that his playback singing career got
a kick-start due to development of a certain
unforeseen event which took place in later-half of
1970s.
What ?
9

GOSSIP:
On Aug 4, 1978, Yogita Bali divorced Kishore
Kumar to marry Mithun Chakrabarty in 1979.
Initially Kishore Kumar was angry with Mithun for
stealing his wife and refused to sing for him- then
a rising superstar.
Bappi-da the music director of many Mithun’s
early films had NO CHOICE but to sing for Mithun
himself.
9

GOSSIP:
 We all know Grace Kelly married Rainier III,
Prince of Monaco, to become princess consort of
Monaco in 1956.
 However Grace Kelly was also involved in a
romantic liason with another real-life prince, who
once gifted her an expensive emerald-studded
gold bracelet after a date.
 Rumour has it that she turned down a marriage
proposal from this prince.
Who ?
10

GOSSIP:
Prince Aly Khan, son of Aga Khan III.
Aka Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan
10

GOSSIP:
 This Padma Vibhushan award-winner was one of the
numerous lovers of Protima Bedi. She met him while
working on a dance ballet called Geet Govinda.
 His father-in-law was also a Padma Vibhushan winner.
 Rumour has it in their five-year relationship he taught
her the aesthetics and intricacies of artistic
expression.
 With him, Protima changed from the dare-bare woman
to one who was now always in a sari, a big bindi, a
gajra and a worshipper of Goddess Kali.
Who?
1

GOSSIP:
 During his life he was given the positions of
Research professor at the University Grants
Commission and Producer Emeritus by All India
Radio.
 He also lectured on Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats
and Byron and was an authority on Romantics.
 According to journalist Vinod Mehta, he was also
a self-confessed compulsive homosexual.
 Even if he knew he was going to fail in his
seduction attempt, he would still make a pass.
Give me his REAL name.
2

GOSSIP: 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5
0TAiSu7xo

GOSSIP:
Real name : Raghupati
Sahay
Assumed name : Firaq
Gorakhpuri
2

GOSSIP:
 He was once a card-carrying member of the
International Labour Party (ILP).
 He later left the ILP , adopted a position of
“revolutionary patriotism” and remained a Left-
wing Labour-supporting democratic socialist.
 He named his dog Marx.
 Inspite of his disdain for anything costly, rumour
has it he ordered the very expensive Fortnum and
Mason tea delivered to him when he was fighting
in the Spanish Civil War.
Who?
3

GOSSIP:
 This auditorium was constructed over 8 acres to “fulfil the
particular needs of Indian music, dance and drama”.
 When it came to the selection of the right architect to execute
this project, rumour has it the man in charge of planning
dismissed Charles Correa as “good for designing five-star
hotels”. Instead the project was awarded to two relatively
unknown Amercian architects.
 However, after inauguration in 1969, the auditorium faced a lot of
flak.
 Ustad Ali Akbar Khan : “ I don‟t wish to criticize this great hall,
but I can hardly hear myself”
 Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma : “They should have gone to
someone to do this who understands Indian classical music”.
 Alyque Padamsee : “The stage lacks depth”.
Which auditorium ?
4

GOSSIP: 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up
fFhJWnlFg

GOSSIP:
National Centre Performing Arts (NCPA) at
Mumbai
4

GOSSIP:
 He was credited with the controversial quote,
during 1996 World Cup cricket. A race row broke
out. He later stated his words have been taken out
of context.
 “It wasn‟t that bad losing to you guys. You are
black. Know what I mean. Now, a team like South
Africa is a different matter altogether. You know,
this white thing comes into the picture. We cant
stand losing to them”.
Who?
5

GOSSIP:
Brian Lara.
West Indies lost to Kenya by 73 runs.
5

GOSSIP:
 Saeed Mirza, while still a student with FTII, Pune
once lashed out at Satyajit Ray film by writing a
scathing review in Debonair Magazine.
 Mirza critized Ray for “not providing solutions to
conflicts” and “glorifying poverty through lyricism
and aesthetics”.
 According to Iqbal Masud, Ray was amused by
the review and even more amused that it had
appeared in a magazine like Debonair.
Which film ?
6

GOSSIP:
Ashani Sanket ( Distant Thunder)
6

GOSSIP:
 He had close and long relationships with several
mistresses. His favourite mistress was a girl who
was some thirty years younger than him. He had
bought her as a young girl aged nine.
 In 1782 he successfully attempted a primitive and
unorthodox form of lithotripsy ( breaking hardened
stones via a waxed-wire insertion up the urethra)
upon himself. He sent the details of the
operations to surgeons at London. It is now been
accepted as the first recoded operation of its kind.
Name him.
7

GOSSIP:
 On 6th Nov 1915 Reuters from London reported that the 1915
Nobel Prize in Physics were awarded to X and Y.
 However on Nov 15, Reuters from Stockholm reported that the
1915 Nobel Prize was being awarded to Sir William Henry Bragg
amd William Lawrence Bragg “for their services in the analysis of
crystal strcuture by means of X Rays”.
 There were unsubstantiated rumours that X and Y had refused
the prize.
 Nobel Foundation commented : Any rumour that that a person
has not been given a Nobel Prize because he has made known
his intention to refuse the award is ridiculous”.
Id X and Y
8

GOSSIP:
X = Edison
Y = Tesla
8

GOSSIP:
 This bay colt was the winner of the 1981 Epsom
Derby by a record 10 lengths, the longest winning
margin in the race‟s 226 year history. He was named
European Horse of the year 1981.
 On 8th Feb, 1983 he was stolen from yhr Ballymany
Stud, Ireland by masked gunmen with the body never
being discovered.
 Rumour has it that his kidnapping was the handiwork
of the IRA, although no official confirmation was
provided.
 In 1999, an eponymous film was released starring
Mickey Rourke.
Id the horse.
9

GOSSIP:
 X was founded in 1776.
 It adopted its current name in 1825.
 Marius Petipa, Carlo Blasis, and Arthur Saint-Léon
are the great names associated with X in the 19th
century.
 In early 2013, an ex-employee accused X‟s
general director of turning X "into a giant brothel”.
 Rumour has it that the women who refused to
sleep with X‟s wealthy patrons were threatened
with professional repercussions.
Identify X
10

GOSSIP:
The Bolshoi Ballet Company
10

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