An Informal quiz on Rumors/Scandals/Gossips and anything fishy.

1. CHAI PE QUIZ-
18/02/18
A QUIZ ON RUMOURS/GOSSIPS/SCANDALS OR ANYTHING FISHY.

2. 1.
 On 30 April 1536, under torture, a musician named Mark Smeaton
confessed to a sexual relationship with her. Two days later she was
arrested for adultery and incest, and taken to the Tower of London.
 Her brother, Smeaton and three other men were convicted along
with her on trumped-up charges, with the men executed on 17 May.
That same day, the royal marriage was annulled.
 Who?

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4. ANNE BOLEYN

5. 2.
 X recalled one such time in his book My Unforgettable Women: at a party on
his lawn in Shimla, Y looked at X’s son, who was then a toddler and
exclaimed “What an ugly child!” This annoyed X’s wife so much that she
struck Y off her list of invitees for the future. When the reason for her
exclusion reached her Y is believed to have retorted, “I will teach her a lesson
by seducing her husband.”
 Later X expressed his dismay that Y never actually did so. 
 Identify X and Y.

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7. X-Khushwant Singh
Y-Amrita Sher-gil

8. 3.
 In 1950s, he used to visit the sets of an iconic movie in Mumbai studios just to see its
lead actress. Especially, when a certain song was being picturized, he was present
and he was completely mesmerized by the song composition and the picturization.
Maestro Music Director Naushad was also present at the time of this picturization
and he complimented Naushad Saab for composing such a melodious song based
on Raga Pilu.
 Who?
 Which movie?
 Identify the actress.

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10. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Mughal-e-Azam
Madhubala

11. 4.
 In April 1957, both X and Y reportedly attended the April in Paris Ball at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, but did not meet. After all, they were with
their respective spouses and there were over 1,000 people in attendance. Four years
later, in 1961, they were rumored to have both been at a dinner party hosted at the
Santa Monica home of actor Peter Lawford. Lawford's wife, Patricia Lawford,
happened to be a close friend of X. However, while Y did attend a luncheon at
Lawford's on the day in question, it can't be confirmed that X was also in
attendance, Buzzfeed reports. The most plausible night for an affair would have
been March 24, 1962, multiple historians agree. Both X and Y are thought to have
been at Bing Crosby's Palm Springs, California, home for a party.
 Identify both.

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13. JFK
Marliyn Monroe

14. 5.
 At 16, she was sent to France to be married to the Vicomte de Beauharnais. They had
two children, but the marriage did not work and they separated. Beauharnais was
executed during the Terror in 1794. His widow spent a few months in prison, but she
was close to the men who took over France after Robespierre’s fall, including Paul
Barras and Jean-Lambert Tallien.
 Charming, coquettish and sexually adventurous, she became Barras’ principal mistress
and lurid tales circulated about their orgies with Tallien’s wife and others. It was
through Barras that she met X who was six years her junior. They were married in Paris
in a civil ceremony. The bride reduced her age by four years to 29 and the groom gave
a false address and date of birth.
 Identify the couple.

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16. Napoleon and Josephine

17. 6.
 This person had several relationships and was in involved in multiple scandals.
 Anne Isabella Milbanke("Annabella"), who refused his first proposal of marriage
but later accepted him. The marriage proved unhappy. He treated her poorly.
They had a daughter.
 Who was this playboy? Name his daughter.

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19. Lord Byron
Ada Lovelace

20. 7.
 On August 21, 1929, they were married in a civil ceremony by the
Mayor of Coyoacán, one of Mexico City’s sixteen boroughs, who
proclaimed the merger “an historical event.” X was 22 and Y was 42.
They remained together until X’s death in July of 1954. Despite having
an open marriage where each had multiple affairs — for the bisexual X,
the most notable were those with French singer, dancer, and actress
Josephine Baker and Russian Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky — both of
them maintained that they were the love of each other’s life.
 Identify the couple.

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22. Frida Kahlo
Diego Rivera

23. 8.
 The story of X’s seduction of Y’s favourite concubine Z was first
mentioned by an English merchant William Finch who visited
Hindustan between 1608 and 1611 — 11 years after the supposed
death of Z.
 When Y discovers the treachery, he sends X to Afghanistan and puts
Z to death. An infuriated X rebels against his father, and kills his
beloved official biographer A. Finally, Y’s mother Hamida convinces
X to stem his revolt, lest it herald the death-knell of the empire.
 Solve all the variables.
 ID the father-son duo X-Y , concubine Z and biographer A.

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25. X-Jahangir
Y-Akbar
Z-Anarkali
A-Abu’l F’azal

26. 9.
 His proficiency at delivering goods at the right time and place earned
him the nickname ____ Samaan. In 1992, he supplied weapons to film
actor Sanjay Dutt. He played an active role in March 1993 Mumbai serial
bomb blasts which killed over 250 people, left 700 injured and damaged
property worth Rs 270 million.
 On 20 September 2002, he was arrested along with an actress by
Interpol in Lisbon, Portugal. His satellite phone was tracked using GPS
technology.
 The actress in the question debuted in Hindi films in the mid-1990s. She
is also known for participating in Bigg Boss 2.
 Identify both.

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28. Abu Salem and Monica Bedi

29. 10.
 X is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of
Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the
other produced in La Romana, Dominican Republic for Altadis SA, a division of
Imperial Tobacco.
 Sir Winston Churchill was perhaps the brand's most famous devotee.
 Identify this brand named after a Literary Classic from the 16th century.

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31. Romeo y Julieta

32. 11.
 Devyani Rana is a member of the Rana dynasty.Her mother Usha Raje
Scindia, is a daughter of George Jivajirao Scindia, Maharaja of
Gwalior.In 2004, Rana obtained a second master's degree from the
London School of Economics. She currently works for the United
Nations Development Programme.
 She was one of the indirect cause in a certain unfortunate incident in
2001. She fled to India immediately after incident to escape media
attention.
 Put funda.

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34. Nepalese royal massacre
 It was his family's opposition to his marriage to Devyani Rana which
angered King Dipendra of Nepal to kill his entire family.

35. 12.
 In 1959 ,she was a freshman majoring in Asian Studies at Sarah
Lawrence College and sharing an apartment with actress Jane
Alexander. She went on a summer trip to India and met X in the lounge
of the Windamere Hotel in Darjeeling, India. He was a recent widower
with two sons and a daughter and, at age 36, nearly twice her age. They
were drawn to each other by the similar isolation of their childhoods.
Two years later, in 1961, their engagement was announced, but the
wedding was put off for more than a year because astrologers warned
that 1962 was an inauspicious year for marriages.
 Identify the couple.
 What was commissioned by X in 1971,something which was banned in
the country for several decades?

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37. Sikkim's King Palden Thondup Namgyal and
his wife Queen Hope Cook

38. 13.  This memorial is located inside a landmark with the motto Omnia
Omnibus Ubique, which is Latin for "all things for all people,
everywhere".
 Where can you see this memorial?
 Whom does the memorial pays tribute to?

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40. Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi
Fayed memorial at Harrods

41. 14.
 They reportedly paid $60 million to buy the Chateau Miraval estate in
the south of France in 2012. Since making that purchase, the estate has
established itself as well-regarded wine maker, with four different wines
on the market today: one rosé, two whites, and one red. The rosé, in
particular, has been well received by reviewers: It ranked 84th on Wine
Spectator‘s list of the top 100 wines of 2013—the only rosé to make the
list.
 Who were the owners of the Winery?

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43. BRANGELINA

44. 15.
 They met for the first at a photo shoot in 1955 when she was leading
the American delegation to the Cannes Film Festival, and the two
instantly hit it off. After she returned to the States, they corresponded
until later that year when he came to the U.S. on a diplomatic tour.
After spending few days with her family, he proposed, and she
accepted.
 To seal the deal, her family had to cough up a dowry. Luckily, her
father was every bit as successful in the brick business and he forked
over a $2 million dowry to help cover the cost of the wedding.
 Identify the couple.

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46. Grace Kelly
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

47. 16.
 The story of X and Nikita dates back to 2007. Back in that year, the 21-
year old X married his childhood friend Nikita Vanjara. The marriage
was held in Mumbai. Nikita’s father and X’s father were friends for a
long time and the kids grew fond of each other as they got older.
Both the families decided to turn friendship into a relationship and
the youngsters were very eager too. However, things went south after
5 years when Nikita started seeing Y, X’s friend. X divorced his wife,
Nikita while she was pregnant with a boy and soon after that Y and
Nikita married each other.
 Solve X and Y.

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49. Dinesh Karthik
Murali Vijay

50. 17.
 She was known to be wildly promiscuous throughout the marriage, doing
little to hide such indiscretions from her husband. He became aware of her
numerous lovers, accepted them and even developed friendships with some
of them – making them "part of the family". Towards the end of her life, her
daughter wrote a memoir of her mother in which she describes her mother
as "a man eater" and her mother's many lovers as a succession of "uncles"
throughout her childhood.
 Lord Hugh Molyneaux, the American Laddie Sanford, the Daily Express's
Mike Wardell were some of her lovers.
 Who?
 Who was the most famous missing name in the list?

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53. 18.
 The woman he delivered it to was not a prostitute – as previously thought – but a
humble maid who had been injured by a dog bite and worked to pay off her
medical bills.
 Bernadette Murphy, the researcher who discovered the letter and traced the family
of the unknown girl, has now speculated that he could have been offering this to
help heal her.
 Ms Murphy,spent seven years cross-referencing records from the period to find
the girl, identifying her as a young woman named Gabrielle who had been
savaged by a rabid dog a year before.
 What was delivered to this young woman?

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56. 19.
 He was criticized in the press for text messaging a woman in South Africa, accused
of sending lewd and harassing messages, but the woman who made the claims
was subsequently charged with extortion in her own country.
 On 7 May 2006, the News of the World tabloid newspaper published pictures of
him standing in his underwear with models Coralie Eichholz and Emma Kearney,
as well as explicit text messages allegedly from him.
 Simply identify the person whose career was plagued by scandals off the field.

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58. Shane Warne

59. 20.Who is missing from this list?
 1950-1958 1975-1978 1980-1987

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61. Madhubala

62. 21.
 She was carried through the city in an open coffin for all to admire her beauty, and there seems to
have been some kind of posthumous popular cult in Florence.
 She had a reputation as an exceptional beauty in Florence,but the whole display should be
considered within the conventions of courtly love; She was a married woman, a member of a
powerful family allied to the Medici,and any actual affair would have been a huge political risk.
 X finished the painting around 1486, some ten years later. Some have claimed that the central figure,
in this painting, closely resembles her.This claim, however, is dismissed as a "romantic myth"
 Identify the painter and the painting.
 For bonus points name her cousin who is totally known in a different context.

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64. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Simonetta Vespucci

65. 22.
 Marguerite Steinheil was a French woman famous for her many love affairs
with important men.She married the well-known French painter Adolphe
Steinheil in July 1890. She became a prominent figure in Parisian society, and
her salon was frequented by men of eminence in French political and social
circles, including Gounod, Ferdinand de Lesseps, René Lalique, Jules Massenet,
François Coppée, Émile Zola, and Pierre Loti.
 She became notorious after an incident involving her in the 1890s. Put funda.

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67. French President died while having sex
with her.
 She was present at the death of President Félix Faure, who allegedly had a
seizure while having sex with her.

68. 23.
 Her first marriage, to U.S. naval officer Win Spencer, was punctuated by
periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. In 1931, during
her second marriage, to Mr Ernest, she met her future husband. Five
years later she divorced her second husband to marry X. were
suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi
sympathisers. In 1937, they visited Germany and met Adolf Hitler.
 Identify the couple.

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70. Wallis Simpson
King Edward VIII

71. 24.
 She first encountered the dashing young commander (10 years her
junior) when he helped the 33-year-old woman overthrow her
disappointing (in more ways than one) husband, Czar Peter III, in
1762. Their steamy though unadulterous affair, thanks to Peter’s
untimely end, was likely consummated in the basement sauna of the
Winter Palace.
 A century after his death, his name was given to a certain entity,
which featured in the 1905 Russian Revolution and was fictionalized
in a 1925 Silent film.
 Identify both of them.

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73. Catherine the Great
Grigory Potemkin

74. Thank you 