Since mothers-in-law are the flavour of the season, why should the rest of the clan be left out? A quiz on relatives!

1 Which expression is believed to have originated when Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquess of Salisbury, promoted his nephew, Arthur Balfour, to the post of chief secretary of Ireland?

2 In the world of film and entertainment, how do we better know Leonard, Adolph, Julius, Milton and Herbert?

3 Her uncle is Pandit Jasraj, her elder sister was a singer-actress, her brothers were fairly successful music directors. She had a dream film debut, and not much more. Identify the person.

4 She married Spenser Gregson, and after his death went back to her original fiancé, Percy Craye. Also known as Lady Worplesdon, she is easily one of the most frightening characters in fiction. By what name do we know her?

5 Storied Indian sporting family: If the husband played hockey in the Olympics and the son, tennis, then in which sport did the wife represent the country? And for no extra points, she happens to be the granddaughter of which famous Indian?

6 Hitchcock-favourite Tippi Hedren had a fairly well-known son-in-law and even named a pet lion after him. Name the gent.

7 Still on in-laws. Which legendary actress was a mother-in-law to both Gary Oldman and Martin Scorsese?

8 Which classic adventure story’s plot revolves around an identical twin of King Louis XIV, who was incarcerated? The story is inspired by a real life incident.

9 The brother has been nominated for 14 Academy awards and has won both Best Director and the Irving Thalberg award. Woody Allen once famously wanted to be reincarnated as his fingertips. The sister has five Academy award nominations and won her only Oscar in 1983. Name both.

10 In the 2014 football World Cup, two brothers will be representing different countries in the final stages of the tournament. Name both brothers and the countries they are representing?

Answers

1. ‘Bob’s Your Uncle’

2. These are the real names of the five Marx brothers, Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo. Their father was a tailor nicknamed ‘Misfit Sam’.

3. Vijayta Pandit, remember Love Story — the brothers being Jatin and Lalit.

4. Bertie Wooster’s dreaded Aunt Agatha, who according to him wore barbed wire next to the skin and howled with the wolves at midnight.

5. Basketball — Jennifer Paes, others being Vece and Leander. Her grandfather was the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

6. Antonio Banderas — they got along quite well.

7. Ingrid Bergman — they were both married to her daughter Isabella Rossellini.

8.The Man In the Iron Mask — the final instalment of The Three Musketeers adventures.

9. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine.

10. Jerome Boateng is representing Germany, while his elder brother Kevin-Prince Boateng is representing Ghana.

Joy Bhattacharjya is a quiz master, Director - Kolkata Knight Riders and author of Junior Premier League — The First XI

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