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BollywoodScheme
1st 4 – 5 pts – written
(name, place, animal, thing)
Next 12 – 10 - passing
Last 2 – 10 – team nominee
Answers at the end!
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Note 1. This is a quiz on Indian Politics, Hindi Films, and
Indian Cricket.
2. This quiz was conducted on Oct 12, 2008 under the aegis of the BCQC by J. Ramanand.
8. License Note: you are free to share and reuse these questions provided you clearly attribute the questions to the author. In particular, the facts in these questions are in the public domain but in the case where you are re-using the framing of the question, the author requests the courtesy of due credit!
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Identify film
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Identify film
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Identify director
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Identify brand name on box
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(this question is spread over three slides)
As a child, he took part in a high jump competition and won. This incident inspired a short story called
“High Jump”.
This person also painted (Examples in the next slide).
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Guru Dutt
Shivshankar and Vasanthi
Atmaram
?(m. Gopalkrishna)
Kalpana
Devdas
Q05
Connect the missing person in this family tree to the person/incident/story mentioned in the previous two slides
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Dilip Kumar on meeting X said that
“X’s words contain an odour of daal-chaawal”
Pricked by this, X learnt Urdu and later used it with great fluency and command.
Who?
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(paraphrased video question)
A scene from “Manorama 6 Feet Under” in which Abhay Deol is watching an English film.
Which film?
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(Paraphrased Video Clip)
The beginning of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool shows Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, and X talking about the
‘encounter’ of “NaaTaa”.
Connect X and the film above
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(paraphrased video question)
An end credit sequence of a film
The last frame shown has:“Other Students… Senior: Shah Rukh
Khan”
Which National Award winning actor’s name appears in the next set of credits?
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This Vasant Desai film song has two versions: solo and chorus
It is now sung by the Bharat Scouts and Guides in a modified form
The subject of the modified song has been changed to Baden Powell.
Which famous song?
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This pair’s only collaboration was “Sadma”
They are now working together for a film called
“S.R.K” (begun in 2008)
Who?
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Person 1
1973 Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Person 2
1983 Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Person 3
First FF award: playing Madhumita and Vaishnavi
Common in 1953, 1960, 2008 respectively
Identify all threeQ12
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“Best Supporting Actress” FF nomination – “Goonj Uthi Shehnai” – 1959
Other well-known films:
Sanjog, Sampoorna Ramayan, Aradhana, Sharmeelee, Anand Ashram, Dekh Kabira Roya, Kavi Kalidas, Sangeet Samrat Tansen
Best known work:
Involved two weeks of shooting
Each day, she would eat only after finishing shooting
Who or (more importantly) What is her best known work?
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Opening credits of a film is accompanied by the song
“chaah bha.nvar trishnaa / nii.nd na aaye”
(the visuals show the interior of a jail and sounds of locking up)
The story was written by Pooja Ladha Surti.
The well-known singer rarely performs for films, but incidentally had sung for a film released in late 2008.
Identify singer and film.
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Single Heroes
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Connect
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Goonj Uthi Shehnai
Dhool ka Phool
Kanoon
Sasuraal
Dil Ek Mandir
Ayee Milan ki Bela
Arzoo
Suraj
These are some of the films why R.K.Tulli came to be known as '_____' ______
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Answers1. Julie
2. Hyderabad Blues
3. Raj Kumar Kohli (Nagin, later Jaani Dushman)
4. “Chamko” (powder) from “Chasm-e-baddoor”
5. Akira Kurosawa grew up with learning difficulties and was mentored by a teacher to win the high jump; he later realised his artistic talents. Amole Gupte wrote the story based on this incident. This later evolved into “Taare Zameen Par”. Lalitha Lajmi, sister of Guru Dutt, appears as the art contest judge in the film.
6. Lata Mangeshkar
7. “Chinatown” which inspired “Manorama…”
8. Abbas Tyrewala; Ranvir Shorey’s character in “No Smoking” was called Abbas Tyrewala, and Abbas Tyrewala, who co-wrote Maqbool, appears in the opening scene.
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9. Manoj Bajpai; the film is “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones”
10. “Ae Malik Tere Bande Hum” (Do Aankhen Baaraah Haath)
11. Gulzar and Ilaiyaraja
12. Sulochana a.k.a Ruby Myers; Durga Khote; Aishwarya Rai (all played Jodha in films)
13. This is Anita Guha who played the eponymous “Jai Santoshi Maa”
14. Pandit Jasraj; Vikram Bhatt’s “1920”
15. The protagonists are all cartoonists (Mr and Mrs. 55, Hum Tum, Baaton Baaton Mein)
16. “Jubilee” Kumar (Rajendra Kumar)