Bollywood Quiz by Quiz Club NITW

● There are 15 questions in the prelims.
● You have 30 minutes to answer the questions. The form must
be submitted by 5 PM.
● Only one member from each team must submit the form. The
first entry we receive will be scored.
● Each question carries 1 point. Part points are applicable
everywhere.
● There are no negatives, so feel free to guess.
● Question number 2, 6, 11 and 15 are tiebreakers are *ed.
● The top 10 teams will be selected for the finals.
● QM’s discretion is final
RULES

GOOGLING IS CANCER
None of the OC members promote or support googling

QUESTION 1
In the late 1950s, Grace Kelly, a Hollywood star turned princess
of Monaco, was photographed holding this item over her stomach
to conceal the early signs of her pregnancy because of which this
item shot to international fame and was renamed the Kelly.
Hence it became one of the most expensive items designed by
that company.
ID the name of this item which is also a great travelling
companion.

QUESTION 2*
Doraha Fort was built by Mughal King Jahangir for supporting
Mughal caravans. Though in a dilapidated condition now, it is a
great example of remarkable Mughal architecture. The place
shot to fame after being featured in the Bollywood movie X.
Ever since then, the fort has become a hidden getaway for
people to chill, take photographs and enjoy. Interestingly, local
guides find it very difficult to make the tourists understand
that there is no IAF base adjoining the fort.
ID the movie which gives this fort its popular nickname.

QUESTION 3
The image is a poster of Fourteen _____,
Two Weddings and A Funeral, a
musical based on the behind the scenes
production of an iconic Bollywood
Movie.
FITB in the title, and ID the movie.

QUESTION 4
The make-up artist, Greg Cannom was working on a bollywood
movie starring X when he got the idea to reuse fake cheekbones
from a 2008 hollywood oscar winning movie starring Y that
heavily used prosthetics.
X met Y in 2017 when Y came to India for promotions. Both
made their acting debut in TV and have been compared a lot by
their fans.
ID this Bollywood movie.

QUESTION 5
The song was picturised inside X’s court, where the lead
character declares her love in front of X. The director wanted to
bring out the entire pomp & glory of the mighty ______ ______(6,6)
in this song.
Around 10 lakhs, a whopping amount of money those days, was
spent on the song. The director imported mirrors from Belgium.
The mirrors were coated with transparent wax to prevent the
reflection of studio lights. It is said that there never was & there
never will be any song that can match this song in all its
grandeur and style.
ID the song and the movie.

ANSWER
Pyar kiya toh darna kya
Mughal-e-Azam

QUESTION 6*
Taken from a fan's comparison between the two actors, A and B
(who played characters which were similar)
"The cauliflower ear is a condition caused by a permanent blood
clot formed in the pinna region. It is quite natural and most likely
for a veteran in _________ to have a cauliflower ear. While A had
paid immense attention to insignificant details like the cauliflower
ear, B had turned a blind eye. That is where the difference in
work of A and B lies."
Id A and B

ANSWER
A- Aamir Khan B- Salman Khan
Blanks: Wrestling
Aamir Khan in Dangal had a cauliflower ear while Salman Khan
in Sultan didn’t.

QUESTION 7
During a press conference about the Global Precipitation
Measurement, X, who was working on the mission was asked by a
reporter, "Is this budget justified?". X responds:
"Globally, there is a danger of water recession in the near future. It
will not be unreal to imagine that in the 21st century, cities like
Beijing, Amman, New Delhi, Santiago, Jakarta, Mexico City, Lima, and
many others, will drink up, us up their surrounding waters and
perish. Water is going to be rare. Is it not a reason enough to justify
any budget?“
Who is X?

ANSWER
Mohan Bhargava or SRK form Swades

QUESTION 8
A duo appear to be on the top list when it comes to casting voice
actors for Hindi dub of English-language movies involving
characters who share a certain dynamic. The fact that this duo
are related in real life is the main contributing factor in their
casting.
It was first observed in a 2004 animated movie where two
characters shared that dynamic and thus this duo was cast.
Riding on their performance in 2004 film, a 2019 movie by the
same production studio (involving the same dynamic between two
characters) featured this duo as dub artists.
ID the duo.

ANSWER
Shah Rukh Khan and Aryan Khan
Father-son roles
Incredibles (2004) - Mr Incredible and Dash
The Lion King (2019) - Mufasa and Simba

QUESTION 9
In 1998, during the creation of a historic record, a Hollywood
director gleefully exclaimed this dialogue in his Oscar acceptance
speech, quoting the protagonist from his iconic movie.
The cringe-worthy moment acts as the inspiration behind a scene
in an equally iconic Bollywood movie, and the same dialogue was
used by a dreamer in one of his fantasies.
Which dialogue was this?

QUESTION 10
The song was Bollywood’s first song to be shot entirely like the
way it was, ushering the world of cinematography into a
newfound technique.
While shooting this song, the actors had to mouth the words in
highly sped-up version, otherwise enacting at a slow speed. The
high-speed film was then slowed down to get the dubbing and
acting to finally meet halfway, looking normal in the final film.
Which song?

ANSWER
Pehla Nasha Pehla Khumar

QUESTION 11*
A particular character in the movie X was modelled after the
director’s father.
This character’s company logo, which appears in the movie, is
actually the logo for a different director’s company who shares
his initials with this character. This was because the film X’s
4-worded title was directly taken from the older director’s 1972
film Y (2-worded).
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
Y Kabhi Kabhie
X - K3G
(Yash Raj & Yash Raichand)

QUESTION 12
Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan is an Indian Ambedkarite lawyer
turned activist. He is the co-founder and national president of the
Bhim Army.
Aazad has established himself as a Dalit leader and is known for
his style, especially his twirled moustache.
ID which recent movie character he served as an inspiration for.

QUESTION 13
This song in a 1976 movie starring Amitabh Bachchan became
really popular last year relating to an era-defining incident.
Now it's impossible for any of us to listen this song and not relate
it to this incident.
ID the song and the incident.

ANSWER
Main Pal Do Pal Ka
Dhoni announcing his retirement with the video

QUESTION 14
Among Kolkata’s historic aristocratic families stand the Lahas
who are among the ones that created a foundation of Bengal’s
very own Durga Puja in the history.
More importantly, their mansion (pic follows) came to be known
as Laha Bari. Now while this might look as one of the many
houses for Bengali aristocratic families, Laha Bari gained
immense popularity around 5 years back, due to its pivotal role in
a certain work.
What work?

QUESTION 15*
When The End of this film came on, it was "The End" in more
ways than one. The end credits of the film had a wonderful
montage of the director during its making, his passion and
confidence oozing from every frame.
The title of the film prophetically described his desire to work till
the very end of his life and the montage was a befitting tribute to
that. And the very last frame had him saying 'Action before it
dissolved into black.
Which film and which director?

ANSWER
Yash Chopra + Jab Tak hai Jaan

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QUESTION 1
While the dialogues for most of this film from the previous decade
was written by X, a certain character of this film was in-fact penned
by Y.
This character was introduced in the film after most of the other
characters were locked in, but the director wanted someone who
would observe the situation from afar, and it couldn’t be just a
director’s voice. Inspired by their own loving ___, they introduced this
character which bought a fresh perspective to the film. And to
ensure that the character's lingo also be different than the rest of
the film's youthful language, Y was called to write the dialogues.
ID Y and this character.

ANSWER
Pluto, the narrator of Dil
Dhadakne Do
Y - Javed Akhtar

QUESTION 2
William Gladstone(Liberal)and Benjamin Disraeli(Conservatives)
were former prime ministers of UK and political rivals. Their
rivalry led to many interesting political debates which not only
displayed their ideological stance but their knowledge in usage of
thesaurus. According to a legend, once when Disraeli was drunk,
he uttered this Tharoor-style bashing of Gladstone:
"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his
own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can
at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of
arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
What did this quote inspire something in Bollywood?

ANSWER
The starting lines of “My name is Anthony Gonsalves” from Amar
Akbar Anthony:
"Wait wait wait
You see the whole country of the system is just a
Position by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere
Because you are a sophisticated rhetorician
Intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
What
My name is Anthony Gonsalves
Gonsalves"

QUESTION 3
Y, known for different reasons altogether, had a serious knack for
acting and theatre. It is believed that he had changed career parts to
be in a Shakespearean Drama Company in Britain. However
succumbing to family pressure he eventually bowed down.
Opportunity presented itself few years later around the start of
1930s; for Y to prove his love for drama/acting by using his now
professional expertise. Being one of the best professionals in his field
at the time, Y had the chance to speak for an individual who was
being forbidden from taking a once in a lifetime role in a movie; due
to technical issues related to this individual's former studio contract.

Contd...
Y succeeded in providing professional help, thus making it possible for
this individual to take part in the movie
ID Y and which movie are we talking about?

ANSWER
Y- Mohd. Ali Jinnah
Alam Ara

QUESTION 4
A waterphone is an acoustic device consisting of a stainless steel
resonator bowl or pan with a cylindrical neck and bronze rods of
different lengths and diameters around the rim of the bow.
You will see a video in the next slide showing OST of a movie
which extensively used this device to portray the arrival of a
terrorful atmosphere.
ID the movie.

ANSWER
Sholay
The sound was used in the scenes involving Gabbar Singh.

QUESTION 5
How is this non-exhaustive list
and this man connected?
Action Replay
Kaho Na Pyaar Hai
Singh Is King
Simba
Padmavat

ANSWER
He is a renowned numerologist
who altered the spellings of
these movies to add double
letters

QUESTION 6
X choreographed this song for the movie Y. However, the
director of the movie, was also greatly involved in the
choreography of the song, which is quite typical.
While performing the song Z’s ear started bleeding. It was
reported that the heavy jewelry that the actor wore during the
song made her ear bleed. However, despite the pain, she
continued dancing without letting it affect her grace.
This song also featured in another movie scene where a junior
rags his seniors by making them dance on this song.
ID the two movies and the song?

ANSWER
X-Saroj Khan Z - Aishwariya
Y - Devdas
Munna Bhai MBBS
Dola Re Dola

QUESTION 7
Kedarnath Bhattacharya started his career In 1989 as Y
Bhattacharya. When Jagjit Singh introduced him to Kalyanji-Anandji
in Mumbai, on their suggestion, he changed his name to XY because
his voice and singing style were much influenced by Kishore Kumar.
Makers of a 2015 film wanted the audience from the very first
instance to sweep into the film setting. So, to suit the screenplay, for
the first time ever in the history of YRF, in 60 years, producers
decided to replace the iconic voice of Lata Mangeshkar from the _____
with XY’s voice just for this film.
ID XY, the movie and where the change was made.

ANSWER
XY - Kumar Sanu
They replaced Lata Mangeshkar’s
voice to that of Kumar Sanu’s in
the YRF logo in Dum Laga Ke
Haisha

QUESTION 8
A temple dedicated to a form of Hinglaj Mata in Western part
India is locally reputed to be 1200 years old.
During a tough period as a nation, legends say that deity herself
came in dream of a ________ and promised to protect them if they
stay in close vicinity of temple.
Such stories were heard about how the deity protected those who
remained close to the temple. Henceforth, the fame of the mata
and her temple has reached new heights, and now it’s a custom
for certain individuals to visit the deity before moving on to
accomplish their duty.
Where have we seen this temple?

QUESTION 9
When this director was asked about his decision to introduce a
particular character Y to his franchise, he replied that it was to
revive the lost interest in Y. He recounts a conversation with a
chai wallah during the early days of shooting who was a huge fan
of X, the main character but was confused about who Y was. It
utterly shocked the director, and this incident deepened his
resolve on finalising Y as a character.
ID Y, played by an acclaimed theatre artist DIlip
Prabhavalkar(image), and the director.

ANSWER
Y - Mahatma Gandhi
Raju Hirani

QUESTION 10
This hit song from the 2000s is based on a semi-classical genre
called X, and the word is featured in the title of the track itself.
The genre is usually used to describe the longing of a maiden for
her lover as the black monsoon cloud come hanging, hence the
name also alludes to this description of the skies.
The song is directly inspired from a folk song from the Braj, in
which the celebrated eyes are of Lord Krishna. The Bollywood
version, although featuring an actual family, is not quite this pure.
ID this song.

AREY
DEEWANO
MUJHE
PEHCHANO
ROUND 2

● This round consists of 5 questions
● Each question consists of 5 hints that will lead you to a
movie.
● The hints will appear one by one, and with each passing hint,
the stake of the question reduces. That is, lesser points to gain
or lose.
For example- After hint 1 - +25/-15
After hint 2 - +20/-10 and so on.
● You can attempt the question after any of the hints, by
tagging your respective moderator.
RULES

Trial
Some trivia about a movie. ID the movie.
25/-15
20/-10
15/-5
10/-3
5/0

i. 25/-15
● 70s movie based on a Premchand work

ii. 20/-10
● Richard Attenborough’s first work in an Indian movie

iii. 15/-5
● Filmed in lucknow

iv. 10/-3
● Director’s only full length Hindi movie

V. 5/0
● Director’s only full length Hindi movie
● Director was awarded the oscar on his deathbed

QUESTION 1
These are characters from the same movie. ID the movie.

i. +25/-15
Joginder Dhillon - A traveller waiting for his hotel cab
to pick him up.

ii. +20/-10
to pick him up.
R. D. Tripathi - An education philanthropist with a
sense of humour

iii.
Joginder Dhillon - A traveller waiting for his hotel
cab to pick him up.
sense of humour
Dubey - A linguist, good at visual descriptions

iv.
to pick him up.
sense of humour
Dubey - A linguist, good at visual descriptions
Manmohan - an adolescent who goes to great lengths
when compensated appropriately

v.
to pick him up.
sense of humour.
Dubey - A linguist, good at visual descriptions.
Manmohan - an adolescent who goes to great lengths
when compensated appropriately.
Andre - a Hungarian wildlife photographer.

QUESTION 2
These are foreign posters of the same bollywood movie. ID the
movie.

QUESTION 3
Blanks are iconic lines. ID the movie from its given dialogues
(translated into english).

i.25/-15
B - He always talks about you. Just yesterday evening...
M- Yesterday evening? Do you also Live in Calcutta?
B - No in Koliwada...
A (fumbles)- Er- No mom, I called him to ask how work was
progressing.
A (to B)- Come out…
(A takes B out)
A(angrily) - _ _ _ _ _ _
C - Why should I pay?

ii.20/-10
This time we should not fail.
We must catch the criminals.
(next scene)
B - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, Absolutely not.
The cops have seen us in hamlet.
We'll be nabbed if we go in the same getup.
A - Let’s go without a helmet, let’s show some daring.
B - WHAT? They’ll shoot us in the head

iii.15/-5
A - Hey junior, send someone to my bungalow. Why don't you fit
3 to 4 AC's here? It's so hot in here.
B - Hey, sir. If you have so much problem… then why don't you
have tea at a five star hotel?
A - Dear, we have become habituated. There was a time when we
weren’t like this.
We became ____ overnight.”
B - How?
A - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
B- Do I look like I'm a simpleton?
Do you have a counterfeit _ _ _ _ _ business?

iv.10/-3
A - so that’s 3,60,000; we’ll keep that for us, and divide it among
ourselves
We’ll leave this city, this neighbourhood, and party hard yolo _ _ _
_ _ _
B - What an amazing plan!

v.5/0
A - I'll get a lot of money. Then I'll sell an eye, I'll get a lot of
money. Then I'll sell a kidney and I'll get a lot of money, then
another eye, and another kidney. And like this I'll sell my entire
body. I'll use this money to repay Tiwari and repent for my sins.
B - Oh my god, oh dear, .....
_ _ _ _ _ _

ANSWER
Hera Pheri Cinematic Universe

QUESTION 4
ID this movie from the (many) references in it.

i.25/-15
There are numerous homages to Sholay. When a character in
the movie wakes up he asks, "_______, what is your name?", like
Jai asking Basanti in Sholay.

ii.20/-10
The cap worn by a background
dancer in this shot is the same
cap worn by a lead from this
movie in another film made in
1991.

iii.15/-5
When the main characters are deciding something, a character
says "__ ____ __ _______ aur jo hara wo hai bandar" and the music
playing in background is the theme music from X(blanks).
Another character can be seen humming 'Dekha Hai Pehli Baar'
from his own earlier film from 1991.

iv.10/-5
After a big secret is revealed, X says that it's like in Seeta aur
Geeta and Y corrects him saying that it's like Ram aur Shyam
and not Seeta aur Geeta.

v.5/0
The movie also makes references to the famous line "Mogambo
Khush Hua" during the many confrontations between the
antagonist and his side-goons. The antagonist continually steals
something from the two hired goons, as it is "the family business".
On his departure, he starts the phrase by saying "_ _ _ _..." while
his goon finishes the sentence "Khush Huagi".

QUESTION 5
Connect all these songs to
something very specific.
IF YOU CAN.

● There are 10 sets of questions in this round, each having
a certain theme.
● Each sub-question is of 2 points.
● Only one member from each team must go to -
https://www.cosmobuzz.net/#/play and write your team
number as your name.
● Anyone can answer on mic but only after the QM has
called out your team’s number.
RULES

● Each slide has a central theme, the minimum number
of question you need to answer is given in the slide,
answering less than that will result in negative and
the question will be passed to the team that buzzed
2nd.
● Giving a wrong answer or not giving an answer fast
enough will also result in a negative.
RULES

TRIAL QUESTION
Extra-curriculars
a. Name the actor who owns Yuksom Breweries in Sikkim.
b. Name 5 sports teams owned by bollywood actors.
c. Rajya Sabha Members who were a part of bollywood.

1.
Special Appearances
a. Name any five actresses who appeared in the song Om Shanti
Om
b. Name any 2 international celebrities who appeared in
Bollywood movies. Tom Alter doesn’t count.
c. Name 2 instances of Bollywood actors appearing as child
artists
Minimum - 2

2.
Name a song where...
a. Name any 3 songs in which there is a number in the lyrics?
For example - 7 Samundar paar
b. Name 4 songs that SRK/Deepika use in Chennai Express to
communicate.
c. Name 3 songs where a specific location is mentioned.
Example - Aati kya Khandala
Minimum - 2

3.
English translations
1. Along with the winds, along with the clouds, O my friend
come, take me along too.
2. Darling O darling, Flowers blossom in the gardens, When we
meet in the desert, Me and you.
3. We’re idly roaming about on an open street, in a snapping
anger, and the hail falls on the fiery street.
4. What signals have been sent between our eyes, we found life’s
support while sitting.
Minimum - 2

Answer
1. Hawa ke saath saath ..
2. Mehbooba Mehbooba..
3. Matargashti Khuli Sadak pe…
4. Ankho hi ankho mein ishara ho gaya...

4.
Guess these movies Minimum - 3

Answer
1. Om Shanti Om
2. Dear Zindagi
3. Andaz Apna Apna
4. Queen

5.
Actor Nicknames
a. ChiChi
b. Chintu
c. Aaloo
d. Piggy Chops
e. Lolo
Minimum - 4

Answer
1. Govinda
2. Rishi Kapoor
3. Alia Bhatt
4. Priyanka Chopra
5. Karishma Kapoor

6.
ID these movies from their locations Minimum 3

Answer
1. YJHD
2. RDB
3. Lagaan
4. Haider

7.
ID the movies from their working titles and year of release
a. The Ring (2017)
b. Punjab Express (2007)
c. Short-term Shaadi (2012)
d. Jaffna (2013)
e. Ek tha talli (2014)
Minimum - 3

Answer
1. Jab Harry Met Sejal
2. Jab we met
3. Ek mai aur Ek Tu
4. Madras Cafe
5. PK

8.
ID the song from these
signature steps
Minimum - 4

9.
Badly explained plots
a. Guy with dissociative-identities has ‘intra-marital’ affair.
b. Girl realizes that the boy is in-fact not like his tinder
profile.
c. Woman kills herself instead of having to sit through one
more wedding.
d. Girl gets married after breaking a piece of home decor
and a tragic life event.

Answer
1. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2. Tamasha
3. Hum aapke hain kon..?
4. Kabhi Khushi Kabhi
Gham

10.
1. Describe 8 things about “Pappu” also the one thing he
can’t seem to figure out.
2. Where's she at, I’m searching for this fine shoddy And you think like I
be gettin' naughty I m for you, you know I don't play tha Cause I mean it
when you hear me say that. Madly searching for this fine shoddy. In my
world the number one hotiee. Everywhere she make 'em(them) go crazy.
Gosta get me, he has not yet made it ID the song from its starting rap.
3. List 5 words rhyming with fevicol in the song ‘fevicol.’
4. Name 2 song with double meaning lyrics. (QM’s
discretion)
Minimum - 2

Tie-breaker
X is a state that was carved out of another in November
2000 with a vast tribal area falls under the category of a
conflict zone where rights are denied and there are also
forces that trying to disrupt the due processes. This movie
from a few years ago focuses on a Maoist controlled town
in the conflict zone. A local line producer said that nearly
80 people from X have been closely associated with the
film. Given its natural beauty and other surroundings, X was
the best location for the shoot. The movie has gone on to
represent India at (a) prestigious award function(s). Id X
and movie

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