Probashi- Quiz
Probashi- Quiz
Check Your Cinematic Quotient
Sanyal Uncle’ s Quiz: Check your Cinematic Quotient t
1. Who is known as Father of Indian Cinema? 2. When was the first Bengali film‘ Bilwamangal’ produced? 3. Which was the first Indian film to be screened at an International film festival?
4. Which was Ritwik Ghatak’ s first film
? 5. Which film got most Filmfare awards? 6. Which Indian lyricist won Academy award? 7. Which film industry is also referred as Sandalwood?
8. Which actor got most
Filmfare awards for Best acting? 9. Which playback singer holds world record of having sung most number of songs? 10. Which actor holds world record for acting in the most number of films in a single language? 11. Which actress got most Filmfare awards for Best acting? 12. Which female director holds the record of directing most number of films? 13. Which is the oldest Film award? 14. Which music directorr got most Filmfare awards? 15. In which film Pankaj Mullick featured as actor, composer and singer? 16. Which director got most Filmfare awards? 17. Who is referred as‘ Bhisma Pitamah
’ of film music
? 18. Which female playback singer got most Filmfare awards? 19. Who received most National Film awards for best direction? 20. What is the original name of Balraj Sahni? 21. Which lyricist got most Filmfare awards? 22. What was the name of first Bengali talkie? 23. Which male playback singer got most Filmfare awards? 24. Which choreographerr got most Filmfare awards? 25. Which Bollywood actor worked at Calcutta in an Air‐ticketing office? 26. Before joining films, who worked as a teacher at Viswa‐Bharati University in Shantiniketan? 27. Which music directorr used to perform earlier in R D Burman’ s orchestra? 28. What is the real name of Mithun Chakraborty?
29. In 2005, which Indian films featured in the list of TIME Magazine’ s‘ ALL‐TIME 100 best movies’?
30. In 19599, which Indian actor received his first international award as best actor in Cairo film festival? 31. Which Indian singer has the world distinction of‘ Most Recordedd Artist’ in music history? 32. Which Indian singer worked as a typewriter salesman for the Remington Typewriter Company? 33. What was the profession of Director Mani Ratnam before entering the film industry? 34. Which Indian actor spent 3 years in Karachi Jail during freedom movement for protesting against massacre at
Jaliwanwala Bagh? 35. Who composed raga‘ Priyadarshini’ on the life of Mrs. Indira Gandhi? 36. Which Hindi Film received total 102 awards? 37. Who composed the music of Muhammad Iqbal’ s `Sare Jahan Se Acchha’? 38. What was the name of first Indian talkie? 39. Which silent Indian film of the twenties was later remade with 71 songs? 40. Which Bollywood actor worked as Radio announcer in BBC London’ s Hindi Service in 1940?
1. Dadasaheb Phalke, 2. 19199, 3. Sant Tukaram( Venice Film
Festival), 4. Nagarik( 1952), 5. Black, 6. Gulzar, 7. Kannadaa Film Industry, 8. Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan, 9. S P Balasubramanyamm, 10. Brahmanandam( Telugu actor), 11. Nutan and Kajol, 12 Vijaya Nirmala( 47 films), 13. Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards( awarded by Govt. of West Bengal since 1937), 14 A R Rahman, 15 Kapalkundla( 1939), 16. Bimal
Roy, 17. Rai Chand Boral, 18
. Asha Bhosle and Alka Yagnik, 19. Satyajit Ray, 20. Yudhisthir, 21. Gulzar, 22. Jamai Shashthi, 23. Kishore Kumar, 24. Saroj Khan, 25. Akhshay Kumar, 26. Balraj Sahni, 27. Laxmikant-Pyarelal, 28. Gourangaa, 29. The Apu Trilogy( 1955-599) by Satyajit Ray and Pyasa( 1957) by Guru Dutt, 30. Sivaji Ganesan, 31. Asha Bhosle, 32. Kundann Lal Saigal, 33. Management Consultant, 34. A K Hangal, 35. Amjad Ali Khan, 36. Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, 37. Ravi Shankar, 38. Alam Ara( released on 14 March, 1931), 39. Indrasabha, 40. Balraj Sahni