1 Whose directorial debut was 'Main Hoon Na' starring Shah Rukh Khan?

Farah Khan



Sushmita Sen



Padmini Kolhapure



Hema Malini

2 With which Hollywood actor would you associate the 'Dirty Harry' series of films?


Paul Newman



Robert Redford



Clint Eastwood



Mel Gibson

3 Which actor made his film debut in 'Utsav'?


Raghuvir Yadav



Mukesh Khanna



Shekhar Suman



Anu Kapoor

4
Which Amitabh Bachchan starrer is adapted by writer Aatish Kapadia from his own Gujarati
play Andhla Pato?


Aankhein



Mohabattein



Aks



Ek Rishtaa

5 Who was the founder of Bombay Talkies?


Bimal Roy



Himanshu Rai



Guru Dutt



Dadasaheb Phalke

6 Who played the role of 'Lajjashankar' in the Akshay Kumar starrer 'Sangharsh'?


Ashutosh Rana



Akshay Kumar



Nirmal Pandey



Milind Gunaji

7 Who was the director of the Ashok Kumar starrer 'Achhut Kanya'?


Chandulal Shah



Franz Osten



Nitin Bose



Homi Wadia

8 Who directed the film 'Thoda Sa Rumani Ho Jaye'?


Govind Nihalani



Amol Palekar



Shyam Benegal



Hrishikesh Mukherjee

9 Kumar Gaurav is the son-in-law of which actor?


Sunil Dutt



Rajesh Khanna



Shammi Kapoor



Shashi Kapoor

10 Who made his debut in the film 'Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne' by V. Shantaram?


Jeetendra



Dharmendra



Dilip Kumar



Rajendra Kumar



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1 Who wrote the novel 'Godan'?


Bharatendu Harischandra



Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay



Munshi Premchand



Harivansh Rai Bachchan

2 Which of these prizes did Jhumpa Lahiri win for her novel 'Interpreter of Maladies'?


Pulitzer



Booker



Templeton



Sahitya Akademi

3 Which Indian film maker was the winner of Magsaysay award in 1967?


Mani Ratnam



Shyam Benegal



Satyajit Ray



Kamal Haasan

4 Who has created the ragas called Gangeshwari, Rangeshwari and Parameshwari?


Bhimsen Joshi



Shiv Kumar Sharma



Ravi Shankar



Bismillah Khan

5 Actor Haribhai Jariwala was better known by


Rajendra Kumar



Sanjeev Kumar



Dharmendra



Jeetendra

6 In comic strip, whose base of operations is Skull Cave?


Garfield



Phantom



Popeye



Calvin

7 Which pop group released the album 'Woh Chali'?


Bombay Vikings



Euphoria



Colonial Cousins



Stereo Nation

8 Who directed the film 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial'?


Steven Spielberg



Oliver Stone



George Lucas



Mike Nichols

9 Who wrote 'The Vendor of Sweets'?


R.K. Narayan



Khushwant Singh



Arun Shourie



Githa Hariharan

10 Who is the youngest ever Academy Award winner?


Tatum O' Neal



Elizabeth Taylor



Audrey Hepburn



Anne Pacquin


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1 In the film 'Anand', who played the role of Anand?


Dharmendra



Rajesh Khanna



Amitabh Bachchan



Vinod Khanna

2 Which Indian actress married Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich?


Meena Kumari



Geeta Bali



Devika Rani



Madhubala

3 Which actress made her Hindi film debut in 'Sapnon ka Saudagar'?


Hema Malini



Asha Parekh



Zeenat Aman



Jaya Bhaduri

4 Which film was made twice by Cecil B. DeMille?


The Ten Commandments



The Greatest Show on Earth



Cleopatra



The Plainsman

5 Which animal was the central character of the film 'Jaws'?


Walrus



Great White Shark



Lion



Blue Whale

6 Which music director joined Ilaiyaraaja's troupe as a keyboard player at the age of 11?


A.R. Rahman



Anu Malik



Sameer Sen



Anand Raj Anand

7 Whose first directorial venture is titled as 'Everybody Says I'm Fine'?


Akshay Kumar



Rahul Bose



Rahul Khanna



Saeed Jaffrey

8 In the film 'The Lion King' who was the evil brother of King Mufasa?


Scar



Kaa



Edward



Pumbaa

9 Who was the first singer to win the Best Playback Singer Filmfare Award?


Mukesh



Lata Mangeshkar



Md. Rafi



Kishore Kumar

10 Who among these collaborated with Jagjit Singh for the album 'Sajda'?


Asha Bhosle



Lata Mangeshkar



Pankaj Udhas



Talat Aziz



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Who played Hrithik Roshan's foster-father in the film 'Mission Kashmir'?


Dharmendra



Amitabh Bachchan



Vinod Khanna



Sanjay Dutt

2 Who composed the music for Shekhar Kapoor's 'Masoom' ?


Rajesh Roshan



Bappi Lahiri



Jagjit Singh



R.D.Burman

3 Who was the lyricist for Shankar Mahadevan's album 'Breathless'?


Gulzar



Sameer



Nawab Arzoo



Javed Akhtar

4 Ali Azmat and Salman Ahmad are the part of which music group?


Euphoria



Indigo Nation



Silk Route



Junoon

5 Which model appeared in the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan music video 'Afreen Afreen'?


Madhu Sapre



Sushmita Sen



Bipasha Basu



Lisa Ray

6 Who among these is the granddaughter of Shobhana Samarth?


Kajol



Urmila Matondkar



Madhuri Dixit



Shilpa Shetty

7 Who produced the film '36 Chowringhee Lane'?


Sanjeev Kumar



Shashi Kapoor



Dilip Kumar



Sunil Dutt

8 Who composed the music for Shekhar Kapur's 'Bandit Queen' ?


Vanraj Bhatia



Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan



Amjad Ali Khan



Pandit Ravi Shankar

9 Which of these films did Dilip Kumar produce, script and star in?


Ganga Jamuna



Saudagar



Madhumati



Devdas

10 Which director was the founder and president of the Chitralekha Film Co-op in Trivandrum?


Adoor Gopalakrishnan



Amol Palekar



Satyajit Ray



Mrinal Sen


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Vamsha Vriksha' was the directorial debut of which director?


Shankar Nag



Girish Karnad



Amol Palekar



Naseeruddin Shah

2 Which of these Indian film-makers was honoured with a stamp in 1994?


Shyam Benegal



Raj Kapoor



Dadasaheb Phalke



Satyajit Ray

3 Which of these awards is presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association?


Grammy



Tony



Emmy



Golden Globe

4 Mausam' and 'Yaad' are the albums of which singer?


Sonu Nigam



Lucky Ali



Anu Malik



Shaan

5 Who was the music director of the film 'Gaja Gamini'?


Jagjit Singh



Bhupen Hazarika



Anu Malik



Bhupinder

6 Who played the role of Sanjay Dutt's wife in the film 'Pitaah'?


Mita Vashisht



Nandita Das



Tara Deshpande



Vasundhara Das

7 Which actress is the daughter of the South Indian film stars Gemini Ganesh and Pushpavalli?


Rekha



Hema Malini



S. Padmini



Vyjayanthimala

8 Which of these singers used the pseudonym 'Anandaghan'?


Jagjit Singh



Lata Mangeshkar



Begum Akhtar



Suman Kalyanpur

9 Who played the role of Hanuman in Ramanand Sagar's television serial 'Ramayana'?


Dara Singh



Pankaj Dheer



Praveen Kumar



Avtar Gill

10 Which celebrity wrote the book 'Grapefruit'?


Yoko Ono



John Lennon



Ringo Starr



George Harrison


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Who directed the film 'Dil To Pagal Hai'?


Yash Chopra



Rakesh Roshan



B.R. Chopra



Hrishikesh Mukherjee

2 Which model made his film debut in the film 'Tarkieb'?


Milind Soman



Dino Morea



Arjun Rampal



Sanjay Suri

3 In the world of music, how is Damber Bahadur Budhapriti better known?


Hariharan



Shankar Mahadevan



Louis Banks



Roop Kumar Rathod

4 In which film did Amitabh Bachchan play the role of Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee?


Kala Patthar



Anand



Chupke Chupke



Zanjeer

5 Which cricketer played the role of a villain in the film 'Kabhi Ajnabi The'?


Ravi Shastri



Syed
Kirmani



Sunil Gavaskar



Kapil Dev

6 Which of these Amitabh Bachchan's films is loosely based on Peter Glenville's 'Becket'?


Namak Haram



Mr Natwarlal



Shehanshah



Deewar

7 Who won the Dada Saheb Phalke award 2006?


Dilip Kumar



Tapan Sinha



Asha Bhosle



Pradeep

8
Who is the first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music
Score?


Anu Malik



A.R. Rahman



Salim-Sulaiman



Shankar Mahadevan

9 Who directed the National Award winning film 'Kathapurushan'?


Adoor Gopalakrishnan



Girish Karnad



Shyam Benegal



Govind Nihalani

10 The title of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Agneepath' was taken from whose poem?


Harivansh Rai Bachchan



Sadat Hasan Manto



Mirza Ghalib



Ismat Chughtai



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Which film lyricist was born in Azamgarh as Akhtar Hussain Rizvi?


Kaifi Azmi



Shakeel Badayuni



Sahir Ludhianvi



Jaan Nisar Akhtar

2 Who played the role of an ageing Urdu poet in Ismail Merchant's 'In Custody'?


Rajesh Khanna



Shashi Kapoor



Om Puri



Zakir Husain

3 Which actress was married to Ketan Mehta?


Deepa Sahi



Deepti Naval



Smita Patil



Supriya Pathak

4 Who among these made his debut in the L.V. Prasad film 'Mana Desam'?


Rajnikant



N.T. Rama Rao



Raaj Kumar



M. Karunanidhi

5 Who played the role of Dimple Kapadia's mother in the Kalpana Lajmi directed film 'Rudaali'?


Raakhee



Rekha



Asha Parekh



Waheeda Rehman

6 Who was the director of the television serial 'Tamas'?


Govind Nihalani



Shyam Benegal



Kundan Shah



Prakash Jha

7 How is actor Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly better known?


Kumar Sanu



Pradeep Kumar



Kishore Kumar



Ashok Kumar

8 Director Mani Ratnam married the niece of which South Indian actor?


Mammootty



Kamal Haasan



Rishi Kapoor



Raaj Kumar

9 'The Temptations' is a music band of which singer?


Anaida



Adnan Sami



Annamika



Apache Indian

10 Who were the first Asian duo to perform on 'MTV Unplugged'?


Anaida and Baba Sehgal



Pandit Ravi Shankar and Zubin Mehta



Hariharan and Leslie Lewis



Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh



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Which cartoon character was originally created as a human character?


Mickey Mouse



Hobbes



Goofy



Garfield

2 With which famous singer would you associate Graceland Mansion?


John Lennon



Jim Morrison



Elvis Presley



Frank Sinatra

3 Which film of Smita Patil was based on the life of actress Hansa Wadkar?


Mandi



Nishant



Arth



Bhumika

4 Which of these albums has five women from different streams of music singing together?


Mann Ke Manjeere



Tum Yaad Aaye



Pyar Ke Geet



Nachoo Sari Sari Raat

5 Which of these actresses was once married to director Kamal Amrohi?


Nargis



Waheeda Rehman



Mumtaz



Meena Kumari

6 In the film 'Mirch Masala' who played the role of a despotic tax collector?


Naseeruddin Shah



Suresh Oberoi



Mohan Gokhale



Raj Babbar

7 Which was the first film to win the Filmfare Award for Best Picture?


Kismat



Do Bigha Zamin



Devdas



Alam Ara

8 Which of these actresses won the Best Actress National Award for three consecutive years?


Shabana Azmi



Raakhee



Aparna Sen



Rekha

9 Which singer acted as a child artist in the film 'Betaab'?


Sonu Nigam



Alka Yagnik



Babul Supriyo



Abhijit

10 Who played the female lead in the film 'Pushpak'?


Revathi



Madhu



Nagma



Amala



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1 Which film director is the niece of the producer-director Guru Dutt?


Deepa Mehta



Mira Nair



Tanuja Chandra



Kalpana Lajmi

2 'O Meri Munni' is the first Hindi album by which singer?


Lucky Ali



Adnan Sami



Kumar Sanu



Remo Fernandes

3 Who directed the Hindi film 'Utsav'?


Girish Karnad



Shashi Kapoor



Shammi Kapoor



Shekhar Suman

4 Which pop singer has an album titled 'Aks'?


Lucky Ali



Sonu Niigam



Shaan



Shankar Mahadevan

5 Which well known actress is the wife of scriptwriter Salim Khan?


Zeenat Aman



Waheeda Rehman



Helen



Mumtaz

6 Which Indian film director is married to singer Suchitra Krishnamurthy?


Santosh Sivan



Priyadarshan



Shekhar Kapur



Mani Ratnam

7 Which Indian actor formed the Majma Theatre group?


Girish Karnad



Amol Palekar



Om Puri



Naseeruddin Shah

8 Which famous dancer is the daughter of scientist Vikram Sarabhai?


Shovana



Tanushree



Radha



Mallika

9 In the film 'Qurbani', who was the music director of the song 'Aap Jaisa Koi' ?


Biddu



Bally Sagoo



R.D. Burman



S.D. Burman

10 In the film 'Monsoon Wedding', who plays the role of the bride?


Vasundhara Das



Smriti Mishra



Tara Deshpande



Nandita Das



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Which of these is an album by Sonu Nigam?


Sansar



Yaadei
n


Kashma



Dil 2 Dil

2 Who won the President's Gold Medal for music direction for the television serial 'Tamas'?


Pandit Ravi Shankar



Vanraj Bhatia



Ustad Amjad Ali Khan



Naushad

3 Who played a double role in the Tanuja Chandra film 'Dushman'?


Juhi Chawla



Rani Mukherjee



Kajol



Madhuri Dixit

4 Which Indian actor anchored the serial 'Hum Log'?


Anupam Kher



Om Prakash



Ashok Kumar



Amitabh Bachchan

5 To whom was actress Jennifer Kendall married?


K.Asif



Rajendra Kumar



Raj Kumar



Shashi Kapoor

6 Who played the role of the editor of 'New Delhi Times' in the film of the same name?


Suresh Oberoi



Shashi Kapoor



Om Puri



Naseeruddin Shah

7 Which Indian author wrote 'Arion and the Dolphin'?


Salman Rushdie



Vikram Seth



Gita Mehta



Anita Desai

8 Rajkamal Kalamandir was a studio started by which of these directors?


Dilip Kumar



V. Shantaram



N.T. Rama Rao



Raj Kapoor

9 Who won the Booker Prize 2008?


John Banville



Aravind Adiga



Yann Martel



Anne Enright

10 For which of these films did Raveena Tandon win National Award?


Ghulam-e-Mustafa



Mohra



Daman



Aks



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1 Who was the music director of 'Dil Se'?


Anand Raj Anand



Vishal



Viju Shah



A.R. Rahman

2 Which singer has acted in the film 'Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Buta Singh'?


Palash Sen



Daler Mehndi



Sonu Nigam



Gurdas Mann

3 In 2002, who won the Filmfare Award for the 'Best Female Debutant'?


Gracy Singh



Bipasha Basu



Esha Deol



Malini Sharma

4 For which film did Raj Kapoor win his first Filmfare Award in the Best Director category?


Bobby



Sangam



Prem Rog



Mera Naam Joker

5 Who was the director of the film 'Angoor'?


Gulzar



Basu Chatterjee



Hrishikesh Mukherjee



Satyajit Ray

6 Who has written the novel "The inheritance of loss" which was awarded the Booker Award?


Kiran Desai



Shakuntala Devi



Kiran Bedi



Sania Mirza

7 Who directed the film 'Bhuvan Shome'?


Mrinal Sen



Govind Nihalani



Prakash Jha



Amol Palekar

8 Which comic strip character has the dog named Ruff?


Dennis the Menace



Tintin



Asterix



Batman

9 Which of these singers sang the song 'Lakdi ki kathi' in the film 'Masoom'?


Sadhna Sargam



Preeti Uttam Singh



Sagarika



Poornima

10 Who has played the role of Chandramukhi in the Shah Rukh Khan starrer Devdas?


Aishwarya Rai



Sonali Bendre



Sridevi



Madhuri Dixit