2023 Wrapped - The Bollywood Quiz

"2023 Wrapped" - a Bollywood Trivia Quiz!!

Here's a fun quiz on Bollywood movies and songs from the past year! Take a look and find out how much you know about India's most happening culture!

Also, wishing everyone a Happy New Year! Cheers 🥂

1. Researched & Conducted by: Aravind Anil Find out your knowledge on Bollywood movies and songs trivia from 2023. THE BOLLYWOOD TRIVIA QUIZ

2. The Deal Theme Bollywood Trivia Quiz # Questions 10 Qs → 10 points Approx Time ≈ 1 0-15 minutes

3. Before you take the quiz… All Questions contain texts as well as images. The questions are wordy and trivial. Look out for cryptic clues/ easter eggs in the text. The images contain giveaway clues. Take a good look at them. In some questions, texts would contain blanks, which would be the answer to the Q. The blank lengths are indicative of the length of words throughout the quiz. FORMAT : The quiz consists of 1 round with 12 Questions. Question Slide → followed by Safety Slide → Followed by Answer Slide (for each Qs) STYLE: Questions are trivial in nature, and most of them can be cracked even without a deep factual knowledge about the movies/songs . Treat this quiz like a com petitive quiz. Take a sheet of paper & pen, Run the entire quiz at once, and score yourselves. Having said that, skullduggery is prohibited! Put your thinking caps on, ignite the grey cells. Good luck in scoring a perfect 12/12!

4. Time Magazine’s “10 Best Soundtrack of all time” features a solitary Indian album, which also holds the distinction of being the only debut album to feature in this list. This movie in fact has the Quiz Master’s namesake as the protagonist. Multiple songs from this album were famously used in a 2023 context. Which late-20th Century movie album? In what 2023 context was it used? 1 .

5. Roja soundtrack by AR Rahman Ranvijay’s Entry Medley “in Animal”

6. 2 . “ The Twelfth Card ” is a 2005 Novel by the American crime and mystery writer Jeffery Deaver . This book follows a h igh-school girl named Geneva Seattle , and is a target of multiple murder attempts from Thompson Boyd, a professional killer allegedly hired to prevent her from digging up some family secrets from the past. Although it's not officially credited yet, a superhit 2023 movie seems to be loosely inspired by this book. The momentary appearance of this book during a song sequence (which primarily features 2 characters, albeit a change in gender roles) appears to be an easter egg. Which song ?

7. “Pehle Bhi Main” song sequence

8. 3 . Another question from Animal In the post-credit scenes of the 2023 Bollywood movie Animal, the character Abid Haque is spotted wearing a top from the brand One8 . This athletic lifestyle brand was launched in 2017 by an Indian celebrity in collaboration with Puma. Who ?

9. Virat Kohli

10. 4 . In the 2023 movie Jawan, the character played by Riddhi Dogra , the caretaker of the jail and the foster mother of Shah Rukh Khan’s character was named “ Kaveri Amma .” This reference is a very appropriate tribute to the late veteran actor Kishori Ballal , who played the iconic mother figure of SRK in a 2004 movie. Which critically acclaimed nostalgia-triggering movie, also the first Indian movie ever to be shot in NASA?

11. Swades

12. 5 . Another Jawan question, since it’s a gold mine of references & inspirations In the 2023 film Jawan , Shah Rukh Khan plays the double role of Captain Vikram Rathore and his son Azad Rathore . In the movie, Captain Vikram Rathore is described by one of his old friends as X, and his son as Y. This alludes to the fact that Shah Rukh Khan and his son Aryan Khan dubbed for the father - son characters X and Y respectively, in the Hindi version of a 2019 Disney movie. Which movie? Also Identify both characters - X & Y?

13. Movie: Lion King X = Mufasa, Y = Simba

14. 6 . This fictional American band from the late 1960s comprising of teenage musicians. It is featuring in this quiz thanks to a recent context. Name this group ?

15. The Archies

16. The caption of the official version of this song posted on the Sony Music India YouTube channel reads: “Just in time for Christmas, “____ _______” adds the perfect amount of sugar and spice for your holidays! The alliterative song title is also the name of a sweet dessert which is a regular feature in Christmas Dinners in the UK. It is, however, is a misnomer, as it does not in fact contain the main ingredient as the name suggests. Due to its visual resemblance, JJ Thompson proposed this name for one of the first models of the atom in the early 19th C. Name it ? 7 .

17. Plum Pudding

18. 8 . In the 2023 Bollywood movie “Rocky Aur Rani ki Prem Kahani”, in the very first phone conversation between R anveer Singh’s character Rocky Randhawa and Alia Bhatt’s character Rani Chatterjee , the former mentions a punchline “ हर बात पे _____, ______, ______ करना ज़रूरी है?,” an appropriately placed reference given the fact that Rani belongs to a Bengali family. It also doubles up as a reference (one among the many in this movie) to one of the closest friends of the filmmaker. Fill in the blanks with the 3-worded punchline , heard periodically during the summer months, since 2008?

19. “Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo” Kolkata Knight Riders Theme Song

20. “ Epic Quiz: _________ ” is a Trivia app developed by Hungama Games. In this game, the players have to solve trivia and word puzzles to unlock the progressive levels, while embarking on an epic journey with the protagonists. Which 2023 movie is it based on? 9 .

21. Adipurush

22. 10 . This Amul ad was released in mid-2023, to celebrate the Hollywood debut the Indian Alia Bhatt in the movie “ Heart of Stone. ” The caption of this ad, however, is a refers to the lead protagonist of this movie and her more famous iconic character, Identify the alliterative caption?

23. Wonder Women

24. 11. The blanked out word is a clever pun on the ungrammatical slogan of the Amul ad campaign (coined by Silvester Da Cunha, who also passed away in 2023). Fill in the blanks with the pun?

25. Atlee Butterly Delicious Play on “Utterly Butterly Delicious”

26. 12 . Another amul ad question Amul extend a hat tip to a 2023 biographical movie with this ad. The caption of this ad is a pun on the name of the the real life inspiration of the movie. The brand’s name “Amul Butter” is written in two languages, inspired by the appearance of the title i n the movie posters. Which movie?

27. Sam Bahadur

28. If you haven’t attempted my previous quiz yet… Nadolig Llawen - The X’Mas 2023 Quiz Find the quiz on Slideshare

29. Fin.