This document provides a 10 question quiz about sports and cinema in India. The questions cover topics like famous photographs of cricketers, Bengali films involving football teams, product placements in Bollywood movies, and references to real sporting events and personalities in fictional films. The questions require recognizing details and making connections between sports, movies and celebrities to arrive at the correct answers.

1. Quiz on
“Sports and
Cinema in
India”
May 20, 2020 | 23:00hrs
Burnpur Quiz
Lovers Association

2. 1. You would have seen the man
in pictures in a very famous
photograph at a sporting venue
from May, 2012.
I don’t need his name – what
contentious incident or the
photograph in question are
you likely to remember him
from, though?

3. He is the security
guard who Shahrukh
Khan slapped, thus
leading to his
suspension from
Wankhede

4. 2. This is a 1983 Hindi film, loosely
based on a 1976 Bengali
production.
Both revolve around a strict father-
in-law; while in the latter, his
expectations are more generic, the
Bengali version involves him trying
to convert his daughter-in-law in a
specific way - what precisely
does he expect her to do?

5. He insists on
her
supporting
Mohun Bagan

6. 3. How would you
connect the lady on
the right to the
quote from
Gulshan Kumar,
below?
“only two types of songs sell
in Bollywood - ______ bhare
gaane and ______”
The blanks from the quote would lead you to the answer.

7. Dard-e-Disco
• Shakira was originally approached by Farah Khan to
do the item number
• Producer Gulshan Kumar said to choreographer Farah
Khan that "only two types of songs sell - dard bhare
gaane (songs of sadness) and disco", leading Farah
Khan to demand a song that combined the two.

8. 4. While the account of Rabindranath doing ‘this’ in a match at
Gomoh is mythical to say the least, there are two accounts of
teams trying to support Swadeshi Movement and thus indulging in
‘this’ –
Mohun Bagan Club against Governors XI, in 1930
Calcutta Cricket Club, against Vidyasagar College in 1931
What precisely did they do or rather attempt, on a
cricket field?

9. They refused to wear Trousers while playing
cricket, and instead took field in a Dhuti

10. 5. In one of the first
instances of product
placement in Indian
Cinema, which lead
from a 1990s film went
to Punjab to set up the
first factory in India of
this brand?

11. Raj, in DDLJ
• Rajasthan Breweries who were the official licensees of
Stroh’s beer went all out promoting this exercise, while
launching the beer in India after the release of the film.

12. 6. What is the name of
this 2009 Bollywood
multi starrer, one that
chronicles the life of two
small time crooks who
get embroiled in a
Match Fixing Scandal?
The title is a reference
to one of cricket’s
darkest eras.

13. 99

14. 7. “Khela Football
Khela” is a song
sung by Manna Dey.
What specific incident, from The Eden Gardens,
does it pay homage to?
Also, how do we remember that day, now?

15. It is a tribute to the 16 fans who
died during the infamous 1980
Calcutta Football League (CFL)
Kolkata derby at the Eden
Gardens.
August 16 is
celebrated as
“Football
Lovers Day”
now

16. 8. Tale of three superstars.
What Indian ‘sports’ film, was
initially offered to (1), features a
cameo from (2) and is
supposedly the only film its
eventual lead signed without
reading the script.

17. Awwal Number

18. 9. Pele's New York Cosmos played Mohun Bagan in
Kolkata in Sep 1977. An India Australia Test took place
in Dec 1977.
In which universe do they take place on the same
day though, where a certain BN Shrivastav is also
writing an autobiography of Sunny Gavaskar?

19. Golmaal
In the first scene, Amol Palekar tells his friend that next day
is the match between Cosmos and MB and in the second
scene on the same night, he tells his sister to wake him up
early since the India Australia match will begin early
morning. BN Srivastav is the person who comes to give an
interview before Ramprasad to Bhavani.

20. 10. What two worded phrase, if a popular Bengali
track is to be believed, prevented the following
from happening?

21. “Bong Connection”
Lyrics of the song Tumi Naa
Thakle
• Amongst other things, mentions
Mohun Bagan kobe hoye jeto East Bengal
Gariahat’ ta Guatemala’r moto
Sukumar Ray, gamcha golaye, khobor podto
Devdas, kobe hoye jeto Khudiram