This document details a Bollywood trivia quiz created by Aravind Anil, consisting of 12 questions that combine text and images, focusing on 2023 movies and songs. The quiz encourages participants to solve it competitively while looking for clues, with references to various movies and notable elements from 2023. Each question challenges players' knowledge through trivia and easter eggs related to specific films and cultural references.

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
≈10-15 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 competitive 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.

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

7. 2.
● “The Twelfth Card” is a 2005 Novel by the American crime and mystery writer
Jeffery Deaver.
● This book follows a high-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?

9. “Pehle Bhi Main” song sequence

10. 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?

12. Virat Kohli

13. 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?

15. Swades

16. 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?

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

18. 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?

20. The Archies

21. ● 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.

23. Plum Pudding

24. 8.
● In the 2023 Bollywood movie “Rocky Aur Rani ki Prem Kahani”, in
the very first phone conversation between Ranveer 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?

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

28. ● “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.

31. Adipurush

32. 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?

34. Wonder Women

35. 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?

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

38. 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 in
the movie posters.
● Which movie?

40. Sam Bahadur

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

42. Fin.