The document contains a 20 question music quiz about AR Rahman's work. It asks questions about Rahman's frequent collaborators, songs he has composed, albums, influences and more. It encourages sharing thoughts and opinions about the quiz questions.

1. 20 questions, answers later.

2.  Please don’t leave answers in comments. Online quizzes are
pretty pointless, unless you are trying to show how well quiz
questions can be reverse-engineered online. Yes, we all
know.
 Find out how many answers you get without even thinking.
 Find out how many answers were at the tip of your tongue.
It’s ok, you can Google for them. Keep a count.
 How many questions did you not know the answer to?
 How many questions made you want to email me about
how stupid it was?
 Write that darn email. Or talk about it. Vent. Or make your
own quiz. It better be good.
 How many seconds does it take you to identify a Rahman
song when you hear it? That is your RAT (Rahman
Acknowledgement Time). Tell me about it.
 If you are going to be linking to it, please use the blog-post
link instead of the Slideshare link.
 http://www.beatzo.net/blog/2013/03/the-rahman-quiz/

3.  Naveen is the Rahman regular on
the flute/wind instruments. Who
is the Rahman regular on the solo
violin?

4.  A very peculiar music sample is
associated with Raghuvaran’s
character in Kaadhalan (Humse Hai
Muqabla). The theme music of
which other Rahman film begins
with the same sound?

5.  Which are the only Rahman songs
that have been lip-synched on
screen by
 Amrish Puri
 Kailash Kher

6.  Name the first Rahman film
dubbed into Hindi to not have
lyrics by PK Mishra/Mehboob.
 For additional points, name lyricist.

7.  The promotional poster for which
Rahman album had the words –
“Chinna Chinna Aasai, Grammy
vaanga aasai”?

8.  Before Sukhvindara Singh sang in
Dil Se (1998) and became a
Rahman Regular, he wrote the
lyrics for song 1 and sang song
2,for two 1997 films . Name both
songs and movies.

9.  The title of which song came
from a Haj visit, where ARR
heard a man selling water?

10.  Rahman has often spoken of the
influence of Peter Gabriel’s
Passion: The Last Temptation of
Christ, and used the bassline of
‘Of These, Hope’ in Anbae Anbae
(Jeans). In which Rahman OST
would you hear a sample from
Baba Maal’s ‘Call To Prayer’ from
Passion: Sources, the companion
album to Passion?

11.  What is common to the soundtracks
of Jeans, Bombay, Taal, Alaipayuthey
and ThirudaThiruda? Hmm, also
Vande Mataram.

12.  This could be controversial.
 Name two (non-pop) male and
female singers who have sung only
one song for ARR.
 I am thinking of four names, there
could be more.

13.  Danny Boyle recommended
song Z for the end sequence
of Slumdog Millionaire, but
Rahman insisted on ‘Jai Ho’,
wchich was originally
composed for a situation in
film X, where the director
chose the song Y instead. ID X,
Y and Z.

14.  In an interview, ARR complained
that this song X used a sample that
crashed his software a record
number of times (vague memory
says 21). The sample was reused by
artist Y as the opening song Z of an
album released 2 years later.
Incidentally, ARR worked with Y’s
lead guitarist around that time, so
that might explain this. Once again,
ID X, Y and Z.

15.  What was the first authorized
remix of a Rahman track?
 Who remixed it?
 (Authorized: appeared on the
official album)

16.  During the opening credit
sequence of Rangeela, we hear the
sounds of a Bombay street as the
cast and production names roll.
What do you hear when Rahman’s
name flashes on screen?

17.  Which AR Rahman OST saw its CD
release on a German label known
for manufacturing Varese
Sarabande releases for non-US
markets?

18.  Easy: Which OST features
Rahman and Himesh
Reshammiya together?

19.  So, Bappi Lahiri claimed that the
Hindi song B was a rip-off of his
song A. A however bears more
than a passing similarity to a 1974
number C. Strangely, the definitive
site on Indian Music copycats
mention that a Tamil song by ARR,
D was inspired by C.
 ID A, B, C, D.
 Umm, sorry if this is confusing.

20.  By Rahman’s own admission (and
a mention in one of his
biographies), which album did he
compose in the shortest period
of time?
 6 days, if I remember right.
 And a damn fine album it is, too.

21.  The name of which Rahman song
translates to ‘The Chosen One’?

22.  “When we did (film) A, we had a song
in the beginning and we used (song)
B while shooting and editing. We
went through HMV and asked for the
rights to B and they quoted 1 crore
rupees. We said “forget it”,
composed a new piece C and it came
out fine. Much later, they asked us
permission to use (song) D. We
quoted exactly the same figure.”
 Who, talking about what? (ID
speaker, A, B, C and D)