Let’s go to the movies
Who starred with Raj Kapoor in his hit film Barsaat?
In 1957-58, India, for the first time, sent a film for the Best Foreign Film Award at the Academy Awards. This film, directed by Mehboob Khan, made the shortlist. Name this film.
What is Mother India
Which Indian cricketer became the first sportsman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India''s highest civilian order?
Who is Sachin Tendulkar
The Bharata natyam is indigenous to which Indian state?
What is Tamil Nadu?
Who is the only Indian cricketer to have scored 5000 runs in Test Cricket?
Who is Kapil Dev?
Name Karan Johar's second directorial film utilising a cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya, Shahrukh, Hritik, Kareena, Kajol and Rani.
What is Kabhi Khushi kabhie gham
Which Bollywood movie got a nomination in the Oscars for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2002?
What is Lagaan.
Who was the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Rabindranath Tagore
Named after a famous British hunter turned naturalist, what is the name of India’s first national park?
What is the Jim Corbett National Park - is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 and is known for its Bengal tigers.
Which Indian social reformer is known as the Father of Modern India?
Who is Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Who was awarded best actor of the decade (1990-2000) and for which film?
Who is Shahrukh Khan for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
Who is the only Indian who has won 2 Oscars?
Who is A.R. Rahman was the first Indian music composer to win an Oscar. He won two Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009
Who was the first Indian woman to be elected as President of United Nations General Assembly?
Who is Vijay Lakshmi Pandit
What was the biggest impact of British rule in India.
What is Rising Economic Inequality and India's Rural Poor. In 40 years, between 1880 and 1920, British colonialism killed 100 million Indians and, according to research by economic historian, Robert Allen, extreme poverty in India increased under British rule, from 23% in 1810 to more than 50% in the mid-20th century
Who was the Leader of the House in the First Lok Sabha?
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
Who wrote the script and dialogue for Sholay.
Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar
RRR, the action movie about Indian revolutionaries, beat out household names Lady Gaga and Rihanna for the Best Original Song Oscar at the 2023 Academy Awards for which song?
What is “Naatu Naatu.
Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize
Who is Arundhati Roy?
Arundhati Roy, an Indian author, actress, and political activist won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things in 1997.
Who wrote the first Indian National Anthem?
Who is Rabindranath Tagore. The National Anthem of India is titled "Jana Gana Mana". The song was originally composed in Bengali by India's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on 11 December 1911.
Who said "You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This movie became the highest grossing Bollywood movie in 1994 and Shah Rukh Khan released a movie with the same name in 2015.
What is Dilwale?
India’s only Oscar Honorary Academy Award Recipient.
Who is Satyajit Ray. In 1992 he received this award in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures.
Who was the first Indian citizen to go into space
Who is Rakesh Sharma?
Rakesh Sharma, an Indian military pilot and cosmonaut born on January 13, 1949, in Patiala, Punjab became the first Indian citizen in space in the year 1984.
What were the good things that British brought to India
What is an Efficient System of Administration: The Britishers left behind an efficient system of administration. They also made exhaustive records of every plan, policy, agreement, etc
Which Indian inspired Martin Luther King and why?
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
Non violent civil disobedience.