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50 free Bollywood Songs trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
A Hindi film song can outlive its film by decades: the tune gets sampled by an American hip-hop group, the yell in the chorus turns out to have been recorded by someone other than the credited singer, and a cabaret number from 1978 ends up on an American chart. Bollywood songs travel further than almost any other pop music on earth, and the stories behind them are better than most plots. These 50 questions run from the ghost stories and rain duets of the late 1940s and 1950s through the yodelling and disco decades to the streaming era, asking who actually sang, composed and wrote the hits, which films they came from, and which records they broke. Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman and Arijit Singh all appear, alongside the lyricists and session legends that casual fans rarely hear named. Play it for bragging rights in the family group chat, use it as a round at a Bollywood-themed quiz night, or print it for a long car journey with the radio on.
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Q 01Which group's 2005 hit 'Don't Phunk with My Heart' samples Asha Bhosle's 'Yeh Mera Dil' from Don?
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas built 'Don't Phunk with My Heart' on 'Yeh Mera Dil', the Kalyanji–Anandji cabaret number Helen performs in Don. Asha Bhosle's vocal also earned Filmfare recognition.
Q 02Which singer did Guinness name YouTube's most-streamed artist of 2021, with 17 billion streams?
Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik, the 1990s voice of countless Madhuri Dixit and Kajol songs, tops YouTube's all-time streaming list ahead of every Western pop star. She also holds a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer.
Q 03Which Hollywood film opens with 'Chaiyya Chaiyya', the Dil Se.. song shot atop a moving train?
Inside Man
Inside Man uses 'Chaiyya Chaiyya', which Sukhwinder Singh sang while Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora danced on the roof of the Nilgiri Express, a train repainted brown for the shoot. The song also reached the musical Bombay Dreams.
Q 04Which South Indian superstar is honoured by 'Lungi Dance', Honey Singh's song from Chennai Express?
Rajinikanth
Rajinikanth is the 'Thalaivar' of the song's full title, and T-Series put it on YouTube before Shah Rukh Khan's Chennai Express (2013) even opened. Purists noted the men on screen wear veshtis, not lungis.
Q 05Where was 'Gerua', the Arijit Singh duet that Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol perform in Dilwale, filmed?
Iceland
Iceland hosted the 'Gerua' shoot in August 2015; the track, sung by Arijit Singh with Antara Mitra, became the first single released from Dilwale that November.
Q 06Which girl group cut an English 'Jai Ho' with A. R. Rahman for a re-release of Doll Domination?
The Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls' 'Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)', fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, remade the Slumdog Millionaire anthem within months of its Oscar for Best Original Song. Sukhwinder Singh sang the original.
Q 07Which Salman Khan film's 'Munni Badnaam Hui' drew a complaint from the makers of Zandu Balm?
Dabangg
Dabangg's Malaika Arora number name-checks Zandu Balm, which upset its maker Emami until an out-of-court settlement; Arora then fronted an official Zandu Balm ad campaign. Lalit Pandit wrote and composed the song.
Q 08Which Sholay song, a Helen special appearance, was sung by its composer R. D. Burman himself?
Mehbooba Mehbooba
Mehbooba Mehbooba was sung by R. D. Burman himself, with Jalal Agha miming it on screen beside Helen in Gabbar Singh's camp. 'Yeh Dosti', the film's five-minute friendship song, took 21 days to shoot.
Q 09Which creature, perched on Sonam Kapoor's head, is the 'Masakali' of Delhi-6's A. R. Rahman song?
A pigeon
A pigeon called Masakali rides on Sonam Kapoor's head through the song, which director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra admitted was never meant to be part of the story. It won its singer a Filmfare Award in 2010.
Q 10Which Raj Kapoor film's rain duet 'Pyar Hua Iqrar Hua' features his kids Randhir, Ritu and Rishi?
Shree 420
Shree 420 gave Raj Kapoor and Nargis their umbrella moment in monsoon Bombay, and Rishi Kapoor later recalled Nargis bribing him with chocolate to appear. It was 1955's top-grossing Indian film.
Q 11Which Bimal Roy reincarnation film earned Lata Mangeshkar the first ever Filmfare playback award?
Madhumati
Madhumati's 'Aaja Re Pardesi' took the playback prize in 1959, when a single award covered male and female singers alike, and the film's nine Filmfare wins stood as a record for 37 years.
Q 12Which Rajesh Khanna film's 'Roop Tera Mastana' was shot in a single take of over three minutes?
Aradhana
Aradhana's firelit seduction was filmed in one take, Sharmila Tagore believes, purely to save time; the same film put Rajesh Khanna in a jeep on Darjeeling's hills for 'Mere Sapno Ki Rani'.
Q 13Which Yash Chopra film's Holi song 'Rang Barse' has Amitabh Bachchan singing his father's lyrics?
Silsila
Q 21Which Pakistani teenager won a Filmfare Award at 15 for 'Aap Jaisa Koi' from Qurbani (1980)?
Nazia Hassan
Nazia Hassan, discovered by Zeenat Aman when she came to meet the star as a fan, remains the youngest winner of the award; her album Disco Deewane then charted in fourteen countries.
Q 22Which duo, a santoor master and a flautist, scored Yash Chopra's Chandni, Lamhe and Darr?
Shiv–Hari
Shiv–Hari were Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia, classical headliners who moonlighted as film composers for Yash Chopra from Silsila (1981) to Darr (1993).
Q 23Which singer, Raj Kapoor's usual voice, won a posthumous Filmfare for Kabhi Kabhie's title song?
Mukesh
Silsila's 'Rang Barse' became one of the most-played songs of every Holi; its words came from the poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh's father, and Amitabh also sang 'Neela Aasman So Gaya' in the film.
Q 14Which Mithun Chakraborty musical became the second-highest-grossing film ever in the Soviet Union?
Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer made 'Jimmy' a nickname for Mithun Chakraborty wherever it played, from Moscow to Lagos, and its soundtrack went platinum in India and gold in China.
Q 15Which composer, dead since 1975, had his unused tunes revived by his son for Veer-Zaara (2004)?
Madan Mohan
Madan Mohan's untouched compositions, revised by his son Sanjeev Kohli and set to Javed Akhtar's lyrics, made Veer-Zaara the highest-selling album of its year in India. He had also composed 'Lag Jaa Gale'.
Q 16Which singer entered Guinness World Records in 1993 by recording 28 songs in a single day?
Kumar Sanu
Kumar Sanu set the record during the years he won five straight Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer, from 1990 to 1995, starting with Aashiqui.
Q 17Which 1992 Mani Ratnam Tamil film gave A. R. Rahman his debut score and his first National Award?
Roja
Roja's songs, dubbed into Hindi, made a national star of a 25-year-old Chennai composer; Rahman took the National Film Award for Best Music Direction while the film won Best Film on National Integration.
Q 18Which duo's Aashiqui (1990) soundtrack sold 20 million units, the most of any Bollywood album?
Nadeem–Shravan
Nadeem–Shravan's Aashiqui, released by T-Series, also launched a new lead singer whose ghazal-style 'Dheere Dheere Se' set the template for 1990s film romance.
Q 19Which Madhuri Dixit wedding film's 'Didi Tera Devar Deewana' stayed on the charts for over a year?
Hum Aapke Hain Koun
Hum Aapke Hain Koun had Lata Mangeshkar, who had long refused awards, accept a Filmfare Special Award by public demand for the song; she sang more than ten of the film's numbers.
Q 20Which composer of 'Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja', famed for his gold chains, was Kishore Kumar's nephew?
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri grew up idolising Elvis Presley, whose jewellery inspired the gold he considered lucky, and his maternal uncle Kishore Kumar won eight Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer.
Mukesh died in 1976, the year of the film, and his duet version of 'Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein' with Lata Mangeshkar topped Binaca Geetmala's annual countdown; he voiced Amitabh Bachchan in it.
Q 24Which trained classical singer voiced Mehmood in Padosan's 'Ek Chatur Naar' duel with Kishore Kumar?
Manna Dey
Manna Dey, the trained classicist, had to lose the on-screen contest to Kishore Kumar's self-taught clowning; the song itself dates back to Ashok Kumar in the 1941 film Jhoola.
Q 25Which 1949 film's 'Aayega Aanewala', lip-synced by Madhubala, was Lata Mangeshkar's first major hit?
Mahal
Mahal's ghostly theme, composed by Khemchand Prakash, made Lata Mangeshkar a star two years after independence; Madhubala played the spectral Kamini who sings it on screen.
Q 26Which Kishore Kumar song from Aasha (1957) counts among Hindi cinema's first rock and roll numbers?
Eena Meena Deeka
Eena Meena Deeka was cooked up by composer C. Ramchandra and his assistant John Gomes from nonsense syllables, and Eastern Eye later ranked Kishore Kumar's version among his ten best songs.
Q 27Which singer's 'Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu' in Howrah Bridge (1958) made a star of a 19-year-old Helen?
Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt gave voice to the O. P. Nayyar cabaret while Helen, only 19, danced it into history, in a thriller named after the Calcutta landmark.
Q 28Which Ganguly-brothers comedy has a rain song modelled on Merle Travis's 'Sixteen Tons'?
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi put Kishore Kumar's 'Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si' on the Merle Travis tune, and a second song borrowed Tennessee Ernie Ford's 'The Watermelon Song'; Kishore expected the film to flop.
Q 29Which Aashiqui 2 ballad composed by Mithoon won Arijit Singh his first Filmfare Award for playback?
Tum Hi Ho
Tum Hi Ho, released in March 2013 ahead of the film, is treated as the turning point of Arijit Singh's career, and by 2025 he had eight Filmfare Awards, equalling Kishore Kumar's record.
Q 30Which classical vocalist charged ₹25,000 a song for Mughal-e-Azam when Rafi earned under ₹500?
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan had to be coaxed by producer K. Asif into singing for films at all, and his two raga-based numbers for the 1960 epic remain his only playback work.