- 1. What was the first Indian sound film?
A) Indra Sabha
B) Kisan Kanya
C) Alam Ara
D) Devdas
- 2. Who made the first Indian sound film in 1931?
A) Nidamarthi Surayya
B) Moti B
C) Swamikannu Vincent
D) Ardeshir Irani
- 3. Who built the first film studio in South India?
A) Swamikannu Vincent
B) Nidamarthi Surayya
C) Ardeshir Irani
D) Moti B
- 4. What was the name of the first film studio in South India?
A) Bombay Talkies
B) Films Division
C) Prabhat Studios
D) Durga Cinetone
- 5. In which city was the first film studio in South India built?
A) Madras
B) Pune
C) Rajahmundry
D) Coimbatore
- 6. Which early films marked the beginning of song-and-dance in Indian cinema?
A) Indra Sabha and Devi Devyani
B) Devdas and Kisan Kanya
C) Mother India and Pyaasa
D) Wrath and Raithu Bidda
- 7. What was the first colour film made in India?
A) Nabanna
B) Alam Ara
C) Devdas
D) Kisan Kanya
- 8. Who introduced the concept of 'tent cinema' in South India?
A) Moti B
B) Swamikannu Vincent
C) Nidamarthi Surayya
D) Ardeshir Irani
- 9. What was the name of the first 'tent cinema' in Madras?
A) Durga Cinetone
B) Bombay Talkies
C) Prabhat Studios
D) Edison's Grand Cinema Megaphone
- 10. Which films were banned by the British Raj for broaching the Indian independence movement?
A) Kisan Kanya and Indra Sabha
B) Wrath and Raithu Bidda
C) Alam Ara and Devdas
D) Mother India and Pyaasa
- 11. When did the Indian Masala film genre arise?
A) During the 1930s
B) After the 1947 partition
C) Following the Second World War
D) In the 1950s
- 12. Which organisation began to take shape in the 1940s and 1950s with a communist inclination?
A) Bombay Talkies
B) Indian People's Theatre Association
C) Films Division
D) Durga Cinetone
- 13. Which play prepared the ground for realism in Indian cinema?
A) Pyaasa
B) Nabanna
C) Devdas
D) Mother India
- 14. What year was the Films Division established by the Indian government?
A) 1947
B) 1931
C) 1948
D) 1935
- 15. Which film is cited as an example of the established film industry by 1935?
A) Wrath
B) Devdas
C) Alam Ara
D) Kisan Kanya
- 16. Which term is often mistakenly used to refer to the entirety of Indian cinema?
A) Bollywood
B) Mollywood
C) Kollywood
D) Tollywood
- 17. In what year did Indian cinema earn ₹11,833 crore at the box-office?
A) 2024
B) 1931
C) 2022
D) 2021
- 18. Which city houses the world's largest film studio complex?
A) Mumbai
B) Chennai
C) Kolkata
D) Hyderabad
- 19. What is the name of the largest film studio complex in the world?
A) Prasads
B) Ramoji Film City
C) Filmistan
D) Annapurna Studios
- 20. In 2022, which film industry held the largest percentage of box office revenue at 33%?
A) Telugu
B) Tamil
C) Kannada
D) Hindi
- 21. Which industry led Indian cinema in 2022 with 23.3 crore tickets sold?
A) Malayalam
B) Telugu
C) Hindi
D) Tamil
- 22. Who released the first Indian film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913?
A) The British government
B) Dadasaheb Phalke
C) Lumière brothers
D) Robert Paul
- 23. What percentage of the Indian film industry's revenue comes from overseas Indians?
A) 16%
B) 20%
C) 12%
D) 33%
- 24. In what year did talkies begin in India?
A) 1896
B) 1927
C) 1931
D) 1913
- 25. As of 2022, what is the total percentage of box office revenue represented by Telugu cinema?
A) 20%
B) 16%
C) 8%
D) 33%
- 26. How many acres does the Ramoji Film City measure?
A) Over 2,500 acres
B) Under 500 acres
C) Over 1,666 acres
D) Exactly 1,000 acres
- 27. Which industry had a 16% share of box office revenue in 2022?
A) Malayalam
B) Tamil
C) Kannada
D) Marathi
- 28. In what year were the first moving pictures shown in Bombay?
A) 1896
B) 1931
C) 1913
D) 1927
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