Bollywood Songs Trivia
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100 free Bollywood Songs trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 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 100 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 the hit on 'Yeh Mera Dil', the cabaret number Helen performs in Don, and its composers Kalyanji–Anandji won an American songwriting award nearly three decades after writing it.
Q 02Which singer did Guinness name YouTube's most-streamed artist of 2021, with 17 billion streams?
Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik, the voice of countless 1990s Madhuri Dixit and Kajol songs, led YouTube for three years running: her 15.3 billion streams in 2022 left Taylor Swift and BTS far behind.
Q 03Which Hollywood film opens with 'Chaiyya Chaiyya', the Dil Se.. song shot atop a moving train?
Inside Man
Inside Man opens to 'Chaiyya Chaiyya', sung by Sukhwinder Singh; Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora danced it on a steam train of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, and she was tied on with a harness in case she flew off.
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, 'The Thalaivar Tribute'; Shah Rukh Khan said it was made as a salute to the star and his fans rather than as part of the film's story.
Q 05Where was 'Gerua', the Arijit Singh duet that Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol perform in Dilwale, filmed?
Iceland
Iceland supplied the duet's black sand and ice, and the broken aircraft the pair dance beside is no prop: it is a real wreck that has lain on a beach there since an emergency landing in 1973.
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' won Lata Mangeshkar the new playback prize, but she objected to the trophy, a statuette of an unclothed woman, so the organisers presented it to her wrapped in a cloth.
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 shot in one unbroken take, reportedly because a busy Sharmila Tagore could spare so little time; the same film sent Rajesh Khanna along Darjeeling's hills in a jeep 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's family had sought out Zeenat Aman in London, and the star introduced her to the film's director; no younger singer had won the award, and 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, who had turned the santoor from a Kashmiri folk instrument into a classical one, and the flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia, both moonlighting from the concert stage for Yash Chopra.
Q 23Which singer, Raj Kapoor's usual voice, won a posthumous Filmfare for Kabhi Kabhie's title song?
Mukesh
Silsila's 'Rang Barse' was not written from scratch: the poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh's father, reworked a traditional song, and Amitabh also sang 'Neela Aasman So Gaya' in the film.
Q 14Which Mithun Chakraborty musical drew about 60 million cinemagoers in the Soviet Union?
Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer is reported to have earned more there than any other foreign film, and its song 'Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja' stayed a favourite in former Soviet republics for decades.
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 was about to leave on a 40-day American tour, and composers wanted their songs finished first, so he called them all to one studio and recorded from morning to night.
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 an estimated 20 million units, the most of any Bollywood album?
Nadeem–Shravan
Nadeem–Shravan had worked in Hindi films for years without much success; Aashiqui changed that at a stroke, winning Filmfare Awards for the duo, their lyricist and both lead singers.
Q 19Which Madhuri Dixit wedding film's 'Didi Tera Devar Deewana' won Lata Mangeshkar a Filmfare Special Award?
Hum Aapke Hain Koun
Hum Aapke Hain Koun broke Lata Mangeshkar's own rule: she had long stopped accepting awards, but public demand for the song was such that Filmfare gave her a special one anyway.
Q 20Which composer of 'Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja' 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 of a heart attack in 1976 while on a concert tour in Detroit, months after the film came out; when the news reached Raj Kapoor he wept and said, 'I have lost my voice.'
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 record credited the song to 'Kamini', Madhubala's character, as was then the custom; so many listeners wrote to All India Radio asking who was really singing that it named Lata on air.
Q 26Which Kishore Kumar song from Aasha (1957) counts among Hindi cinema's first rock and roll numbers?
Eena Meena Deeka
Eena Meena Deeka began with children chanting 'Eeny, meeny, miny, moe' outside composer C. Ramchandra's music room; his Goan assistant John Gomes then slipped in the Konkani 'maka naka', meaning 'I don't want'.
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 sang it for O. P. Nayyar, a composer who built his whole run of hits without once recording Lata Mangeshkar: he thought voices like Dutt's suited his tunes better.
Q 28Which Ganguly-brothers comedy has a rain song modelled on Merle Travis's 'Sixteen Tons'?
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi set 'Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si' to the Merle Travis tune. Kishore Kumar reportedly counted on the film failing so he could write it off against income tax; it became one of 1958's biggest hits.
Q 29Which Aashiqui 2 ballad composed by Mithoon won Arijit Singh his first Filmfare Award for playback?
Tum Hi Ho
Tum Hi Ho made a star of a singer who had lost on the TV talent show Fame Gurukul in 2005; by 2025 Arijit Singh had eight Filmfare Awards, level with 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.