Q 01/05

Ganashatru (1989), Ray's film about a doctor at war with his town's leaders, is his version of which Ibsen play?

A) A Doll's House

B) The Master Builder

C) An Enemy of the People

D) Pillars of Society

Answer · why

C) An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People moves to a Bengal town where the doctor traces an epidemic to a temple's holy water; the men who profit from its pilgrims wreck...

Q 02/05

Ray's father Sukumar Ray was famous in Bengal as a pioneering writer of what?

A) Detective novels

B) Nonsense rhyme for children

C) Romantic historical novels

D) Devotional hymns

Answer · why

B) Nonsense rhyme for children

Nonsense rhyme for children made his Abol Tabol a Bengali classic; he died when Satyajit was two, and in 1987 the son filmed a documentary tribute for...

Q 03/05

What was the name of the family children's magazine, founded in 1913, that Ray revived in 1961?

A) Anandamela

B) Desh

C) Sandesh

D) Probashi

Answer · why

C) Sandesh

Sandesh stayed in Ray's hands for life: he edited it until his death in 1992, drew and wrote for it, and invented his detective Feluda for its young r...

Q 04/05

In which town did Satyajit Ray study fine art from 1940, at the university founded by the poet of Gitanjali?

A) Darjeeling

B) Santiniketan

C) Kishoreganj

D) Murshidabad

Answer · why

B) Santiniketan

Santiniketan was his mother's idea and Ray went reluctantly; yet his teacher there, the painter Benode Behari Mukherjee, marked him so deeply that Ray...

Q 05/05

What subject did Ray complete his bachelor's degree in at Presidency College, Calcutta?

A) Economics

B) English literature

C) Physics

D) Fine art

Answer · why

A) Economics

Economics was the degree, but Ray wanted no more study: at 18 he meant to work as a commercial artist, until his mother, thinking him too young for a ...