Q 01/05

By what nickname is the Telugu film industry commonly known?

A) Tollywood

B) Kollywood

C) Sandalwood

D) Mollywood

Answer · why

A) Tollywood

Tollywood was first coined in 1932 for the Tollygunge studio district of Kolkata's Bengali cinema, and the name later helped inspire Bollywood.

Q 02/05

In which city's Film Nagar district is the Telugu film industry based today?

A) Chennai

B) Bengaluru

C) Hyderabad

D) Visakhapatnam

Answer · why

C) Hyderabad

Hyderabad became the permanent home only in the 1990s, after producers spent decades reluctant to leave Madras, where Telugu cinema was born.

Q 03/05

Who is regarded as the 'Father of Telugu cinema'?

A) Hanumappa Muniappa Reddy

B) Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu

C) Chittajallu Pullayya

D) Gudavalli Ramabrahmam

Answer · why

B) Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu

Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu built the Gaiety cinema in Madras in 1912, and Andhra Pradesh later named its lifetime award for Telugu cinema after him.

Q 04/05

Which 1921 silent film is generally considered the first Telugu feature?

A) Sati Savitri

B) Raja Harishchandra

C) Prema Vijayam

D) Bhishma Pratigna

Answer · why

D) Bhishma Pratigna

Bhishma Pratigna came from a father-and-son team who, with local actresses unwilling or unavailable, often cast Anglo-Indian women in their films.

Q 05/05

Which 1932 film is traditionally called the first Telugu talkie?

A) Bhakta Prahlada

B) Sati Savitri

C) Mala Pilla

D) Prema Vijayam

Answer · why

A) Bhakta Prahlada

Bhakta Prahlada was shot in under three weeks, and a researcher later proved from a January 1932 censor date that it opened on 6 February 1932, not in...