FUNDAMENTALS
The Nightingale of India passed away on 6th February, 2022 leaving her billions of fans heart broken. Take this quiz from Somen Sengupta from Kolkata to find out how much you know about the Queen of Melody.
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NIGHTINGALE OF INDIA
1. There is only one film in which Lata got Pandit Ravi Shankar as her music director - Name the film.
2. Gulzar made his debut as lyricist in a song sung by Lata and tuned by SD Burman in 1961 - Name the song and the film.
3. Madhya Pradesh Government has instituted two music awards named after Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar with a specific reason - what is that reason ?
4. Raj Kapoor offered Lata to act in one of his movie which she declined Which movie was it ?
5. The wife of which iconic music director once openly accused Lata for having an affair with her husband and made her responsible for their unhappy marriage ?
6. Which flyover project of Bombay was scrapped on the basis of Lata’s objection as she said it may impact her voice ?
7. In 1997 Sony music launched AR Rahaman’s cult album “Vande Mataram - Maa Tujhe Salam “. In response next year HMV launched a similar patriotic song album with Lata — What was the name of that album ?
8. The Voice of India used to compose music for films in her native Marathi language using a male pseudonym. Identify?
9. The Queen of Melody
recorded two Rabindrasangeet in her first Bengali film in 1953. Incidentally, one of the Rabindrasangeet that she sang was not in Bengali but in some other language written and composed by Tagore himself. Which language?
10. What was special about the song “Aaja Re Main To Kabse Khari Is Paar” from the film Madhumati ( 1959 ) tuned by Salil Chowdhury.
1. Puducherry (Pondicherry) celebrates Independence day on two consecutive days of 15th and 16th August. Why? (Mohammed Soulath, Mumbai)
2. The Antelope Canyons, Buckskin Gulch, Zebra Slot are major tourist attractions. They are what is geologically described as slot canyon. What exactly are slot Canyons? (UN Murthy, Secunderabad)
3. Sotheby’s is the world’s fourth oldest auction house traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for 31 years till 2019. What was its iconic NYSE ticker? (Dee Surendranath, Hyderabad)
4. What is the Middle Eastern dip made of chickpeas called? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
5. Lata Mangeshkar sang with S. P. Balasubramanyam for the first time in a 1981 movie. Which movie?(Shruthi Nivriti Ashritha, Secunderabad)
6. This New York based land property where America’s first pencil factory was built by John Eberhard Faber in 1861, was later purchased by philanthropist John D Rockefeller for a special purpose. What? (Bikram Keshari Jena, Nayagarh)
7. The Roman Empire is believed to have dispatched a fleet of 120 ships every year to Kerala to bring back a much coveted treasure called ‘Black Gold’. What exactly is Black Gold? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
8. The best bowling figures for an ODI belongs to an all rounder who took six wickets by just conceding four runs. Which unheralded Indian bowler has this record? (Abin KI, Ernakulam)