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Kollywood quiz
How well do you really know Kollywood? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Kollywood questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
When someone says “Kollywood,” what film industry do they mean, and which language are its films mainly made in?
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- Kollywood refers to the Tamil film industry.
- Its films are mainly made in Tamil.
- The industry is based in Chennai.
- Medium
Where’s the heart of Tamil cinema, and what’s the name of its famous film district?
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- Chennai is the main home of Tamil cinema.
- The famous film district is Kodambakkam.
- Kodambakkam is in Chennai.
- Medium
A debut score changed Tamil film music: which film was it, and who directed it and composed its music?
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- The film is Roja (1992).
- Mani Ratnam directed it.
- A. R. Rahman composed its music.
- Medium
In Pa. Ranjith’s Mumbai-set film about Dharavi, what’s the title, and which actor plays its central character?
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- Kaala
- Directed by Pa. Ranjith
- Rajinikanth plays the central character
- Set in Mumbai’s Dharavi neighborhood
- Medium
Which Kamal Haasan film put him in ten different roles, and what year did it reach cinemas?
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- Dasavathaaram
- Kamal Haasan played ten roles
- Released in 2008
- Medium
Which 1987 Mani Ratnam film made TIME’s 100 greatest-films list, and which actor plays its central don?
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- Nayakan
- Kamal Haasan
- A 1987 crime drama
- Hard
Which 1964 Tamil film gives one actor nine roles, and who is that actor?
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- Navarathiri
- Sivaji Ganesan
- Nine roles
- Boss
Cannes history took a turn in 1946: which Indian film won the festival’s top prize, and what language was it made in?
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- Neecha Nagar
- Hindi-language film
- Directed by Chetan Anand
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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