Thanks for trying so hard.And yes, do call me Anshu. I hate prefixes and suffixes!

Anshu

I would wait for the answers to trivia quiz 2 … lol

Anshu.. see I have dropped the Dr. and I personally dislike the use of ji ..

Abhaya

2. What are the names of the Bachchan bungalows in Mumbai and Delhi? Which home was renamed and what was the original name?
Ans Delh – Sopaan. Mumbai- Prateeksha and Jalsa (Jalsa was earlier named Manasa on one of the D. Bachhan’s ancestor – probably grand mother)

3. Years ago, in the days of Bofors, an anguished Bachchan penned a poem which was published in a magazine of repute. Give me the name of the poem and the magazine it was published in.
Ans. Hands up.. I mean I surrender ( do’t search answers on net.. )

4. Before Brand Bachchan was launched via ABCL, he was turned into a comic book character. Name the superhero based on Bachchan.
Ans. Supremo

5. Name the movie where Amitabh’s parents, Harivanshrai and Teji Bachchan played a ‘blink and you would miss it’ role.
Kabhi-Kabhie

6. What was the name of the audio company launched by ABCL which released his album of pop/remixed songs? The name of the album? And the composer who did the remixes for him?
Ans. Saraswati (not sure). Aby Baby or is it eir beer phatte

7. Before he made it big as a hero, he tried his hand at a talent hunt organized by film magazine ‘Madhuri’. He lost the contest. But who was the winner that year?
Ans. No idea.. was it Vinod Khanna

8. Amitabh just loved a tune called ‘Yeke yeke’ by

Europe’s first African pop star, Morey Kante, so much, that he coaxed his director to use the music in his movie? Which movie am I talking about?
Ans. I give up.. I don’t know much of western music other than Bob Marley, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, Boney M, Abba and Michael Jackson and few others like Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton and Cliff Richard..

9. ’Karim Abdul’ stopped working with Amitabh after a great journey together, because AB refused to do a guest appearance in his film he was making. Who is this Karim Abdul?
Ans. who could that be.. Is it Jalal Agha..

10. Name the movies where Amitabh is called Vijay? And 3 movies where his name is Vijay Verma.
This is an unfair and very long question.. and the second part is bit too tough I would attempt the second part though
Deewar, Silsila and Besharam
(Don’t laugh at me if I have got both second and third wrong.. main pachaas saal ka ho chukaa hoon.. mujhe boolane ka pura haq hai..

Abhaya Sharma

Good luck!

1. Sumitranandan Pant, the famous Hindi poet and Harivanshrai’s friend named Amitabh. Amitabh’s pet name was Munna and Ajitabh’s Bunty.

2. Mumbai:Prateeksha and Jalsa, the office is situated at Janak; Delhi: Sopaan. Jalsa was earlier called Mansa. The name was changed, probably for numerological reasons.

3. The magazine was the Illustrated Weekly of India, then edited by Pritish Nandy. The poem was titled “Beware the fury of a patient man”. (Not Dryden, Manish… this was AB’s poem)

4. The cartoon was called Supremo

5. It is Kabhi Kabhie. They are there in the wedding scene in the beginning of the movie doing the kanyadaan. They happened to be on the sets and were asked to do the bit part.

6. The audio company was named ‘Big B’. The song ‘eer beer phatte’ was a part of the album. However the album was called Aby Baby with Bally Sagoo.

7. Rajesh Khanna. And AB saw to it that he upstaged the winner later in life.

8. Agneepath. The film uses the original ‘yeke yeke’ track when Vijay Chauhan flies on his helicopter to meet Kancha Cheena on the beach. That’s just before he keeps his appointment punctually by rising from the sea. And hands over bikini clad moll Archana Puran Singh his coat saying she’ll catch a cold.

9. Kishore Kumar. Karim Abdul was his name change for his nikaah to Madhubala

10. Amitabh was called Vijay in Zanjeer, Dostana, Agneepath, Roti Kapda aur Makaan, Deewar, Hera pheri, Don, Trishul, The Great Gambler, Kal Patthar, Do au do paanch, Shaan, Shakti, Shahenshah, Akayla, Ek Rishta, Aankhen, Nishabd and Ganga and Gangotri (Bhojpuri). He was called Vijay Verma in Dostana, Deewar and Akayla.

3. John Dryden’s “beware the fury of a patient man”
5. Kabhi Kabhi – wedding scene
6. AB Baby, BigB Music. Remixed by Bally Sagoo
7. Kakaji Khanna

Want me to wait until tomorrow before I give out the answers?