Music · Desi Hip Hop
Desi Hip Hop Trivia Quiz
Bars Pe Bars Divine to Hanumankind, Honey Singh to Seedhe Maut: India's rap story, from the gully to the globe.
111 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Desi Hip Hop Trivia Quiz has 111 questions: 39 easy, 45 medium and 27 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 111 Desi Hip Hop questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Emiway's 'Firse Machayenge' hit 100 million views in 50 days, then got a June 2020 remix with which American rapper of 'Thrift Shop'?
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Macklemore
The original came out on Valentine's Day 2020 and ended the year among India's top 10 YouTube music videos.
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Ikka rapped on the 2018 remake of a 1999 Sushmita Sen hit, with Nora Fatehi belly dancing in the video. Name the song.
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Dilbar
It became the first Indian song to reach No. 3 on Billboard's YouTube chart, with over 76 million views in its first week.
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In which 2018 Kareena and Sonam Kapoor film did Badshah sing, not just rap, for the first time, on the song 'Tareefan'?
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Veere Di Wedding
'Tareefan' means compliments in Punjabi, and the video flipped the usual party song: here the men danced around the women.
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Honey Singh got which Bollywood legend to rap with him in 'Party With The Bhoothnath' (2014)?
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Amitabh Bachchan
It was their first song together, a promo track for the ghost comedy sequel Bhoothnath Returns.
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Divine got hooked on hip hop after a school friend wore a T-shirt of which rapper, someone he had never heard of?
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50 Cent
The friend burned him a CD of 50 Cent, Eminem, Tupac and Big L; in 2023 Divine was booked to open 50 Cent's Mumbai show.
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In 2023 Divine performed at the closing ceremony before the final of which cricket league?
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IPL
Rain pushed the Chennai vs Gujarat final in Ahmedabad to a reserve day, and he performed with Jonita Gandhi.
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Divine rapped on a 2021 charity cover of 'The Unforgiven' with Vishal Dadlani and Shor Police, for which heavy metal band's tribute album?
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Metallica
The Blacklist had 53 artists, and the band itself shared the Indian version from its official account.
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Divine's 'Kaam 25' warns that Mumbai has 25 days left. Which 2018 Netflix series was it made for?
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Sacred Games
Netflix put its video out with English subtitles, and the show also used his song 'Jungli Sher'.
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King remade his biggest hit in 2023 as an English-Hindi version, 'Afterlife', with which American pop singer married to an Indian star?
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Nick Jonas
The boy who sang soprano in a Delhi government school choir had grown up on Backstreet Boys and Vengaboys.
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In May 2024 King became the first Indian pop artist to walk the red carpet at which film festival?
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Cannes
He went with the Brut India group and said the walk felt like a turning point in his life.
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Which 2021 Badshah song with Nikhita Gandhi set off a hook-step challenge that Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif joined?
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Jugnu
Badshah said he had worked on its retro-synth sound for a while, and was overjoyed when the dance went viral.
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Bollywood's 'Bhaijaan' turns up as a dark, devil-like figure in Honey Singh's 'Yaar Na Miley' video. Which 2014 film is the song from?
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Kick
Jasmine Sandlas sang it with Honey Singh, and Nargis Fakhri joined Salman Khan for the dance in the video.
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Days after his Bigg Boss win, MC Stan's 10-minute Instagram Live drew about 5.4 lakh viewers, beating which superstar's Indian record at the time?
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Shah Rukh Khan
The old Indian mark was about 2.55 lakh, and Stan's live put him in a global top 10 beside BTS's Jungkook and V.
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Yo Yo Honey Singh returned after two years away with 'Dil Chori', a remake of a 90s Hans Raj Hans hit. It's from which 2018 Kartik Aaryan comedy?
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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
He called it a Bhangra song with Hindi lyrics, his New Year's gift to fans, out in the last week of December 2017.
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Badshah and Fazilpuria's 2014 party track 'Chull' was remade as 'Kar Gayi Chull' for which 2016 film, with Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra dancing?
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Kapoor & Sons
Amaal Mallik recreated it as his first Dharma film song, and by late 2017 the video had passed 200 million YouTube views.
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Badshah's 'Garmi' beat Nora Fatehi's own YouTube record with 30 million views in 25 hours. Which 2020 dance film is it from?
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Street Dancer 3D
Varun Dhawan danced it with Nora, and Neha Kakkar sang it with Badshah; the film came from dance-film director Remo D'Souza.
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Honey Singh's 2025 hit 'Maniac', with Esha Gupta in the video, was a first for him: it has a verse in which Indian language?
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Bhojpuri
Ragini Vishwakarma sang the new-language lines, and the track went to No. 1 on Billboard's India chart.
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Honey Singh kicked off his My Story world tour in February 2026 in the same city where he shot his breakout 'Brown Rang' video. Which city?
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Dubai
The tour opened at the Coca-Cola Arena on 6 Feb 2026; the Brown Rang video had the Burj Khalifa in its backdrop.
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Honey Singh's Punjabi party hit 'Angreji Beat', made with Gippy Grewal, got a second life in which 2012 Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone film?
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Cocktail
Around then he was reportedly paid a record ₹70 lakh for one Bollywood song, the most any singer had got.
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Which bass-music producer teamed up with Divine on the track 'Jungle Raja'?
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Nucleya
Divine wrote the lyrics in under a day, and touring the song taught him he needed a crew: Gully Gang.
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How many questions are in the Desi Hip Hop Trivia Quiz?
111. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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