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Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipients: GK quiz

15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: Directorate of Film Festivals - The Official Catalogue, 67th National Film Awards (2019), 'Dadasaheb Phalke Award Past Recipients' ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026 · the page says: National Film Awards 2019 catalogue (past recipients 1969-2018)

  1. Question 1 of 15

    For which year was Dr. Rajkumar given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    For which year was Vinod Khanna given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    Who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 1976?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    For which year was Raj Kapoor given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    For which year was Dr. Bhupen Hazarika given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    Who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 1998?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    For which year was Hrishikesh Mukherjee given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    For which year was L.V. Prasad given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    Who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 1990?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    For which year was Gulzar given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    For which year was V. Shantaram given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    Who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2011?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    For which year was Adoor Gopalakrishnan given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    For which year was Yash Chopra given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    Who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 1988?

The official list (40 rows)

RecipientAward year
Devika Rani Roerich1969
B.N. Sircar1970
Prithviraj Kapoor1971
Sulochana (Ruby Myers)1973
Kanan Devi1976
Sohrab Modi1979
Naushad Ali1981
L.V. Prasad1982
Durga Khote1983
Satyajit Ray1984
V. Shantaram1985
Raj Kapoor1987
Ashok Kumar1988
Lata Mangeshkar1989
A. Nageswara Rao1990
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika1992
Majrooh Sultanpuri1993
Dilip Kumar1994
Dr. Rajkumar1995
Shivaji Ganesan1996
Kavi Pradeep1997
B.R. Chopra1998
Hrishikesh Mukherjee1999
Asha Bhosle2000
Yash Chopra2001
Dev Anand2002
Mrinal Sen2003
Adoor Gopalakrishnan2004
Shyam Benegal2005
Tapan Sinha2006
Manna Dey2007
K. Balachander2010
Soumitra Chatterjee2011
Pran2012
Gulzar2013
Shashi Kapoor2014
Manoj Kumar2015
K Viswanath2016
Vinod Khanna2017
Amitabh Bachchan2018

Left out or changed by Shishya: Catalogue numbers recipients 01-50 for 1969-2018 (one per year). Left out to keep to 40 rows: B. Nagi Reddy, B.G. Pendharkar, B.N. Reddy, D. Ramanaidu, Dhiren Ganguly, Nitin Bose, P. Jairaj, Pankaj Mullick, R.C. Boral, V.K. Murthy. Not in this catalogue's past-recipient pages, so not added (single-source rule): Rajinikanth (2019, profiled in this same catalogue as the 51st award), Asha Parekh (2020), Waheeda Rehman (2021), Mithun Chakraborty (2022), Mohanlal (2023), Anant Nag (2024, announced 16 Sep 2026) - the 2021-2024 names are printed in PIB backgrounder 'National Film Awards: A Nation's Tribute to the Magic of Indian Cinema' (https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/specificdocs/documents/2026/sep/doc_9919_20260920_12543201.pdf) and could be a follow-up. dff.gov.in (PhalkeAward.aspx) no longer resolves (DFF merged into NFDC in 2022). Names as printed (e.g. 'Devika Rani Roerich', 'K Viswanath', 'Dr. Rajkumar').

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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