Kaun Banega Crorepati Trivia
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39 free Kaun Banega Crorepati trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Kaun Banega Crorepati has been India's biggest quiz since Amitabh Bachchan first asked a nervous contestant to confirm an answer in the summer of 2000. A quarter of a century on, the hot seat still turns teachers, farmers and students into household names overnight, and the show's questions have become a genre of their own. This quiz plays both sides of the screen. Half the questions are about the programme itself: the hosts and the channels, how the lifelines and the money tree changed season by season, the record winners and the exact questions that made them rich, and the Oscar-winning film the show inspired. The other half are the kind of general-knowledge questions the hot seat throws up, on Indian history, geography, science, sport and the Constitution, each with a clue built into the question. Built for fans who shout answers at the television, for anyone prepping for the registration questions, and for quiz hosts who want a ready-made KBC round. Play it on your phone or print it for the living room.
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Q 01KBC was nearly launched as Kaun Banega Lakhpati with a ₹1 lakh top prize; who ordered it raised to ₹1 crore?
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch had the prize raised when he visited in February 2000, and even then Amitabh Bachchan see-sawed for months before agreeing to host.
Q 02Who hosted KBC's third season in 2007, after Amitabh Bachchan declined to return?
Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan's season opened strongly but its ratings slid, and the show went dark for three and a half years before Bachchan returned in 2010.
Q 03Which Hindi phrase does Amitabh Bachchan use on KBC to confirm a contestant's final answer?
Lock kiya jaye
Lock kiya jaye, 'shall it be locked?', is Bachchan's cue to the computer, which he addresses as 'computer ji'.
Q 04Sushil Kumar, a ₹6,000-a-month computer teacher dubbed the real Slumdog Millionaire, won ₹5 crore from which state?
Bihar
Bihar's Sushil Kumar taught computers under the MNREGA rural jobs scheme before his 2011 win, which drew the highest ratings of any Hindi entertainment channel in two years.
Q 05Who plays Prem Kumar, the sneering quiz host who feeds Jamal a wrong answer in Slumdog Millionaire?
Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor plays the host, and with one question to go, Jamal is arrested and interrogated overnight on suspicion of cheating.
Q 06Which scripture did B.R. Ambedkar and his followers burn in 1927, in a question KBC asked in 2020?
Manusmriti
Manusmriti was the answer, and the question led to a police complaint against Amitabh Bachchan and the show's makers for hurting Hindu sentiments.
Q 07Which British director's 2008 film about a KBC contestant from the Juhu slums won eight Academy Awards?
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle didn't want to make a film about a TV quiz show, until he learned it was scripted by Simon Beaufoy, writer of The Full Monty.
Q 08Sushil Kumar's ₹5 crore question asked which European country sold the Nicobar Islands to the British in 1868?
Denmark
Denmark had colonised the Nicobars through its own East India Company in the 1750s, kept abandoning them to malaria, and turned down an Italian bid to buy them in 1865 before selling to Britain.
Q 09Why was KBC's second season pulled off air in 2006?
Its host fell ill
Its host fell ill: Amitabh Bachchan was still recovering, and the channel said no fresh episodes would be shot.
Q 10Which channel launched KBC on 3 July 2000, days after turning itself into an all-Hindi network?
Star Plus
Star Plus had trailed its rivals in revenue and ratings, and within weeks of the launch it rose to number one.
Q 11When KBC returned in 2010 after a three-and-a-half-year gap, which channel aired it?
Sony TV
Sony TV's gamble on the revival paid off, with Amitabh Bachchan's return as host credited for the season's success.
Q 12Which KBC lifeline was dropped for the 2020 season and restored the following season?
Audience Poll
Audience Poll gave way to Video a Friend, and the makers added recorded crowd sound in the edit, as IPL broadcasts did.
Q 13Which KBC round picks the hot-seat contestant by having hopefuls put four answers in order?
Fastest Finger First
Fastest Finger First gave way to a three-question Triple Test in 2021, then made a comeback in 2023.
Q 21Who was KBC's second ₹5 crore winner and the first woman to reach that prize, in January 2013?
Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney
Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney, a Mumbai tutor, said she would give part of the ₹5 crore away rather than keep all of it.
Q 22Which visually impaired maths teacher from Agra became KBC 13's first ₹1 crore winner in 2021?
Himani Bundela
Himani Bundela lost her sight in an accident at 15 and planned to use the prize to open a coaching centre for disabled children.
Q 23KBC's first ₹1 crore question, in 2000, asked which official the Constitution lets join Parliament's proceedings?
Attorney General
Q 14KBC is the licensed Hindi version of a quiz format first broadcast in September 1998 in which country?
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom's ITV original was hit by scandal when Major Charles Ingram was found guilty in 2003 of cheating his way to the £1m prize with help from a fellow contestant's coughs.
Q 15Who became the first contestant to win ₹1 crore on KBC, in its debut season in 2000?
Harshvardhan Navathe
Harshvardhan Navathe was studying for the IAS exam, but the fame of the win left no time to prepare, so he took an MBA in Britain instead.
Q 16Who made KBC history in 2014 by winning its ₹7 crore jackpot?
Two brothers from Delhi
Two brothers from Delhi, Achin and Sarthak Narula, won it after Achin had spent ten years trying to get onto the show.
Q 17Before KBC, which beauty pageant did Amitabh Bachchan's company stage in Bangalore in 1996, at a heavy loss?
Miss World
Miss World 1996 drew protests from several groups and heavy losses that helped sink his company ABCL.
Q 18In Slumdog Millionaire, Jamal's final ₹2 crore question asks for the third musketeer; which name does he guess?
Aramis
Aramis is a pure guess: Jamal's phone-a-friend, Latika, answers only to say she is safe and does not know, so he picks the first option on the screen.
Q 19Which KBC lifeline, borrowed from America's Super Millionaire, gives two guesses but removes the right to walk away?
Double Dip
Double Dip arrived in season 4 in 2010, the year a clock was first put on the questions, and the timer pauses only for the first of the two guesses.
Q 20Which lifeline in Amitabh Bachchan's 2013 KBC season let a contestant reuse one already spent on an earlier question?
Power Paplu
Power Paplu arrived as KBC added a fifth lifeline, and Flip the Question returned in place of Ask the Expert.
The Attorney General isn't counted as a government servant, so the holder may keep up a private legal practice.
Q 24What did Ravi Mohan Saini, who won ₹1 crore on KBC Junior at 14 in 2001, go on to become?
An IPS officer
An IPS officer: Saini, the son of a retired Navy officer, qualified as a doctor first, then cleared the civil services exam and in 2020 took charge in Porbandar.
Q 25Which Tokyo 2020 medallist shared KBC 13's hot seat with hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh in 2021?
Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra got Amitabh Bachchan to recite his famous police-station line from Zanjeer in Haryanvi.
Q 26In the Ramayana question that stumped Sonakshi Sinha on KBC in 2019, for whom did Hanuman fetch the Sanjeevani herb?
Lakshmana
Lakshmana was the answer, and the gaffe drew jokes because her father Shatrughan is named after Rama's youngest brother and her brothers are Luv and Kush.
Q 27Slumdog Millionaire was adapted from Q & A, a 2005 novel by which Indian diplomat, later High Commissioner to Canada?
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup wrote the novel in about two months in 2003, while alone in London with his family away in India.
Q 28Which celebrity hosted Ke Hobe Banglar Kotipoti, KBC's Bengali edition, when it launched in 2011?
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly fronted the first season on Mahuaa Bangla, and when the show returned in 2018 on Colors Bangla, actor Prosenjit Chatterjee took over.
Q 29Who hosted the original Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from its 1998 debut until 2014?
Chris Tarrant
Chris Tarrant was passed over when the show returned in 2018 for its 20th anniversary, and the host's chair went to Jeremy Clarkson instead.
Q 30Which quizmaster, host of Doordarshan's Quiz Time from 1985, produced KBC through his company Synergy?
Siddhartha Basu
Siddhartha Basu also coached the stars who fronted KBC across languages, from Amitabh Bachchan onward.