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40 free Kaun Banega Crorepati trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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, chairman of News Corporation, the channel's parent, gave the order in February 2000, a month after Amitabh Bachchan was picked as host. Bachchan was initially sceptical about hosting at all.
Q 02Who hosted KBC's third season in 2007, after Amitabh Bachchan declined to return once illness had halted season two?
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 phrase does Amitabh Bachchan use on KBC to confirm a contestant's choice, India's 'Is that your final answer?'
Lock kiya jaye
Lock kiya jaye, literally 'shall it be locked?', has spread to the regional editions too: Puneeth Rajkumar asked 'Lock maadoda?' in Kannada and Nagarjuna 'Lock cheseyana?' in Telugu.
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 has since sat in the real KBC hot seat himself, on a celebrity edition of the very show his character was modelled on.
Q 06KBC raised its top prize to ₹7.5 crore in 2022, with a new safety net, to mark the 75th anniversary of what?
Indian independence
Indian independence at 75 also brought a new safety rung just below the ₹1 crore question, so a wrong answer at the very top no longer wiped out most of the winnings.
Q 07Which British director's 2008 film about a KBC contestant from the Juhu slums won eight Academy Awards?
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle nearly passed on Slumdog Millionaire because he had no interest in a film about a quiz show, until he learned that Simon Beaufoy of The Full Monty had written the script.
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 09Which cricketer became the first sportsperson to receive the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 2014?
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar took the KBC hot seat himself in 2001, alongside Vinod Kambli, a decade before retiring as the only batter with 100 international centuries.
Q 10Which channel launched KBC on 3 July 2000, in the middle of turning itself into an all-Hindi network?
Star Plus
Star Plus reached number one among Indian channels for the first time within weeks, as the show's viewing share climbed to 54% in the last week of July 2000.
Q 11After a three-and-a-half-year gap, KBC returned in 2010 on which channel, its home for well over a decade since?
Sony TV
Sony TV's first season cut the ladder from 15 questions to 13, put a timer on the early questions and stamped the brand-new rupee symbol onto the logo.
Q 12Which KBC lifeline vanished in 2020 because COVID rules emptied the studio, and returned the following season?
Audience Poll
Audience Poll gave way to Video a Friend for season 12, filmed with no spectators at all; that season Runa Saha also reached the hot seat without winning a qualifier, as no other contestant was left.
Q 13What is the name of KBC's classic qualifying round, where hopefuls order four answers in the shortest time?
Fastest Finger First
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 won on 12 January 2013, a fortnight before season 6 ended, in the season that also launched the Dusra Mauka specials for socially excluded contestants.
Q 22Who became the first blind contestant to win ₹1 crore on Kaun Banega Crorepati, in the season of its 1000th episode?
Himani Bundela
Himani Bundela won on 31 August 2021, barely a week into season 13, and Sahil Aditya Ahirwar added the season's second ₹1 crore that October.
Q 23KBC's first ₹1 crore question, in 2000, asked which official the Constitution lets join Parliament's proceedings?
Attorney General
Fastest Finger First was dropped for a three-question Triple Test in seasons 13 and 14, then restored in 2023; its winner originally stayed for one episode but from 2010 could hang on for a week.
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 launched the original on 4 September 1998, and the format has since aired in around 100 countries, making it the best-selling TV format in history.
Q 15Who became KBC's first crorepati on 19 October 2000, the month KBC hit its all-time peak rating?
Harshvardhan Navathe
Harshvardhan Navathe's win came as the series touched 27.13 TVR, a rating no later season came close to; a couple, Vijay Raul and Arundhati, were the next to win ₹1 crore, in May 2001.
Q 16What record prize did brothers Achin and Sarthak Narula win in 2014, the largest payout in KBC history to that point?
₹7 crore
₹7 crore sent the Narulas leaping out of their seats as Bachchan shouted the amount, and the clip became an internet meme.
Q 17Which Air Force pilot aboard Soyuz T-11 in 1984 told Indira Gandhi that India looked 'better than the whole world'?
Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma had flown 21 MiG-21 combat missions in the 1971 war before the Soviet Interkosmos programme made him the first Indian in space.
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 debuted on a new 360-degree multimedia stage, the season the question count went from 13 to 15 and the Phone-a-Friend call was stretched to 45 seconds.
The Attorney General may speak in either House under Articles 76 and 88 but has no vote, and unlike a minister is free to keep a private legal practice.
Q 24Which sportsman, India's first Khel Ratna winner, was the ₹1 crore answer on Junior KBC in 2001?
Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand was the answer 14-year-old Ravi Mohan Saini locked in to become a crorepati in May 2001; Anand had become India's first grandmaster in 1988 and went on to five world titles.
Q 25Which 8,586-metre peak, the world's third highest, rises on the border of Sikkim and Nepal?
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the world's highest mountain until the Great Trigonometrical Survey's 1849 calculations showed that Everest, then called Peak XV, was taller.
Q 26Which 2023 ISRO mission made India the first country to soft-land a craft near the Moon's south pole?
Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram and rover Pragyan touched down on 23 August 2023, making ISRO only the fourth agency to land on the Moon, after the Soviets, NASA and China; the lander was never built to survive the lunar night.
Q 27Slumdog Millionaire was adapted from Q & A, a 2005 novel by which Indian diplomat, later High Commissioner to Canada?
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup's hero is not Jamal but Ram Mohammad Thomas, a Mumbai waiter whose three-faith name the film dropped, and the novel has sold translation rights in 43 languages.
Q 28Which former India cricket captain hosted the Bengali edition, Ke Hobe Banglar Kotipoti, when it launched in 2011?
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly fronted the show on the Mahuaa Bangla channel, and when it returned in 2018 the actor Prosenjit Chatterjee took over as host.
Q 29Who hosted the British original of KBC on ITV from 1998, asking contestants 'Is that your final answer?'
Chris Tarrant
Chris Tarrant recorded 592 episodes across 30 series, in which just five contestants ever won the £1m jackpot.
Q 30Which quizmaster, host of Doordarshan's Quiz Time from 1985, produced KBC through his company Synergy?
Siddhartha Basu
Siddhartha Basu's Quiz Time contestants included future RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, and his company went on to make eight regional KBC editions.