KBC 11 airs on Sony TV.
Sanoj Raj from Jehanabad, Bihar on Friday emerged as the first contestant to win Rs 1 crore on Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 11.
Post his big win, Sanoj spoke exclusively to indianexpress.com, “It was a great time on the game show. I also managed to earn a good amount and am so excited to become the first crorepati of the season. KBC is a show that I have followed for a long time. When I would correctly answer questions asked on the show, I would calculate that I could have won so much money (laughs). That’s how I decided to try my luck as soon as I turned 18. After a long wait, I managed to clear the audition. It has been a long journey.”
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The Amitabh Bachchan-hosted reality game show Kaun Banega Crorepati has been edutaining us for almost two decades. The show is an Indian adaptation of the British show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
As is apparent by all the hullabaloo on social media, the show’s popularity has not waned. The producers make small changes to the format once in a while to make it seem fresh to the audience. The promos of the show feature human interest stories, so the viewers feel connected with them.
The current season of Kaun Banega Crorepati began airing from August 19.
Sanoj Raj quits the game instead of choosing to answer the sixteenth question that could have won him Rs 7 crore. If he had answered the question incorrectly, his final prize money would have fallen to Rs 3,20,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the 15th question correctly using the Ask the Expert lifeline. He becomes the first KBC 11 contestant to win Rs 1 crore.
Sanoj Raj answers the 14th question correctly and wins Rs 50,00,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the 13th question correctly using the 50-50 lifeline. He wins Rs 25,00,000. Saroj answered that N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar is credited with drafting of Article 370, which grants special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sanoj Raj answers the 12th question correctly and wins Rs 12,50,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the 11th question correctly and wins Rs 6,40,000. He answered former Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia is from Sikkim.
Sanoj Raj wins Rs 3,20,000 by answering the tenth question correctly. The contestant used the flip-the-question lifeline.
Sanoj Raj answers the ninth question correctly and wins Rs 160,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the eighth question correctly by using the audience poll lifeline. He wins Rs 80,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the seventh question correctly and wins Rs 40,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the sixth question correctly and wins Rs 20,000.
Sanoj Raj answers the fifth question correctly and wins Rs 10,000.
What caught the audience’s attention was the preview for Friday’s episode that was shown at the end of yesterday’s episode. Here, Amitabh Bachchan asks him if he is ready to answer the 16th question of the game that could lead to Sanoj Raj winning win Rs 7 crore.