Archive · 4 Sep 2026
CRPF Officer Manoj Yadav Quits KBC’s Rs 1 Crore Question
Manoj Kumar Yadav is a CRPF officer who appeared on the television quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati 18.
He answered 14 questions correctly and won Rs 50 lakh.
Then he faced a much harder question worth Rs 1 crore.
The question asked who named the strait connected with the Golden Gate Bridge.
Manoj did not know the answer, so he chose to stop playing and keep his Rs 50 lakh.
He guessed Winfield Scott after leaving, but the correct answer was John Fremont.
During the show, he also talked about his dangerous work in Jharkhand.
He said a splinter injured his right eye during an encounter and that he could have lost the eye.
CRPF Deputy Commandant Manoj Kumar Yadav reached the Rs 1 crore question on Kaun Banega Crorepati 18.
He answered 14 questions and used all his lifelines before securing Rs 50 lakh.
Yadav quit because he did not know the answer to the Rs 1 crore question.
The correct answer was John Fremont, who named the strait associated with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Yadav also described surviving a potentially fatal Jharkhand encounter after suffering a splinter injury to his right eye.
- Who
- CRPF Deputy Commandant Manoj Kumar Yadav and Kaun Banega Crorepati 18 host Amitabh Bachchan.
- What
- Yadav won Rs 50 lakh after quitting at the Rs 1 crore question.
- When
- During Wednesday and Thursday episodes of Kaun Banega Crorepati 18.
- Where
- On the Kaun Banega Crorepati 18 set; Yadav discussed his service in Jharkhand and current posting in Gurugram, Haryana.
- Why
- He quit because he did not know the answer to the Rs 1 crore question.
- Contestant
- Manoj Kumar Yadav, a CRPF Deputy Commandant
- Show
- Kaun Banega Crorepati 18
- Winnings
- Rs 50 lakh
- Question value
- Rs 1 crore
- Correct answer
- John Fremont
- Current posting
- CRPF Intelligence School in Gurugram, Haryana
- Injury recalled
- A splinter injury to his right eye during an encounter in Jharkhand