Jamshedpur, April 24: Eight confident answers and 12 correct guesses were all that it took young Nirvika Ahuja to win Rs 1 lakh, sitting right at home.

A Class VII student of Loyola School, Nirvika managed to win the prize through an interactive game show run by a national cable network provider recently. Won by one person across the country every week, Nirvika quite accidentally chanced upon the game show while casually browsing through the channels one evening while her parents were away from home.

Luck favoured her as she got a subject of her choice too: movies. A set of 20 questions to which answers had to be provided randomly one after the other, every correct response from her earned her the next question in the series. “Had it been any other subject, I would have flopped miserably,” said Nirvika candidly. Titled Lakhpati Kaun, it is a show designed for all.

“If you run out of answers midway, you are automatically considered out of the game, there is no scope to make up for that and don’t even get a single amount of the prize money,” added the chirpy youngster at his Jugsalai home.

She got a fair mix of Bollywood questions as well as Hollywood ones in the show. In the recent past, different sets of questions on politics, cricket and Ramayan.

“It is quite by chance that she won the prize. We were all away and surprised when we received a confirmatory message the next day and the cheque the following week,” added Rachna, amused by her daughter’s achievement.

Daughter of a businessman father Kamal Ahuja and teacher mother, the 13-year-old proposes to put all her money in a bank and use all of it later while pursuing her dream fashion designing course.

“She is sure to do us all proud some day soon,” said Father Victor Misquith, the principal of Loyola School.