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50 free IKon trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
iKon took one of the hardest roads to debut in Korean pop. Its members were put through televised trainee contests, sent back to the practice room, then made to fight for their places a second time before the public ever heard a single. What followed was a run of chart-topping releases, arena and dome tours across Asia, a hit that became impossible to escape, a change of leader and, later, a fresh start at a new label. This quiz covers the whole story. You will be asked to match members to their pasts, from child acting and rap contests to talent-show auditions, and to recall the singles, albums, tours, collaborations and awards that marked each stage of the group's career. Solo projects and the former leader get their share of questions too. It is written for fans who want to find out how well they really know the members, with easy openers for casual listeners and deeper cuts for long-time followers. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you guess.
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Q 01Singing iKon's catchy 2018 hit 'Love Scenario' in class was banned by some South Korean institutions of which kind?
Elementary schools
Elementary schools were where the craze peaked: young pupils sang the easy melody so constantly that some teachers barred it from their classrooms.
Q 02B.I wrote iKon's hit 'Love Scenario' after watching the last ten minutes of which Hollywood film?
La La Land
La La Land ends with two former lovers exchanging a smile, and B.I said that warm farewell, neither sad nor happy, was the mood he wanted for the track.
Q 03As a child actor, Chan of iKon played the childhood version of which actor's character in the drama Boys Over Flowers?
Lee Min-ho
Lee Min-ho's characters were played as boys by Chan twice: he returned as the young lead in The Heirs in 2013.
Q 04Bobby of iKon won which South Korean TV rap competition in 2014, a year before the group's debut?
Show Me the Money
Show Me the Money made him its third-season champion while he was still a YG trainee, competing alongside his future bandmate B.I.
Q 05iKon's 'Love Scenario' can be heard in the third season of which Netflix survival drama from South Korea?
Squid Game
Squid Game used the track seven years after its release, a sign of how deeply the 2018 hit had lodged in the country's popular memory.
Q 06Ju-ne of iKon first appeared on television in 2009, billed on the show Star King as a young version of whom?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was the star he imitated on SBS in 2009, three years before YG Entertainment scouted him as a trainee.
Q 07The rival YG trainee team that beat iKon's future members on a 2013 survival show debuted as which group?
Winner
Winner debuted in 2014 after taking the public vote, while the six who lost returned to training and had to fight through a second contest.
Q 08Months before their own debut, iKon opened a 2014–15 Japan dome tour for which senior boy band?
Big Bang
Big Bang's Japan Dome Tour X gave the newly formed group a stadium-sized audience in December 2014, nine months before their first single.
Q 09iKon were one of six boy groups on Mnet's 2021 contest Kingdom: Legendary War, which was won by whom?
Stray Kids
Stray Kids won the live finale in June 2021 and earned their own reality show and a special 'Kingdom Week' as the prize.
Q 10The dance from iKon's 'Love Scenario' became an emote in which video game through a 2019 Samsung phone deal?
Fortnite
Fortnite offered the emote only to buyers of a Galaxy S10 phone, under a partnership between Epic Games and Samsung.
Q 11Which 2014 Mnet survival show settled iKon's final line-up and added Chan as a seventh member?
Mix & Match
Mix & Match made three of the original six compete against three newcomers for places, and 150,000 fans applied to watch its final performance.
Q 12Bobby of iKon formed the hip-hop duo MOBB in 2016 with which rapper from a fellow YG boy band?
Mino
Mino and Bobby each released a solo video that September before unveiling their joint singles 'Full House' and 'Hit Me'.
Q 13Bobby of iKon left Seoul with his family at about age nine and grew up in which US state?
Virginia
Virginia was home from 2005: his family settled in Fairfax, and he auditioned for YG Entertainment while living in the United States.
Q 21Which trap-driven breakup song led iKon's 2018 EP New Kids: Continue and inspired an official dance cover contest?
Killing Me
Killing Me took its title from an everyday expression of exasperation, and it peaked inside the top ten of the Gaon Digital Chart.
Q 22Which lead song of iKon's 2017 single album New Kids: Begin was first performed at a dome concert in Japan?
Bling Bling
Bling Bling had its live premiere at the Kyocera Dome two days before its release, during the group's first dome tour.
Q 23Which sentimental hip-hop ballad led New Kids: The Final, the EP that closed iKon's four-part series in 2018?
Goodbye Road
Goodbye Road pairs its chorus farewell with a shooing hand gesture in the choreography, and it reached number one on six major Korean charts.
Q 14Before joining YG as a trainee, Ju-ne of iKon was eliminated from the first season of which TV audition show?
K-pop Star
K-pop Star eliminated him, yet YG Entertainment, whose founder sat on the show's judging panel, scouted him in April 2012.
Q 15Which debut single won iKon a music-show trophy in 2015 before the group had made a live TV appearance?
My Type
My Type won on MBC's Music Core eleven days after its release, the same week it took a 'triple crown' across three Gaon charts.
Q 16Which debut album did iKon release in two parts in late 2015, a half album first and the full version weeks later?
Welcome Back
Welcome Back arrived as a half album in October and in full on December 24 after a delay, and both versions topped the Gaon Album Chart.
Q 17After leaving YG at the end of 2022, all six iKon members signed together with which label?
143 Entertainment
143 Entertainment signed the whole group on January 1, 2023, two days after their seven-year YG contracts ended, and a new album followed that May.
Q 18Ju-ne of iKon has told fans since 2017 that he trains in which combat sport as a hobby?
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is the grappling art he first described as his hobby during a live broadcast for fans, and he has kept up the classes since.
Q 19Which iKon member, born in February 1994, serves as the group's main vocalist and a lead dancer?
Jay
Jay, known as Jinhwan until he changed his stage name, spent nearly five years as a YG trainee before the group's 2015 debut.
Q 20On the 2016 Chinese TV contest Heroes of Remix, iKon competed with which South Korean star as their mentor?
Psy
Psy guided them to three weekly wins, more than any other act, although the group was cut from the final episodes amid a political dispute.
Q 24The Japanese edition of iKon's debut album earned the group Best New Artist honours at which 2016 ceremony?
Japan Record Awards
Japan Record Awards judges gave them both the New Artist Award and Best New Artist after the album sold over 61,000 copies in its first week.
Q 25On Kingdom: Legendary War, Ateez reworked which early iKon single with a concept based on Money Heist?
Rhythm Ta
Rhythm Ta, a 2015 hit co-composed by Ju-ne, came back in Ateez's version with a sample of Vivaldi's 'Summer' woven into the arrangement.
Q 26As trainees in 2013, iKon's future members danced in the 'Ringa Linga' music video for which YG soloist?
Taeyang
Taeyang later returned the favour as a songwriter, contributing to the group's second studio album in 2018.
Q 27Years before iKon, a young B.I rapped on the 2009 single 'Indian Boy' by which South Korean artist?
MC Mong
MC Mong brought the boy, then about 12, on stage at the 2009 SBS Dream Concert and onto the TV show You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook.
Q 28Which founder of the YG agency said iKon's name expressed the goal of becoming an 'icon for Korea'?
Yang Hyun-suk
Yang Hyun-suk, who found fame in the 1990s group Seo Taiji and Boys, swapped the 'c' for a 'K' to stand for the band's home country.
Q 29Which lead single of iKon's 2020 EP I Decide was written by B.I, months after he had left the group?
Dive
Dive was one of four songs on the five-track EP credited to the former leader, whose writing outlasted his 2019 exit.
Q 30Which 2022 EP, iKon's last release under the YG label, set the group's record for first-week sales?
Flashback
Flashback sold 73,362 copies in its first week and included 'At Ease', the song written for the group's finale on a TV contest a year earlier.