Seventeen (K-pop) Trivia
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98 free Seventeen (K-pop) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Seventeen (K-pop) trivia questions with answers. Seventeen trivia for Carats who know why thirteen people are called Seventeen. These 98 questions cover the group's whole story: the pre-debut reality show, the 17 Carat EP that charted longer in the US than any other K-pop album of 2015, the fandom name announced on Valentine's Day 2016, 'Very Nice', 'Don't Wanna Cry', 'Home', 'Rock with You', 'Super' and 'God of Music', the record-shattering sales of FML and Seventeenth Heaven, and the Glastonbury Pyramid Stage. The members are all here too: S.Coups the leader, Woozi who produces every track, Hoshi who shapes the choreography, the Chinese members Jun and The8, American-born Joshua and Vernon, Seungkwan from Jeju, Dino the maknae and his alter ego, plus the sub-units BSS and HxW and the members' military enlistments. Every answer is checked against a documented source, so you can host a Carat quiz night knowing the facts hold up. Say the name.
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Q 01Which member, who trained at his father's dance academy, is the youngest in Seventeen?
Dino
Dino, born Lee Chan in February 1999, is the only member born after 1998; the label cast him after he won the grand prize at a youth dance competition in Jeonju.
Q 02Seventeen explain their name with which sum?
13 members, 3 teams, 1 group
13 members, 3 teams, 1 group: the sum makes 17; the agency had first planned a 17-member line-up, and thirteen were confirmed after years of training.
Q 03Which Seventeen vocalist made his musical theatre debut as King Arthur in Xcalibur in 2019?
DK
DK, born Lee Seok-min, played Arthur in Xcalibur, the Korean staging of the musical Artus-Excalibur, in 2019 and returned to the role for its 2021 run.
Q 04Which agency formed Seventeen?
Pledis Entertainment
Pledis Entertainment, founded by Han Sung-soo and previously behind After School and NU'EST, formed the group; Big Hit (now Hybe) bought a majority stake in the label in 2020.
Q 05On what date did Seventeen officially debut with a live showcase?
May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 was the date of Seventeen's debut showcase in Seoul, streamed live; the debut EP followed digitally three days later.
Q 06Seventeen's line-up was introduced on which MBC Music reality show?
Seventeen Project: Debut Big Plan
Seventeen Project: Debut Big Plan aired on MBC Music in May 2015, following the 13 trainees through the final weeks before their showcase after years of Seventeen TV online broadcasts.
Q 07What was the title of Seventeen's debut EP?
17 Carat
17 Carat held five songs created by the members themselves, and it went on to chart in the US for longer than any other K-pop album of 2015.
Q 08The name of Seventeen's fandom plays on the group's image of itself as which gemstone?
Diamond
Diamond is the image: the group performed 'Shining Diamond' before debut, an online poll then chose Carat, the gem's unit of weight, and the name was announced on February 14, 2016.
Q 09Which member is Seventeen's main producer, credited on nearly all of the band's songs?
Woozi
Woozi, born Lee Ji-hoon, leads the vocal team and composes with producer Bumzu; the 'self-producing idols' tag comes from the members writing their own music from debut.
Q 10Which member is Seventeen's overall leader and also leads the hip-hop team?
S.Coups
S.Coups, born Choi Seung-cheol, is the overall leader as well as head of the hip-hop team, and in 2025 he formed the duo CxM with a fellow rapper from the unit.
Q 11Whose choreography ideas have largely shaped Seventeen's performances as leader of the performance team?
Hoshi
Hoshi, born Kwon Soon-young, leads the performance team; routines the trainees built on their own while waiting to debut helped persuade the label to make self-production the group's concept.
Q 12Signature song 'Very Nice' was the lead single of the reissue of which Seventeen album?
Love & Letter
Love & Letter was reissued on July 4, 2016, with 'Very Nice' as its new lead single; the song peaked at only 22 on the Gaon chart and won no music-show trophies before becoming a signature.
Q 13'Don't Wanna Cry' was the lead single of which 2017 Seventeen EP, a number one in South Korea?
Al1
Q 21Which industry body named FML the best-selling album in the world for 2023?
IFPI
IFPI, the global recording-industry federation, put FML at number one on its 2023 Global Album Sales Chart; the album also won Album of the Year at the 2023 MAMA Awards.
Q 22Which Seventeen album drew a then-record 5.2 million pre-orders?
Seventeenth Heaven
Seventeenth Heaven logged 5,206,718 pre-orders before its October 2023 release, taking back the K-pop record that Stray Kids' 5-Star had lifted from Seventeen's own FML earlier that year.
Q 23Which song was Seventeen's first to reach number one on the Circle Digital Chart?
God of Music
God of Music entered the Circle Digital Chart at number one in October 2023, the first of the group's songs to top it, more than eight years after their debut.
Al1, read as 'Alone', arrived in May 2017; its lead single swapped the group's upbeat love songs for an EDM track about heartbreak, and the EP topped the Gaon Album Chart.
Q 14What was the lead single of Teen, Age, Seventeen's second studio album from November 2017?
Clap
Clap, a pop-rock single built on a gritty guitar riff, led Teen, Age on November 6, 2017, and returned to the group's upbeat sound after the heartbreak of the single before it.
Q 15What was the lead single of Seventeen's 2019 EP You Made My Dawn?
Home
Home, released January 21, 2019, was the lead single of You Made My Dawn and went on to collect ten weekly music-show trophies during its promotion.
Q 16Seventeen's third studio album, An Ode, had 'Hit' as a pre-release and which title track?
Fear
Fear, whose Korean title adds the word for 'poison', turned from the group's bright image to their inner fears; it arrived with the album An Ode on September 16, 2019.
Q 17Which EP was the group's first to sell a million copies within a week of release?
Heng:garæ
Heng:garæ, released June 22, 2020, with the lead single 'Left & Right', was the group's first million-seller, passing one million copies within its first week.
Q 18Which EP, led by the single 'Rock with You', became Seventeen's first double-million seller?
Attacca
Attacca, released on October 22, 2021, went on to sell two million copies, double the mark the group had first reached with a million-seller the year before.
Q 19What was the lead single of Seventeen's 2022 album Face the Sun?
Hot
Hot, a hip-hop track driven by Western-style guitar riffs, led Face the Sun on May 27, 2022, six weeks after the English-language pre-release 'Darl+ing'.
Q 20FML, the first K-pop album to top six million sales, was led by which single, titled 'Son Ogong' in Korean?
Super
Super, whose Korean title names the Monkey King of Journey to the West, was one of FML's two lead singles; the EP's combined sales passed 6.2 million by July 2023.
Q 24In June 2024 Seventeen became the first K-pop act to play which festival, on its Pyramid Stage?
Glastonbury
Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage hosted Seventeen on the afternoon of June 28, 2024, making them the first K-pop act to play the festival in its 54-year history.
Q 25In June 2024 Seventeen were named the first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for Youth of which organisation?
UNESCO
UNESCO appointed Seventeen its first Goodwill Ambassador for Youth at its Paris headquarters on June 26, 2024; the group pledged $1 million to a youth grant scheme under its 'Going Together' campaign.
Q 26Which Seventeen member is part of the trio BSS, which debuted in 2018?
Seungkwan
Seungkwan is one third of BSS, whose name Booseoksoon stitches together syllables of the three members' real names; the trio debuted with 'Just Do It' in March 2018.
Q 27Which two Seventeen members are from China?
Jun and The8
Jun and The8 are the two Chinese members: label scouts found Jun at a convenience store in China and The8 at a breakdancing class in Beijing.
Q 28In which city was Hansol Chwe, the Korean-American rapper of Seventeen's hip-hop unit, born?
New York
New York is the birthplace of Hansol Chwe (born February 1998), whose family moved to Seoul when he was five; the other American-born member is Joshua Hong, from Los Angeles.
Q 29Which member of Seventeen's hip-hop unit grew up in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province?
Mingyu
Mingyu, born Kim Min-gyu in Anyang in 1997, was street-cast by the label while still in middle school and in 2025 formed the duo CxM with the group's leader.
Q 30What is the name of Seventeen's mascot, which inspired a charity fundraising font in 2023?
Bongbongie
Bongbongie's 'newly-learned letters' shaped the font, which an education campaign released in January 2023 for a donation of at least $1.50 to promote literacy.