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40 free Seventeen (K-pop) trivia questions with answers. Seventeen trivia for Carats who know why thirteen people are called Seventeen. These 49 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 01How many members does Seventeen have?
Thirteen
S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon and Dino.
Q 02The name Seventeen comes from which formula?
13 members + 3 teams + 1 group
The formula is 13 members + 3 teams + 1 group, adding up to 17; earlier plans had envisaged a 17-member line-up, and trainees rotated in and out before debut.
Q 03What are the three teams within Seventeen?
Hip-hop, vocal and performance
Hip-hop, vocal and performance are the three units; each has its own leader and releases unit tracks on the group's albums alongside the full-group title songs.
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 06The group'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, released in May 2015, carried the title track 'Adore U' and was the only rookie release on Billboard's list of the ten best K-pop albums of 2015.
Q 08Seventeen's fandom name, Carat, was announced at a concert on which date?
February 14, 2016
February 14, 2016 was the day Seventeen announced the name Carat at a Seoul concert; it nods to the diamond measure, the debut EP's title and that EP's opening track 'Shining Diamond'.
Q 09Which member is the group's main producer, credited on nearly all of its 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 the group leader and also leads the hip-hop team?
S.Coups
S.Coups, born Choi Seung-cheol in 1995, is the overall leader as well as head of the hip-hop unit, rapping and writing lyrics for its tracks.
Q 11Whose choreography ideas have largely shaped Seventeen's performances as leader of the performance team?
Hoshi
Hoshi, born Kwon Soon-young in Namyangju in 1996, leads the performance unit and has choreographed much of the group's work, earning the nickname 'tiger' for his on-stage ferocity.
Q 12Signature song 'Very Nice' was the lead single of the reissue of which Seventeen album?
Love & Letter
Love & Letter, the group's first studio album, was reissued in July 2016 with 'Very Nice' (Korean title 'Aju Nice') as its new lead single.
Q 13'Don't Wanna Cry' was the lead single of which 2017 EP, which peaked at 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 22How many pre-orders had Seventeenth Heaven racked up by its October 2023 release?
5.20 million
5.20 million pre-orders were reported for Seventeenth Heaven ahead of its October 2023 release, beating the 4.64 million FML had drawn six months earlier.
Q 23Which song was Seventeen's first to reach number one on the Circle Digital Chart?
God of Music
God of Music was the lead single of the EP Seventeenth Heaven, released October 23, 2023, the group's eleventh mini album.
Al1, the group's fourth EP, arrived in May 2017 with 'Don't Wanna Cry' as its lead single and topped South Korea's Gaon Album Chart.
Q 14What was the lead single of Teen, Age, the group's second studio album from November 2017?
Clap
Clap, released November 6, 2017, led the album Teen, Age; its Korean title 'Baksu' literally means applause.
Q 15What was the lead single of the 2019 EP You Made My Dawn?
Home
Home, released January 21, 2019, was the lead single of You Made My Dawn, the sixth EP, and won multiple weekly music-show trophies during its promotion.
Q 16An Ode, the third studio album, had 'Hit' as a pre-release and which title track?
Fear
It came out September 16, 2019, ahead of the Ode to You World Tour.
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 18Attacca, with lead single 'Rock with You', became the group's first album to sell how many copies?
Two million
Two million copies made Attacca, released October 22, 2021, the group's first double-million seller; its lead single 'Rock with You' arrived four months after the EP Your Choice.
Q 19What was the lead single of the 2022 album Face the Sun?
Hot
Hot, released May 27, 2022, was the lead single of Face the Sun, the fourth studio album, following the English-language pre-release 'Darl+ing'.
Q 20FML, released in 2023, became the first K-pop album to pass what sales milestone?
6 million copies
6 million copies was passed by FML within months of its April 2023 release, a first for any K-pop album; it opened with more than four million sales in its first week.
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 of these members 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 members are from China?
Jun and The8
Jun and The8 are the two Chinese members: Jun (Wen Junhui) is from Shenzhen and The8 (Xu Minghao) from Anshan in Liaoning.
Q 28In which city was Hansol Chwe, the hip-hop unit's Korean-American rapper, 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 hip-hop unit member grew up in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province?
Mingyu
Mingyu, born Kim Min-gyu in Anyang in 1997, is the hip-hop unit's tallest rapper 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
The font 'reflects 6-year-old Bongbongie's newly-learned letters' and was available for a $1.50 donation.