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40 free Solo Leveling trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Solo Leveling began as a Korean web novel in 2016, became one of the most-read webtoons on the planet and then, in 2024, an anime that swept the year's biggest awards. Its hook is simple: every hunter's power is fixed at awakening, except for one man who can level up. These 40 questions follow Sung Jin-woo from the weakest hunter in the country to Shadow Monarch: the System and its daily goals, the dungeon that nearly kills him, the shadow soldiers he raises, the guild masters and national-level hunters around him, the Monarchs and their ancient enemies, and the ending that rewrites the timeline. The media side is here too: who wrote and drew it, who animated, composed and voiced it, the theme songs, the sequel and the live-action casting. It suits anime nights, fan group chats and anyone who has binged both seasons. Every answer carries an explanation and a source, so disputes about shadow ranks can be settled.
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Q 01Which pen-named author wrote the original web novel, serialized from July 2016 and printed in 14 volumes?
Chugong
Chugong is a pen name, and when the sequel Ragnarok went to a new writer in 2023 he publicly backed it, saying it stirred the same feelings as his own first chapters.
Q 02Which studio, set up by Aniplex in 2005, produced the Solo Leveling anime that premiered in January 2024?
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures was unveiled as the studio in 2022 with a 2023 debut planned, but the show slipped to 7 January 2024 on Tokyo MX; the studio later took Best Studio at the 15th Newtype Anime Awards.
Q 03Which S-rank swordswoman finds every other hunter smells foul, yet thinks Sung Jin-woo smells nice?
Cha Hae-in
Cha Hae-in is the only female S-rank in the country, falls for Jin-woo after he saves her three times, and in the revised timeline they marry and have a son.
Q 04Which grade does Sung Jin-woo hold at the start of the story, when he is mocked as the weakest hunter alive?
E-Rank
E-Rank is the bottom of the hunter scale, and because a hunter's abilities are fixed at awakening, a bottom-grade hunter who keeps getting stronger is unheard of.
Q 05Which talking shadow does Jin-woo raise from the Ant King after beating the creature into submission?
Beru
Beru can speak because of his high rank, rises to Marshal alongside the knight commander, and grows fond of Jin-woo's son.
Q 06Which publisher, also behind Seven Knights and Lineage 2: Revolution, made the action RPG released in May 2024?
Netmarble
Netmarble announced the game in January 2022, more than two years before its 8 May 2024 release, and in July 2025 said a second title, Solo Leveling: Karma, was in development.
Q 07Which Shadow Monarch, weary of an eons-long war, chose Sung Jin-woo as the successor to inherit his power?
Ashborn
Ashborn, the King of the Dead, belonged to both warring sides at once, which is why Jin-woo alone among Monarchs fights on humanity's side.
Q 08Which digital comic and fiction platform first serialized the web novel, with its webtoon following in March 2018?
KakaoPage
KakaoPage has drawn 2.4 million readers to the novel since 2016, and the same platform launched the sequel Ragnarok in April 2023.
Q 09Which artist, head of Redice Studio, drew the webtoon through its 179 chapters before his death in July 2022?
Jang Sung-rak
Jang Sung-rak, known as Dubu, ran Redice Studio; after his death a new art team drew a 2023 side story with the original writer returning.
Q 10Which Japanese comic app ranked Solo Leveling its No. 1 webtoon of 2019 on its way to 650 million reads?
Piccoma
Piccoma has logged over 650 million cumulative reads of the webtoon in Japan, and the app's operator is a co-producer of the sequel anime film announced in 2026.
Q 11The Monarchs have fought an ancient war against which beings, whose seven chosen human hosts are called vessels?
Rulers
The Rulers chose seven humans as vessels, and the top-ranked hunters of America, China and India are among them, alongside Jin-woo's own father.
Q 12Which King of Dragons and Monarch of Destruction leads the Monarchs as the story's final antagonist?
Antares
Antares invades the human world to draw Jin-woo out after three fellow Monarchs die, and in the original timeline it is the Monarchs' ancient enemies, not Jin-woo, who kill him.
Q 13Which King of Demons, the White Flame Monarch, rides a huge white dragon and is the first Monarch Jin-woo defeats?
Baran
Q 21Which Japanese guild master, his country's strongest hunter, is killed in a single hit by the Ant King?
Goto Ryuji
Goto Ryuji had challenged Jin-woo to a duel that was called off when it escalated, and six other Japanese hunters die alongside him in the raid.
Q 22Which S-rank based in America hunts Jin-woo to avenge his brother and ends up as the shadow nicknamed Greed?
Hwang Dong-soo
Hwang Dong-soo abducts Jin-woo's guild vice-chairman to learn who killed his brother Dong-suk, and pays for it with his life.
Q 23Which first-timer D-rank, kitted out by family wealth in pricey gear, becomes vice-chairman of Jin-woo's guild?
Yoo Jin-ho
Baran's defeated mount is resurrected as the wyvern shadow Kaisel, and Jin-woo also gains the power to swap places with any of his shadow soldiers.
Q 14Which dungeon, reached past a guardian Cerberus, does Jin-woo clear to win the potion that finally cures his mother?
The Demon's Castle
The Demon's Castle lies behind a guardian Cerberus that nearly kills Jin-woo several times, and a demon noble he defeats on the 80th floor guides him to the top.
Q 15Which American hunter nicknamed Goliath, ranked first in the world, befriends Jin-woo after losing a fight to him?
Thomas Andre
Thomas Andre is a National Level Hunter and a vessel, and his gift after the fight is the strongest magical weapon in the world.
Q 16Which weapon, the strongest in the world, does the hunter nicknamed Goliath give Jin-woo after their fight?
Kamish's Wrath
Kamish's Wrath comes as a gift rather than loot: the world's number-one hunter hands it over after Jin-woo beats him and they become friends.
Q 17Which Chinese hunter, ranked second in the world, is Asia's strongest until Jin-woo overtakes him?
Liu Zhigang
Liu Zhigang meets Jin-woo for the first time at the annual guild conference and the two part on good terms.
Q 18Which ageing S-rank chairs the Korean Hunters Association and is killed by the Monarchs despite hidden vessel powers?
Go Gun-hee
Go Gun-hee's age and ill health stop him using the power at full output, and he is one of seven humans the Monarchs' enemies chose as hosts.
Q 19Which A-rank, once the surveillance team's chief inspector, becomes chairman of the Hunters Association?
Woo Jin-chul
Woo Jin-chul is the first human told of the war between the Monarchs and their ancient enemies, and in the sequel he brands criminal awakened beings 'Villains'.
Q 20Which White Tiger Guild master, a transformation-magic user, is the first S-rank to realise Jin-woo can grow?
Baek Yoon-ho
Baek Yoon-ho's staffer Ahn Sangmin is the one who notices Jin-woo surviving mission after mission and deduces he has reawakened.
Yoo Jin-ho calls Jin-woo his sworn brother, dresses in fancy armour as a running gag, and in the revised-timeline epilogue marries Jin-woo's sister.
Q 24Which S-rank, trapped in a gate for ten years and presumed dead, escapes through a gate in the United States?
Sung Il-hwan
Sung Il-hwan is a vessel who dies in his son's arms after pushing that power past what his body can take, and is revived when Jin-woo rewrites the timeline.
Q 25What item does Jin-woo use to create a new timeline after the war with the Monarchs?
Cup of Reincarnation
The Cup of Reincarnation creates a revised timeline in which he marries and has a son, and in the sequel the gates start opening again during that son's third year at university.
Q 26Which writer replaced the original author for the sequel web novel Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, which began in April 2023?
Daul
Daul wrote 357 chapters before ending Ragnarok in July 2025, while Dangdo and the artist Jin handled the webtoon version from July 2024.
Q 27Who is the protagonist of Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, whose inherited powers were sealed so he could live a normal life?
Sung Suho
Sung Suho gets his memories back and the same System his father used, then sets out to find his missing parents while fighting the Itarim.
Q 28Which Blood-Red Commander must Jin-woo slay in a castle to finish the job-change quest?
Igris
Igris matches or exceeds Jin-woo in speed and strength, and the fight fills the first season's eleventh episode, 'A Knight Who Defends an Empty Throne'.
Q 29Which shadow does Jin-woo raise from the A-rank Kim Chul, who turned on him during the fight with the boss Baruka?
Iron
Iron is known as the dim-witted shadow; he copies the knight commander's habit of bringing Jin-woo a head, much to the knight's annoyance.
Q 30Which shadow, taken from an ice bear in a snowbound dungeon, can kill a Naga in a single hit?
Tank
Tank is a Knight Grade shadow about as strong as an A-rank hunter, and plows through hordes of demons 'like they were bowling pins'.