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50 free Suga trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Suga is the BTS member who started out as a teenage producer in South Korea's underground hip hop scene and became one of K-pop's most prolific songwriters. Alongside his work with the group he has built a solo catalogue under a second stage name, toured the world on his own and produced hits for other artists. This quiz covers the whole story: his early years and the origin of his stage name, his solo tracks on BTS albums, his mixtapes and the album D-Day, his best-known collaborations, and his life offstage, from military service to charity work. It is written for ARMY and for anyone who knows BTS and wants to test how well they know its quietest hitmaker. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories along the way.
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Q 01Suga long told fans his stage name was short for which basketball position, his favourite?
Shooting guard
Shooting guard was a cover story: Suga later said the name really honours boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard. He found the true origin too much of a chore to explain.
Q 02Under which alias did Suga release his 2016 and 2020 mixtapes and the 2023 album D-Day?
Agust D
Agust D is Suga spelled backwards plus DT, initials that stand for his hometown's nickname. He adopted the alias for his first mixtape.
Q 03On his 25th birthday Suga kept a promise to fans by donating what food to 39 orphanages?
Beef
Beef went to the orphanages in the name of ARMY, the BTS fanbase. Back in 2014 Suga had promised to buy his fans meat if he ever found success.
Q 04Suga's autobiographical solo First Love, on the BTS album Wings, is a rap serenade to which childhood instrument?
Piano
A piano from Suga's childhood is addressed like an old friend in the song, which unfolds like a monologue. He plays the instrument and produces mainly hip hop and R&B.
Q 05In 2021 Suga re-composed Over the Horizon, the signature ringtone of which electronics company's phones?
Samsung
Samsung unveiled Suga's version of its ringtone that August at the Unpacked 2021 event.
Q 06Which BT21 character, a mischievous little cookie who is afraid of milk, was created by Suga?
Shooky
Shooky leads a cookie team called the Crunchy Squad. On his 26th birthday Suga gave 329 dolls of the character to the Korea Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
Q 07The treatment centre Suga funded at Seoul's Severance Hospital in 2025 serves children with which condition?
Autism
Autism is the focus of the centre, which Suga funded with a 5 billion won donation. He has also worked there as a volunteer music instructor.
Q 08Which streaming service premiered the documentary Suga: Road to D-Day on the day his debut album arrived?
Disney+
Disney+ carried the film, which follows Suga on a music road trip across different countries as he makes the album.
Q 09Which singer's 2022 lead single That That was written and produced with Suga, who features on it?
Psy
Psy made the song the opening release from his album Psy 9th and filmed its video on a cold, wet beach in Incheon. It won Best Collaboration at the 2022 MAMA Awards.
Q 10Suga gave 100 million won to coronavirus relief in February 2020 for which hard-hit city, his hometown?
Daegu
Daegu, where Suga was born, was among the South Korean cities worst affected by the outbreak at the time. A year later he gave the same sum to a hospital there for children with cancer.
Q 11Which American singer's album Manic includes an interlude named after Suga, who raps on it and co-produced it?
Halsey
Halsey said she asked Suga onto the track because he is so introspective about the unusual lives they both lead. The pair reunited in 2023 on a new version of her song Lilith.
Q 12A 2023 version of the song Lilith featuring Suga was released as the anthem of which video game?
Diablo IV
Diablo IV has a main villain who shares the song's name. The anthem version was first performed at The Game Awards 2022, and the full cut with Suga followed in June 2023.
Q 13Which late rapper's posthumous album Fighting Demons includes Girl of My Dreams, a song with Suga?
Juice Wrld
Q 21A sampled speech by which American cult leader was removed from a track on Suga's mixtape D-2 after an apology?
Jim Jones
Jim Jones, who directed his followers in a 1978 mass murder-suicide, was heard in the original sample. The label said the producers had not known where the speech came from and reissued the track without it.
Q 22Which South Korean label did Suga first join as a music producer before training there for three years?
Big Hit Entertainment
Big Hit Entertainment took Suga on in 2010 and launched him in BTS three years later. Underground rappers at first accused him of selling out by becoming a K-pop idol.
Q 23Suga debuted with BTS on M Countdown performing which track from the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool?
Juice Wrld first worked with Suga on All Night, from the BTS World soundtrack, in 2019. Their second song together reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 14The video for Suga's lead single from D-2, casting him as a king and his double, draws on which Korean film?
Masquerade
Masquerade follows a lowly acrobat who stands in for King Gwanghae. Suga said the king in his video represents his old self and the double his new one, who shoots the king in the final scene.
Q 15Which single from Suga's mixtape D-2 samples traditional Korean military music and reached the US Hot 100?
Daechwita
Daechwita borrows the name and sound of marching music once played by wind and percussion bands, sampling a performance by the National Gugak Center. The single peaked at number 76 in the US.
Q 16Suga's 2023 single Haegeum shares its name with which traditional Korean instrument heard on the track?
Two-stringed fiddle
A two-stringed fiddle called the haegeum plays on the track, and the title doubles as a pun on liberation, the theme of the song. Suga wrote and produced it alone.
Q 17Which BTS bandmate trades verses with Suga on a drill-based track from his 2023 album D-Day?
J-Hope
J-Hope raps in a hushed near-whisper against Suga's urgent delivery as the pair call out misinformation spread about them online and in the media.
Q 18Which Japanese composer plays keyboard on Snooze, a track from Suga's album D-Day?
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto shares the track with singer Woosung of the Rose. Paste ranked the song first on its list of the best K-pop songs of 2023.
Q 19Which D-Day track recalls painful moments in Suga's life, such as his mother's heart surgery?
Amygdala
Amygdala takes its name from the almond-shaped part of the brain that processes fear and emotional memories. NME's five-star review picked the song as the standout on the album.
Q 20Which 2020 single by IU, featuring and produced by Suga, debuted at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart?
Eight
Eight is named for the last digit of 28, the Korean age both singers shared when they made it. It won Best Collaboration at the 2020 MAMA Awards.
No More Dream
No More Dream introduced BTS on the Mnet music show in June 2013. Suga has since written and produced tracks for every one of the group's albums.
Q 24Which South Korean president awarded Suga and his BTS bandmates the Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit in 2018?
Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in honoured the group for promoting Korean culture, then in 2021 appointed its members special presidential envoys for future generations and culture.
Q 25Suga became a brand ambassador in January 2023 for which Italian fashion house, fronting its menswear campaign?
Valentino
Valentino made Suga the face of its Maison Valentino Essentials line, a campaign built around the label's wardrobe staples.
Q 26Which condition put Suga in hospital for surgery in December 2013, forcing him to miss year-end music festivals?
Appendicitis
Appendicitis struck six months after BTS debuted. Suga was readmitted later that month when the surgical site became inflamed.
Q 27Suga stepped back from BTS promotions in November 2020 after surgery to repair which part of his body?
Shoulder
Shoulder trouble, a torn labrum on his left side, kept Suga out until January 2021, when he rejoined BTS on stage at the Golden Disc Awards.
Q 28Suga's 2010 track 518-062, made with his underground crew, commemorates which South Korean pro-democracy movement?
Gwangju Uprising
The Gwangju Uprising is also known as the May 18 Democratization Movement, hence 518, and 062 is the city's telephone area code. Suga produced the song with the crew D-Town.
Q 29On his 2016 mixtape Suga adopts the character of Tony Montana, the gangster from which crime film?
Scarface
Scarface gave Suga a persona for a track about success, ambition and envy. Bandmate Jimin joined him to perform it at a Seoul concert in August 2023.
Q 30What is the birth name of Suga, which a children's treatment centre he funded in Seoul now carries?
Min Yoon-gi
Min Yoon-gi, born in March 1993, is the younger of two sons and belongs to the Yeoheung Min clan.