Ateez Trivia
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This Ateez trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and covers the group from the demo tape that started KQ Entertainment's first boy band to their run of Billboard 200 hits: the KQ Fellaz training trip to Los Angeles, the meaning of the name, the October 2018 debut with Pirate King and Treasure, the fan-voted title tracks, Kingdom: Legendary War, the Immortal Songs record, the first million-seller, the Coachella and Mawazine firsts, the Hot 100 debut with Lemon Drop, the 2025 contract renewal and the No. 1 albums that made them the group with the most Billboard 200 top 10s of the 2020s. It also asks about the members: who leads, who hosted The Show for three years, who walked for Isabel Marant, who threw out a first pitch for the Lotte Giants, and who took time off in 2020. Early questions are for anyone who has watched a few performance videos; the later ones are for Atiny who know the pre-order numbers. Every answer was checked against a reference source and each question shows its citation once you have answered. No lyrics are quoted.
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Q 01Who is the youngest member of Ateez?
Jongho
Jongho, born in October 2000, is the maknae, the Korean term for a group's youngest member, yet he debuted at 18 as its main vocalist.
Q 02Which company formed Ateez?
KQ Entertainment
KQ Entertainment began planning a boy band after a hopeful sent in a letter and a sample mixtape; he became its first official trainee and, later, the group's leader.
Q 03Which awards show named Ateez Best Korean Act in November 2019?
MTV Europe Music Awards
MTV Europe Music Awards: the regional prize went to whichever act drew the most online fan votes, and Ateez won on their very first nomination, beating AB6IX, CIX, Itzy and Iz*One.
Q 04What does the name Ateez stand for?
A TEEnager Z
A TEEnager Z: the name, unveiled in a teaser in July 2018, was chosen to signal the aim of speaking for everything about teenagers, from A to Z.
Q 05What name do Ateez give their official fandom?
Atiny
Atiny is how the members address their fans, and the fans get a real say: their votes have picked the lead single for several releases, and fan meetings are billed as 'Atiny's Voyage'.
Q 06In which US city did Ateez train at the Millennium Dance Complex for their pre-debut web series?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles: the eight trainees filmed their classes there for a 2018 online series, before they were called Ateez, and its finale was their first music video, 'From'.
Q 07Who is the leader of Ateez?
Hongjoong
Hongjoong was the company's first trainee and its only one for six months; he raps and writes, and was said to have composed around 40 songs for the group by the time it debuted.
Q 08Four future Ateez members competed on which 2017 survival show before debut?
Mix Nine
Mix Nine ranked the four between 42nd and 72nd among the men, well short of the winning nine, but missing out cost them little: the winners' promised debut was cancelled.
Q 09Which Mnet reality show introduced Ateez in July 2018, three months before their debut?
Code Name Is Ateez
Code Name Is Ateez doubled as a naming ceremony: a teaser for the show was where the trainees' new group name was first revealed, weeks before the cameras followed them into the studio.
Q 10Which two songs were the double lead singles of Ateez's debut EP?
Pirate King and Treasure
Pirate King and Treasure both arrived with music videos on debut day, and the imagery stuck: the group became known as the 'pirates of K-pop'.
Q 11Which song won Ateez their first music-show trophy, on M Countdown in June 2019?
Wave
Wave beat Lee Hi's 'No One' to the week's top spot on M Countdown, eight months after debut; fans had voted it lead single over 'Illusion', and a second trophy followed five days later.
Q 12Which of these Ateez title tracks was chosen by fan vote over 'Thanxx'?
Inception
Inception won a week-long fan vote and then two music-show trophies, but the loser was not shelved: 'Thanxx' got a music video of its own a few weeks later.
Q 13Which 2020 EP was Ateez's first to be certified platinum in South Korea?
Zero: Fever Part.1
Q 21'Halazia' was the lead single of which Ateez release from December 2022?
Spin Off: From the Witness
Spin Off: From the Witness was the group's first Korean single album, and 'Halazia' was its only wholly new song beside three remixes and an outro, yet it entered the Billboard 200 at No. 7.
Q 22Which album gave Ateez their first No. 1 on the Billboard 200?
The World EP.Fin: Will
The World EP.Fin: Will, the group's first full-length album in four years, sold 1.7 million copies in its first week; the members also split into units for it, recording three sub-group songs and one solo.
Q 23In April 2024 Ateez became the first K-pop boy group to perform at which festival?
Zero: Fever Part.1 opened a new storyline once the Treasure series had closed, let fans choose its lead single, and sold more than twice as many copies in Korea in 2020 as the EP before it.
Q 14Which Ateez member paused promotions in November 2020 for treatment of psychological anxiety?
Mingi
Mingi was away for eight months: he recorded his part for a song the group released during a TV contest in 2021 but did not perform it, and he rejoined that July.
Q 15Which Mnet competition did Ateez join in 2021 alongside The Boyz and Stray Kids?
Kingdom: Legendary War
Kingdom: Legendary War was revealed as Ateez's next stop in the middle of their own set at the 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards; six boy groups took part and Ateez finished third.
Q 16On which KBS programme did Ateez become the idol group with the most wins, covering Rain, Psy and Seo Taiji and Boys?
Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend
Their fourth win, in June 2023 with 'Highway in the Gale', gave them the record. They were the only idol group at the 2020 'King of Kings' finale.
Q 17Which Ateez member co-hosted SBS MTV's The Show for three years from 2021?
Yeosang
Yeosang fronted the weekly chart show from March 2021 until March 2024, a run that took in his own group's wins on the programme with 'Guerrilla' in 2022.
Q 18Ateez's first Japanese single 'Dreamers' was an ending theme for which anime?
Digimon Adventure
Digimon Adventure, the 2020 reboot of the 1999 anime, brought in 'Dreamers' as its ending theme when the story entered what its makers called the final chapter, and the song played the series out.
Q 19Which EP gave Ateez their first Billboard 200 entry, debuting at number 42 in 2021?
Zero: Fever Part.3
Zero: Fever Part.3 put Ateez on seven Billboard charts in a single week and topped World Albums; its lead single, 'Deja Vu', had been voted in by fans over 'Eternal Sunshine'.
Q 20Which 2022 EP, led by 'Guerrilla', was Ateez's first million-seller?
The World EP.1: Movement
Pre-orders passed 1.1 million and it sold over 930,000 in its first week. It reached number three on the Billboard 200, their first top 10 there.
Coachella
Coachella had Ateez on both of its weekends, and they brought Korea with them: their staging of 'The Real' added the sound of traditional gongs, drums and the taepyeongso horn.
Q 24Ateez became the first K-pop group to headline which Moroccan festival in June 2024?
Mawazine
Mawazine, in Morocco's capital Rabat, draws more than 2.5 million people a year; Ateez, the first K-pop act invited, opened their hour-long headline set by marching on with flags.
Q 25'Work' was the lead single of which Ateez EP, released in May 2024?
Golden Hour: Part.1
Golden Hour: Part.1 was the group's first music of 2024: the video for 'Work' has the members hustling through odd jobs, from running a diner to mining for gold, and the EP entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2.
Q 26On which US TV programme did Ateez make their American television debut in June 2024?
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Earlier that year they were named Record Store Day's first K-pop Artist of the Year and featured in the Grammy Museum's first K-pop exhibition.
Q 27Which Japanese boy group did Ateez collaborate with on 'Hush-Hush' and 'Royal' in 2024?
Be:First
Be:First traded verses with Ateez member by member on 'Hush-Hush', which then went onto the Japanese group's own album; a second joint single, 'Royal', followed two months later.
Q 28Which Ateez EP debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in November 2024, led by 'Ice on My Teeth'?
Golden Hour: Part.2
Golden Hour: Part.2 topped the chart almost entirely on sales: fans bought 179,000 copies in a week while streams added only about 5,000 units. It made Ateez the third K-pop act, after BTS and Stray Kids, with more than one No. 1 there.
Q 29Which Ateez member made his runway debut for Isabel Marant at a fashion week in March 2025?
Seonghwa
Seonghwa walked the label's womenswear show in a black suit and sparkling silver vest, then posted 'Walking my dream into reality'; weeks earlier he had fronted its campaign beside Kate Moss.
Q 30In which city did Ateez play the first K-pop headline concert at Europe's largest indoor arena, in 2025?
Paris
Paris: Ateez had first stepped onto the Paris La Défense Arena stage in 2023 as one of ten acts at a K-pop TV concert, and sixteen months later they returned to headline it alone.