BigBang (K-pop Band)
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50 free BigBang (K-pop Band) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
BigBang debuted in 2006 as a five-piece and went on to be called the kings of K-pop. They wrote and produced much of their own music, mixed hip-hop with electronic pop and rock, and helped carry Korean pop to arenas far beyond their home country. This quiz follows the whole story: the trainee years and the debut, the breakthrough singles, the albums and music videos, the record-setting tours, the solo records, acting roles and fashion ventures, and the departures and reunions of later years. The opening questions suit anyone who has heard a few of the hits, while the later ones are for fans who know every era. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still teaches something about the group.
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Q 01Which BigBang hit did South Korea blast over border loudspeakers after North Korea's 2016 nuclear test?
Bang Bang Bang
Bang Bang Bang was on the propaganda playlist Seoul aimed north in 2016. Months later, university students sang it at protests calling for President Park Geun-hye to resign.
Q 02BigBang's T.O.P played Thanos, a disgraced rapper, in season two of which Netflix survival series?
Squid Game
Squid Game cast him as Thanos, a rapper ruined by a crypto scam. Its creator said he wanted an actor whose own career had stopped over a drug case.
Q 03BigBang came second in Time's 2016 reader poll of influential people, behind which American politician?
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders was the only name ahead of BigBang in the poll. That same year South Korea picked the group as ambassadors for its Creative Korea tourism campaign.
Q 04G-Dragon rewrote 'This Love' for BigBang's first single in 2006, adapting a hit by which American band?
Maroon 5
Maroon 5 recorded the original; G-Dragon rewrote it and performed the new version alone. The debut single it appeared on sold nearly 40,000 copies.
Q 05BigBang's 'Fantastic Baby' lost Song of the Year at the 2012 Melon awards to which hit by a labelmate?
Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style, by labelmate Psy, took the prize. BigBang then folded its dance moves into a remix of their own song at a year-end TV festival that December.
Q 06BigBang teamed up with which Japanese retailer for a T-shirt line that quickly sold out?
Uniqlo
Uniqlo sold out of the BigBang T-shirts quickly. The members' stage outfits were so influential that copies of them were often sold at Seoul's Dongdaemun Market.
Q 07BigBang were booked to return at which American festival in 2020 before the pandemic cancelled it?
Coachella
Coachella would have been BigBang's first show as a group in three years. The pandemic scrapped the festival, and the comeback finally arrived as a single in 2022.
Q 08BigBang's 'Fantastic Baby' was featured in a November 2012 episode of which teen television series?
Glee
Glee used the song in 2012, and the trailer for Pitch Perfect 2 followed in 2015. Its video was the first by a K-pop group to pass 300 million YouTube views.
Q 09Seungri sat out BigBang's 2009 'So Fresh, So Cool' advert because he was too young for which product?
Beer
Beer brand Hite hired BigBang for the endorsement single, but Seungri was still a minor and could not appear. The commercial went ahead without him.
Q 10Which Korean company sponsored BigBang's first world tour in 2012 and put a product's name in its title?
Samsung
Samsung's Galaxy phones supplied the middle word of the Alive Galaxy Tour. The run reached 21 cities and drew about 800,000 fans.
Q 11BigBang won the first Best Worldwide Act prize in 2011, on 58 million fan votes, at which awards show?
MTV EMAs
The MTV EMAs gave BigBang the prize as Asia-Pacific's representatives. Google then announced that YouTube would launch its own K-pop channel, citing the genre's popularity.
Q 12BigBang's 2012 EP Alive was the first Korean-language album to reach which chart, peaking at number 150?
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 had listed only one Korean artist before, BoA in 2009. Alive got there on first-week US sales of just over 4,100 copies.
Q 13BigBang's G-Dragon fronted the 2017 Gabrielle bag campaign for which French fashion house?
Chanel
Q 21Which 2007 breakthrough hit did G-Dragon write for a solo album before his label gave it to BigBang?
Lies
Lies topped South Korea's Melon chart for six weeks and won Song of the Year at the 2007 Mnet awards. Its success pushed other K-pop idols towards producing their own music.
Q 22G-Dragon said BigBang's 2015 single 'Bae Bae' was inspired by which British painter's work?
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon's paintings struck him as strangely erotic in a museum, and he kept looking at them while writing. The song won Song of the Year at the critics' Korean Music Awards.
Q 23BigBang shot their 2008 'Sunset Glow' video in Taean to bring visitors back after which disaster there?
An oil spill
Chanel made him a brand ambassador and paired him with Pharrell in the Gabrielle campaign. He also runs his own fashion label, launched in 2016 with his long-time stylist.
Q 14BigBang filmed the video for their 2012 single 'Bad Boy' beside a subway entrance in which city?
New York
New York supplied the streets: the shoot took place in the Williamsburg neighbourhood, by the Marcy Avenue subway entrance. Fuse named the song the only non-English entry among its best of 2012.
Q 15BigBang's performance wrapped up the closing ceremony of which multi-sport event in Incheon in 2014?
Asian Games
The Asian Games ceremony was a rare group outing in a period the members mostly spent on solo work. A month later they began a second straight dome tour of Japan.
Q 16Which BigBang member scored a number one trot single in 2008 and joined the variety show Family Outing?
Daesung
Daesung topped the charts with the trot song 'Look at Me, Gwisoon', a genre some felt clashed with a hip-hop group's image. He stayed on the hit comedy show from 2008 to 2010.
Q 17Seungri quit BigBang and show business in 2019 amid a scandal named after which Seoul nightclub?
Burning Sun
Burning Sun counted him as a shareholder and creative director. He announced his retirement on Instagram that March, saying he wanted to protect BigBang and the agency.
Q 18BigBang's 2009 phone-advert single 'Lollipop' introduced which girl group, dubbed 'the female BigBang'?
2NE1
2NE1 used the advert as an unofficial debut, weeks before their first real single, 'Fire'. The collaboration promoted an LG Cyon phone and sold over three million downloads.
Q 19BigBang's Taeyang returned in 2023 with the single 'Vibe', a duet with which member of BTS?
Jimin
Jimin also co-composed the song, which was Taeyang's first release in more than five years. It came out through The Black Label rather than BigBang's long-time agency.
Q 20BigBang's fans, shown as white-masked defenders in the 'Fantastic Baby' video, go by which fandom name?
V.I.P
V.I.P also appears in the title of the group's second single from 2006, BigBang Is V.I.P. In the video, black-masked figures stand for those who tried to break the band up.
An oil spill in 2007 had wrecked Taean's fishing and beach tourism. The members said they hoped people would visit the west coast again after watching the video.
Q 24Which actress played G-Dragon's dying girlfriend in the video for BigBang's 2008 hit 'Haru Haru'?
Park Min-young
Park Min-young plays a woman who fakes an affair with T.O.P's character to spare her boyfriend the pain of her illness. Fans voted it their favourite BigBang video in 2016.
Q 25The title of BigBang's 2008 hit 'Haru Haru', seven weeks at number one on Melon, means what in English?
Day by Day
Day by Day is the literal meaning. G-Dragon wrote the song and Japanese DJ Daishi Dance arranged it, and a Japanese-language version appeared on a 2011 greatest-hits album.
Q 26BigBang's G-Dragon took up rapping after a friend introduced him in third grade to which American group?
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan's music led him to start taking rap classes as a boy. He names another American, Pharrell Williams, as his musical hero.
Q 27Before YG, BigBang's G-Dragon spent five childhood years as a dance trainee at which rival agency?
SM Entertainment
SM Entertainment scouted him on a family ski trip, soon after he had promised his mother he would not try to become a singer again.
Q 28BigBang's G-Dragon sold his 2017 EP Kwon Ji Yong in which format, which Gaon refused to count as an album?
A USB drive
A USB drive replaced the usual CD, each one coloured by hand in red ink for a scratched vintage look. The chart compiler would not regard it as an official album.
Q 29Which 2009 solo debut by BigBang's G-Dragon drew a plagiarism claim citing Flo Rida's 'Right Round'?
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker still became the best-selling album by a Korean soloist at the time. It also won Album of the Year at Mnet's year-end awards in 2009.
Q 30Which American rapper performed 'Niliria' with BigBang's G-Dragon at KCON 2013 in Los Angeles?
Missy Elliott
Missy Elliott guests on his album Coup d'Etat, which followed weeks after that show. The same record also drew in Diplo, Baauer and Sky Ferreira.