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50 free Love Live! trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Love Live! began in 2010 as a modest multimedia project about schoolgirls who start an idol group, and grew into one of Japan's best-selling anime and music franchises. Its first two generations, μ's and Aqours, were voiced by actresses who also performed the songs in concert, and the mobile rhythm game School Idol Festival kept fans tapping along for ten years. This quiz is built around the characters. It asks who is who among the eighteen girls of the first two series, what their families do, which sub-units they sing in and who voices them, with extra attention to fan favourites Maki Nishikino and Nico Yazawa. It also follows the anime plots, from the first series through the seaside sequel Love Live! Sunshine!!, and tests what you remember of School Idol Festival: its cards, events and currencies. It suits anyone who has watched the shows or spent an evening chasing a full combo. The opening questions are ones most fans will know, and the later rounds reach for details from the Nijigasaki club, the arcade cabinet and the people behind the project.
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Q 01An American cosplayer dressed as Nico Yazawa from Love Live! went viral in 2018 by lip-syncing on which app?
TikTok
TikTok turned the October 2018 clip into a meme, and PewDiePie then reused it several times in his YouTube videos. The cosplayer's lip-sync probably set off the craze around the song itself.
Q 02The Love Live! idol group μ's writes its name with a Greek letter, but how do fans pronounce it?
Muse
Muse is how μ's is read, and the sequel plays the same trick: its group Aqours is pronounced aqua.
Q 03In real life, how was the name μ's chosen for the Love Live! idol group back in 2010?
By a readers' poll
By a readers' poll: editors narrowed the entries to five, then a final vote settled on μ's. Similar votes named the sub-units and decided who stood centre in the music videos.
Q 04Which μ's single from 2010 stalled at No. 74 on Japan's chart yet became the signature song of Love Live!?
Snow Halation
Snow Halation was only μ's second single, but the group went on to sing it near the end of all six of their concerts. In 2017 an NHK countdown show ranked it the No. 1 anime song.
Q 05In Love Live! The School Idol Movie, which overseas city do μ's visit to film a TV feature?
New York
New York is where μ's perform in Times Square and Central Park, and where Honoka gets lost and meets a mysterious Japanese singer. The trip is meant to promote a third Love Live contest.
Q 06Which language does μ's member Eli Ayase slip into in Love Live!, a habit owed to her grandmother?
Russian
Russian runs in Eli's family through her grandmother, and her favourite exclamation simply means good. Her little sister Alisa, raised mostly abroad, has the same habit.
Q 07In Love Live! Sunshine!!, what finally happens to Uranohoshi Girls' Academy, the school Aqours set out to save?
It closes and merges
It closes and merges with another school after applications stall at 98, two short of the 100 needed. The girls decide to win anyway, so the school's name will be remembered.
Q 08What do the members of μ's choose to do after winning the Love Live contest in the anime's second season?
Disband the group
Disband the group is their choice, because μ's without its graduating third-years would not be μ's. They announce it in tears on a beach before the final.
Q 09Which animation studio, renowned for Gundam and Cowboy Bebop, co-developed Love Live! and produced its anime?
Sunrise
Sunrise built the project with a magazine and a music label from 2010, releasing animated music videos years before the TV series began in 2013.
Q 10In Love Live!, Maki Nishikino's parents expect her to give up music and one day inherit what?
A hospital
A hospital run by her parents is waiting for Maki, who comes from a wealthy family of doctors. That expectation is why the gifted first-year hesitates to join μ's.
Q 11Which sporty, tomboyish μ's member in Love Live! became the face of Sega's Puyo Puyo games in 2015?
Rin Hoshizora
Rin Hoshizora, a hurdler and footballer who ends her sentences like a cat, fronted the puzzle series as Sega tied the hit anime to its own franchises.
Q 12Which fortune-telling μ's member in Love Live! speaks in Kansai dialect and secretly came up with the group's name?
Nozomi Tojo
Nozomi Tojo, the oldest of the nine, chose a name that looked ahead to events yet to happen. She uses her fortune-telling to fit in at each new school her parents' work takes her to.
Q 13Which shy, rice-loving μ's member does Nico Yazawa name as the next club president when she graduates in Love Live!?
Hanayo Koizumi
Q 21Which Aqours member in Love Live! Sunshine!! claims to be a fallen angel and insists on being called Yohane?
Yoshiko Tsushima
Yoshiko Tsushima invented her alter ego because she felt too ordinary. The persona later starred in a fantasy spin-off anime that was first announced as an April Fools' joke.
Q 22Which Aqours member in Love Live! Sunshine!! is appointed chairwoman of her own school while still a student there?
Mari Ohara
Mari Ohara gets the post because her family, owners of a hotel chain, is one of the school's main sponsors. She lives in one of the hotels and peppers her Japanese with English.
Q 23In Love Live! Sunshine!!, the family of bookish first-year Hanamaru Kunikida runs what kind of place?
A temple
Hanayo Koizumi takes over the Idol Research Club, with Maki as her vice-president. Before joining μ's she had poor self-esteem and gave up easily.
Q 14In Love Live!, what does the family of μ's leader Honoka Kōsaka sell at its shop, Homura?
Japanese sweets
Japanese sweets, known as wagashi, are the family trade. Honoka herself is lazy about chores yet tireless once her idol work begins.
Q 15Umi Sonoda, the voice of reason among μ's second-years in Love Live!, excels in which school club?
Archery
Archery, in its Japanese form kyūdō, suits Umi's disciplined streak. She was raised in a house of classical arts, with training in the koto, the shamisen and classical dance.
Q 16Besides coaching the singers, what is Maki Nishikino's main creative job for μ's in Love Live!?
Composing the songs
Composing the songs falls to Maki, who at first refuses Honoka outright. She relents after seeing how hard the girls train, and sends over a CD of the group's first tune.
Q 17Which singer, picked from 700 hopefuls at a 2006 audition, made her voice acting debut as Maki Nishikino in Love Live!?
Pile
Pile took her stage name from the soft pile of a towel, hoping to seem warm and enveloping. The role of Maki won her a large following of her own.
Q 18Maki Nishikino, Nico Yazawa and Eli Ayase sing together as which μ's sub-unit in Love Live!?
BiBi
BiBi is one of μ's three trios, beside Printemps and Lily White. The PlayStation Vita game School Idol Paradise came out in three editions, one for each sub-unit.
Q 19Looking after her younger siblings has made Nico Yazawa of Love Live! surprisingly good at what?
Cooking
Cooking is her hidden talent, learned while minding three younger siblings when their parents are away. They have been led to believe she is the star of μ's and the others her backup dancers.
Q 20Which voice actress plays Nico Yazawa in Love Live! and also voices all three of Nico's younger siblings?
Sora Tokui
Sora Tokui voices all four Yazawa children in Japanese, and she is a published manga artist as well. One of her four-panel comics ran in the magazine Otapoke.
A temple is home for Hanamaru, and it lacks modern utilities such as computers, which is why technology amazes her. She also sings in a local choir.
Q 24In Love Live! Sunshine!!, what kind of business does the family of Aqours leader Chika Takami run by the sea?
A traditional inn
A traditional inn with open-air hot springs and an ocean view is the Takami family business. Chika, the youngest of three daughters, writes most of the lyrics for Aqours.
Q 25Riko Sakurauchi moves to the coast in Love Live! Sunshine!! hoping the sea will revive her skill on which instrument?
Piano
Piano is her instrument, and she feared she had stopped improving. A scuba dive with her new friends teaches her to hear the sound of the ocean, and she becomes the composer for Aqours.
Q 26You Watanabe of Aqours in Love Live! Sunshine!! dreams of following her father into which job?
Ship captain
Ship captain is her goal, and even her catchphrase is a helmsman's call. A lover of uniforms of every kind, she coordinates the costumes for Aqours.
Q 27Before Love Live! Sunshine!! begins, why did Kanan Matsuura stay silent on stage at a Tokyo event?
To spare an injured friend
To spare an injured friend, Kanan passed it off as stage fright, since performing on a sprained leg could have made things worse. The misunderstanding kept the original trio apart for two years.
Q 28In Love Live! Sunshine!!, Dia Kurosawa scolds the other girls with a catchphrase that imitates which sound?
A wrong-answer buzzer
A wrong-answer buzzer is what her scolding copies, using the Japanese sound effect for a miss. The stern council president is secretly a devoted fan of μ's.
Q 29Transfer student Riko Sakurauchi belongs to which three-member Aqours sub-unit in Love Live! Sunshine!!?
Guilty Kiss
Guilty Kiss is one of three trios inside Aqours, alongside CYaRon! and AZALEA. As with μ's, each of the nine members belongs to exactly one sub-unit.
Q 30Love Live! Sunshine!! is set in the seaside district of Uchiura, part of which real city in Shizuoka Prefecture?
Numazu
Numazu is where Riko moves from Akihabara, the Tokyo home of the first series, to take inspiration from the sea.