Mamamoo
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
50 free Mamamoo trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mamamoo arrived in 2014 with retro styling, big voices and a habit of writing their own material. Over the next decade Solar, Moonbyul, Wheein and Hwasa turned that into chart-topping singles, a shelf of trophies and four busy solo careers. This quiz follows the whole story. Expect questions on the group's name and agency, the singles and albums that broke them at home and abroad, their music videos, their television appearances and their record at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. A large share is about the members themselves: birth names, hometowns, solo releases, collaborations and the parts each one plays in the group. It is pitched at longtime fans and at K-pop listeners who know the hits and want to test the rest. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up a few new stories either way.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01The name Mamamoo was chosen to evoke which sound, meant to feel familiar to listeners everywhere?
A baby babbling
A baby babbling for the first time is the idea behind the name. The group wanted music as instinctively familiar as "mama", a word infants pick up early all over the world.
Q 02In the video for which 2015 Mamamoo sleeper hit do three of the four members dress up as men?
Um Oh Ah Yeh
Um Oh Ah Yeh is about a girl who falls for a man who turns out to be another girl. Its video of wigs, beards and prosthetic makeup went viral on Facebook as the single climbed to number three in South Korea.
Q 03Which 2019 Mnet competition, pitting six female K-pop acts against each other for a comeback show, did Mamamoo win?
Queendom
Queendom crowned Mamamoo in its October 2019 finale. The prize, a full-length comeback special on Mnet, finally aired in November 2020 under the title Monologue.
Q 04Hwasa of Mamamoo says she watched which American singer's performances all night after being criticized for her looks?
Beyoncé
Beyoncé became Hwasa's comfort and her lasting musical inspiration. Told that she sang well but did not look the part, she went home and studied the star's stage videos until morning.
Q 05Hwasa left Mamamoo's agency in 2023 and signed with P Nation, the label founded by which singer?
Psy
Psy founded P Nation in 2018 after leaving YG Entertainment. Hwasa made the move with a flourish, signing while she was a guest at his Summer Swag concert.
Q 06Which Mamamoo single topped a Billboard chart and won Best Vocal Performance Group at the 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards?
Hip
Hip changed how Mamamoo perform on stage. To manage its demanding choreography, the members swapped their trademark handheld microphones for headsets.
Q 07Hwasa of Mamamoo sang Korean lyrics on a 2020 remix of Physical, a hit by which English pop star?
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa brought Hwasa in for the remix in March 2020. Three months later the Korean singer released her own first EP.
Q 08Mamamoo's 2018–19 run of four EPs gave each member a color and tied each release to which other theme?
Seasons
Seasons gave the project its name, Four Seasons, Four Colors. It closed in 2019 with White Wind, a winter EP built around Wheein, who chose white as her color.
Q 09Solar of Mamamoo joined the Korean cast of which musical for its run from January to March 2024?
Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris cast Solar as Esmeralda and brought her second award nomination as a musical actress. Reviewers singled out the dancing she had honed as an idol.
Q 10In March 2016, Mamamoo played the K-Pop Night Out showcase at which festival in Austin, Texas?
South by Southwest
South by Southwest gave the group an early American stage. Songwriter Siedah Garrett, who saw the set, said she would love to work on their next project.
Q 11Which agency formed Mamamoo and went on to buy WM Entertainment, the label of fellow girl group Oh My Girl?
RBW
RBW is short for Rainbow Bridge World. It launched Mamamoo in 2014 through its WA Entertainment label and later also bought DSP Media, the home of KARD.
Q 12Which debut single by Mamamoo came with a retro-styled video full of cameos, including Baek Ji-young as a producer?
Mr. Ambiguous
Mr. Ambiguous ends with a hidden-camera prank. Baek Ji-young scolds the rookies for their performance, and their shock is real because nobody had warned them she was acting.
Q 13Solar, the oldest of the four Mamamoo members, holds which position in the group besides main vocalist?
Leader
Q 21Which 2019 Mamamoo single, the lead track of the EP White Wind, did Wheein say had the group's hardest dance yet?
Gogobebe
Gogobebe borrows from Latin and reggae music and was meant to be livelier than the melancholy EP before it. It reached number two on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart.
Q 22On which weekly music show did Mamamoo give their first live performance, the day after their debut EP came out?
M Countdown
M Countdown hosted that first stage on June 19, 2014. Two years later the same show gave Mamamoo one of the eight trophies they collected for the single You're the Best.
Q 23Which Mamamoo single shot up the charts after a 2016 Blue Dragon Film Awards performance full of movie-themed ad-libs?
Décalcomanie
Leader is a title Solar carries twice over. She also heads the duo she formed with Moonbyul in 2022, the first official sub-unit to come out of the group.
Q 14Which 2019 solo debut single by Hwasa of Mamamoo topped Korea's digital, download and streaming charts at once?
Twit
Twit scored what Korean charts call a Triple Crown. Billboard's critics later ranked it eighth among the best K-pop songs of 2019.
Q 15Which 2020 Hwasa single about the strain of fame won Best Dance Performance at the Mnet Asian Music Awards?
María
María won the triple crown on the music show Inkigayo without Hwasa once appearing to perform it. Billboard counted 19 straight weeks for the song in the top ten of its K-pop Hot 100.
Q 16Solar and Moonbyul debuted in 2022 with the single Better as which official sub-unit of their group?
Mamamoo+
Mamamoo+ beat out Two Rabbits, a name the pair considered and later gave to their first EP. The plus sign stands for new concepts added on top of the main group's work.
Q 17Mamamoo recorded the song Love for the soundtrack of which hit 2016 drama starring Gong Yoo?
Goblin
Goblin, formally Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, began on tvN in December 2016 and became a cultural phenomenon. Its writer took the grand prize at the Baeksang Arts Awards.
Q 18Solar of Mamamoo and Eric Nam won Best Couple at the 2016 MBC Entertainment Awards for which variety show?
We Got Married
We Got Married paired celebrities as pretend newlyweds, and Solar and Eric Nam stayed on it from April to November 2016. The trophy was her first as a variety entertainer.
Q 19The video for Mamamoo's Latin-tinged 2018 hit Starry Night was shot entirely in which country?
New Zealand
New Zealand supplied every backdrop, including a beach in West Auckland. The song went on to earn the group their first platinum certification in South Korea.
Q 20Wheein and Hwasa of Mamamoo, graduates of the same arts high school, were both born in which South Korean city?
Jeonju
Jeonju, in North Jeolla, is where Wheein grew up as an only child in her grandmother's home, while Hwasa was the youngest of three daughters.
Décalcomanie went viral when Moonbyul used an ad-lib to ask actor Jung Woo-sung for a date. In 2018 a re-recorded version became the group's first Japanese single.
Q 24Which Latin-pop single led Mamamoo's 2018 EP Red Moon and reached number four on South Korea's digital chart?
Egotistic
Egotistic matched that peak on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart in the United States. It was the group's fifth top-ten entry there.
Q 25Which disco-flavored 2020 Mamamoo single is about longing to have fun together during pandemic isolation?
Dingga
Dingga was pitched by the group's agency as a dose of vitamin D for people stuck indoors. Teen Vogue called its video of roller derby, diners and arcades punchy and fun.
Q 26The title of Mamamoo's 2021 EP WAW, the first release after most members renewed their contracts, stands for what?
Where Are We
Where Are We was a whole project and not only an EP. The four new tracks were followed by a concert and a documentary about the group.
Q 27Mamamoo's first world tour, launched in November 2022, carried which title?
My Con
My Con opened with three nights in Seoul in November 2022 and crossed Asia. It then reached nine American cities in 2023 before encore shows back home.
Q 28On a 2019 Mnet competition show, Mamamoo covered Good Luck, a 2016 hit first recorded by which girl group?
AOA
AOA were rivals on the same show, and in that round the two acts traded songs. The older group answered with a performance of a Mamamoo single.
Q 29Which debut studio album by Mamamoo features a comic rap battle inspired by the members' one-centimeter height gaps?
Melting
Melting arrived in February 2016 with twelve tracks. One of them, the holiday-themed My Hometown, was the first song to carry lyrics by all four members.
Q 30Wins on which KBS show, where acts reinterpret a veteran singer's hits, helped make Mamamoo famous in 2015?
Immortal Songs
Immortal Songs gave the group its first overall win in October 2015 for a cover of a trot number by Bae Ho. The attention sent their two earliest EPs back onto the album chart.