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40 free Momoland trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Momoland were put together on a televised survival contest in 2016 and very nearly did not debut at all. Two years later one relentlessly catchy single turned them into one of K-pop's most recognisable girl groups, with a fan base that reaches far beyond South Korea. This quiz covers the whole story: who the members are and where they came from, the line-up changes, the singles, EPs and music videos, the charity work and the 2025 reunion. A good share of the questions follow Yeonwoo, from her years in the group to the drama roles that came after. The opening questions suit anyone who knows a song or two, and the later ones are for longtime fans who can tell every era apart. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still teaches you something about the group.
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Q 01How did Momoland pay for the production of their 2016 debut EP, Welcome to Momoland?
A crowdfunding campaign
A crowdfunding campaign raised about 10 million won, well past its goal of seven million. Backers came from across Asia and as far away as England.
Q 02How did Momoland's members first respond to the demo of Bboom Bboom, their 2018 breakthrough hit?
They disliked it and cried
They disliked it and cried, and some phoned their mothers in tears. The unfinished demo was reworked to suit the group before its January 2018 release.
Q 03Which Momoland member was born in Daegu to an American father and spent her early childhood in Ohio?
Nancy
Nancy was born in Daegu in 2000, and a year later her family moved to her father's hometown of Columbus. She went on to finish first on the survival show Finding Momoland.
Q 04Momoland's music video for Bboom Bboom is staged as a parody of which kind of television broadcast?
A TV shopping channel
A TV shopping channel is the setting the video sends up, and the clip went viral. It passed 500 million YouTube views in April 2021.
Q 05Momoland announced their split in 2023 on which occasion, weeks after their contracts expired?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day 2023 saw all six members post identical handwritten letters to their fans, weeks after their contracts expired. They reunited under a new agency two years later.
Q 06Momoland's official fan club, announced in April 2017, is named after which amusement park ride?
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round was chosen because a carousel is the ride that even people who avoid rides will board. Fans are known as Merries for short.
Q 07Which solo star helped write the lyrics of Ready or Not, Momoland's fourth-anniversary single?
Psy
Psy liked the demo so much that he offered to help write the lyrics himself. He said Momoland's exciting, energetic style resembled his own.
Q 08Momoland's 2016 debut was postponed when the group missed a survival-show target of 3,000 what?
Spectators
Spectators were the final mission: the winners had to draw 3,000 people to a concert and attracted just over 2,000. The debut finally came that November.
Q 09In which language did Momoland re-record Bboom Bboom for a single released in June 2018?
Japanese
Japanese was the language, and the new version entered the Oricon singles chart at number four. The group had held its first promotional events in Tokyo and Osaka earlier that year.
Q 10Which Latin pop singer joined Momoland on the 2022 English-language single Yummy Yummy Love?
Natti Natasha
Natti Natasha joins the six members at a roller-skating rink in the video. The single marked the Dominican star's return to singing in English, a decade after her debut record.
Q 11Which Russian girl group accused Momoland of copying its song Mi Mi Mi with Bboom Bboom in 2018?
Serebro
Serebro raised the claim weeks after the single came out. The song's producer replied that its bass line and chords are common to retro house and electro swing.
Q 12Ex-Momoland singer Yeonwoo won Best New Actress at the 2022 MBC Drama Awards for which series?
The Golden Spoon
The Golden Spoon cast her as Oh Yeo-jin, a bold girl from a wealthy family, alongside Yook Sung-jae. Its hero swaps fates with a rich friend by means of a magic spoon.
Q 13Which Momoland rapper told KBS in January 2020 that the group's formation show had been rigged?
Daisy
Q 21Which Momoland rapper entered Queendom Puzzle in 2023 as its only contestant without an agency?
JooE
JooE described being both the artist and her own manager, even driving herself to the studio. Five years earlier she had sung on King of Mask Singer disguised as Helicopter.
Q 22Which Momoland video opens on a plane and dresses the members in outfits from many countries?
Baam
Baam's video flies viewers into a place called Momoland and asks them to spot hidden jewellery. Its backdrops take in France, Mexico and Egypt.
Q 23In which JTBC drama, set in the Joseon era, did Momoland alumna Yeonwoo star alongside Lim Ji-yeon?
The Tale of Lady Ok
The Tale of Lady Ok cast her as Cha Mi-ryeong, an eager apprentice who is secretly plotting revenge on the heroine. The lead is a runaway slave living as a noblewoman under a borrowed name.
Daisy said she was invited to join even after being eliminated at the show's last stage. The agency denied manipulating any votes and announced legal action against her.
Q 14Which hitmaker composed and produced Momoland's Bboom Bboom, then denied it copied a Russian song?
Shinsadong Tiger
Shinsadong Tiger had earlier sat on the judging panel of Finding Momoland. He went on to produce the group's next two Korean title tracks as well.
Q 15Momoland's 2019 single Banana Chacha was a character song for which Korean children's cartoon?
Pororo
Pororo, the animated little penguin, got a second song from the group in 2020, when they recorded Tiki Taka for the same series.
Q 16Which music show hosted Momoland's debut stage in 2016 and gave the group its first trophy in 2018?
M Countdown
M Countdown named Bboom Bboom its number one on January 11, 2018, the group's first music-show win, 14 months after they debuted on the same stage.
Q 17Which 2017 single, later remade as an EDM version, was Momoland's first release with nine members?
Wonderful Love
Wonderful Love was the group's first single album, issued weeks after two new members joined. The EDM version followed that June and was added to the EP Freeze!
Q 18Which 2019 tvN comedy, adapted from a webtoon, cast Yeonwoo while she was still in Momoland?
Pegasus Market
Pegasus Market cast her as Kwon Ji-na in a story about a boss who tries to ruin his own store, only to see every scheme lift sales. She left the group a week before its finale.
Q 19Which main vocalist, once a Produce 101 contestant, left Momoland alongside Yeonwoo in 2019?
Taeha
Taeha chose to end her contract when Yeonwoo departed, having joined the line-up only in 2017. Before that she had competed on Produce 101 as a Starship trainee.
Q 20Momoland's agency Duble Kick Company rebranded itself in 2018 under which new name?
MLD Entertainment
MLD Entertainment became the name in the year Bboom Bboom broke through. The label had been set up by the hit songwriting duo Duble Sidekick.
Q 24Bboom Bboom was the lead single of which January 2018 EP, Momoland's third?
Great!
Great! climbed to number three on the Gaon Album Chart a month after its release, as the lead single turned into a slow-burning hit.
Q 25In 2019 Momoland's agency signed a co-management agreement with a broadcaster from which country?
Philippines
Philippines-based ABS-CBN was the partner in the October deal. That same month the group gave the earnings of a Manila concert to children in need in Antipolo.
Q 26A future Momoland member reached which TV contest's 2011 semi-finals with hip-hop crew Cutie Pies?
Korea's Got Talent
Korea's Got Talent showed the crew's eleven-year-old dancer on national TV, five years before she finished first on Finding Momoland.
Q 27Momoland's Yeonwoo co-hosted which K-pop programme in 2017 with Block B's P.O and EXID's Jeonghwa?
The Show
The Show had her as an MC from May to August 2017. Months later the group collected a trophy of its own there with Bboom Bboom.
Q 28Which Momoland single, the lead track of the EP Show Me, has a video set partly in fitting rooms?
I'm So Hot
I'm So Hot was promoted by seven of the nine members, with two sitting out for health and personal reasons. Its sound mixes jazzy brass with Eurodance-inspired beats.
Q 29Momoland filmed a 2018 reality series, named after its setting, on which island?
Saipan
Saipan lent its name to the series, Momoland's Saipan Land, which followed the members as they shot a music video on the island.
Q 30Yeonwoo, who debuted with Momoland in 2016 and later turned to acting, was born with which name?
Lee Da-bin
Lee Da-bin has used the stage name Yeonwoo since the 2016 survival contest that formed the group, where she finished fifth.