Pentagon (K-pop Group)
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40 free Pentagon (K-pop Group) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Pentagon came out of a 2016 web survival show with a big line-up and a habit of writing their own material. Leader Hui composes much of their music, a slow-burning 2018 single turned them from rookies into a familiar name, and the members have since branched out into musicals, dramas, solo records and side projects. This quiz leans on name-the-member questions: you get a clue, such as a pre-debut history, a duo, a long break or a hometown, and pick who it describes. Around those sit questions on the title tracks and EPs, the group's run on a televised boy-group contest, Japanese releases and famous collaborators. It is written for fans who want to test how well they know Jinho, Hui, Shinwon, Yeo One, Kino and their bandmates, and for newer listeners still learning who is who. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01Pentagon's name stands for five idol essentials: vocals or rap, dance, teamwork, talent and what?
Mind
Mind completes the five, and Pentagon Maker, the web show that picked the line-up, graded every trainee on the same categories.
Q 02Which 2019 Pentagon single, co-produced by Giriboy, resurfaced in 2020 as a social-distancing meme?
Humph
Humph scolds someone for overstepping a boundary, which Korean listeners decided made it the perfect song for a pandemic. Views of its music video climbed again as the jokes spread.
Q 03Which founding Pentagon member left in 2018 after going public about dating labelmate Hyuna?
E'Dawn
E'Dawn and Hyuna were both dropped by their agency, which said it could no longer maintain trust with them. The pair said they had been together since 2016.
Q 04Which agency, also behind BtoB and 4Minute, launched Pentagon in 2016 through a web survival show?
Cube Entertainment
Cube Entertainment first scheduled the group's debut for July 2016, then pushed it back to October.
Q 05Pentagon's Kino built his stage name from the K of his surname Kang and a clipped form of which word?
Innovation
Innovation gave him the INO, and he has said the K stands for Korea as well as for his family name.
Q 06For Road to Kingdom's first round, Pentagon reworked Block B's Very Good around which film franchise?
Mad Max
Mad Max was the concept for an arrangement by leader Hui, and the performance put the group second in the first-round ranking.
Q 07Pentagon leader Hui took his stage name from how people in which country pronounced his given name?
China
China is where he heard locals say the first syllable of Hoe-taek as Hui, and he felt his full name was hard for foreigners to say.
Q 08Which 2018 Pentagon single became a sleeper hit, creeping up Melon's chart for weeks by word of mouth?
Shine
Shine started in the 500s on Melon before reaching its real-time top 100 a month after release, and Billboard's critics ranked it second among 2018's best K-pop songs.
Q 09Using his real name, Pentagon leader Hui entered which 2023 Mnet survival show and finished 13th?
Boys Planet
Boys Planet ranked him seventh at its first survival announcement, but 13th place left him outside the final line-up of Zerobaseone.
Q 10Which 2020 alternative rock single brought Pentagon their first music show win, four years after debut?
Daisy
Daisy won on SBS MTV's The Show ten days after the group's fourth anniversary, and its choreography mimes sowing flower seeds.
Q 11Which name do Pentagon's fans go by, honoured in a surprise single on the group's seventh anniversary?
Universe
Universe is the fandom's name, and the group's first studio album swapped 'hole' for 'hall' in its title to mean a space where fans and members walk hand in hand.
Q 12Pentagon leader Hui joined labelmate Hyuna in which project group, which debuted in 2017 with 199X?
Triple H
Triple H paired the two with a second Pentagon member, released a further EP called Retro Futurism, and came to an end in 2018.
Q 13Which Pentagon member formed a 2019 duo with former Wanna One member Lai Kuan-lin for the EP 9801?
Wooseok
Wooseok and his partner opened at number two on Korea's weekly album chart with the EP, led by the track I'm a Star.
Q 21Which lead single of the 2017 EP Demo_01 was the first Pentagon title track produced by leader Hui?
Like This
Like This opened an EP made up entirely of the members' own songs, a first for the group since their debut.
Q 22Which single led Thumbs Up!, the 2018 EP that was Pentagon's first project without all ten members?
Naughty Boy
Naughty Boy went ahead with two members missing, one unwell and one caught in a dating scandal, though the absent rapper kept a writing credit.
Q 23As Jino, Pentagon's Jinho debuted in 2010 in which group with Super Junior's Kyuhyun and Shinee's Jonghyun?
SM the Ballad
SM the Ballad took their debut EP Miss You to number one on the Gaon album chart, six years before he started again with Pentagon.
Q 14Pentagon leader Hui co-composed which debut single for Wanna One, chosen by a public vote in 2017?
Energetic
Energetic won the vote and topped Korea's real-time charts, as did Never, which he co-composed for the TV contest Produce 101.
Q 15Which original Pentagon vocalist came back in September 2020 after sitting out 440 days for health reasons?
Yan An
Yan An had missed a world tour and the group's first studio album, and later became known as an actor for playing the villain Li Lun in Fangs of Fortune.
Q 16Which lead single from Pentagon's self-titled 2016 debut EP has a dance that Kino helped choreograph?
Gorilla
Gorilla earned the newcomers the nickname King Kongdol, a nod to the dance they performed to it.
Q 17Which Pentagon vocalist, once his Singapore school's top swimmer, missed out on iKon on Mix & Match?
Hongseok
Hongseok was cut in the final episode of the YG contest, and has spent 11 years of his life living outside South Korea.
Q 18Which original Pentagon member, born in Nagano in the year of the city's Winter Olympics, moved to Korea at 15?
Yuto
Yuto talked his parents round before leaving Japan as a teenager, and trained for three and a half years before the group's debut.
Q 19Pentagon played a fictional idol group called Asgard in the second season of which JTBC drama?
Hello, My Twenties!
Hello, My Twenties! gave the group a 2017 cameo in the same autumn they released Demo_01, their first EP of entirely self-written songs.
Q 20Pentagon sang on I'm Loving You, a track for the 25th anniversary album of which Japanese rock band?
Glay
Glay featured the group on a Latin-tinged dance-pop song for the 2020 best-of collection Review II.
Q 24After leaving his first agency in 2015, which job did Pentagon's Jinho take before joining the group?
Vocal coach
Vocal coach was his role at Modern K Academy, whose staff urged him to audition for the agency behind Pentagon, and he later trained labelmates (G)I-dle.
Q 25Pentagon's Hui joined Super Five, formed on MBC's Favorite Entertainment in 2020, to sing which genre?
Trot
Trot was the brief for the five-man idol group, in which he performed under his birth name alongside Astro's MJ.
Q 26Which lead single of Pentagon's first studio album is built on four themes: love, fall, hurt and crazy?
Dr. Bebe
Dr. Bebe had its music video brought forward to midnight because of demand, and the clip passed 10 million views within four days.
Q 27Pentagon teased which lead single of their second EP, late in 2016, with a Mannequin Challenge video?
Can You Feel It
Can You Feel It got its first outing at the group's sold-out debut solo concert, the night before the EP came out.
Q 28Which 2022 EP, led by Feelin' Like, gave Pentagon their first number one on Korea's Gaon album chart?
In:vite U
In:vite U also set the group's best first-week sales, close to 77,000 copies, and topped iTunes album charts in 30 regions.
Q 29Kino drew the cover art for which Pentagon EP as a gift to leader Hui for writing its lead single?
We:th
We:th became the group's first release to pass 100,000 copies, and he called the cover his debut drawing after the other members talked him into using it.
Q 30Which singer, then a member of I.O.I, starred in Pentagon's 2017 music video for Pretty Pretty?
Chungha
Chungha appeared in the special video for a B-side from Five Senses, months after her group had modelled school uniforms alongside Pentagon.