Red Velvet (K-pop)
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50 free Red Velvet (K-pop) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Red Velvet debuted in 2014 under SM Entertainment and built a reputation as one of K-pop's most adventurous girl groups. Their concept is a split personality: one side loud, colourful and playful, the other smooth and grown-up, and the group switches between the two from release to release. This quiz covers the whole story. Expect questions on the members and how each one joined, the debut and the breakthrough, the singles, albums and music videos, the solo projects and the sub-unit, the dramas and variety shows, and the collaborations and concerts that took the group far beyond Seoul. The opening questions suit anyone who knows a few of the songs, while the later ones are for fans who can tell every era apart. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so even a miss teaches something new about the group.
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Q 01Red Velvet performed at Spring Is Coming, a 2018 diplomatic concert staged in which country?
North Korea
North Korea hosted the show in Pyongyang, where leader Kim Jong-un sat in the audience. No act from the group's agency had performed there for fifteen years.
Q 02Red Velvet voiced a K-pop girl group in which 2020 animated musical film sequel?
Trolls World Tour
Trolls World Tour cast the five as characters named Wani, Baby Bun, Gomdori, Ari and Kim-Petit. One of the group's own hits also plays in the film.
Q 03Which 2022 Red Velvet single is built on a sample of Bach's 'Air on the G String'?
Feel My Rhythm
Feel My Rhythm sets the baroque melody against hard trap percussion. Its video is staged as an opera that restages famous paintings, among them Ophelia and The Swing.
Q 04Which 2016 Red Velvet single has a cartoonish video of deadly pranks inspired by Itchy & Scratchy?
Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette shows the members dropping pianos and refrigerators on one another in a bright, sporty setting. It won Best Music Video at the 2016 Melon Music Awards.
Q 05Which member joined Red Velvet in March 2015, seven months after the group debuted as a quartet?
Yeri
Yeri came from the agency's trainee team SM Rookies and arrived just before the group's first EP. As a trainee she had already appeared in the debut single's video.
Q 06Red Velvet's Wendy sang the 2018 English duet 'Written in the Stars' with which American singer?
John Legend
John Legend recorded it with her for SM Station, the label's series of one-off digital singles. The video reached YouTube that October.
Q 07Red Velvet's Wendy was cast in 2012 after tagging along to a friend's SM audition in which country?
Canada
Canada was where she had moved in fifth grade, and she later sang in the show choir at Richmond Hill High School in Ontario. She had not meant to audition for SM at all.
Q 08Sales of which Korean bestseller jumped in 2018 after Red Velvet's Irene said she had read it?
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 saw sales leap 104% in a week, a surge one newspaper called the 'Irene effect'. She was also harassed online for reading it.
Q 09The video for Red Velvet's 2024 single 'Cosmic' was inspired by which 2019 horror film?
Midsommar
Midsommar lent its look to a far sweeter song: a disco-tinged track about a lonely traveller who crash-lands and learns about infinite love.
Q 10Which debut single by Red Velvet had its first video pulled over controversial background images?
Happiness
Happiness drew two million YouTube views in a day before the video was swapped for an edited cut. The images had referred to Hiroshima and the September 11 attacks.
Q 11Red Velvet sang Korean verses on a 2019 remix of 'Close to Me' by Diplo and which British singer?
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding's hit swapped Swae Lee's verse for the group's lines in Korean and English. The song went on to win Choice Electronic/Dance Song at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards.
Q 12Red Velvet's 2022 single 'Birthday' is built around a sample of which George Gershwin composition?
Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue runs beneath trap drums and synths in the song. Its video drops each member into a surreal world built from oversized pieces of chocolate and candy.
Q 13Which Red Velvet single closed the ReVe Festival trilogy in late 2019 with a gothic-themed video?
Psycho
Q 21Which first EP by Red Velvet came out in March 2015 with a video shot at a California desert motel?
Ice Cream Cake
Ice Cream Cake became the best-selling girl-group album of the first half of 2015 on the Hanteo Chart. Its title track began as a Swedish demo called 'Ice Cream Truck'.
Q 22Which Red Velvet single had the only non-English video on Rolling Stone's ten best videos of 2015?
Dumb Dumb
Dumb Dumb also topped Dazed's ranking of the year's K-pop tracks, and Billboard later placed it among the 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.
Q 23Which 2018 summer single earned Red Velvet their first 'perfect all-kill' on South Korea's charts?
Power Up
Psycho topped Billboard's World Digital Songs chart and gave the group its first entry on a UK chart. The video plays out on a Victorian Gothic set.
Q 14Which 2017 Red Velvet summer single did Billboard rank the second-greatest K-pop song of the 2010s?
Red Flavor
Red Flavor was also the group's first number one on the Gaon Digital Chart. The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra later adapted it into an orchestral version.
Q 15Red Velvet's name signals two sounds: a pop 'red' side and a 'velvet' side rooted in which genre?
R&B
R&B with a 1990s flavour drives the smoother 'velvet' releases. The styling splits too: suits for that side, pastel sweaters and doll costumes for the other.
Q 16The 'ReVe' in Red Velvet's ReVe Festival albums shortens the group's name and is French for what?
Dream
Dream is what the French 'rêve' means, a fit for a festival-themed series that ran to three linked releases in 2019 and returned with two more in 2022.
Q 17Red Velvet's Joy and BtoB's Yook Sung-jae won a 2015 Best Couple Award for which MBC variety show?
We Got Married
We Got Married paired the two as a make-believe couple for nearly a year. They also released a duet, 'Young Love', for which Joy earned a songwriting credit.
Q 18In 2024 Red Velvet's Seulgi released a song dedicated to Fu Bao, a famous animal of which species?
Giant panda
Giant panda Fu Bao was the first of her kind born naturally in South Korea. The tribute was titled 'You're My Joy and Luck'.
Q 19Joy of Red Velvet was born on which South Korean island before being raised in Seoul?
Jeju
Jeju was her birthplace, though she grew up in the capital's Dobong district as the eldest of three sisters. A vocal coach later gave her the stage name Joy.
Q 20Joy of Red Velvet had a 2020 solo hit with 'Introduce Me a Good Person', sung for which tvN drama?
Hospital Playlist
Hospital Playlist took her version to number six on the Gaon Digital Chart, and it was later certified platinum for streaming.
Power Up topped every real-time, daily and weekly chart at once. Leader Irene admitted that she had not liked the chip-tune earworm straight away.
Q 24Which 2017 Red Velvet single has a horror-style video where the members hunt a pizza delivery boy?
Peek-a-Boo
Peek-a-Boo ends with the delivery boy's uniform on display in a glass case. It was the lead single of the group's second studio album, Perfect Velvet.
Q 25Red Velvet covered 'Milky Way' in 2020 to mark the twentieth debut anniversary of which SM soloist?
BoA
BoA's song doubled as Wendy's first step back into the group, eight months after a stage accident had sidelined her.
Q 26Red Velvet's Wendy sang on the 2016 English version of 'Vente Pa' Ca' by which Latin pop star?
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin first released the song with Maluma, then issued English versions with two different partners: Wendy and Delta Goodrem.
Q 27Red Velvet's Wendy made her theatre debut in 2023 as the wife known only as 'I' in which musical?
Rebecca
Rebecca, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, was marking its tenth anniversary on the Korean stage when she joined the cast.
Q 28Red Velvet leader Irene co-hosted a weekly KBS music show from 2015 to 2016 alongside which actor?
Park Bo-gum
Park Bo-gum and Irene drew attention for their chemistry, and the press called them one of the best partnerships in the programme's history.
Q 29Which 2021 EP made Wendy the first member of Red Velvet to debut as a soloist?
Like Water
Like Water likens a person's life to water flowing like fate and thanks the people who stood by her. It includes 'Best Friend', a duet with Seulgi.
Q 30Red Velvet's Seulgi and Wendy debuted in 2022 in which SM supergroup with Taeyeon and Hyoyeon?
Got the Beat
Got the Beat launched with the single 'Step Back' as the first unit of Girls On Top, a project that gathers seven of the agency's female artists.