Samsung Trivia
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54 free Samsung trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Samsung trivia quiz covers the company that sells dried fish in its origin story and semiconductors, skyscrapers and smartphones today. It starts with the basics (what the name means, who founded it and when, what a chaebol is, the first black-and-white TV) and moves through the decisions that built the giant: the 1974 chip acquisition, the Tokyo declaration on DRAM, Lee Kun-hee's Frankfurt Declaration and 'change everything except your wife and kids', overtaking Motorola, Nokia and Intel. The second half is the Galaxy era and the wider empire: the first Galaxy S, the Note and its S Pen, the exploding Note 7, the billion-dollar Apple verdict, the Fold's broken review units, Bixby, Tizen and Samsung Pay, plus the Burj Khalifa, the Geoje shipyard, Renault's takeover of Samsung Motors, the Samsung Lions and Bluewings, Everland and the pardons, prison terms and art collection of the Lee family. About a third of the questions are easy; the rest suit tech-industry watchers and Korea buffs. Our Apple and South Korea quizzes make good follow-ups. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Samsung, Samsung Electronics, its products, affiliates and leaders, and each explanation adds one more detail.
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Q 01What does the name Samsung mean in Korean?
Three stars
Three stars: the founder wanted a company as powerful and everlasting as stars in the sky.
Q 02Where did Samsung's first business export dried fish?
Manchuria
Manchuria, and by the early 1950s the founder had branched out into sugar refining.
Q 03Who founded Samsung?
Lee Byung-chul
Lee Byung-chul started it with 30,000 won, and his son Lee Kun-hee and grandson Lee Jae-yong went on to lead the company.
Q 04Which Japanese company partnered Samsung in a 1969 electronics joint venture?
Sanyo
Sanyo was the partner, and the Samsung-Sanyo venture went on to become part of today's Samsung Electronics.
Q 05South Korea's family-controlled conglomerates, such as Samsung, are known by what Korean word?
Chaebol
Chaebol is written with the same characters as zaibatsu, the prewar family empires that the US occupation broke up.
Q 06What was the first product of Samsung's electronics business?
A black-and-white TV
A black-and-white TV came first, from a group that had grown on food and textiles until it moved into electronics.
Q 07The founder's 1983 'Tokyo declaration' committed Samsung to becoming a maker of what?
DRAM memory chips
DRAM memory chips were the goal, and Samsung went on to develop its own 64K DRAM chip.
Q 08Which K-pop group got its own themed version of Samsung's Galaxy S20+ phone in 2020?
BTS
BTS got the phone and matching Galaxy Buds+ in purple, a colour Samsung said reflected the band's strong connection with its global following.
Q 09Which long-time leader did Samsung briefly dethrone as the largest semiconductor company in 2017-18?
Intel
Intel had topped chip sales since 1992, a run of about 25 years, until Samsung's quarterly chip revenue passed it in 2017.
Q 10Which conglomerate spun off from Samsung in the 1990s, after the founder's death in 1987?
CJ Group
CJ Group began as Samsung's sugar business and went on to run CJ Entertainment, which released the film Parasite in South Korea.
Q 11Which Premier League club wore Samsung's name on its shirts until Yokohama Tyres took over in 2015?
Chelsea
Chelsea swapped the airline Emirates for Samsung in 2005, and Emirates went on to put its name on rivals Arsenal's shirts instead.
Q 12In which German city did Lee Kun-hee gather his executives in 1993 for his famous declaration on quality?
Frankfurt
Frankfurt is where Lee told executives to change everything except their wives and kids, to stop Samsung churning out low-quality goods.
Q 13Samsung's textile arm invested in which American hip-hop clothing brand in 1995 after answering its New York Times ad?
FUBU
FUBU used the backing to fill its orders, and co-founder Daymond John later became an investor himself on the TV show Shark Tank.
Q 21What did Samsung release in July 2017, built from parts of the recalled Galaxy Note 7?
Galaxy Note Fan Edition
Galaxy Note Fan Edition reversed Samsung's plan to scrap the recalled phones, a change that came after Greenpeace protesters interrupted its 2017 show in Barcelona.
Q 22In which US state did a 2012 jury order Samsung to pay Apple over $1 billion for patent infringement?
California
California's federal court heard the case, and after appeals whittled the award down to $539 million, the companies settled in 2018.
Q 23When Apple sued Samsung in 2011, what was Samsung to Apple?
A key parts supplier
Q 14Which company, the top mobile phone maker since 1998, did Samsung overtake in 2012?
Nokia
Nokia had led for about 14 years, and Samsung's best-selling Galaxy smartphones carried it past the Finnish company.
Q 15Which Japanese rival set up an LCD panel joint venture with Samsung in 2004?
Sony
Sony agreed in 2011 to sell Samsung its whole stake, after Samsung had overtaken Sony to become the world's biggest TV maker.
Q 16Which operating system did Samsung's original Galaxy S phone of 2010 run?
Android
Android ran it, and that same year Google co-developed its own Nexus S phone with Samsung to lead a new Android release.
Q 17Which numbered model in the S series, announced in March 2013, sold more than 80 million units?
The S4
It became one of the best-selling phones of the line.
Q 18Samsung announced the original Galaxy Note, pioneer of the 'phablet', at which trade fair in 2011?
IFA Berlin
Its 5.3-inch screen was thought absurdly large at the time.
Q 19What is the stylus that shipped with every Galaxy Note called?
S Pen
S Pen trouble hit the Galaxy Note 5, whose slot could jam if the pen went in backwards, so Samsung added warning labels and redesigned the slot.
Q 20Why was the Galaxy Note 7 recalled worldwide in 2016 and then discontinued?
Its batteries overheated and caught fire
Its batteries overheated and caught fire, and when replacement phones burned too, Samsung halted sales worldwide and ended production.
A key parts supplier: Samsung kept making components for Apple even as the two fought in court until settling in 2018.
Q 24What delayed the launch of the Galaxy Fold in April 2019?
Review units' screens were breaking
Review units' screens were breaking, so before the September launch Samsung tucked a removable-looking protective layer under the bezel.
Q 25Samsung's digital assistant, launched with the Galaxy S8 in 2017, is called what?
Bixby
Bixby came with its own button on the S8, and after owners asked for more control, Samsung let Galaxy S10 users set that key to open other features.
Q 26Which crowdfunded startup did Samsung buy for about $300 million in 2015 to build Samsung Pay?
LoopPay
Its magnetic secure transmission tech let phones work at old swipe terminals.
Q 27Samsung's Linux-based operating system used on its smart TVs and early Gear watches is called what?
Tizen
Tizen absorbed Samsung's earlier Bada system in 2013, but in 2021 Samsung moved its watches to Google's Wear OS, leaving Tizen mainly for TVs.
Q 28Which audio and car-tech company did Samsung buy for eight billion dollars in 2016?
Harman International
The deal was Samsung's big step into connected-car technology.
Q 29In which Texas city did Samsung announce a seventeen-billion-dollar chip plant in 2021?
Taylor
Taylor got the plant as Samsung set out to boost supplies of advanced logic chips during the global chip shortage.
Q 30Samsung's construction arm, Samsung C&T, led the building of which skyscraper?
Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa was called Burj Dubai until its 2010 opening, when it was renamed after the UAE's president, who had helped bail out debt-hit Dubai.