Solo Leveling Trivia
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40 free Solo Leveling trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Solo Leveling began as a Korean web novel in 2016, became one of the most-read webtoons on the planet and then, in 2024, an anime that swept the year's biggest awards. Its hook is simple: every hunter's power is fixed at awakening, except for one man who can level up. These 40 questions follow Sung Jin-woo from the weakest hunter in the country to Shadow Monarch: the System and its daily goals, the dungeon that nearly kills him, the shadow soldiers he raises, the guild masters and national-level hunters around him, the Monarchs and their ancient enemies, and the ending that rewrites the timeline. The media side is here too: who wrote and drew it, who animated, composed and voiced it, the theme songs, the sequel and the live-action casting. It suits anime nights, fan group chats and anyone who has binged both seasons. Every answer carries an explanation and a source, so disputes about shadow ranks can be settled.
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Q 01Which pen-named author wrote the original Solo Leveling web novel, serialized from July 2016?
Chugong
Chugong is a pen name, and when the sequel Ragnarok went to a new writer in 2023 he publicly backed it, saying it stirred the same feelings as his own first chapters.
Q 02Which studio, set up by Aniplex in 2005, produced the Solo Leveling anime that premiered in January 2024?
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures was unveiled as the studio in July 2022 with a 2023 debut planned, but the show slipped and did not reach Japanese television until January 2024.
Q 03Which S-rank swordswoman finds every other hunter smells foul, yet thinks Sung Jin-woo smells nice?
Cha Hae-in
Cha Hae-in is the only female S-rank in the country, and in the revised timeline she and Jin-woo marry and have a son.
Q 04Which grade does Sung Jin-woo hold at the start of the story, when he is mocked as the weakest hunter alive?
E-Rank
E-Rank is the bottom of the hunter scale, and because a hunter's abilities are fixed at awakening, a bottom-grade hunter who keeps getting stronger is unheard of.
Q 05Which talking shadow does Jin-woo raise from the Ant King after killing the creature on Jeju Island?
Beru
Beru can speak because of his high rank, rises to Marshal alongside the knight commander, and grows fond of Jin-woo's son.
Q 06Which publisher, also behind Seven Knights and Lineage 2: Revolution, released a Solo Leveling action RPG in May 2024?
Netmarble
Netmarble followed that release with another game, Solo Leveling: Karma, revealed in July 2025 and built around a story the webtoon never showed.
Q 07Which Shadow Monarch, weary of an eons-long war, chose Sung Jin-woo as the successor to inherit his power?
Ashborn
Ashborn, the King of the Dead, began as the strongest of the Monarchs' enemies before becoming a Monarch himself, and his heir Jin-woo is the only Monarch who fights for humanity.
Q 08Which digital comic and fiction platform first serialized the Solo Leveling web novel, with its webtoon following in March 2018?
KakaoPage
KakaoPage also launched the sequel Ragnarok in April 2023, putting more than a hundred chapters online on its first day.
Q 09Under which pen name did Jang Sung-rak, head of Redice Studio, draw the Solo Leveling webtoon before his death in 2022?
Dubu
Dubu died of a brain haemorrhage at 37, and the following January a group of artists launched a webtoon side story in his honour.
Q 10Which Japanese comic app ranked Solo Leveling its No. 1 webtoon of 2019 on its way to 650 million reads?
Piccoma
Piccoma has logged over 650 million cumulative reads of the webtoon in Japan, and the app's operator is a co-producer of the sequel anime film announced in 2026.
Q 11The Monarchs have fought an ancient war against which beings, whose seven chosen human hosts are called vessels?
Rulers
The Rulers want to protect humanity, yet they opened the gates themselves to soak the world in mana, so the lives lost to monsters are partly on them.
Q 12Which King of Dragons and Monarch of Destruction leads the Monarchs as the story's final villain?
Antares
Antares invades the human world to draw Jin-woo out after three fellow Monarchs die, and in the original timeline it is the Monarchs' ancient enemies, not Jin-woo, who kill him.
Q 13Which King of Demons, the White Flame Monarch, rides a dragon into his battle with Jin-woo?
Baran
Baran's defeated mount is resurrected as the wyvern shadow Kaisel, and Jin-woo also gains the power to swap places with any of his shadow soldiers.
Q 21Which Japanese guild master, his country's strongest hunter, is killed in a single hit by the Ant King?
Goto Ryuji
Goto Ryuji had challenged Jin-woo to a duel that was called off when it escalated, and other Japanese hunters die alongside him in the raid.
Q 22Which S-rank based in America hunts Jin-woo to avenge his brother and ends up as the shadow nicknamed Greed?
Hwang Dong-soo
Hwang Dong-soo abducts Jin-woo's guild vice-chairman to learn who killed his brother Dong-suk, and pays for it with his life.
Q 23Which first-timer D-rank, kitted out by family wealth in pricey gear, becomes vice-chairman of Jin-woo's guild?
Yoo Jin-ho
Q 14Which dungeon, reached past a guardian Cerberus, does Jin-woo clear to win the potion that finally cures his mother?
The Demon's Castle
The Demon's Castle lies behind a guardian Cerberus that nearly kills Jin-woo several times, and a demon noble he defeats on the 80th floor guides him to the top.
Q 15Which American hunter nicknamed Goliath, ranked first in the world, befriends Jin-woo after losing a fight to him?
Thomas Andre
Thomas Andre is a National Level Hunter and a vessel, and after the fight he travels to Korea to hand Jin-woo a prized weapon as thanks for sparing his guild.
Q 16Which weapon, forged from a dragon's fang, does the hunter nicknamed Goliath give Jin-woo after their fight?
Kamish's Wrath
Kamish's Wrath is a pair of daggers its owner never used himself, and he hands them over to repay Jin-woo for sparing his guild members' lives.
Q 17Which hunter, ranked second in the world, is Asia's strongest until Jin-woo overtakes him?
Liu Zhigang
Liu Zhigang seeks Jin-woo out after the International Guild Conference, shakes his hand and congratulates him on beating the world's top-ranked hunter.
Q 18Which ageing S-rank chairs the Korean Hunters Association and is killed by the Monarchs despite hidden vessel powers?
Go Gun-hee
Go Gun-hee's age and ill health stop him using the power at full output, and he is one of seven humans the Monarchs' enemies chose as hosts.
Q 19Which A-rank, once the surveillance team's chief inspector, becomes chairman of the Hunters Association?
Woo Jin-chul
Woo Jin-chul takes the post after the previous chairman is killed, and in the sequel Ragnarok he has some awakened people designated 'Villains'.
Q 20Which White Tiger Guild master, a transformation-magic user, is the first S-rank to realise Jin-woo can grow?
Baek Yoon-ho
Baek Yoon-ho's staffer Ahn Sangmin is the one who notices Jin-woo surviving mission after mission and deduces he has reawakened.
Yoo Jin-ho calls Jin-woo his sworn brother, dresses in fancy armour as a running gag, and in the revised-timeline epilogue marries Jin-woo's sister.
Q 24Which S-rank, trapped in a gate for ten years and presumed dead, escapes through a gate in the United States?
Sung Il-hwan
Sung Il-hwan is a vessel who dies in his son's arms after pushing that power past what his body can take, and is revived when Jin-woo rewrites the timeline.
Q 25Which item rewinds time after Jin-woo's war with the Monarchs, creating a new timeline?
Cup of Reincarnation
The Cup of Reincarnation creates a revised timeline in which he marries and has a son, and in the sequel the gates start opening again once that son has grown up.
Q 26Which writer replaced the original author for the sequel web novel Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, which began in April 2023?
Daul
Daul launched Ragnarok with more than a hundred chapters at once and closed it in July 2025, while Dangdo and the artist Jin adapted it as a webtoon.
Q 27Who is the protagonist of Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, whose inherited powers were sealed so he could live a normal life?
Sung Suho
Sung Suho gets his memories back and the same System his father used, then sets out to find his missing parents while fighting the Itarim.
Q 28Which Blood-Red Commander does Jin-woo barely manage to slay during his job-change quest?
Igris
Igris falls only narrowly, and once the quest makes Jin-woo the Shadow Monarch, the knight is among the dead he raises into his shadow army.
Q 29Which shadow does Jin-woo raise from the A-rank Kim Chul, who attacked him during the fight with Baruka?
Iron
Iron is known as the dim-witted shadow; he copies the knight commander's habit of bringing Jin-woo a head, much to the knight's annoyance.
Q 30Which shadow, taken from an ice bear in a snowbound dungeon, can kill a Naga in a single hit?
Tank
Tank is a Knight Grade shadow about as strong as an A-rank hunter, and he plows through hordes of demons as if they were bowling pins.