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50 free Super Junior trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Super Junior arrived in 2005 as one of the biggest line-ups K-pop had seen, built around an idea borrowed from Japanese pop that was dropped within a year. What followed was a run of chart-topping albums, a string of sub-units working in different genres, and a touring brand that carried the group far beyond Asia. This quiz covers the whole story: who the members are and where their stage names come from, how they were scouted, the singles and albums that defined each era, the sub-units, the films and variety shows, and the fans who once went to remarkable lengths to keep the line-up intact. It is written for long-time fans and newer listeners alike. The first sets are friendly, and the later ones reach into trainee days, soundtrack songs and solo careers.
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Q 01Super Junior's Heechul got lost, missed his 2002 SM audition slot, then passed by singing which piece?
The national anthem
The national anthem got Heechul through, even though he had missed the open call and was let in on the strength of his looks. Seeing Psy perform on television had sent him hunting for auditions.
Q 02Ryeowook and four Super Junior bandmates were among the first Korean artists pictured on which items in China?
Postage stamps
Postage stamps issued in China featured the five singers. Ryeowook was the last trainee added before the 2005 debut, signed after impressing the judges at a youth singing festival.
Q 03The T in Super Junior-T, the 2007 sub-unit behind the hit Rokuko, stands for which music genre?
Trot
Trot is the oldest form of Korean pop music, and the unit was built to revive the fading style. Rokuko ended 2007 as South Korea's best-selling single.
Q 04The title of Super Junior's 2007 album Don't Don puns on the Korean word 'don', which means what?
Money
Money is 'don' in Korean, while 'donda' means to go insane, and the title plays on both. The rock-edged record was the second best-selling album in South Korea that year.
Q 05Opposed to plans for extra members in 2008, what did Super Junior fans buy to earn a say?
SM Entertainment shares
SM Entertainment shares, 58,206 of them, gave the fans about 0.3% of the label's stock, so they could oppose a bigger lineup as stockholders. They pledged to use every chance to keep the group at thirteen.
Q 06Which Super Junior member, the oldest trainee in the original lineup, was made leader for the group's 2005 debut?
Leeteuk
Leeteuk took a stage name meaning 'special', the word SM's chairman had used to describe him. Before the group formed he was briefly lined up for a five-member band called Smile.
Q 07Which vocalist joined Super Junior in 2006 as its thirteenth member, ending a plan to rotate the lineup yearly?
Kyuhyun
Kyuhyun earned his place after finishing third in a youth singing festival in 2005. A car crash in April 2007 left him the most seriously hurt of four members, and he spent months in hospital.
Q 08In July 2019 Super Junior became the first K-pop act to stage a solo concert in which country?
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia hosted the show at King Abdullah Sports City during the Jeddah Season festival. Two of the group's sub-units played the same festival the next day.
Q 09Four Super Junior members gave a 2013 lecture, 'The Last Man Standing', in which university's famous debating chamber?
Oxford
Oxford hosted the talk at its Union, organised with the university's Korea Society and Asia-Pacific Society. The lecture's title was reused a decade later for a documentary about the group.
Q 10Super Junior's Siwon became a special representative in 2015 for the Korean arm of which United Nations agency?
UNICEF
UNICEF promoted him in November 2019 to ambassador for its whole East Asia and Pacific region, a wider role than the Korean post he had held for four years.
Q 11In 2015 Super Junior's Heechul joined the cast of which JTBC variety show set in a high school classroom?
Knowing Bros
Knowing Bros casts its hosts as same-aged students who quiz guests posing as transfer pupils. Bandmate Shindong, long a recurring guest, was later promoted to the regular cast.
Q 12Super Junior's Siwon appeared in the 2015 historical action film Dragon Blade alongside which Hong Kong star?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan also produced the film, which cast Siwon as Yin Po opposite Hollywood actors John Cusack and Adrien Brody.
Q 13Eunhyuk of Super Junior formed a childhood dance crew with Kim Junsu, who went on to debut in which group?
TVXQ
Q 21Which Super Junior member was picked from three thousand applicants at an SM audition held in Beijing?
Han Geng
Han Geng had studied dance in Beijing since the age of 12, and in 2008 he was named a torch bearer for the city's Olympics.
Q 22Which Super Junior member, discovered by a casting agent in Los Angeles, officially left the group in 2015?
Kibum
Kibum had stepped back after the group's 2009 album to pursue acting, and he was the only member never placed in a sub-unit.
Q 23Which Super Junior-M member played the violin solo on the 2007 single Don't Don before officially debuting?
Henry
Henry won his place at an SM audition in Toronto by playing Vivaldi on the violin while popping to the fast passages. He was one of two recruits from three thousand hopefuls.
TVXQ claimed Junsu in 2003, breaking up a trainee R&B trio he shared with Eunhyuk and Sungmin. The two friends had first auditioned for SM together at 13.
Q 14Super Junior's original plan to replace some members every year was inspired by which Japanese girl group?
Morning Musume
Morning Musume's revolving lineup was the model, and the label even drew up a list of members due to graduate before dropping the idea in 2006.
Q 15Which music executive formed Super Junior in 2005 as a twelve-piece group with a rotating lineup?
Lee Soo-man
Lee Soo-man billed the act as a gateway to stardom for Asia, choosing trainees who already had experience as actors, MCs and models.
Q 16Fans who staged silent sit-ins outside SM's building in 2007 belong to which official Super Junior fan club?
E.L.F.
E.L.F. members sat in silence to defend a thirteen-man lineup, then at a later protest sang the group's songs and chanted the number instead.
Q 17Super Junior performed in Jakarta in September 2018 at the closing ceremony of which multi-sport event?
Asian Games
Asian Games organisers saw the group take the stage with only seven members, as Heechul was absent with health problems.
Q 18The 2023 documentary Super Junior: The Last Man Standing, on the group's history, premiered on which streaming service?
Disney+
Disney+ released the film in January 2023, with the members sharing their inner thoughts and emotions about the group's long run.
Q 19What did SM Entertainment set up for Super Junior on the group's tenth anniversary in November 2015?
Its own record label
Its own record label, named Label SJ, took sole charge of the group's albums and every unit and solo project while staying affiliated with SM.
Q 20Super Junior's 2006 single Miracle topped the charts in which country, earning the group its first overseas show?
Thailand
Thailand invited the group to the Pattaya Music Festival in March 2006, its first gig abroad. Miracle was a light bubblegum pop love song, unlike the edgy debut single.
Q 24Which in-house SM songwriter wrote Super Junior's 2009 breakthrough hit Sorry, Sorry and its 2007 predecessor Don't Don?
Yoo Young-jin
Yoo Young-jin set out to make the 2009 hit both fun and easy to listen to, and its 'SJ Funky' style carried through two more of the group's title tracks.
Q 25Which 2014 Super Junior single has a comedic Wild West video casting the members as a sheriff, robber and gambler?
Mamacita
Mamacita is a new jack swing track co-composed by Teddy Riley, and it was recorded without Yesung, who was away on military service.
Q 26Which special album did Super Junior release in July 2015 to mark ten years since the group's debut?
Devil
Devil welcomed Yesung back from military service, and its funk rock title track was produced with the American team The Stereotypes.
Q 27Which lead single from Super Junior's 2017 album Play drew three million video views within 24 hours?
Black Suit
Black Suit beat Scene Stealer six votes to five in an anonymous ballot of the band and its producers to become the title track. Its tale of a heart thief was inspired by the character Lupin.
Q 28Which Dominican-American singer features on Lo Siento, the 2018 single that took Super Junior into Latin pop?
Leslie Grace
Leslie Grace also helped write the lyrics, and the single became the first by a Korean act to enter Billboard's Latin Digital Song Sales chart.
Q 29The H in Super Junior-H, the 2008 sub-unit devoted to novelty bubblegum pop, stands for which word?
Happy
Happy completed the unit's full name, and its lineup was Super Junior-T's with Yesung in place of Heechul. Its only EP, Cooking? Cooking!, arrived in June 2008.
Q 30Which 2011 debut single by the duo Super Junior-D&E got a second music video directed by bandmate Shindong?
Oppa, Oppa
Oppa, Oppa gave Shindong his directorial debut, and he edited the alternate video too. The duo had first played the song live at a concert a month before its release.