V (Kim Taehyung)
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50 free V (Kim Taehyung) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kim Taehyung, known to the world as V, is the BTS singer with the deep, smoky voice and a habit of doing things his own way. He acts, takes photographs, writes songs for television dramas and collects friends from every corner of Korean film and television. This quiz follows him from his childhood in the countryside and his trainee years through his solo songs with BTS, his first EP, his dramas and reality shows, his fashion deals and his time in the army. It is written for fans who want to test how well they know Taehyung, and for anyone curious about the stories behind the songs. The opening questions are friendly; the later ones are for the devoted.
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Q 01Which color did BTS singer V turn into a verb at a 2016 fan meeting, giving the fandom its signature phrase?
Purple
Purple became the color of BTS and their fans after V coined the phrase in November 2016. UNICEF later borrowed it for an anti-bullying campaign with the group.
Q 02What name did BTS singer V give his pet dog, whose image inspired the artwork for his EP Layover?
Yeontan
Yeontan, a black and tan Pomeranian, first met fans during a bandmate's birthday broadcast in 2017. A double stood in for him in one Layover video because he could not fly to Madrid.
Q 03Which instrument did BTS singer V study from early middle school, with his father's support, as a route into music?
Saxophone
Saxophone lessons were V's first formal step toward a music career, taken years before he auditioned as an idol. He has said he first dreamed of being a singer in elementary school.
Q 04What did V's agency do with him before BTS debuted in 2013, which he says left him lonely and uneasy?
Hid him from fans
His agency hid him from fans as a surprise seventh member, keeping him out of pre-debut photos and vlogs. He feared it meant he might be cut from the lineup.
Q 05On which platform did BTS singer V gain one million followers in 43 minutes, setting a Guinness World Record in 2021?
Instagram saw all seven BTS members make personal accounts public on the same December day. V also became the fastest to ten million followers, in under five hours.
Q 06Which late American singer, his all-time favorite jazz artist, did BTS's V join on a posthumous 2024 holiday duet?
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby's family approved the remix of his 1942 hit White Christmas, his first cross-generational duet since one with David Bowie in 1977.
Q 07Which historical drama about elite young warriors of an ancient kingdom gave BTS singer V his acting debut in 2016?
Hwarang
Hwarang credited him under his real name in a supporting role beside Park Seo-joon and Park Hyung-sik, who later joined him on a televised friendship trip.
Q 08Which South Korean singer-songwriter cast BTS singer V as her partner in the dystopian 2024 music video Love Wins All?
IU
IU sent V the song first, then asked him to co-star once she realized he might suit the role. The pair play a couple hunted through a ruined world.
Q 09Friends, the duet BTS singer V recorded with bandmate Jimin, plays in which 2021 Marvel film?
Eternals
Eternals picked up the pop-rock track, with its calypso beat, more than a year after it appeared on the BTS album Map of the Soul: 7.
Q 10Which French luxury fashion house named BTS singer V a global ambassador in March 2023, before his solo debut?
Celine
Celine announced the deal in the same month an Indonesian investment firm also signed him as a brand ambassador.
Q 11Which V solo, a neo-soul track danced among white masks, was the comeback trailer for BTS's Love Yourself: Tear?
Singularity
Singularity began life as a poem, its British co-writer recalled, and Dictionary.com reported that searches for the word leapt more than 7,000 percent after the video arrived.
Q 12Stigma, the first solo song BTS singer V co-wrote and composed, appears on which 2016 studio album?
Wings
Wings previewed each member's solo with a short film, and V's was the third to be released. He described the track itself as neo-soul.
Q 13Which V song, recorded for the 2021 drama Our Beloved Summer, became his first solo entry on the Billboard Hot 100?
Christmas Tree
Q 21Which creative director did V team up with to make his 2023 EP Layover?
Min Hee-jin
Min Hee-jin is credited as creative director, executive producer and vocal director on its lead track. Word of the pairing broke five days before the EP was announced.
Q 22Which South Korean ballad singer joined BTS's V on the 2024 duet Winter Ahead, released while V was away in the army?
Park Hyo-shin
Park Hyo-shin shared a single that won Best Music for winter at the Fact Music Awards and also came out in a jazz trio version.
Q 23Which pop star joined V and J-Hope on A Brand New Day, a 2019 single from the BTS World game soundtrack?
Zara Larsson
Christmas Tree entered the chart at number 79 after a Christmas Eve release. Its video is built from scenes of the drama, so V is heard but never seen.
Q 14BTS singer V wrote and produced the 2020 single Sweet Night for which drama starring his friend Park Seo-joon?
Itaewon Class
Itaewon Class put the song on its soundtrack, and it won Best OST at the APAN Star Awards. It also debuted at number two on Billboard's Digital Songs chart in the United States.
Q 15Which 1970s-style soul song was the focus track of V's debut EP Layover, which also carries a piano version of it?
Slow Dancing
Slow Dancing won six first-place trophies on Korean music shows and was named Best Music for fall at the Fact Music Awards.
Q 16Which BTS bandmate sang It's Definitely You with V for the soundtrack of his first television drama?
Jin
Jin shares the 2016 duet, which climbed to number eight on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart.
Q 17What name is given to BTS singer V's five-man friend group with rapper Peakboy and three well-known Korean actors?
Wooga Squad
Wooga Squad took its friendship to television in 2022, when the five filmed a four-day holiday together for a reality series.
Q 18Under which pseudonym did BTS singer V credit his photography, including the cover artwork of a 2019 solo single?
Vante
Vante is the name V signs his pictures with, and his self-directed 2019 video wove in his own shots of animals, landscapes and architecture from four cities.
Q 19With which track from the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool did V make his debut with BTS in June 2013?
No More Dream
No More Dream was the lead track of the group's first release, and V performed it on Mnet's M Countdown on June 13, 2013.
Q 20In which South Korean city, also bandmate Suga's hometown, was BTS singer V born before growing up in Geochang County?
Daegu
Daegu is where V was born, in the city's Seo District, and where he later passed the audition that made him an idol trainee.
Zara Larsson, from Sweden, helped take the track to number one on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart in its first week.
Q 24Which song did V co-produce and sing with RM, released in June 2017 to mark a BTS anniversary?
4 O'Clock
4 O'Clock celebrated the group's fourth year together. V and RM later began their army service on the same day in December 2023.
Q 25Which actor joined V, Peakboy, Park Seo-joon and Park Hyung-sik on the 2022 friendship trip In the Soop: Friendcation?
Choi Woo-shik
Choi Woo-shik, a star of the film Parasite, later worked beside V again as a fellow newcomer on the restaurant show Jinny's Kitchen.
Q 26In which country did BTS's V work at a pop-up Korean street food restaurant for the 2023 reality series Jinny's Kitchen?
Mexico
Mexico hosted the first season in the small southeastern town of Bacalar, where the restaurant quickly became one of the most popular in town.
Q 27Which streaming service carried In the Soop: Friendcation, the 2022 travel show starring V and four close friends?
Disney+
Disney+ released each episode two hours after its Korean broadcast on JTBC, and the show topped the service's TV chart in Japan for 25 days running.
Q 28Which South Korean president awarded V and his BTS bandmates the Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit?
Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in also named the seven his special envoys for future generations and culture in 2021. V was among the youngest people ever to receive the medal.
Q 29In which branch of the South Korean army did BTS's V serve on a special task force after enlisting in December 2023?
Military police
Military police duty placed V with the Ssangyong Unit of the 2nd Corps after extended training, and he was formally discharged in June 2025.
Q 30Which self-written ballad, his first independent song, did BTS's V release on SoundCloud in January 2019?
Scenery
Scenery broke SoundCloud's daily streaming record nine times in its first two weeks, and V photographed its cover art himself.