Wanna One
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
50 free Wanna One trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Wanna One existed for barely a year and a half, yet few K-pop acts have made a bigger mark in so little time. Eleven trainees chosen by public vote on Produce 101 Season 2 debuted in August 2017 in front of a stadium crowd, sold records at a pace Korea had not seen in decades, and then went their separate ways on schedule. This quiz covers the whole story: who the eleven members are and where they came from, the survival show that made them, the title tracks and albums, the four units, the farewell concerts and the reunions that followed. It also follows the members into their solo years as singers, actors and television hosts. Early questions are pitched at casual listeners, and the later ones reward fans who followed every comeback. Every answer carries a short explanation with an extra fact, so you learn something whether or not you guess right.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Park Ji-hoon of Wanna One went viral before Produce 101 Season 2 even aired with which gesture?
A wink
A wink at the end of the theme-song stage earned him the nickname 'wink boy'. His catchphrase 'save you in my heart' was later named the best catchphrase of 2017.
Q 02Produce 101 winner Kang Daniel of Wanna One set a Guinness World Record on which social platform?
Instagram followers of his new account reached one million just 11 hours and 36 minutes after he joined. He signed up in January 2019, the month after Wanna One's contract ended.
Q 03Which song won a fan vote to become Wanna One's debut title track and took 15 music show trophies?
Energetic
Energetic beat a rival track in a vote revealed on the group's own reality show. It topped six Korean music sites at once, a feat known as an all-kill.
Q 04Which Wanna One member, eighth in the Produce 101 Season 2 final, served as the group's leader?
Yoon Ji-sung
Yoon Ji-sung was born Yoon Byeong-ok in Wonju and trained at MMO Entertainment alongside Kang Daniel. After the group ended he took the male lead in the stage musical The Days.
Q 05Why did Kang Daniel of Wanna One, born Kang Eui-geon, legally change his given name?
It was hard to pronounce
It was hard to pronounce for family and friends, so Eui-geon became Daniel. He has said on television that a biblical figure inspired the new name.
Q 06What name did Wanna One give their official fan club, chosen after fans sent in ideas in mid-2017?
Wannable
Wannable was formed after fans sent in name ideas in the weeks following the Produce 101 Season 2 final. The members settled their own greeting, 'All I wanna do, Wanna One!', on their pre-debut reality show.
Q 07Which Wanna One member had already debuted in 2012 with NU'EST and rejoined that band in 2019?
Hwang Min-hyun
Hwang Min-hyun was the only one of four NU'EST members on Produce 101 Season 2 to reach the final line-up. The other three promoted as NU'EST W until he came back.
Q 08Why did Kang Daniel make only a brief appearance in Wanna One's 2026 reunion reality series?
Military service
Military service kept him away, so nine members carried the series. It arrived with a new soundtrack single, We Wanna Go.
Q 09Wanna One's debut single choreography opens with the members forming the shape of which instrument?
A piano
A piano is formed by the members' bodies while one of them mimes playing it. The move became known as the 'human piano formation'.
Q 10Which singer replaced Jang Keun-suk as host of Produce 101 Season 2, which formed Wanna One?
BoA
BoA was billed as a messenger and representative of the viewers, and hosted the live finale where the name Wanna One was announced. Super Junior's Leeteuk covered one stage day for her.
Q 11Kang Daniel of Wanna One was born and learned to dance in which South Korean port city?
Busan
Busan is where he trained at a dance school called Nataraja Academy. He went on to study modern dance at an arts high school, winning a gold medal at a student performing arts contest.
Q 12Which Wanna One single's eight-minute video casts Kang Daniel and Ong Seong-wu as lost brothers?
Beautiful
Beautiful led the repackaged album Nothing Without You, a prequel to the debut EP. Its video, shot by a film director, reunites the brothers at an orphanage before trouble catches up with them.
Q 13At which Seoul venue did Wanna One hold their debut showcase and their four-night farewell concerts?
Gocheok Sky Dome
Q 21Hui and Wooseok, who wrote the lyrics of Wanna One's debut single, belonged to which boy band?
Pentagon
Pentagon's Hui also co-composed the track with the production team Flow Blow. Critics later ranked it among the best K-pop songs of 2017.
Q 22Which song on Wanna One's debut EP lost the fan vote for title track yet still got a music video?
Burn It Up
Burn It Up peaked at number four on the Gaon chart. Korea JoongAng Daily picked it as the stand-out track of the EP for its confident lyrics and powerful hook.
Q 23Ong Seong-wu of Wanna One was scouted in 2008 while playing which instrument at a band contest?
Drums
Drums were his mother's suggestion, taken up after his sister started lessons on another instrument. The agency that scouted him later closed, delaying his debut by years.
Gocheok Sky Dome opened to some 20,000 fans for the 2017 debut 'Show-Con'. The farewell nights there in January 2019 came after the group's contract had already run out.
Q 14Which singer from the boy band Hotshot took the eleventh and final place in Wanna One's line-up?
Ha Sung-woon
Ha Sung-woon scraped in with 790,302 votes, while his Hotshot bandmate on the show went out in 25th place. He later co-wrote the track Flowerbomb for Wanna One's studio album.
Q 15Wanna One's first agency YMC had earlier managed which girl group formed on Produce 101 Season 1?
I.O.I
I.O.I set the template a year earlier, with one difference: Wanna One's members were not allowed to take part in other activities with their original agencies during the project.
Q 16Which Wanna One member, signed to Cube Entertainment, was alone in missing the 2021 reunion stage?
Lai Kuan-lin
Lai Kuan-lin, who was born in Taipei, had moved his career to China after a contract fight with his agency. He retired from performing in 2024 and resurfaced as a film director.
Q 17Wanna One's Kang Daniel hosted which dance crew competition and several of its spin-offs from 2021?
Street Woman Fighter
Street Woman Fighter set eight female dance crews against each other for the title of Korea's best. Kang stayed on to front its spin-offs and returned for the second season in 2023.
Q 18Years before Wanna One, Kim Jae-hwan reached the semi-finals of which televised competition in 2012?
Korea's Got Talent
Korea's Got Talent almost lost him at his first audition in Daegu, until judge Kim Gura asked that he be allowed to try again in Seoul. He had sung Miss A's Bad Girl Good Girl.
Q 19Which Wanna One member came sixth on Produce 101 Season 2 and later joined AB6IX with Lee Dae-hwi?
Park Woo-jin
Park Woo-jin choreographed the routine his label's trainees performed at their first evaluation on the show. Before signing with Brand New Music he had been a trainee at JYP Entertainment.
Q 20Which Wanna One member, tenth on Produce 101 Season 2, went on to debut with boy band CIX in 2019?
Bae Jin-young
Bae Jin-young first put out a self-composed solo single, Hard to Say Goodbye, that April. He stayed with CIX until his contract with C9 Entertainment ran out in August 2024.
Q 24Ong Seong-wu made his acting debut after Wanna One as a transfer student in which 2019 JTBC drama?
At Eighteen
At Eighteen cast him as Choi Jun-woo, a boy falsely accused of school violence. The role won him a newcomer prize at the Korea Drama Awards.
Q 25Wanna One's Park Ji-hoon played top student Yeon Si-eun in which 2022 drama about school bullies?
Weak Hero
Weak Hero became the streaming platform Wavve's top drama for paid sign-ups within a day. Its first three episodes had already sold out in two minutes at a film festival screening.
Q 26Wanna One's unit Triple Position won Best Unit at the 2018 MAMA with which summery hip-hop track?
Kangaroo
Kangaroo was recorded by Kang Daniel, Kim Jae-hwan and one more member with an outside producer. Kang also shares the lyric credit.
Q 27Which company formed Wanna One through Produce 101 Season 2 and signed Kim Jae-hwan as an artist?
CJ E&M
CJ E&M ran a season that the three biggest agencies, SM, YG and JYP, chose not to send trainees to. Its 101 contestants still came from 54 different companies.
Q 28Which song was the title track of Wanna One's second EP, an album with over 700,000 pre-orders?
Boomerang
Boomerang is an electro trap song about a heart that reaches out to someone and comes back. It followed a fan song put out two weeks earlier as a special theme track.
Q 29Which agency was set up in June 2018 solely to manage Wanna One once their deal with YMC ran out?
Swing Entertainment
Swing Entertainment kept a partnership with YMC and went on to manage later Produce groups such as X1. It was absorbed by another label in 2024.
Q 30Which member of Block B produced the hip-hop track recorded by Wanna One's trio Triple Position?
Zico
Zico wrote the song with two of the trio's own members sharing the lyric credit. Every unit on the 2018 album Undivided was paired with a different outside producer.