Q 01/05

Which BigBang hit did South Korea blast over border loudspeakers after North Korea's 2016 nuclear test?

A) Fantastic Baby

B) Bang Bang Bang

C) Haru Haru

D) Bae Bae

Answer · why

B) Bang Bang Bang

Bang Bang Bang was on the propaganda playlist Seoul aimed north in 2016. Months later, university students sang it at protests calling for President P...

Q 02/05

BigBang's T.O.P played Thanos, a disgraced rapper, in season two of which Netflix survival series?

A) Squid Game

B) Alice in Borderland

C) All of Us Are Dead

D) Sweet Home

Answer · why

A) Squid Game

Squid Game cast him as Thanos, a rapper ruined by a crypto scam. Its creator said he wanted an actor whose own career had stopped over a drug case.

Q 03/05

BigBang came second in Time's 2016 reader poll of influential people, behind which American politician?

A) Barack Obama

B) Donald Trump

C) Bernie Sanders

D) Hillary Clinton

Answer · why

C) Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders was the only name ahead of BigBang in the poll. That same year South Korea picked the group as ambassadors for its Creative Korea touri...

Q 04/05

G-Dragon rewrote 'This Love' for BigBang's first single in 2006, adapting a hit by which American band?

A) Linkin Park

B) Green Day

C) The Killers

D) Maroon 5

Answer · why

D) Maroon 5

Maroon 5 recorded the original; G-Dragon rewrote it and performed the new version alone. The debut single it appeared on sold nearly 40,000 copies.

Q 05/05

BigBang's 'Fantastic Baby' lost Song of the Year at the 2012 Melon awards to which hit by a labelmate?

A) Gangnam Style

B) I Love You

C) It's Cold

D) Don't Hate Me

Answer · why

A) Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style, by labelmate Psy, took the prize. BigBang then folded its dance moves into a remix of their own song at a year-end TV festival that Dec...