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K-Drama Trivia Quiz

Second Lead Syndrome Squid Game to Queen of Tears: the stars, the plots, the piggyback rides and the trucks of doom. One more episode?

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This K-Drama Trivia Quiz has 146 questions: 52 easy, 58 medium and 36 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.

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20 of the 146 K-dramas questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.

  1. On her birthday, how does Ji Eun-tak accidentally summon the immortal Goblin to a windy breakwater by the sea?

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    Blowing out a candle

    Gangneung's Jumunjin breakwater, where it was shot, still draws fans; the cast went back there for a 10th-anniversary trip in 2026.

  2. In 2016, China's Ministry of Public Security warned on Weibo that watching Korean dramas 'could be dangerous', after fans went wild over which Descendants of the Sun star?

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    Song Joong-ki

    The post told of a man who fought with his wife over the actor and forced a photo studio to shoot him in the same look.

  3. Descendants of the Sun shot its war-zone scenes in Korea, but flew the leads to which European country for a famous date by a shipwreck beach?

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    Greece

    The scene was shot at Navagio Beach on the island of Zakynthos, during about a month of filming in autumn 2015.

  4. On Netflix's Physical: 100, every contestant has a plaster cast made of their own torso. What happens to it when they're knocked out?

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    It's smashed

    Losers break their own statue, sometimes with a sledgehammer; the last one standing wins 300 million won.

  5. Which American sandwich chain shows up so often in K-dramas, from The K2 to Good Doctor, that fans joke it's part of the cast?

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    Subway

    Its Korea boss called product placement a cheap way to win brand awareness; in Goblin even the Grim Reaper eats there alone.

  6. K-dramas love a Korean romantic belief: if you confess on the day of a certain winter moment each year, your love will come true. Goblin built its romance around it. What moment?

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    First snow

    Being together for the first snow is seen as proof of a real bond; Twenty-Five Twenty-One and My Love from the Star use it too.

  7. In Flower of Evil, Lee Joon-gi's devoted family man hides his real identity and dark past from his wife. What is her job, which makes that very risky?

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    Detective

    Moon Chae-won plays the wife, who slowly realises the case she is chasing leads back to her own home.

  8. The Hong sisters' A Korean Odyssey (2017) gives a modern twist to which Chinese classic, with Lee Seung-gi as its Monkey King?

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    Journey to the West

    The Korean title, Hwayugi, plays on the novel's name; the heroine can see ghosts and is protected by a yellow umbrella.

  9. In Memories of the Alhambra, Hyun Bin's investor gets drawn into an augmented-reality game of medieval battles, set in which Spanish city?

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    Granada

    The game's young creator is played by Park Chan-yeol of EXO, and the hero's AR game ID is 'zinu'.

  10. 2026's Doctor X: Mafia in White, about a freelance surgeon who is paid per operation and leaves at 6 p.m. sharp, remakes a long-running hit from which country?

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    Japan

    The original is Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon; the Korean version debuted at No. 1 on Netflix's non-English chart in October 2026.

  11. Since 2023, Crash Landing on You fans have paid a fee to stand on a small lakeside pier where one of Captain Ri's flashback scenes was shot. Which country is it in?

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    Switzerland

    The 5-franc turnstile at Iseltwald on Lake Brienz brought the village of 406 people nearly 245,000 francs in 2024.

  12. Before army life, Crash Landing on You's stern North Korean captain Ri Jeong-hyeok was a gifted student of which instrument?

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    Piano

    He plays a tune he wrote for his late brother on a lakeside pier, and fans now queue to photograph the spot.

  13. In Business Proposal, Shin Ha-ri goes on a blind date in her rich friend's place, planning to be rejected. Who turns up across the table?

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    Her boss

    Workaholic CEO Kang Tae-moo had decided to marry his next blind date, so he calls her the next day and proposes.

  14. In Twenty-Five Twenty-One, rich kid Baek Yi-jin delivers newspapers after the 1997 crisis, then lands which job covering Hee-do's career?

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    Sports reporter

    Decades later, Hee-do's daughter finds her diary, and the show never names the girl's father.

  15. In Goblin, Kim Shin steps through an ordinary door in Korea and comes out in which Canadian city?

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    Quebec City

    The red 'Goblin door' in the Petit Champlain quarter is really an emergency exit, and fans still line up to photograph it.

  16. Goblin's charming chicken-shop owner Sunny turns out to be the reincarnation of which relative of the Goblin?

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    His sister

    In her past life she was the queen, executed for siding with her brother, General Kim Shin.

  17. Before he became a band's lead singer, Lovely Runner's Ryu Sun-jae was a promising athlete in which sport?

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    Swimming

    Byeon Woo-seok trained for two to three months to play the former athlete.

  18. In Lovely Runner, Im Sol travels back in time to save her idol Ryu Sun-jae. Which band is he the lead singer of?

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    Eclipse

    Bandmate actor Lee Seung-hyub, a real rock singer, coached Byeon Woo-seok on stage presence for the concert scenes.

  19. Just as Hyun-woo works up the nerve to ask for a divorce in Queen of Tears, Hae-in reveals that her doctor has given her how long to live?

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    Three months

    Her rare brain tumour later becomes operable, but the surgery risks wiping out her long-term memories.

  20. Lovely Runner's Korean title tells Sol to run away while carrying Sun-jae in what way?

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    Piggyback

    The show was first developed as Time Walking on Memory before it got its playful final title.

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