Idol on Quiz

Idol on Quiz (Korean: 퀴즈 위의 아이돌) is a South Korean television program that airs on KBS2, hosted by Jung Hyung-don and Jang Sung-kyu.[1] The program airs every Monday at 20:30 (KST) starting from July 20, 2020.

Idol on Quiz
Also known as	Idols Above the Quiz
Hangul	퀴즈 위의 아이돌
Genre	Variety show Quiz show
Presented by	Jung Hyung-don Jang Sung-kyu
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	5 (as of August 17, 2020)
Production
Production location(s)	South Korea
Running time	55 minutes
Distributor	KBS
Release
Original network	KBS
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original release	July 20, 2020 (2020-07-20) – present
External links
Official Website

Overview

A program where global K-pop idols take on various quizzes.[2]

In each episode, guests are in two teams and three rounds of quizzes are held. The team with more accumulated points wins, and the prize money will be donated, under the winning team's names, to the bursary (provided by King Sejong Institute) which helps people outside South Korea studying the Korean language and the Korean culture.

Quiz Name	Description
Idol Above Speed	Limited time 20-question speed quiz with the hosts, quiz ends when the character is caught up (or when all 20 questions are successfully answered) Best of three rounds 1st round: MCs explaining to their teams 2nd (and 3rd) round: One member of the team explaining to the rest of the team's members, and one MC chance can be used
Idol Above Consonants	Survival consonants quiz 8 contestants → 6 → 4 → 3 → 2 → 1 final winner
Idol Above Correct Answers	Find the correct keywords Only one challenger from each team will represent their teams for this round If the challenger from one team does not choose the wrong keyword throughout the game, the team's total points earned from the round would be doubled
Idol Exploding	Each team chooses a set of questions and all the members will answer the questions by choosing one option out of two given, by cutting either the yellow or blue wire representing the options Once a member answered wrongly, the team will end their round and the bombs will explode Each correct answer gets 10 marks for the team In the final part of the game, the MCs will each go for double the amount of the team's points when the question is correctly answered
Dance Recipe	Five levels of detailed, step-by-step descriptions of the dance are said out At any level, one contestant can attempt to answer the correct song title, its singer and do the dance move

Episodes (2020)

• In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue.

Ep.	Broadcast Date	Guest(s)		Winner (Final Score)	Ratings (AGB Nielsen Korea) (Nationwide)[3][4][5]
		Led by Jang Sung-kyu	Led by Jung Hyung-don
1	July 20	Good Boys Seventeen (Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, DK)	Oath of the Peach Garden Seventeen (The8, Seungkwan, Vernon, Dino)	Good Boys (350:210)	1.6%
2	July 27	PentaB BtoB (Seo Eun-kwang, Peniel), Pentagon (Yuto, Kino)	Cube Girl CLC (Sorn, Jang Ye-eun), (G)I-DLE (Soojin, Yuqi)	No Winner (150:150)	1.3%
3	August 3	Stray Kids (Bang Chan, Lee Know, Hyunjin, Felix)	The Boyz (Jacob, Juyeon, Kevin, New)	Stray Kids (180:80)	0.9%
4	August 10	Oh My Girl (Hyojung, Mimi, Seunghee, Binnie)	GFriend (Yerin, Eunha, Yuju, Umji)	Oh My Girl (130:80)	1.7%
5	August 17	Eunji Team Apink (Jung Eun-ji, Kim Nam-joo), Weeekly (Lee Soo-jin, Jihan)	Bomi Team Apink (Yoon Bo-mi, Oh Ha-young), Victon (Choi Byung-chan, Jung Su-bin)	Bomi Team[lower-alpha 1] (250:250)	1.3%
6	August 24	Lovelyz (Lee Mi-joo, Kei, Ryu Su-jeong, Jeong Ye-in), April (Kim Chae-won, Lee Na-eun, Rachel, Lee Jin-sol)		TBA	%
TBA	TBA	Monsta X, SF9		TBA	%

Notes

1. Winning team decided by rock paper scissors

References

1. Kim Na-young (July 20, 2020). "'퀴즈 위의 아이돌' 정형돈 "장성규, 비상하고 센스 넘친다"". MK Sports (in Korean). Retrieved July 20, 2020.
2. "Introduction to Idol on Quiz".
3. "AGB Nielsen Ratings 1" (in Korean) – via naver.
4. "AGB Nielsen Ratings 2" (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-05-28 – via nielsenkorea.
5. "AGB Nielsen Ratings 3" (in Korean) – via Daum.