60 Fun Facts About Percy Jackson Trivia for Kids

Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?

That is why Percy can breathe underwater, steer boats and talk to horses and sea creatures.

What is Percy's full first name?

His mother named him after the one Greek hero who actually got a happy ending.

Percy's sword Riptide is made of what metal?

Chiron gives it to him on Poseidon's instructions, and it hides as an ordinary ballpoint pen.

On what date is Percy's birthday?

In The Last Olympian the Great Prophecy comes true on his sixteenth birthday.

What is the name of Percy's mother?

She later marries Percy's English teacher, Paul Blofis.

Which two learning differences does Percy have, which the books turn into demigod powers?

Rick Riordan invented the idea for his son Haley, who had been diagnosed with both.

On the school trip at the start of The Lightning Thief, Mrs. Dodds turns into what and attacks Percy?

Percy defeats her with a pen his Latin teacher tosses him, which turns out to be Riptide.

Percy's favourite teacher, Mr. Brunner, is secretly who?

The wheelchair hides his horse half, and he later admits Hercules once shot him in the leg by accident.

What kind of creature is Percy's best friend Grover?

He plays reed pipes, and his life's dream is to find the lost nature god Pan.

Which monster attacks Percy and his mother on the way to camp, and which Percy kills with its own horn?

His mother vanishes in a flash of light during the attack, which is why he thinks she is dead.

Where is Camp Half-Blood located?

Percy's mother drives him there on Grover's advice at the end of the school year.

During which camp game does a hellhound attack Percy, just before his father claims him?

A glowing trident appears over his head, and suddenly everyone knows whose son he is.

Which three gods swore an oath not to have any more children, an oath Percy's birth broke?

They are the Big Three, the eldest sons of Kronos, and their children are too powerful to ignore.

What has been stolen from Zeus in the first book?

Percy is sent to the Underworld to get it back because everyone assumes Hades took it.

In which US city is the entrance to the Underworld in The Lightning Thief?

On the way the trio get stuck in a Las Vegas casino run by the Lotus-eaters, where time barely passes.

Which god tricks Percy by hiding the stolen weapon in a backpack he gives him?

Percy beats him in a duel on the beach afterwards, which no demigod is supposed to be able to do.

Who turns out to be the real Lightning Thief at the end of the first book?

He is a son of Hermes working for Kronos, and he tries to kill Percy with a scorpion.

Annabeth is the daughter of which goddess?

Like all Athena's kids she is terrified of spiders, because of what her mother did to Arachne.

Annabeth owns a magic cap from her mother that makes her what?

It is a New York Yankees cap, and it gets the trio out of more than one tight spot.

Which god is Luke Castellan's father?

That is why Luke owns flying sneakers, which he lends to Percy with sneaky intentions.

In The Sea of Monsters, Tyson turns out to be a baby cyclops and also Percy's what?

Poseidon is his father too, which embarrasses Percy at first and then makes him proud.

What has been poisoned at Camp Half-Blood in The Sea of Monsters, weakening its protective border?

Thalia, a daughter of Zeus, was turned into the pine when she died protecting her friends.

What magical object can save the camp in The Sea of Monsters?

It is guarded by the cyclops Polyphemus, who has captured Grover and thinks he is a lady cyclops.

What is the name of the friendly hippocampus that helps Tyson and Percy at sea?

A hippocampus is half horse, half fish, and Tyson adores him.

On Circe's island, Percy and Annabeth discover she has turned dozens of men into what?

In the original Odyssey she turned Odysseus's crew into pigs; Riordan gave the joke a downgrade.

Which camper is sent by Tantalus on the quest to save the camp, sailing on the CSS Birmingham?

She is a daughter of Ares and Percy's rival, and in the end her prophecy says she must fly the Fleece home alone.

In The Titan's Curse, Percy nicknames the Ophiotaurus, a cow-serpent creature, what?

Whoever sacrifices it gains the power to destroy Olympus, which is why Artemis is hunting it.

What is the name of Percy's black pegasus?

He calls Percy "boss" and is always hoping for sugar cubes and doughnuts.

Which goddess is found holding up the sky on Mount Othrys in The Titan's Curse?

They find her on Mount Othrys holding up the sky, a punishment that leaves Annabeth with a grey streak in her hair.

In which decade were Nico and Bianca di Angelo actually born, before being frozen in time?

Their father is Hades, which makes Nico another child of the Big Three.

Zoë Nightshade, lieutenant of the Hunters, is revealed to be the daughter of which Titan?

Long ago she helped Hercules steal a golden apple and gave him the sword that would become Riptide.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare is a mortal with what special ability?

After the war she becomes the camp's new Oracle of Delphi.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, the quest is to find which ancient inventor before Luke does?

He turns out to be living at camp as the swordsman Quintus, inside an automaton body.

Percy is blasted out of Hephaestus's forge in which real volcano?

He wakes up on the island of Ogygia with Calypso, who is cursed to fall for every hero who lands there.

What is the name of the giant hellhound the old inventor leaves to Percy?

She is the size of a tank and thinks she is a lapdog.

On his fifteenth birthday, Percy's father gives him what and tells him to spend it wisely?

He uses it in the final battle to clean up the polluted rivers around Manhattan.

In The Last Olympian, where does Percy bathe to become almost invulnerable?

It gives him the curse of Achilles, with one secret weak spot in the small of his back.

Whose body does Kronos use as his host in the final book?

Percy realises the prophecy is not about him at all when Luke takes back control at the last moment.

Which New York skyscraper has Mount Olympus on its secret 600th floor?

You take the elevator to the 600th floor, which only appears if you have the right key card.

Who kills the drakon in the final battle, the only kind of demigod who can?

Only a child of Ares could kill it, and she does it alone after Silena is fatally hurt pretending to be her.

Who plays Percy in the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians?

He was cast in January 2022 after starring with Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project.

On what date did the first season of the Disney+ series premiere?

Its eight episodes adapted The Lightning Thief; season two, based on The Sea of Monsters, followed in December 2025.

Who played Percy in the 2010 movie The Lightning Thief?

Chris Columbus, who also directed the first two Harry Potter films, was behind the camera.

Rick Riordan first made up Percy's story as bedtime tales for whom?

Haley had studied Greek myths at school and asked his dad to invent new ones when the old ones ran out.

What was Rick Riordan's job before he became a full-time author?

He taught Greek mythology for years, which is how he could keep the bedtime stories coming.

Rick Riordan was born and raised in which Texas city?

Before Percy he wrote grown-up mystery novels about a detective called Tres Navarre.

By January 2022, roughly how many copies had the Percy Jackson & the Olympians books sold worldwide?

That makes it one of the best-selling book series of all time.

In The Heroes of Olympus, what is the training camp for demigods with Roman parents called?

Seven demigods from both camps team up to stop the earth goddess Gaea from waking.

In The Trials of Apollo, the god Apollo is turned into a mortal teenager with what name?

He lands in a New York dumpster with acne and no powers, as punishment from Zeus.

Magnus, hero of Riordan's Norse series, is the cousin of which Percy Jackson character?

Magnus is a homeless orphan from Boston who turns out to be a son of the Norse god Frey.

The Kane Chronicles is based on the mythology of which country?

Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane take turns narrating the story.

In The Chalice of the Gods (2023), whose stolen cup of immortality does Percy have to find?

Percy needs three godly recommendation letters to get into New Rome University, and this quest earns one of them.

Where is Percy on a school trip when Mrs. Dodds turns into a Fury?

Mr. Brunner lends Percy a magic sword-pen to defeat her.

Which god's shield do Percy and his friends find at a tunnel of love ride in The Lightning Thief?

It turns out to be a trap set by Hephaestus, but the war god rewards them with a backpack and a ride to Nevada.

Who stalls Percy, Annabeth and Grover in Nevada on their way to the Underworld?

In the Underworld, Grover is nearly dragged into Tartarus by Luke's flying shoes.

What did Hades discover had been stolen from him, alongside Zeus's Master Bolt?

He accuses Percy and threatens a zombie apocalypse, but Percy beats Ares and returns the Helm through the Furies.

What game is Percy playing in gym class when Laestrygonian giants attack in The Sea of Monsters?

His new friend Tyson and Annabeth save him at Meriwether College Prep.

What is the name of Luke's cruise ship full of monsters in The Sea of Monsters?

Percy later uses the ship to make Luke confess, through an Iris-message, that he poisoned Thalia's tree.

What helps Annabeth turn Percy back from a guinea pig on Circe's island?

The vitamins also make her temporarily immune to Circe's magic, and she frees the other guinea-pig men by accident.

What are the centaurs who rescue Percy and his friends from Luke called?

They arrive with Chiron, and the Golden Fleece is hung on Thalia's pine tree to cure it.