Artemis Fowl Trivia
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50 free Artemis Fowl trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Eoin Colfer pitched the first book as 'Die Hard with fairies': a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind kidnaps an elf and holds her for a ton of gold. Eight books, a twin spin-off and a notorious Disney+ film later, the series has sold more than 21 million copies. These Artemis Fowl trivia questions cover the plots, the People, the LEP, the villains, the author and the adaptations. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Who wrote the Artemis Fowl books?
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer. He modelled Artemis on his younger brother Donal, a childhood schemer who, he said, could get out of any trouble he got into.
Q 02How did the author of Artemis Fowl famously sum up the first book?
'Die Hard with fairies'
'Die Hard with fairies'. He later admitted he blurted the pitch before he had learned to watch his words, and hoped Bruce Willis wouldn't mind; he loved those films' tongue-in-cheek action.
Q 03At twelve, Artemis Fowl already runs what?
Criminal empire
A criminal empire. With his father missing and his mother unwell, Artemis took charge and set out to rebuild the Fowl fortune by robbing the fairies.
Q 04In Artemis Fowl, what does a fairy need before it may enter a human home?
An invitation to come in
An invitation to come in. A fairy who walks in uninvited loses its magic, which is why the LEP sends Mulch Diggums, a burglar who gave his up long ago, to break into Fowl Manor.
Q 05What ransom does Artemis Fowl demand for the fairy he kidnaps?
A ton of gold
A ton of gold. He ends up handing half of it back to his captive in exchange for a wish: that her magic cure his mother's madness.
Q 06In Artemis Fowl, what does LEP stand for?
Lower Elements Police
Lower Elements Police. Its reconnaissance squad is LEPrecon, and in the books that name is where humans got the leprechaun.
Q 07What is the closely guarded first name of Artemis Fowl's bodyguard, Butler?
Domovoi
Domovoi. Butler takes a bullet meant for Artemis in the third book, and the fairy magic that revives him leaves him years older.
Q 08In Artemis Fowl, what is the name of Butler's younger sister?
Juliet
Juliet. She trains to be a bodyguard like her brother, then decides her real calling is professional wrestling and leaves for America as the 'Jade Princess'.
Q 09In Artemis Fowl, what kind of creature is Foaly, the LEP's technical genius?
A centaur
A centaur. His sarcasm drives the officers round him to distraction, but the force cannot fire him: nearly every weapon, gadget and set of wings it uses is his design.
Q 10In Artemis Fowl, what kind of fairy is the villain Opal Koboi?
Pixie
Pixie. She built her own tech company to put her father's out of business, and never forgave Foaly for beating her invention in a college science contest.
Q 11In Artemis Fowl, what kind of fairy is the kleptomaniac Mulch Diggums?
A dwarf
A dwarf. Like all his kind he can tunnel through earth at speed, digesting the soil as he goes, and his spit glows in the dark, which makes him a natural burglar.
Q 12In Artemis Fowl, what does the LEP's inventor Foaly habitually wear on his head?
A tinfoil hat
A tinfoil hat. Foaly is convinced that human intelligence agencies are spying on his network, and he trusts the foil to keep their mind probes out.
Q 13In which Artemis Fowl book is Commander Root killed?
The Opal Deception
The Opal Deception. Koboi straps a bomb to him that the cameras cannot see, then tricks Holly into firing at it, so that she appears to have shot her own commander.
Q 21In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, what is the C Cube that Jon Spiro steals?
A handheld supercomputer
A handheld supercomputer. Artemis built it from fairy helmets his bodyguard seized during the siege of Fowl Manor, which put it decades ahead of any human machine.
Q 22In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, where does Artemis put the dying Butler to preserve him?
A fish freezer
A fish freezer. Holly's healing magic then brings him back, but the rescue costs him: his body comes out about fifteen years older than it went in.
Q 23What do the fairies demand for helping Artemis Fowl recover the stolen C Cube?
He and his allies are mind-wiped
Q 14Where does Artemis Fowl find the alcoholic sprite who gives up the fairies' holy book?
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Once he has the Book's contents, he cracks its fairy script and learns the ritual fairies use to restore their magic.
Q 15In Artemis Fowl, what must a fairy plant to restore its magic?
An acorn from an ancient oak
An acorn from an ancient oak. Holly later breaks out of a concrete cell by hammering through the floor to plant one that had slipped into her boot, which brings her magic back.
Q 16In Artemis Fowl, in what language is the fairies' Book of the People written?
Gnommish
Gnommish. The author printed it as a real cipher: a hidden message in its symbols runs along the foot of the pages in most of the novels for readers to decode.
Q 17What does Commander Root use to seal off Fowl Manor in the first Artemis Fowl book?
A time-stop
A time-stop. Artemis works out that it holds everyone in the state they were in when it began, so he slips his household sleeping pills and they drop out of it alive.
Q 18In the first Artemis Fowl book, which creature does Cudgeon release into Fowl Manor?
A troll
A troll. The plan backfires: Butler, healed by Holly's magic, puts on a suit of medieval armour and batters it with a mace, and Cudgeon is stripped of his command.
Q 19Who is holding Artemis Fowl's father captive in the second book?
The Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia. They sank his ship off northern Russia and held the survivor for ransom, so Artemis has to team up with the fairies he once robbed to get him back.
Q 20What is the name of the goblin gang that rises up in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident?
The B'wa Kell
The B'wa Kell. The goblins are pawns: Opal Koboi and a disgraced LEP officer arm them with banned lasers that run on batteries smuggled down from the human world.
He and his allies are mind-wiped. Artemis plans for it: before the wipe he hands Mulch a gold medallion that is really a disc holding his memories of the fairies.
Q 24Which environmentalist does Koboi mesmerise into thinking she is his daughter?
Giovanni Zito
She poses as 'Belinda' and gets him to drill a probe toward the fairy city of Haven.
Q 25In Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, what is the name of the demon island stuck in Limbo?
Hybras
Hybras. Its demon warlocks lifted it out of time after losing a war with humans, but the spell is failing and demons have begun dropping back into our world without warning.
Q 26Which child prodigy kidnaps the demon warlock N°1 hoping to win a Nobel Prize?
Minerva Paradizo
She switches sides after her own security guard, Billy Kong, turns on her.
Q 27In Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, what do Artemis and Holly end up swapping?
Eyes
Eyes. The trip back through time leaves each with one of the other's, so Artemis comes home with one blue eye and one hazel, and nearly three years late.
Q 28Which fairy disease is Angeline Fowl diagnosed with in The Time Paradox?
Spelltropy
Spelltropy. That is the diagnosis, at least: the plague's symptoms turn out to be the work of Opal Koboi, who has secretly taken over Angeline's body.
Q 29In Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox, which animal's brain fluid must Artemis fetch from his own past?
A silky sifaka lemur
A silky sifaka lemur. To get it, Artemis has to outwit his own ten-year-old self, who is about to sell the last one alive to the Extinctionists, a club devoted to killing off rare species.
Q 30What is the name of Artemis Fowl's alter ego, brought on by Atlantis Complex?
Orion
Orion. He is everything Artemis is not, a lovestruck romantic who calls Holly his princess, yet because the villain's mind-control rune has no hold on him he ends up saving the day.