50 free Loki trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Loki has been causing trouble for a thousand years, first in the Poetic and Prose Eddas and lately across seven Marvel movies and a Disney+ series. This quiz covers both: the shape-shifting Norse god who mothered an eight-legged horse, cut off Sif's hair and engineered Baldr's death, and the Marvel God of Mischief who fell from the Bifröst, invaded New York, ruled Asgard in disguise and ended up holding the multiverse together. Easy questions ask who plays Loki in the MCU, who his adopted brother is and which monsters he fathered in the myths. Harder ones dig into Lokasenna, Útgarða-Loki's eating contest, the Snaptun Stone, Loki's 1949 comic debut, the actors nearly cast in Thor and the TVA's alligator. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the Norse god, the Marvel character, the films and the series, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01In Norse myth, Loki turned himself into a mare and gave birth to which eight-legged horse?
Sleipnir
He was chased down and impregnated by the stallion Svaðilfari while distracting it from building Asgard's wall; the foal became Odin's steed.
Q 02By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki fathered three monstrous children: Hel, the wolf Fenrir and which serpent?
Jörmungandr
The world serpent encircles Midgard, and it turns out to be the 'cat' Thor once failed to lift in Útgarða-Loki's hall.
Q 03After Loki is bound by the gods, his wife catches the dripping serpent venom in a bowl. What is her name?
Sigyn
Whenever she leaves to empty the bowl the venom hits Loki's face and he writhes in agony.
Q 04According to the myths, what natural phenomenon is caused by Loki writhing in pain under the venom?
Earthquakes
He was bound with the entrails of his own son Nari after the gods caught him hiding at a waterfall.
Q 05Which beloved god's death does Loki engineer in Norse mythology?
Baldr
Frigg had made every object on earth swear not to hurt her son, except the mistletoe she thought too harmless to ask.
Q 06Which god is Loki foretold to kill, and be killed by, at Ragnarök?
Heimdallr
Loki breaks free of his bonds and fights alongside the jötnar, while his son Fenrir swallows Odin.
Q 07To hide from the gods after insulting them all at Ægir's feast, Loki turned himself into which animal?
A salmon
He lurked in the waterfall of Franangrsfors, and one tradition credits him with inventing the fishing net that caught him.
Q 08Which Poetic Edda poem consists almost entirely of Loki trading insults with the gods at a feast?
Lokasenna
Its title means 'Loki's Flyting'; he accuses nearly every goddess of infidelity and reminds Frigg he caused her son's death.
Q 09In Þrymskviða, Thor's hammer is stolen and Loki flies off to find it wearing what?
Freyja's feather cloak
He learns the giant Þrymr wants Freyja as a bride in exchange, so Thor ends up dressed as the bride with Loki as his maid.
Q 10In the Prose Edda, Loki once cut off the hair of Thor's wife. Who was she?
Sif
Thor forced him to have dwarves make a golden replacement, a commission that also produced five other treasures for the gods.
Q 11What did the gods lose when Loki let a jötunn eagle abduct Iðunn from Asgard?
Their eternal youth
Þjazi carried her off with her apples, the gods began to grow old and grey, and Loki was forced to fetch her back as a falcon.
Q 12In Útgarða-Loki's hall, Loki lost an eating contest to a being named Logi, who turned out to be what?
Wildfire
Every contest was an illusion: Thor's drinking horn reached the sea and lowered its level, creating tides.
Q 13Loki is the son of Laufey and which jötunn?
Fárbauti
He is 'son of Laufey' in the poems, and Marvel later borrowed the mother's name for his father, Laufey the Frost Giant king.
Q 21After being killed in the Siege storyline, Loki was resurrected in Journey into Mystery in what form?
A child
Kieron Gillen's 'Kid Loki' later joined a team of young heroes, then manipulated Wiccan into restoring him to a teenaged body.
Q 22In the 2016 miniseries Vote Loki, what does Loki run for?
US President
He seemingly loses when the media expose his tricks, but is later revealed to have thrown the race deliberately.
Q 23Which actor plays Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Tom Hiddleston
He was invited to audition by Thor director Kenneth Branagh, with whom he had worked on Ivanov and Wallander, and was first considered for the lead role.
Q 14What feature of a soapstone hearth stone found in Denmark in 1950 suggests it depicts Loki?
Scarred, stitched lips
The Snaptun Stone recalls a tale in Skáldskaparmál where the sons of Ivaldi sew Loki's mouth shut.
Q 15Which 13th-century Icelandic writer compiled the Prose Edda, one of the main sources for Loki's myths?
Snorri Sturluson
He also wrote Heimskringla, and the Poetic Edda was compiled around the same century from older oral sources.
Q 16Loki's byname Loptr is generally taken to link him with what?
Air
Attempts to tie his name to logi, 'flame', have no sound linguistic basis; scholars now favour a root meaning loops, knots and tangles.
Q 17During his flyting at Ægir's feast, Loki taunts Týr that Loki's son did what to him?
Tore off his hand
Fenrir bit off Týr's hand when the gods bound the wolf, and Týr shoots back that Loki has lost his wolf.
Q 18Which team of comic creators introduced Marvel's modern Loki as Thor's nemesis in 1962?
Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby
He debuted in Journey into Mystery #85, just two issues after Thor himself.
Q 19A version of Loki first appeared in a 1949 Timely Comics title named after which goddess?
Venus
That Loki was bizarrely a member of the Olympian gods, sent back to the Underworld after Venus foiled him.
Q 20In Marvel Comics, Loki's schemes on Earth inadvertently lead to the formation of which team?
The Avengers
He also created the villain Absorbing Man by transforming the criminal Carl Creel.
Q 24Which two actors were reportedly considered for the MCU's Loki before the role was cast in 2009?
Josh Hartnett and Jim Carrey
Guillermo del Toro was also nearly the director; he loved Loki but wanted 'a really dingy Valhalla, with Vikings and mud' and left to make The Hobbit.
Q 25In the MCU, Loki was born a member of which race before Odin adopted him?
Frost Giants
Odin found the abandoned infant during an invasion of Jotunheim and used magic to make him look Asgardian.
Q 26According to the MCU, under what alias did Loki once pull off a famous heist on Earth?
D. B. Cooper
The Loki series revealed the 1971 skyjacker was Loki collecting on a bet with Thor.
Q 27In the 2012 team-up film, Loki opens a wormhole above Stark Tower to let in which alien army?
The Chitauri
Their leader, the Other, promised him the army in exchange for the glowing cube; the Hulk ended the invasion by beating Loki into the floor.
Q 28In which German city does Loki cause a distraction while Barton steals iridium in the 2012 film?
Stuttgart
He orders a crowd to kneel before him, is confronted by Captain America, Iron Man and Black Widow, and lets himself be captured.
Q 29Which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent does Loki kill aboard the Helicarrier?
Phil Coulson
Fury used the death to rally the team, and the agent was later revived for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series.
Q 30At the end of Thor: The Dark World, Loki is revealed to be sitting on Asgard's throne disguised as whom?
Odin
He kept the real Odin under a spell on Earth, and Thor did not discover the ruse until Ragnarok, four years later.