Loki Trivia
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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
Sleipnir is the eight-legged foal Loki bore in mare form after luring the stallion Svaðilfari away from the giant builder's work on Asgard's wall.
Q 02By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki fathered three monstrous children: Hel, the wolf Fenrir and which serpent?
Jörmungandr
Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, lies in the ocean encircling the world; in Útgarða-Loki's hall it was the 'cat' that Thor failed to lift.
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
Earthquakes: the Prose Edda says that when venom drips onto the bound Loki's face he shudders so violently that the whole earth shakes.
Q 05Which beloved god's death does Loki engineer in Norse mythology?
Baldr
Baldr: Loki learned that Frigg had not made mistletoe swear the oath, then guided the blind god Höðr to throw the mistletoe dart that killed Baldr.
Q 06Which god is Loki foretold to kill, and be killed by, at Ragnarök?
Heimdallr
Heimdallr: in Gylfaginning's account of Ragnarök, the freed Loki and the watchman god Heimdallr fight one another and each kills the other.
Q 07To hide from the gods after insulting them all at Ægir's feast, Loki turned himself into which animal?
A salmon
A salmon: Loki hid in Fránangr's falls in salmon form; the gods rebuilt the net he had burned and Thor caught him by the tail as he leapt.
Q 08Which Poetic Edda poem consists almost entirely of Loki trading insults with the gods at a feast?
Lokasenna
Lokasenna ('Loki's Flyting') has Loki crash Ægir's feast and insult each god in turn, accusing the goddesses of infidelity and taunting Frigg over her son's death.
Q 09In Þrymskviða, what does Loki borrow to search for Thor's stolen hammer?
Freyja's feather cloak
Freyja's feather cloak: Loki borrows the goddess's fjaðrhamr to reach Jötunheimr, where Þrymr admits he has hidden Mjölnir and demands Freyja as his bride.
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
Their eternal youth: Iðunn's apples kept the gods young, so once Þjazi carried her off they began to grow old and grey until Loki, in falcon form, brought her back.
Q 12In Útgarða-Loki's hall, Loki lost an eating contest to a being named Logi, who turned out to be what?
Wildfire
Wildfire: Logi was fire itself, which consumed the meat, the bones and the trough alike, so Loki, who had only eaten the meat, lost the contest.
Q 13Loki is the son of Laufey and which jötunn?
Fárbauti
Fárbauti, a jötunn whose name means 'cruel striker', is Loki's father; the poems call Loki 'son of Laufey' after his mother, a name Marvel later reused for his father.
Q 21After being killed in the Siege storyline, Loki was resurrected in what form?
A child
A child: Loki returned as a young boy in Thor #617 (2010); Kieron Gillen's 'Kid Loki' later joined a team of young heroes and had Wiccan age him into a teenager.
Q 22In the 2016 miniseries Vote Loki, what does Loki run for?
US President
US President: in Vote Loki (2016) Loki mounts a campaign for the White House, winning fans by promising to lie to them openly, until reporter Nisa Contreras exposes his schemes.
Q 23Which actor plays Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston has played Loki since Thor (2011); director Kenneth Branagh, who had worked with him on Ivanov and Wallander, invited him to audition, originally for Thor himself.
Q 14What feature of a soapstone hearth stone found in Denmark in 1950 suggests it depicts Loki?
Scarred, stitched lips
Scarred, stitched lips: the Snaptun Stone's face shows a mouth sewn shut, recalling Skáldskaparmál, where the dwarf Brokkr stitches Loki's lips after winning their wager.
Q 15Which 13th-century Icelandic writer compiled the Prose Edda, one of the main sources for Loki's myths?
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241) wrote the Prose Edda around 1220 as a handbook of poetics and myth; he also wrote Heimskringla, the sagas of the Norwegian kings.
Q 16Loki's byname Loptr is generally taken to link him with what?
Air
Air: the byname Loptr is usually connected with Old Norse lopt, 'air' or 'sky' (compare English 'loft'), the name under which Loki appears in several Eddic poems.
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
Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby introduced Loki in Journey into Mystery #85 (October 1962), two issues after Thor's own debut in #83.
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
The Avengers: in Avengers #1 (1963) Loki frames the Hulk to lure Thor into a fight, and the heroes who answer the call band together as the Avengers.
Q 24In Thor: Ragnarok's stage play about Loki's death, which star plays Loki?
Matt Damon
Matt Damon cameos as the actor playing Loki in the Asgardian stage play about Loki's heroic death in Thor: Ragnarok, alongside Luke Hemsworth as Thor.
Q 25In the MCU, Loki was born a member of which race before Odin adopted him?
Frost Giants
Frost Giants: Loki was the abandoned infant son of Jotunheim's king Laufey, carried back to Asgard after the war with the giants and glamoured to look Asgardian.
Q 26According to the MCU, under what alias did Loki once pull off a famous heist on Earth?
D. B. Cooper
D. B. Cooper: the Loki series shows the 1971 skyjacking was Loki, who parachuted out with the ransom and was beamed up by the Bifrost, settling a bet he had lost to Thor.
Q 27In the 2012 team-up film, Loki opens a wormhole above Stark Tower to let in which alien army?
The Chitauri
The Chitauri: the alien army Thanos's emissary the Other lent Loki; they pour through the portal over New York until Iron Man's nuke destroys their mothership and the portal is closed.
Q 28In which German city does Loki cause a distraction while Barton steals iridium in the 2012 film?
Stuttgart
Stuttgart: while Barton raids the iridium vault, Loki disrupts a museum gala in Stuttgart, orders the crowd to kneel, and lets Captain America and Iron Man take him in.
Q 29Which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent does Loki kill aboard the Helicarrier?
Phil Coulson
Phil Coulson: Loki runs him through with the scepter aboard the Helicarrier; Fury uses his death to rally the team, and Coulson was later revived for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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.