Lorien Legacies
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50 free Lorien Legacies trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Lorien Legacies began in 2010 with I Am Number Four, the story of an alien teenager hiding on Earth while the invaders who destroyed his planet hunt down the last of his kind. Over the main novels the survivors find one another, grow into their powers and take the fight to the Mogadorians, and the books picked up a loyal young adult readership along the way. This quiz covers the whole saga: the members of the Garde and what each of them can do, the guardians who raised them, the humans who get pulled into the war, and the villains on the other side. There are questions on the places the story visits, the companion novellas and the sequel series, the writers behind the Pittacus Lore pen name, and the 2011 film adaptation. It is written for readers who have finished the books and want to test what has stuck, for book clubs and classrooms working through the series, and for anyone settling an argument about which character did what.
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Q 01A charm in the Lorien Legacies means the Mogadorians can kill the nine Garde only in what way?
In numerical order
In numerical order is the only way the charm lets the Garde die, and it holds only while they stay apart, which is why the survivors hide alone.
Q 02The planet in the Lorien Legacies shares its name with an Elf realm created by which fantasy author?
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien put the Elf realm of Lórien in The Lord of the Rings, though the writers behind the books have never confirmed the nod.
Q 03In the Lorien Legacies, the shapeshifting Bernie Kosar lives with John Smith as which dog breed?
Beagle
Beagle is the form Bernie Kosar keeps in Paradise; before that he shadowed John as a gecko, and his name on Lorien was Hadley.
Q 04Which British actor plays John Smith in the 2011 film of the Lorien Legacies novel I Am Number Four?
Alex Pettyfer
Alex Pettyfer took the title role, and he later said a sequel died because the studio scrapped its whole slate of films for funding reasons.
Q 05In the Lorien Legacies, what title is given to the guardians who hide and train each young Garde?
Cêpan
Cêpan are Loric who have no powers of their own, so they pass for ordinary humans and hand down the knowledge of their home world instead.
Q 06In the Lorien Legacies, John Smith starts a new life in the small town of Paradise in which US state?
Ohio
Ohio is where the fictional Paradise sits, and John only becomes John Smith on arrival; he begins the first book as Daniel Jones.
Q 07In the Lorien Legacies, what appears on every surviving Garde's ankle each time another is killed?
A circular scar
A circular scar is burned onto each survivor's ankle, and those scars are what give Number Three away when someone notices them.
Q 08Which blockbuster director produced the film I Am Number Four after taking its manuscript to DreamWorks?
Michael Bay
Michael Bay brought the unpublished novel to DreamWorks, which outbid J. J. Abrams for the rights; Bay then passed on directing it to make a Transformers sequel.
Q 09DreamWorks bought film rights to the first Lorien Legacies book hoping to lure teenage fans of which series?
Twilight
Twilight was the model: the studio wanted its teenage audience and a long franchise, but sequel plans were shelved after the first film disappointed at the box office.
Q 10In the Lorien Legacies, which Legacy shared with his grandfather makes John Smith resistant to fire?
Lumen
Lumen also lets John throw light from his palms, while a quieter gift of his, talking to animals, goes unnoticed until late in book one.
Q 11In the Lorien Legacies, which guardian of John Smith dies protecting him at the end of the first book?
Henri
Henri, whose Loric name was Brandon, had a wife named Julianne on Lorien, and as he dies he urges John to read a letter he wrote for him.
Q 12Which photography-loving Paradise classmate becomes John Smith's girlfriend in the Lorien Legacies?
Sarah Hart
Sarah Hart was a cheerleader dating the football team's quarterback until her parents sent her away for a summer; she came back, quit the squad and dropped him.
Q 13In the Lorien Legacies, which Legacy does Number Six develop in a Mogadorian prison and use to escape?
Invisibility
Q 21Which author of a partly invented memoir co-created the Lorien Legacies under the name Pittacus Lore?
James Frey
James Frey, whose A Million Little Pieces was sold as a memoir, wrote the first two books with Jobie Hughes, a writing student who then left the project.
Q 22In the Lorien Legacies, Number Seven spends years hidden in a convent orphanage in which European country?
Spain
Spain is where her guardian, won over by the religious life there, loses faith in the mission and refuses to train her for the war.
Q 23In the Lorien Legacies, Dust the wolf and Stanley the cat belong to which shapeshifting species from Lorien?
Chimæra
Chimæra can morph into any animal or beast, and all but one of those that reached Earth once belonged to the father of Number Ten.
Invisibility, known as Novis, came to her in the cell after her captors killed her guardian Katarina, and she later learns to command the weather too.
Q 14In the Lorien Legacies, which power does every member of the Garde develop alongside their own Legacies?
Telekinesis
Telekinesis comes to all Garde, though John Smith's arrives worryingly late and first bursts out, uncontrolled, during a tense Thanksgiving dinner.
Q 15Which Glee star plays John Smith's girlfriend in the 2011 Lorien Legacies film I Am Number Four?
Dianna Agron
Dianna Agron won the part only after the studio ran several rounds of screen tests to find its romantic lead.
Q 16Which second Lorien Legacies novel adds a narrator hiding in a convent while John Smith goes on the run?
The Power of Six
The Power of Six, published in August 2011, splits its narration between John and Number Seven, and every later book keeps the habit of sharing narrators.
Q 17In the Lorien Legacies, which alien-obsessed Paradise classmate becomes John Smith's best friend and ally?
Sam Goode
Sam Goode believes aliens abducted his missing father, and the thick glasses he wears are not even his own: they belonged to his dad.
Q 18Which Lorien Legacies quarterback bullies John Smith before later fighting the Mogadorians beside him?
Mark James
Mark James comes round after John rescues his dogs from a house fire, and he later insists John did not start it, offering to take the blame himself.
Q 19Which leader of the Mogadorians in the Lorien Legacies is unmasked as a banished Elder of Lorien?
Setrákus Ra
Setrákus Ra was once a friend of Pittacus Lore, who banished him from their planet rather than go through with his execution.
Q 20Which actor plays John Smith's guardian and mentor in the 2011 Lorien Legacies film I Am Number Four?
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy Olyphant stepped in after the first choice, Sharlto Copley, had to drop out to promote his film The A-Team.
Q 24In the Lorien Legacies, a video on which website exposes John Smith using his powers at a house fire?
YouTube
YouTube carries the clip, which exposes the lies John told about that night and leaves his furious guardian demanding they flee town at once.
Q 25In the first Lorien Legacies book, where in Paradise does the climactic battle with the Mogadorians take place?
At the high school
At the high school, John rushes to protect his girlfriend, and Number Six, who has been tracking him since an earlier death, arrives to join the fight.
Q 26In the Lorien Legacies, which member of the Garde is revealed as a traitor working with the Mogadorians?
Number Five
Number Five joined the Mogadorians after his guardian died of a disease, and the ambush he springs on the others ends with him killing Number Eight.
Q 27In the Lorien Legacies, locals in India worship the shapeshifting Number Eight as which Hindu god reborn?
Vishnu
Vishnu is the form he showed the locals, and he tests the Garde who come looking for him by making them face three of the god's avatars.
Q 28Which actress plays Number Six in I Am Number Four, the 2011 film of the first Lorien Legacies book?
Teresa Palmer
Teresa Palmer's character trails the hunters across the film before joining John's fight, and the home release included a featurette titled Becoming Number 6.
Q 29In the Lorien Legacies film I Am Number Four, John Smith flees to Paradise from a beach home in which state?
Florida
Florida is John's home early in the film, and those scenes were shot in the Keys, on Big Pine Key and along the Seven Mile Bridge.
Q 30In the second Lorien Legacies book, which US agency arrests John Smith and his best friend in Paradise?
The FBI
The FBI ambushes the pair after John slips off to see his girlfriend, and it emerges that agents inside the bureau are working with the Mogadorians.