Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
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50 free Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Rick Riordan's Norse trilogy starts by killing its hero. Magnus Chase dies in the opening chapters of The Sword of Summer and wakes up in Hotel Valhalla, where fallen warriors train for the end of the world. Things only get stranger from there: a talking sword, a god who cannot stop taking selfies, and a trickster whose own children keep joining the quest to stop him. This quiz covers all three novels, The Sword of Summer, The Hammer of Thor and The Ship of the Dead, plus the companion books. Expect questions on Magnus, Sam, Blitzen, Hearthstone and Alex Fierro, on the gods, giants and monsters they meet across the Nine Worlds, and on the real Norse myths and the publishing story behind the series. It is written for readers who have finished the trilogy and want to see how much stuck, for Percy Jackson fans working through the wider Riordan universe, and for teachers, librarians and reading groups who need a ready set of questions. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01In Magnus Chase, the magic golden hair of Thor's wife Sif is said to have inspired which fairy tale?
Rapunzel
Rapunzel owes her legend to Sif in the books, whose golden hair replaced the locks Loki cut off as a trick. The new hair can be worked into precious objects.
Q 02In The Ship of the Dead, Magnus Chase's crew finally imprisons the shrunken god Loki inside what?
A walnut
A walnut does the job: Loki shrinks to the size of a nut when Magnus answers his insults with praise for his friends, and Mallory Keen snaps the shell shut on him.
Q 03Which grunge-era rock star is the blond, long-haired hero Magnus Chase said to resemble?
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain is the comparison the books make for Magnus, with his chin-length blond hair and gray eyes. Dying changes the look: he wakes in Valhalla far more muscular.
Q 04Naglfar, the ship Loki means to sail to Ragnarok in Magnus Chase, is built entirely from what?
Fingernails and toenails
Fingernails and toenails of the dead make up Naglfar, a detail taken straight from Norse myth. In the books the ship lies frozen in ice until Loki can launch it.
Q 05X, the half-troll rooming near Magnus Chase in Hotel Valhalla, is really which god in disguise?
Odin
Odin spends the first book undercover as X so he can inspect his own hotel's warriors unnoticed. The staff believed their boss had been missing for two years.
Q 06In Magnus Chase as in Norse myth, Ratatosk runs messages along the World Tree as which animal?
A squirrel
A squirrel is the unlikely courier of Norse myth, running between the eagle at the top of the tree and the dragon beneath its roots. The name is thought to mean drill-tooth.
Q 07In Magnus Chase, the watchman god Heimdall takes endless selfies using which of his possessions?
His horn
His horn, Gjallar, works as both an oversized phone and a selfie stick. Heimdall can see and hear across all Nine Worlds, yet posing keeps him too busy to watch them.
Q 08What everyday name does Sumarbrander, the talking Sword of Summer, pick for itself in Magnus Chase?
Jack
Jack is the name the sword chooses once Magnus learns it can talk, and it insists on being called he. It can also shrink into a pendant and fight on its own.
Q 09Which American city, Rick Riordan's home at the time, is the main setting of Magnus Chase?
Boston
Boston is where Magnus sleeps rough, dies and keeps returning from Valhalla. Riordan said he did not pick the setting because he had moved there, though it made research easier.
Q 10Which Norse god of fertility and warmth turns out to be the father Magnus Chase never knew?
Frey
Frey belongs to the peaceful Vanir tribe rather than the warlike Aesir. The sunny hikes Magnus took with his mother were her way of keeping the boy close to him.
Q 11Magnus Chase dies fighting which fire giant on a bridge at the start of The Sword of Summer?
Surt
Surt comes for the ancient blade Magnus has just summoned from the Charles River. Magnus wounds him with it, takes him off the bridge and dies himself in the fall.
Q 12The Sword of Summer opens, and Magnus Chase dies, on which personal milestone?
His sixteenth birthday
His sixteenth birthday is the day relatives come looking for Magnus after two years on the streets and an uncle reveals that his father is a Norse god. The same day ends with him in Valhalla.
Q 13Which monster of Norse myth must Magnus Chase keep bound on an island in The Sword of Summer?
The Fenris Wolf
Q 21What does Magnus Chase turn his late uncle's mansion into at the end of The Ship of the Dead?
A homeless youth shelter
A homeless youth shelter named the Chase Space is how Magnus spends his reward for stopping Loki. He asks only for the loan of some lawyers, and Alex Fierro offers to help run it.
Q 22Which uncle of Magnus Chase, who lost his wife and daughters in a storm, secretly serves Loki?
Randolph
Randolph helps Loki because the god promises to bring back his dead family. A former history professor, he lost them while hunting for the Sword of Summer off the coast.
Q 23In Magnus Chase, which giant ash tree holds all Nine Worlds in its branches?
Yggdrasil
The Fenris Wolf sits on an island mortals can reach on just one day a year. Magnus and his friends arrive with a new binding fetched from the world of the dwarves and tie him up again.
Q 14Thor's missing hammer, the prize of the second Magnus Chase novel, goes by which Old Norse name?
Mjolnir
Mjolnir is in the hands of a giant, and other giants plan to invade once they are sure Thor is unarmed. In the Viking Age small copies of the hammer were commonly worn as pendants.
Q 15Otis, who brings Magnus Chase the quest in The Hammer of Thor, is what kind of talking animal?
A goat
A goat called Otis is one of Thor's two talking animals; the other is Marvin. The nicknames spare everyone the mouthfuls Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjostr.
Q 16Too much of what slowly turns Blitzen, the dwarf friend of Magnus Chase, to stone?
Sunlight
Sunlight slowly petrifies dwarves like Blitzen, whose home world lies entirely underground. His elf friend Hearthstone has the opposite weakness and suffers in darkness.
Q 17Blitzen, a dwarf in Magnus Chase, is mocked by other dwarves for preferring what to forging metal?
Fashion design
Fashion design is his calling, down to the chain-mail bow ties and vests he wears into battle. He beats a rival called Junior in a crafting contest, and Odin later helps him open a clothing shop.
Q 18Which item worn by the Valkyrie Samirah al-Abbas in Magnus Chase doubles as a camouflage cloak?
Her hijab
Her hijab is green and can hide her in plain sight. Sam is a practising Muslim who leads a double life, collecting fallen heroes while keeping the night curfew set by her grandparents.
Q 19Amir, fiancé of the Valkyrie Samirah al-Abbas in Magnus Chase, works in a family shop selling what?
Falafel
Falafel is the family trade: Amir's father Abdel owns the shop, a regular haunt of Magnus. The engagement was arranged, though Sam says she fell for Amir when she was twelve.
Q 20Which gift from his divine father sets Magnus Chase apart from the fighters of Hotel Valhalla?
Healing
Healing is his specialty: with concentration Magnus can mend even mortal wounds, though he often glimpses the patient's memories as he works. He also shrugs off extreme heat and cold.
Yggdrasil is home to a dragon, a hawk and four stags in Norse myth. The second Magnus Chase novel was promoted with an animated trailer explaining how the tree works.
Q 24In Magnus Chase, as in Norse myth, which of the Nine Worlds is the home of ordinary humans?
Midgard
Midgard is simply Earth, the world where Magnus grew up. Thor is its protector, which is why a missing hammer leaves every human at risk of invasion by giants.
Q 25Heimdall stands guard in Magnus Chase over which rainbow bridge leading to the realm of the gods?
Bifrost
Bifrost is foretold to be destroyed by the forces of fire at Ragnarok. Some scholars have proposed that the bridge originally stood for the Milky Way rather than a rainbow.
Q 26Samirah al-Abbas, the Valkyrie engaged to Amir in Magnus Chase, dreams of which career?
Pilot
Pilot is the goal, and part of why Sam enjoys being a Valkyrie is that the job lets her fly. Her late mother Ayesha was a doctor who met Loki as one of her patients.
Q 27Alex Fierro, the shape-shifting child of Loki in Magnus Chase, fights with which golden weapon?
A garrote wire
A garrote wire sharp enough to slice the hardest rock is what Alex carries into battle. Sam, who shares a divine parent with Alex, fights with an axe instead.
Q 28Which craft did Alex Fierro in Magnus Chase learn from a supportive grandfather?
Pottery
Pottery runs deep in the Fierro family, who were making it long before the Aztecs. In the books Alex can sculpt clay figures and bring them to life.
Q 29The Hammer of Thor won which American Library Association prize for its portrayal of Alex Fierro?
Stonewall Book Award
Stonewall Book Award winners are chosen for merit relating to the LGBTQ experience. The 2017 children's prize recognised the gender-fluid Alex, whom the association called a hero.
Q 30Hearth, the deaf elf who watches over Magnus Chase, works his magic by casting what?
Runestones
Runestones power a kind of magic no elf had taken seriously in a long time, and every casting drains Hearthstone's strength. He carries two sets, one of wood and one of stone.