Percy Jackson
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This Percy Jackson quiz has 161 free questions with answers and runs through all five books of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, with a nod to The Heroes of Olympus, the two films and the Disney+ series. The early questions are the ones any reader of The Lightning Thief can answer: Percy's father, Riptide, Camp Half-Blood, Grover and Annabeth. Then it climbs into hard PJO trivia: who really has the Master Bolt, where the Sea of Monsters sits on a modern map, the island where Calypso lives, the spy inside Camp Half-Blood, the river Percy bathes in and the deal he forces on the gods afterwards. It suits solo fans, classrooms and book-club nights, and every answer has been checked against a reference source, with the citation shown on each question.
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Q 01Zoë Nightshade, lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis, is the daughter of which Titan?
Atlas
Atlas: Zoë is one of the Hesperides, and in The Titan's Curse her own father strikes her a mortal blow on Mount Othrys as she fights to free her goddess.
Q 02What everyday object does Percy Jackson's magic sword disguise itself as?
A pen
A pen: Percy's teacher tosses him the ballpoint during his first monster attack, and uncapping it turns it into a full-length sword.
Q 03Which actor played Percy in the 2010 and 2013 Percy Jackson films?
Logan Lerman
Logan Lerman led both films as a Percy aged up from twelve to sixteen, but no third film followed and the story was rebooted for television.
Q 04In The Titan's Curse, Annabeth ends up with a grey streak in her hair after being forced to do what?
Hold up the sky
Hold up the sky: Annabeth is left bearing the Titans' burden as Luke's prisoner, and Percy's dreams of her straining beneath it send him out to find her.
Q 05Which former James Bond actor played Chiron in the 2010 film The Lightning Thief?
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan, Bond from GoldenEye to Die Another Day, played Chiron in the 2010 film, folding the centaur's body into a wheelchair as Mr. Brunner.
Q 06In The Sea of Monsters, which one-eyed giant holds Grover captive on his island and plans to marry him?
Polyphemus
Polyphemus: half-blind, he takes Grover in a wedding dress for a bride of his own kind, and Grover stalls by never finishing his bridal train.
Q 07What colour are Percy Jackson's eyes?
Sea-green
Sea-green: fitting for a boy revived by water; knocked into a creek by a gang of campers in The Lightning Thief, he gets up strong enough to beat them all.
Q 08Who is the godly parent of Clarisse La Rue?
Ares
Ares: for all her bluster Clarisse dreads disappointing her father, and she finally wins his blessing by killing a drakon single-handed in The Last Olympian.
Q 09In The Sea of Monsters, what is the name of Clarisse's Confederate-crewed ironclad?
CSS Birmingham
The CSS Birmingham, a gift from her godly father, is wrecked at the entrance to the Sea of Monsters with Tyson apparently aboard.
Q 10Born before World War II, Nico and Bianca di Angelo are still kids after spending decades where?
The Lotus Hotel
The Lotus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas: time barely passes inside, so the di Angelos emerged decades later as children; it nearly trapped Percy in the first book.
Q 11Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?
Poseidon
Percy is a demigod son of Poseidon and the mortal Sally Jackson, which is why water works in his favour.
Q 12Which numbered cabin at Camp Half-Blood is Percy's once he is claimed?
Cabin 3
Cabin 3: the eldest gods' oath had left the low sea-stone cabin empty, so Percy moves in with the whole place to himself.
Q 13What is Percy's full first name?
Perseus
Perseus: Sally named him after the Greek hero who, unlike most, got a happy ending; Percy is the short form.
Q 14Which colour of food does Sally Jackson serve Percy as a running family joke?
Q 21In The Sea of Monsters, the quest must retrieve which mythical object to heal Thalia's poisoned pine tree?
The Golden Fleece
The Golden Fleece heals the pine, which guards the camp's border, and works so well it revives Thalia herself.
Q 22What weapon does Annabeth fight with through the original five books?
A bronze knife
A bronze knife: Luke gave seven-year-old Annabeth the celestial bronze dagger when they met on the run, and she carries it through all five original books.
Q 23In the Percy Jackson books, which New York landmark hides Mount Olympus on a secret 600th floor?
Empire State Building
Blue
Blue: Smelly Gabe once insisted there was no such thing as blue food, so Sally made a point of proving him wrong with blue cakes and blue corn chips.
Q 15Percy's best friend Grover Underwood is what kind of creature?
A satyr
A satyr: half goat, Grover shares an empathy link with Percy, which is how he calls for help through Percy's dreams when a monster takes him prisoner.
Q 16Which coin do demigods throw into a rainbow to send an Iris-message?
A golden drachma
A golden drachma: the rainbow can be home-made, so in The Lightning Thief the trio conjure one with a car-wash spray hose to call camp.
Q 17In The Lightning Thief, which gift from Luke nearly drags Grover down into Tartarus?
Flying sneakers
Flying sneakers: Luke's parting gift to Percy turns out to be cursed, and it drags Grover toward the pit only because Percy had passed the shoes on to him.
Q 18Annabeth Chase is the daughter of which goddess?
Athena
Athena: Annabeth inherits her mother's love of strategy and building, and after the Titan war she is named architect of Olympus.
Q 19Which magical item turns Annabeth invisible?
A Yankees cap
A Yankees cap: a gift from her mother, it loses its magic for a while in the later books after the two of them quarrel.
Q 20What is the name of Percy's celestial bronze sword?
Riptide
Riptide is Anaklusmos in Greek; Chiron hands it over, and it always returns to Percy's pocket when lost.
Empire State Building: it has only 102 storeys, yet Olympus sits above it as a hidden 600th floor, where Percy returns the bolt at the end of the first book.
Q 24Who plays Percy Jackson in the Disney+ television series?
Walker Scobell
Walker Scobell was cast in January 2022, before his debut film, a Ryan Reynolds science-fiction adventure, had even come out, and the news was held back until April.
Q 25Which Harry Potter director made the 2010 Percy Jackson film The Lightning Thief?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus had opened the Harry Potter series with its first two films; for this one he made Percy sixteen instead of the book's twelve.
Q 26How did Rick Riordan first dream up Percy's adventures?
Bedtime stories for his son
Bedtime stories for his son: when Riordan ran out of real Greek myths to tell Haley, the boy asked for new ones with the same gods, and Percy was invented on the spot.
Q 27In Percy Jackson's world, why are most demigods dyslexic?
Wired to read Ancient Greek
Wired to read Ancient Greek: demigod minds are built for the old language rather than English, and their ADHD is really battlefield reflexes that keep them alive.
Q 28In The Titan's Curse, Zoë Nightshade was exiled by her sisters for helping which hero?
Hercules
Hercules: Zoë told him how to win the golden apples and gave him the sword Percy now carries, yet he never gave her any credit.
Q 29Which figure from Greek myth built the maze in Percy Jackson's The Battle of the Labyrinth?
Daedalus
Daedalus: his Labyrinth has kept growing and now sprawls beneath the United States, while its builder hides at camp as the sword instructor Quintus.
Q 30What is the name of the pegasus who calls Percy 'boss'?
Blackjack
Blackjack: Percy freed him from Luke's ship, and the grateful pegasus has carried him ever since, pestering him for doughnuts along the way.