Percy Jackson
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This Percy Jackson quiz has 124 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 a Hesperid, daughter of the Titan Atlas; in The Titan's Curse he fatally strikes her on Mount Othrys during the quest's final battle.
Q 02Which of the Hunters of Artemis turns out to have forged Percy's sword?
Zoë Nightshade
Zoë Nightshade: in The Titan's Curse she reveals Percy's blade was originally hers, given to Hercules, who took the credit and abandoned her.
Q 03Who directed the 2013 film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters?
Thor Freudenthal
Thor Freudenthal, of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, got the sequel, which slipped from March to August 2013; no third film followed.
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
Percy briefly takes the burden too and gets a matching grey streak, which the Hunters find hilarious.
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: the half-blind Cyclops mistakes Grover in a wedding dress for a lady Cyclops, and Grover stalls the wedding by unpicking his bridal train each night.
Q 07What colour are Percy Jackson's eyes?
Sea-green
Sea-green: Percy's eyes are described as sea-green throughout the books, paired with messy black hair and a troublemaker's grin.
Q 08Who is the godly parent of Clarisse La Rue?
Ares
For all her bluster, Clarisse is privately afraid of her father and of disappointing him; Dior Goodjohn plays her in the TV series.
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 in the 1930s, 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 belongs to Poseidon?
Cabin 3
Cabin 3: Poseidon's low grey sea-stone cabin, long empty because of the Big Three's oath; Cabin 1 is Zeus's, 6 Athena's and 11 Hermes's overflow cabin.
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 book opened the series in 2005?
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 books, which New York landmark hides the entrance to Mount Olympus, via a secret six-hundredth floor?
Empire State Building
The Lightning Thief
The Lightning Thief arrived in 2005, followed by four more books that wrapped the arc in 2009.
Q 15Percy's best friend Grover Underwood is what kind of creature?
A satyr
Grover is a satyr, half goat and half human, and he shares an empathy link with Percy that lets them communicate at distance.
Q 16Which coin do demigods throw into a rainbow to send an Iris-message?
A golden drachma
A golden drachma: tossing one into a rainbow's mist with a prayer to Iris opens a video-call-style Iris-message between demigods.
Q 17Whose stolen master bolt sets the plot of the first book in motion?
Zeus
Percy is blamed for taking Zeus's master bolt and is sent on a quest to recover it before the gods go to war.
Q 18Annabeth Chase is the daughter of which goddess?
Athena
Annabeth inherits Athena's strategic mind, and she dreams of becoming an architect.
Q 19Which magical item turns Annabeth invisible?
A Yankees cap
Her invisibility cap is a New York Yankees baseball cap, a gift from her mother.
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.
The Empire State Building has 102 floors; the gods' is the 600th, reached with a special key card from the lobby guard.
Q 24Who plays Percy in the 2023 television adaptation?
Walker Scobell
Walker Scobell leads the series, with Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth and Aryan Simhadri as Grover.
Q 25Who directed the 2010 film adaptation of the first novel?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus, who had already launched the Harry Potter films, directed the 2010 adaptation.
Q 26How did Rick Riordan first dream up Percy's adventures?
Bedtime stories for his son
Riordan made up Greek hero stories at bedtime for his son Haley, then turned them into a novel.
Q 27Within the story's logic, why are demigods dyslexic and hyperactive?
Wired to read Ancient Greek
Their brains are built for Ancient Greek and for battlefield reflexes, which reads as dyslexia and ADHD in a classroom.
Q 28Luke Castellan, head counsellor turned traitor, is a son of which god?
Hermes
Luke resented Hermes for sticking to the gods’ hands-off policy, and that bitterness pushed him to the Titans’ side.
Q 29Which Olympian goddess is kidnapped in The Titan's Curse?
Artemis
Artemis is seized by the Titan army, and her Hunters join the search to get her back.
Q 30The maze at the heart of the fourth book was built by which figure from Greek myth?
Daedalus
Riordan stretched Daedalus's labyrinth beneath the whole United States. Its architect hides at camp under the name Quintus.