Rick Riordan
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50 free Rick Riordan trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Rick Riordan taught middle school in Texas and California long before he was a bestseller, and it shows: his heroes are restless kids who discover that the old myths never really went away. He began with detective stories for adults, then turned a tale told to his son into Percy Jackson and built a whole shelf of connected adventures on top of it. This quiz covers that whole shelf. Expect questions on Percy, Annabeth and the Heroes of Olympus, the Kane siblings and their Egyptian gods, Magnus Chase and the Norse worlds, a fallen god stuck in a teenager's body, and the lesser-known corners too: the adult mysteries, the multi-author treasure hunt he launched, his Jules Verne tribute and the imprint that carries his name. It is written for readers who grew up at Percy's side as well as newcomers arriving from the television adaptation. The early questions are friendly, the later ones dig into parentage, weapons, villains and the author's own life, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which learning difference did Rick Riordan give Percy Jackson because his own son Haley had been diagnosed with it?
Dyslexia
Dyslexia and ADHD both went into the hero after Haley's diagnosis, and the first adventures began as bedtime stories Riordan made up for him.
Q 02Which Greek god is revealed as the father of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson in The Lightning Thief?
Poseidon
Poseidon had sworn with his two brothers to father no more children after World War II, so he stayed away throughout Percy's childhood.
Q 03Which fantasy epic did the young Rick Riordan love, prompting a teacher to suggest novels about Norse mythology?
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings was his way in: the Norse-myth novels that teacher recommended became his first introduction to mythology and still influence his writing.
Q 04Which instrument did Rick Riordan plan to study when he enrolled in North Texas State's music program?
Guitar
Guitar was the dream, but he transferred to another university, switched to English and history, and ended up certified to teach both.
Q 05Which Texas city is Rick Riordan's hometown, where he earned a teaching certificate at a University of Texas campus?
San Antonio
San Antonio is the city the family left in 2013, moving east so that his older son Haley could start college.
Q 06Which actor was cast as Percy Jackson in the television series co-created by author Rick Riordan?
Walker Scobell
Walker Scobell won the lead in January 2022, and Logan Lerman, who played Percy in the two earlier films, praised the casting.
Q 07Which Greek god does Zeus punish by turning him into mortal teenager Lester Papadopoulos in a Rick Riordan series?
Apollo
Apollo crash-lands in a New York City dumpster with his powers gone, and has to rescue the world's lost oracles before he can become a god again.
Q 08Rick Riordan wrote The Maze of Bones as the opening book of which multi-author Scholastic adventure series?
The 39 Clues
The 39 Clues was a series he helped Scholastic develop, and his opening book topped the New York Times best-seller list in September 2008.
Q 09Which Jules Verne character is revealed as the ancestor of Ana Dakkar in Rick Riordan's Daughter of the Deep?
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo keyed his greatest inventions to his own bloodline, so only he or a direct descendant such as Ana can operate them.
Q 10In which American city does Magnus Chase live on the streets before his death in The Sword of Summer?
Boston
Boston is where the homeless sixteen-year-old dies fighting a fire giant on Longfellow Bridge, and it is the city Riordan himself moved to in 2013.
Q 11In which California city did Rick Riordan teach English and social studies at Presidio Hill School for eight years?
San Francisco
San Francisco was his classroom for eight years, and he later handed the Lightning Thief manuscript to a group of middle schoolers to critique.
Q 12Which streaming service released the Percy Jackson television series, with Rick Riordan co-writing the pilot?
Disney+
Disney+ premiered the show in December 2023, and the pilot script Riordan co-wrote later won him an Emmy for writing.
Q 13Which Greek goddess is the mother of Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson's closest ally and later girlfriend?
Athena
Athena gave her daughter a Yankees cap that turns its wearer invisible, a twelfth-birthday present that Annabeth carries on her quests.
Q 21Which Egyptian god shares Carter Kane's body as his host in Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid?
Horus
Horus chooses Carter while the goddess Isis chooses his sister, which makes both siblings outlaws to the House of Life, where hosting gods is forbidden.
Q 22Which son of Hades, born in 1930s Italy, journeys into Tartarus in Rick Riordan's The Sun and the Star?
Nico di Angelo
Nico di Angelo was hidden in the Lotus Hotel, which pulled him out of time for decades, so he is still a teenager despite his birth date.
Q 23Which twelve-year-old daughter of Demeter binds the fallen god Lester Papadopoulos to her service in The Hidden Oracle?
Meg McCaffrey
Q 14Which Norse god is the father of Magnus Chase in Rick Riordan's Gods of Asgard trilogy?
Frey
Frey once owned Sumarbrander, the sentient Sword of Summer that his son now wields, and he rules Alfheim, the world of the light elves.
Q 15Which son of Jupiter wakes on a school bus with no memory at the start of The Lost Hero?
Jason Grace
Jason Grace had been swapped with Percy Jackson by the goddess Hera, who wiped both boys' memories and sent each to live among the other's friends.
Q 16Which fire-summoning son of Hephaestus leads the building of the flying ship Argo II in The Heroes of Olympus?
Leo Valdez
Leo Valdez shares a rare gift with the previous fire-user in his cabin's history, a demigod blamed for starting the Great Fire of London.
Q 17Which Titan leads the war on Olympus as the main villain of the original Percy Jackson series?
Kronos
Kronos returns by possessing the body of Luke, the demigod who stole Zeus's lightning bolt so that the defeated Titan could rise again.
Q 18Which awakening primordial goddess must seven demigods unite to stop in Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus?
Gaea
Gaea is the Earth goddess herself, and she is beaten only when one of the seven sacrifices himself in the final battle.
Q 19Which New York borough holds the mansion where Uncle Amos shelters Carter and Sadie Kane in The Red Pyramid?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn gives the base its name, Brooklyn House, and Riordan later wrote a Brooklyn House manual as a guide to the whole trilogy.
Q 20Which Egyptian goddess has been secretly protecting Sadie Kane while living as her pet cat Muffin?
Bast
Bast sacrifices herself defending the siblings from the crocodile god Sobek, and the other gods later help her return to the mortal world.
Meg McCaffrey first appears chasing off two muggers by pelting them with fruit, and she later summons a karpos that she names Peaches.
Q 24Which Roman emperor's tower gives its name to the fifth and final novel about the mortal Lester Papadopoulos?
Nero
Nero is one of three emperors who lived on as minor gods, yet he turns out to be only a pawn of the monster Python.
Q 25Which gender-fluid child of Loki earned Rick Riordan a Stonewall Book Award for The Hammer of Thor?
Alex Fierro
Alex Fierro is called he or she according to gender at the time, never they, and fights with a garrote sharp enough to slice through rock.
Q 26What ordinary name does Sumarbrander, the sentient sword wielded by Magnus Chase, go by?
Jack
Jack is prized enough that the fire giant Surt attacks Magnus on a bridge to claim the blade, a fight that costs the boy his life.
Q 27Which deaf elf, experienced in rune casting, befriends Magnus Chase alongside the dwarf Blitzen in The Sword of Summer?
Hearthstone
Hearthstone comes from Alfheim, and Magnus knows him only as a friend from the streets until he and Blitzen reveal what they really are.
Q 28Which daughter of Aphrodite carries Katoptris, a knife once owned by Helen of Troy, in The Heroes of Olympus?
Piper McLean
Piper McLean also has charmspeak, a rare inherited gift that lets her talk people into doing what she says, and her blade shows visions of the future.
Q 29Which Rick Riordan private eye holds a Berkeley PhD in medieval studies and is a tai chi master?
Tres Navarre
Tres Navarre is an unlicensed Texas investigator whose 1997 debut was Riordan's first published book, eight years ahead of any demigods.
Q 30Which Long Island training ground for the children of Greek gods does Percy Jackson reach in The Lightning Thief?
Camp Half-Blood
Camp Half-Blood grew out of Camp Capers, the summer camp where Riordan spent three years as music director while he was in college.