The Titan's Curse
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50 free The Titan's Curse trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Titan's Curse is the book where Rick Riordan's series turns darker. Percy Jackson is fourteen, a friend has been taken, a goddess is missing, and the quest that follows does not bring everyone home. It also introduces some of the best-loved characters in the saga, from the di Angelo siblings to Zoë Nightshade and the Hunters of Artemis. This quiz covers the whole story: the opening rescue, the prophecy and the five who travel west, the creatures and gods met along the road, and the showdown on a California mountaintop. A few questions look at the author and at where the novel sits in the series. It suits readers who have just finished the novel, classes working through it, and anyone revising before a reading test. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01In The Titan's Curse, what does Percy Jackson grab from a museum gift shop to make a monster gag?
Astronaut food
Astronaut food, freeze-dried and foul, makes the beast roar in disgust. That gives Zoë Nightshade a clear shot into its open mouth, the one spot its hide does not protect.
Q 02In The Titan's Curse, which Titan known as the General turns out to be Zoë Nightshade's father?
Atlas
Atlas shows his daughter no mercy. Zoë, already poisoned, takes her death blow from him in the final battle, just as the quest's prophecy warned.
Q 03In The Titan's Curse, what does Artemis turn the dying Zoë Nightshade into as a lasting honour?
A constellation
A constellation called the Huntress appears among the stars, a girl with a bow. Zoë had served Artemis for some two thousand years.
Q 04In The Titan's Curse, at which landmark do two bronze angel statues wake and carry the questers off?
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is where the winged bronze guardians stir after Thalia prays to her father. They carry the four survivors all the way to San Francisco.
Q 05In The Titan's Curse, the vice principal Dr. Thorn turns out to be which spike-throwing monster?
A manticore
A manticore in human disguise, Thorn grazes Percy with a poisoned spike, then tumbles off a cliff with Annabeth clinging to his back.
Q 06By the end of The Titan's Curse, which god is revealed as the father of Bianca and Nico di Angelo?
Hades
Hades had hidden the siblings away for decades, which is how two children of the 1930s can be schoolkids in the present day. Percy, Annabeth and Grover agree to keep the secret.
Q 07In The Titan's Curse, which fear does Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, reluctantly admit to Percy?
Heights
Heights terrify Thalia, an awkward secret for a child of Zeus. Her turn at the wheel of the flying sun chariot almost torches New England.
Q 08In The Titan's Curse, what name does Percy Jackson give the cow-serpent he frees from a fishing net?
Bessie
Bessie is actually male. Percy simply assumes the gentle creature is a girl, and the name sticks all the way to Olympus.
Q 09What is the curse in the title of The Titan's Curse, a burden Percy Jackson takes over from Artemis?
Holding up the sky
Holding up the sky nearly crushes Percy, but it frees Artemis to fight. Together they trick the General back under his old burden.
Q 10In The Titan's Curse, which god gives the demigods and the Hunters a lift to Camp Half-Blood?
Apollo
Apollo arrives at sunrise as a favour to his twin sister Artemis, then lets Thalia take the wheel, a decision he soon regrets.
Q 11In The Titan's Curse, where did Bianca and Nico di Angelo spend decades without growing older?
The Lotus Hotel
The Lotus Hotel in Las Vegas slows time for its guests. The siblings checked in before the Second World War and came out as children some seventy years later.
Q 12In The Titan's Curse, Zoë Nightshade was cast out by her sisters for helping which ancient hero?
Hercules
Hercules took her advice and her hairpin, which became the sword Riptide, then gave her no credit. Zoë has held a grudge against male heroes ever since.
Q 13In The Titan's Curse, which Camp Half-Blood game do the Hunters win for the 56th time in a row?
Capture the flag
Q 21In The Titan's Curse, which monster with a weapon-proof golden hide attacks the quest in Washington?
The Nemean Lion
The Nemean Lion leaves behind its pelt, which becomes a coat that stops bullets. Percy later gives it up as an offering to his father.
Q 22In The Titan's Curse, which girl does Percy nearly slice in two while hiding from skeleton warriors?
Rachel Dare
Rachel Dare is unharmed because the blade passes straight through a mortal. She then points the skeleton warriors the wrong way so that Percy can slip off.
Q 23In The Titan's Curse, what mark do Percy and Annabeth share after bearing the Titan's burden?
A grey streak of hair
Capture the flag ends with Zoë Nightshade carrying the campers' banner home while Percy is a stride short. He and Thalia are blaming each other when the quest's prophecy arrives.
Q 14In The Titan's Curse, what does the General plant and water with blood to grow skeleton warriors?
Dragon teeth
Dragon teeth, displayed by the museum as dinosaur fossils, do the job. An earlier try with the wrong teeth sprouted only baby sabre-toothed tigers.
Q 15In The Titan's Curse, which old friend does Thalia kick off a mountain rather than join Kronos?
Luke Castellan
Luke Castellan tempts his old friend with a place at Kronos's side, and the fall looks fatal. Poseidon later tells Percy that he survived.
Q 16In The Titan's Curse, Artemis must be freed in time for which gathering of the Olympian council?
The winter solstice
The winter solstice council votes on whether to act against Kronos, and Artemis arrives just in time to sway it. Thalia would have turned sixteen the very next day.
Q 17In The Titan's Curse, which bronze giant built by Hephaestus wakes in the junkyard of the gods?
Talos
Talos, or at least a faulty prototype of him, towers over the scrap heaps. Bianca climbs in through a maintenance hole in the foot and steers the giant into power lines.
Q 18In The Titan's Curse, what does Bianca di Angelo gain when she swears herself to Artemis's Hunters?
Immortality
Immortality comes at a price: a Hunter gives up romantic love for good, and Bianca has to leave her little brother behind at camp.
Q 19In The Titan's Curse, who leaves the Big House attic for the first time to speak to Zoë Nightshade?
The Oracle
The Oracle, a withered mummy, had never left the attic before. The campers are stunned to see her walk out into the woods.
Q 20In The Titan's Curse, which pegasus wakes Percy Jackson to rescue a sea creature in trouble?
Blackjack
Blackjack later carries Percy after the quest all the way to Washington, asking for a doughnut stop along the way.
A grey streak of hair marks them both, a matching souvenir of the strain. Both streaks have gone by The Mark of Athena, a book in the sequel series.
Q 24Which novel comes straight before The Titan's Curse in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series?
The Sea of Monsters
The Sea of Monsters ends on a cliffhanger, with Thalia Grace alive again at camp. This book picks her up as a main character.
Q 25In The Titan's Curse, which hundred-headed dragon guarding a golden apple tree bites Zoë Nightshade?
Ladon
Ladon is so well trained that he refuses to leave the tree even when baited. His poison is already killing Zoë by the time she faces her father.
Q 26In The Titan's Curse, at which boarding school does Grover Underwood find Bianca and Nico di Angelo?
Westover Hall
Westover Hall is a grim castle of black stone and slit windows, perched on a snowy cliff above the sea. The rescue is staged under cover of a school dance.
Q 27In The Titan's Curse, which half-cow, half-serpent monster is Artemis hunting when she is captured?
The Ophiotaurus
The Ophiotaurus, whose name means serpent bull, frightens the gods for good reason. Whoever sacrifices the creature gains the power to bring down Olympus.
Q 28In The Titan's Curse, which goddess poses as a tour guide and rides an elevator with Percy Jackson?
Athena
Athena, mother of the missing Annabeth, drops a cryptic hint that there is a way out for those who can find it, then vanishes.
Q 29In The Titan's Curse, what does Bianca di Angelo take from the junkyard of the gods for her brother?
A Mythomagic figurine
A Mythomagic figurine, the one piece missing from Nico's collection, wakes the junkyard's bronze guardian. Bianca hands it to Percy before her fatal climb.
Q 30In The Titan's Curse, which Old Man of the Sea must Percy Jackson wrestle on a San Francisco pier?
Nereus
Nereus turns into a seal, a killer whale and an eel to shake Percy off, but a son of Poseidon only grows stronger in the water. Beaten, he owes Percy one answer.