Thor Trivia
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50 free Thor trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Thor was the most popular god of the Viking Age long before he was an Avenger, and this Thor trivia quiz covers both lives. The Norse half asks about Mjölnir, the belt and iron gloves, the goats he eats and resurrects, his wife Sif and her golden hair, the cross-dressing wedding trick to get his hammer back, his fishing trip for the world serpent, the day of the week named after him and how he is fated to die at Ragnarök. The Marvel half covers Journey into Mystery #83, Donald Blake, Beta Ray Bill and Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor, then all four MCU films: Kenneth Branagh's original, The Dark World, Taika Waititi's Ragnarok and Love and Thunder, plus Chris Hemsworth himself. It works for a mythology class, a Marvel movie night or a general trivia round. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01In Norse myth Thor's mother is not Odin's wife Frigg but which goddess, whose name means 'earth'?
Jörð
Jörð is simply the Old Norse word for 'earth'; she shared Odin with his wife, which is why a skald could call Frigg 'rival of Jörð'.
Q 02In 1963 Marvel's Thor became a founding member of which superhero team?
The Avengers
The Avengers formed when one of Loki's schemes drew Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp together; Captain America only joined in issue 4, after the Hulk had walked out.
Q 03Which dwarf brothers forged Mjölnir, according to the Prose Edda?
Eitri and Brokkr
Eitri and Brokkr made it to win a bet: Loki had staked his head that they couldn't outdo three rival treasures, and the gods judged the hammer best of all. Some manuscripts call Eitri Sindri.
Q 04A fly bit the dwarf at the bellows as Mjölnir was forged, leaving the hammer with what flaw?
Its handle was short
Its handle was short because the fly, often taken to be Loki, stung the dwarf's eyelid and he let go of the bellows for a moment to wipe away the blood; the gods still judged it the finest treasure.
Q 05How was Mjölnir most commonly worn during the Viking Age?
As a pendant
As a pendant: about a thousand small hammer amulets survive from across the Viking world, many from women's graves, and one found in Denmark even carries runes that read 'This is a hammer'.
Q 06Who is Thor's golden-haired wife?
Sif
Sif lost her hair to Loki's shears, and a furious Thor made him have the dwarfs spin her a new head of it from real gold that would grow like her own.
Q 07What are the names of the two goats that pull Thor's chariot?
Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr
Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr mean roughly 'teeth-barer' and 'teeth-grinder'; the scholar Rudolf Simek thinks the names were new when Snorri wrote them down and may even be his own invention.
Q 08In the Prose Edda, why does one of Thor's goats go lame?
A boy split a bone for the marrow
A boy split a bone for the marrow after Thor had cooked both goats for a farmer's family and told them to throw every bone onto the hides; raised to life next morning, one goat limped.
Q 09In the poem Þrymskviða, how is Thor disguised when he goes to reclaim his stolen hammer?
As a bride
As a bride: veiled and hung with Freyja's necklace, Thor nearly gives the game away by eating an ox and eight salmon at the wedding feast, and Loki, playing the maid, has to talk fast.
Q 10How deep did the giant Þrymr claim to have hidden Mjölnir?
Eight leagues beneath the earth
Eight leagues beneath the earth is how translators usually render the poem's eight rasts, an Old Norse measure of distance; Loki learns it by flying to Jötunheimr in a borrowed feather cloak.
Q 11On a fishing trip with the giant Hymir, what does Thor use as bait to hook the world serpent?
The head of an ox
The head of an ox, twisted off the biggest beast in Hymir's own herd; in Snorri's telling the serpent took it, and the terrified giant cut the line just as Thor raised his hammer.
Q 12What is the name of the giant serpent Thor is fated to fight at Ragnarök?
Jörmungandr
Jörmungandr was flung into the sea by the gods and grew until it circled the whole world and bit its own tail, which is why it is also called the Midgard Serpent.
Q 13What becomes of Thor after he kills the world serpent?
Nine steps, then death
Q 21Which alien warrior, introduced in 1983, was the first outsider deemed worthy to lift Mjolnir?
Beta Ray Bill
Beta Ray Bill was given a horse-like skull on purpose, so that readers would take him for a villain; his creator says letters duly arrived asking why on earth a monster was picking up the hammer.
Q 22Which writer's 2014 series made Jane Foster the new Thor?
Jason Aaron
Jason Aaron was blunt when Marvel announced the series: the woman now holding the hammer was not She-Thor, not Lady Thor and not Thorita, he said, but simply Thor.
Q 23Who directed the first Thor film in 2011?
Kenneth Branagh
Nine steps, then death: the Völuspá gives him just that many before he falls, and Snorri blames the venom the serpent had blown over him.
Q 14Which day of the week is named after Thor?
Thursday
Thursday began as Old English 'Thunor's day', a loan-translation of the Latin 'day of Jupiter', which is why the same day is jeudi in French and Donnerstag in German.
Q 15Later writers matched Thor with Jupiter, but under which other Roman name does Tacitus's Germania seem to mention him?
Hercules
Hercules is how most scholars read it: Tacitus gives the Germans a Mercury, a Hercules and a Mars, and the club-swinging strongman is taken for the hammer god, probably because the weapons looked alike.
Q 16Which 8th-century missionary felled an oak dedicated to Thor (as 'Jove') in Hesse?
Saint Boniface
Saint Boniface had barely notched the trunk, his biographer claims, when a blast of wind toppled the oak and split it in four; he built a chapel to Saint Peter from the timber.
Q 17Adam of Bremen says Swedes at Uppsala sacrificed to Thor on which occasion?
Plague or famine
Plague or famine brought offerings to Thor, whose statue sat in the middle as the mightiest of three; Adam says war was Wodan's business and weddings were Fricco's.
Q 18In the giant Útgarða-Loki's hall, Thor loses a wrestling match to a nurse who is really what in disguise?
Old age
Old age, called Elli in the tale: the harder Thor grappled the firmer she stood, until she forced him down on one knee, and the giant later admitted that nobody has ever beaten her.
Q 19In which comic did Marvel's Thor first appear in 1962?
Journey into Mystery #83
Journey into Mystery #83 was scripted by Stan Lee's brother Larry Lieber, who later admitted he simply made up the hammer's 'uru' metal because the word was short and easy on the letterer.
Q 20Marvel's Thor began as the alter ego of which limping doctor with a cane?
Donald Blake
Donald Blake struck a gnarled cane on a rock in a Norwegian cave and became Thor; the comics later revealed that the limping doctor was himself a disguise, imposed on Thor as a lesson in humility.
Kenneth Branagh made his name filming Shakespeare's royal family feuds and saw the same story here: a reckless, headstrong young man who has to deal with a complicated relationship with his father.
Q 24Which actor screen-tested to play Thor in the 2011 film but ended up in a different role?
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston, cast as Loki instead, says he was in the running because he was tall, blond and classically trained, which was the mould for the hero; all four men listed here screen-tested for the part.
Q 25In the first film, Thor is banished to Earth and lands in which US state?
New Mexico
New Mexico played itself: the film's desert town was the Wild West movie set near Galisteo where Silverado was shot, made over as a modern main street for the Destroyer to tear up.
Q 26Which accent did Chris Hemsworth adopt to play Thor?
British
British, like almost everyone in Asgard, a castmate said on set; for the fight scenes he looked to boxers such as Mike Tyson, low to the ground with big, brutal shoulder swings.
Q 27In the 2011 film, how does the powerless Thor prove himself worthy of the hammer again?
He offers up his life
He offers up his life: Thor asks Loki's Destroyer to take him and spare the desert town, and the near-fatal blow that follows is what sends Mjölnir flying back to his hand.
Q 28Who plays the Dark Elf Malekith in Thor: The Dark World?
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston, best known at the time as television's Doctor Who, plays the ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim, who storms Asgard to take back the Aether.
Q 29Which rare alignment of the Nine Realms drives the plot of The Dark World?
The Convergence
The Convergence opens paths between the worlds, which is how the final battle tumbles in and out of Greenwich, London, grinding Christopher Wren's Royal Naval College to dust along the way.
Q 30Who directed Thor: Ragnarok?
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi also plays the soft-spoken rock gladiator Korg through motion capture, in a voice one New Zealand critic said sounds uncannily like your cousin from the east coast.