50 free Thor: Ragnarok trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Thor: Ragnarok trivia quiz covers the 2017 film that turned the Thor series into a neon comedy and gave the character a haircut, a sister and a rock friend called Korg. The plot questions run from Surtur's prison and Loki's Asgardian theatre through Odin's death in Norway, Hela crushing Mjolnir, the garbage planet Sakaar, the Contest of Champions against the Hulk, the Revengers' escape and the decision to let Ragnarök happen after all. The harder half covers how it was made: the directors Marvel considered, the sizzle reel that sold Taika Waititi, the Planet Hulk storyline, the Australian studio that hosted the whole shoot, the working title, the celebrity cameos in the play, the punk icon who inspired Cate Blanchett, the Make-A-Wish child behind the film's most quoted line, the composer, and the box office records. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test even committed MCU fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the wider universe, try our Marvel and MCU quizzes.
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Q 01Who directed Thor: Ragnarok?
Taika Waititi
He also plays Korg, the soft-spoken rock gladiator, via motion capture.
Q 02Which fire demon holds Thor prisoner at the start of the film?
Surtur
Thor takes his crown, thinking he has prevented Ragnarök; by the end he has to put it back in the Eternal Flame on purpose.
Q 03Who is Thor's previously unknown older sibling, freed by Odin's death?
Hela
In the comics and Norse myth she is Loki's daughter; making her Thor's sister was screenwriter Eric Pearson's idea, to raise the stakes of their final fight.
Q 04In which country do Thor and Loki find the dying Odin?
Norway
The scene was originally set in a New York alley with Odin as a hobo; Waititi moved it during reshoots to give the moment weight.
Q 05What does Hela do to Mjolnir moments after appearing?
Crushes it in one hand
Chris Hemsworth wanted the character stripped down: shorter hair, no hammer, and eventually one eye.
Q 06What is the name of the garbage planet Thor crash-lands on?
Sakaar
Producer Brad Winderbaum called it 'the toilet of the universe', with wormholes spitting junk onto it for eons.
Q 07What is Valkyrie's designation when she works for the Grandmaster?
Scrapper 142
She is based on the mythological Brynhildr and is the last of Asgard's female warriors, who were wiped out fighting Hela.
Q 08Who plays Valkyrie?
Tessa Thompson
She trained while looking at pictures of Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, and got a scene hinting at the character's bisexuality shot, though it was cut.
Q 09Whom does Thor face in the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions?
The Hulk
Thor is winning until the Grandmaster zaps him with the obedience disk to protect his champion.
Q 10What triggers the Hulk's transformation back into Bruce Banner for the first time in two years?
A recording of Natasha Romanoff on the Quinjet
Scarlett Johansson appears only through archival footage from Age of Ultron.
Q 11Which two aliens incite the gladiator revolution?
Korg and Miek
Miek has no actor: he is a larva-like creature with cybernetic limbs who never speaks.
Q 12What does Thor lose in his battle with Hela?
His right eye
A vision of Odin then makes him realise that only Ragnarök itself can stop her.
Q 13How is Hela finally defeated?
Surtur is reborn and destroys Asgard with her on it
Loki places the fire demon's crown in the Eternal Flame on Thor's orders, deliberately triggering the apocalypse the whole film tried to avoid.
Q 21Who voices the fire demon that Waititi performed in motion capture?
Clancy Brown
Waititi did the motion capture himself, as he did for Korg.
Q 22What is Stan Lee's cameo in Ragnarok?
The man who cuts Thor's hair on Sakaar
'Now don't you move, my hands aren't as steady as they used to be,' he says, wielding a whirring contraption.
Q 23Which Hollywood star plays the Loki actor in the Asgardian play?
Matt Damon
Chris Hemsworth suggested him; Damon flew from New York to Atlanta during reshoots to shoot it 'on a lark'.
Q 14What is the name of the Grandmaster's ship that carries the surviving Asgardians away?
The Statesman
Its interception by a giant warship in the mid-credits scene leads straight into Avengers: Infinity War.
Q 15Who plays Hela?
Cate Blanchett
She studied capoeira for the role and modelled Hela's movement on 1970s punk iconography.
Q 16Which punk singer inspired the movement of the actress playing Hela?
Siouxsie Sioux
Hela's look came from Jason Aaron's Thor: God of Thunder comics, and her weapon-summoning power was borrowed from that book's villain Gorr.
Q 17Who plays the Grandmaster?
Jeff Goldblum
Waititi skipped the character's comic-book blue skin partly because Goldblum had already been blue in Earth Girls Are Easy.
Q 18The Grandmaster is the brother of which Guardians of the Galaxy character?
The Collector
Kevin Feige said he would like to see Goldblum and Benicio del Toro share the screen one day.
Q 19Who plays Skurge, Hela's executioner?
Karl Urban
He shaved his head for the part and gets a redemptive death defending the Asgardians on the Bifröst.
Q 20Whose voice did Waititi base Korg's soft-spoken delivery on?
Polynesian bouncers
He also drew on his friend and frequent co-star Rhys Darby.
Q 24Who plays the Thor actor in the play?
Luke Hemsworth, Chris's brother
Sam Neill, a Hunt for the Wilderpeople veteran, plays the Odin actor in the same sequence.
Q 25Which scene did Waititi write and shoot on another Marvel film's sets before they were demolished?
Thor meeting Stephen Strange
Marvel liked it so much it also runs during that film's credits.
Q 26Which 2006 comic storyline was folded into the film once Mark Ruffalo signed on?
"Planet Hulk"
Marvel had earlier cut a shot of the Hulk's Quinjet near Saturn from Age of Ultron specifically to squash rumours of that adaptation.
Q 27Which Led Zeppelin track, used in Waititi's pitch reel, made it into the film and its marketing?
"Immigrant Song"
Feige said the reel's use of the song 'defined what Taika was going to do with this'.
Q 28Which 1986 Kurt Russell film did Waititi cite as the tonal touchstone for Ragnarok?
Big Trouble in Little China
He also made every department head watch a 1980 space-opera camp classic before starting work.
Q 29Which 1980 film did Waititi ask every department head to watch before starting work?
Flash Gordon
Its Queen-scored, candy-coloured space camp is all over the film; Waititi said he would have hired Queen for the soundtrack if Freddie Mercury were alive.
Q 30Roughly what share of the film's dialogue did Waititi say was improvised?
80 percent
He describes standing beside the camera shouting alternative lines at the actors mid-take.