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50 free Tom Hiddleston trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Tom Hiddleston has one of the more unusual careers in modern film. A classically trained stage actor, he became a worldwide star by playing a comic-book villain, then kept going back to the theatre between blockbusters. He has played the trickster Loki for more than a decade, in films and in a series of his own, while also taking on spies, soldiers, singers and princes. This quiz covers the whole story. There are questions on his childhood and education, his early television parts, the audition that changed his life, his Marvel co-stars and storylines, his leading roles in film and television drama, his work on the London and New York stage, and the awards and odd honours he has picked up along the way. It is written for fans who know the films by heart and for anyone who has wondered where the actor behind Loki came from. Every question comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you miss one.
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Q 01In Thor: Ragnarok, which Hollywood star cameos as an actor playing Tom Hiddleston's Loki in an Asgardian stage play?
Matt Damon
Matt Damon plays the ham actor dying nobly as Loki in a tribute play the disguised trickster staged about himself. Sam Neill appears beside him as the stage Odin.
Q 02Tom Hiddleston first auditioned for the title role in Marvel's Thor, a hammer-wielding part that went to which actor?
Chris Hemsworth
Chris Hemsworth won the lead, while Hiddleston, who had put on twenty pounds of muscle for his try-out, was judged a better fit for the scheming brother.
Q 03Which chart-topping singer-songwriter did Tom Hiddleston briefly date in 2016, the year The Night Manager aired?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift and Hiddleston were a couple only briefly, and before that year was out she had begun a six-year relationship with another English actor, Joe Alwyn.
Q 04In The Avengers, which hero beats Tom Hiddleston's Loki into submission inside Stark Tower as the invasion fails?
Hulk
Hulk thrashes the would-be conqueror once his Chitauri army is beaten, leaving Loki to be arrested and taken back to Asgard to face justice.
Q 05Which country music legend did Tom Hiddleston play in the biopic I Saw the Light, singing the songs himself?
Hank Williams
Hank Williams was a long way from London, so Hiddleston spent nearly five weeks preparing and performed seven of the soundtrack's songs himself.
Q 06Which villain kills Tom Hiddleston's Loki aboard a refugee ship in the opening minutes of Avengers: Infinity War?
Thanos
Thanos kills the trickster after a last doomed knife attack, and Hiddleston called it very powerful that Loki's final act is to name himself an Odinson.
Q 07Which award did Tom Hiddleston win for playing hotel worker turned spy Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager?
Golden Globe
Golden Globe voters named him best actor for the first series, which also brought him two Emmy nominations, one for acting and one as a producer, but no win.
Q 08In which monster movie does Tom Hiddleston play James Conrad, a former SAS officer hired as an expedition's tracker?
Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island sends his tracker to an uncharted Pacific island in 1973, alongside Brie Larson as a photojournalist and Samuel L. Jackson as an army colonel.
Q 09Which animated TV family takes in Tom Hiddleston's Loki after Odin banishes him in a 2021 crossover short?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons welcomed the exile to Springfield in a short released alongside the fifth episode of his own series, with Hiddleston voicing the part himself.
Q 10In Thor: The Dark World, which Marvel hero does Tom Hiddleston's Loki mockingly shapeshift into for a few seconds?
Captain America
Captain America pops up in an uncredited cameo by Chris Evans, who is really playing Loki masquerading as the star-spangled soldier.
Q 11Which real-life novelist does Tom Hiddleston play in Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's comedy about 1920s literary Paris?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald appears with his wife Zelda, played by Alison Pill, and the couple lead the film's bewildered screenwriter hero to a cafe where he meets Hemingway.
Q 12Which actor was first cast as Thomas Sharpe in Crimson Peak before dropping out and being replaced by Tom Hiddleston?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch left the gothic horror before filming, as did Emma Stone, so Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska took over the two lead roles.
Q 13Which BBC presenter and historian of ancient Rome was one of Tom Hiddleston's supervisors at Cambridge?
Q 21Which bestselling author wrote the novella behind The Life of Chuck, starring Tom Hiddleston as accountant Chuck Krantz?
Stephen King
Stephen King is best known for horror, but this gentle adaptation, told in reverse from the end of a man's life to his childhood, won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto festival.
Q 22Which comedy star plays Mobius, the easygoing agent who befriends Tom Hiddleston's antihero in the series Loki?
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson had shared a film with him before: he led Midnight in Paris as the screenwriter who meets Hiddleston's character at a party.
Q 23Which bureaucratic organisation arrests Tom Hiddleston's trickster in the first episode of the series Loki?
Mary Beard
Mary Beard taught him while he read Classics at Pembroke, and he left the university with a double first before training as an actor.
Q 14In which 2014 family film does Tom Hiddleston cameo as a gulag inmate known as the Great Escapo?
Muppets Most Wanted
Muppets Most Wanted sends Kermit to a Siberian gulag by mistake, where Hiddleston's escape artist is locked up alongside Ray Liotta and Danny Trejo.
Q 15Which actor-director, Tom Hiddleston's co-star in the BBC detective drama Wallander, went on to direct him in Thor?
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh had also shared a West End stage with him in Chekhov's Ivanov, and told Marvel's executives to trust him that the little-known actor would deliver.
Q 16Which spy novelist wrote the 1993 book behind The Night Manager, the BBC thriller starring Tom Hiddleston?
John le Carré
John le Carré served as an executive producer on the adaptation and slipped into episode four himself, in a cameo as an insulted restaurant diner.
Q 17Which British actor plays Richard Roper, the arms dealer Tom Hiddleston's spy infiltrates in The Night Manager?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie played the charming but ruthless arms dealer in his first British television role in thirteen years, and was an executive producer on the series alongside Hiddleston.
Q 18Which English boarding school did Tom Hiddleston join at thirteen, between the Dragon School in Oxford and Cambridge?
Eton College
Eton College took him as a boarder at thirteen; he had first been sent away to a prep school at seven, and he says his parents' divorce in those years made him more compassionate.
Q 19In which Steven Spielberg film does Tom Hiddleston play Nicholls, a doomed British officer who ships out in 1914?
War Horse
War Horse cast him as the kindly officer who buys Joey from a struggling farmer and promises the animal's heartbroken young owner to look after him.
Q 20Which Shakespeare title role did Tom Hiddleston play for three weeks in a 160-seat theatre, with tickets by lottery?
Hamlet
Hamlet was staged in 2017 as a fundraiser for his old drama school, and afterwards he was given a red-bound copy of the play handed down between celebrated Hamlets.
Time Variance Authority
The Time Variance Authority exists outside time and space to monitor the timeline, and it picks up this Loki after he grabs the Tesseract and vanishes from 2012.
Q 24Which streaming service launched the series Loki in 2021, ten years after Tom Hiddleston first played the character?
Disney+
Disney+ renewed the show for a second season within weeks, and a mostly Norwegian-language song he sings in the third episode reached a Billboard world chart.
Q 25Which veteran actor plays Odin, ruler of Asgard and adoptive father of Tom Hiddleston's Loki, in the Thor films?
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins admitted he knew nothing of the comics, and summed up the first film as a superhero movie with a bit of Shakespeare thrown in.
Q 26In Thor, Tom Hiddleston's Loki learns he is the son of which Frost Giant ruler, whom he later betrays and kills?
Laufey
Laufey is Loki's mother in Norse myth, but the film turned the character into his father, played by Colm Feore under five hours of make-up.
Q 27In Only Lovers Left Alive, Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play centuries-old lovers who are what kind of creature?
Vampires
Vampires Adam and Eve live apart, he as a withdrawn musician in Detroit and she in Tangier, in a romance that was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Q 28Which London drama school, where Tom Hiddleston trained after Cambridge, awarded him an acting degree in 2005?
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art gave him a BA in acting, though an agent had already spotted him at university in a student production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Q 29Which actress and writer, Tom Hiddleston's co-star in a 2019 Harold Pinter revival, got engaged to him in 2022?
Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton and Hiddleston went public as a couple at the 2021 Tony Awards, and she later joined the Marvel films herself, playing Dar-Benn in The Marvels.
Q 30In the BBC's The Hollow Crown, which actor plays Henry IV, father of Tom Hiddleston's wayward Prince Hal?
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination as the ailing monarch, and Hiddleston went on to wear the crown himself in the cycle's Henry V.