Percy Jackson Quiz
Riptide, Camp Half-Blood, Mr. D and the Lightning Thief: 15 questions for every demigod who read the books.
Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?
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Poseidon
Percy is claimed by Poseidon at the end of his first summer at camp, which is why he can breathe underwater, control currents and heal in the sea. The claiming makes him a forbidden child under the pact of the Big Three.
Zeus, Poseidon and Hades had sworn after World War II not to father more demigods, because a child of the Big Three was prophesied to decide Olympus's fate.
What is the name of the summer camp where demigods train in the series?
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Camp Half-Blood
Camp Half-Blood sits on the north shore of Long Island, New York, protected by magical borders so monsters cannot get in. Each cabin houses the children of a different Olympian god.
Camp Jupiter, the Roman counterpart near San Francisco, does not appear until the Heroes of Olympus spin-off series.
Who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books?
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Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan, a former middle school teacher from Texas, created the series after making up Greek myth bedtime stories for his son Haley, who had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia.
Riordan went on to write parallel series about Egyptian and Norse gods, The Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase, in the same shared universe.
Percy's best friend Grover Underwood is which kind of mythical creature?
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A satyr
Grover is a satyr, half human and half goat, who works as a keeper finding demigods and bringing them safely to camp. He hides his hooves in oversized sneakers and his horns under a cap.
Grover's great ambition is to find the lost nature god Pan, a quest he finally completes in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
Annabeth Chase is the daughter of which goddess?
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Athena
Annabeth is a daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, which explains her brilliance, her love of architecture and her Yankees cap of invisibility. She arrived at camp aged seven.
In the books, children of Athena are born from thought, a nod to the myth of Athena springing fully formed from the head of Zeus.
What is the name of Percy's sword, which disguises itself as a ballpoint pen?
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Riptide
Riptide, called Anaklusmos in Greek, is a celestial bronze sword given to Percy by Chiron. It passes harmlessly through mortals, returns to his pocket when lost and lives as a pen when capped.
Backbiter is Luke's sword, forged half from celestial bronze and half from steel so it can wound mortals and monsters alike.
Which god serves as the grumpy director of Camp Half-Blood under the name Mr. D?
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Dionysus
Dionysus, the god of wine, runs the camp as a punishment from Zeus for chasing an off-limits nymph. He is banned from drinking wine, nurses Diet Coke instead and pretends to forget every camper's name.
In the Disney+ series Mr. D is played by Jason Mantzoukas, who leans into the character's bored, sarcastic delivery.
In the books, the entrance to Mount Olympus is hidden inside which New York landmark?
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The Empire State Building
Olympus floats above Manhattan and is reached by a special key card that unlocks the 600th floor button in the Empire State Building's lift. The gods move their seat of power to wherever Western civilisation is strongest.
In The Last Olympian the final battle rages through Manhattan while the mortals of the city sleep under a spell cast by Morpheus.
Which camper turns out to be the real thief at the end of The Lightning Thief?
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Luke Castellan
Luke, the son of Hermes, stole both Zeus's master bolt and Hades's helm of darkness on the orders of Kronos. He reveals himself to Percy at the end of summer, poisons him with a scorpion and flees camp.
Luke's bitterness toward the gods, especially his absent father, is the emotional seed that grows into the Titan war over the next four books.
In The Sea of Monsters, what kind of creature is Percy's newly discovered half-brother Tyson?
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A cyclops
Tyson is a young cyclops, another son of Poseidon, who had been living homeless in New York under the Mist. Percy is embarrassed by him at first but comes to love him fiercely.
Tyson later works in the forges of Poseidon's palace and makes Percy a watch that unfolds into a shield.
Which daughter of Zeus was turned into a pine tree that guards the borders of Camp Half-Blood?
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Thalia Grace
Thalia died defending Luke and Annabeth on Half-Blood Hill, and Zeus turned her into a pine tree whose magic shields the camp. When the tree is poisoned in The Sea of Monsters, the Golden Fleece heals it and brings her back.
Thalia later joins the Hunters of Artemis so she will stop ageing at fifteen, dodging the prophecy about a child of the Big Three turning sixteen.
Which book is the fifth and final volume of the original Percy Jackson and the Olympians series?
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The Last Olympian
The Last Olympian, published in 2009, ends the series with the Battle of Manhattan and the defeat of Kronos. The books came out one a year from 2005 to 2009.
Riordan later returned to Percy as narrator in The Chalice of the Gods in 2023, a standalone adventure set after the Heroes of Olympus books.
Which actor plays Percy in the Disney+ series that premiered in December 2023?
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Walker Scobell
Walker Scobell, who had just starred opposite Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project, was cast as Percy in his early teens, close to the character's age of twelve in the books. The first two episodes dropped on 19 December 2023.
Logan Lerman played Percy in the 2010 film, which aged the characters up and departed so far from the book that Riordan has said he never watched it.
According to Athena in The Titan's Curse, what is Percy's fatal flaw?
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Personal loyalty
Athena warns Percy that his fatal flaw is personal loyalty: he would sacrifice the world to save a friend. Every demigod has one, and Annabeth's is hubris, as she admits in The Sea of Monsters.
Nico di Angelo's fatal flaw is holding grudges, which Bianca warns Percy about from beyond the grave in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
Which actor played Zeus in the first season of the Disney+ series, in a role filmed shortly before his death in March 2023?
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Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick, known for The Wire and the John Wick films, played Zeus in season one. Filming wrapped in February 2023 and he died the following month, months before the show premiered.
Courtney B. Vance took over as Zeus for season two, while Toby Stephens plays Poseidon and Glynn Turman plays Chiron.
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Rick Riordan wrote The Lightning Thief as a bedtime story for his son, and the five Percy Jackson and the Olympians books that followed have sold tens of millions of copies. Percy is the son of Poseidon, his best friend is a satyr, and his sword spends most of its time disguised as a ballpoint pen. In 2023 Disney+ brought the story back to the screen with a cast handpicked by Riordan himself.
These 15 questions start with the basics any camper knows, then dig into The Sea of Monsters, The Last Olympian, Percy's fatal flaw and the actors behind the Disney+ gods. It suits readers of the books first, with a few screen questions thrown in.
You will find 15 multiple choice questions here, each with four options. Difficulty: Medium. Most people finish in about 6 minutes, and every answer comes with a short explanation and one extra fact worth keeping.
How to play
Read the question and pick one of the four answers. The correct answer is revealed straight away with a short explanation, then press Next question to keep going. At the end you get your score out of 15 and a full review of your round. Play again any time and the questions arrive in a fresh order. There is no timer and no account.
Good to know before you play
How many Percy Jackson and the Olympians books are there?
The original series has five books, from The Lightning Thief in 2005 to The Last Olympian in 2009, followed by the Heroes of Olympus spin-off series and later standalone sequels.
Is the Disney+ Percy Jackson series faithful to the books?
Far more than the 2010 film. Rick Riordan co-created the show, the actors are the right ages, and each season adapts one book in order, starting with The Lightning Thief.
Does this quiz cover the Heroes of Olympus books?
It focuses on the first five Percy Jackson books plus a couple of questions on the Disney+ series, so you do not need to have read the spin-offs to score well.
Answer key: all 15 questions with explanations
- Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?
Poseidon Percy is claimed by Poseidon at the end of his first summer at camp, which is why he can breathe underwater, control currents and heal in the sea. The claiming makes him a forbidden child under the pact of the Big Three. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades had sworn after World War II not to father more demigods, because a child of the Big Three was prophesied to decide Olympus's fate. - What is the name of the summer camp where demigods train in the series?
Camp Half-Blood Camp Half-Blood sits on the north shore of Long Island, New York, protected by magical borders so monsters cannot get in. Each cabin houses the children of a different Olympian god. Camp Jupiter, the Roman counterpart near San Francisco, does not appear until the Heroes of Olympus spin-off series. - Who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books?
Rick Riordan Rick Riordan, a former middle school teacher from Texas, created the series after making up Greek myth bedtime stories for his son Haley, who had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Riordan went on to write parallel series about Egyptian and Norse gods, The Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase, in the same shared universe. - Percy's best friend Grover Underwood is which kind of mythical creature?
A satyr Grover is a satyr, half human and half goat, who works as a keeper finding demigods and bringing them safely to camp. He hides his hooves in oversized sneakers and his horns under a cap. Grover's great ambition is to find the lost nature god Pan, a quest he finally completes in The Battle of the Labyrinth. - Annabeth Chase is the daughter of which goddess?
Athena Annabeth is a daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, which explains her brilliance, her love of architecture and her Yankees cap of invisibility. She arrived at camp aged seven. In the books, children of Athena are born from thought, a nod to the myth of Athena springing fully formed from the head of Zeus. - What is the name of Percy's sword, which disguises itself as a ballpoint pen?
Riptide Riptide, called Anaklusmos in Greek, is a celestial bronze sword given to Percy by Chiron. It passes harmlessly through mortals, returns to his pocket when lost and lives as a pen when capped. Backbiter is Luke's sword, forged half from celestial bronze and half from steel so it can wound mortals and monsters alike. - Which god serves as the grumpy director of Camp Half-Blood under the name Mr. D?
Dionysus Dionysus, the god of wine, runs the camp as a punishment from Zeus for chasing an off-limits nymph. He is banned from drinking wine, nurses Diet Coke instead and pretends to forget every camper's name. In the Disney+ series Mr. D is played by Jason Mantzoukas, who leans into the character's bored, sarcastic delivery. - In the books, the entrance to Mount Olympus is hidden inside which New York landmark?
The Empire State Building Olympus floats above Manhattan and is reached by a special key card that unlocks the 600th floor button in the Empire State Building's lift. The gods move their seat of power to wherever Western civilisation is strongest. In The Last Olympian the final battle rages through Manhattan while the mortals of the city sleep under a spell cast by Morpheus. - Which camper turns out to be the real thief at the end of The Lightning Thief?
Luke Castellan Luke, the son of Hermes, stole both Zeus's master bolt and Hades's helm of darkness on the orders of Kronos. He reveals himself to Percy at the end of summer, poisons him with a scorpion and flees camp. Luke's bitterness toward the gods, especially his absent father, is the emotional seed that grows into the Titan war over the next four books. - In The Sea of Monsters, what kind of creature is Percy's newly discovered half-brother Tyson?
A cyclops Tyson is a young cyclops, another son of Poseidon, who had been living homeless in New York under the Mist. Percy is embarrassed by him at first but comes to love him fiercely. Tyson later works in the forges of Poseidon's palace and makes Percy a watch that unfolds into a shield. - Which daughter of Zeus was turned into a pine tree that guards the borders of Camp Half-Blood?
Thalia Grace Thalia died defending Luke and Annabeth on Half-Blood Hill, and Zeus turned her into a pine tree whose magic shields the camp. When the tree is poisoned in The Sea of Monsters, the Golden Fleece heals it and brings her back. Thalia later joins the Hunters of Artemis so she will stop ageing at fifteen, dodging the prophecy about a child of the Big Three turning sixteen. - Which book is the fifth and final volume of the original Percy Jackson and the Olympians series?
The Last Olympian The Last Olympian, published in 2009, ends the series with the Battle of Manhattan and the defeat of Kronos. The books came out one a year from 2005 to 2009. Riordan later returned to Percy as narrator in The Chalice of the Gods in 2023, a standalone adventure set after the Heroes of Olympus books. - Which actor plays Percy in the Disney+ series that premiered in December 2023?
Walker Scobell Walker Scobell, who had just starred opposite Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project, was cast as Percy in his early teens, close to the character's age of twelve in the books. The first two episodes dropped on 19 December 2023. Logan Lerman played Percy in the 2010 film, which aged the characters up and departed so far from the book that Riordan has said he never watched it. - According to Athena in The Titan's Curse, what is Percy's fatal flaw?
Personal loyalty Athena warns Percy that his fatal flaw is personal loyalty: he would sacrifice the world to save a friend. Every demigod has one, and Annabeth's is hubris, as she admits in The Sea of Monsters. Nico di Angelo's fatal flaw is holding grudges, which Bianca warns Percy about from beyond the grave in The Battle of the Labyrinth. - Which actor played Zeus in the first season of the Disney+ series, in a role filmed shortly before his death in March 2023?
Lance Reddick Lance Reddick, known for The Wire and the John Wick films, played Zeus in season one. Filming wrapped in February 2023 and he died the following month, months before the show premiered. Courtney B. Vance took over as Zeus for season two, while Toby Stephens plays Poseidon and Glynn Turman plays Chiron.
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