161 Fun Facts About Percy Jackson

Zoë Nightshade, lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis, is the daughter of which Titan?

Atlas: Zoë is one of the Hesperides, and in The Titan's Curse her own father strikes her a mortal blow on Mount Othrys as she fights to free her goddess.

What everyday object does Percy Jackson's magic sword disguise itself as?

A pen: Percy's teacher tosses him the ballpoint during his first monster attack, and uncapping it turns it into a full-length sword.

Which actor played Percy in the 2010 and 2013 Percy Jackson films?

Logan Lerman led both films as a Percy aged up from twelve to sixteen, but no third film followed and the story was rebooted for television.

In The Titan's Curse, Annabeth ends up with a grey streak in her hair after being forced to do what?

Hold up the sky: Annabeth is left bearing the Titans' burden as Luke's prisoner, and Percy's dreams of her straining beneath it send him out to find her.

Which former James Bond actor played Chiron in the 2010 film The Lightning Thief?

Pierce Brosnan, Bond from GoldenEye to Die Another Day, played Chiron in the 2010 film, folding the centaur's body into a wheelchair as Mr. Brunner.

In The Sea of Monsters, which one-eyed giant holds Grover captive on his island and plans to marry him?

Polyphemus: half-blind, he takes Grover in a wedding dress for a bride of his own kind, and Grover stalls by never finishing his bridal train.

What colour are Percy Jackson's eyes?

Sea-green: fitting for a boy revived by water; knocked into a creek by a gang of campers in The Lightning Thief, he gets up strong enough to beat them all.

Who is the godly parent of Clarisse La Rue?

Ares: for all her bluster Clarisse dreads disappointing her father, and she finally wins his blessing by killing a drakon single-handed in The Last Olympian.

In The Sea of Monsters, what is the name of Clarisse's Confederate-crewed ironclad?

The CSS Birmingham, a gift from her godly father, is wrecked at the entrance to the Sea of Monsters with Tyson apparently aboard.

Born before World War II, Nico and Bianca di Angelo are still kids after spending decades where?

The Lotus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas: time barely passes inside, so the di Angelos emerged decades later as children; it nearly trapped Percy in the first book.

Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?

Percy is a demigod son of Poseidon and the mortal Sally Jackson, which is why water works in his favour.

Which numbered cabin at Camp Half-Blood is Percy's once he is claimed?

Cabin 3: the eldest gods' oath had left the low sea-stone cabin empty, so Percy moves in with the whole place to himself.

What is Percy's full first name?

Perseus: Sally named him after the Greek hero who, unlike most, got a happy ending; Percy is the short form.

Which colour of food does Sally Jackson serve Percy as a running family joke?

Blue: Smelly Gabe once insisted there was no such thing as blue food, so Sally made a point of proving him wrong with blue cakes and blue corn chips.

Percy's best friend Grover Underwood is what kind of creature?

A satyr: half goat, Grover shares an empathy link with Percy, which is how he calls for help through Percy's dreams when a monster takes him prisoner.

Which coin do demigods throw into a rainbow to send an Iris-message?

A golden drachma: the rainbow can be home-made, so in The Lightning Thief the trio conjure one with a car-wash spray hose to call camp.

In The Lightning Thief, which gift from Luke nearly drags Grover down into Tartarus?

Flying sneakers: Luke's parting gift to Percy turns out to be cursed, and it drags Grover toward the pit only because Percy had passed the shoes on to him.

Annabeth Chase is the daughter of which goddess?

Athena: Annabeth inherits her mother's love of strategy and building, and after the Titan war she is named architect of Olympus.

Which magical item turns Annabeth invisible?

A Yankees cap: a gift from her mother, it loses its magic for a while in the later books after the two of them quarrel.

What is the name of Percy's celestial bronze sword?

Riptide is Anaklusmos in Greek; Chiron hands it over, and it always returns to Percy's pocket when lost.

In The Sea of Monsters, the quest must retrieve which mythical object to heal Thalia's poisoned pine tree?

The Golden Fleece heals the pine, which guards the camp's border, and works so well it revives Thalia herself.

What weapon does Annabeth fight with through the original five books?

A bronze knife: Luke gave seven-year-old Annabeth the celestial bronze dagger when they met on the run, and she carries it through all five original books.

In the Percy Jackson books, which New York landmark hides Mount Olympus on a secret 600th floor?

Empire State Building: it has only 102 storeys, yet Olympus sits above it as a hidden 600th floor, where Percy returns the bolt at the end of the first book.

Who plays Percy Jackson in the Disney+ television series?

Walker Scobell was cast in January 2022, before his debut film, a Ryan Reynolds science-fiction adventure, had even come out, and the news was held back until April.

Which Harry Potter director made the 2010 Percy Jackson film The Lightning Thief?

Chris Columbus had opened the Harry Potter series with its first two films; for this one he made Percy sixteen instead of the book's twelve.

How did Rick Riordan first dream up Percy's adventures?

Bedtime stories for his son: when Riordan ran out of real Greek myths to tell Haley, the boy asked for new ones with the same gods, and Percy was invented on the spot.

In Percy Jackson's world, why are most demigods dyslexic?

Wired to read Ancient Greek: demigod minds are built for the old language rather than English, and their ADHD is really battlefield reflexes that keep them alive.

In The Titan's Curse, Zoë Nightshade was exiled by her sisters for helping which hero?

Hercules: Zoë told him how to win the golden apples and gave him the sword Percy now carries, yet he never gave her any credit.

Which figure from Greek myth built the maze in Percy Jackson's The Battle of the Labyrinth?

Daedalus: his Labyrinth has kept growing and now sprawls beneath the United States, while its builder hides at camp as the sword instructor Quintus.

What is the name of the pegasus who calls Percy 'boss'?

Blackjack: Percy freed him from Luke's ship, and the grateful pegasus has carried him ever since, pestering him for doughnuts along the way.

Grover's girlfriend Juniper is what kind of nature spirit?

A dryad: Juniper is the spirit of a juniper tree, and it is she who tells Percy she has seen Luke slipping into an entrance to the Labyrinth.

In The Heroes of Olympus, what is the Roman demigod camp called?

Camp Jupiter: the gods kept it hidden from Camp Half-Blood for generations, because Greek and Roman demigods had a long history of fighting whenever they met.

Tyson, who turns out to be Percy's half-brother, belongs to which race of monsters?

Cyclopes: Tyson first appears as a big homeless kid taken in by Percy's school, because the Mist makes his single eye look like two.

Which long-lost god has Grover been searching for since The Lightning Thief?

Pan: Grover finally finds the god of the wild fading away in a cave in The Battle of the Labyrinth, where Pan tells his searchers to save nature themselves.

What is the surname of Percy's loathsome stepfather Gabe in The Lightning Thief?

Ugliano: 'Smelly Gabe' Ugliano, Sally's poker-playing husband, masks Percy's demigod scent with his stench; Sally finally turns him into a statue she sells as art.

What is the name of the friendly hellhound Percy inherits in The Battle of the Labyrinth?

Mrs. O'Leary: the camp's sword instructor Quintus leaves Percy his pet hellhound, and in The Last Olympian she carries him on his errands by shadow-travel.

In The Lightning Thief, Mrs. Dodds attacks Percy on a school trip to which New York institution?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: on Yancy Academy's field trip Mrs. Dodds reveals herself as a Fury, and afterwards nobody but Percy remembers she existed.

In The Lightning Thief, where does the stolen Master Bolt finally turn up?

In Percy's own backpack: the bolt appears inside the bag a god gave him as thanks for a favour, a trick to make Percy carry it to the Underworld and take the blame.

In The Lightning Thief, the kindly shopkeeper 'Aunty Em' turns out to be which monster?

Medusa: she feeds the trio at Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium, whose stone figures are her victims, until Percy cuts off her head and mails it to Olympus.

Who replaces Chiron as activities director at Camp Half-Blood in The Sea of Monsters?

Tantalus: paroled from the Fields of Punishment to run activities, he brings his old curse with him, so food and drink flee from his grasp.

In Percy Jackson's second book, where in the modern world does the Sea of Monsters lie?

The Bermuda Triangle: that is what mortals call the Sea of Monsters, and the ships and planes that vanish there have strayed into its monsters' waters.

In The Titan's Curse, what does Percy nickname the rescued Ophiotaurus, a cow-serpent?

Bessie: Percy's cuddly name for the Ophiotaurus; whoever sacrifices the creature gains the power to destroy Olympus, which makes the nickname a bit alarming.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy washes up on which island, home of the Titan's daughter Calypso?

Ogygia: Calypso is confined there for siding with her father in the first Titan war, cursed to fall for every hero who washes up and can never stay.

Which mortal girl, able to see through the Mist, does Percy meet again at Goode High School orientation?

Rachel Elizabeth Dare: the red-haired, paint-splattered artist who sees through the Mist becomes the new Oracle of Delphi at the end of The Last Olympian.

In The Last Olympian, Percy bathes in which river to take on the curse of Achilles?

The Styx: Nico leads Percy down into the Underworld to bathe in it, which makes him invulnerable everywhere except one mortal point he must keep secret.

Which son of Nemesis stabs at Percy's one vulnerable spot, only for Annabeth to take the blade?

Ethan Nakamura: he later turns on Kronos and is killed for it, telling Percy as he falls that the war would never have come if the minor gods had thrones.

Which Aphrodite head counsellor is Kronos's spy at camp, dying while disguised as Clarisse?

Silena Beauregard: Luke had charmed her into spying, but her boyfriend's death made her renounce it, and she died leading Clarisse's cabin into battle in Clarisse's armour.

Luke's cruise ship, Kronos's floating headquarters, goes by what name?

The Princess Andromeda: Percy and a fellow camper sneak aboard and blow it up at the start of The Last Olympian, though the camper does not make it off.

Which goddess does Percy entrust with Pandora's pithos, the jar containing hope, in The Last Olympian?

Hestia: the quiet goddess of the hearth is the 'last Olympian' of the title, keeping the fire on an empty Olympus while the other gods are away at war; Percy gives her Pandora's jar.

In The Sea of Monsters, Tyson forges Percy a shield that folds down into what?

A wristwatch: it is Tyson's parting gift, a whole summer's work, before he leaves to craft weapons in the undersea forges.

After the Titan war, which gift from the gods does Percy turn down so they will claim all their children?

Immortality: offered godhood, Percy asks instead that every demigod be claimed by thirteen and that Hades and the minor gods get cabins at camp.

What is the name of Luke's sword, forged from both steel and celestial bronze?

Backbiter: its blend of steel and celestial bronze lets it wound mortals and monsters alike, and it is later reforged into Kronos's scythe.

Which actress played Annabeth in the 2010 and 2013 Percy Jackson films?

Alexandra Daddario: in the sequel her Annabeth is stabbed by a manticore and dies in Percy's arms, only to be brought back to life.

Where does Percy's mother Sally work at the start of The Lightning Thief?

A candy shop: Sally never finished high school because she had to care for the dying uncle who raised her, so she works a counter job to support Percy.

Which 2023 book began Percy Jackson's Senior Year Adventures trilogy?

The Chalice of the Gods (2023) opens the Senior Year Adventures, with Percy running quests to earn godly recommendation letters for New Rome University.

Which two subjects did Rick Riordan teach before writing full time?

English and history: Riordan taught them for fifteen years in California and Texas, and left the classroom only once the Percy Jackson sale let him write full time.

Who helped Riordan name the first book and design how Percy's sword works?

Middle school students: Riordan asked some of his own sixth, seventh and eighth graders to test-drive the manuscript, and they helped pick the title and refine how the sword worked.

In the series' logic, what was World War II actually?

A war among the gods' children: in the books, World War II was really Zeus's and Poseidon's children fighting Hades's, after which the Big Three swore off fathering demigods.

Percy and Sally holiday at a beach cabin in which Long Island town?

Montauk: the beach holds memories of Percy's father for Sally, and their stay ends in a night-time dash for camp with the Minotaur in pursuit.

What does Annabeth use to get the trio past Cerberus in The Lightning Thief?

A red rubber ball: Annabeth plays fetch with Cerberus and gets the three-headed dog to sit, letting the trio slip past into the Underworld.

In The Lightning Thief, which monster attacks Percy at the top of the Gateway Arch?

The Chimera: it turns up at the top disguised as a Chihuahua beside its mother Echidna, and its poison forces Percy to leap into the river far below.

In The Lightning Thief, what does Ares send Percy to fetch from a water park ride?

His shield: Ares left it behind in a tunnel-of-love ride on a date with Aphrodite, and lifting it springs a trap the smith god set for the pair, with cameras beaming Percy live to Olympus.

In The Lightning Thief, what business fronts the Underworld's entrance in Los Angeles?

DOA Recording Studios: Charon runs the lobby and refuses to ferry three living kids until Percy bribes him and promises to ask Hades about the pay raise he wants.

In The Sea of Monsters, which school does Percy attend for seventh grade?

Meriwether College Prep: Percy reaches the last day of a peaceful seventh-grade year there before monsters crash his gym-class dodgeball game and the trouble starts again.

Which giants attack Percy during gym class dodgeball in The Sea of Monsters?

Laestrygonians: the cannibal giants from the Odyssey lob flaming dodgeballs at Percy in the gym until Tyson and Annabeth save him.

Why is Clarisse handed the official quest in The Sea of Monsters?

She won a chariot race: the camp's new director rewards Clarisse's win with the quest and forbids anyone else from leaving camp without permission.

In The Sea of Monsters, Circe turns the men who land on her island into what?

Guinea pigs: Circe's spa turns Percy into one too, until Annabeth uses Hermes's multivitamins to restore him and free Blackbeard's transformed crew.

Which pair of sea monsters guards the entrance to the Sea of Monsters, where Clarisse's ironclad is destroyed?

Charybdis and Scylla: Clarisse's ironclad is destroyed as it tries to pass between the two, and Percy and Annabeth escape in a lifeboat that carries them to Circe's island.

Which group rescues Percy from Luke's cruise ship in The Sea of Monsters?

The Party Ponies: Chiron's rowdy centaur relatives charge in after Percy tricks Luke into confessing over an Iris-message, and Chiron rides with them.

In The Titan's Curse, which manticore posing as a school vice principal captures Annabeth?

Dr. Thorn: the vice principal of Westover Hall corners two new half-bloods, shows his true form as a manticore, and gets away with Annabeth when the Hunters arrive.

Which peak in the San Francisco Bay Area is the modern site of the Titans' stronghold, Mount Othrys?

Tamalpais: the mummified Oracle seeks out the Hunters' lieutenant at camp to send her west to Mount Tam in Marin County, where the Titans' mountain now stands.

Which Washington museum does Percy follow the manticore to in The Titan's Curse?

The Smithsonian: Percy trails the manticore there and watches 'the General' raise skeleton warriors from dragon's teeth, then runs to warn his friends in the Air and Space Museum, where the Nemean Lion attacks.

In The Titan's Curse, Bianca dies destroying a junkyard prototype of which giant?

Talos: Bianca takes a figurine from the junkyard of the gods for her brother, which wakes a defective prototype of the giant automaton, and she gives her life to bring it down.

In The Titan's Curse, skeleton warriors corner Percy at which American landmark?

Hoover Dam: with the skeleton warriors closing in, Percy is saved by a mortal girl who can see through the Mist and sends his pursuers the wrong way.

In The Titan's Curse, which sea god must Percy capture in San Francisco to be granted one answer?

Nereus: the Old Man of the Sea must answer one question for anyone who can hold him, and he tells Percy the monster he seeks is the Ophiotaurus that has been following him all along.

In The Titan's Curse, which hundred-headed dragon guards the tree of golden apples?

Ladon: his bite poisons the Hunters' lieutenant as the quest slips past the tree, and he is also the dragon that left Luke with the long scar on his face.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, the two empousai who attack Percy at school orientation pose as what?

Cheerleaders: Kelli and Tammi drop the act to attack Percy at his new high school, and a mortal girl who can see their true forms helps him fight them off and escape.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, which god and which giant do the heroes meet inside the maze?

Janus and Briares: the Roman god of doorways confronts the heroes early in the maze, and the Hundred-Handed One is found in Kampê's prison on Alcatraz and freed.

Which volcano houses the smith god's forge in The Battle of the Labyrinth?

Mount St. Helens: the smith god's forge lies inside it, and when Percy is cornered there by Kronos's smiths he sets off an eruption that blasts him out of the mountain.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, what does Percy's father give him for his fifteenth birthday?

A sand dollar: Percy keeps it until The Last Olympian, when he breaks it in two to pay New York's river gods, the Hudson and the East, who sink the Titan ships in return.

Which head counselor dies attacking Luke's ship at the start of The Last Olympian?

Charles Beckendorf: he and Percy slip aboard to blow the ship up, but a spy has warned Kronos, and Beckendorf dies in the blast that destroys it while Percy gets away.

Where do Percy and Annabeth kiss at the end of The Last Olympian?

Underwater: campers who catch the new couple kissing toss them into the camp's canoe lake, and Percy, who can breathe underwater, turns the dunking into a second kiss.

In The Last Olympian, which Titan offers Percy the chance to surrender by opening Pandora's jar?

Prometheus: the Titan of forethought, now on Kronos's side, leaves Percy Pandora's jar and says that letting Hope out of it will signal surrender; Percy never opens it.

In The Last Olympian, which Titan ends up sealed inside a tree in Central Park?

Hyperion: Percy whips up a hurricane to douse the blazing Titan of the East, holding him long enough for the satyrs' nature magic to seal him inside a maple tree.

In The Last Olympian, which monster does Tyson's army help defeat as it reaches New York?

Typhon: the storm giant fights his way across America against the gods until the sea god's army, led by Tyson, chains him down and he is cast into Tartarus.

Which immortal asks Percy to recover a stolen possession in the first Senior Year book?

Ganymede: Zeus's young attendant offers Percy a college recommendation letter if he can quietly recover a treasure stolen from him; the thief turns out to be Geras, the god of old age.

How does Percy beat Geras, god of old age, in the first Senior Year book?

By embracing him: instead of wrestling to the death, Percy hugs Geras, accepting old age as part of being mortal, and the startled god respects him enough to hand over what he stole.

In the second Senior Year Adventures book, whose pets do Percy, Annabeth and Grover mind over Halloween?

Hecate's: the trio house-sit for the goddess of magic, minding her polecat Gale and hellhound Hecuba, who escape after Grover drinks a strawberry potion and wrecks the house.

Which supplementary book contains 'Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades'?

The Demigod Files: its Sword of Hades story is where Percy hurls a Titan into the River Lethe and persuades the memory-wiped giant that his name is Bob, a friend who returns in later books.

What is Annabeth Chase terrified of, a fear all her siblings share?

Spiders: the fear runs through her whole cabin, and it leaves the usually fearless Annabeth frozen when a swarm of mechanical ones pours out of a trap at a water park.

In The Last Olympian, what happens to the mortals of Manhattan just before the battle begins?

They all fall asleep: a spell cast by Morpheus for Kronos drops the whole city into sleep to keep mortals out of the fight, leaving the demigods to defend Manhattan alone.

In The Lost Hero, what name does Leo Valdez give the bronze dragon he tames at Camp Half-Blood?

Festus: the name is Latin for 'happy', a joke on a rampaging mechanical dragon that only Leo, who is immune to fire, could get close enough to tame.

Which corporate takeover brought the Percy Jackson screen rights to Disney?

The 21st Century Fox deal: Fox had made the two films, so buying the studio in 2019 handed Disney the screen rights, and by May 2020 a Disney+ series was in the works.

In The Lightning Thief, what gift from a sea spirit lets Percy escape the Underworld?

Three pearls: the spirit gives them to Percy to use in great need, but three pearls carry only three people out, so he has to leave his mother behind in the Underworld.

Where was the first season of the Disney+ Percy Jackson series filmed?

Vancouver: Percy's story is set in New York, but the series is shot in British Columbia, where the 2010 film was also made.

Which Will & Grace star plays Mrs. Dodds, the Fury Alecto, in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series?

Megan Mullally, Karen in Will & Grace, plays the pre-algebra teacher who turns into a Fury on a school trip; once she is gone, Percy's classmates seem to have no memory of a Mrs. Dodds.

Which actor from The Wire plays Chiron in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series?

Glynn Turman, Mayor Royce in The Wire, plays Chiron, the centaur who hides his horse half in a wheelchair to pose as Percy's Latin teacher; his Wire castmate Lance Reddick played Zeus in season one.

Which comedian from The League plays Mr. D, the grumpy camp director, in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series?

Jason Mantzoukas, Rafi in The League, plays Mr. D, who drinks Diet Coke because Zeus has banned him from wine.

Which former WWE wrestler plays Ares in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series?

Adam Copeland, WWE's Edge, plays Ares, the war god who roars in on a motorcycle to bargain with the trio and ends up losing a duel to Percy.

Which Veep actor joins season two of the Disney+ Percy Jackson series as the camp's new activities director?

Timothy Simons, Jonah Ryan in Veep, plays the interim activities director, who hands Clarisse the quest along with false coordinates, so she has to track down Percy for the real ones.

Which Yancy Academy bully torments Percy in the first book and show?

Nancy Bobofit: when she torments Grover on a school trip, water from a nearby fountain seems to reach out and grab her, an early sign of Percy's powers that gets him blamed for pushing her.

Which Lord of the Rings actor played Zeus in the 2010 film The Lightning Thief?

Sean Bean, Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, played Zeus, who accuses Percy of stealing his lightning bolt and gives him until the summer solstice to hand it back.

Which Firefly star took over the role of Hermes in the 2013 film Sea of Monsters?

Nathan Fillion replaced Dylan Neal as Hermes, who helps the heroes track the kidnapped Grover to Luke's yacht; his caduceus snakes are voiced by Octavia Spencer and Craig Robinson.

Which Sin City actress played Persephone in the 2010 film The Lightning Thief?

Rosario Dawson played Persephone, who turns on Hades in the film's Underworld, takes the stolen lightning bolt from him and hands it to Percy.

Who played camp director Mr. D in the 2013 film Sea of Monsters?

Stanley Tucci played Mr. D, the wine god Dionysus, who is stuck running a summer camp as Zeus's punishment for chasing an off-limits wood nymph.

What nickname does Annabeth use for Percy throughout the series?

Seaweed Brain: Annabeth's teasing name for Percy from their first quest onward, a jab at how slowly he catches on.

What nickname does Percy use for Annabeth?

Wise Girl: Percy's teasing name for Annabeth, a nod to the strategic mind she inherited from her Olympian mother.

Which Hermes-cabin brothers are Camp Half-Blood's resident pranksters?

Travis and Connor Stoll: the sons of the god of thieves once decorated the Demeter cabin's grass roof with chocolate Easter bunnies, and its head counsellor has held a grudge ever since.

At the end of The Titan's Curse, a fallen heroine is placed in the sky as which new constellation?

The Huntress: the goddess of the hunt turns her dying lieutenant into a new constellation, so the girl who loved the stars now runs across them.

At the start of The Lost Hero, Jason Grace wakes with no memory aboard what?

A school bus: Jason comes to on a Wilderness School field trip to the Grand Canyon, holding hands with a girl he does not know, because a goddess has taken his memories and swapped him with Percy.

The Lost Hero was the first book in the saga to use what narrative style?

Third-person narration: after five books of Percy's first-person voice, The Lost Hero rotates third-person chapters among Jason, Piper and Leo.

In The Son of Neptune, Percy travels to Alaska to free which god?

Thanatos: with the god of death in chains, Gaea's fallen monsters keep coming straight back to life, so Percy, Hazel and Frank go to Alaska to free him from the giant Alcyoneus.

In The Son of Neptune, the Roman camp rewards Percy's bravery by electing him to which office?

Praetor: after Percy helps save the Roman camp from destruction, the campers make him their leader in place of the missing Jason Grace, even though he arrived as an amnesiac stranger.

Which statue do Nico, Reyna and Coach Hedge transport in The Blood of Olympus?

The Athena Parthenos: Nico shadow-travels the giant statue from Greece with Reyna and Coach Hedge, and delivering it to Camp Half-Blood is meant to stop the Greek and Roman camps going to war.

Which is the final book of The Trials of Apollo, released in 2020?

The Tower of Nero: the fifth book ends Apollo's exile as the mortal teenager Lester; once Nero and Python are beaten he becomes a god again and is welcomed back to Olympus.

Which Titan, known as Bob, do Nico and Will rescue from Tartarus in The Sun and the Star?

Iapetus: the Titan, amnesiac and renamed Bob after a dip in the Lethe, is rescued from Tartarus by Nico and Will in Mark Oshiro and Riordan's 2023 novel.

Annabeth Chase's cousin Magnus is the hero of Rick Riordan's trilogy about which mythology?

Norse: Magnus Chase, a homeless Boston teenager, dies fighting a fire giant on a bridge early in the first book and wakes in Valhalla as a son of the god Frey.

In The Last Olympian, which Central Park entrance to the Underworld opens only to music?

The Door of Orpheus: Grover's reed pipes open a tunnel in the Central Park rocks, the path the musician once opened with a song to fetch his wife, and Nico leads Percy down it.

Who drives the camp van and serves as Camp Half-Blood's head of security?

Argus: Hera's many-eyed giant works as Camp Half-Blood's security chief and van driver, and rarely speaks because he is said to have an eye on his tongue.

Which dragon guards the camp's border pine tree from The Sea of Monsters onward?

Peleus: he arrives as a baby dragon once the pine has a treasure worth stealing in its branches, and grows big enough to coil right around the trunk.

Which Hamilton alum plays Hermes in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series?

Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton, plays Hermes, whom Percy and Annabeth track down in a Las Vegas casino, only for the messenger god to refuse to help them.

Percy Jackson's sword returns to his pocket disguised as which everyday object when not in use?

A ballpoint pen is all anyone sees until Percy uncaps it and a bronze blade springs out. Lose it in a fight and it simply reappears in his pocket.

After a row with stepfather Gabe, Sally Jackson makes a point of serving Percy food in which colour?

Blue became the family's private rebellion after Gabe insisted no food could be that colour. Sally answered with blue cakes and blue candy brought home from work.

Thalia Grace, a daughter of the sky god, reluctantly admits to Percy that she has which fear?

Heights unnerve Thalia so badly that her turn at the wheel of the flying sun chariot is a gut-wrenching ride. Percy finds it ironic, given who her father is.

Why does Sally Jackson stay married to the loathsome Gabe for years in The Lightning Thief?

His stench hid Percy's scent from the monsters that hunt young demigods, which is the only reason Sally put up with him. She endured the marriage to keep her son alive.

After the Titan war in The Last Olympian, which reward from the gods does Percy Jackson turn down?

Immortality was the offer: Percy could have become a god. He asked instead that the gods claim all their children and give every one of them a cabin at camp.

Which trio of old women does Percy see knitting socks and snipping a thread in The Lightning Thief?

The Fates decide how long every life lasts, so when they cut the yarn in front of Percy, Grover panics that his friend has been marked for death.

Besides the master bolt, which symbol of the lord of the dead is stolen in The Lightning Thief?

The Helm of Darkness went missing too, so Hades accuses Percy of taking it. Percy wins it back in a beach duel with the war god and sends it home to its owner.

Which actor played Percy Jackson in the 2010 and 2013 films, before Disney+ recast the role?

Logan Lerman led both films, opposite Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth. He later praised the young cast chosen for the Disney+ series.

A sea spirit at Santa Monica Beach hands Percy Jackson which objects to escape the Underworld?

Pearls, each able to carry one person out. With three pearls and four people to save, Percy is forced to leave his mother behind, just as the prophecy warned.

In The Sea of Monsters, Annabeth asks to be tied to the mast so she can safely hear whose song?

The Sirens sing of a listener's deepest desires, which is why Annabeth cannot resist hearing them. Percy lashes her down and plugs his own ears with wax.

Poisoned in a monster attack, Percy Jackson leaps into the water from which American landmark?

The Gateway Arch is where a fire-breathing monster corners Percy at the very top. He jumps into the Mississippi, where the water cures the poison, and ends up on the news as a fugitive.

Which villain of Greek myth runs a Los Angeles mattress store in The Lightning Thief?

Procrustes straps customers down and stretches them to fit his beds, just as he treated travellers in the old stories. Percy tricks him onto one of his own beds and finishes him off.

Which English teacher at Goode High School becomes Sally Jackson's second husband?

Paul Blofis, nicknamed 'Blowfish', marries Sally between The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian. He is everything her first husband was not.

With the curse of Achilles, where on Percy Jackson's body is his single mortal point?

The small of his back, opposite his navel, stays mortal while the rest of him turns nearly invincible. Annabeth later takes a knife aimed at exactly that point.

Which trait does the goddess of wisdom warn Percy Jackson is his fatal flaw?

Personal loyalty sounds like a virtue, but Percy would risk the whole world, and his own life, to save a friend or a member of his family.

Rainbow, who carries Tyson to a cruise ship in The Sea of Monsters, is what kind of creature?

A hippocampus, a sea-horse of Greek myth, befriends Tyson on the way out. Rainbow returns with a few others to rescue the heroes when their own ship is destroyed.

In The Titan's Curse, the sun god's flying chariot usually takes the form of which sports car?

A Maserati Spyder is the sun chariot's everyday shape, though it changes at the push of a button. To carry a whole group of passengers, it turns into a bus.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, a mortal girl stuns the Titan lord by throwing what at his face?

A hairbrush to the face disorients the Titan lord, and it is his host Luke who cries out in pain. Annabeth takes that cry as proof the real Luke is still in there.

The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan's trilogy about Carter and Sadie, draws on which mythology?

Egyptian gods who meddle in the modern world drive the trilogy, which is set in the same universe as Percy's adventures and followed the success of his series.

In The Titan's Curse, Percy Jackson throws what from a gift shop into the Nemean Lion's mouth?

Astronaut food makes the lion choke with its jaws wide open, which exposes the one gap in a hide no weapon can cut. The archers then shoot straight into its mouth.

To pay its bills and pass as a farm to mortals, Camp Half-Blood grows and sells which fruit?

Strawberries grow in the camp's own fields and are sold to cover its expenses. Its cover name makes the whole place sound like an ordinary fruit business.

Which god runs Camp Half-Blood as a hundred-year punishment for chasing an off-limits nymph?

Dionysus makes no secret of hating the job: he gets the campers' names wrong on purpose, and Percy is usually 'Peter Johnson'.

Which Friday-night game sends Camp Half-Blood's cabins into the woods with real swords and spears?

Capture the flag at camp allows every magic item but bans killing and maiming. Prisoners go to a jail and stay there until a teammate frees them.

Which glowing green symbol appears over Percy Jackson's head when his father claims him at camp?

A trident of green light hovers over Percy moments after a hellhound nearly kills him in the woods. It marks him as a child the sea god had sworn never to have.

During Percy Jackson's first tour of Camp Half-Blood, Clarisse tries to shove his head into what?

A toilet is her initiation for newcomers, but this time the plumbing obeys Percy. Water arcs over his head and blasts Clarisse and her friends out of the bathroom.

Camp Half-Blood campers wear a T-shirt printed with a black pegasus in which bright colour?

Orange shirts mark out the Greek demigods at a glance. Their Roman counterparts wear purple instead, with SPQR inside a laurel wreath on the front.

The climbing wall at Camp Half-Blood pours what down on campers who are too slow to the top?

Lava pours from the top while the two sides shake and clash together, so nobody dawdles. Percy tells one startled newcomer it is only there for a little extra challenge.

Which winged creatures patrol Camp Half-Blood at night, ready to eat any camper caught out of bed?

Harpies do the camp's cleaning as well as its night patrols. They screech 'Dinner for hungry harpies!' at any camper they catch sneaking out.

Under which name does Chiron, Camp Half-Blood's centaur, teach Latin at Percy Jackson's school?

Mr. Brunner teaches from an enchanted wheelchair that hides his horse half. He goes undercover at Yancy Academy because he has taken a special interest in Percy.

Which prophetic spirit speaks through a mummy kept in an attic at Camp Half-Blood?

The Oracle of Delphi gives the prophecy that launches each quest. Only campers who have been assigned one are allowed up the stairs to consult her.

Banned from his favourite drink, Camp Half-Blood's director is usually seen with a can of what?

Diet Coke is the stand-in, drunk by the litre. He sips it through endless card games on the porch of the camp's main building.

Cabin two at Camp Half-Blood stays empty because which goddess never has children with mortals?

Hera is the goddess of marriage and does not run around having affairs with mortals. Her cabin is purely honorary and has no furniture, since nobody will ever sleep there.

At the end of each summer, Camp Half-Blood campers are given what to wear on a camp necklace?

A painted bead marks each summer survived. The head counsellors vote on the year's biggest event, and that becomes the design every camper receives.

At dinner in Camp Half-Blood's dining pavilion, each camper first drops a share of the meal where?

Into the fire goes a portion of every dinner, burnt as a tribute to the gods before anyone eats. The flames sit in a bronze brazier the size of a bathtub.

Which name do campers give the building that serves as Camp Half-Blood's headquarters and infirmary?

The Big House has a bronze eagle weathervane on its roof. Chiron keeps his office and apartment inside, and the director holds court on the porch.

Which card game are Chiron and Camp Half-Blood's director playing when Percy Jackson meets them?

Pinochle ranks, in the director's opinion, beside Pac-Man and gladiator fighting as one of the best games humans ever invented.

Once extra cabins are built for the minor gods, Camp Half-Blood's cabins form which Greek letter?

Omega replaced a plain U. The original twelve cabins stood in that open shape, and the eight added later turned it into the last letter of the Greek alphabet.

Why does cabin eleven at Camp Half-Blood take in every newcomer who has not been claimed?

Its god guards travellers, so the cabin turns nobody away. Years of housing every homeless demigod left it the oldest-looking and most worn cabin in camp.

At the end of The Lightning Thief, Luke leaves Percy for dead in the camp woods by summoning what?

A pit scorpion can leap fifteen feet and its venom kills within a minute. Water cannot cure Percy this time, so wood nymphs carry him back for Chiron to heal.

Why do Percy Jackson and the other Camp Half-Blood demigods avoid carrying mobile phones?

Calls attract monsters, because a demigod's voice travelling through the air works like a flare gun. Annabeth carries one anyway, strictly for emergencies.