59 Fun Facts About Percy Jackson Trivia for Kids

Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?

Poseidon, god of the sea, is Percy's father, which is why Percy can breathe underwater, steer boats and talk to horses and sea creatures.

What is Percy's full first name?

Percy is short for Perseus; his mother chose the name because the original Perseus was one of the few Greek heroes whose story ended happily.

Percy's sword Riptide is made of what metal?

Celestial bronze is the metal of Riptide, a sword that hides as a ballpoint pen and always reappears in Percy's pocket, however often he loses it.

Which reward does Percy turn down on Olympus?

Becoming a god is the prize Percy refuses: he asks instead that the gods swear to claim all their children by the age of thirteen and give the minor gods cabins at camp.

What is the first name of Percy Jackson's mother?

Sally married the foul-smelling Gabe Ugliano on purpose: his stench was strong enough to hide her son's demigod scent from the monsters hunting him.

Which two conditions make school hard for Percy but turn out to be signs of a demigod?

Percy has dyslexia and ADHD; the books explain that a demigod's brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek and that the restlessness is battlefield reflexes.

On the school trip at the start of The Lightning Thief, Mrs. Dodds turns into what and attacks Percy?

Mrs. Dodds is a Fury, one of the Kindly Ones; Percy defeats her with the pen his Latin teacher tosses him, which turns into the sword Riptide.

Percy's favourite teacher, Mr. Brunner, is secretly who?

Mr. Brunner is Chiron, the immortal centaur who has trained heroes for thousands of years; his magic wheelchair hides his horse body.

What kind of creature is Percy's best friend Grover?

Grover Underwood is a satyr, half goat from the waist down; he plays reed pipes and dreams of finding the lost nature god Pan.

Which monster attacks Percy and his mother just outside camp?

The Minotaur attacks at the camp border; Percy snaps off one of its horns and stabs it, while his mother vanishes in a flash of golden light.

Where is Camp Half-Blood located?

Long Island, New York, is where the camp hides: Percy's mother races him there by car through a storm after Grover warns that something is hunting him.

Which camp game has just ended when a hellhound attacks Percy and his father claims him?

Capture the Flag has just finished when a hellhound leaps at Percy by the creek; moments later a glowing sign appears over his head, showing the whole camp whose son he is.

Which three gods swore an oath not to have any more children, an oath Percy's birth broke?

Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the Big Three, swore the oath after World War II because their children were too powerful and dangerous; Percy's birth broke it.

By which day must Percy return Zeus's stolen Master Bolt?

The summer solstice is the deadline: the bolt vanished at the winter solstice, Zeus blames the sea god, and Percy sets out with only ten days left to stop a war.

In which US city is the entrance to the Underworld in The Lightning Thief?

Los Angeles hides the entrance in DOA Recording Studios, where the ferryman Charon, in a silk Italian suit, will only take the living trio aboard once Percy bribes him.

Which god tricks Percy by hiding the stolen weapon in a backpack he gives him?

Ares, the god of war, had the stolen items all along; when Percy works it out he challenges the god to a duel on the beach and, against all odds, wins.

What colour is the food that Percy's mother goes out of her way to make for him?

Blue food is his mother's quiet rebellion: her husband Gabe once insisted there was no such thing, so she has gone out of her way to find and make it ever since.

Annabeth is the daughter of which goddess?

Like all Athena's kids she is terrified of spiders, because of what her mother did to Arachne.

Annabeth owns a magic cap from her mother that makes her what?

Invisible is how Annabeth fools the giant Polyphemus in The Sea of Monsters: hidden under her Yankees cap, she taunts him as 'Nobody', the name Odysseus once tricked him with.

Which god is Luke Castellan's father?

Hermes, the messenger god, is the father of Castellan, which is why the boy owns winged flying sneakers; he gives them to Percy with sneaky intentions.

In The Sea of Monsters, Tyson turns out to be a baby cyclops and also Percy's what?

Tyson is Percy's half-brother; they share the same godly father, which embarrasses Percy at first and then makes him proud.

What has been poisoned at Camp Half-Blood in The Sea of Monsters, weakening its protective border?

Thalia's tree is the pine that sprang up where Thalia, a daughter of Zeus, fell defending her friends; its magic guards the border, so poisoning it lets monsters in.

What magical object can save the camp in The Sea of Monsters?

The Golden Fleece, which heals any living thing, hangs on Polyphemus's island; the cyclops has captured Grover and thinks he is a lady cyclops.

What is the name of the friendly hippocampus that helps Tyson and Percy at sea?

Rainbow is the friendly hippocampus, half horse and half fish, who saves Tyson when the CSS Birmingham explodes and later carries the friends to safety.

On Circe's island, Percy and Annabeth discover she has turned dozens of men into what?

Circe turns men into guinea pigs; in Homer's Odyssey she turned Odysseus's crew into full-size pigs, and Percy himself is briefly changed into a guinea pig.

Which camper is sent by Tantalus on the quest to save the camp, sailing on the CSS Birmingham?

Clarisse La Rue, Percy's rival, sails in a Civil War ironclad crewed by dead Confederate sailors; in the end Percy hands her the prize so she can fly home alone, as her prophecy said.

In The Titan's Curse, Percy nicknames the Ophiotaurus, a cow-serpent creature, what?

Percy names the Ophiotaurus Bessie before learning it is male; whoever sacrifices the creature and burns its entrails gains the power to destroy Olympus.

What is the name of the pegasus Percy rides and talks to?

Blackjack is a black pegasus held captive on an enemy cruise ship until he breaks free during Percy's fight there; he has carried Percy on quests ever since.

Which goddess is found holding up the sky on Mount Othrys in The Titan's Curse?

Artemis is trapped under the sky on Mount Othrys, having taken its weight from a captive demigod; Percy briefly holds it himself so she can fight free.

Nico and Bianca di Angelo, hidden for decades in a hotel where time stands still, are children of which god?

Hades hid Nico and Bianca in a Las Vegas hotel where time barely passes, to keep them safe from Zeus; they walked out decades later having hardly aged.

Zoë Nightshade, lieutenant of the Hunters, is revealed to be the daughter of which Titan?

Zoe is a daughter of Atlas and one of the Hesperides; long ago she helped Hercules steal a golden apple and gave him the sword that became Riptide.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare is a mortal with what special ability?

Rachel can see through the Mist, the magic that hides monsters from mortals; after the war she becomes the camp's new Oracle of Delphi.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, the quest is to find which ancient inventor before Luke does?

Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, has been living at camp as the swordsman Quintus, his soul transferred into an automaton body.

Percy is blasted out of Hephaestus's forge in which real volcano?

Mount St. Helens hides the forge of Hephaestus; Percy's blast makes the volcano erupt and flings him to Ogygia, where Calypso is cursed to love heroes who can never stay.

What is the name of the giant hellhound the old inventor leaves to Percy?

Mrs. O'Leary is a friendly hellhound bigger than a tank who chases a shield like a Frisbee; when her master passes on, he leaves her in Percy's care.

On his fifteenth birthday, Percy's father gives him what and tells him to spend it wisely?

The sand dollar, a gift from his father, is broken in half and given to the gods of the East and Hudson rivers, winning their help in the final battle.

In The Last Olympian, where does Percy bathe to become almost invulnerable?

Bathing in the River Styx gives Percy the curse of Achilles, leaving him invulnerable except for one secret weak spot in the small of his back.

Grover's nature magic turns the Titan Hyperion into what?

A maple tree in Central Park is where Hyperion ends up: Percy, drawing strength from the lake, battles the Titan of light until Grover and the nature spirits seal him inside the trunk.

Which New York skyscraper has Mount Olympus on its secret 600th floor?

The Empire State Building hides Olympus above it, reached by a special elevator to a 600th floor that the lobby guard insists does not exist.

In The Last Olympian, Percy entrusts Pandora's jar of Hope to which goddess?

Percy hands Pandora's jar to Hestia, goddess of the hearth, so that hope stays safe with her; she is the 'last Olympian' of the book's title.

Who plays Percy in the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians?

Walker Scobell won the part at thirteen with audition tapes that Rick Riordan said blew the team away, just as his first film, The Adam Project, was coming out.

Which star of stage musicals plays the god Hermes in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series?

Lin-Manuel Miranda plays Hermes as a god who refuses to help when the heroes find him in a Las Vegas casino, then quietly leaves them his car and directions to the Underworld.

Who played Percy in the 2010 movie The Lightning Thief?

Logan Lerman starred in the 2010 film, but Rick Riordan had no part in making it and says he has never watched it, so that it could not change how he pictures his characters.

Rick Riordan first made up Percy's story as bedtime tales for whom?

His son Haley asked for bedtime stories about the Greek myths; when Riordan ran out of real ones, Haley asked for a new one, and Percy was invented over three nights.

What was Rick Riordan's job before he became a full-time author?

A middle school teacher for fifteen years, Riordan had a few of his own students test-drive the first Percy manuscript; they helped him pick its title and refine how the hero's sword worked.

Which god runs Camp Half-Blood as a punishment from Zeus and keeps calling Percy 'Peter Johnson'?

Dionysus, known at camp as Mr. D, was sentenced to a hundred years of running it for chasing an off-limits wood nymph, with wine forbidden the whole time.

In The Heroes of Olympus, what is the training camp for demigods with Roman parents called?

Camp Jupiter, the Roman camp near San Francisco, joins with Camp Half-Blood; seven demigods from both camps team up to stop the earth goddess Gaea from waking.

In The Trials of Apollo, the god Apollo is turned into a mortal teenager with what name?

Apollo becomes Lester Papadopoulos, a sixteen-year-old mortal with acne and no powers, and lands in a New York dumpster as punishment from Zeus.

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

Norse myth takes over when Magnus, a homeless Boston teenager, dies in the first book and wakes in Hotel Valhalla, where fallen heroes train for the end of the world.

The Kane Chronicles is based on the mythology of which country?

Egypt's gods are set loose when the Kanes' father tries to summon Osiris in the British Museum, and his children Carter and Sadie are left to deal with them.

In The Chalice of the Gods (2023), whose stolen cup of immortality does Percy have to find?

Ganymede's chalice has been stolen, and the gods' cupbearer must get it back before the others find out; finding it earns Percy one of the three recommendation letters he needs for New Rome University.

Where is Percy on a school trip when Mrs. Dodds first attacks him?

The field trip is to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Mrs. Dodds lures Percy into a gallery; Mr. Brunner tosses him the pen that becomes Riptide.

Which monster runs Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium in The Lightning Thief?

Medusa poses as Aunty Em, and her 'statues' are petrified victims; Percy cuts off her head and posts it to Olympus, and his mother later uses it to turn her bullying husband to stone.

Who stalls Percy, Annabeth and Grover in Nevada on their way to the Underworld?

The Lotus-eaters run a Las Vegas hotel and casino whose games are so absorbing that nobody wants to leave; the trio think they have spent a few hours there and lose five days.

In The Lightning Thief, what does Hades say was stolen from him?

His Helm of Darkness vanished in the same theft as Zeus's weapon, so Hades blamed Percy and held his mother hostage until it came back.

What game is Percy playing in gym class when Laestrygonian giants attack in The Sea of Monsters?

Dodgeball turns deadly at Meriwether College Prep when the visiting players prove to be giants hurling flaming balls; Tyson and Annabeth save Percy.

In The Sea of Monsters, what is the name of the cruise ship crewed by monsters?

The Princess Andromeda is a cruise liner that serves as the floating base of Kronos's army; held prisoner aboard, Percy tricks his captor into a confession that the camp hears by Iris-message.

On Circe's island, what does Annabeth use to break the spell on Percy?

Multivitamins from Hermes make Annabeth immune to Circe's magic; she tips the rest over the other captives, turning Percy and the pirate Blackbeard's crew back into men.

In The Sea of Monsters, what are the centaurs who come to Percy's rescue called?

The Party Ponies are rowdy centaurs from Florida who storm the villains' ship in Miami firing paintball guns, then carry Percy and his friends back to camp.