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50 free Michael Vey trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Michael Vey looks like the least likely hero at Meridian High: small, overlooked, and hiding a secret that could get him killed. Over ten novels his story grows from a school corridor into a fight that crosses oceans, with a cast of electric teenagers whose powers are as different as their loyalties. This quiz covers all of it: who can do what in the Electroclan, what Dr. Hatch and the Elgen are really after, the missions and betrayals of the original seven books, and the later return of the series. A few questions step outside the story to the author and how the books reached readers. It suits readers who have just finished the first book as much as fans who have followed every sequel. The early questions are friendly; the later ones reward people who remember the names of ships, guards and safe houses.
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Q 01Which condition does the author of the Michael Vey novels share with his electric teenage hero?
Tourette's syndrome
Tourette's syndrome, which shows up as involuntary movements and sounds called tics, is something the writer lives with himself. Classmates at Meridian High know Michael as the kid with tics, never guessing at his powers.
Q 02In the Michael Vey novels, which animals do the Elgen breed by the million to run Starxource plants?
Rats
Rats made electric power every Starxource plant, and Dr. Hatch nearly feeds the captured Michael to a swarm of them before his friends blow up the cooling system.
Q 03Which broadcaster's imprint, Mercury Ink, launched with the first Michael Vey novel in 2011?
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck had the author on his radio show and posted a trailer online. On the first day of pre-orders the book hit number one at Barnes & Noble's website.
Q 04In Michael Vey, which computer device is the Glow Grace compared to because she stores data?
A flash drive
A flash drive is the comparison, since Grace can copy and carry huge amounts of data. Left behind when Dr. Hatch fled the Elgen Academy, she joined the Electroclan.
Q 05In Michael Vey, which of Dr. Hatch's Glows switches sides during the Electroclan's escape from the Elgen Academy?
Zeus
Zeus, whose real name is Frank, can throw electricity from his body. The Elgen kidnapped him as a small child, and he spent years as one of Hatch's Glows before changing sides.
Q 06In which US state does Michael Vey hide his electric powers from classmates at Meridian High School?
Idaho
Idaho is also where the Electroclan head after escaping the Elgen Academy, only to find the Elgen already waiting for them at home.
Q 07In Michael Vey, what can the Glow Abigail temporarily take away from anyone she is touching?
Their pain
Their pain stops because Abigail electrically stimulates parts of the brain. The Elgen held her captive for years for refusing to follow Dr. Hatch.
Q 08In Michael Vey, how is Tara, a Glow raised by Dr. Hatch from age six, related to Taylor Ridley?
Her twin sister
Her twin sister, and an identical one: the girls were adopted by different families after birth, so Tara grew up inside the Elgen and Taylor did not.
Q 09Besides scrambling brains, what can Michael Vey's friend Taylor Ridley do to a person she touches?
Read their mind
Read their mind is the second trick, and it only works through touch. Her other power is to "reboot" people, leaving them confused for a moment.
Q 10Which Utah novelist wrote the Michael Vey series about a teenager who can shock people by touch?
Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans was already a bestselling novelist for adults when he entered the young-adult market with Michael's story in 2011.
Q 11Which relative of Michael Vey do the Elgen kidnap after a birthday dinner, setting off his quest?
His mother
His mother is seized outside the restaurant by Dr. Hatch and two electric teenagers, moments after Michael shocks a would-be robber unconscious.
Q 12Which best friend of Michael Vey has no electric powers but an IQ of 155?
Ostin
Ostin Liss has an IQ his official profile puts level with the average Nobel Prize winner's, and after the Elgen fall he enrols in advanced maths and physics courses at Caltech.
Q 13Before joining the Electroclan, what was Jack Vranes to Michael Vey at Meridian High School?
His bully
His bully at first, Jack changed sides when Michael paid him for a lift to California and the rescue. He ended up as assistant head of security at the company that replaced the Elgen.
Q 21Which real Pacific island nation does Dr. Hatch seize to give the Elgen a land base in Michael Vey?
Tuvalu
Tuvalu falls while Dr. Hatch wines and dines its dignitaries: Quentin leads the Elgen forces that capture the country during the banquet.
Q 22Which novel, published in 2024, is billed as the tenth and final instalment of the Michael Vey series?
The Colony
The Colony takes its title from a group of rival electrics who are holding a kidnapped Electroclan member somewhere in South America.
Q 23The Elgen flagship Ampere in Michael Vey shares its name with the standard unit of electric what?
Current
Current is measured in amperes, a unit named after the French physicist André-Marie Ampère. Other Elgen ships follow the same naming habit, among them the Watt and the Volta.
Q 14Which breakfast food does Michael Vey love as much as video games, according to his official profile?
Waffles
Waffles and video games are his loves and homework his hate, which is how the official site introduces a seemingly ordinary 14-year-old who is anything but.
Q 15In which California city were Michael Vey and Taylor Ridley born days apart at the same hospital?
Pasadena
Pasadena General is where a wave of unexplained newborn deaths set the plot in motion, and the city also houses the Elgen Academy where both teenagers are later held.
Q 16In the Michael Vey backstory, what killed dozens of newborns and gave the survivors electric powers?
Faulty medical equipment
Faulty medical equipment at a single hospital is the Elgen's guilty secret. Seventeen babies survived the accident, and the company has been hunting them down ever since.
Q 17What is Taylor Ridley at Meridian High School when she first sees Michael Vey use his powers?
Cheerleader
Cheerleader and one of the most popular girls in school, she is later snatched by the Elgen straight from practice.
Q 18Which South American country do Michael Vey's Electroclan travel to in the second novel, Rise of the Elgen?
Peru
Peru is home to the largest of the Elgen's Starxource plants, at Puerto Maldonado, which the Electroclan infiltrate and wreck.
Q 19By what name do Michael Vey and the Electroclan know the anonymous contact who guides the resistance's missions?
The voice
The voice first reaches Michael by phone and helps the group slip an Elgen trap. For a long time nobody is sure whether the caller is an ally or bait.
Q 20In Michael Vey, which ordinary sense does the Glow Ian lack, relying on electrolocation instead?
Sight
Sight is missing, yet electrolocation lets Ian perceive his surroundings the way sharks find their way through murky water. He spent years in the Elgen Academy's prison for refusing to follow Dr. Hatch.
Q 24In Michael Vey, what can Nichelle, long used by Dr. Hatch to control his other Glows, do to their powers?
Drain them
Drain them is her speciality, since she acts as an electrical ground. Abandoned by Dr. Hatch at the Elgen Academy, she is later recruited by the very teenagers she once tormented.
Q 25What does Michael Vey secretly arrange for Taylor Ridley on the eve of the Jade Dragon mission?
A prom
A prom, staged with help from the parents, was his answer after he overheard her regret at never getting to live an ordinary teenage life.
Q 26In Michael Vey, what can McKenna, a Glow freed from the Elgen Academy's prison, produce from her body?
Light and heat
Light and heat pour out of her on demand, and she can raise her own temperature to more than three thousand kelvins.
Q 27In Michael Vey, which vehicles does the Glow Tanner cause to crash by scrambling their navigation systems?
Airplanes
Airplanes fail when he interferes with their electronics, and he can do it while standing on the ground. Rescued from the Elgen, Tanner later died in the battle of Hades.
Q 28Which Glow does Michael Vey meet living with the Amacarra tribe in the Amazon after she fled the Elgen?
Tessa
Tessa spent six months in the jungle with the Amacarra, and her gift is to strengthen the powers of the other Glows.
Q 29In Michael Vey, where do the Elgen hold the prodigy Jade Dragon inside a guarded Starxource plant?
Taiwan
Taiwan's plant looked so impenetrable that the Electroclan chose to snatch her during a transfer to an Elgen research boat instead.
Q 30Which Elgen ship, a floating treasury, must the Electroclan capture in Michael Vey: Fall of Hades?
The Joule
The Joule holds the Elgen's money, and the resistance reasons that stealing it is the surest way to wipe the organisation out.