Percy Jackson Trivia for Kids
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59 free Percy Jackson Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Percy Jackson trivia for kids quiz follows the five Percy Jackson & the Olympians books the way a young reader remembers them: who Percy's dad is, what his pen turns into, why Annabeth wears a Yankees cap, what Grover really is, who poisoned Thalia's tree, what Tyson turns out to be, and how the whole thing ends on Olympus. There are questions on the Disney+ series and the two movies too, plus a few on Rick Riordan and his other series for readers who have moved on to Camp Jupiter, Egypt or Asgard. It is pitched at readers roughly 8 to 13 who have read the books or watched the show. Most questions are easy or medium; the last handful are for the kid who has read the series three times. Grown-ups who want a tougher run should try our main Percy Jackson trivia page. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article on the book, film, series or character, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which Greek god is Percy Jackson's father?
Poseidon
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.
Q 02What is Percy's full first name?
Perseus
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.
Q 03Percy's sword Riptide is made of what metal?
Celestial bronze
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.
Q 04Which reward does Percy turn down on Olympus?
Becoming a god
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.
Q 05What is the first name of Percy Jackson's mother?
Sally
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.
Q 06Which two conditions make school hard for Percy but turn out to be signs of a demigod?
Dyslexia and ADHD
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.
Q 07On the school trip at the start of The Lightning Thief, Mrs. Dodds turns into what and attacks Percy?
A Fury
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.
Q 08Percy's favourite teacher, Mr. Brunner, is secretly who?
Chiron
Mr. Brunner is Chiron, the immortal centaur who has trained heroes for thousands of years; his magic wheelchair hides his horse body.
Q 09What kind of creature is Percy's best friend Grover?
A satyr
Grover Underwood is a satyr, half goat from the waist down; he plays reed pipes and dreams of finding the lost nature god Pan.
Q 10Which monster attacks Percy and his mother just outside camp?
The Minotaur
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.
Q 11Where is Camp Half-Blood located?
Long Island, New York
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.
Q 12Which camp game has just ended when a hellhound attacks Percy and his father claims him?
Capture the Flag
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.
Q 13Which three gods swore an oath not to have any more children, an oath Percy's birth broke?
Zeus, Poseidon and Hades
Q 21In The Sea of Monsters, Tyson turns out to be a baby cyclops and also Percy's what?
Half-brother
Tyson is Percy's half-brother; they share the same godly father, which embarrasses Percy at first and then makes him proud.
Q 22What has been poisoned at Camp Half-Blood in The Sea of Monsters, weakening its protective border?
Thalia's tree
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.
Q 23What magical object can save the camp in The Sea of Monsters?
The Golden Fleece
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.
Q 14By which day must Percy return Zeus's stolen Master Bolt?
The summer solstice
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.
Q 15In which US city is the entrance to the Underworld in The Lightning Thief?
Los Angeles
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.
Q 16Which god tricks Percy by hiding the stolen weapon in a backpack he gives him?
Ares
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.
Q 17What colour is the food that Percy's mother goes out of her way to make for him?
Blue
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.
Q 18Annabeth is the daughter of which goddess?
Athena
Like all Athena's kids she is terrified of spiders, because of what her mother did to Arachne.
Q 19Annabeth owns a magic cap from her mother that makes her what?
Invisible
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.
Q 20Which god is Luke Castellan's father?
Hermes
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.
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.
Q 24What is the name of the friendly hippocampus that helps Tyson and Percy at sea?
Rainbow
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.
Q 25On Circe's island, Percy and Annabeth discover she has turned dozens of men into what?
Guinea pigs
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.
Q 26Which camper is sent by Tantalus on the quest to save the camp, sailing on the CSS Birmingham?
Clarisse La Rue
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.
Q 27In The Titan's Curse, Percy nicknames the Ophiotaurus, a cow-serpent creature, what?
Bessie
Percy names the Ophiotaurus Bessie before learning it is male; whoever sacrifices the creature and burns its entrails gains the power to destroy Olympus.
Q 28What is the name of the pegasus Percy rides and talks to?
Blackjack
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.
Q 29Which goddess is found holding up the sky on Mount Othrys in The Titan's Curse?
Artemis
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.
Q 30Nico and Bianca di Angelo, hidden for decades in a hotel where time stands still, are children of which god?
Hades
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.