Can You Score 20/20? Ultimate Mythology Movies Trivia Quiz – Test Your Knowledge!

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Challenge your cinematic knowledge of films inspired by ancient myths! From Greek legends like Clash of the Titans to Norse sagas in Thor and Egyptian gods in Gods of Egypt, these 20 questions mix easy starters with fiendishly tough ones.

20 Trivia Questions on Mythology Movies

Question 1: Which actor portrayed Perseus in the original 1981 Clash of the Titans?

A. Sam Worthington
B. Harry Hamlin
C. Logan Lerman
D. Todd Armstrong

Question 2: What is the name of Perseus’s mechanical owl companion in Clash of the Titans (1981)?

A. Bubo
B. Festo
C. Argos
D. Daedalus

Question 3: Who played Zeus in Clash of the Titans (1981)?

A. Anthony Hopkins
B. Laurence Olivier
C. Ralph Fiennes
D. Liam Neeson

Question 4: In Troy (2004), who portrayed Achilles?

A. Brad Pitt
B. Orlando Bloom
C. Eric Bana
D. Sean Bean

Question 5: What is the name of the Spartan king played by Gerard Butler in 300 (2006)?

A. Xerxes
B. Leonidas
C. Themistocles
D. Ephialtes

Question 6: Who directed 300 (2006)?

A. Zack Snyder
B. Wolfgang Petersen
C. Ridley Scott
D. Gore Verbinski

Question 7: In the Marvel film Thor (2011), what is the name of Thor’s enchanted hammer?

A. Stormbreaker
B. Mjolnir
C. Jarnbjorn
D. Draupnir

Question 8: Who directed Thor (2011)?

A. Taika Waititi
B. Kenneth Branagh
C. Alan Taylor
D. Anthony Russo

Question 9: In Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), who is revealed to be Percy Jackson’s father?

A. Zeus
B. Hades
C. Poseidon
D. Hermes

Question 10: What stop-motion animator created the famous skeleton army in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)?

A. Willis O’Brien
B. Ray Harryhausen
C. Phil Tippett
D. Tim Burton

Question 11: Who directed Jason and the Argonauts (1963)?

A. Don Chaffey
B. Desmond Davis
C. Richard Lester
D. Mario Bava

Question 12: In Clash of the Titans (2010), who plays Zeus?

A. Liam Neeson
B. Ralph Fiennes
C. Luke Evans
D. Édgar Ramírez

Question 13: Who plays Perseus in Wrath of the Titans (2012)?

A. Sam Worthington
B. Harry Hamlin
C. Logan Lerman
D. Brenton Thwaites

Question 14: In Immortals (2011), which actor plays the hero Theseus?

A. Henry Cavill
B. Mickey Rourke
C. Luke Evans
D. Stephen Dorff

Question 15: Who plays the villainous King Hyperion in Immortals (2011)?

A. Gerard Butler
B. Mickey Rourke
C. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
D. Rufus Sewell

Question 16: In Gods of Egypt (2016), who portrays the god Set?

A. Gerard Butler
B. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
C. Brenton Thwaites
D. Geoffrey Rush

Question 17: Which actor plays Horus in Gods of Egypt (2016)?

A. Brenton Thwaites
B. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
C. Gerard Butler
D. Courtney Eaton

Question 18: Who voices Beowulf in the 2007 animated film Beowulf?

A. Ray Winstone
B. Anthony Hopkins
C. John Malkovich
D. Angelina Jolie

Question 19: Who directed Excalibur (1981), the Arthurian legend film?

A. John Boorman
B. Ridley Scott
C. Terry Gilliam
D. Peter Jackson

Question 20: In the Marvel film Thor: Ragnarok (2017), who plays the goddess of death Hela?

A. Cate Blanchett
B. Tessa Thompson
C. Natalie Portman
D. Jaimie Alexander

Answers

  1. B. Harry Hamlin – Harry Hamlin starred as Perseus in Desmond Davis’s 1981 film. Sam Worthington was in the 2010 remake, Logan Lerman played Percy Jackson, and Todd Armstrong was Jason.
  2. A. Bubo – Bubo is the clockwork owl gifted to Perseus by Hephaestus in the 1981 film; the others are not featured.
  3. B. Laurence Olivier – Olivier portrayed Zeus in the 1981 original. Hopkins played Odin, Fiennes Hades in the remake, and Neeson Zeus in 2010.
  4. A. Brad Pitt – Brad Pitt played the warrior Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy. Bloom was Paris, Bana Hector, and Bean Odysseus.
  5. B. Leonidas – Gerard Butler portrayed King Leonidas leading 300 Spartans at Thermopylae in Zack Snyder’s film; others are Persian or Greek foes.
  6. A. Zack Snyder – Snyder directed the stylised 300 based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. Petersen directed Troy.
  7. B. Mjolnir – Mjolnir is Thor’s iconic hammer in the MCU film; Stormbreaker appears later.
  8. B. Kenneth Branagh – Branagh helmed the first Thor film. Waititi directed Ragnarok.
  9. C. Poseidon – Percy discovers Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) is his father in Chris Columbus’s adaptation; Zeus is his uncle.
  10. B. Ray Harryhausen – Harryhausen created the stop-motion skeletons summoned against Jason; O’Brien worked on King Kong.
  11. A. Don Chaffey – Chaffey directed the 1963 fantasy epic with Harryhausen’s effects.
  12. A. Liam Neeson – Neeson plays Zeus in Louis Leterrier’s 2010 remake; Fiennes is Hades.
  13. A. Sam Worthington – Worthington reprises Perseus from the 2010 film in its sequel.
  14. A. Henry Cavill – Cavill stars as Theseus battling Hyperion in Tarsem Singh’s film.
  15. B. Mickey Rourke – Rourke plays the power-hungry Hyperion seeking the Epirus Bow.
  16. A. Gerard Butler – Butler portrays the chaotic god Set in Alex Proyas’s film.
  17. B. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Coster-Waldau plays Horus teaming with a mortal thief; Thwaites is Bek.
  18. A. Ray Winstone – Winstone voices the hero Beowulf in Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture film; Jolie voices Grendel’s mother.
  19. A. John Boorman – Boorman directed the 1981 Arthurian epic starring Nicol Williamson as Merlin.
  20. A. Cate Blanchett – Blanchett plays Hela, Odin’s firstborn and ruler of Hel, in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok.

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