The Harry Potter Quiz, conducted at IIT Guwahati

1. The Harry Potter Quiz
-Manan Bhutani

2. 1.
The brains behind this song?

3. Peeves

4. 2.
• X is perhaps the most well known among all these spells. What is
common to these spells. Also Identify X.
Langlock
Levicorpus
Liberacorpus
Muffliato
X

5. Spells created by Snape.
Sectumsempra

6. 3.
• X is an elective subject offered from the third year on at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During the 1990s at least, the class
was taught by Professor Septima Vector in Classroom 7A, on the
Castle's seventh floor.
• X was Hermione Granger's favourite subject at Hogwarts. She once
told Harry Potter it was "wonderful" when he remarked that her
challenging homework looked "terrible.
• Identify X.

7. Arithmancy

8. 4.
• Slytherin : below the ground, beyond a stone wall.
• Ravenclaw : beyond a bronze eagle-shaped knocker that poses a
riddle.
• Hufflepuff : below ground level behind a stack of barrels near the
kitchens.
• Gryffindor : ??

9. Through the fat lady’s portrait

10. 5.
• What are these collectively known as? Also Identify the missing one
• “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot”
• “The Fountain of Fair Fortune”
• “The Warlock's Hairy Heart”
• “Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump”
• ??
(Part Points. 0.5 for each part)

11. Tales of Beedle the Bard.
The tale of the three brothers.

12. 6. FITB
• __________ cannot save a thing,
• He cannot block a single ring,
• That's why Slytherins all sing:
• __________ is our King.
• __________ was born in a bin
• He always lets the Quaffle in
• __________ will make sure we win
• __________ is our King.

13. Weasley

14. 7.
What had this inscription engraved on it?

15. Hermione’s Time Turner

16. 8.
• These are some instances of use of what?
• Albus Dumbledore – Recreation
• Horace Slughorn – Had two perfect days
• Harry Potter – Extraction of a memory from Slughorn
• Ron – Escape Death Eaters
• Ginny - Escape Death Eaters
• Hermione Granger - Escape Death Eaters

17. Use of the Felix Felicis

18. 9.
Food
Money
Broomsticks and wands
Information (Books, brainwaves, etc!)
Human life
What are these five the exceptions to ??

19. Gamp’s Law

20. 10.
• Location of X's office : Level 2, Ministry of Magic.
• Luna Lovegood reckons that X form a part of the Rotfang Conspiracy
and they try to bring the Ministry down by using a combination of
complicated gum diseases and very advanced dark magic!
• Harry Potter is known to be the youngest X of all times!
• Identify X.

21. Aurors

22. 11.
• Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts for opening the Chamber of
Secrets; his wand snapped into half, though occasional strokes of
magic come out of his “pink umbrella”.
• With magic performed by broken wands, we see that neither Ron
(after the Ford Anglia accident), nor Harry (after the Godric’s Hollow
accident) can make a broken wand work.
• Yet Hagrid’s wand works! What best explains this anomaly?

23. Dumbledore repaired it using the elder wand.

24. 12.
• 1st : I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer..
• 4th : ..and as Hagrid said, what would come would come...and he
would have to meet it when it did.
• 7th : ???

25. All was well.
These are the last sentences of the respective
books

26. 13. Connect laterally and identify the missing
ones (part points)

27. OWL grades. Exceeds Expectations and Troll
are the missing ones.

28. 14. Who?
• Professor at Hogwarts.
• Believed to be of Elfish origin, but actually descends from Goblins.
• Fought valiantly in all three wizarding wars of the modern times.
• Contemporary of Dumbledore.
• Favourite among students for giving trivial and non-harsh
punishments.

29. Filius Flitwick

30. 15.
• Xenophilius Lovegood : Quibbler
• Tobias Misslethorpe : Witch Weekly
• Then, Barnabas Cuffe : ??

31. The Daily Prophet.

32. 16. What has been blanked out?

34. 17.
• The X is an organisation of ghosts whose heads have been completely
severed from their bodies. The organisation is headed by Sir Patrick
Delaney-Podmore.
• The X participate in head-intensive events such as Horseback Head-
Juggling, Headless Bowling, and Head Polo. The Gryffindor ghost, Y
is annually denied admission to the Headless Hunt despite only a half
inch of skin holding his head to his neck.
• Identify X and Y (Part points)

35. X – The headless Hunt
Y – Nearly Headless Nick

36. 18.
• In a new update on publishing site, Pottermore, Rowling sets some
rumours straight :
"While it is true that X has an unhealthy pallor, and is sometimes
described as looking like a large bat in his long black cloak, he never
actually turns into a bat, we meet him outside the castle by daylight,
and no corpses with puncture marks in their necks ever turn up at
Hogwarts.
In short, X is not a Y.“
• Identify X and Y (Part points)

37. X – Snape
Y – Vampire

38. 19.
• The X are a race of semi-human, semi-magical humanoids reminiscent of
the Sirens of Greek mythology. Little is known about their biology; they
appear to be young, beautiful humans. Their looks and especially their dance
is magically seductive to almost all male beings, which causes them to
perform strange actions in order to get nearer to them.
• X were the mascots for the Bulgarian National Quidditch team during the
1994 Quidditch World Cup.
• Identify X.

39. The Veela

40. 20.
• "WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT U-NO-POO —
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THAT'S GRIPPING THE
NATION!“
• Where would you find a signboard carrying the above message?

41. Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes

42. 21.
• “In the corridor outside, one will find a painting of a bowl of fruit; one
such fruit is a pear. If one tickles the pear, it will squirm, laugh, and
then transform into a green door-knob. Hence revealing the doorway,
one can open the door and enter”
• Put Funda/Identify the context.

43. This is the way to enter the Hogwarts’
Kitchens.

44. 22. Recipe for what?

46. 23. FITB
• “Now each of these four founders
formed their own house, for each
did value different virtues
in the ones they had to teach.
By _____1.____, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For _____2._____, the cleverest
would always be the best;
For _____3.______, hard workers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry _____4.______,
loved those of great ambition.
While still alive they did divide
Their favorites from the throng.”

47. In order:
• 1. Gryffindor
• 2. Ravenclaw
• 3. Hufflepuff
• 4. Slytherin

48. 24. X?
• "Educated at Durmstrang, a school famous even then for its unfortunate
tolerance of the Dark Arts, X showed himself quite as precociously brilliant
as Dumbledore. Rather than channel his abilities into the attainment of
awards and prizes, however, X devoted himself to other pursuits. At sixteen
years old, even Durmstrang felt it could no longer turn a blind eye to the
twisted experiments of X and he was expelled.“
—Excerpt from The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore describing X's
school days

49. Gellert Grindelwald

50. 25.
This is the poster of the 422nd Quidditch
World Cup. Mentioned on it are the
participating countries.
Identify the one blanked out.

51. India. :P

52. 26. X?
• A pair of X will act as a passage between two places. Objects placed in one X
will appear in the other.
• The X seem to ward off all known defensive spells, as they were successfully
used to transport several Death Eaters from Borgin and Burkes into
Hogwarts School, and Graham Montague was able to apparate into/inside
Hogwarts despite the protection spells of the school normally preventing
such an action.
• For the X to work, the incantation or password used is Harmonia Nectere
Passus.

53. Vanishing Cabinets

54. 27.
• "It was not normal fire; Crabbe had used a curse of which Harry had
no knowledge: As they turned a corner the flames chased them as
though they were alive, sentient, intent upon killing them. Now the
fire was mutating, forming a gigantic pack of fiery beasts: Flaming
serpents, chimaeras, and dragons rose and fell and rose again, and the
detritus of centuries on which they were feeding was thrown up in the
air into their fanged mouths, tossed high on clawed feet, before being
consumed by the inferno.“
• Which curse is being described here?

55. Fiendfyre

56. 28.
• After her third year at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger decided to drop
off two of her subjects.
One of them was Divination.
What was the other ?

57. Muggle Studies

58. 29.
‘Draco Dormiens Nunquam
Titillandus’
This is the motto of Hogwarts.
What does it roughly translate to
in English?

59. Never tickle a sleeping Dragon

60. 30.
• In addition to being born into magical rather than Muggle families, X
are different from Muggles by their knowledge of the wizarding world.
They are able to see things that are hidden from the Muggles and have
access to certain magical objects and creatures that can help them.
Argus Filch, as well as Arabella Figg, have formed wizarding-like
relationships with cats that, in the case of the latter, have been cross-
bred with Kneazles.
• Identify X.

61. Squib

62. 31. FITB(same thing goes in all the blanks)
• A _____ is an amortal shape-shifting non-being that takes on the form of the
viewer's worst fear. When facing a ______, it is best to have someone else
along, to try to confuse it, since facing more than one person at once would
make it indecisive as to what form it must take, usually a mixed-up amalgam
of the victims' fears.
• Because of their shape-shifting ability, no one knows what a ___ looks like
when it is alone, as it instantly changes into your worst fears when you first
see it.

63. Boggart

64. 32. XYZAB together form what?
• “X” - Latin for ‘white,’ especially the flat white of stones or clothing.
• “Y” - Knight of King Arthur's roundtable who was granted a glimpse
of the Holy Grail.
• “Z” - Anglo/Saxon. ‘wolf power’ or ‘wolf ruler.’
• “A” - This may be a reference to “Monty Python’s The Life of A,”
• “B” - 18thC Eng. word for ‘bumblebee.’

65. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

66. 33.
• The X were a very popular band in the wizarding world, and on the
Wizarding Wireless Network. Albus Dumbledore booked them to
perform in Hogwarts at the 1994 Yule Ball. Despite their name, all
eight known members are male.
• Among the X‘s songs was "Do the Hippogriff", "Magic Works" and
"This Is the Night" which they played at the Yule Ball.
• X?

67. The Weird Sisters.

68. 34.
Complete this dedication.

70. 35.
• This question is a puzzle.
The spells used have to be mentioned.
8 spells.
+0.5 for each correct.
If anyone answers all 8 correctly then another +3 as bonus, so total 7.

72. • 1. Alohomora
2. Dissendium
3. I solemnly swear that I am upto no good.
4. Lumos
5. Gemino
6. Impervio
7. Flipendo
8. Expecto Patronum