HARRY POTTER QUIZ

1. - Neeraja
31st October

2. 1. How is this café in Edinburgh important to the Harry Potter
franchise?

3. 2. "You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It
was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!"
—Professor Snape to Harry
Which was the spell that Snape had invented, which
Harry used against him just before this revelation?

4. *3. This character, who prefers to be known by the surname Y,
has X as the first name.
X literally means "Gift of the ____”. ____ are nature spirits in
Greek mythology who rule trees, sacred groves, streams and
the ocean.
'____' is also the name of the immature stage of a dragonfly or
damselfly before it moults, before metamorphosing into a
winged adult. This could be a reference to Y's metamorphosing
skills.
A 'Y'(singular) literally means, 'a fool or idiot', 'a powerful hit or
strike'. This could be related to Y's clumsiness.
Who is this? Full name needed.

5. 4. Where can you find the following engraved?
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.

6. 5. “Mr. A presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and
begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other
people's business.
Mr. B agrees with Mr. A, and would like to add that Professor
Snape is an ugly git.
Mr. C would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like
that ever became a professor.
Mr. D bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash
his hair, the slimeball.”
Name A, B, C, D. Order not important.

7. 6. What is this?

8. 7. Amortentia is the most powerful ___ ___ (2 words) in the
world. It is distinctive for its mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam
rises from the potion in spirals. Amortentia smells different to
each person, according to what attracts them. FITB.

9. *8. Anti charm of Lumos and its meaning?

10. *9. ID X, who in real life, was a French scribe and manuscript
seller.
X appears in the 1995 novel Indiana Jones and the ___ as the
owner of the ___.
X is an unseen character in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone, portrayed as Albus Dumbledore's friend.
X is mentioned in The Da Vinci Code as one of the Grand
Masters of the Priory of Sion.
X is mentioned in the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed: Unity,
in which the protagonist must obtain a _____ said to be crafted
by him.

11. 10. What does Voldemort’s name mean?

12. *11. How is a basilisk born/hatched? What is its natural
enemy?

13. 12. Ingredients of which potion? The final ingredient is
missing.

14. *13. Rowling stated that she chose the name X, which
roughly translates as “white bumblebee", because of
this character’s love of music: she imagined him walking
around "humming to himself a lot". Who is X?

15. 14. JK Rowling shares her birthday with two of her Harry
Potter characters. Whose and when?

16. 15. What does the Hogwarts motto mean?
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus“?

17. Answers ahead!!

18. 1. How is this café in Edinburgh important to the Harry Potter
franchise?

19. Answer:
JKR wrote a significant part of the first book here.

20. 2. "You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It
was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!"
—Professor Snape to Harry
Which was the spell that Snape had invented, which
Harry used against him just before this revelation?

21. Answer:
Sectumsempra

22. *3. This character, who prefers to be known by the surname Y,
has X as the first name.
X literally means "Gift of the ____”. ____ are nature spirits in
Greek mythology who rule trees, sacred groves, streams and
the ocean.
'____' is also the name of the immature stage of a dragonfly or
damselfly before it moults, before metamorphosing into a
winged adult. This could be a reference to Y's metamorphosing
skills.
A 'Y'(singular) literally means, 'a fool or idiot', 'a powerful hit or
strike'. This could be related to Y's clumsiness.
Who is this? Full name needed.

23. Answer:
Nymphadora Tonks

24. 4. Where can you find the following engraved?
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.

25. Answer:
Gringott’s Wizarding Bank

26. 5. “Mr. A presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and
begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other
people's business.
Mr. B agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that
Professor Snape is an ugly git.
Mr. C would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like
that ever became a professor.
Mr. D bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash
his hair, the slimeball.”
Name A, B, C, D. Order not important.

27. Answer:
Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail and Prongs

28. 6. What is this?

29. Answer:
Coat of arms of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

30. 7. Amortentia is the most powerful ___ ___ (2 words) in the
world. It is distinctive for its mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam
rises from the potion in spirals. Amortentia smells different to
each person, according to what attracts them. FITB.

31. Answer:
Love potion

32. *8. Anti charm of Lumos and its meaning?

33. Answer:
Nox, meaning ‘night’

34. *9. ID X, who in real life, was a French scribe and manuscript
seller.
X appears in the 1995 novel Indiana Jones and the ___ as the
owner of the ___.
X is an unseen character in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone, portrayed as Albus Dumbledore's friend.
X is mentioned in The Da Vinci Code as one of the Grand
Masters of the Priory of Sion.
X is mentioned in the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed: Unity,
in which the protagonist must obtain a _____ said to be crafted
by him.

35. Answer:
Nicolas Flamel

36. 10. What does Voldemort’s name mean?

37. Answer:
In French, vol de mort – ‘flight of death’ or ‘stealing
from death’

38. *11. How is a basilisk born/hatched? What is its natural
enemy?

39. Answer:
- From a chicken egg, hatched beneath a toad
- Rooster: its crow is fatal

40. 12. Ingredients of which potion? The final ingredient is
missing.

41. Answer:
Polyjuice Potion

42. *13. Rowling stated that she chose the name X, which
roughly translates as “white bumblebee", because of
this character’s love of music: she imagined him walking
around "humming to himself a lot". Who is X?

43. Answer:
Albus Dumbledore (white + old English for bumble bee)

44. 14. JK Rowling shares her birthday with two of her Harry
Potter characters. Whose and when?

45. Answer:
Harry and Neville - July 31st

46. 15. What does the Hogwarts motto mean?
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus“?

47. Answer:
Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon"