The Harry Potter Quiz at IIIT-H

2. “I solemnly swear that I am up to
no good”

3. General Rules
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6 rounds
Quidditch theme!
+10 points for correct answer – Quaffle
Final round is the snitch, for +150 !
Certain questions are marked with a bludger.
Team A can direct a bludger at team B
• If A gets it and B does not: +10 and -10
• Or else, +10 and +20

4. Round I

5. Rules
• One list it question only, worth 10 points
(partial)

6. Question
• List all the D.A.D.A professors of Hogwarts
from 1991 to 1997, both inclusive, in order.

7. Answer
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Quirinus Quirrell (1991 - 1992)
Gilderoy Lockhart (1992 - 1993)
Remus Lupin (1993 - 1994)
Severus Snape as substitute once per month
Alastor Moody ( Barty Crouch Jr. ) (1994 - 1995)
Dolores Umbridge (1995 - 1996)
Severus Snape (1996 - 1997)
Amycus Carrow (1997 - 1998)

8. Clockwise round
Round 2

9. Rules
• Modified infinite bounce
• Out of turn warrants a life sentence in
Azkaban
• Passes on to audience if no right answers

10. Question 1
• The person whose name is blanked out
survived a nasty fall in her final year (a foul
during Gryffindor versus Slytherin) which left
her with a concussion, several broken ribs and
a lifelong desire to see Slytherin crushed on
the Quidditch pitch.
• Who?

12. Answer
• Minerva McGonagall

13. Question 2
These are the known instances of what?
• Albus Dumbledore – Recreation
• Horace Slughorn – Perfect spells, escape
Voldemort
• Tom Riddle – Creation of Horcruxes
• Harry Potter – Extraction of a memory from
Slughorn
• Ron Weasley – Escape Death Eaters
• Ginny Weasley - Escape Death Eaters
• Hermione Granger - Escape Death Eaters

14. Answer
• Known uses of Felix Felecis

15. Question 3
• Venerable ____ was an English monk and
historian and is regarded as the Father of
English History.
• He is the inspiration of a character in HP, who
according to JKR, “he believed that the worst
excesses of wizard kind sprang from the alltoo-human traits of cruelty, apathy or
arrogant misapplication of their own talents”

17. Answer
• Beedle the Bard
• The monk is ‘Venerable Bede’.

18. Question 4
• In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, JKR’s favourite
play, there are three prophetic old ladies
called the _____ _______.
• They are a famous group, described as hairy
males in the book series, shown in the
movies, but not mentioned.

19. Answer
• The Weird Sisters

20. Question 5
• Who uses ‘Peskipiksi pestronomi’ and what
does it do ?

21. Answer
• Gilderoy Lockhart
• Nothing 

22. Question 6
• One passageway from Hogwarts to Hogsmede
ends at this sweet shop.
• The shop also maintains the food trolley that
sells sweets in the Hogwarts Express.
• Some of the sweets sold here include Fizzing
Whizzbees, Drooble’s Best Blowing
Gum, splintery Toothflossing Stringmints, tiny
black Pepper Imps, Ice Mice and Liquorice
Wands.
• Identify the shop.

24. Answer
• Honeydukes

25. Question 7
• List of what?

26. Answer
• Members of the first Order of The Phoenix

27. Chocolate frog cards
Round 3

28. Rules
• Identify the character
• 5 questions
• Buzzer round: quaffle goal for correct and a
bludger smack for incorrect

29. Question 1
• She was Alastor Moody’s partner in the Yule
ball. She was dancing a nervous two-step
whilst avoiding his wooden leg.

30. Answer
• Aurora Sinistra, prof. of astronomy

31. Question 2
• Id

32. Answer
• The grey lady aka Helena Ravenclaw

33. Question 3
• ID
• She is played by Jade Olivia,
Tom Felton's real life girlfriend

34. Answer
• Astoria Greengrass (Malfoy)

35. Question 4
• ID either

36. Answer
• Stanley Shunpike
• Ernie Prang

37. Question 5
• This is Bozo, a guy with a paunch, who works
for the Daily Prophet. As what?

38. Answer
• Rita Skeeter’s Photographer

39. Audience Question
• What number does one dial at the payphone
to get into the Ministry of Magic?
• What is its significance?

40. The Quill is mightier than the
Sword
Round 3

41. Rules
• Odd one out
• 4 questions
• Written round

42. Question 1
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Pepper imps
Acid pops
Sherbet lemon
Cockroach cluster

43. Question 2
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Dragon
Veela
Unicorn
Thestral
Leprechaun

44. Question 3
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Falco Aesalon
Minerva McGonnagall
James Potter
Sirius Black
Remus Lupin
Peter Pettigrew
Rita Skeeter

45. Question 4
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Blast-Ended Skrewt
Dementor
Sphinx
Golden Mist
Acromantula

46. Question 1
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Pepper imps
Acid pops
Sherbet lemon
Cockroach cluster

47. Answer
• Pepper imps
• All the others are passwords to the
headmasters office.
• Others, mentioned in the book, are
Dumbledore and Fizzing Whizbees

48. Question 2
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Dragon
Veela
Unicorn
Thestral
Leprechaun

49. Answer
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Leprechaun
All the others are used for wand cores
Dragon heartstring – Hermione, Krum
Veela – Fleur
Unicorn – Ron, Draco
Thestral – The Elder Wand
Leprechaun - 

50. Question 3
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Falco Aesalon
Minerva McGonnagall
James Potter
Sirius Black
Remus Lupin
Peter Pettigrew
Rita Skeeter

51. Answer
• Remus Lupin
• He is not an animagus!

52. Question 4
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Blast-Ended Skrewt
Dementor
Sphinx
Golden Mist
Acromantula

53. Answer
• Dementor
• The others are obstacles in the Hedge maze of
the Triwizard tournament
• It was a boggart!

54. Audience question
• Jozef Marie Hoene _______ was a polymath, known mainly
for two things.
• He was a critic of Lagrange’s expansions and suggested
various other infinite series
• Also, in the HP world, he is known as the inventor of
‘something’ to do with Viktor Krum
• Who is he? What is his connection to the HP world?

55. Coverrors
Round 4

56. Rules
• Buzzer round: quaffle goal for correct and a
bludger smack for incorrect

57. Question 1
• This is the Bloomsbury UK
children’s cover of The
Philosopher’s stone.

58. Answer
• Harry is wearing his Gryffindor scarf, but he
has not been sorted yet!

59. Question 2
• This is the scholastic cover of the prisoner of Azkaban, which
has a mistake. What?

60. Answer
• It is supposed to be a full moon night!

61. Question 3
• One of the book covers features this random unidentified
wizard, who was later removed and replaced with whom?

62. Answer
• Albus Dumbledore

63. Question 4
• This is the Bloomsbury UK
children’s cover of The
Chamber of secrets.

64. Answer
• Hedwig is a snow owl, not a barn owl

65. Audience question
• Bubo Scandiacus is the scientific name for
______ in HP.
• The character was named so after the owner
found the name in a book. It is a German
female name, not pronounced the way we
pronounce it.
• The main HP title theme is called ______’s
theme

66. Audience question
• Peruvian instant darkness powder is resistant to
many light casting spells. One way to penetrate this
darkness is to use the ____ __ _____
• It has also been mentioned in history as a good luck
charm with magical powers. It is made from the fat
and ____ of a dead man, soaked in milk and
pepper, put in an oven with ferns to dry!
• What?

67. Anticlockwise round
Round 6

68. Rules
• Modified infinite bounce
• Out of turn warrants a life sentence in
Azkaban
• Passes on to audience if no right answers

69. Question 1
• This is a poster of the 422nd Quidditch World
Cup.
• The participating teams are
Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria ,Brazil, England,
France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg,
The Nordic
Team, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Transylv
ania, Uganda, United States, Wales
• Which is the other country?

71. Answer
• India !

72. Question 2
• When Albus Dumbledore was being
discredited by the Ministry of Magic, he was
removed from the Wizengamot and from
the International Confederation of Wizards.
• He told Bill Weasley that he didn't care what
they did to him, as long as they didn't ‘do
something’. What ?

73. Answer
• As long as they didn’t take him off chocolate
frog cards !

74. Question 3
• “Sturm und _____” is a German saying which
means Storm and Drive, to mean free
expression and its associated movements.
• JKR made a spoonerism of this to give us the
name of a magical location, whose symbol is a
double headed Eagle

76. Answer
• Durmstrang Institute
• The German saying is Sturm und Drang

77. Question 4
• How does one enter the Hogwarts kitchen?

78. Answer
• By tickling the pear in the painting of a bowl of
fruit.
• If one tickles the pear, it will
squirm, laugh, and then transform into a
green door-knob.

79. Question 5
• One thing most fans were disappointed with
in the films is the depiction of _____ and his
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• The film shows it on the wrong side, with a
special holder and according to a critic “It is
not a ****ing Nikon and he’s certainly not the
damn terminator!”
• What?”

80. Answer
• Alastor Moody and his magical eye

81. Question 6
• A lot of members of this family seem to be
named after these figures from medieval
history legends.
• While one seems to be named after the
central character, another is named after the
queen of the central character.
• Another may be named after the spear of the
central character - his other weapon was a
sword named Excalibur.
• Identify the legendary British leader.

82. Answer
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King Arthur – Arthur Weasley
Ginevra (King Arthur’s wife) – Ginevra Weasley
Rongomyniad (Arthur’s spear) – Ron Weasley
Charlemagne - Charles Weasley

83. Question 7
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington :
McGonagall
• Helena Ravenclaw : Flitwick
• The fat friar : ______
• ___ ______ _____ : Snape

84. Answer
• Hufflepuff : Pomona Sprout
• The Bloody Baron : Slytherin

85. Audience question
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Connect:
Albus Dumbledore
Hedwig
Sirius Black’s animagus
A random brown owl
Fawkes’ feather
M.Gaunt’s ring
The deathly hallows symbol

86. The Snitch
Round 7

87. Rules
• 3 long visual connects (50 each)
• Buzzer round

88. 1
+50/-10

89. +40/-10

90. +30/-10

91. +20/-10

92. +10/-10

93. Answer
• The Slug club

94. 2
+50/-10

95. +40/-10

96. +30/-10

97. +20/-10

98. +10/-10

99. Answer
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Quidditch teams
Appelby Arrows
Tutshill Tornadoes
Wimbourne Wasps
Chudley Cannons
Holyhead Harpies

100. 3
+50/-10

101. +45/-10

102. +40

103. +30/-10

104. +20/-10

105. +10/-10

106. Answer
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Deparments of the Ministry of Magic
Regulation and control of magical creatures
Magical accidents and catastrophies
International magical co-operation
Magical transportation
Magical law enforcement
Wizengamot

107. “Mischief managed”