The Harry Potter quiz at Calcutta National Medical College

1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
DEBARGHYA ROYCHOWDHURY
AISHI BALA
ISHAN SEN
DEEPTABHA MISRA

2. OFFICIAL EVENT SPONSOR:

3. PRELIMS
(Answers)

4. RULES
• There are 26 questions in this round.
• This is a written round.
• You get 1 Galleon for each correct answer. No negative
marking. You can get a Sickle (bonus) at the QM’s discretion.
• Top 6 teams proceed to the finals.
• Questions 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 are starred questions.
• In case of a tie, the team with more number of correct answers
to starred questions will go through.
• In case of a further tie, the team with the longest streak of
correct answers will go through.
• The QM’s decision is final and binding.
• Do not try to use Muggle technologies. The answer sheets are
marked with Anti-cheating Spell.

5. *1. Connect
• A funeral director from New Bedford,
Massachusetts
• A science teacher from Indiana
• A priest from London
• A retired US naval seaman
• A resident of Portsmouth, Hampshire born in
1989
List is non-exhaustive.

6. Real life people who are named
Harry Potter

7. 2. This wand originally belongs to whom?
(description in next slide)

8. 12 𝟑
𝟒” long, made of Walnut and has a Dragon
heartstring core

9. Bellatrix Lestrange

10. 3. If you arrive outside an old-fashioned, always
“closed for refurbishment” departmental store
called Purge & Dowse Ltd. with a window display
of few dummies wearing wigs, and you walk
straight through the glass window, where will
you find yourself?

11. St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical
Maladies and Injuries

12. 4. “But she may already know, that excellent clock of
hers.”
Molly Weasley’s ‘excellent’ clock tracked the Weasleys’
locations. In place of numbers, the clock showed
locations such as ‘Home’, ‘School’ , ‘ Work’, etc.
During the Second Wizarding War, all the nine hands of
the clock pointed to one position only.
Which position was that?

13. Mortal Peril

14. *5. Connect

15. Rita Skeeter
Armando Dippet : Master or Moron?
Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
Volkswagen Beetle Car
Snape : Scoundrel or Saint?
Man or Monster? The TRUTH about Newt
Scamander

16. 6. An archaic Hogwarts term, Hatstall, refers to a new
student whose sorting takes more than five
minutes.
Of the two known famous Hatstalls, one was
Minerva McGonagall. The Sorting Hat spent a good
five and a half minutes deciding between Gryffindor
and Ravenclaw before settling for the former.
Name the other person.

17. Peter Pettigrew

18. 7. If
Expelliarmus disarms your opponent,
Alohomora opens a locked door,
Accio summons an object,
What does Langlock do?

19. Affixes tongue to the roof of mouth

20. 8. Amortentia, aka love potion, has a distinctive mother-of-
pearl sheen and steam rising from it in characteristic spirals.
But most importantly, it smells differently to each person as
per his/her attraction.
For Hermione Granger in the books, it was the smell of
freshly mown grass, new parchment, and a third thing which
was possibly Ron’s hair.
However, there was slight variation in the movies where the
third thing she could smell was something else.
What was that thing?

21. Spearmint Toothpaste

22. 9. In Quidditch, the game ends when the Seeker catches
the Snitch and the corresponding team is awarded 150
points.
The origin of this idea can be traced back to a historical
event involving the Chief of the Wizard’s Council,
Barberus Bragge, making an announcement.
What was the announcement?
Full points for funda with keywords.

23. 150 Galleons will be awarded for
catching the Golden Snidget

24. *10. Chocolate Frog Cards are collectable trading cards which
come with every Chocolate Frog. Harry was introduced to this
delicacy on the Hogwarts Express where Ron tells him that he has
almost 500 of these cards, but he wishes to collect cards of two
wizards.
Interestingly, both of these wizards share their names with
prominent historical personalities, better known for their works
in mathematics, astronomy, literature and medicine.
Name the two wizards whose Chocolate Frog cards Ron wishes to
collect.
Half points for one correct name.

25. Agrippa and Ptolemy

26. 11. What is this
creature referred to as
in the Hindi dubbing
of the Harry Potter
movies?

27. Dampisach

28. 12. The father, X, is a Greek Hunter of
Legend, who wields a club and a shield. His
eldest may be the brightest, but in a show
of irony, the younger is the brightest of the
lions.
Who am I talking about?

29. Orion Black
(His Eldest was Sirius and younger one was Regulus)

30. 13. X is the oldest team in the British and Irish Quidditch
League. It was probably Dumbledore’s favourite team as
he wishes them luck in the foreword of the book
Quidditch Through the Ages.
Y was a reserve player in this team, X in the year 1994,
who is known to ‘take a Bludger to the head two
minutes in his first game and wake up a week later in the
Hospital Wing’.
ID X and Y.

31. X – Puddlemere United
Y – Oliver Wood

32. 14. X is a mode of transport in the wizarding world which
travels at a very fast speed, and obstacles jump out of its
way.
The idea behind X was proposed by Minister Dugald
McPhil, probably for the benefit of underage wizards
and witches, and even for Squibs.
X has a connotation of a transport that comes to the
rescue.
ID X.

33. Knight Bus

34. *15. In the Prisoner of Azkaban movie, John Williams creates
a piece inspired from scenes in X, and we see it as a
performance in the beginning of the start-of-term feast.
Rowling once said in an interview that the story took place all
because a prophecy was made. The prophecy of Sybill
Trelawny acted as a catalyst for Voldemort and his
subsequent actions. This storyline is very similar to that of X.
X is also believed to be J.K. Rowling’s favourite play.
ID X.

35. Macbeth

36. 16. Levicorpus – Liberacorpus
Stupefy – Rennervate
Lumos – Nox
Colloportus – ?

37. Alohomora

38. 17. ‘Automatically, it seemed, Dumbledore reached out a
long hand and seized the parchment. He held it out and
stared at the name written upon it. There was a long
pause, during which Dumbledore stared at the slip in his
hands, and everyone in the room stared at Dumbledore.
And then Dumbledore cleared his throat and read out —
“____________”.’
What did Dumbledore read out?

39. Harry Potter

40. 18. The following is the method to prepare potion X:
Add powdered root of Asphodel
Add infusion of Wormwood
Add Valerian roots
Sloth brains
Juice of Sopophorus beans
Stir counter clockwise until the potion turns clear as
water
ID X.

41. Draught of Living Death

42. 19. FITB. This is a list of what?
Miranda Goshawk
_______________
Adalbert Waffling
Emeric Switch
Phyllida Spore
Arsenius Jigger
Newt Scamander
Quentin Trimble

43. Bathilda Bagshot
List of Authors of First Year Books at
Hogwarts

44. *20. When X was 9 years old, she had a friend write a letter, an
email and a fax to JKR’s publishers in London, requesting to know
the outcome of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Rowling replied
via email to X’s mother on August 4, 1999, detailing the fate of the
main characters, 11 months before the book hit the stores.
Unfortunately, X had been suffering from leukemia, and had
passed away the day prior.
Rowling paid tribute to X in print as a young witch by the same
name got sorted into Gryffindor during the ceremony in Goblet of
Fire.
ID X.

45. Natalie McDonald

46. 21. The following is a list of titles of X:
Senior Undersecretary to the MoM
Professor
_______________
_______________
Head of Improper Use of Magic Office
Head of the Muggle-born Registration Commission
Who is X?

47. Dolores Umbridge

48. 22. X is a small creature, apparently made of barks
and twigs which makes them difficult to spot.
Popularly known as the ‘tree-guardian’, these
peaceable and intensely shy creatures can be a tricky
deal if the tree, they live in, is harmed in any way. A
way to distract them, while obtaining wood from
those trees, is to offer _______ and if available
___________.
FITB .

49. Woodlice and Fairy eggs

50. 23. How do we better know the Australia
House, home to the Australian High
Commission in central London, in the
wizarding world, thanks to the films?
(picture in the next slide)

52. Gringotts

53. 24. The Urban Dictionary defines _______ as ‘the
sometimes slow, sometimes overnight, always
surprising transformation of someone, usually a
man, from decidedly unattractive to hot as hell’.
It was understandably inspired by the
transformation of a character in the Potter
universe.
Give me the good word.

54. Longbottoming

55. *25. The etymology of X is disputed, with several languages being
proposed for its word of origin. The literal translation of the
Norwegian word of origin is ‘mother killers’, whereas in French,
two words meaning ‘death’ and ‘to bite’ respectively seem to
contribute to X.
German, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish and Polish roots have also been
proposed.
The use of X by Gibbon in the books results in an extremely
significant event in the course of the story.
ID X.

56. Morsmordre

57. 26.FITB with one word:
a) “ Harry’s ____ was vibrating as though an electric charge
was surging through it; his hand seized up around it; he
couldn’t have released if he’d wanted to. Something
silver-white, something enormous , erupted from the end
of his _____”
b) “ Are you OK?” said Harry urgently. “My ____ “ said Ron.
“Look at my ____” It had snapped, almost in two; the tip
was dangling limply…
c) “It’s the way you’re moving your ___” said Hermione,
watching Ron, “you don’t want to wave it- it’s more of a
sharp jab”
d) “____s are only as powerful as the wizards who use
them. Some wizards just like to theirs are bigger and
better than other people’s”

58. Wand

59. FINALS QUESTIONS