This document provides the rules and questions for a 25 question preliminary quiz round. It states there will be 25 total questions, with the top 6 teams proceeding to the finals. Questions 1, 6, 10, 15, 20, and 24 are worth additional points. Teams will be ranked based on total correct answers, and if there is a tie, the team with the longest streak of correct answers will advance. Mobile phones cannot be used to cheat. The questions cover a range of topics from the Harry Potter universe and require identifying characters, objects, locations and connecting multiple choices.

3. PRELIMS

4. Rules
• There are 25 questions in this round
• This is a written round
• You get 1 point for each question. Questions which will require
two answers will have half points for each answer.
• Top 6 teams will proceed to the finals
• Questions 1, 6, 10, 15, 20, 24 are star marked
• In case of a tie, the team with the most number of correct
answers 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 binding and final
• Do not use mobile phones for cheating please! We aren’t muggles
for gods sake

5. 1-
*Several accidents have occurred due to X. Two muggle dog
walkers accidentally found themselves at a Celestina Warbeck
concert in 2003, because their misbehaving dogs ran away with X.
Witches and wizards were left frantic and anguished. However,
one of the Muggles was called onto stage by Celestina, to sing a
‘cauldron full of hot strong love’.
X can lead to nausea, giddiness or worse.

6. Portkey

7. 2
• X was one of the famous Knights of the Round
Table, however he was not very well known.
He is said to have achieved this position
through his friendship with Merlin. He does
not appear in any Muggle versions of the tale.
• X’s portrait is present on the seventh floor
landing, near the Divination corridor.
• Identify X

8. Sir Cadogan

9. 3
• Wood- Hawthorn
• Core- Unicorn Hair
• Length- 10 inches
• Reasonably Springy
• Name all the masters this wand has had.

10. Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter

11. 4
• ‘He must’ve known you’d always want to
come back’
• X has a mysterious way of guiding its owner
to the place it needs to be.
• Identify X and the original owner of X

12. Deluminator and Albus Dumbledore

13. 5
• In Greek mythology, X was a princess of Troy,
gifted by Apollo, whose name meant ‘she who
entangles men’.
• X, in the Harry Potter world, was revered for
her gift, often being called “powerful, genuine
and legendary”. She possessed the Y, which
was passed on into generations later.
• Identify X and Y.

14. Cassandra Trelawney and Inner Eye

15. 6-Connect

16. Broomsticks
• Tinderblast
• Silver Arrow
• Comet 140
• Moontrimmer
• Swiftstick

17. 7-
• X’s are invisible creatures which float through
ones ears and make their brains go fuzzy. Y is a
device which was given away with an issue of
the Quibbler in 1996, and is said to make X
visible to wizards. Y is also said to make the
wearer look like a ‘multicoloured demented
owl’.
• Identify X and Y.

18. Wrackspurts and Spectrespecs

19. 8- To promote budding nationalists, we
keep one of these every year
• Lumos- Prakashit Bhawa
• Expecto Patronum- X
• Expelliarmus- Nirastra Bhava
• Avada Kedavra- Mrityu Dansham
• Identify X

20. As long as your spelling reads aloud as
something similar to this, you get
points.

21. 9
• During the 14th Century, Muggles persecuted
wizards and witches, by hunting them down and
burning them at the stake. But these witch hunts
had no effect on the wizarding population, as the
witches and wizards could simply use X, a simple
bit of magic, unnoticeable to muggles, to escape.
In fact, using X was so enjoyable, that Y let herself
be caught 47 times so that she could enjoy being
burned at the stake.
• Identify X and Y

22. Flame Freezing Charm, Wendelin the
Weird

23. 10*
• X is a students’ organisation at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. Headed by
a Hogwarts Professor, it dates back to the
early 1900’s. We can associate an animal with
X.
• Molly Weasley’s favourite singer was a notable
member of this organisation.
• ID X.

24. Frog Choir

25. 11

26. 11
• In the Harry Potter and the Blood Prince,
during Slughorn’s slug club party, a waiter
offers Hermione something, which she eats to
give herself bad breath, so as to escape
McLaggen. What does she eat?

27. Dragon Tartare

28. 12
• Rick Mayell was roped to play this famous and
fan favourite character in the movies, but he
couldn’t make it to the screen. JKR once
mentioned in an interview that the character
“came with the castle”.
• The name translates to “a cause of
annoyance”
• Identify this character.

29. Peeves

30. 13- Connect (non exhaustive)

31. Gryffindor passwords ( to enter the
common room)
• Tapeworm
• Fairy Lights
• Pig snout
• Banana Fritters
• Baubles

32. 14
• Originally a Chaser, X had to sacrifice the position and
play a different role as a substitute during X’s time at
Hogwarts. After the Second Wizarding War, X became a
professional Quidditch player and went on to play for
several years in the circuit.
Later on, X became the senior Quidditch correspondent
for the Daily Prophet and covered the 2014 Quidditch
World Cup in the Patagonian desert. By 2020, X was
the sports editor for the Daily Prophet.
ID X.

33. Ginny Weasley

34. 15*- FITB
• Gryffindor – rubies
• Slytherin- emerald
• Ravenclaw – Sapphire
• Hufflepuff- ?

35. Diamonds

36. 16
• X , native to Tibet, is one of the worst kept secrets
of the wizarding world, there have been far too
many muggle sightings of X. It is because of this
reason, Tibet has one of the worst wizarding
secrecy records, due to constant breach of clause
73 of the International Statue of Wizarding
Secrecy.
• X fears fire and will kill and attack anything it
sees. It is alternatively known as Sasquatch

37. Yeti

38. 17
• “These contraband items are useful for cleaning a
room”
• X is something Argus Filch despises, but Hogwarts
students have an immense love for them,
especially in the aftermath of Fred and George
Weasley’s departure, as a form of mass revolt
against Umbridge.
• X has been used in many situation. Fred and
George Weasley once used X on Aunt Muriel,
who subsequently wrote them out of her will.

39. Dungbombs

40. 18- Connect

41. Dark creatures taught by Remus Lupin
in third year
• Kappa
• Red Cap
• Vampire
• Grindylow

42. 19
• Bagman: "... if I can help at all... a prod in the
right direction... I've taken a liking to you... the
way you got past that dragon!... Well just say the
word."
• Ludo Bagman was an English Wizard and a
Ministry of Magic employee. During his career at
the ministry, he rose to the post of the Head of
the Department of Magical Games and Sports.
Before working for the ministry however, he was
a beater for X and Y.
• Identify X and Y

43. Wimbourne Wasps and English
National Quidditch Team

44. 20*
• "Swish and flick, remember, swish and flick.
And saying the magic words properly is very
important, too — never forget X, who said 's'
instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor
with a buffalo on his chest."--- Filius Flitwick
• X was a wizard with a speech impediment.
• Identify X

45. Wizard Baruffio

46. 21-
Identify the ‘blackened’ out member

48. Walburga Black

49. 22-
• The Quill of acceptance is made of the
feathers of creature X, whose feathers are
known to repel ink. The exact moment a child
begins to exhibit signs of magic, the quill floats
out of its empty inkpot and inscribes the
name of the child in Y. No child has ever been
admitted to Hogwarts, whose name has not
been in Y.
• Identify X and Y

50. Augerey and The Book Of Admittance

51. 23
• In 2008, J K Rowling wrote an 800 word short
story of James Potter and Sirius Black being
chased by X.
• Rowling concluded the story with the words-
"From the Y I am not working on – but that was
fun!“
Identify X and Y

52. Muggle policemen, Prequel
• JK Rowling considers Fantastic Beasts neither a
prequel nor a sequel

53. 24*
• At a recent International Symposium of Animagi, the X School Team
attracted a lot of press when their exhibition of synchronised
transforming caused a near riot. Many older and more experienced
witches and wizards felt threatened by fourteen-year-olds who
could turn at will into elephants and cheetahs, and a formal
complaint was lodged with the International Confederation of
Wizards by Adrian Tutley.
• X s the largest of all wizarding schools, it welcomes students from
all over the enormous continent. The only address ever given is
‘Mountains of the Moon’; visitors speak of a stunning edifice
carved out of the mountainside and shrouded in mist, so that it
sometimes appears simply to float in mid-air.
• Identify X and the general location of X

54. Uagadou and Africa

55. 25
• But at the moment there was a loud squeal of "X”
and Y came hurtling out of nowhere and flung
herself into Ron's arms.
• "Guess who, X?"
-- Y, coming up behind Ron and putting her hands
over his eyes
• Harry privately thought that if Ron started calling
her “Z” he would have to put a stop to it
• Identify X and Z

56. X- Won-Won
Z- Lav-Lav