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1. Perhaps the most famous train platform in the world isn’t even real! At King’s Cross station in London, you’ll find a sign for Platform 9¾, where Harry Potter and his friends embarked for what school?
Answer: Hogwarts
2. Hedwig from Harry Potter is what species of owl? The species gets its name from its white color and from living in arctic climates.
Answer: Snowy Owl
3. In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, a lion is to Gryffindor, as a snake is to what Hogwarts House?
Answer: Slytherin
4. What actress, known for her roles in the Harry Potter franchise and “Anna Karenina,” joined Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others in investing in FabricNano, a startup company attempting to manufacture biodegradable plastics?
Answer: Emma Watson
5. What Parisian-born actress and activist launched the U.N. Women campaign HeForShe in 2014, about three years after starring in her eighth Potter film?
Answer: Emma Watson
6. What Slytherin house member is often seen with his lackeys, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle? His father, Lucius, is a Death Eater, and thus taught him the importance of blood purity amongst wizards.
Answer: Draco Malfoy
7. Professor McGonagall, or Maggie Smith to you Muggles, died exactly one year after Michael Gambon, who played what Hogwarts headmaster for most of the Harry Potter movies?
Answer: Albus Dumbledore
8. Reminiscent of something that might be used by someone with alopecia, what was the name of the snowy owl that Harry Potter received as an eleventh birthday present from Hagrid?
Answer: Hedwig
9. What Harry Potter character is a Hogwarts professor who is often suspected of being a servant of Voldemort due to his dark exterior, but ends up being Dumbledore’s closest ally? He was played in the films by Alan Rickman.
Answer: Severus Snape
10. In 2015, J.K. Rowling revealed "Elizabeth Warren" as the middle and last names of what whingy ghost?
Answer: Moaning Myrtle
11. As described by J.K. Rowling herself, what character was named by two Muggle dentists, “who liked to show how clever they were, giving her a name no one could pronounce?” When she had children of her own, the names of Rose and Hugo were at least a little easier to pronounce.
Answer: Hermione Granger
12. What character was born Tom Marvolo Riddle, and split himself amongst seven horcruxes, one of which was Harry Potter? He conceived a daughter, Delphini, with Bellatrix Lestrange.
Answer: Voldemort
13. What character, with the middle name Bilius, used his skill at Wizard’s Chess to help escape a life-like chess game in “Philosopher’s Stone?”
Answer: Ron Weasley
14. In the Potterverse, a person who would be called a "No-Maj" in the United States would be known as what in the UK?
Answer: Muggle
15. While aboard the Hogwarts Express for the first time in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,” Harry attempted to eat what kind of chocolate-covered creature that eventually leaped out of a train window?
Answer: Frog
16. Hermes, Errol, and Pigwidgeon are three of the many pets in a famous series of books. What type of animal are all of these named companions?
Answer: Owls
17. What fictional beverage do the characters in Harry Potter drink when they visit places like "The Three Broomsticks" and "The Hog's Head Pub?"
Answer: Butterbeer
18. What actress of the Harry Potter films was essentially homeschooled for about a decade, since she learned from tutors while she was on set playing Hermione Granger?
Answer: Emma Watson
19. A companion of headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter novels, Fawkes was what type of legendary bird?
Answer: Phoenix
20. Literally translating as "beautiful wands," Beauxbatons is the institution of wizardly education of what country in the Harry Potter universe?
Answer: France
21. What material, typically made out of untanned goat, sheep, or cow skin, has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia? It was used for the Declaration of Independence and is very common in the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
Answer: Parchment
22. How many books comprise each of “The Chronicles of Narnia” series written by C. S. Lewis and the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling?
Answer: Seven
23. What two-word alliterative phrase needs to be recited in order to wipe the Marauder’s Map clean?
Answer: Mischief Managed
24. Hedwig gets all the credit as far as owls of the “Harry Potter” universe go, but what was the name of Rob Wesley’s first (annoying) owl, nicknamed “Pig?”
Answer: Pigwidgeon
25. What fictional London street, whose shops stock everything a Hogwarts student needs, is located behind the Leaky Cauldron pub?
Answer: Diagon Alley
26. The three Deathly Hallows were the Resurrection Stone, the Cloak of Invisibility, and what 15-inch-long object with a thestral-hair core?
Answer: Elder Wand
27. What magical version of horticulture is the subject taught by Professor Sprout at Hogwarts, and in which Neville Longbottom eventually becomes an expert?
Answer: Herbology
28. In the Harry Potter books, Azkaban Prison is located in which body of water that lies between Great Britain and Norway?
Answer: The North Sea
29. Advertised as "a risk with every mouthful!", the Every Flavour Beans eaten by Harry Potter and his friends are made by what alliterative manufacturer?
Answer: Bertie Bott (Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans)
30. In what Scottish city, known as a haven for writers, did J. K. Rowling write a large portion of the first Harry Potter novel?
Answer: Edinburgh
31. What famous member of Bulgaria’s Quidditch team and student at Durmstrang becomes a rival to Ron Weasley for Hermione Granger’s affection during the events of “The Goblet of Fire?” He was played by Stanislav Ianevski in the films.
Answer: Viktor Krum
32. Hermione Granger's patronus is represented by what occasionally water-bound animal?
Answer: Otter
33. What is the name of the newspaper in the Harry Potter universe for which the unsavory Rita Skeeter is a reporter?
Answer: The Daily Prophet
34. First mentioned in "The Goblet of Fire," what is the name for a magically enchanted object in the Harry Potter universe that allows for the apparition-less transportation of multiple people at once upon touching the object?
Answer: Portkey
35. A muggle is a person lacking magical ability and was not born in a magical family. What is the term for someone who IS born into a magical family, but lacks magical abilities?
Answer: Squib
36. What relaxed-sounding 2012 novel by J.K. Rowling, her first after the Harry Potter series, features social worker Kay trying to keep Terri from sliding back into addiction?
Answer: The Casual Vacancy
37. Born in Cabra in 1940, what actor played headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter films?
Answer: Michael Gambon
38. Romilda Vane attempts to give Harry Potter chocolates spiked with a love potion in which novel, the sixth in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
39. A British wizard named Amos, who worked for the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures in the British Ministry of Magic, was famously the father of what classmate of Harry's?
Answer: Cedric Diggory
40. The O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) are a set of standardized tests in the wizarding world that are traditionally taken at Hogwarts at the end of which school year?
Answer: Fifth year
41. What British actor played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, and in real life married someone he met at a Wizarding World of Harry Potter event?
Answer: Matthew Lewis
42. You don't have to be a history scholar to guess that Remus Lupin's codename for Potterwatch broadcasts was what first king of Rome?
Answer: Romulus
43. What spell in the world of Harry Potter is used to unlock and open doors?
Answer: Alohomora
44. J.K. Rowling is rumored (and has since denied) to have written the first part of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” on what uncommon writing surface?
Answer: A napkin
45. According to the Harry Potter books, how many total balls are used in a standard Quidditch match?
Answer: Four
46. The title of what 2012 novel by J.K. Rowling, her first after the Harry Potter series, refers to a suddenly empty seat in a small British town's government that needs to be filled with an election?
Answer: The Casual Vacancy
47. It's surely no coincidence that Harry Potter's birthday is the same as J. K. Rowling's, with both falling on the final day of which month?
Answer: July
48. Harry Potter fans visiting London can take photos at Platform 9-3/4 and visit the corresponding gift shop at what London railway station?
Answer: King's Cross
49. In Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts, there are only three girls on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and they all play the same position. What position do they play?
Answer: Chaser
50. Throughout the Harry Potter novels, Harry is mentioned by name 18,956 times. Which character is the second most mentioned, coming in at a total of 6,464?
Answer: Ron Weasley
51. “Constant vigilance!” Since he’s lost so many body parts in the process of fighting Dark wizards, Alastor Moody is better known by what optic nickname?
Answer: Mad-Eye
52. Harry Potter film star, Daniel Radcliffe, was magical in a different way when he starred as a sentient corpse in what 2016 film?
Answer: Swiss Army Man
53. In the Harry Potter series, what was the five-letter name of the elderly grey owl that served Ron Weasley and his family?
Answer: Errol
54. In the Harry Potter novels, after Ron Weasley's rat Scabbers turned out to be one of Lord Voldemort's followers, Sirius Black gifted him what owl, nicknamed "Pig" for short?
Answer: Pigwidgeon
55. In the wizarding currency of the Harry Potter universe, what is the name of the bronze coin, which is smaller in value than a Sickle or a Galleon?
Answer: Knut
56. In the world of Harry Potter, the standardized tests taken in the 5th year of schooling are known as O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels). What semi-aquatic animal gives its name to the standardized tests taken in the final year of schooling?
Answer: N.E.W.T.s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests)
57. It's revealed throughout the Harry Potter books that Gryffindor hero Neville Longbottom lives with his grandmother since his parents were tortured as members of the Order of the Phoenix. What are the names of his parents?
Answer: Alice and Frank
58. What is the name of the rotund monk who serves as the resident ghost of Hufflepuff House?
Answer: The Fat Friar
59. In the world of Harry Potter, 493 Knuts are of equal value to what gold coin, the most valuable of the three coins used by wizards?
Answer: Galleon
60. What fictional character’s last name comes from an 18th century English word meaning "bumblebee?" The character somewhat famously has three middle names.
Answer: (Albus Percival Wulfric Brian) Dumbledore
61. Rescued by Harry during the second event of the Triwizard Tournament in "The Goblet of Fire," what is the first name of the younger sister of Fleur Delacour?
Answer: Gabrielle
62. Also the last name of a Guy involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, what is the name of Albus Dumbledore's pet phoenix in the Harry Potter books?
Answer: Fawkes
63. What is the first name of Harry's first Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Prof. Quirrell?
Answer: Quirinus
64. What main research library at Oxford University might be most recognizable to American audiences as the library at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the "Harry Potter" franchise?
Answer: Bodleian Library
65. Debuting in 2016, what school, with Houses named Horned Serpent, Wampus, Pukwudgie, and Thunderbird, is the American equivalent of Hogwarts?
Answer: Ilvermorny
66. *SPOILER* What Death Eater is responsible for the killing of Remus Lupin?
Answer: Antonin Dolohov
67. What is the most commonly used NAMED spell in the Harry Potter book series? Hint: it's different than the answer would be for the film series, which is Wingardium Leviosa.
Answer: Accio
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