Post on 13-Jan-2017
- Neeraja31st October
Round 1
+10/-10Infinite Pounce-10 for out of turn answers
1. Hufflepuff is the only house to have a defence mechanism for the common room. What?
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Answer:
If someone taps the barrel in the wrong rhythm, they are doused in vinegar.
2. Which word from the wizarding universe has officially entered the OED?
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Answer:
Muggle
3. Put funda. Hint?
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Answer:
This low cost paper-based device spells out your blood type instantaneously.
4. How are Tonks, Malfoy and Bellatrix related?
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Answer:
Malfoy’s Aunt and Cousin
5. X was among the characters that Rowling says she created on "the very first day". She has explained the source of his name as "another old English word, meaning – if you were X – it's a dialect word – you'd had a bad night. X is a big drinker – he has a lot of bad nights.“
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Answer: Hagrid
6. Name all the DADA teachers in the HP books in the correct order.
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Answers:
Quirinus QuirrelGilderoy LockhartRemus LupinBarty Crouch Jr. (disguised as Alastor Moody)Dolores UmbridgeSeverus SnapeAmycus Carrow (taught mostly Dark Arts)
Round 2
Know your beasts!
+10/-10Infinite Pounce-10 for out of turn answers
1. A vicious, bloodthirsty creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a dragon's tail.
Because of their ferocity, it is classified by the Ministry of Magic as XXXXX (very dangerous), and its eggs are Class A Non-Tradable Materials.
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Answer:
Chimaera
2. "Half horse, half eagle creatures, immensely proud and extremely dangerous."
The breeding of fancy _____ is an established wizarding career; known breeders include Newton Scamander's mother.
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Answer: Hippogriff
3. "A sickly green creature with sharp little horns… pulling faces and flexing its long, spindly fingers."
Professor Remus Lupin ordered this creature for his third year class to study for Defence Against the Dark Arts.
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Answer: Grindylow
4. A creature with a long snout and a coat of black, fluffy fur. Attracted to shiny things, which makes them wonderful for locating treasure, but this also meant that they could wreak havoc if kept indoors.
During Umbridge's tenure as Headmistress of Hogwarts, Lee Jordan used a Levitation Charm to levitate two of these creatures through her office window.
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Answer: Niffler (from “niffle” meaning to pilfer)
5. A species of giant spider - believed to be a wizard-bred species, designed to guard dwellings or treasure hoards.
They possess a set of giant chelicerae which they use to eat live prey or their own dead kin. They are capable of human speech.
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Answer: Acromantula
6. 'Why would anyone bother looking after them?' said Ron, after yet another hour of poking shredded lettuce down the _____’s throats.
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Answer: Flobberworms
Round 3
Write down the answers+5 for each correct answer+30 for all correct
1. Name the wand cores (answers may repeat):
a) Hermioneb) Harry Potterc) Ron Weasleyd) Fleur Delacoure) The Elder Wandf) Salazar Slythering) Mcgonagall
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Answers:
a) Dragon heartstringb) Phoenix featherc) Unicorn tail haird) Veela haire) Thestral tail hairf) Basilisk horng) Dragon heartstring
2. List all the hocruxes.
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Tom Riddle’s diaryMarvolo Gaunt’s ringSalazar Slytherin’s locketHelga Hufflepuff’s cupRowena Ravenclaw’s DiademNaginiHarry Potter
3. What are these characters’ worst fears? (We know, because, boggarts!)
a) Dumbledoreb) Hermionec) Ron Weasleyd) Nevillee) Lupinf) Tom Riddle
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Answers:
a) The corpse of his sister Ariana Dumbledoreb) Professor McGonagall telling her that she failed her exams (failure in general)c) Giant spiderd) Severus Snapee) Full moonf) His own dead body
Round 4
+10/-10Infinite Pounce-10 for out of turn answers
1. Shiro Cosmetics described this lip-balm thus:
“There is no good and evil, there is only power… and those too weak to seek it.”A yellow-tinged greenish greyish befittingly creepy-snakey color, with malevolent red shift.”
Inspired by which character/what could this possibly have been called?
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Answer:
He who must not be named!!
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2. "All he could tell was that he was standing in the stone fireplace of what looked like a large, dimly lit ____(...) A glass case nearby held a withered hand on a cushion, a blood-stained pack of cards, and a staring glass eye. Evil-looking masks stared down from the walls, an assortment of human bones lay upon the ____, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the ceiling."—Harry's first experience in?
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Answer: Burgin and Burkes, Knockturn Alley
3. Answer to this riddle?
First think of the person who lives in disguise,Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,The middle of middle and end of the end?And finally give me the sound often heard,During the search for a hard-to-find word.Now string them together and answer me this,Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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Answer: Spyder or spider, referring to the Acromantula
4. In the films, X is played by Gizmo, and his main stunt replacements, Ook and Sprout. Further ___ were Kasper, Ook, Swoops, Oh Oh, Elmo and Bandit.Ook was the first cast member to be chosen for a role in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Who is X?
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Answer: Hedwig!
5. To a fan’s tweet to Rowling on where ____ was, she replied:“He was repatriated to Greece. Dumbledore liked to put Hagrid's more foolish acquisitions back where they belong - not the forest.”
They are prominent in Greek mythology, the chief of them being Cerberus, Guardian of the Underworld.
Who is “he”?
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Answer:
Fluffy
6. Connect.
The disappearance of Lord Voldemort.
The arrival of the Mountain at Hogwarts.
Ginny Weasley opens the Chamber of Secrets for the first time.
Sirius Black enters Hogwarts Castle and attacks the Fat Lady when she refuses to give him passage to Gryffindor Tower.
The Goblet of Fire chooses the Triwizard champions.
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Answer:
Halloween Day!