The Harry Potter Quiz Prelims Qbit BIT, Mesra Oct. 11, 2012

3. RULES
 Do not use Legilimency. Please use Occlumency. Close your
minds. Hide your answers.
 Use of Auto-answer Quills, Remembralls, Detachable
Cribbing Cuffs and Self-Correcting Ink is prohibited. So are the
things that muggles call a smart phone.
 Answers should be clear and to the point. Answers in
Parseltongue will be ignored.
 ‘Quizmaestro dormiens, nunquam irritatus’!
Do not irritate the gentle quizmaster (whose decision should
be treated as the word of Merlin).

4.  Prelims consists of 25 questions.
 Questions 3, 7, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 25 are
** marked. (They will be used to break ties.)
 No Negative marking.
 6 teams get ‘sorted’ for the mains.

5. Felix Felicious
( Good Luck )

6. 1.
 Professor at Hogwarts.
 Believed to be of Elfish origin, but actually descends from
Goblins.
 Fought valiantly in all three wizarding wars of the modern
times.
 Contemporary of Dumbledore.
 Favorite among students for giving trivial and non-harsh
punishments.
 Who ?

8. Professor Filius Flitwick

9. 2.
After her third year at Hogwarts, Hermione
Granger decided to drop off two of her
subjects.
One of them was Divination.
What was the other ?

11. Muggle Studies

12. 3*
* of the Half Blood
What was the name
Prince’s book, that Harry Potter came to
possess ?

15. 4. Bellatrix Lestrange. Real name ?

17. Helena Bonham Carter

18. 5. Connect !

20. Animagus
(all of them are animagi – can change
form into an animal.)

21. 6.
1st : I'm going to have a lot of fun with
Dudley this summer..
4th : ..and as Hagrid said, what would
come would come...and he would have to
meet it when it did.
7th : ???

23. All was well.
(last lines of the given books)

24. 7* What’s missing ?
*
Dumbledore
Gringotts
Hungarian Horntail
Platform no. 9 ¾
Hippogriff
Phoenix

26. Ford Anglia (the Flying Car)
All the subjects mentioned have been featured on
the cover of the seven books.

27. 8.
Complete this
dedication.

30. 9.
He is known as
TREVOR DELGOME in Danish,
ROMEO G. DETLEV JR. in Icelandic.
How do we know him better ?

32. Lord Voldemort
TREVOR DELGOME = EG ER VOLDEMORT (I m Voldemort)
ROMEO G DETLEV JR = JEG ER VOLDEMORT (I m Voldemort)

33. 10.
"We did it, we bashed them,
wee Potter's the one,
And Voldy's gone mouldy,
so now let's have fun ! “
Who’s Song ??

35. Peeves, the Poltergeist
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( Some people thought he wasn’t cool enough to be in
the movies  )

36. 11. Connect.

38. Seeker
( all of them have played as seekers for
their quidditch teams ).

39. 12.
What has been hidden
from this back cover.

41. The Grimm

42. 13**
" I mark the hours, every one,
nor have I yet outrun the Sun.
My use and value, unto you,
are gauged by what you have to do. “
‘What’ had this inscription engraved on it ?

44. Hermione’s TIME TURNER

45. 14.
X is perhaps the most well known
among all these spells. What is
common to these spells. Also ID X.
Langlock
Levicorpus
Liberacorpus
Muffliato
X

47. Sectumsempra
All these spells were created by Snape.

48. 15.
The X charm is widely regarded as very
advanced magic. It is not even
included in Hogwarts curriculum for
charms.
The X charm can be of two types :
Y or Non-Y.
Identify X and Y.

50. X : Patronus
Y : Corporeal
(This would be Bruce Wayne’s Patronus.)

51. It was featured as the back cover of
16. ‘Order of Phoenix’. What is it ?

53. Fountain of Magical Brethren

54. 17**
Antioch, Cadmus, and X.
Who were they ? Also ID X.

56. The Peverell Brothers
X : Ignotus Peverell
From the Tale of Three Brothers in
‘Tales of Beetle the Bard’

57. 18. What has been blanked out ?

60. 19**

62. Gellert Grindelwald
• Krum’s grandfather was killed by him.
• His name is mentioned on the Chocolate Frog
card featuring Dumbledore!
• Bathilda Bagshot is his aunt.
• His defeat is symbolizes the end of World War 2
in the Muggle World too!

63. Connect laterally and find what’s
20. missing ?

65. Grades given in O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s
Missing grade : Troll

66. 21.
Name the Book.

68. Harry Potter
and
The Chamber of
Secrets.

69. 22. Philosopher’s Stone: 17
Chamber of Secrets: 18
Prisoner of Azkaban: 22
Goblet of Fire: 37
Order of the Phoenix: 38
Half-blood Prince: 30
Deathly Hallows: 36
What do these numbers indicate ?

71. The number of chapters in each of
the Books.

72. 23* Who’s the Fictitious Author ?
*

75. 24. Connect !!

77. Beauxbatons Academy
• Ice sculptures adorn the palace!
• Its coat of arms.
• Their mode of transport to Hogwarts.

78. 25* Oliver Wood
* Fred Weasley
George Weasley
Harry Potter
Alicia Spinnet
X
Y
Name X and Y.

80. Katie Bell
Angelina Johnson
(The Gryffindor Quidditch winning
team in third year.)

81. End of Prelims. Mains up next.