101+ Magical Harry Potter Trivia Questions And Answers

Adekunle Olanrewaju Jason
May 08, 2024 By Adekunle Olanrewaju Jason
Originally Published on Jan 08, 2021
Edited by Anusuya Mukherjee
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The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling has captured the hearts of millions of fans. It follows the adventures of a young wizard named Harry Potter as he navigates the wizarding world and attends Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. From Gryffindor Quidditch team matches to battles against Lord Voldemort, the series of movies is filled with captivating moments that have left fans craving more.

For those eager to test their knowledge of the Harry Potter movies, trivia questions offer a delightful challenge. These questions explore various aspects of the series, including characters like Hermione Granger, the details of Harry's upbringing with the Dursley family, his adventures at Hogwarts as a student, and the tales of his parents, James Potter and Lily Potter.

Whether you're a seasoned Potterhead or a newcomer to the wizarding world, prepare to be challenged with questions about spells, creatures, and iconic moments from the movies, such as the Triwizard Tournament and Harry's encounters with the mysteries of Tom Riddle's diary.

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone

In this section about 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone' (1997), expect trivia questions on Harry's introduction to the wizarding world, his first year at Hogwarts, and his encounter with Voldemort while protecting the philosopher's stone.

1. Question: What is the US title of 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'?

Answer: 'Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone'.

2. Question: On what birthday does Harry discover he is a wizard?

Answer: On his 11th birthday.

3. Question: What type of creature is Fluffy in 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'?

Answer: A three-headed dog.

4. Question: Who gifts Harry a self-made wooden flute for Christmas in 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'?

Answer: Hagrid.

5. Question: What is the model of the car that Harry and Ron drive to Hogwarts?

Answer: Ford Anglia.

6. Question: What is the password to the prefects' bathroom in 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire', which is also relevant for students in 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'?

Answer: Pine fresh.

7. Question: What form does Ron's Patronus take, a spell they learn about during their time at Hogwarts?

Answer: A Jack Russell Terrier.

8. Question: What is one of the things fatal to a basilisk, a creature mentioned in the series?

Answer: A rooster's crow.

9. Question: What are the first names of Crabbe and Goyle?

Answer: Vincent and Gregory.

10. Question: What is the name of Hagrid's mother?

Answer: Fridwulfa.

11. Question: In what village was Harry Potter born?

Answer: Godric's Hollow.

12. Question: What magical device did Albus Dumbledore use to save and review his memories, introduced in the series?

Answer: Pensieve.

13. Question: Harry Potter's Patronus is a phoenix. True or False?

Answer: False.

14. Question: What animal can Harry speak to in 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets', a skill first hinted at in 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'?

Answer: Snake.

15. Question: What Half-Blood Prince spell did Harry use on Draco Malfoy to demonstrate the spells they learn at Hogwarts?

Answer: Sectumsempra.

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets

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The 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets' (1998) section will cover trivia questions about the mystery of the Chamber Of Secrets, Harry's ability to speak Parseltongue, and his battle against the Basilisk.

16. Question: Who directed 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets'?

Answer: Chris Columbus.

17. Question: What color is the flying car that Harry and Ron use to get to Hogwarts?

Answer: Blue.

18. Question: Who is Harry talking to when the movie starts?

Answer: Dobby, the house elf.

19. Question: Why hasn't Harry heard from his friends all summer before his second year?

Answer: Dobby was intercepting his mail.

20. Question: Who were the guests of the Dursleys at the dinner that Dobby disrupts?

Answer: The Masons.

21. Question: What creature does Harry first encounter in the Forbidden Forest during a detention?

Answer: Aragog, the Acromantula.

22. Question: Who is the heir of Slytherin, according to the legend of the Chamber Of Secrets?

Answer: Tom Riddle.

23. Question: What language can Harry speak that is associated with the Chamber Of Secrets?

Answer: Parseltongue.

24. Question: What is the name of the ghost that haunts the girls' bathroom, where the entrance to the chamber is located?

Answer: Moaning Myrtle.

25. Question: Who originally owned Tom Riddle's diary?

Answer: Ginny Weasley in the Chamber of Secrets Timeline Mid-August (1992).

26. Question: What type of creature is the Basilisk that resides in the Chamber Of Secrets?

Answer: A giant serpent.

27. Question: Harry used a spell to kill the Basilisk, true or false?

Answer: False.

28. Question: Who is revealed to be an Animagus disguised as Ron's pet rat?

Answer: Peter Pettigrew.

29. Question: What is the name of the professor who is a self-proclaimed expert in the dark arts and tries to teach the students dueling?

Answer: Gilderoy Lockhart.

30. Question: What magical creature does Hagrid believe should have rights and tries to prove they are harmless?

Answer: Hippogriffs.

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 

This section of the Harry Potter trivia is based on the movie released in 1999. It will explore the truth behind Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban, Harry's lessons on the Patronus charm, and the revelations about his parents' deaths.

31. Question: Who directed 'Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban'?

Answer: Alfonso Cuarón.

32. Question: What magical creature does Harry encounter on the Knight Bus?

Answer: A shrunken head.

33. Question: Who is the new 'Defense Against The Dark Arts' teacher in Harry's third year?

Answer: Professor Remus Lupin.

34. Question: What is the name of the wizarding village near Hogwarts that Harry visits for the first time?

Answer: Hogsmeade.

35. Question: What is the name of the magical map that shows everyone's location at Hogwarts?

Answer: The Marauder's Map.

36. Question: Who is revealed to be the true creator of the Marauder's Map?

Answer: James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew

37. Question: What spell is used to conjure a Patronus?

Answer: Expecto Patronum.

38. Question: What form does Harry's Patronus take?

Answer: A stag.

39. Question: Who is falsely accused of betraying Harry's parents to Voldemort?

Answer: Sirius Black.

40. Question: What creature is Buckbeak?

Answer: A hippogriff.

41. Question: What magical item does Hermione use to attend multiple classes at the same time?

Answer: A time-turner.

42. Question: Who is the real traitor who betrayed Harry's parents?

Answer: Peter Pettigrew.

43. Question: What is the name of the tree that hides the secret passage to the Shrieking Shack?

Answer: The Whomping Willow.

44. Question: What is the name of Ron's pet rat, who is not what he seems?

Answer: Scabbers.

45. Question: Who is the executioner sent to carry out Buckbeak's death sentence?

Answer: Walden Macnair.

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

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In 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire' (2000), the trivia questions will focus on the Triwizard Tournament tasks, Voldemort's return, and the formation of Dumbledore's army.

46. Question: Who is the Muggle that Voldemort kills in the Riddle House at the beginning of 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire'?

Answer: Frank Bryce.

47. Question: Who examined and approved the tasks for the Triwizard Tournament?

Answer: Mr. Crouch and Mr. Bagman.

48. Question: Dumbledore's Army was formed to teach practical 'Defense Against The Dark Arts' lessons, which the subject teacher refused. True or false?

Answer: True.

49. Question: Harry reveals Voldemort's return after returning Cedric Diggory's body to his father. True or false?

Answer: True.

50. Question: What does Harry buy from the witch's trolley on the Hogwarts Express in 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire'?

Answer: Snacks.

51. Question: How are the champions for the Triwizard tournament selected?

Answer: By the goblet of fire.

52. Question: When was Dumbledore's Army founded?

Answer: In 1995.

53. Question: Where did Lord Voldemort's return take place?

Answer: The graveyard of Little Hangleton.

54. Question: Which two teams are competing in the Quidditch World Cup featured in 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire'?

Answer: Bulgaria and Ireland.

55. Question: What is the incantation for casting the dark mark?

Answer: Morsmordre.

56. Question: Who helps Harry identify gillyweed to use in the second task?

Answer: Neville Longbottom.

57. Question: Who is the first ghost to emerge from Voldemort's wand during the Priori Incantatem effect?

Answer: Cedric Diggory.

58. Question: Which dragon does Harry face in his first Triwizard task?

Answer: Hungarian horntail.

59. Question: What does SPEW stand for?

Answer: Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare.

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix 

'Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix' (2003) trivia will cover the Order's mission, Umbridge's tyranny at Hogwarts, and Harry's struggles with the prophecy about his destiny.

60. Question: Who authors the favorable account in The Quibbler in support of Harry’s account of Voldemort’s return?

Answer: Rita Skeeter.

61. Question: Nymphadora Tonks belong to what house?

Answer: Hufflepuff.

62. Question: During Harry Potter's fifth year at Hogwarts, which two pupils does Dumbledore select as Gryffindor prefects?

Answer: Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.

63. Question: What does O.W.L. stand for?

Answer: Ordinary Wizarding Level.

64. Question: What position does Ron Weasley play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?

Answer: Keeper.

65. Question: Who receives a lifetime ban from playing Quidditch after attacking Draco Malfoy?

Answer: Harry Potter.

66. Question: What kind of lessons does Snape give Harry to protect his mind from Voldemort?

Answer: Occlumency lessons.

67. Question: Which character helps Dumbledore escape from his office when the Ministry of Magic comes to take him to Azkaban?

Answer: Fawkes.

68. Question: Where did Harry listen to the news over the summer before his fifth year?

Answer: Outside in a flower bed.

69. Question: Who sends Aunt Petunia a howler?

Answer: Dumbledore.

70. Question: In the timeline of 'Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix' (1995), Minerva McGonagall was not a member of The Order of the Phoenix. True or false?

Answer: True.

71. Question: How are Tonks and Sirius related?

Answer: They are first cousins.

72. Question: During Harry Potter's fifth year at Hogwarts, who was the Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain?

Answer: Angelina Johnson.

73. Question: What jinx did Hermione place on the members of the Dumbledore's Army (DA) if they betrayed the group?

Answer: Boils spell out the word "SNEAK" across their cheeks and nose.

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

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This trivia about 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince' (2005) will explore Voldemort's past, the concept of Horcruxes, and the memories Harry witnesses in Dumbledore's pensieve.

74. Question: Who directed 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince'?

Answer: David Yates.

75. Question: What is the conductor of the Knight Bus called?

Answer: Stan Shunpike.

76. Question: Which hand did Dumbledore injure after putting on Marvolo Gaunt's ring?

Answer: His right hand.

77. Question: Draco Malfoy breaks Harry Potter's arm by stomping on it after discovering Harry spying on him. True or false?

Answer: False.

78. Question: Which character is revealed to be the Half-Blood Prince?

Answer: Severus Snape.

79. Question: Who is Nymphadora Tonks' aunt?

Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange.

80. Question: Who accidentally eats sweets containing a love potion?

Answer: Ron Weasley.

81. Question: What lesson does Professor Slughorn teach at Hogwarts?

Answer: Potions.

82. Question: What bridge do the Death Eaters destroy in the film?

Answer: The London Millennium Bridge.

83. Question: What two things does Hepzibah Smith give Voldemort?

Answer: A small golden cup and a locket.

84. Question: What are the three D's of apparition taught to students by Wilkie Twycross?

Answer: Destination, Determination, and Deliberation.

85. Question: Who finds Harry on the floor of the Hogwarts Express, paralyzed and invisible?

Answer: Luna Lovegood.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows 

In this section about 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows' (2007), expect trivia questions on the legendary Deathly Hallows, the quest to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, and the epic final battle.

86. Question: Who directed 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows' films?

Answer: David Yates.

87. Question: What are the three Deathly Hallows?

Answer: The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak.

88. Question: Who was the original owner of the Elder Wand before it became known as a Deathly Hallow?

Answer: Antioch Peverell.

89. Question: Which Horcrux is destroyed first in the movies?

Answer: Tom Riddle's diary.

90. Question: Who destroys the Horcrux inside Helga Hufflepuff's cup?

Answer: Hermione Granger.

91. Question: What is the final Horcrux that is destroyed?

Answer: Nagini, the snake.

92. Question: Who kills the snake, Nagini during the Battle of Hogwarts?

Answer: Neville Longbottom.

93. Question: What does Harry use to repair his own wand?

Answer: The Elder Wand.

94. Question: Who is revealed to be the master of the Elder Wand just before Harry?

Answer: Draco Malfoy.

95. Question: Where does Harry find the Resurrection Stone?

Answer: Inside the golden snitch.

96. Question: What is the name of the house-elf who helps Harry in the Malfoy Manor?

Answer: Dobby.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Part 2)

Dobby, staring upwards, with his eyes wide open.

The second part of 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows' and the final installment of the Harry Potter trivia will explore the events of the Battle of Hogwarts, the significance of the elder wand, and the ultimate showdown between Harry and Voldemort.

97. Question: What do Harry, Ron, and Hermione attempt to take from Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts?

Answer: A Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup.

98. Question: What is the Elder Wand also known as?

Answer: The Deathstick and the Wand of Destiny.

99. Question: How does Harry prove he is the master of the Elder Wand without killing its previous owner?

Answer: By disarming Draco Malfoy.

100. Question: What magical creature plays a crucial role in the destruction of a Horcrux during the Battle of Hogwarts?

Answer: A basilisk.

101. Question: How does Harry survive Voldemort's killing curse for the second time?

Answer: A part of Voldemort's soul lives inside Harry.

102. Question: What is the final duel that decides the fate of the wizarding world?

Answer: Harry Potter vs. Lord Voldemort.

FAQs

Why is Harry Potter trivia popular for team-building activities?

Harry Potter trivia is a popular choice for team-building activities because it provides a common ground for participants to engage and bond over a shared interest. The Harry Potter series has a vast universe that many people are familiar with, making it an accessible and enjoyable theme for various groups.

Trivia games encourage collaboration, communication, and learning, as team members work together to recall details from the books and films, fostering a fun and competitive environment.

How has Harry Potter trivia impacted fan engagement with the series?

Harry Potter trivia has significantly impacted fan engagement by allowing fans to interact with the series beyond just reading the books or watching the movies. It offers a way for fans to test their knowledge, learn new facts, and immerse themselves deeper into the fictional wizarding world.

What role does Harry Potter trivia play in educational settings?

In educational settings, Harry Potter trivia can serve as an engaging tool to promote literacy and critical thinking. Teachers and librarians have used Harry Potter-themed quizzes and activities to encourage reading and spark interest in literature among students.

The Harry Potter book and film series has captivated audiences worldwide with its storytelling. From Harry's humble beginnings to his epic battles against Voldemort, the trivia surrounding this iconic series is vast and fascinating. Whether you're a longtime fan or a newcomer to the Harry Potter wizarding world, testing your knowledge of Harry Potter trivia is a delightful way to enjoy this beloved universe.

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Written by Adekunle Olanrewaju Jason

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