50 Harry Potter Quiz Questions & Answers
As well as 50 pub quiz questions & answers on the subject of “Harry Potter”, I’ve added additional Harry Potter Quiz resources such as tie-break questions.
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- Easy Harry Potter Questions
- Medium Harry Potter Questions
- Difficult Harry Potter Questions
- Very Difficult Harry Potter Questions
- Harry Potter Tie-Break Quiz Questions
- Bonus: Other JK Rowling Work & Spin-Offs
I hope you will find these useful when preparing questions for your Harry Potter themed quiz.
The Harry Potter questions range in difficulty from easy through to difficult. I have also included some bonus round trivia.
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50 Harry Potter Themed Quiz Questions & Answers
Easy:
1. Question: Who is the author of the Harry Potter book series?
Answer: J.K. Rowling
2. Question: What is the name of the train station where students catch the Hogwarts Express?
Answer: King’s Cross Station
3. Question: What is the name of Harry Potter’s owl?
Answer: Hedwig
4. Question: What is the name of the sport played on broomsticks in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: Quidditch
5. Question: Who is known as the “Boy Who Lived”?
Answer: Harry Potter
6. Question: What is the name of the red-headed family that Harry is friends with?
Answer: The Weasleys
7. Question: What is the name of the train platform at King’s Cross where students catch the Hogwarts Express?
Answer: Platform 9¾
8. Question: Who is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: Albus Dumbledore
9. Question: What is the name of Harry’s best friend?
Answer: Ron Weasley
10. Question: What is the name of the train trolley lady who sells sweets on the Hogwarts Express?
Answer: The Hogwarts Express trolley witch
Medium:
11. Question: What is the name of the pub in Hogsmeade where Harry and his friends often visit?
Answer: The Three Broomsticks
12. Question: Which house does Luna Lovegood belong to?
Answer: Ravenclaw
13. Question: What is the name of Hermione Granger’s cat?
Answer: Crookshanks
14. Question: What is the spell used to unlock doors and locks?
Answer: Alohomora
15. Question: What is the name of the ghost who haunts the girls’ bathroom at Hogwarts?
Answer: Moaning Myrtle
16. Question: Who is the potions master at Hogwarts?
Answer: Severus Snape
17. Question: What is the name of the dark arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
Answer: Remus Lupin
18. Question: What is the name of the wizarding village near Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: Hogsmeade
19. Question: What is the name of the pub in Diagon Alley where Harry meets Hagrid for the first time?
Answer: The Leaky Cauldron
20. Question: What is the name of the house-elf who serves the Malfoy family?
Answer: Dobby
Difficult:
21. Question: What is the name of the magical creature that only Harry Potter can see due to being a Parselmouth?
Answer: Thestrals
22. Question: What is the maximum speed of a Firebolt broomstick?
Answer: 150 miles per hour
23. Question: What is the name of the founder of Gryffindor House?
Answer: Godric Gryffindor
24. Question: What is the name of the journalist who writes for The Daily Prophet?
Answer: Rita Skeeter
25. Question: What is the name of the school caretaker at Hogwarts who has a cat named Mrs. Norris?
Answer: Argus Filch
26. Question: What is the name of the magical creature that guards the entrance to the Gryffindor common room?
Answer: The Fat Lady
27. Question: What is the name of the gamekeeper at Hogwarts who has a half-giant heritage?
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid
28. Question: What is the name of the ghost who is the Hogwarts house ghost for Slytherin?
Answer: The Bloody Baron
29. Question: What is the name of the magical plant that screams when it is pulled from the ground?
Answer: Mandrake
30. Question: What is the name of the magical creature that is known for its ability to sense danger and is used by the Hogwarts Triwizard Tournament in the maze?
Answer: Blast-Ended Skrewt
Very Difficult:
31. Question: How many siblings does Ron Weasley have?
Answer: 5 (6 including Ron)
32. Question: What is the name of the spell used to produce a Patronus?
Answer: Expecto Patronum
33. Question: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, what is the incantation for the spell used to summon objects to the caster?
Answer: Accio
34. Question: What is the name of the spell used to create light at the tip of a wand?
Answer: Lumos
35. Question: How many points does Harry catch the Golden Snitch for in his first Quidditch match?
Answer: 150
36. Question: What is the name of the street in London where the entrance to the Ministry of Magic is located?
Answer: Diagon Alley
37. Question: What is the name of the magical creature that Harry rescues from a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?
Answer: Norbert (later named Norberta)
38. Question: In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, what is the number of the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix?
Answer: 12 Grimmauld Place
39. Question: What is the name of the ghost who is the Hogwarts house ghost for Ravenclaw?
Answer: The Grey Lady (Helena Ravenclaw)
40. Question: In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, what is the number of the Knight Bus?
Answer: 11
Bonus: (Harry Potter Tie Break Questions)
41. Question: How many unforgivable curses are there in the wizarding world?
Answer: 3
42. Question: What is the total number of O.W.L. subjects that students at Hogwarts can take?
Answer: 12
43. Question: How many founders are there of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: 4
44. Question: How many Deathly Hallows are there?
Answer: 3
45. Question: What is the total number of obstacles in the Triwizard Tournament maze?
Answer: 6
46. Question: How many points does Hermione Granger receive on her O.W.L.s?
Answer: 11 (Outstanding in all subjects)
47. Question: What is the number of the vault in Gringotts Wizarding Bank where Harry and Hagrid retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone?
Answer: 713
48. Question: How many players are on a Quidditch team?
Answer: 7
49. Question: In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, how many Horcruxes does Harry discover?
Answer: 2
50. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, what was the name of the wandmaker abducted by the Death Eaters?
Answer: Garrick Ollivander (played by John Hurt)
Bonus Quiz Content: Spin-Offs & Other Works By J.K. Rowling
Question: What is the title of the book that serves as a prequel to the Harry Potter series, focusing on Newt Scamander’s adventures?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Question: What is the name of the protagonist in the “Fantastic Beasts” film series?
Answer: Newt Scamander
Question: What is the title of the screenplay book for the first “Fantastic Beasts” film?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
Question: Which magical creature does Newt Scamander carry in his case in the “Fantastic Beasts” series?
Answer: A Niffler
Question: What is the name of the American wizarding school introduced in the “Fantastic Beasts” series?
Answer: Ilvermorny
Question: What is the name of the powerful dark wizard who becomes the primary antagonist in the “Fantastic Beasts” series?
Answer: Gellert Grindelwald
Question: What is the title of the second film in the “Fantastic Beasts” series?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Question: What is the name of the Hogwarts textbook written by Newt Scamander?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Question: What is the name of the magical creature that can change its appearance and is featured in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”?
Answer: The Kelpie
Question: What is the title of the third film in the “Fantastic Beasts” series, set to release in 2022?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Question: What is the title of the play based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Question: In “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” what is the name of Harry Potter’s youngest son?
Answer: Albus Severus Potter
Question: What is the name of the time-turner device that plays a significant role in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”?
Answer: The Experimental Time-Turner
Question: What is the name of the villain in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” who is the child of a famous Death Eater?
Answer: Delphini Diggory (also known as Delphi)
Question: In “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” what is the name of Draco Malfoy’s son?
Answer: Scorpius Malfoy
Question: What is the name of the wizarding hospital featured in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”?
Answer: St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Question: What is the name of the magical device used to send messages in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”?
Answer: The Owl Post
Question: What is the title of the series of e-books written by J.K. Rowling, providing more information about the wizarding world?
Answer: Pottermore Presents
Question: What is the name of the book written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?
Answer: The Cuckoo’s Calling
Question: Who is the protagonist of J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series?
Answer: Cormoran Strike
