100+ Harry Potter Trivia Questions and Answers

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Updated 2 years ago, November 9, 2022

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Harry Potter Trivia Questions

Trivia Question: What is the golden snitch?
Answer: It is the third and smallest ball used in Quidditch.

Trivia Question: What is the yule ball?
Answer: It is a formal dance held on the evening of Yule.

Trivia Question: What are the death eaters?
Answer: A terrorist group of wizards and witches.

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Trivia Question: How many times did Snape protect Harry?
Answer: 14 times.

Trivia Question: How many Hogwarts students are accepted each year?
Answer: 1,000 students. Or 250 in each house.

Trivia Question: Who is Tom Riddle?
Answer: A young Lord Voldemort.

Trivia Question: What position does Harry play on his Quidditch Team?
Answer: Seeker

Trivia Question: What is the name of the room Harry uses to teach Dumbledore’s Army?
Answer: The Room of Requirement

Trivia Question: Who is the Hufflepuff house ghost?
Answer: The Fat Friar

Trivia Question: What does the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone) do?
Answer: Transforms any metal to gold and produces the elixir of life.

Trivia Question: Who is Fluffy?
Answer: Hagrid’s three-headed dog

Trivia Question: What Horcrux is a small golden cup with two finely-wrought handles with a badger engraved on the side and a few jewels.
Answer: Hufflepuff’s Cup

Trivia Question: Who was Hogwarts’s headmaster when the Chamber of Secrets was opened for the first time?
Answer: Armando Dippet

Trivia Question: Slughorn teaches his students that Amortentia smells different to each person. What food does Harry smell?
Answer: Treacle Tart

Trivia Question: How many staircases does Hogwarts have?
Answer: 142

Trivia Question: The visitor’s entrance to the Ministry of Magic is an abandoned red telephone booth in London. What is the five-digit code you must dial to get in?
Answer: 6-2-4-4-2 (the numbers spell M-A-G-I-C)

Trivia Question: What power do the dementors have over people?
Answer: Power to drain peace, hope, and happiness

Trivia Question: These ingredients: lacewing flies, leeches, powdered Bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed, shredded Boomslang skin, and a bit of the person you want to turn into make what?
Answer: Polyjuice Potion

Trivia Question: What does the Imperius Curse do?
Answer: Controls the action of another

Trivia Question: What are the three unforgivable curses?
Answer: Killing Curse, Cruciatus Curse, and Imperius Curse

Trivia Question: Dumbledore has a scar above his left knee that is a perfect map of what?
Answer: The London Underground

Trivia Question: What does the Mirror of Erised do?
Answer: Show’s your heart desire

Trivia Question: Gryffindor’s ghost is Nearly Headless Nick. But what is his full name?
Answer: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington

Trivia Question: Before his second year at Hogwarts, how do the Weasley’s save Harry from the Dursley’s house?
Answer: A flying car

Trivia Question: According to the Sorting Hat, what qualities does Ravenclaw possess?
Answer: Wit and learning

Trivia Question: What school did Viktor Krum go to?
Answer: Durmstrang Institute

Trivia Question: What is the name of the book Hermione supposed Voldemort used to learn about Horcruxes?
Answer: Secrets of the Darkest Art

Trivia Question: What is Ron Weasley’s patronus?
Answer: Jack Russell Terrier

Trivia Question: What was the name of the brothers who created the Deathly Hallows?
Answer: Peverell brothers

Trivia Question: Where is the Slytherin common room located?
Answer: The dungeons

Trivia Question: What is the name of Argus Filch’s pet cat?
Answer: Mrs. Norris

Trivia Question: Which creatures pull the carriages that take students from the Hogwarts Express to the Castle?
Answer: Thestrals

Trivia Question: Where is Azkaban fortress located?
Answer: The North Sea

Trivia Question: What is the name of Albus Dumbledore’s brother?
Answer: Aberforth

Trivia Question: Why was the Whomping Willow planted?
Answer: To protect Lupin (when he would turn into a werewolf)

Trivia Question: What type of dragon did Harry face in his first Tri-Wizard Tournament task?
Answer: A Hungarian Horntail

Trivia Question: What type of Animagus is Rita Skeeter?
Answer: A beetle

Trivia Question: What is a bezoar?
Answer: An antidote to poison

Trivia Question: What caused Dumbledore’s hand to be blackened and shriveled?
Answer: Marvolo Gaunt’s ring (A Horcrux)

Trivia Question: What are the first names of Voldemort’s parents?
Answer: Tom and Merope

Trivia Question: Who is the half-blood prince?
Answer: Severus Snape

Trivia Question: Which character became a professional Quidditch player?
Answer: Ginny Weasley

Trivia Question: According to the prophecy, who was the other person besides Harry Potter who could vanquish Lord Voldemort?
Answer: Neville Longbottom

Trivia Question: What is the name of the train station that services Hogwarts School?
Answer: Hogsmeade Station

Trivia Question: What is it customary for wizard-kind to do before dueling?
Answer: Bow

Trivia Question: What was the name of Hermione Granger’s pet cat?
Answer: Crookshanks

Trivia Question: Who revealed to Lily Potter that she was a witch?
Answer: Severus Snape

Trivia Question: What are all of the names of the Weasley children?
Answer: Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Bill Weasley, Percy Weasley, Fred Weasley, Charlie Weasley, George Weasley

Trivia Question: Who is the founder of the Slug Club?
Answer: Horace Slughorn

Trivia Question: What color are Dobby’s eyes?
Answer: Green

Trivia Question: What are the four houses that Hogwart’s Students are sorted into?
Answer: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw

Trivia Question: What are the first names of the Hogwart’s founders?
Answer: Godric (Gryffindor), Salazar (Slytherin), Helga (Hufflepuff), and Rowena (Ravenclaw)

Trivia Question: When Harry finds a message within a counterfeit Horcrux of Salazar Slytherin’s locket, which initials are signed on the note?
Answer: R.A.B

Trivia Question: What does Vernon Dursley’s company sell?
Answer: Drills

Trivia Question: According to Fred and George Weasley, how many passages are there from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade?
Answer: 7

Trivia Question: Who gave Harry Potter his invisibility cloak?
Answer: Albus Dumbledore

Trivia Question: Which department does Arthur Weasley work for at the Ministry of Magic?
Answer: Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office

Trivia Question: What is Dolores Umbridge’s middle name?
Answer: Jane

Trivia Question: What is Harry’s wand’s core?
Answer: Phoenix feather

Trivia Question: Which chess piece does Luna Lovegood’s house resemble?
Answer: A rook

Trivia Question: What does the acronym S.P.E.W. stand for?
Answer: Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare

Trivia Question: What do Hermione’s muggle parents do for a living?
Answer: Dentists

Trivia Question: Who did Draco Malfoy learn Occlumency from?
Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange

Trivia Question: Why was Fenrir Greyback not allowed to become an official Death Eater?
Answer: Because he is a werewolf

Trivia Question: What are the three types of wizard coins in order of value?
Answer: Knut, Sickle, Galleon

Trivia Question: Which Hogwarts teaching position is cursed?
Answer: Defense Against the Dark Arts

Trivia Question: What is the spell to disarm an opponent?
Answer: Expelliarmus

Trivia Question: What is Neville’s toad’s name?
Answer: Trevor

Trivia Question: What color light comes from the killing curse (Avada Kedavra curse)?
Answer: Green

Trivia Question: What does Dumbledore tell Harry he sees in the Mirror of Erised?
Answer: Thick woolen socks

Trivia Question: Who gave Harry his Firebolt broomstick?
Answer: Sirius Black

Trivia Question: What do Lupin and Tonks name their son?
Answer: Edward Remus Lupin

Trivia Question: What plant traps Harry, Ron, and Hermione on their way to get the Philosopher’s Stone?
Answer: Devil’s Snare

Trivia Question: What Hogwarts house did Moaning Myrtle belong to?
Answer: Ravenclaw

Trivia Question: What animal does James Potter transfigure into?
Answer: Stag

Trivia Question: What are the last three words in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Answer: “All was well.”

Trivia Question: Mistletoe is often infested with what magical creature?
Answer: Nargles

Trivia Question: What condition gives Tonks the ability to transform her features?
Answer: Metamorphmagus

Trivia Question: What does Dumbledore leave Ron in his will?
Answer: Deluminator

Trivia Question: What is the name of Harry Potter’s pet owl?
Answer: Hedwig

Trivia Question: Who were the four competitors in Goblet of Fire’s Triwizard Tournament?
Answer: Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, Cedric Diggory, and Harry Potter

Trivia Question: When is Harry Potter’s birthday?
Answer: July 31

Trivia Question: Harry wins a vial of what potion from Professor Slughorn?
Answer: Felix Felicis

Trivia Question: What is the Hogwarts school motto in English?
Answer: Never tickle a sleeping dragon

Trivia Question: Where did Severus Snape grow up?
Answer: Spinner’s End

Trivia Question: What did Ginny name the Pygmy Puff that she bought from Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes?
Answer: Arnold

Trivia Question: Which of Hogwarts professors teaches Transfiguration?
Answer: Professor McGonagall

Trivia Question: What’s the name of the fairy-tale book that Dumbledore gives to Hermione in “The Deathly Hallows?”
Answer: The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Trivia Question: The Potion Puzzle from the Philosopher’s Stone is a riddle. You can read the riddle here. Of the seven potions, which one will help you move forward?
Answer: The third one

Trivia Question: Fred and George Weasley were born on what day?
Answer: April 1st

Trivia Question: How does Harry manage to breathe underwater during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament?
Answer: He eats gillyweed

Trivia Question: Who guards the entrance to the Gryffindor common room?
Answer: The Fat Lady

Trivia Question: A wizard who cannot do magic is known as what?
Answer: A Squib

Trivia Question: Where does Hermione brew her first batch of Polyjuice Potion?
Answer: Moaning Myrtle’s Bathroom

Trivia Question: What are the names of Draco Malfoy’s two close friends?
Answer: Crabbe and Goyle

Trivia Question: Who is the Headmistress of Beauxbatons?
Answer: Madame Maxime

Trivia Question: Which Hogwarts founder did the Sorting Hat originally belong to?
Answer: Godric Gryffindor

Trivia Question: What is the name of the dodgy area near Diagon Alley?
Answer: Knockturn Alley

Trivia Question: What does the spell Wingardium Leviosa do?
Answer: Levitates an object

Trivia Question: What is the magical creature that can transform itself into a person’s worst fear?
Answer: A boggart

Trivia Question: Who runs Gringott’s wizarding bank?
Answer: Goblins

Trivia Question: What mode of transport does Hagrid use to take Harry to his aunt and uncle’s house when he’s a baby?
Answer: Flying motorcycle

Trivia Question: What is the name of the giant spider who used to be Hagrid’s pet?
Answer: Aragog

Trivia Question: What is the name of the magical potion that makes people tell the truth?
Answer: Veritaserum

Trivia Question: Who is the first to be petrified in ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’?
Answer: Mrs. Norris

Trivia Question: The Dark Mark depicts what two things?
Answer: A skull and a snake

Trivia Question: What magical device is used to store and review memories?
Answer: Pensieve

Trivia Question: Who created the Sorcerer’s Stone?
Answer: Nicholas Flamel

Trivia Question: What is the name of Voldemort’s snake?
Answer: Nagini

Trivia Question: What color is unicorn blood?
Answer: Silver

Trivia Question: Which character has a grandmother who is a Veela (a race of semi-human, semi-magical hominids reminiscent of the Sirens of Greek mythology)?
Answer: Fleur Delacour

Trivia Question: What is renowned wandmaker Ollivander’s first name?
Answer: Garrick

Trivia Question: What is the name for an ordinary object that’s been enchanted to teleport people?
Answer: Portkey

Trivia Question: Where does Hagrid hide his wand?
Answer: His umbrella