Do you find yourself having a natural yet engaging conversation with your friends or family when you talk about certain celebrities? Well, there is a special camaraderie between most Harry Potter Fans that begin the minute they meet. The questions come fast and no matter the differences, they instantly bond you to that stranger.
The whole wizarding world is so in-depth and enchanting that the universe was able to build a themed park around it. However, with depth comes minutiae, hence the chance to confuse your facts. So, how much do you know about the wizarding world?
Harry Potter Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
At the time of their release, the Harry Potter Series topped all best-selling charts for months on end, amassing a massive following in the process. The fans have left no stone unturned in celebrating various characters and events associated with the franchise.
If you consider yourself an expert on all things Harry Potter including the really weird stuff that only obsessive fans know, then see how you get on with our trivia quizzes.
This set of Harry Potter trivia quiz questions and answers will put to test the memory of Potterheads across the globe. Read on to take the challenge and have fun!
1. Name Harry Potter’s parents?
2. When is Harry Potter’s birthday?
3. Which famous rugby player was Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane’s stunt double?
4. How many ingredients did the polyjuice potion have?
5. What is the full name of Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost that frequented Gryffindor corridors?
6. Where did Harry live in the Muggle world?
7. What is the name of Harry Potter’s owl?
8. Who was Harry living with in the Muggle world?
9. By what other name are Wolfsbane and Monkshood, also known as?
10. At the moment of Mad Eye’s death, ______was flying with him?
11. What are the four Hogwarts houses?
12. How many staircases in all did the magical castle of Hogwarts have?
13. Who is the security guard at the entrance of Gryffindor’s Common room?
14. Who are Harry’s two best friends in the world?
15. In the game of Quidditch, how many possible fouls are there?
16. How are students sorted into their houses?
17. What was used by Dumbledore to light up the Streetlights in Privet Drive?
18. Which artist played the character of Hermione Granger?
19. At the end of ‘Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone’ what was the final number of points that Gryffindor and Slytherin had?
20. Who guided Fleur to the Yule Ball?
21. What does the scar above Albus Dumbledore’s left knee look like?
22. Which platform in the King’s Cross Station was Harry supposed to ride the train to Hogwarts?
23. What is the name of the company in which Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter’s Uncle, worked?
24. There is a magical beast, a bright green snake which is hidden in the chamber of Secrets. What is its name?
25. Hermione changed the leaves of the Weasley’s crabapple tree into a specific color exclusively for Harry’s 17th birthday. What was it?
26. What are the names of Ron’s parents?
27. Harry Potters’s eyes have a particular color. Which is that color?
28. What animal can Harry speak to?
29. Which man’s statute is located next to the entry of the prefect lavatory that Harry uses in the ‘Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire’?
30. The name of the prison where Gellert Grindelwald was imprisoned?
31. What is the maximum speed that a firebolt broomstick can reach?
32. How did Harry get the lightning bolt scar on his forehead?
33. If one took chocolate aboard the Knight Bus, how much would the price of the eventual ticket be?
34. The actual name of Lord Voldemort is ______?
35. Which spell is also known as the Thief’s Friend?
36. Which row houses the prophecy about Harry and Lord Voldemort in the House of Prophecy?
37. In which player position Harry belongs to the Gryffindor Quidditch Team?
38. Who was the first goblin Harry ever met?
39. What was the name of the Irish chaser that scored the first goal in the Quidditch World Cup?
40. Who defeated Albus Dumbledore in a Global wizarding war in 1945?
41. What are the names of James Potter’s friends?
42. Who is the wizard who can be seen teaching the trolls ballet in a tapestry across the wall in the room of requirement?
43. The birthday of Harry Potter is the same day as that of another one’s also. Who is that person?
44. Which of James’ friends escaped the Azkaban, who also turns out to be Harry’s godfather?
45. How many Horcruxes were made?
46. Ron Weasley has a fear of which insect?
47. What is the five-digit code that one needs to dial to get inside the Ministry of Magic?
48. Which mode of Transport was used by Harry and Ron to move to Hogwarts?
49. What species did Hagrid’s pet dragon, Norberta, belong to?
50. In Harry’s sixth year, an apparition instructor joins Hogwarts. What is his name?
51. While doing the Triwizard Tournament’s second task, what Harry did for breathing under the water?
52. Where did Ron and Harry crash the flying car on their way to Hogwarts in the second book, Harry Potter and “The Chamber of Secrets”?
53. When Lucius Malfoy took the diary, what did he throw and catched by Dobby which sets Dobby free throughout his lifetime?
54. What is the name of the ‘antisocial’ ghost of the Slytherin house, and is the only one who can control Peeves?
55. What was the name of Hepzibah Smith’s house elf?
56. What spell did Hermione use to free Harry and Ron from the Devil’s Snare?
57. What did Ginny name her pet pygmy puff?
58. Who is the headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic?
59. Who pretended to be Mad Eye Moody in the Goblet of Fire?
60. What is Fred Weasley’s codename on Potterwatch?
61. Where is the secret meeting place of Dumbledore’s Army?
62. What is the name of Dudley’s friend who accompanies the Dursleys and Harry to the zoo?
63. Who later becomes Lord Voldemort’s trusted snake and horcrux?
64. What do you recite to close the Marauder’s Map?
65. After visiting Gringotts, which shop does Harry first go to in Diagon Alley?
66. What is Harry’s Patronus?
67. Hannah Abbott is sorted into which house?
68. Who alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets?
69. What is the secretive radio program set up by the Order of the Phoenix?
70. Who destroyed Ravenclaw’s diadem?
71. What is the first line in the film, ‘Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone’?
72. In ‘Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban’, what does Ron do to the Boggart after it takes the form of a spider?
73. Which was the species of Hagrid’s pet dragon?
74. What potion did Harry make in Slughorn’s class, where he received top marks for doing it correctly?
75. In ‘Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire’, against what type of dragon does Harry Potter fight?
76. Each year Mrs. Weasley gives a gift to Harry. What is that?
77. What spell created by the Half Blood Prince did Harry use on Draco Malfoy?
78. What do you call the invisible winged horses that the Order used as means of transportation, as they are incredibly fast and intelligent creatures?
79. In part one of ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’, who travels alongside Hermione during the Battle of the Seven Potters?
80. What is Lord Voldemort’s boggart?
81. The Patronus of Snape was a ____?
82. What is Harry’s wand made of?
83. What is Luna Lovegood’s Patronus?
84. On which occasion twelve-foot troll enter into Hogwart’s Academy?
85. During Harry’s first year in Hogwarts, what is the password given to the ‘Fat Lady’ in the portrait to enter the Gryffindor tower?
86. In which year was the movie ‘Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets’ released?
87. Name the Daily which was described throughout the Harry Potter series?
88. Which magical device did Albus Dumbledore use to save and review his memories?
89. Who among the Marauders was also known as Prongs?
90. Who has done the role of Harry Potter in the films?
91. Which ice cream flavor did Harry eat at the zoo when he went out with the Dursleys?
92. On the morning of his 11th birthday, how many presents does Dudley receive from his parents?
93. Who is the large dog that accompanied Hagrid in many places?
94. How did Harry get rid of Aunt Marge when she insulted Harry’s parents in front of him?
95. In the first movie, what does Hagrid say his role at Hogwarts is?
96. At what age one can join in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft?
97. Where was Harry and Voldemort’s Last Battle?
98. After the sorting ceremony, how does Professor McGonagall silence the students?
99. Who was a British witch who worked as the Flying instructor, Quidditch referee, and coach at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
100. Who killed Bellatrix Lestrange?
101. How would you spell the spell you would use to disarm someone?
102. In the second movie, from where does Harry get information on the Basilisk?
103. Where did Harry, Ron, and Hermione go after Bill and Fleur’s wedding?
104. Towards the end of the first book ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, what gift did Hagrid give to Harry?
105. What are the names of Professor Snape’s parents?
106. What is the name of Draco Malfoy’s son?
107. Name the book which is given to Harry by Hermione before his first Quidditch match?
108. What is the full name of Harry and Ginny’s middle child?
109. What does Professor McGonagall placed in order to guard sorcerer’s stone?
110. On the radio show ‘Potterwatch’, what was Lupin’s code name?
111. On Dudley’s birthday at the zoo, unknowingly using underage magic Harry made the glass of a snake’s cage vanish. What is its name?
112. Who was the character that teased Moaning Myrtle about her glasses?
113. Name the phoenix which was Albus Dumbledore’s animal companion and defender?
114. When Oliver Wood (the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team) is explaining the rules to Harry, what is the first ball he shows Harry?
115. Which character did Ron impersonate to steal Slytherin’s locket?
116. “Yes, there can be no light without a dark, and so it is with magic. As for myself, I always strive to live within the light.” Who says this and which movie is it from?
117. Who was Harry’s captain in Slytherin in his first Quidditch match?
118. What is Aragog’s wife named as?
119. In “The Prisoner of Azkaban” Professor Lupin played music in his class. What did he play the music on?
120. Name the person who usually referred to as Wormtail or Scabbers?
121. In ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ Professor McGonagall teaches the second years a spell to turn animals into water goblets. What is the incantation?
122. What is the meaning of K in J.K. Rowling?
123. Which professional Quidditch team does Cho Chang support?
124. Vernon Dursley had his own office on the _______ floor of his drill company, Grunnings?
125. Which character in Harry Potter carries a camera always with him at Hogwarts?
126. What was Fred and George’s joke shop’s name?
127. Who was the first prisoner to escape from Azkaban?
128. What is the password given to the fat lady to enter into Gryffindor tower?
129. Who is the ghost of Hufflepuff?
130. During their first visit to Diagon Alley, what flavor of ice cream did Hagrid buy for Harry?
131. Who was appointed as the guards of Azkaban prison by The Ministry of Magic?
132. Who played the role of Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter movies?
133. How many exceptions exist to Gamp’s Elemental Law?
134. To which school Harry has been planning to go in the fall, before getting his invitation to Hogwarts school?
135. Winky the house elf has eyes of what color?
136. What is the name of the place where lily potter grow up?
137. Who kisses Harry after DA lesson in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’?
138. What is the date on which Voldemort murder the parents of harry potter?
139. How does Harry view the blast-ended skrewts?
140. What is the first name of Professor Flitwick?
141. What was Hermione’s weapon to escape from Devil’s Snare plant?
142. What was Ron seeing in the Mirror of Erised?
143. What is the Bulgarian minister of magic called?
144. Name the mother of Severus Snape, who was a pure-blooded witch?
145. What is the name of the place where Rowling wrote most of the first book?
146. At Bill and Fleur’s wedding, what kind of hat was Elphias Doge wearing?
147. What is the name of Hagrid’s pet, a giant spider?
148. Slughorn teaches his students that the Amortentia smells totally different to each person. What food does the Harry Potter smell?
149. What is the name of the fictitious author, which is also the pen name of JK Rowling, who wrote the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them’?
150. Under which pseudonym the novel ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ was written by Rowling?
151. Who gave Ambrosius Flume his first job?
152. Name the place where Harry was born?
153. During the second task of Triwizard Tournament, In which way the Harry Potter manages to breathe underwater?
154. Which character is the author of ‘Unfogging The Future’?
155. Who became a Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team by or before her third year?
156. What is a public statement that was not made by the Rowling about her characters?
157. Who are the only known characters to receive all twelve O.W.L.s?
158. What was the career of Harry Potter after leaving Hogwarts?
159. When was the first Harry Potter novel written?
160. What was the name of Harry’s mother’s maid?
161. What does Sorcerer’s Stone do in the movie?
162. Does polyjuice potion require you to procure some part of the individual that you wish to turn into?
163. The place where Harry met with Quirinus Quirrell for the first time is?
164. After Cornelius Fudge What is the name of Prime Minister of Magic?
165. Phoenix stands for?
166. Who is Fluffy?
167. What is the Imperius Curse can do in the movie?
168. Which tree’s wood is used to make Harry’s magic wand?
169. What is the last name of Hermione?
170. Which color represents Slytherin houses?
171. Who is the person that is known as Grawp?
172. Harry passed out for how many days after finding the sorcerer’s stone?
173. The colors which represent Ravenclaw house are?
174. How did the Moaning Myrtle die?
175. What gift did grandmother give Neville in his first year at Hogwarts?
176. In which way the Fawkes the Phoenix save Harry Potter?
177. Professor Quirrell’s original name is?
178. What is the Gryffindor house symbol?
179. Name the warden of the orphanage from where Voldemort came from?
180. When first time Hagrid met to harry potter what he gives to him?
181. What is the first charm taught to Harry’s first year class?
182. The common rooms of each house are located in different places within Hogwarts castle. Where is the Slytherin common room located?
183. How many points are worth by the Golden Snitch?
184. During Hagrid’s first class as teacher of Care of Magical Creatures, he introduces the students to which magical beast?
185. When Hogwarts was under threat, Professor McGonagall used the spell Piertotum Locomotor to do what?
186. Which potion Slughorn is used as a prize?
187. What species of spider is Aragog?
188. Early in the first film, Hermione Granger uses the spell Oculus Reparo to do what?
189. What is the spell that Hermione Granger used to mend Harry Potter’s glasses?
190. What does the spell Alohomora do?
191. Who helps the prisoners escape from the cellar of Malfoy Manor?
192. What is the name of the person who accompanied the Harry Potter to the Yule Ball?
193. What comes from a wizard or witch’s wand when they cast the spell “Lumos”?
194. An MTV website article ranks the spells we see in order of usefulness. Ranked second, mainly for fun, was the Glisseo incantation, which does what to a staircase?
195. How Hermione did take her extra lessons in the third year?
196. What are the three Unforgivable Curses?
197. What kind of potion force the drinker to tell truth?
198. What does the Legilimens spell allow the user to do to whom the incantation is made?
199. Name the hippogriff that was a pet of Hagrid in the third year?
200. Every member of this family belonged to Slytherin. Which family is it?
201. What is Peeves?
202. What was the full name of the person after whom Hufflepuff house was named?
203. Which ear was lost by the Fred Weasley?
204. How did Harry get the scar on his forehead?
205. Suitably, what spell would you use when preparing to go on holiday?
206. What is the full name of Albus Dumbledore?
207. What does an auror do?
208. The actor of which character lied when he said in his audition that he had read the books?
209. What is given by the Sirius Black to Harry Potter in the third year?
210. What rule forbade Robin Williams from playing Hagrid, despite him willing to do it for free?
211. Which method is not used for wizards transport?
212. What is the name of Hogwart’s caretaker?
213. Who links Cedric Diggory and Batman?
214. What is the middle name of Hermione Granger?
215. What is the purpose of a Horcrux?
216. Which England rugby player was Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane’s stunt double?
217. What is the name of the class that needs students to enter through a trapdoor?
218. What is the language used by serpents?
219. What is the Patronus of Luna Lovegood?
220. On what street is Borgin & Burkes?
221. What does the father of Luna Lovegood do for a living?
222. What are the three Deathly Hallows?
223. What did the Lavender Brown call Ron?
224. In the second book, what is the password to Dumbledore’s office?
225. What is the favorite color of Umbridge?
226. After seeing a Dementor what kind of thing will make a person happy?
227. What is bezoar?
228. What kind of thing the does Dumbledore hide inside the snitch?
229. When is Fred and George’s birthday?
230. Tell the name of any ingredient that is not used to make a Polyjuice potion?
231. What is neutral?
232. The organisation founded by Hermione, SPEW, what does it stand for?
233. What is the Patronus of Kingsley Shacklebolt’s?
234. What is a thing about an Arthur Weasley’s blue Ford Anglia?
235. Who lives at The Burrow, is rather old and has a tendency to crash into things?
236. What is the sister name of Albus Dumbledore?
237. What powder provides access to a transportation system between fireplaces?
238. What are the shapes of Professor McGonagall’s glasses?
239. Friends with Dumbledore when they were teens, who was expelled from Durmstrang for near-fatal attacks on other students and later stole the Elder Wand?
240. How the North American School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is known as?
241. A friend of Fred and George Weasley, who is the announcer at each Quidditch match?
242. What is the name of the place where the father of Voldemort is buried?
243. What is summoned with a raising of the right hand and is fitted inside with four-poster beds?
244. Why was Harry put into that house?
245. Which is the highest-grossing Harry Potter film?
246. What flavour are Bertie Bott’s beans?
247. Why does Snape protect Harry?
248. What does the map do?
249. Where are the Hufflepuff common rooms?
250. Why does Ron decide he hates Krum?
251. Which class has a different teacher every year?
252. Who did Game of Thrones actress Natalia Tena play in the Harry Potter films?
253. Why does Rita Skeeter eventually get in trouble?
254. Why was the Whomping Willow originally planted?
255. What is the name of the conductor of the triple-decker Knight Bus?
256. How many Hogwarts students are accepted each year?
257. Who is the Hogwarts professor that can transform themselves into a tabby cat?
258. Who is Tom Riddle?
259. What does R.A.B. stand for?
260. Which vault number at Gringotts Wizarding Bank is owned by the Potter Family?
261. What does the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone) do?
262. What are the last three words in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows?
263. Who was living in the sitting room that contains the Ariana Dumbledore portrait when the passage inside of it opened up into the Hogwarts Room of Requirement?
264. Gryffindor’s ghost is Nearly Headless Nick. But what is his full name?
265. What is Honeydukes?
266. The Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held every how many years?
267. What is Ron Weasley’s patronus?
268. How many presents did Dudley get on his 11th Birthday?
269. The first-year Defence Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts takes place in which North Tower Classroom?
270. What is the name of Argus Filch’s pet cat?
271. How many possible Quidditch fouls are there?
272. What is Professor Rubeus Hagrid’s official position at Hogwarts?
273. What does the Mirror of Erised’s inscription read?
274. What fruit has to be tickled in the painting guarding the kitchen to gain access to the kitchen?
275. What does the Hogwarts’ motto — draco dormiens nunquam titillandus — mean?
276. What is the name of the girl that Percy Weasley dates at Hogwarts?
277. Where is Azkaban fortress located?
278. What statues guard the entrance to Albus Dumbledore’s office?
279. Where does Dudley go to school?
280. What horcrux do Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore take from the Cave?
281. Which is the only horcrux that Harry Potter destroys?
282. What phrase is used to activate the Marauder’s Map?
283. What type of Animagus is Rita Skeeter?
284. What is Harry Potter’s wand’s core made of?
285. What does Vernon Dursley’s company sell?
286. Which department does Arthur Weasley work for at the Ministry of Magic?
287. What are the name of the two other schools that had students compete for the Triwizard Cup?
288. Which chess piece does Luna Lovegood’s house resemble?
289. What is the name of the headmaster of Durmstrang Institute?
290. What does the acronym S.P.E.W. stand for?
291. What animal could Sirius Black turn into his animagus ability?
292. What are the three types of wizard coins in order of value?
293. What was the ability called that allowed Nymphadora Tonks to change her appearance at will?
294. What’s the name of the fairy-tale book that Dumbledore gives to Hermione in “The Deathly Hallows?”
295. What is Professor Moody’s first name?
296. What does the spell Wingardium Leviosa do?
297. On what vehicle did the Durmstrang Institute students arrive at Hogwarts?
298. What allows a person to see Thestrals?
299. What are Voldemort’s followers called?
300. What is the name for an ordinary object that’s been enchanted to teleport people?