prelims

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).

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.

Felix Felicious

( Good Luck )

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 ?

1.

Professor Filius Flitwick

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 ?

2.

Muggle Studies

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

3**

Bellatrix Lestrange. Real name ?4.

Helena Bonham Carter

Connect !5.

Animagus

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

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 : ???

6.

All was well.

(last lines of the given books)

What’s missing ?

Dumbledore Gringotts

Hungarian Horntail Platform no. 9 ¾

HippogriffPhoenix

7**

Ford Anglia (the Flying Car)All the subjects mentioned have been featured on

the cover of the seven books.

Complete this dedication.

8.

He is known as

TREVOR DELGOME in Danish,

ROMEO G. DETLEV JR. in Icelandic.

How do we know him better ?

9.

Lord VoldemortTREVOR DELGOME = EG ER VOLDEMORT (I m Voldemort)

ROMEO G DETLEV JR = JEG ER VOLDEMORT (I m Voldemort)

"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 ??

10.

Peeves, the Poltergeist

<no image>( Some people thought he wasn’t cool enough to be in

the movies )

Connect.11.

Seeker

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

What has been hidden from this back cover.

12.

The Grimm

" 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 ?

13**

Hermione’s TIME TURNER

X is perhaps the most well known among all these spells. What is common to these spells. Also ID X.

LanglockLevicorpus

LiberacorpusMuffliato

X

14.

SectumsempraAll these spells were created by Snape.

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.

15.

X : Patronus Y : Corporeal

(This would be Bruce Wayne’s Patronus.)

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

Fountain of Magical Brethren

Antioch, Cadmus, and X.

Who were they ? Also ID X.

17**

The Peverell BrothersX : Ignotus Peverell

From the Tale of Three Brothers in ‘Tales of Beetle the Bard’

What has been blanked out ?18.

CONNECT!19**

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!

Connect laterally and find what’s missing ?20.

Grades given in O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s

Missing grade : Troll

Name the Book.

21.

Harry Potter and

The Chamber of Secrets.

Philosopher’s Stone: 17Chamber of Secrets: 18Prisoner of Azkaban: 22

Goblet of Fire: 37Order of the Phoenix: 38

Half-blood Prince: 30Deathly Hallows: 36

What do these numbers indicate ?

22.

The number of chapters in each of the Books.

Who’s the Fictitious Author ?23**

Connect !!24.

Beauxbatons Academy

• Ice sculptures adorn the palace!

• Its coat of arms.

• Their mode of transport to Hogwarts.

Oliver WoodFred Weasley

George WeasleyHarry Potter

Alicia SpinnetXY

Name X and Y.

25**

Katie BellAngelina Johnson

(The Gryffindor Quidditch winning team in third year.)

End of Prelims. Mains up next.