Calling all witches, wizards, and Muggles! Ready to test your Harry Potter knowledge? This ultimate guide of 225 trivia questions, split into fun categories, will transport you straight to Hogwarts.
Whether you’re a die-hard fan or just starting your magical journey, these trivia questions will enchant and challenge you. Let’s see if you’re a true Potterhead!
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Who was the headmaster of Hogwarts before Albus Dumbledore?
Answer: Armando Dippet - Which house at Hogwarts values bravery and chivalry?
Answer: Gryffindor - What magical creature guards the entrance to the Gryffindor common room?
Answer: The Fat Lady - In which year was the Triwizard Tournament held at Hogwarts?
Answer: 1994 - Who teaches Potions in Harry’s sixth year?
Answer: Horace Slughorn - What is the name of the spell used to summon objects?
Answer: Accio - What is the motto of Hogwarts?
Answer: “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus” (Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon) - Which professor turns into a cat?
Answer: Minerva McGonagall - How do students typically arrive at Hogwarts for the first time?
Answer: By boat across the Black Lake - What magical object shows the location of everyone at Hogwarts?
Answer: The Marauder’s Map - Who founded the house of Slytherin?
Answer: Salazar Slytherin - What plant is used to revive those petrified by the Basilisk?
Answer: Mandrakes - What creature is used in the third Triwizard task maze?
Answer: Blast-Ended Skrewts - What is the name of the librarian at Hogwarts?
Answer: Madam Irma Pince - Which subject did Gilderoy Lockhart teach?
Answer: Defense Against the Dark Arts - What is the name of the magical ceiling in the Great Hall?
Answer: The enchanted ceiling - What shape is the scar on Harry’s forehead?
Answer: A lightning bolt - Which potion allows the drinker to take the form of someone else?
Answer: Polyjuice Potion - What is the name of the ghost of Ravenclaw House?
Answer: The Grey Lady (Helena Ravenclaw) - What magical object transports Harry and Cedric to Voldemort?
Answer: The Triwizard Cup (used as a Portkey) - Who is the caretaker of Hogwarts?
Answer: Argus Filch - What creature lives in the Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: A Basilisk - What is the name of the Weasleys’ family owl?
Answer: Errol - Who first shows Harry the Room of Requirement?
Answer: Dobby - What is the password to Gryffindor Tower in Harry’s first year?
Answer: Caput Draconis - Which spell opens locked doors?
Answer: Alohomora - What is the name of the Astronomy professor?
Answer: Professor Sinistra - What fruit must you tickle to enter the Hogwarts kitchen?
Answer: A pear - What creature replaces the Bogart when Lupin teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts?
Answer: A Grindylow - How many staircases are in Hogwarts?
Answer: 142 - What is the name of the half-giant who is gamekeeper at Hogwarts?
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid - What is the name of the three-headed dog?
Answer: Fluffy - Which class does Professor Sprout teach?
Answer: Herbology - Who is the Sorting Hat originally created by?
Answer: The four founders of Hogwarts - What are the four house mascots?
Answer: Lion (Gryffindor), Badger (Hufflepuff), Raven (Ravenclaw), and Snake (Slytherin) - What is the name of the poltergeist at Hogwarts?
Answer: Peeves
Spells and Magical Objects
- What charm creates light at the tip of a wand?
Answer: Lumos - What does the spell “Nox” do?
Answer: Extinguishes the light from Lumos - What is the name of the Elder Wand’s first known owner?
Answer: Antioch Peverell - What spell causes a feather to float?
Answer: Wingardium Leviosa - What object did Dumbledore leave to Hermione in his will?
Answer: The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Which spell creates a Patronus?
Answer: Expecto Patronum - What magical object stores and reveals memories?
Answer: The Pensieve - What is the incantation to unlock a door?
Answer: Alohomora - Which object shows the desire of the heart?
Answer: The Mirror of Erised - What spell is used to repel Dementors?
Answer: Expecto Patronum - What is the function of a Time-Turner?
Answer: It allows the user to travel back in time. - What spell vanishes objects?
Answer: Evanesco - What is the name of Voldemort’s snake Horcrux?
Answer: Nagini - What charm is used to levitate or lift objects?
Answer: Levicorpus - Which spell is used to summon a shield?
Answer: Protego - What magical object makes a person invisible?
Answer: Invisibility Cloak - Which curse is known as the Torture Curse?
Answer: Cruciatus Curse - What does the spell “Obliviate” do?
Answer: Erases memories - What spell is used to heal minor injuries?
Answer: Episkey - What does the spell “Aparecium” do?
Answer: Reveals invisible writing - What is the incantation for creating water?
Answer: Aguamenti - What spell is used to light a fire?
Answer: Incendio - What is the name of the clock that tracks the Weasleys’ whereabouts?
Answer: The Weasley Family Clock - What does the spell “Imperio” do?
Answer: Places someone under complete control - What magical device destroyed Tom Riddle’s diary?
Answer: Basilisk fang - What charm is used to summon objects to you?
Answer: Accio - Which spell clears the target’s airway?
Answer: Anapneo - What does the spell “Expulso” do?
Answer: Causes an explosion - What magical object turns an object into a Portkey?
Answer: Portus - Which spell is used to repel water?
Answer: Impervius - What curse is known as the Killing Curse?
Answer: Avada Kedavra - What magical object provides light only to the holder?
Answer: Deluminator - What spell repairs broken objects?
Answer: Reparo - What is the incantation for the Levitation Charm?
Answer: Wingardium Leviosa - Which spell unlocks doors?
Answer: Alohomora - What spell causes objects to tickle?
Answer: Rictusempra - What spell stuns a target?
Answer: Stupefy - What does the spell “Engorgio” do?
Answer: Enlarges objects - What spell silences someone?
Answer: Silencio
The Wizarding World
- What is the name of the wizarding bank?
Answer: Gringotts - What are the names of Harry’s parents?
Answer: Lily and James Potter - What magical creatures work at Gringotts?
Answer: Goblins - What is the name of the village near Hogwarts?
Answer: Hogsmeade - Who is the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?
Answer: Newt Scamander - What type of magical creature is Buckbeak?
Answer: A Hippogriff - What is the name of the magical newspaper?
Answer: The Daily Prophet - What does the Knight Bus do?
Answer: Provides emergency transportation for stranded wizards and witches - What is the name of the wizarding prison?
Answer: Azkaban - Who is the Minister of Magic during most of Harry’s time at Hogwarts?
Answer: Cornelius Fudge - What is the name of the dragon at Gringotts?
Answer: Ukrainian Ironbelly - What are the names of Ron’s brothers?
Answer: Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George - What does the Butterbeer taste like?
Answer: Butterscotch - What magical sport is played on broomsticks?
Answer: Quidditch - What is the name of the magical candy that comes with collectible wizard cards?
Answer: Chocolate Frogs - What is Hermione’s cat’s name?
Answer: Crookshanks - What form does Harry’s Patronus take?
Answer: A stag - What is the name of the secret resistance group formed by Harry?
Answer: Dumbledore’s Army - What is the name of the wizarding sweet that gives you a long tongue?
Answer: Ton-Tongue Toffee - What magical creatures pull the Hogwarts carriages?
Answer: Thestrals - What is Ron’s favorite Quidditch team?
Answer: Chudley Cannons - What magical creature is Aragog?
Answer: Acromantula - What is the name of Hagrid’s dog?
Answer: Fang - What magical creature guards the Sorcerer’s Stone?
Answer: Fluffy - Who is the Half-Blood Prince?
Answer: Severus Snape - What is the name of Voldemort’s followers?
Answer: Death Eaters - What potion did Harry take to retrieve the Horcrux from the cave?
Answer: Felix Felicis - What is the name of the wand shop in Diagon Alley?
Answer: Ollivanders - What does the Room of Requirement become for the DA?
Answer: A training room - What is Fleur Delacour’s wand core?
Answer: Veela hair - What spell creates floating colored lights?
Answer: Lumos Maxima
Famous Characters and Their Secrets
- What is Voldemort’s real name?
Answer: Tom Marvolo Riddle - What is Hermione’s middle name?
Answer: Jean - What is the name of Neville Longbottom’s toad?
Answer: Trevor - Who was the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry’s second year?
Answer: Gilderoy Lockhart - What is Draco Malfoy’s mother’s name?
Answer: Narcissa Malfoy - Who was the first wizard Harry ever met?
Answer: Hagrid - What does Rita Skeeter transform into as an Animagus?
Answer: A beetle - What is the name of Dobby’s friend who worked at the Hogwarts kitchen?
Answer: Winky - Who is the captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry’s first year?
Answer: Marcus Flint - What is the name of Luna Lovegood’s father?
Answer: Xenophilius Lovegood - Who was Harry’s first crush?
Answer: Cho Chang - Who is the only ghost teacher at Hogwarts?
Answer: Professor Binns - What is the name of Ron’s pet rat?
Answer: Scabbers - What is Scabbers’ true identity?
Answer: Peter Pettigrew - What did Fred and George give Harry for his first Weasley Christmas?
Answer: A box of Dungbombs - What is the name of the Hogwarts ghost who haunts the girls’ bathroom?
Answer: Moaning Myrtle - What is the name of Harry’s aunt who inflates like a balloon?
Answer: Aunt Marge - What is Viktor Krum’s position on the Bulgarian Quidditch team?
Answer: Seeker - What is Sirius Black’s Animagus form?
Answer: A dog - What is Tonks’ first name?
Answer: Nymphadora - What is Bellatrix Lestrange’s maiden name?
Answer: Black - Who kills Dobby?
Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange - Who impersonates Mad-Eye Moody in The Goblet of Fire?
Answer: Barty Crouch Jr. - Who is the Half-Giant that teaches Harry about magical creatures?
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid - What is Remus Lupin’s condition?
Answer: He is a werewolf - Who created the Sorcerer’s Stone?
Answer: Nicolas Flamel - Who is Ginny Weasley’s first boyfriend?
Answer: Michael Corner - Who is the oldest Weasley sibling?
Answer: Bill Weasley - What is Draco Malfoy’s son’s name?
Answer: Scorpius Malfoy - Who is the first goblin Harry befriends?
Answer: Griphook - What is the name of Cedric Diggory’s father?
Answer: Amos Diggory - Who introduces Harry to Quidditch?
Answer: Oliver Wood - What nickname does Ginny give Fleur Delacour?
Answer: Phlegm - What is Albus Dumbledore’s full name?
Answer: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore - Who is Hagrid’s giant half-brother?
Answer: Grawp - What is Hermione’s greatest fear?
Answer: Failing - Who is the potioneer who created Felix Felicis?
Answer: Zygmunt Budge - What is Percy Weasley’s job after Hogwarts?
Answer: Works at the Ministry of Magic
Magical Creatures and Beasts
- What magical creature lives in the lake at Hogwarts?
Answer: Giant Squid - What is the name of the dragon Harry faces in the first Triwizard task?
Answer: Hungarian Horntail - What creature’s hair is used as the core of Fleur Delacour’s wand?
Answer: Veela hair - What creature is the mascot of the Hufflepuff house?
Answer: Badger - What magical creatures are drawn to gold?
Answer: Nifflers - What is a Thestral, and why can Harry see them?
Answer: A skeletal winged horse; Harry has seen death - What magical creature is Newt Scamander’s favorite?
Answer: Bowtruckle - What are the small, mischievous blue creatures in The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: Cornish Pixies - What is the name of the werewolf who bit Lupin?
Answer: Fenrir Greyback - What creature is known for guarding treasure in Gringotts?
Answer: Dragons - What is the name of Hagrid’s acromantula?
Answer: Aragog - What type of dragon guards the entrance to the Lestrange vault?
Answer: Ukrainian Ironbelly - What is the name of the giant spider that follows Hagrid?
Answer: Aragog - What creature’s venom is lethal even after death?
Answer: Basilisk - What creature does Harry set free in The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: A Phoenix - What is the name of the half-bird, half-horse creature?
Answer: Hippogriff - What is the Patronus form of Severus Snape?
Answer: Doe - What does a Phoenix do when it dies?
Answer: Reborn from its ashes - What creature is Peeves scared of?
Answer: The Bloody Baron - What creature in Fantastic Beasts can duplicate objects?
Answer: Niffler - What creature can only be seen by someone who has witnessed death?
Answer: Thestrals - What magical creature inspired broomstick flying?
Answer: Snidget - What is the name of the serpentine creature bred by Voldemort?
Answer: Basilisk - What is Hagrid’s favorite pet?
Answer: Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback - What is Dobby’s type of magical creature?
Answer: House-elf - What is the name of the three-headed dog?
Answer: Fluffy - What magical creature protects the Philosopher’s Stone?
Answer: Fluffy - What creature is found in Newt’s suitcase?
Answer: Occamy - What creature is used to breed Basilisks?
Answer: A chicken egg hatched under a toad - What is the name of Hagrid’s hippogriff?
Answer: Buckbeak - What is Voldemort’s snake companion?
Answer: Nagini - What magical creature lays golden eggs?
Answer: Fwooper - What type of cat is Crookshanks?
Answer: Part Kneazle - What is the name of the book about magical creatures written by Scamander?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - What creature loves shiny objects?
Answer: Niffler - What are Bowtruckles made of?
Answer: Bark and twigs - What is the life span of a Phoenix?
Answer: Eternal - What is the Patronus form of Luna Lovegood?
Answer: Hare
Dark Magic and the Deathly Hallows
- What are the three Deathly Hallows?
Answer: Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, Invisibility Cloak - Who created the Horcruxes?
Answer: Lord Voldemort - What spell is used to split a soul?
Answer: Horcrux Ritual (specific spell unknown) - Who tells Harry about the Hallows?
Answer: Xenophilius Lovegood - What is Voldemort’s goal in creating Horcruxes?
Answer: Immortality - What is the name of the final Horcrux destroyed?
Answer: Nagini - What curse kills Cedric Diggory?
Answer: Avada Kedavra - What magical object allows Harry to see his loved ones?
Answer: Resurrection Stone - Who finds the Resurrection Stone in the forest?
Answer: Harry Potter - What form does Voldemort take in the afterlife?
Answer: A maimed, baby-like creature - What magical artifact allows Voldemort to track Harry in Deathly Hallows?
Answer: The locket Horcrux - Who destroys the locket Horcrux?
Answer: Ron Weasley - What is the curse that mutilates George Weasley?
Answer: Sectumsempra - What is the name of the stone in the Resurrection Stone ring?
Answer: The Peverell Ring - Who eventually becomes the master of the Elder Wand?
Answer: Harry Potter - What does Voldemort rename Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows?
Answer: Voldemort’s School of Dark Magic
Quidditch and Wizarding Sports
- What is the name of the Quidditch team from Ireland?
Answer: Irish National Quidditch Team - What is the position Harry plays on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
Answer: Seeker - How many players are on a Quidditch team?
Answer: Seven - What is the name of the ball that scores 10 points?
Answer: Quaffle - What is the name of the ball that knocks players off their brooms?
Answer: Bludger - What is the enchanted object that ends a Quidditch game?
Answer: Golden Snitch - Who is the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team in Harry’s first year?
Answer: Oliver Wood - What is the name of the broomstick Harry receives in The Philosopher’s Stone?
Answer: Nimbus 2000 - Which Quidditch team does Viktor Krum play for?
Answer: Bulgarian National Team - Who replaces Harry as Seeker in The Order of the Phoenix?
Answer: Ginny Weasley - What is the name of the professional Quidditch team Ron supports?
Answer: Chudley Cannons - Who commentates Hogwarts Quidditch matches?
Answer: Lee Jordan - What type of broom does Draco Malfoy receive in The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: Nimbus 2001 - What is the name of the gamekeeper at Hogwarts who serves as referee during Quidditch matches?
Answer: Hagrid - Which Hogwarts house wins the Quidditch Cup in Harry’s first year?
Answer: Gryffindor - What is the penalty for a foul in Quidditch?
Answer: A free shot at the goal hoops - How long did the longest Quidditch match last?
Answer: Three months - Who was the first female captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
Answer: Angelina Johnson - What magical creature inspired the Golden Snitch?
Answer: Golden Snidget - What broom does Harry receive from Sirius Black?
Answer: Firebolt - What is the maximum number of points scored by catching the Golden Snitch?
Answer: 150 - Who tries out for Keeper alongside Ron in The Order of the Phoenix?
Answer: Cormac McLaggen - What spell is used to fix broken broomsticks?
Answer: Reparo - Who scores the final goal in the Quidditch World Cup in The Goblet of Fire?
Answer: Viktor Krum - Which team does Ludo Bagman play for?
Answer: Wimbourne Wasps - What is the name of the American wizarding school’s Quidditch team?
Answer: Thunderbirds - What is the name of the referee in the Quidditch World Cup?
Answer: Hassan Mostafa - What team does Oliver Wood play for professionally?
Answer: Puddlemere United - Who wrote Quidditch Through the Ages?
Answer: Kennilworthy Whisp - What are the dimensions of a Quidditch pitch?
Answer: 500 feet long and 180 feet wide - What happens when the Bludger hits a player?
Answer: It knocks them off their broom - Who scores the most points in Gryffindor’s first match of the season in Harry’s third year?
Answer: Angelina Johnson - What is the penalty for flying over the stands?
Answer: A foul - Who is banned from Quidditch in The Order of the Phoenix?
Answer: Harry Potter - What creature is used as the Snitch in ancient Quidditch?
Answer: Golden Snidget - What color are the Quidditch goal hoops?
Answer: Gold - How many Quidditch fouls are there?
Answer: 700 - What is the name of the team that loses the Quidditch World Cup in The Goblet of Fire?
Answer: Ireland
Wands and Wandlore
- What is Harry’s wand made of?
Answer: Holly and phoenix feather - Who is the wandmaker in Diagon Alley?
Answer: Ollivander - What is the wand core of Voldemort’s wand?
Answer: Phoenix feather - What wood is Hermione’s wand made of?
Answer: Vine - Which Deathly Hallow is represented by the Elder Wand?
Answer: The unbeatable wand - Who repairs Harry’s wand after it is broken in The Deathly Hallows?
Answer: Harry himself, using the Elder Wand - What is Ron’s first wand made of?
Answer: Ash and unicorn hair - Who disarms Draco Malfoy to become the master of the Elder Wand?
Answer: Harry Potter - What is Bellatrix Lestrange’s wand made of?
Answer: Walnut and dragon heartstring - What happens when a wand chooses its wizard?
Answer: It glows or reacts in some way - What is the wand core of Fleur Delacour’s wand?
Answer: Veela hair - Who was the previous master of the Elder Wand before Harry?
Answer: Draco Malfoy - What type of wand does Luna Lovegood have?
Answer: Unknown wood with unicorn hair core - What happens to Ron’s wand in The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: It breaks - What spell is used to make wands duel each other?
Answer: Expelliarmus or Protego during formal duels - What is the wand core most common in Britain?
Answer: Unicorn hair - Who steals the Elder Wand from Dumbledore’s tomb?
Answer: Voldemort - What happens to the wand of a wizard who dies?
Answer: It becomes inert unless claimed - What does Hermione use to trick Bellatrix with her wand?
Answer: Polyjuice Potion to impersonate her - What wood is Voldemort’s wand made of?
Answer: Yew - Who creates a custom wand for Hagrid after his expulsion?
Answer: Ollivander - What is the reaction of a wand when it is used by someone it hasn’t chosen?
Answer: It performs less effectively - What was the wand wood of Gellert Grindelwald?
Answer: Elder (Elder Wand) - How does the Elder Wand choose its master?
Answer: Through disarmament or defeat - What happens when a wand is snapped in half?
Answer: It becomes unusable - What wood is Lily Potter’s wand made of?
Answer: Willow - Who is the first known master of the Elder Wand?
Answer: Antioch Peverell - What wood is used for Neville Longbottom’s second wand?
Answer: Cherry - What is the wand core for Cedric Diggory’s wand?
Answer: Unicorn hair - What spell reveals the last spell cast by a wand?
Answer: Prior Incantato
Miscellaneous Magical Knowledge
- What is the name of the Knight Bus driver?
Answer: Ernie Prang - What charm is used to conceal magical properties?
Answer: The Disillusionment Charm - What potion allows the drinker to assume the appearance of another?
Answer: Polyjuice Potion - What does the Fidelius Charm do?
Answer: Conceals a secret within a person - What is the function of a Howler?
Answer: Delivers a shouting message - Who is the owner of the Leaky Cauldron?
Answer: Tom - What is the name of the shop where Harry buys school supplies?
Answer: Flourish and Blotts - What is the official wizarding currency?
Answer: Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts - What does Veritaserum do?
Answer: Forces the drinker to tell the truth - What spell unlocks objects?
Answer: Alohomora - Who owns the Three Broomsticks?
Answer: Madam Rosmerta - What is the name of the Death Eater symbol?
Answer: The Dark Mark - What plant does Neville excel at growing?
Answer: Mimbulus Mimbletonia - What device is used to revisit memories?
Answer: Pensieve - What is the name of the werewolf hunting group led by Fenrir Greyback?
Answer: Snatchers