Harry Potter Quiz (house points available!)

[Phinea Rogue]

Ron??? Wow, I would never thought about him too. But we're still in lead, the Slytherin, yay!

[highsorcerer]

I admit it... I was the Ravenclaw who submitted the invisibilty cloak question, and it was all based on Ron's wearing of the cloak in PS... it was obscure, but fair to catch.

The real trick was phrasing the question carefully. Hermoine has been under it (but not alone), and there was plenty of implications that Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew had been under it (with James Potter), but no outright reference.

Anyway, great job to the houses that answered our questions, and we look forward to answering the next quiz that is out there.

HighSorcerer (nobody important, just a Ravenclaw who helps his house where he can)

[Jotomicron]

(nobody important, just a Ravenclaw who helps his house where he can)

Excuse me! Nobody important? Man, you're great with this quiz stuff, and not only this! How can you say you're nobody important???

[AngelicS_89]

Just a question...Who's making the new quiz in the end?

[gecko]

Sorry, we, or at least I, forgot that we had to choose the next quiz-making house!.
I'll go and ask in the ravenclaw common room right now!

[gecko]

Okies, sorry for the double-post, but the next house to make a quiz will be.....GRYFFINDOR! Good luck!

[Gwared]

Okies...better go tell everyone then!

*Scoots off to the common room*

[Paul]

The Gryffindor quiz is here! And a tricky one it is too (usually when I say that I'm made to eat my words from teams scoring amazingly well, but at the risk of me having a word-sandwich for lunch next week when the results are announced, here we go...)

The questions are:

Q1. Who was taken away for questioning by the Committee on experimental charms and why?

Q2. What surface was alight with sparks as though encrusted with diamonds?

Q3. Who has white blond hair?

Q4. What warning did Harry give the twins?

Q5. What room at Hogwarts is always unlocked?

As always, in order to ensure that the other Houses don't see your answers or discussions, please discuss and post your answers in your common rooms only, and not in this thread. I'll collect the final answers from the Common Rooms shortly after the deadline, which will be 8.00 PM UTC/GMT on monday 7 June 2004.

Each correct answer will be worth 2 points to the answering Houses (Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin), but if your House gets any question wrong, or if your House doesn't answer the question at all, then 2 points will be awarded to Gryffindor who set the quiz.

For each question, as well as the correct answer, you'll need to give a location in the books where the answer can be found (this is to safeguard against simply looking the information up online). The location should be in the form of: Book name, country version (for example UK or USA version), chapter number, and page number.

Good luck everyone and have fun!

[Phinea Rogue]

And it's said that Slytherins are evil...

[Female_alien]

Gryffindors are obviously sharing the 1st place with them

[Paul]

Hee hee - here we go with the results of the evil Gryfindor quiz!


It's been a tough decision as to how many points to award in some cases. I've ended up being quite strict this time, but I've tried to be as fair as possible to all Houses.

As a reminder, here are the questions again - but this time with Gryffindor's answers:

1. Q1. Who was taken away for questioning by the Committee on experimental charms and why?
   Ans: Mortlake; for extremely odd ferrets (CoS, Ch 3, Pg 38 US or Pg 34 UK)
   
2. Q2. What surface was alight with sparks as though encrusted with diamonds?
   Ans: The cauldron of water in the graveyard where Lord Voldemort returned (GoF, Ch 8, Pg 97 UK)
   
3. Q3. Who has white blond hair?
   Ans: Firenze (PS, Ch 15, Pg 187 UK)
   
4. Q4. What warning did Harry give the twins?
   Ans: Watch out for the bottom stair, it creaks (CoS, Ch 3, Pg 26 US or Pg 25 UK)
   
5. Q5. What room at Hogwarts is always unlocked?
   Ans: The Trophy Room (SS, Ch 9, Pg 153 US or Pg 114 UK)

For question 1, all 3 answering houses correctly identified Mortlake as the wizard who was taken away for questioning by the Committee on experimental charms, as a result of his extremely odd ferrets. Ravenclaw and Slytherin also gave correct page references and chapter numbers, so Ravenclaw and Slytherin score 2 points each. Hufflepuff gave a correct page reference, but missed out the chapter number so I've awarded 1 and three quarter points to Hufflepuff, and a quarter point to Gryffindor.

For question 2, the cauldron of water in the graveyard sparked everyone's memory. Ravenclaw were spot-on with a page reference and chapter number, so score the full 2 points. Slytherin identified the correct page reference but didn't give a chapter number, so score 1 and three quarter points with a quarter point going to Gryffindor. Hufflepuff got the correct answer but gave no chapter number and a page number of 693 in the UK paperback verson of GoF which has totally confussled me as my UK paperback only has 636 pages. I've therefore given Hufflepuff one and a half points (although if Hufflepuff can unconfussle me about the page number thing, there may be an extra quarter point for them) and Gryffindor score a further half a point.

Firenze's was correctly named by all 3 answering Houses as the individual with white blond hair. Ravenclaw correctly pointed outthat there are two references to this, one in PS, chapter 15, page 187, UK Paperback, and one in OoTP, chapter 26, page 598, US Hardback, so score the full 2 points. Slytherin correctly mentioned the reference in Book 1, Ch. 15, pg 187 and also score 2 points. Hufflepuff got both page numbers but didn't give chapter numbers so (they're going to kill me for this) score one and three quarter points, with a quarter point going to Gryffindor.

For question 4, Ravenclaw found a different warning than Gryffindor's. They answered that Harry warned the Weasley twins to be careful because Moody could be watching them buying the Venomous Tentacula seeds from Mundungus Fletcher.
OOTP: chapter 9: page 171: US Hardback. Although not the same answer as Gryffindor gave me when setting the questions, it still fits perfectly as a warning that harry gave the twins, so I'm giving Ravenclaw 2 full points on this one. Slytherin also found another warning - this time a warning look from harry: "'We seriously debated whether we were going to bother coming back for our seventh year,' said George brightly, 'now that we've got-'
He broke off at a warning look from Harry, who knew George had been about to mention the Triwizard winnings he had given them."
(OotP, British version, p.205) but Slytherin didn't give a chapter number, so I've given Slytherin 1 and three quarter points, with a quarter point going to Gryffindor. Hufflepuff are going to kill me again as they are the only House that answered with the bottom stair at Privet Drive, and gave a page reference of UK paperback, p.33 (which is in the right area but me is confussled again as it's page 25 in my UK paperback). Hufflepuff also mentioned that harry tells the twins not to tell anybody where they got the money but my brain is frying here as they gave GoF, p.795, UKpaperback as the page reference (why has mine only got 636 pages?) I'm going to give Hufflepuff one and three quarter points as no chapter numbers were given, with another quarter point going to Gryffindor.

And finally for question 5, all 3 answering houses correctly stated that the Trophy Room is always unlocked. Both Ravenclaw and Slytherin gave full page and chapter references, so each score 2 points. Hufflepuff correctly answered with a correct page reference but no chapter number, so score one and three quarter points, with a quarter point going to Gryfindor

Sooo... tippety tap...how do all the scores add up?

Total House Points in the June Quiz
Well, Ravenclaw very impressively score the full maximum 10 points!
Slytherin come in a close second with a score of 9 and a half points.
Hufflepuff did very well indeed too, but the missed chapter numbers mean they score 8 and a half points.
And Gryffindor who set the quiz this month score 2 points.

Congratulations Ravenclaw on winning this month's quiz with maximum score of 10 points!


In fact, well done to all houses and everyone who helped in finding the answers for their House, plus special appreciation to Gryffindor who set the quiz. I really thought this one was going to give Gryffindor a huge points score, so you've proved me wrong again...looks like I'm going to have to eat that word sandwich from my last post

Adding the results from this month's quiz into the overall ongoing House Points, the current status of the Houses is:

Current total House Points
Slytherin 28 and a half points
Ravenclaw 25 and three quarter points
Gryffindor 18 and a quarter points
Hufflepuff 17 and a half points

Which means that Ravenclaw have overtaken Gryffindor for second place, but Slytherin are still 3 points in overall lead. Hufflepuff are catching up from behind though, and are now only three quarters of a point behind Gryffindor!

With Ravenclaw this month's winner, it's over to Ravenclaw to devise the questions for the next quiz. Have fun with thinking them up, Ravenclaw.


* Paul wanders off to find some bread for his word sandwich *

[Female_alien]

I didn't even know Hufflepuffs answered the quiz
Paul, I don't wanna kill you I just wanna see you suffer!!

Are chapters really that important?

CONGRATULATIONS to Rawenclaws!!!! Great job!

[Mint]

Oups chapter numbers? hehe

Congratulations everyone!!!!

[Scellanis]

Thats what confuses me...if you get the correct page number and book version then you get the correct chapter whether you speciafically say it or not because each page in a book can only be in one chapter of that book so chapter number is a redundant bit of information hence why we forget it so many times. Page number is the more accurate thing.

The chapter number has no use what so ever in my opinion because you don't use that to look up the answer do you, you just go straight for page number.

[Violet]

Yeah i have to agree, once we'd found the page number then referring to the chapter didnt seem relevant.
But congrats to everyone!