Harry Potter Trivia Jeopardy

Hogwarts students, potions, and magical creatures fill a fan-made board for Potter nights. Free to copy, with wands swapped out for phone buzzers.

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The Students

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This orphaned boy discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is a famous wizard and is invited to attend a school of witchcraft and wizardry.
Who is Harry Potter?
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This bushy-haired, highly studious witch is Harry's best friend and is famous for being the smartest student in her year.
Who is Hermione Granger?
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This red-haired boy, the youngest son in a large wizarding family, becomes Harry's first friend on the train to school.
Who is Ron Weasley?
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This platinum-blond student from Slytherin House frequently antagonizes Harry and his friends throughout the series.
Who is Draco Malfoy?
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This student, often teased early on for clumsiness, ultimately leads a rebellion against occupying dark forces and kills a dangerous snake in the final book.
Who is Neville Longbottom?

Professors and Staff

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This towering, kind-hearted half-giant serves as the school's groundskeeper and Keeper of Keys and Grounds.
Who is Rubeus Hagrid?
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This long-bearded wizard serves as headmaster for most of the series and is considered one of the most powerful wizards alive.
Who is Albus Dumbledore?
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This professor teaches Potions for most of the series and is revealed to have secretly loved Harry's mother.
Who is Severus Snape?
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This stern professor teaches Transfiguration and serves as head of Gryffindor House.
Who is Minerva McGonagall?
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This character impersonates a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for an entire school year in the fourth book while secretly working for the series' main villain.
Who is Barty Crouch Jr.?

Spells and Potions

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This charm causes an object to float and rise gently into the air when cast correctly.
What is the Levitation Charm?
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This potion, brewed correctly, allows the drinker to temporarily take on the appearance of someone else.
What is Polyjuice Potion?
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This unforgivable curse causes its target to suffer intense, excruciating pain.
What is the Cruciatus Curse?
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This charm, cast to produce a protective guardian made of silvery light, takes the shape of an animal tied to the caster's personality.
What is the Patronus Charm?
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This golden potion grants the drinker good luck for a period of time and is famously difficult and dangerous to brew.
What is Felix Felicis?

Magical Creatures

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This three-headed dog, kept by the school's groundskeeper, guards a hidden trapdoor in the first book.
What is Fluffy?
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This half-horse, half-eagle creature must be approached with a respectful bow before it will allow a rider on its back.
What is a Hippogriff?
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This magical bird bursts into flame when it dies and is later reborn from its own ashes.
What is a Phoenix?
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This enormous serpent, kept hidden in a chamber beneath the school, can kill with a direct glance from its eyes.
What is a Basilisk?
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These small, house-bound creatures serve wizarding families and can only be freed from service when their owner presents them with clothing.
What are House-Elves?

Places and Transportation

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This school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where most of the series takes place, is hidden from non-magical people in Scotland.
What is Hogwarts?
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This narrow London street, hidden behind a pub called the Leaky Cauldron, is where wizarding families shop for school supplies.
What is Diagon Alley?
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This scarlet steam train departs from a hidden platform at King's Cross Station to carry students to school each year.
What is the Hogwarts Express?
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This wizarding prison, guarded by soul-sucking Dementors, sits on an island in the North Sea.
What is Azkaban?
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This underground wizarding bank, run by goblins, is where wizarding families store their gold in vaults.
What is Gringotts?

Behind the Books

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This British author wrote the Harry Potter series, reportedly drafting parts of the first book in Edinburgh cafes.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
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This U.S. publisher released the American editions of the Harry Potter series starting in 1998, a year after UK publication.
What is Scholastic?
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This actor played the title role in all eight Harry Potter film adaptations, having been cast at around age eleven.
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?
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This is the total number of novels J.K. Rowling wrote in the original Harry Potter series.
What is seven?
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This actress played Hermione Granger across all eight Harry Potter films.
Who is Emma Watson?

Final Jeopardy — Magical Objects

Created in the series by the alchemist Nicolas Flamel, this object produces the Elixir of Life and gives the first book its title.

What is the Sorcerer's Stone?

How to run this board

Potter fans come in tiers, from read-them-once to owns-a-replica-wand, and a good board needs clues for all of them. These categories cover the students, the professors and staff, spells and potions, magical creatures, places and transportation, and a behind-the-books column on how the series was published and filmed.

House-based teams are the obvious move for a themed party; sort guests as they arrive and keep a running house cup score across games.

One tip: put the superfan in charge of judging spelling disputes instead of playing. It keeps the game fair and gives them a role they will relish.

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