🧙🏻‍♀️ Accio Knowledge! Test Your Wizarding World Wisdom: Top 50 Harry Potter Trivia!

Are you a true Potterhead? Think you know everything about the Boy Who Lived and the magical world he inhabits? Put your knowledge to the ultimate test with our comprehensive list of 50 Harry Potter trivia questions and answers!

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Easy Level

  1. What is the name of the wizarding school Harry Potter attends?
    Answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
  2. What is Harry Potter's famous scar shaped like?
    Answer: A lightning bolt
  3. What is the name of Harry's pet owl?
    Answer: Hedwig
  4. What are the colors of Gryffindor house?
    Answer: Scarlet and gold
  5. Who are Harry Potter's two best friends?
    Answer: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger
  6. What magical sport do the students at Hogwarts play on broomsticks?
    Answer: Quidditch
  7. What is the name of the train that takes students to Hogwarts?
    Answer: The Hogwarts Express
  8. Where does the Hogwarts Express depart from in London?
    Answer: Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
  9. Who is the headmaster of Hogwarts in the first book?
    Answer: Albus Dumbledore
  10. What is the name of the three-headed dog guarding the Sorcerer's Stone?
    Answer: Fluffy
  11. What is the spell Harry uses to disarm his opponents?
    Answer: Expelliarmus
  12. What is the name of Ron Weasley's pet rat?
    Answer: Scabbers
  13. What is the name of the ghost of Gryffindor Tower?
    Answer: Nearly Headless Nick
  14. What is the name of the dark wizard who killed Harry's parents?
    Answer: Lord Voldemort
  15. What position does Harry Potter play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
    Answer: Seeker

Medium Level

  1. What are the four houses at Hogwarts?
    Answer: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin
  2. Who is the Potions Master at Hogwarts in Harry's first year?
    Answer: Severus Snape
  3. What is the name of the magical artifact that shows a person's deepest desires?
    Answer: The Mirror of Erised
  4. What is the name of the centaur Harry, Ron, and Hermione encounter in the Forbidden Forest in the first book?
    Answer: Firenze
  5. What is the name of the bank run by goblins in the wizarding world?
    Answer: Gringotts Wizarding Bank
  6. What is the name of the Weasley family's home?
    Answer: The Burrow
  7. What is the name of the wizarding newspaper?
    Answer: The Daily Prophet
  8. What is the name of the shop in Diagon Alley where Harry buys his wand?
    Answer: Ollivanders
  9. What are the ingredients needed for the Polyjuice Potion? (Name at least three)
    Answer: Lacewing flies, leech, powdered bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed, shredded boomslang skin, and a bit of the person you want to turn into.
  10. What is the name of the ghost of Slytherin house?
    Answer: The Bloody Baron
  11. What is the name of the ghost of Hufflepuff house?
    Answer: The Fat Friar
  12. What is the name of the ghost of Ravenclaw house?
    Answer: The Grey Lady (Helena Ravenclaw)
  13. What is the name of the charm used to levitate objects?
    Answer: Wingardium Leviosa
  14. What is the name of the creature that can turn people to stone with its gaze?
    Answer: A Basilisk
  15. Who is the heir of Slytherin?
    Answer: Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort)
  16. What is the name of the house-elf who belongs to the Malfoy family?
    Answer: Dobby
  17. What is the name of the spell that creates light?
    Answer: Lumos
  18. What is the name of the magical plant that screams when uprooted?
    Answer: Mandrake
  19. What is the name of the werewolf who teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts in Harry's third year?
    Answer: Remus Lupin
  20. What is the name of Sirius Black's Animagus form?
    Answer: A large black dog

Hard Level

  1. What is the full name of Albus Dumbledore?
    Answer: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
  2. What are the three Unforgivable Curses?
    Answer: The Imperius Curse (Imperio), the Cruciatus Curse (Crucio), and the Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra)
  3. What is the name of the organization dedicated to protecting magical creatures?
    Answer: The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
  4. What is the name of the wizarding radio station?
    Answer: The Wizarding Wireless Network
  5. What is the make and model of Arthur Weasley's enchanted flying car?
    Answer: A Ford Anglia
  6. What is the name of the magical quill that writes the names of new Hogwarts students in the Book of Admittance?
    Answer: The Quill of Acceptance
  7. What is the name of the hat that sorts new students into Hogwarts houses?
    Answer: The Sorting Hat
  8. What is the incantation for the Patronus charm?
    Answer: Expecto Patronum
  9. What is the name of the magical creature that guards the vaults in Gringotts?
    Answer: Dragons (specifically Ukrainian Ironbellies in Harry's break-in)
  10. What are the names of the founders of the four Hogwarts houses?
    Answer: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin
  11. What is the name of Voldemort's loyal follower who disguises himself as Alastor Moody?
    Answer: Barty Crouch Jr.
  12. What are the seven Horcruxes created by Lord Voldemort?
    Answer: Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Nagini (his snake), and Harry Potter (unintentionally).
  13. What is the name of the elder wand's first known owner?
    Answer: Antioch Peverell
  14. What is the name of the magical object that allows Harry to see his deceased parents?
    Answer: The Mirror of Erised (specifically when reflecting the Stone of Resurrection)
  15. What is the significance of the number seven in the Harry Potter universe? (Name at least three examples)
    Answer: There are seven books in the main series, seven Weasley siblings, seven players on a Quidditch team, it takes seven years to complete a Hogwarts education, Voldemort created seven Horcruxes, and the Potters' protection charm involved seven people.