Twisted N.E.W.T. Challenge
At Hogwarts, N.E.W.T.s are Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests. Put a twist on traditional
N.E.W.T.s by providing the answers and letting the kids guess the questions. Example:
You say the answer is, “The incantation that makes a boggart take on
a less frightening appearance.”
Let the group guess what the question might be—give them plenty of time to think
out loud. When everyone is done guessing, tell them the question provided.
Question: “What is Riddikulus?”
1. A. In Harry’s first Quidditch
match, he catches the Snitch
in this.
Q. What is his mouth?
11. A. The house-elf who
idolizes Harry but gets him
into lots of trouble.
Q. Who is Dobby?
2. A. The Mirror of Erised
reflects this.
Q. What is your heart’s desire?
12. A. The Defense Against the
Dark Arts professor whose
autobiography is titled
Magical Me.
Q. Who is Gilderoy
Lockhart?
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3. A. This is the bank that holds
Harry’s money.
Q. What is Gringotts?
4. A. The place from which
Hogwarts Express departs.
Q. What is platform nine and
three-quarters?
13. A. The potion that will
allow the drinker to take on
the appearance of another
person for one hour.
Q. What is Polyjuice Potion?
5. A. The name of the headgear
that determines which House
new students shall live in.
Q. What is the Sorting Hat?
14. A. The model of Harry’s
first broomstick.
Q. What is a Nimbus
Two Thousand?
6. A. He made the only
Sorcerer’s Stone in existence.
Q. Who is Nicholas Flamel?
15. A. The most fascinating
wizarding shops in the
world are located here.
Q. What is Diagon Alley?
7. A. The Weasleys’ home is
called this.
Q. What is the Burrow?
8. A. Someone who can
communicate with snakes is
called this.
Q. What is a Parselmouth?
9. A. The nickname of the
three-headed dog that
protected the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Q. What is Fluffy?
10. A. A snake-like creature
whose eyes will turn you
to stone.
Q. What is a basilisk?
19. A. He is the resident ghost
of Gryffindor Tower.
Q. Who is Nearly Headless
Nick or Sir Nicholas de
Mimsy-Porpington?
24. A. The official wizarding
newspaper.
Q. What is The Daily
Prophet?
20. A. A potion used to
regenerate bones after they
have been removed.
Q. What is Skele-Gro?
25. A. A glass top that
lights up and spins
when there is someone
untrustworthy around.
Q. What is a Sneakoscope?
21. A. A bus that transports
witches and wizards to any
destination they choose.
Q. What is the Knight Bus?
26. A. Wizarding sweets full
of strawberry mousse and
clotted cream.
Q. What are Chocoballs?
22. A. The black balls that try
to knock players off their
brooms in Quidditch.
Q. What are Bludgers?
27. A. A forgetful and rather
clumsy friend of Harry’s.
Q. Who is Neville
Longbottom?
23. A. The London pub through
which wizards and witches
gain access to Diagon Alley.
Q. What is the
Leaky Cauldron?
28. A. Harry uses this to
track the whereabouts of
everyone in Hogwarts.
Q. What is the
Marauder’s Map?
16. A. The name of Hagrid’s
Norwegian Ridgeback
dragon.
Q. What is Norbert?
17. A. A wizarding letter which,
when opened, shrieks at
the reader in an extremely
loud voice.
Q. What is a Howler?
18. A. A ghost at Hogwarts who
hides in the girls’ toilets.
Q. Who is Moaning Myrtle?
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(Additional Answers and Questions)
29. A. A positive force that acts
as protection against
a Dementor.
Q. What is a Patronus?
36. A. A nosy and malicious
journalist with stiff
blond curls.
Q. Who is Rita Skeeter?
30. A. The name of Hermione
Granger’s pet cat.
Q. What is Crookshanks?
37. A. The competition among
the three largest European
schools of witchcraft and
wizardry.
Q. What is the Triwizard
Tournament?
31. A. An hourglass that allows
the wearer to travel back
in time.
Q. What is a Time-Turner?
32. A. The name of Fred and
George Weasley’s joke shop.
Q. What is Weasley’s
Wizard Wheezes?
33. A. He is the seeker for
the Bulgarian national
Quidditch team.
Q. Who is Viktor Krum?
34. A. An object that transports
wizards to a prearranged
place.
Q. What is a Portkey?
35. A. The followers of
Voldemort who are
summoned by the
Dark Mark.
Q. Who are Death Eaters?
38. A. The Society for the
Promotion of Elfish Welfare
is better known as this.
Q. What is S.P.E.W.?
39. A. The beautiful women
with white-gold hair who
grow beaks and scaly wings
when enraged.
Q. What are Veela?
40. A. A professional DarkWizard catcher.
Q. What is an Auror?
41. A. The name of Albus
Dumbledore’s pet phoenix.
Q. What is Fawkes?
42. A. Sirius Black’s nickname
at Hogwarts.
Q. What is Padfoot?
43. A. The address of the
Order of the Phoenix
headquarters.
Q. What is Number Twelve,
Grimmauld Place?
44. A. This is Mad-Eye Moody’s
real first name.
Q. What is Alastor?
45. A. The most haunted
building in Britain, situated
in the town of Hogsmeade.
Q. What is the Shrieking
Shack?
46. A. The Seeker for
Ravenclaw on whom Harry
had his first crush.
Q. Who is Cho Chang?
47. A. A place in Hogwarts that
can only be discovered by
those in need.
Q. What is the Room of
Requirement?
48. A. The art of defending
the mind against external
influences.
Q. What is Occlumency?
49. A. Harry secretly gives
Defense Against the Dark
Arts lessons to this select
group.
Q. What is Dumbledore’s
Army or the D.A.?
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50. A. The wizard joke shop
in Hogsmeade.
Q. What is Zonko’s?
51. A. The subject Professor
Snape finally gets to teach
in Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince.
Q. What is Defense Against
the Dark Arts?
52. A. The number of
Unforgivable Curses.
Q. What is three?
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53. A. The place where you’ll
find Borgin and Burkes,
which sells Dark magic
items.
Q. What is Knockturn Alley?
54. A. Taking this potion will
bring you luck.
Q. What is Felix Felicis?
55. A. This rapacious werewolf
kills just for fun.
Q. Who is Fenrir Greyback?
56. A. “Destination,
determination, and
deliberation” are key to this
wizarding skill.
Q. What is Apparition?
57. A. An object in which a
person has concealed part
of his soul.
Q. What is a Horcrux?
58. A. A stone taken from a goat
that will protect you from
most poisons.
Q. What is a bezoar?
59. A. James Potter’s nickname
at Hogwarts.
Q. What is Prongs?
60. A. One of the four founders
of Hogwarts, he created the
Chamber of Secrets.
Q. Who is Salazar Slytherin?
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