Harry Potter Side Event
Round 4
Tossups
1. The company that produces this item was founded in 1967. Eleven years later a rival company went out of business. According to reviewers, it combined the reliability of the Oakshaft 79 with the easy handling of the Cleansweep series. Its top speed is 100 miles per hour, and it is capable of turning 360 degrees at a fixed point. The first model made by its manufacturer was the 1000, but 1001, 1500, and 1700 models were also developed before this one. For ten points, identify this broomstick first released in 1991, at that time the fastest one ever made.
ANSWER: Nimbus 2000 (accept “Nimbus brooms” and prompt on “Nimbus” before power only)
2. This character lived with his family in Wiltshire, England. It was at that home that he was replaced as master of the Elder Wand during a battle that also saw the death of Dobby. He became the master of that wand during the Battle of the Tower when he disarmed Dumbledore before fleeing with the other Death Eaters. However, he was no killer; his previous attempts to kill Dumbledore were feeble, to say the least. He became the Seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team after his father bought them all Nimbus Two Thousand and Ones, the spoiled brat. For ten points, name this Slytherin student and rival of Harry Potter.
ANSWER: Draco Malfoy (prompt on “Malfoy”)
3. The wife of Bartemius Crouch Sr. died here and is buried here. Stan Shunpike went here after making jokes about Death Eaters, and Mundungus Fletcher went here after impersonating an Inferius during a burglary. Hagrid spent some weeks here until basilisk attacks stopped at Hogwarts. More famous long-term residents include the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr., who was smuggled out by his parents. For many years the Dementors guarded it before they finally rebelled and joined Voldemort. Sirius Black was able to elude those guards in the form of a dog and escape. For ten points, name this North Sea island prison of the Wizarding World.
ANSWER: Azkaban
4. At the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix it was thrown out with the other junk when none of the Order members could open it. It was purchased from Mundungus Fletcher by Dolores Umbridge and used to claim pure-blood status. When it is finally opened it is found to contain a pair of eyes under glass windows. It was hidden at one point in a place that a young Tom Riddle had visited with fellow orphans. However, it was removed by Regulus Black and replaced wit a substitute. For ten points, name this Horcrux of Voldemort that takes the form of jewelry worn around the neck and is emblazoned with an S.
ANSWER: Slytherin’s locket (prompt on “locket”)
5. It is located between a book store and a record shop on Charing Cross Road in London. The witch Doris Crockford made her only appearance here, and it is here that Harry met Cornelius Fudge and Dedalus Digle for the first time. After leaving Privet Drive in the summer before his third year, Harry journeyed here via the Knight Bus and then stayed here for several weeks. It is run by an old, toothless wizard named Tom. Behind this building is a brick wall that opens when the appropriate brick is tapped with a wand. For ten points, name this wizarding tavern in London that one passes through to get to Diagon Alley
ANSWER: the Leaky Cauldron
6. This character is Sirius Black’s cousin “by marriage,” according to the latter. She gets the magazine Witch Weekly “for the recipes,” and was cold toward Hermione after reading a libelous article in that magazine. The Fat Lady once told her off after she came back late from a stroll with her future husband. For her a boggart takes the form of her children’s corpses. Like many women her age, she has something of a crush on Gilderoy Lockhart. During the Battle of Hogwarts she dueled and killed Bellatrix Lestrange. She likes to knit sweaters for her children and is an excellent cook. For ten points, name this mother in the Weasley family.
ANSWER: Molly Weasley (prompt on “Weasley” or “Mrs. Weasley”)
7. Rufus Scrimgeour says that this object was designed by its first owner and is possibly unique. This object was accompanied in the will of that owner by the note “in the hope that he will remember me when he uses it.” Ron was able to use it to return to Harry and Hermione; it generated blue balls of light that floated into his chest and told him where he needed to Apparate to. In the basement of Malfoy Manor Ron uses it to provide light for their escape. In this object’s first appearance in the series, its inventor uses it on the street lamps of Privet Drive. For ten points, name this object invented by Albus Dumbledore that looks like a cigarette lighter.
ANSWER: the Put-Outer or the Deluminator
8. This was used to kill Boderick Bode as he recuperated in St. Mungo’s. The harder one struggles against it, the more quickly it kills them. It formed the second obstacle facing anyone trying to reach the Philosopher’s Stone, provided by the Hogwarts professor who lectures her first year students about it. Since according to that professor it likes the dark and the damp, the best defense against it is fire, which of course gave rise to the classic line of Ron’s, “Are you a witch or not?!,”
before Hermione drove it off with bluebell flames. For ten points, name this plant that tries to strangle whatever touches it.
ANSWER: Devil’s Snare
9. It was at this place that Regulus Black was killed. Upon arriving here, Dumbledore could sense that it was a place that had “known magic.” After that magic had been put in place, Kreacher was one of the first beings to come here. Her performed a nearly fatal task for Voldemort and was then left to die. It is unreachable by Muggles, but a young Tom Riddle took fellow orphans here on field trips just to terrify them. When Harry visits it he is tasked with forcing Dumbledore to continue drinking a malevolent potion before the pair of them are set upon by the Inferi that dwell in the lake here. For ten points, name this hiding place of Slytherin’s locket.
ANSWER: the cave by the sea where Voldemort hid Slytherin’s locket
10. We first meet this character in the village of Budleigh Babberton. At the time he was in the house of some wealthy Muggles disguised as an armchair. At one time he was head of Slytherin House, and he regrets that Sirius Black was a member of Gryffindor House. It was he who was responsible for educating Tom Riddle about Horcruxes. During his first class he shows the students Amortentia and warns them of the dangers of obsessive love. Lily Evans was one of his favorite students. He loves crystallized pineapple, and one of his hobbies is hosting informal meetings of talented or well-connected students. For ten points, name this portly and affable Hogwarts Potions Master who replaced Snape.
ANSWER: Professor HoraceSlughorn (accept either underlined name)
11. Its first owner told his neighbors that this was the source of his power rather than revealing himself as a wizard. When that owner died, this was left to his son with a package inside bearing a note hoping he would never need what was inside. Over the next week this object tormented its new owner with antics such as whining like a dog, leaking salt water, and spewing live slugs, all the while causing an awful clanging. When the wizard finally quiets it, he puts the slipper that was in the package on its sole brass foot. For ten points, name this cooking vessel that forces the son of its first owner to use his magic for the benefit of others.
ANSWER: the hopping pot (prompt on “pot”)
12. During the final Battle of Hogwarts it was destroyed by Fiendfyre. The person who stole it from its creator hid it in a hollow tree shortly before being stabbed. Dirigible Plums, a Billywig propeller, and Wrackspurt siphons are components of Xenophilius Lovegood’s attempt to reconstruct this object. Tom Riddle was able to charm the information about its whereabouts out of a Hogwarts ghost, the Grey Lady. Etched upon its surface is the quotation “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” attributed to its creator. For ten points, name this Horcrux and piece of headwear that belonged to Hogwarts’s cleverest founder.
ANSWER: Ravenclaw’s diadem (accept obvious equivalents that talk about
some sort of crown)
13. This character is responsible for naming the D.A. “Dumbledore’s Army.” She is selected by Slughorn to be a Slug Club member after he sees her perform a hex that she is infamous for on the train. Before her fifth year she purchased her pet, a Pygmy Puff whom she named Arnold. Relationships with boys like Michael Corner and Dean Thomas didn’t work out, and were really meant to get the attention of the boy she was really interested in. She had a pretty bad first year of Hogwarts, as she was possessed for most of the time by Tom Riddle after discovering his diary. For ten points, name this eventual wife of Harry Potter.
ANSWER: Ginevra“Ginny” Weasley (accept either underlined name, prompt
on “Weasley”)
14. After stealing the diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw, her daughter Helena fled here and hid it in a hollow tree. While a student at Hogwarts, Tom Riddle charmed Helena, now the Hogwarts ghost called “the Grey Lady,” into telling him where that tree was. Riddle then traveled to this land and turned Ravenclaw’s diadem into a Horcrux. Voldemort’s future human host met him here. While visiting her second cousin here, Bertha Jorkins disappeared after Wormtail met her at an inn and convinced her to accompany him on a stroll. For ten points, name this country most famous for being the place where Voldemort hid after losing power.
ANSWER: Albania
15. Harry was able to describe its effects quite accurately on one of his O.W.L.’s. Bartemius Crouch Sr. used it to switch his wife for his son in Azkaban. In order to obtain the book about it, Hermione charmed a signature out of Gilderoy Lockhart. In order to create it, ingredients like lacewing flies and boomslang skin are needed. It should not be used to impersonate animals, or else an incomplete transformation will result. It resembles mud before the final ingredient is added; often that ingredient is someone’s hair. For ten points, name this potion that enables the drinker to assume the appearance of another person.
ANSWER: Polyjuice Potion
16. In the Pensieve, Bertha Jorkins explains that she had a hex put on her after she witnessed this. During the Yule Ball, Snape takes ten points from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff when Fawcett and Stebbins did this. Ginny gives one of these to Harry for his seventeenth birthday. This first befalls Harry at the last meeting of the D.A. before the Christmas holidays. He describes it as “wet.” That same school year, Ron tends to flip out whenever the topic of Ginny doing this comes up; Ginny, for her part, describes Ron’s performance in this as “eating [Lavender’s] face.” For ten points, name this action in which a boy and girl lock lips.
ANSWER: kissing or snogging (accept obvious equivalents)
17. During the Battle of Hogwarts this character is killed by Dolohov. He was a Prefect while at Hogwarts, but did little to restrain the mischief of his friends. On the Potterwatch radio station his codename is “Romulus.” He initially fears that his son Ted will share in his troublesome condition, and claimed to be too old and poor for his future wife. He focused on dark creatures like Boggarts while teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. He helped author the Marauder’s Map under the name of “Moony” and taught Harry the Patronus Charm. For ten points, name everyone’s favorite shabbily dressed werewolf in the Harry Potter series.
ANSWER: Remus John Lupin (accept either underlined name, prompt on
“Moony” before mentioned)
18. When attacked by an acromantula at the end of the Third Task maze, Harry used this spell to make it drop him. After Harry uses this spell on Stan Shunpike during the flight from Privet Drive the Death Eaters realize that he is the real Potter. In Harry’s final duel with Voldemort, this spell was the only one that Harry cast. It was the first spell that Harry taught to Dumbledore’s Army, saying that it saved his life against Voldemort. It was also the first spell that was taught to members of the short-lived dueling club; there, Snape used it against Gilderoy Lockhart. For ten points, name this enchantment that causes one’s opponent to lose their wand.
ANSWER: Expelliarmus or Disarming Spell/Charm/etc.
19. Those of a Chimaera are Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. These objects are employed widely in potion brewing; those of the Ashwinder are used in love potions when frozen. An Occamy’s are highly prized, being made of soft silver. Anyone caring for a dragon’s must keep it in the fire to simulate its mother breathing on it. During the 1994 Triwizard Tournament, one of the tasks facing the Champions was collecting a golden one of these. For ten points, name these protective shells from which the offspring of some magical creatures hatch.
ANSWER: egg
20. Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange are this character’s aunts. Her mother Andromeda, whose name was blasted off the Black family tree, was Sirius’s “favorite cousin.” Andromeda was blasted from the tapestry for marrying a Muggle named Ted. After the death of Sirius Black her Patronus changed its shape to that of a dog-like creature, though it was later shown that this was due to her falling in love with her future husband. Due to her clumsiness she nearly failed Auror training, but proved adept at disguising herself thanks to a certain gift. For ten points, name this usually upbeat Metamorphmagus who typically sports bright pink hair.
ANSWER: Nymphadora “Dora”Tonks (accept either underlined name, prompt on “Tonks”)
TB. This character became something of a confidant of Draco Malfoy in the latter’s sixth year; he told her that he was lonely and that people picked on him. While she was at Hogwarts, a girl named Oliver Hornby made fun of her glasses. During the Second Task of the 1994 Triwizard Tournament she appeared to Harry in the lake and told him which way the Merpeople were, and it was she who had first showed him how to listen to a golden egg to learn what that task entailed. While crying in a girls’ bathroom she encountered Tom Riddle and the Basilisk, which is how she met her end. For ten points, name this emo girl ghost who lives in a toilet.
ANSWER: Moaning Myrtle
EX. The animal that this is derived from is an aquatic rodent, which develops a growth on its back that is pickled and strained. The last we see of it, Fred and George were using it to counteract a side effect of their Fever Fudge; Lee Jordan put them on to it. Lee had learned about it from Harry when he was in need of it for the same reason Harry had been. The first time we see it in the series, Hermione gives some to Harry to recover from a detention with Professor Umbridge. For ten points, name this yellow solution that wizards use to soothe and heal cuts like the ones Umbridge’s killer quill will give you.
ANSWER: essence of murtlap (accept obvious equivalents)