Quizzitch 2013The Finale

Overview

• There will be 5 rounds in all, each with a different format.

• The rounds will be explained as we progress through the quiz.

• Optimum Fortuna!

Round 1Dry Round I

Format

• 6 questions • One question for each team• Clockwise round • +10 points for every answer• +10/-10 on the pounce

1. This infamous animal’s name when translated into Spanish means turtle, while opposed to it’s original form. More so, the Urban Dictionary definition of this name is “Someone who you can trust your life with. A guy that's so sweet and amazing you could never let him go. The man I'm going to spend the rest of my life with and an over all perfect person.” What is the name?

Answer

Trevor

2. What are they collectively called as?

Answer

The Sacred Twenty-Eight were, according to the author of the Pure-Blood Directory the twenty-eight British families that were still "truly pure-blood" by the 1930s.

3. What is the title given to the head of the International Confederation of Wizards?Albus Dumbledore was one of them.

Answer

Supreme Mugwump

4. Fill in the blank

Move your body like a hairy troll(Uh Huh) Learning to rock and rollSpin around like a crazy elfDancin' by himself

(Yeah) Boogie down like a unicornNo stoppin' till the break of dawnPut your hands up in the airLike an ogre, who just don't care

Oh! Can you _____ ____ _ _________?Na na na ma ma ny na na ny naFlyin' off from a cliff

Answer

Can you dance like a Hippogriff? by The Weird Sisters

5. They are an American rock band known for spawning the genre of wizard rock. Founded in Norwood, USA in 2002, the group is primarily composed of Joe and Paul DeGeorge and have released albums like Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock! What are they called?

Answer

Harry and the Potters

6. What is this? Where would you find this?

Answer

House point hourglasses at the entrance to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Round 2The Duel Club

Rules• There will be 6 topics to choose from.• This round will basically be a challenge round.• Each team will get to choose a topic for another

team. Let’s assume team A challenges team B, if team B gets it right they score +10 points and team A gets -5 points.

• If team B gets the question wrong, they don’t get any negative points but team A gets to answer the question after them and if they get it right they get +15 points.

• If both the teams fail to get the right answer, the question is open to all the other teams for a +5/-5.

Weasleys' Wizard

WheezesHogwarts

Dark Arts Rita Skeeter

Diagon Alley Lego Model

Grid

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

What is the official name given to line of fireworks sold at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes?

Answer

Explosive Enterprises

Grid

Hogwarts

Who at Hogwarts taught the elective course of Ancient Runes?

Answer

Bathsheda Babbling

Grid

Dark Arts

What is the Dark Art of raising the dead called?It is also most likely the branch of magic used to create Inferi, Zombies and Charmed Skeletons.

Answer

Necromancy

Grid

Rita Skeeter

What was Rita Skeeter’s photographer’s name?

Answer

Bozo

Grid

Diagon AlleyFill in the blanks

Madam Malkin: "I think this left sleeve could come up a little bit more, dear, let me just…"

Draco Malfoy: "Ouch! Watch where you're putting your pins, woman! Mother, I don't think I want these anymore."

Narcissa Malfoy: "You're right, Draco. Now I know the kind of scum that shops here… We'll do better at _______ ____ _______."

Madam Malkin: "Well, really?"

Answer

Twilfitt and Tattings

Grid

Lego

What are they collectively referred to as?

Answer

Advance Guard

Grid

Round 3

Long Visual Connect

Format

1. This is a series of 10 images connected to a single

topic/theme.

2. Each team can attempt to answer the LVC only twice during

the entire round.

3. Points for the theme will be displayed on each slide, with the

corresponding negative marking for the wrong answer.

4. Teams will have to write down the answer once they have

raised their hands to take a shot at the theme.

+20/-10

+18/-9

+16/-8

+14/-7

+12/-6

+10/-5

+8/-4

+6/-3

+4

+2

And the connect is..

List of teams in the British/Irish Quidditch League

Teams

• Montrose Magpies• Wigtown Wanderers• Appleby Arrows• Kenmare Kestrels• Wimbourne Wasps• Falmouth Falcons• Chudley Cannons• Tutshil Tornados• Puddlemere United• Holyhead Harpies

Round 4The Quill is Mightier than the Sword

Format

• 4 questions on Spells/Charms from the Harry Potter series

• Written Round• Differential Scoring, 3 * Number of teams that

get it wrong

1. What’s the transforming spell that is used to change the target into a bird, flock of birds or flock of bats with a vivid flash of blue light?

2. ____________ is a charm that is used to correctly identify the ingredients of a given potion. Professor Horace Slughorn instructed his sixth year potions class to use this spell, although most of them were absolutely clueless. The only one who truly knew what to do was Hermione Granger, who was casting the spell nonverbally.

3. __________ is the incantation for the spell that, when cast, causes a target Snake to vanish in a puff of black smoke. As such, it can be used as a counter-spell for spells that produce serpents, such as Serpensortia or the Fire to snake spell, annihilating the conjured or transfigured snake.

4. Which spell originates from the Latin word meaning "gate" or "to carry"?

And the answers are..

1. What’s the transforming spell that is used to change the target into a bird, flock of birds or flock of bats with a vivid flash of blue light?

Avifors

2. ____________ is a charm that is used to correctly identify the ingredients of a given potion. Professor Horace Slughorn instructed his sixth year potions class to use this spell, although most of them were absolutely clueless. The only one who truly knew what to do was Hermione Granger, who was casting the spell nonverbally.

Scarpin's Revelaspell / Specialis Revelio

3. __________ is the incantation for the spell that, when cast, causes a target Snake to vanish in a puff of black smoke. As such, it can be used as a counter-spell for spells that produce serpents, such as Serpensortia or the Fire to snake spell, annihilating the conjured or transfigured snake.

Vipera Evanesca

4. Which spell originates from the Latin word meaning "gate" or "to carry"?

Portus

Round 5Dry Round II

Format

• Last 6 questions • One question for each team• Anticlockwise round • +10 points for every answer• +10/-10 on the pounce

1. Who was the only person to have been living at Hogwarts since it’s founding?

Answer

Peeves

2. How to break through a memory charm?

Answer

Cruciatus Curse

3. What has been blanked out?

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, ____ _____ Hogwarts,Teach us something please,Whether we be old and bald,Or young with scabby kneesOur heads could do with filling,With some interesting stuff,For now they're bare and full of air,Dead flies and bits of fluff,So teach us things worth knowing,Bring back what we've forgot,Just do your best, we'll do the rest,And learn until our brains all rot.

Answer

Hoggy Warty

4. Where would find this?

Answer

The Three Broomsticks

5. What is this an inexhaustive list of?

Dr. MedusaBlablablaE. LimusAsk D. ShamanPink MagicHocus-PocusArts & Warts

Answer

Segments of the Daily Prophet

6. Which character’s name did Rowling say she obtained from a character in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, who is similarly odious and is hanging around in the background a lot?

Answer

Mrs. Norris