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Harry Who?

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Introduction:
"I've never read a Harry Potter book, and don't ever intend to. So here's a Harry Potter quiz that's got nothing to do with that wretched schoolboy and his irritating friends."


1. Which famous film Harry was played by Orson Welles in "The Third Man"?
    Harry Plum
    Harry Lime
    Harry Peach
    Harry Pineapple


2. Which author with the surname Potter wrote "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?
    Dennis Potter
    Charles H Potter
    Stephen Potter
    Beatrix Potter


3. Author J K Rowling is commonly known by her initials. Which other (rather better) writer, also known by his initials, was the author of "The Waste Land" and the "Four Quartets"?
    T S Eliot
    B B King
    J R Ewing
    A A Milne


4. The name "Rowling" is pronounced to rhyme with "Rolling". Where in the United Kingdom is there an annual "Cheese Rolling" competition?
    Herne Hill, South London
    Primrose Hill, North London
    Cooper's Hill, Gloucestershire
    Notting Hill, West London


5. The first Harry Potter book is "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (although in the United States this was changed to "Sorcerer's Stone"). But in the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" song about philosophers, how much did Plato drink every day?
    Half a pint of shandy
    A litre of methylated spirits
    Six bottles of Cointreau
    Half a crate of whisky


6. Next came "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". Another very suitable chamber for young Master Potter is the Chamber of Horrors. Of which famous London attraction is this a part?
    The Houses of Parliament
    St Paul's Cathedral
    Madame Tussaud's
    The Tower of London


7. Third in order is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". There is no such place as Azkaban prison. No, really, there isn't. J K Rowling made it up. But there is a country called Azerbaijan, which sounds fairly similar. What is the name of its capital city?
    Kiev
    Baku
    Paris
    London


8. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was published in July 2000. Someone once amusingly defined a goblet as a baby turkey. But what is a baby turkey really called?
    Calf
    Cygnet
    Poult
    Kitten


9. Finally (so far) came "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". In 1984, David Bruce opened a brew-pub in Denmark Hill railway station, in South London. He named it the "Phoenix and ...." what?
    Carrot
    Crown
    Parsnip
    Firkin


10. The Harry Potter books are published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Press. Which well-known female writer was at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group in the 1920s and 1930s?
    Virginia Woolf
    Charlotte Bronte
    Jane Austen
    George Eliot


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