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Potion Brewing Trivia Quiz

Hogwarts students usually have end-of-term examinations once a year before the summer holidays. Imagine you are one of those students and are writing the Potions exam for your sixth year. You will be tested on all six years. Let's see how you score!

A multiple-choice quiz by Juwairia. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Juwairia

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
225,690

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
16213

Awards
Top 10% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which of these potions is made when you add powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? Hint

Amortentia

The Wolfsbane Potion

Felix Felicis

The Draught of Living Death

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Question 2 of 10

2. Three of these names refer to the same herb. Pick the one that does not. Hint

Wolfsbane

Aconite

Monkshood

Dittany

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Question 3 of 10

3. Fluxweed is an ingredient used in making Polyjuice Potion. When does this have to be picked? Hint

When Mars is in the 'Fourth House'

During a solar ellipse

When it is raining

At the full moon

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the color of a Shrinking Solution supposed to be? Hint

Orange

Pale Pink

Bright Blue

Acid green

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Question 5 of 10

5. Guess the potion from the choices below.
Colorless and odorless, this potion forces the drinker to tell the truth. Hint

Veritaserum

The Polyjuice Potion

Felix Felicis

An Enlargement Elixir

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is FALSE about the potion 'Amortentia'? Hint

It is the most powerful love potion in the world

It creates 'genuine' love

It has a distinct mother-of-pearl sheen

It smells differently to each person, according to what attracts them

7. Name the potion from the choices below.
"The color of molten gold, the potion splashes merrily, with large drops leaping like goldfish above the surface". It is 'liquid luck', which makes the drinker lucky. Hint

The Wolfsbane Waters

Luckisis Potion

Felix Felicis

The Polyjuice Potion

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'An Elixir to Induce Euphoria' is a sunshine-yellow potion which causes the drinker to feel excessively happy and elated. Adding to it a sprig of peppermint tends to counterbalance what side-effects? Hint

Crying out of joy

Shivers and spasms

Over-confidence

Excessive singing and nose-tweaking

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which of the following potions could cure a person of petrification? Hint

The Awakening Elixir

The Mandrake Restorative Draught

The Sleeping Solution

The Gillyweed Potion

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Question 10 of 10

10. Name the potion from the choices below.
This potion makes a werewolf safe, so that the werewolf keeps his mind when he transforms and can wait for the moon to wane again. Hint: Sugar makes it useless. Hint

The Wolfy Solution

Wereformation Waters

Grindalus Gurge

The Wolfsbane Potion

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which of these potions is made when you add powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?

Answer: The Draught of Living Death

In their first year, Professor Snape asks Harry some questions about Potions to embarrass him during their first class. He explains, when Harry fails to answer, how you get the Draught of Living Death -a potion that causes the drinker to fall into a very deep sleep.

2. Three of these names refer to the same herb. Pick the one that does not.

Answer: Dittany

In their first ever Potions lesson, Snape tells them that monkshood and wolfsbane are the same plant, which goes by the name of aconite

3. Fluxweed is an ingredient used in making Polyjuice Potion. When does this have to be picked?

Answer: At the full moon

In their second year, Harry, Ron and Hermione secretly prepare Polyjuice Potion in Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. Harry and Ron change into Crabbe and Goyle, hoping Malfoy would reveal information about the Chamber of Secrets to them.

4. What is the color of a Shrinking Solution supposed to be?

Answer: Acid green

During a Potions lesson in Book Three, the third years are supposed to make this potion. Neville's turns orange, and Snape tells him that he'd feed Trevor some at the end of the lesson. Hermione, whispering instructions to Neville, helps him turn the potion acid green.

5. Guess the potion from the choices below. Colorless and odorless, this potion forces the drinker to tell the truth.

Answer: Veritaserum

Snape threatens to use this potion on Harry to learn whether he had been stealing Potions ingredients from Snape's private stores in his office. Also, Dumbledore uses this potion to force Barty Crouch Jr. to reveal the truth about Voldemort's plan to return to power.

6. What is FALSE about the potion 'Amortentia'?

Answer: It creates 'genuine' love

In Book Six, Slughorn shows an assortment of potions, including Amortentia, to the class during their first lesson. Slughorn explains that Amortentia doesn't create love, but causes a powerful infatuation or obsession.

7. Name the potion from the choices below. "The color of molten gold, the potion splashes merrily, with large drops leaping like goldfish above the surface". It is 'liquid luck', which makes the drinker lucky.

Answer: Felix Felicis

This potion was the prize for the student who made the best Draught of Living Death during their first potions class with Slughorn. Harry follows the Prince's extra hand-written notes and wins a vial of this potion.

Answer: Excessive singing and nose-tweaking

In Book Six, when most of the Hogwarts' sixth-years had gone for their Apparition tests, there were only three students left to attend Slughorn's potion class -Harry, Malfoy and Ernie. Slughorn asks them to 'whip up something amusing' and Harry makes this potion.

9. Which of the following potions could cure a person of petrification?

Answer: The Mandrake Restorative Draught

In Book Two, when Mrs. Norris is found petrified, Dumbledore tells Filch that there is a cure and that he will have a potion made to revive Mrs. Norris once Madam Sprout's Mandrakes reach their full size. Lockhart immediately volunteers to make a Mandrake Restorative Draught, to which Snape states that he was the Potions Master at Hogwarts.

10. Name the potion from the choices below. This potion makes a werewolf safe, so that the werewolf keeps his mind when he transforms and can wait for the moon to wane again. Hint: Sugar makes it useless.

Answer: The Wolfsbane Potion

In their third year, Snape used to brew this potion for Lupin.

Source: Author Juwairia

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