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1 What is the name of the ghost who was killed by an axe?
Answer: Sir Nicholas

Sir Nicholas is the house ghost of Gryffindor. It is known that Sir Nicholas suffered 40 hits by that axe. He was killed on Hallowe'en night.
  From Quiz: "Harry Potter" - House Ghosts
2 What was the first name of the founder of Ravenclaw House?
Answer: Rowena

Rowena Ravenclaw was one of the four original founders. She believed that the school should only accept the brightest young witches and wizards, which is why Ravenclaw is known for having the smartest students.
  From Quiz: Ravenclaw House
3 Who is the head of Ravenclaw house?
Answer: Filius Flitwick

Flitwick is the charms teacher at Hogwarts and head of Ravenclaw house. He is apparently "the shortest person at Hogwarts". Pomfrey is not the head of any house while Snape is the head of Slytherin house for Harry's first six years. Dumbledore was the headmaster till the sixth book.
  From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Hogwarts Houses?
4 Which house was Cho Chang in?
Answer: Ravenclaw

Cho was in Ravenclaw house. She supported the Quidditch team The Tutshill Tornados and dated both Harry and Cedric Diggory.
    Your options: [ Hufflepuff ] [ Slytherin ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Gryffindor ]
  From Quiz: Hogwarts Houses
5 Who was the founder of Ravenclaw house?
Answer: Rowena Ravenclaw

Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff were the two girls out of the four founders.
  From Quiz: All About Ravenclaw
6 When Harry was in school, this teacher was the Head of Ravenclaw. He was also the Charms teacher. Who is he?
Answer: Filius Flitwick

Flitwick was the Head of Ravenclaw. McGonagall was the Transfiguration teacher and the Head of Gryffindor. Snape was the Potions teacher, and the Slytherin Head. Sprout was the Hufflepuff Head, and the teacher of Herbology.
  From Quiz: A Quiz About Ravenclaw
7 How many people founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: 4

Hogwarts was founded by Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. Hogwarts is located in Britain. The students are divided into four houses, and each house is named after one of the founders. Hogwarts was run by the four founders peacefully for many years, until Salazar Slytherin left due to an argument with the other founders.

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  From Quiz: Hogwarts Founders and Their Houses
8 Who is Head of Hufflepuff House?
Answer: Professor Sprout

Professor Sprout, the dumpy little Herbology teacher, also has the role of Head of Hufflepuff House.
  From Quiz: Hufflepuff Quiz
9 Which house is Euan Abercrombie sorted into?
Answer: Gryffindor

Euan Abercrombie is described as a small boy with big ears.
    Your options: [ Slytherin ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Gryffindor ] [ Hufflepuff ]
  From Quiz: The Sorting Hat
10 Who is the head of Hufflepuff?
Answer: Sprout

Professor Sprout is the Herbology teacher. After Cedric dies, his parents are sent to talk to her.
  From Quiz: Hufflepuff House
11 What is the Gryffindor symbol?
Answer: Lion

The lion might be the symbol because like lions, Gryffindors are brave and daring.
  From Quiz: Gryffindor
12 Who is head of Slytherin House when Harry Potter first comes to Hogwarts?
Answer: Professor Snape

Professor Snape, the rather biased Potions teacher, is also the head of Slytherin. He favors the Slytherins and looks for any excuse to knock points off of the other houses, Gryffindor especially.
  From Quiz: Slytherin House
13 Who is head of Slytherin House?
Answer: Professor Snape

Professor Sprout is head of Hufflepuff. Argus Filch is the caretaker. Professor Hawking is an astronomer.
  From Quiz: Slytherin House
14 "Angelina Gilligan!" Another name is called and a quirky, intelligent and eccentric girl with wavy red hair, blue eyes and wearing purple glasses approaches the stool. The hat is placed on her head. Which house will she be in?
Answer: Ravenclaw

Angelina has been placed in Ravenclaw. She's quirky, intelligent and eccentric, a personality shared by fellow Ravenclaw, Luna Lovegood. As she sits at the Ravenclaw table, the girl beside her claps and introduces herself as Penelope Clearwater. A blue emblem featuring a bronze eagle is now displayed on Angelina's robes.
    Your options: [ Hufflepuff ] [ Gryffindor ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Slytherin ]
  From Quiz: Welcome to Hogwarts!
15 What animal is on the Ravenclaw crest?
Answer: Eagle

Many would think that the raven would be the symbol of Ravenclaw, but they would be mistaken. It is in fact, the eagle. In "The Order of the Phoenix", Luna Lovegood wore a hat with a living eagle on top of it to support her house at the Quidditch match against Gryffindor.
  From Quiz: Ravenclaw House
16 In "Deathly Hallows", who is the head of Slytherin?
Answer: Horace Slughorn

Snape is the head of Slytherin up to the end of "Half-Blood Prince", at which point he kills Dumbledore and flees the school. Slughorn is then given the position. Snape returns to Hogwarts in "Deathly Hallows" and becomes headmaster. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are very upset when they hear of this news.
  From Quiz: Hogwarts House Trivia
17 Which house's qualities are considered to be "courage and bravery"?
Answer: Gryffindor

It is said that the sorting hat places courageous and brave people in Gryffindor. People with a sense of evilness in them are placed in Slytherin and wise people are placed Ravenclaw. People also think that Hufflepuff is the house of "dumb" people.
    Your options: [ Hufflepuff ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Slytherin ] [ Gryffindor ]
  From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Hogwarts Houses?
18 Ernie MacMillan was sorted into which Hogwarts house?
Answer: Hufflepuff

Ernie was in Hufflepuff house. He joined Dumbledore's Army in his fifth year at Hogwarts and was good friends with Hannah Abbott and Justin Finch-Fletchley.
    Your options: [ Slytherin ] [ Gryffindor ] [ Hufflepuff ] [ Ravenclaw ]
  From Quiz: Hogwarts Houses
19 Which animal is the Ravenclaw mascot?
Answer: Eagle

Many think, because of the house's name, that it's a raven, but it is in fact an eagle.
    Your options: [ Eagle ] [ Crow ] [ Raven ] [ Phoenix ]
  From Quiz: All About Ravenclaw
20 What/who divides students into the different houses?
Answer: The Sorting Hat

The Sorting Hat divides the students into the four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. The Sorting Hat sings a song telling you about each house. Then you are called up in alphabetical order to sit on a stool and Professor Minerva McGonagall places the Sorting Hat on your head. It chooses what house to put you in. It talks to you but only you can hear it. Then it shouts out the house you're in out loud. When Harry Potter was being placed in a house, he asked the Sorting Hat not to put him in Slytherin. The Sorting Hat granted his wish and placed him in Gryffindor.

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  From Quiz: Hogwarts Founders and Their Houses
21 Which two colours make up the Hufflepuff badge?
Answer: Yellow and Black

The Hufflepuff student's badge is yellow and black, the Gryffindor badge is scarlet and gold, the Ravenclaw badge is blue and bronze and the Slytherin badge is green and silver.
    Your options: [ Yellow and Grey ] [ Yellow and Orange ] [ Yellow and White ] [ Yellow and Black ]
  From Quiz: Hufflepuff Quiz
22 Which house is Miles Bletchley sorted into?
Answer: Slytherin

Miles Bletchley is the keeper for Slytherin House Quidditch team. He jinxed Alicia Spinnet behind her back in the library prior to a Gryffindor-Slytherin match (OOTP) but Snape did not believe the 14 eyewitnesses.
    Your options: [ Hufflepuff ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Slytherin ] [ Gryffindor ]
  From Quiz: The Sorting Hat
23 What are the house colors of Hufflepuff?
Answer: yellow and black

Red and gold are Gryffindor's colors, green and silver are Slytherin's colors, and blue and bronze are Ravenclaw's colors.
  From Quiz: Hufflepuff House
24 Who is the Gryffindor Ghost?
Answer: Nearly Headless Nick

Nearly Headless Nick has been dead for over 500 years and his greatest disappointment in his death was when he was not accepted in the Headless Hunt.
  From Quiz: Gryffindor
25 Who is undoubtedly the most infamous wizard that was in Slytherin?
Answer: Voldemort

Tom Riddle and his cronies attended Hogwarts over fifty years ago. Riddle changed his name to Voldemort after leaving Hogwarts. We know that Riddle was in Slytherin because 1) he's Slytherin's heir and 2) Hagrid says so in 'Sorcerer's Stone', chapter 5, 'Diagon Alley'.
  From Quiz: Slytherin House
26 Who is the girl in Ravenclaw Harry likes?
Answer: Cho Chang

They're both seekers on their house Quidditch teams. Harry asks Cho to go to the Yule ball with him in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", but she is already going with Cedric Diggory. Penelope Clearwater is Percy Weasley's girlfriend.
  From Quiz: Ravenclaw
27 Who played the head of Slytherin in the movie?
Answer: Alan Rickman

Robbie Coltrane played Hagrid, Daniel Radcliffe played Harry, Leslie Phillips was the voice of the sorting hat.
  From Quiz: Slytherin House
28 What is the name of the ghost that was killed by a person who became another house ghost?
Answer: The Grey Lady

The Grey Lady is the house ghost of Ravenclaw. When her mother was dying, she sent the Bloody Baron to get her back from Albania. But she refused, so Bloody Baron killed her. After realizing what he had done he killed himself, too.
Bloody Baron then became the house ghost of Slytherin.
  From Quiz: "Harry Potter" - House Ghosts
29 "Ashley Peacock!" A friendly but very easily distracted girl with curly blonde hair, small brown eyes and sparkly gold earrings sits on the stool. The hat is placed on her head. Which house will she be in?
Answer: Hufflepuff

Ashley has been placed in Hufflepuff. She's a friendly but somewhat naïve and easily distracted girl, similar to fellow Hufflepuff member, Hannah Abbott. She approaches the Hufflepuff table and sits down beside her brother and his friend, Ernie Macmillan. Now displayed on her robes is a yellow emblem featuring a black badger.
    Your options: [ Ravenclaw ] [ Gryffindor ] [ Hufflepuff ] [ Slytherin ]
  From Quiz: Welcome to Hogwarts!
30 Arguably the most famous Slytherin resident was Tom Marvolo Riddle, who was a young halfblood with the abilities to do bad things. He grew up to be the most powerful dark wizard ever, Voldemort. But he grew up as an orphan in which London orphanage?
Answer: Wool's Orphanage

Tom Marvolo Riddle. Re-arrange those letters and you get 'I am Lord Voldemort'. Tom was born to Merope Gaunt a young and poor witch and Tom Riddle Senior a rich, handsome muggle. Merope cooked up a love potion to seduce Tom Riddle Senior. He drank the potion and fell in love with her. After a while Merope fell pregnant and stopped giving her husband the love potion. She thought he would love her anyway but he didn't, he left her. She died soon after giving birth. Before dying she gave her baby to Wool's Orphanage and told them to name her son Tom Riddle after his father and his middle name was to be Marvolo after her father. Marvolo Gaunt was not only Merope's father but he was a direct descendant on Salazar Slytherin, which made baby Tom Marvolo Riddle junior also a direct descendant.
    Your options: [ Cotton's Orphanage ] [ Yarn's Orphanage ] [ Denim's Orphanage ] [ Wool's Orphanage ]
  From Quiz: The Dark and Secret History of Slytherin House
31 Who became the head of Slytherin house in the seventh book after Snape ran away (in the sixth book)?
Answer: Horace Slughorn

Snape ran away because he had killed Dumbledore. When Slughorn taught at Howarts earlier, he was the head of Slytherin house. He resumed the post as they couldn't find another person.
  From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Hogwarts Houses?
32 When Gilderoy Lockhart was a Hogwarts student, which house did he belong to?
Answer: Ravenclaw

Gilderoy Lockhart was in Ravenclaw house. He taught Defence Against the Dark Arts in Harry's second year. He lost his memory after a charm backfired on him and became a permanent resident of St. Mungo's hospital.
    Your options: [ Gryffindor ] [ Slytherin ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Hufflepuff ]
  From Quiz: Hogwarts Houses
33 Which famous Hufflepuff student is reported to have been one of the only people to have ever given Hufflepuff success?
Answer: Cedric Diggory

Cedric Diggory is reported to be one of the only people to have given Hufflepuff House success, as he lead them to victory over Gryffindor in the Quidditch match, and became the Hogwarts champion in the Triwizard Tournament.
    Your options: [ Cho Chang ] [ Justin Finch - Fletchley ] [ Lily Evans ] [ Cedric Diggory ]
  From Quiz: Hufflepuff Quiz
34 Which house is Laura Madley sorted into?
Answer: Hufflepuff

Laura Madley started Hogwarts in Harry's fourth year (GF).
    Your options: [ Gryffindor ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Hufflepuff ] [ Slytherin ]
  From Quiz: The Sorting Hat
35 What are Gryffindor's colours?
Answer: Scarlet and Gold

Slytherin's colours are green and silver, Ravenclaw's colours are blue and bronze, and Hufflepuff's colours are canary yellow.
  From Quiz: Gryffindor
36 Who is not in Slytherin?
Answer: Roger

Roger Davies is the Ravenclaw quidditch captain.
  From Quiz: Slytherin House
37 "Breanna Cadman!" Yet another tall girl with blue eyes and short red hair approaches the stool. She's pretty and extremely intelligent. The hat is placed on her head. Which house will she be in?
Answer: Ravenclaw

Breanna has been placed in Ravenclaw. She's pretty, and very intelligent, not unlike fellow member of Ravenclaw, Cho Chang. There's another round of clapping from the Ravenclaw table as Breanna joins them, sitting beside Mandy Brocklehurst.
    Your options: [ Hufflepuff ] [ Gryffindor ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Slytherin ]
  From Quiz: Welcome to Hogwarts!
38 Hey! You were a smart and intelligent Ravenclaw. Who was your house ghost?
Answer: The Grey Lady

In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", both the book and the movie, Harry actually went to Helena Ravenclaw (The Grey Lady) for help. He needed help finding Rowena Ravenclaw's lost diadem, Lord Voldemort's fifth Horcrux. He found it in the Room of Requirement.
  From Quiz: Which-which-house?
39 Which house's cup was a horcrux?
Answer: Hufflepuff

A horcrux is an object in which you can store a part of your soul. This was one of Voldemort's horcruxes. Bellatrix Lestrange was its keeper and she had kept it in her vault in Gringotts. Harry, Ron and Hermione stole it from there when Hermione used the Polyjuice Potion to turn into her.
    Your options: [ Ravenclaw ] [ Gryffindor ] [ Slytherin ] [ Hufflepuff ]
  From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Hogwarts Houses?
40 Which house was Daphne Greengrass in?
Answer: Slytherin

Daphne was in Slytherin house. She started at Hogwarts the same year as Harry, Ron and Hermione.
    Your options: [ Hufflepuff ] [ Ravenclaw ] [ Slytherin ] [ Gryffindor ]
  From Quiz: Hogwarts Houses
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