Quidditch Trivia
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95 free Quidditch trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Quidditch is the sport J.K. Rowling invented in a Manchester hotel room, and this quiz treats it like the real thing. There are 55 Quidditch trivia questions with answers covering the rules (what a goal is worth, what the Snitch is worth, what a Bludger is made of), the Hogwarts house teams and their players from Oliver Wood to Cormac McLaggen, the brooms from the Nimbus 2000 to the Firebolt, and the matches that mattered: Dobby's rogue Bludger, the Dementor attack, Ron's Keeper season and the 1994 World Cup final. It also digs into the deep lore of Quidditch Through the Ages and Rowling's Pottermore history of the World Cup: Queerditch Marsh, the Golden Snidget, the 1809 final that ended with a forest attacking the stadium, the 1877 tournament nobody remembers. And because muggles have been playing on the ground since 2005, there are questions on real-world quadball too, from Middlebury College to the 2022 name change. Questions run from easy to expert with the difficulty marked on each. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia or J.K. Rowling's own writing on the official Wizarding World site, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01How many players does each Quidditch team field?
Seven
Seven a side: a team fields Chasers, Beaters, a goal-minder and a Seeker, and the real-life ground version keeps the same number of players on the pitch.
Q 02How many points does a Chaser score by putting the Quaffle through a hoop?
10
Putting the Quaffle through one of the hoops scores 10 points; because a goal is worth so little beside the Snitch, critics call the scoring lopsided.
Q 03Catching the Golden Snitch ends the match and earns the Seeker's team how many points?
150
Catching the Golden Snitch ends the match and adds 150 points, so a team can win despite conceding many more goals, which is why the scoring is so often criticised.
Q 04The Golden Snitch is described as being roughly the size of what?
A walnut
It has wings and is enchanted to dart around the pitch while staying inside the boundaries.
Q 05Bludgers are round, jet-black balls made of what material?
Iron
Bludgers are ten inches across and made of iron, per Quidditch Through the Ages; they fly around trying to knock players off their brooms, and Beaters bat them away with short wooden clubs.
Q 06What colour is the Quaffle?
Scarlet
The Quaffle is scarlet leather, about the size of a football; Chasers pass it between them and the goal-minder throws it back out to their own side after a save.
Q 07Where did J.K. Rowling say she came up with Quidditch?
In a Manchester hotel room after an argument with her boyfriend
Rowling said she dreamed up the game in a Manchester hotel room after an argument with her boyfriend, at the Bournville Hotel in Didsbury; she wanted a sport that made people congregate and signified the wizarding society's character.
Q 08According to Rowling, how did she arrive at the word "Quidditch"?
By filling notebook pages with words beginning with Q
Rowling said she got the name by filling notebook pages with words beginning with Q, several pages' worth, before Quidditch felt right; she chose it with no etymology in mind.
Q 09Rowling once described writing Quidditch matches as what?
The bane of her life
Rowling said Quidditch matches were the bane of her life as a writer: readers expected Harry to play, but there were only so many ways to make a match feel new.
Q 10The final Quidditch scene in the books features memorable commentary by which character?
Luna Lovegood
Luna Lovegood's commentary, on cloud shapes and Zacharias Smith's 'Loser's Lurgy', marks the last match depicted in the books, in Half-Blood Prince; Rowling said she wrote it with 'fiendish glee'.
Q 11Quidditch appears in how many of the eight Harry Potter films?
Five
Some subplots, such as Ron's own playing storyline, were cut for time.
Q 12Rowling's 2014 Pottermore Quidditch World Cup reports ended with a story about the final that featured what?
Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults
Rita Skeeter's gossip column on the 2014 final placed Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults in the VIP box, Harry at 34 with a mysterious cut on his cheek, the first new story of the grown-up trio since 2007.
Q 13Which of these teams from the books is based in a fictional place, unlike the Bats, Falcons or Magpies?
Chudley Cannons
Q 21Outside of Quidditch, Harry uses his Firebolt to escape which creature during the Triwizard Tournament?
The Hungarian Horntail
In the first task Harry summons his Firebolt with Accio and outflies the Hungarian Horntail, the most dangerous of the dragons, to snatch its golden egg.
Q 22Oliver Wood, Gryffindor's captain when Harry joins the team, is how many years above him?
Four
Wood is a fifth-year when first-year Harry joins and leaves after his seventh year, Harry's third, so he is four years above him; Sean Biggerstaff played him in the films.
Q 23Which Gryffindor Chaser later becomes team captain and eventually marries George Weasley?
Angelina Johnson
Chudley is invented, whereas Ballycastle, Falmouth, Montrose, Portree and Wigtown are real towns; the Chudley Cannons, Ron's beloved team, last won the league in 1892 per Quidditch Through the Ages.
Q 14Which all-female professional team does Ginny Weasley join after Hogwarts, according to Rowling?
The Holyhead Harpies
The Holyhead Harpies, founded in 1203, are the sport's only all-female side; Quidditch Through the Ages recalls their week-long 1953 match against the Heidelberg Harriers, and Rowling said Ginny played for them after school.
Q 15After her playing career, what job does Ginny take?
Senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet
Rowling said in 2007 that Ginny, after playing professionally, became senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet; her bylined match reports on the 2014 World Cup appeared on Pottermore.
Q 16Harry becomes Gryffindor Seeker in his first year, described as the youngest in how long?
A century
Harry is the youngest house Quidditch player in about a century, as Ron reports; McGonagall saw him catch Neville's Remembrall in a dive and marched him off to captain Oliver Wood.
Q 17Which broom does McGonagall arrange for first-year Harry, by special consent of Dumbledore?
Nimbus 2000
The Nimbus 2000 arrives at breakfast as a long parcel with a note from McGonagall; first-years are normally forbidden their own brooms, so Dumbledore had to bend the rule.
Q 18Lucius Malfoy buys a full set of which brooms for the Slytherin team so they will pick Draco as Seeker?
Nimbus 2001s
In Chamber of Secrets, Lucius Malfoy donates Nimbus 2001s, the newest model, to the whole Slytherin side and Draco is installed as Seeker; Hermione retorts that Gryffindor's players got in on pure talent.
Q 19Who sends Harry a Firebolt as an anonymous Christmas gift in Prisoner of Azkaban?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black, then a fugitive, ordered the Firebolt by owl from his own Gringotts vault, using Crookshanks to carry the order; McGonagall confiscated it as possibly jinxed until it had been checked over.
Q 20What destroys Harry's first broom during the match invaded by Dementors?
The Whomping Willow
Harry fainted and fell when the Dementors swarmed the pitch; his riderless broom blew into the Whomping Willow, which smashed it to splinters.
Angelina Johnson, in Fred and George's year, succeeds Wood as captain in Order of the Phoenix; Rowling said she married George, and Danielle Tabor then Tiana Benjamin played her on film.
Q 24Which Gryffindor student, best friend of Fred and George, is the Hogwarts match commentator?
Lee Jordan
Lee Jordan, Fred and George's best friend and dormmate, commentates under McGonagall's exasperated supervision until he leaves school; Zacharias Smith takes over the microphone after him.
Q 25Who referees Hogwarts Quidditch matches and teaches first-years to fly?
Madam Hooch
Madam Hooch, yellow-eyed and hawk-like, takes first-years' flying lessons and referees the school matches; Zoe Wanamaker played her in the first film.
Q 26Which house does Cho Chang play Seeker for?
Ravenclaw
Cho Chang plays Seeker for Ravenclaw from Harry's third year; she was also a member of Dumbledore's Army and Harry's first kiss.
Q 27Cedric Diggory plays Seeker for which house?
Hufflepuff
Cedric Diggory captains and plays Seeker for Hufflepuff, beating Harry to the Snitch in the Dementor-hit match in Prisoner of Azkaban; a prefect, he is later a Triwizard champion.
Q 28In Chamber of Secrets, who jinxes the Bludger that breaks Harry's arm?
Dobby
Dobby tampered with the Bludger, hoping an injury would send Harry home from a Hogwarts he believed was in danger; Lockhart then removed all the bones in Harry's arm trying to mend it.
Q 29Why does Dolores Umbridge ban Harry and the Weasley twins from Gryffindor's team?
They brawl with Draco after he insults their families following a win
They brawl with Draco after he insults their families following a win over Slytherin: Draco mocks the Weasleys' poverty and Harry's mother, Harry and George punch him, and Umbridge bans Harry, George and Fred, Ginny replacing Harry as Seeker.
Q 30Which position does Ron play when he joins the Gryffindor team?
Keeper
Ron wins the Keeper trials in Order of the Phoenix, the season of the 'Weasley Is Our King' chant, and keeps the post through Half-Blood Prince.