50 free Lord Voldemort trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Lord Voldemort is the archenemy of Harry Potter and the main antagonist of J. K. Rowling's seven novels. Born Tom Marvolo Riddle on the last day of 1926, he grew up in a Muggle orphanage, charmed his way through Hogwarts as a Slytherin prefect, and rebuilt himself into the Dark Lord by splitting his soul into Horcruxes. He appears in every book except Prisoner of Azkaban, where he is only mentioned. This quiz covers the whole arc: the anagram that reveals his name, the House of Gaunt and the locket Merope sold, the graveyard at Little Hangleton, the duel with Dumbledore at the Ministry, the Elder Wand and the final Disarming Charm. It also covers the films, from Ian Hart voicing the face on Quirrell's head to Ralph Fiennes and his digitally removed nose, plus the stage play Cursed Child and the cameos in Lego Batman and Space Jam. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a Harry Potter quiz night.
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Q 01What is Voldemort's birth name?
Tom Marvolo Riddle
The letters of Tom Marvolo Riddle rearrange into the phrase I am Lord Voldemort, a trick translators had to rebuild in other languages.
Q 02Which is the only Harry Potter novel in which Voldemort is merely mentioned?
Prisoner of Azkaban
He is heard when Harry passes out near a Dementor, and Trelawney's prophecy foretells his return, but he never appears in person or as a manifestation.
Q 03Which Hogwarts founder is Voldemort descended from?
Salazar Slytherin
The line runs through his mother's family, the Gaunts, who inherited both the founder's Parseltongue and his locket.
Q 04What does the French phrase behind the name Voldemort mean?
Flight of death
Rowling calls the name an invented word derived from vol de mort, which can also be read as theft of death.
Q 05What is the name of Voldemort's followers?
The Death Eaters
The group is dedicated to ridding the wizarding world of Muggles and installing their leader as supreme ruler.
Q 06In the first book, on whose body does Voldemort hitch a ride?
Professor Quirrell
He latches onto the back of the stuttering Defence teacher's head, hidden under a turban, in his attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone.
Q 07Which object in Chamber of Secrets contains a memory of the teenage Tom Riddle?
A diary
Ginny Weasley pours out her fears to the sympathetic Tom inside it, and Dumbledore later reveals it was a Horcrux.
Q 08What school role did Tom Riddle hold at Hogwarts?
Slytherin prefect
Outwardly a model student, he took sadistic pleasure in using his powers to harm and control his classmates.
Q 09Which creature does Riddle's memory unleash from the Chamber of Secrets?
A Basilisk
The serpent petrifies several students before Harry destroys both it and the diary manifestation.
Q 10Who was the servant Trelawney prophesied would rejoin the Dark Lord?
Peter Pettigrew
For twelve years he had hidden as Ron's pet rat Scabbers, which is why the prophecy speaks of a servant chained.
Q 11Disguised as which professor did Barty Crouch Jr rig the Triwizard Tournament?
Mad-Eye Moody
The Triwizard Cup was turned into a Portkey so Harry would land in the Little Hangleton graveyard under Dumbledore's nose.
Q 12In which village graveyard does Voldemort regain his body in Goblet of Fire?
Little Hangleton
It is where the Riddle family is buried, opposite the valley shanty where the Gaunts once lived.
Q 13Which gardener overheard Voldemort's plan and was killed for it?
Frank Bryce
He is the first victim of the fourth book, killed in the Riddle House before the story reaches Hogwarts.
Q 21Whom does Voldemort install as puppet Minister for Magic in Deathly Hallows?
Pius Thicknesse
The new Minister is under the Imperius Curse, and the regime starts arresting Muggle-borns for stealing magic.
Q 22Whose wand does Voldemort borrow to attack Harry during the escape from Privet Drive?
Lucius Malfoy's
He wants to avoid Priori Incantatem, but the borrowed wand fails anyway and he sets out for the Elder Wand.
Q 23Which imprisoned dark wizard does Voldemort kill at Nurmengard?
Gellert Grindelwald
The visit is part of his hunt for the Elder Wand, which he finally steals from Dumbledore's tomb.
Q 14Why do Harry's and Voldemort's wands lock together in the graveyard duel?
Both have phoenix feather cores
The phenomenon is later named Priori Incantatem, and it forces ghostly echoes of recent victims out of the Dark Lord's wand.
Q 15Which Death Eater escapes capture at the Department of Mysteries?
Bellatrix Lestrange
Voldemort had engineered her breakout from Azkaban earlier in the same book.
Q 16What stops Voldemort from possessing Harry at the end of Order of the Phoenix?
Love, which he cannot bear
He finds Harry too full of the one thing he despises as weakness, and disapparates just as the Minister for Magic arrives.
Q 17Who was Voldemort's mother?
Merope Gaunt
She died within an hour of giving birth in a Muggle orphanage, having sold Slytherin's locket to survive on the streets of London.
Q 18Under the influence of what was Voldemort conceived, according to Rowling?
A love potion
Rowling said the coerced union symbolically explains his inability to understand love, though she thinks Merope raising him would have changed everything.
Q 19Which Ministry official does Voldemort murder in Half-Blood Prince?
Amelia Bones
The head of Magical Law Enforcement is killed as he begins targeting members of the Order of the Phoenix.
Q 20How do Voldemort's forces get into Hogwarts in Half-Blood Prince?
A pair of Vanishing Cabinets
Draco Malfoy's repair job on the cabinets bypasses the castle's protective enchantments entirely.
Q 24Which Horcrux do Harry and friends steal from the Lestranges' Gringotts vault?
Hufflepuff's Cup
News of the heist is what tips Voldemort off that his Horcruxes are being hunted and destroyed.
Q 25Why does Voldemort have Nagini kill Snape?
To become master of the Elder Wand
His logic is that Snape killed Dumbledore, but the wand had in fact passed to Draco, who disarmed Dumbledore first.
Q 26Who destroys Voldemort's final Horcrux, his snake?
Neville Longbottom
It happens during the battle sparked when Hagrid is forced to carry Harry's apparently lifeless body back to the castle.
Q 27Who is forced to carry Harry's apparently dead body out of the Forbidden Forest?
Rubeus Hagrid
Voldemort parades the body back to the castle as a trophy, which only reignites the fighting.
Q 28Which spell does Harry cast against Voldemort's Killing Curse in their final duel?
A Disarming Charm
The Elder Wand refuses to kill its true master and the Killing Curse rebounds, ending a wizard with no Horcruxes left.
Q 29Which three teachers fight Voldemort simultaneously in the Great Hall?
McGonagall, Shacklebolt and Slughorn
Harry interrupts the three-on-one duel to reveal himself and explain the Elder Wand's true allegiance.
Q 30On what date was the future Dark Lord born?
31 December 1926
A New Year's Eve birth in a Muggle orphanage, after which his mother died and he grew up alone.