Lord Voldemort
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49 free Lord Voldemort trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Sep 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 01In Deathly Hallows, what does the Taboo placed on Voldemort's name do to anyone who says it?
Reveals where they are
Reveals where they are: the jinx lets his followers trace anyone who speaks the name aloud. It is how Harry, Ron and Hermione are finally caught, after Harry says it at their campsite.
Q 02Which is the only Harry Potter novel in which Voldemort is never seen, even in a memory?
Prisoner of Azkaban
Prisoner of Azkaban: he is talked about throughout but never seen. Even Half-Blood Prince, where he never turns up in person, shows him again and again in Pensieve memories.
Q 03Which Hogwarts founder is Voldemort descended from?
Salazar Slytherin
Salazar Slytherin: Voldemort's mother came from the last family known to descend from him. As the founder's heir, the teenage Riddle was able to open the hidden Chamber of Secrets.
Q 04The name Voldemort reads in French as vol de mort, which can mean what?
Flight of death
Flight of death, though vol can also mean theft. Rowling calls the name an invented word and says its final t is silent, as in the French mort, but the films pronounce it anyway.
Q 05What is the name of Voldemort's followers?
The Death Eaters
The Death Eaters each carry his Dark Mark, a skull with a snake coming out of its mouth, branded on the left arm. It burns whenever Voldemort summons them.
Q 06In the first book, on whose body does Voldemort hitch a ride?
Professor Quirrell
Professor Quirrell hides Voldemort's face on the back of his head under a turban. He even drinks unicorn blood in the Forbidden Forest to keep his master alive.
Q 07Which object in Chamber of Secrets contains a memory of the teenage Tom Riddle?
A diary
A diary: Ginny Weasley confides in it all year, and the Riddle inside feeds on her fears until he can possess her. Harry ends it by stabbing the pages with a venomous fang.
Q 08Which Hogwarts ghost was killed when Tom Riddle opened the Chamber of Secrets?
Moaning Myrtle
Moaning Myrtle still haunts the girls' bathroom where she died as a student. Decades later Harry finds the entrance to the Chamber hidden in that same bathroom.
Q 09Which creature does Riddle's memory unleash from the Chamber of Secrets?
A Basilisk
A Basilisk kills with a direct gaze, but every living victim that year met its eyes only indirectly, such as in a mirror. That is why they were petrified rather than killed.
Q 10Who was the servant a prophecy said would break free and rejoin the Dark Lord?
Peter Pettigrew
Peter Pettigrew had hidden for twelve years as Ron's pet rat, Scabbers. He got away to rejoin his master only because Harry stopped Sirius and Lupin from killing him that night.
Q 11Disguised as which professor did Barty Crouch Jr rig the Triwizard Tournament?
Mad-Eye Moody
Mad-Eye Moody: Crouch kept the real Auror prisoner all year and drank Polyjuice Potion to wear his face. In that disguise he slipped Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire.
Q 12In which village graveyard does Voldemort regain his body in Goblet of Fire?
Little Hangleton
Little Hangleton is where his Muggle father lies buried. The rite that rebuilds Voldemort's body needs a bone from that grave, along with a servant's hand and Harry's blood.
Q 13Which gardener overheard Voldemort's plan and was killed for it?
Frank Bryce
Q 21Whom does Voldemort install as puppet Minister for Magic in Deathly Hallows?
Pius Thicknesse
Pius Thicknesse is under the Imperius Curse, so Voldemort rules from behind him without taking the job. The new 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
Lucius Malfoy's wand was meant to get round the twin cores that had locked his own against Harry's. It failed: Harry's wand acted by itself, spat golden fire and shattered it.
Q 23Which imprisoned dark wizard does Voldemort kill at Nurmengard?
Gellert Grindelwald
Frank Bryce, the Muggle caretaker of the old Riddle House, walks in on the plotting and is killed on the spot. Far away, Harry watches the murder happen in a dream.
Q 14Why do Harry's and Voldemort's wands lock together in the graveyard duel?
Both have phoenix feather cores
Both have phoenix feather cores, and the two feathers came from the same bird, Fawkes. Forced to fight, the twin wands lock, and echoes of Voldemort's recent victims spill from his.
Q 15In Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort lures Harry to the Ministry with a false vision of whom being tortured?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black was safe at home the whole time, but Harry raced to London to save him. Sirius then came to rescue Harry and was killed in the battle that followed.
Q 16What stops Voldemort from possessing Harry at the end of Order of the Phoenix?
Love, which he cannot bear
Love, which he cannot bear: Harry is so full of it that Voldemort is forced out of his mind. He flees, but not before the Minister for Magic sees him and has to admit he is back.
Q 17Who was Voldemort's mother?
Merope Gaunt
Merope Gaunt stumbled into a London orphanage and died within an hour of giving birth. She lived just long enough to name the boy after his father and hers.
Q 18According to Rowling, Voldemort's father was under the influence of what when the Dark Lord was conceived?
A love potion
A love potion: his witch mother used one to win a wealthy Muggle neighbor. When she seemingly stopped dosing him, hoping he would stay, he walked out before their son was born.
Q 19Which Ministry official is Voldemort believed to have murdered in person early in Half-Blood Prince?
Amelia Bones
Amelia Bones headed Magical Law Enforcement and had presided at Harry's hearing the summer before. Fudge believes Voldemort killed her himself, because she was a gifted witch who put up a real fight.
Q 20How do Voldemort's forces get into Hogwarts in Half-Blood Prince?
A pair of Vanishing Cabinets
A pair of Vanishing Cabinets: one stood in the Room of Requirement, its twin in the shop Borgin and Burkes. Draco Malfoy spent the year mending the link so attackers could step past the castle's enchantments.
Gellert Grindelwald had spent decades locked in Nurmengard, the prison he himself built to hold his enemies. He dies taunting Voldemort that he will never win.
Q 24Which Horcrux do Harry and friends steal from the Lestranges' Gringotts vault?
Hufflepuff's Cup
Hufflepuff's Cup: the trio flee the bank on the back of one of its guard dragons. News of the break-in is what tells Voldemort that someone is hunting his Horcruxes.
Q 25Why does Voldemort have Nagini kill Snape?
To become master of the Elder Wand
To become master of the Elder Wand, he thinks he must kill the man who killed its last owner. He is wrong: its loyalty had already passed to Draco Malfoy, who had disarmed that owner first.
Q 26Who destroys Voldemort's final Horcrux, his snake?
Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom pulls Gryffindor's sword out of the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, moments after refusing to Voldemort's face to join him. Her death leaves Voldemort mortal.
Q 27Who is forced to carry Harry's apparently dead body out of the Forbidden Forest?
Rubeus Hagrid
Rubeus Hagrid had been captured earlier in the battle and dragged into the forest. Harry is only pretending, and Narcissa Malfoy has just lied to Voldemort that he is dead.
Q 28Which spell does Harry cast against Voldemort's Killing Curse in their final duel?
A Disarming Charm
A Disarming Charm: Harry answers a curse meant to kill with one meant only to disarm. The Elder Wand will not kill its true master, so the curse rebounds on Voldemort.
Q 29Which three duel Voldemort all at once in the Great Hall during the Battle of Hogwarts?
McGonagall, Shacklebolt and Slughorn
McGonagall, Shacklebolt and Slughorn fight him three against one and still cannot finish him. When his last lieutenant falls, his fury blasts all three backward, moments before Harry pulls off his Invisibility Cloak.
Q 30Which celebration falls on the night Voldemort was born?
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve, 1926, in a London orphanage. Halloween is the tempting guess, but that was the night in 1981 when his curse rebounded off the infant Harry and broke his power.