Q 01/05

Goblet of Fire is which book in the Harry Potter series?

A) Fifth

B) Third

C) Fourth

D) Sixth

Answer · why

C) Fourth

Fourth. Rowling says it nearly gave her a nervous breakdown: well into the writing she found a big hole in the middle of the plot and had to go back a...

Q 02/05

Bloomsbury published Goblet of Fire in Britain; which publisher released it in the United States on the same day?

A) Random House

B) HarperCollins

C) Scholastic

D) Penguin

Answer · why

C) Scholastic

Scholastic. For the first time both countries got a Potter book on the same day, a Saturday, and no copies went to critics in advance, so reviewers ha...

Q 03/05

Goblet of Fire is the only Harry Potter novel to win which major science fiction and fantasy award?

A) Nebula

B) Prometheus

C) Hugo

D) Locus

Answer · why

C) Hugo

Hugo. Prisoner of Azkaban had been shortlisted the year before and lost; Goblet of Fire went one better in 2001, beating George R. R. Martin's A Storm...

Q 04/05

Which creatures, Madame Maxime warns, drink only single-malt whisky?

A) Hippogriffs

B) Giant owls

C) Griffins

D) Winged horses

Answer · why

D) Winged horses

Winged horses. They pull the giant Beauxbatons carriage through the sky to Hogwarts, where Dumbledore hands the enormous animals over to Hagrid to loo...

Q 05/05

Into which animal does Professor Moody transfigure Draco Malfoy for attacking Harry from behind?

A) A toad

B) A weasel

C) A rat

D) A ferret

Answer · why

D) A ferret

A ferret. Moody bounces the white ferret around the Entrance Hall until Professor McGonagall stops him, telling him that Hogwarts never transfigures s...