Q 01/05
A) 21 June 2003
B) 21 July 2007
C) 8 July 2004
D) 16 July 2005
Answer · why
Rowling announced the date on 21 December 2004, the same day she revealed she had finished writing it.
Q 02/05
A) 11 million
B) 13 million
C) 9 million
D) 15 million
Answer · why
Two million were in the UK and about 6.9 million in the US, where Scholastic rushed another 2.7 million into print.
Q 03/05
A) The Carnegie Medal
B) British Book of the Year
C) The Whitbread Award
D) The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Answer · why
It also took the Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books and two reader-voted Quill Awards in the US.
Q 04/05
A) Bellatrix Lestrange
B) Peter Pettigrew
C) Severus Snape
D) Lucius Malfoy
Answer · why
The scene opens the book proper; in the film Snape's house comes with a silent Pettigrew as a servant.
Q 05/05
A) That he killed Harry's parents
B) That Draco is his godson
C) That Dumbledore is still alive
D) That he is the Half-Blood Prince
Answer · why
Harry had spent the year using the Prince's annotated Potions textbook without knowing whose it was.
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