Q 01/05

Ilvermorny stands hidden on the highest peak of which mountain, itself the tallest in its state?

A) Mount Washington

B) Mount Katahdin

C) Mount Greylock

D) Mount Mansfield

Answer · why

C) Mount Greylock

Mount Greylock is where J.K. Rowling placed the school, concealed from non-magic gaze by powerful enchantments, and the real summit stands 3,489 feet ...

Q 02/05

Disguised as a Muggle boy called Elias Story, Isolt Sayre crossed to the New World aboard which ship?

A) The Speedwell

B) The Mayflower

C) The Fortune

D) The Anne

Answer · why

B) The Mayflower

The Mayflower carried her among the Pilgrims of 1620, and once she vanished into the mountains her shipmates assumed 'Elias Story' had died in the fir...

Q 03/05

Which two colours are Ilvermorny's robes, chosen to honour the founders Isolt Sayre and James Steward?

A) Green and gold

B) Scarlet and silver

C) Purple and bronze

D) Blue and cranberry

Answer · why

D) Blue and cranberry

Blue and cranberry recall Isolt's childhood wish to be a Ravenclaw and James's love of cranberry pie, a pairing no Hogwarts house wears.

Q 04/05

What shape is the gold clasp fastening every Ilvermorny robe, recalling a brooch Isolt found in her ruined birthplace?

A) A Gordian Knot

B) A Celtic cross

C) A coiled snake

D) A crow in flight

Answer · why

A) A Gordian Knot

A Gordian Knot brooch of her mother's was the only thing besides a stolen wand that Isolt carried out of Ireland, and the same knot is set into the en...

Q 05/05

Seraphina Picquery, claimed by all four carvings at her sorting, chose which house, the one representing the mind?

A) the Wampus

B) the Horned Serpent

C) the Thunderbird

D) the Pukwudgie

Answer · why

B) the Horned Serpent

The Horned Serpent favours scholars, and Picquery was the only witch of her generation offered every house, an honour that comes round perhaps once a ...