Quidditch Trivia
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93 free Quidditch trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Quidditch is the sport J.K. Rowling invented in a Manchester hotel room, and this quiz treats it like the real thing. There are 55 Quidditch trivia questions with answers covering the rules (what a goal is worth, what the Snitch is worth, what a Bludger is made of), the Hogwarts house teams and their players from Oliver Wood to Cormac McLaggen, the brooms from the Nimbus 2000 to the Firebolt, and the matches that mattered: Dobby's rogue Bludger, the Dementor attack, Ron's Keeper season and the 1994 World Cup final. It also digs into the deep lore of Quidditch Through the Ages and Rowling's Pottermore history of the World Cup: Queerditch Marsh, the Golden Snidget, the 1809 final that ended with a forest attacking the stadium, the 1877 tournament nobody remembers. And because muggles have been playing on the ground since 2005, there are questions on real-world quadball too, from Middlebury College to the 2022 name change. Questions run from easy to expert with the difficulty marked on each. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia or J.K. Rowling's own writing on the official Wizarding World site, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01How many players does each Quidditch team field?
Seven
Seven take the field for each side, but one of them can end the match alone: a Seeker who catches the Snitch stops play on the spot.
Q 02How many points does a Chaser score by putting the Quaffle through a hoop?
10
10 points for a goal, and a foul hands the other side a free shot: one Chaser flies in from the centre circle with only the goal defender allowed to stand in the way.
Q 03Catching the Golden Snitch ends the match and earns the Seeker's team how many points?
150
150 points usually settles a match, but not always: one World Cup final ended with the Snitch in the hand of the losing side's Seeker, whose team was still too far behind to win.
Q 04In the Harry Potter books, the Golden Snitch is a winged Quidditch ball about the size of what?
A walnut
A walnut: whoever catches that one tiny ball nearly always wins, Oliver Wood tells Harry, which is why Seekers get fouled so much.
Q 05Bludgers are round, jet-black balls made of what material?
Iron
Iron replaced lead, which proved too soft: each dent left by a Beater's bat spoiled a lead Bludger's flight.
Q 06What colour is the Quaffle?
Scarlet
Scarlet since 1711: the Quaffle was coloured so it could be spotted once dropped, after a rain-soaked match left the plain leather ball lost against the mud.
Q 07J.K. Rowling says she invented Quidditch in a Manchester hotel straight after what?
A row with her boyfriend
A row with her boyfriend: Rowling wrote that she already knew her wizards needed a sport, and that its scoring infuriates men, which she found satisfying given her mood that night.
Q 08How does J.K. Rowling say she arrived at the word Quidditch?
Filling pages with Q words
Filling pages with Q words: Rowling wanted a name starting with Q on a whim and covered about five notebook pages before Quidditch appeared. She was tempted to let a journalist believe it came from 'quiddity'.
Q 09Rowling once described writing Quidditch matches as what?
The bane of her life
Rowling said Quidditch matches were the bane of her life as a writer: readers expected Harry to play, but there were only so many ways to make a match feel new.
Q 10The final Quidditch match shown in the Harry Potter books features memorable commentary by which character?
Luna Lovegood
Luna Lovegood's commentary drifts to cloud shapes and whether one player has 'Loser's Lurgy', and never gives the score; Rowling said writing it gave her 'fiendish glee'.
Q 11Rowling's 2014 Pottermore reports on the Quidditch World Cup ended with a story featuring what?
Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults
Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults turned up in a mock newspaper piece that dwelt on Harry's first grey hairs, Ron's thinning hair and a mysterious cut on Harry's cheek; it was their first outing since 2007.
Q 12Which Quidditch team, without a league title since 1892, does Ron Weasley support through thick and thin?
Chudley Cannons
Chudley Cannons fans have little to cheer: in 1972 the club dropped its motto 'We shall conquer' for 'Let's all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best'.
Q 13Which professional Quidditch team does Ginny Weasley go on to play for after leaving Hogwarts?
Q 21Oliver Wood says Harry may turn out better than which former Gryffindor Seeker?
Charlie Weasley
Charlie Weasley could have played for England, in Wood's words, but went off to chase dragons, and has worked with them in Romania ever since.
Q 22Which Gryffindor Chaser later becomes team captain and eventually marries George Weasley?
Angelina Johnson
Angelina Johnson became captain in Harry's fifth year. She went to the Yule Ball with Fred but later married his twin, and the couple named their son Fred.
Q 23Which Gryffindor student, best friend of Fred and George, is the Hogwarts match commentator?
Lee Jordan
The Holyhead Harpies
The Holyhead Harpies have only ever hired witches. After their week-long win over Heidelberg in 1953, the beaten captain proposed to the Harpies' captain, who concussed him with her broom.
Q 14After retiring as a professional player, Ginny Weasley takes which job?
Daily Prophet Quidditch correspondent
Daily Prophet Quidditch correspondent was Rowling's answer in a 2007 web chat, and in 2014 she wrote Ginny's match reports from the World Cup herself, published under the character's byline.
Q 15Harry becomes Gryffindor Seeker in his first year, described as the youngest in how long?
A century
A century, Harry tells Ron: instead of punishing him for flying unsupervised, McGonagall marched him straight to Oliver Wood and announced she had found Gryffindor a Seeker.
Q 16Which broom does Professor McGonagall send first-year Harry after he joins the Gryffindor team?
Nimbus 2000
The Nimbus 2000 arrives at breakfast as a long parcel with a note from McGonagall; first-years are normally forbidden their own brooms, so the rule had to be bent for him.
Q 17Which brooms does Lucius Malfoy give the whole Slytherin team in the year Draco becomes its Seeker?
Nimbus 2001s
Nimbus 2001s had been on sale for only a month; Slytherin's captain showed off the 'generous gift' from Draco's father and sneered that it swept the board with Gryffindor's old Cleansweeps.
Q 18Who sends Harry a Firebolt as an anonymous Christmas gift in Prisoner of Azkaban?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black, then a fugitive, ordered the Firebolt by owl from his own Gringotts vault, using Crookshanks to carry the order; McGonagall confiscated it as possibly jinxed until it had been checked over.
Q 19What destroys Harry's first broom during the match invaded by Dementors?
The Whomping Willow
Harry fainted and fell when the Dementors swarmed the pitch; his riderless broom blew into the Whomping Willow, which smashed it to splinters.
Q 20Outside of Quidditch, Harry uses his Firebolt to escape which creature during the Triwizard Tournament?
The Hungarian Horntail
In the first task Harry summons his Firebolt with Accio and outflies the Hungarian Horntail, reputedly the most dangerous dragon breed, to snatch a golden egg from its nest.
Lee Jordan's commentary favoured Gryffindor so openly that McGonagall stood by to take the megaphone off him; years later he hosted the secret wartime radio show Potterwatch.
Q 24Who referees Hogwarts Quidditch matches and teaches first-years to fly?
Madam Hooch
Madam Hooch had to walk an injured Neville to the hospital wing during her first lesson with Harry's class, and the flying Harry did while she was gone won him his place in the team.
Q 25Which house does Cho Chang play Seeker for?
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw's Cho Chang chose to shadow Harry in their first match instead of hunting the Snitch herself, until Oliver Wood yelled at him to stop being a gentleman and knock her off her broom.
Q 26Which rival Seeker asks for a rematch after beating Harry to the Snitch in the Dementor-hit match?
Cedric Diggory
Cedric Diggory caught the Snitch just after Harry fell and, on seeing what had happened, tried to have the result called off; even Oliver Wood agreed Hufflepuff had won fair and square.
Q 27In Chamber of Secrets, who jinxes the Bludger that breaks Harry's arm?
Dobby
Dobby tampered with the Bludger, hoping an injury would send Harry home from a school he believed was in danger; he had already sealed the barrier at King's Cross to stop him arriving.
Q 28Why does Umbridge ban Harry and the Weasley twins from Quidditch after Gryffindor beat Slytherin?
They attacked Draco Malfoy
They attacked Draco Malfoy after he taunted them about their families; Umbridge overruled McGonagall's punishment with lifetime bans, adding Fred although only Harry and George had thrown punches.
Q 29Which position does Ron play when he joins the Gryffindor team?
Keeper
Keeper: Slytherins sang 'Weasley Is Our King' to shake Ron's confidence, but after his saves helped win the Cup in the season's last match, Gryffindor sang it back with new words in his praise.
Q 30Which potion does Harry pretend to give Ron to boost his confidence before a match?
Felix Felicis
Harry only mimed adding Felix Felicis to Ron's pumpkin juice; he had won a real vial of the luck potion in Slughorn's first lesson and later drank it to extract Slughorn's memory.