Fantasy Fantasy
Real Sports
Hogwarts
Somewhere in Wonderland
Hodgepodge
100
This classic book, then movie, then Broadway musical, then another movie were based on the author's own difficult childhood in boarding school where they learned to escape reality through reading.
What is Matilda?
100
This unusual sport follows the same rules as traditional golf, except the fact that the ball is replaced by a smaller and heavier disc. Also, the holes are replaced by disc “baskets” where the discs can be thrown.
What is disc golf?
100
This Scottish half-blood graduated in Gryffindor House, became the Head of Gryffindor House, and the professor of Transfiguration.
Who is Professor Minerva McGonagall?
100
Most associated with Alice and her adventures in Wonderland, this grinning and confusing character actually predates Lewis Carroll's stories by a hundred years.
Who is the Cheshire Cat?
100
This gelatin based candy has more animal bones in it than the candy's animal namesake.
What are gummy worms?
200
This high fantasy author was a known polyglot - in both real and fictional languages, drawing on Old Norse, Spanish, Old English, and Finnish they developed 15 different dialects for Elvish for use in their most famous series about Middle Earth.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
200
This unusual sport is a six versus six, without goaltenders, and takes place in a pool. Players wear fins for mobility, masks to see underwater, and thick latex gloves to protect the hands from the pool bottom. Players must hold their breath underwater and therefore have to periodically return to the surface to breathe.
What is underwater hockey?
200
These magical hybrid beasts shoot fire from one end and have either a stinger (male) or sucker (female) on the other. They were bred by Hagrid as a cross between manticores and fire crabs.
What is a blast-ended skrewt?
200
The Queen of Hearts used these as soldiers to carry out her orders. They are always fearful of being beheaded.
What are playing cards?
200
This tiny creature throws the fastest punch in the world, measured at up to 50 mph - fast enough to break through glass tanks.
What are mantis shrimps?
300
This term is used for animals that some believe exist or have existed somewhere in the wild, but whose existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science.
What is a cryptid?
300
The Summer 2028 Olympics will take place in Los Angeles and feature these five new sports (100 points for each correct answer):
What are baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash?
300
This spell is used when fighting a Boggart. It's meaning is derived from the Latin word for "laughable" (but is often thought of as silly or absurd).
What is Riddikulus?
300
Lewis Carroll made up many words used in Through the Looking Glass and created this term still used today for when you mix two different word together to create a new meaning (think "Benifer").
What is a portmanteau (or portmanteau word)?
300
Regardless of size, nearly all mammals have the same number of these in their bodies.
What are cervical vertebrae (neck bones)?