Announcement

Following the unexpected popularity of the Boxing Day quiz, the New Year's Quiz will go live tomorrow, Saturday 31st December, at 1600 GMT. That translates to the following times:

San Francisco 0800
New York 1100
London 1600
Berlin 1700
New Delhi 2130
Perth 0000 (Sunday 1st)
Sydney 0300 (Sunday 1st)
Aukland 0500 (Sunday 1st)

Sorry Australians.

Prize: $15 Amazon voucher (or local equivalent)

Prize is awarded to the first DLPer who submits a valid entry with all the questions correct.

Instructions

As before this is a "complete the sentences" quiz (technically known as a ditloid quiz).

Example question: H S of W and W

Example answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Questions can be places, people, items, lines from the books... anything HP really. Note that they can also be descriptions of the above, or collections of the above unified by a theme.

This one is a bit harder than the last quiz - for at least one question, you're probably going to need to look at the books. But there's still plenty of easy and medium difficulty questions too.

To submit an entry, PM me the answers here on the forums. You may enter multiple times but can only ever have one "active" entry, with each entry considered as rescinding your previous entries. That means that you can have all the questions correct, but if you then submit another entry with different, incorrect answers, the incorrect more recent entry will be the one that is considered. This is to prevent people hedging their bets.

The timestamps on the PMs will be conclusive evidence of which correct entry was made first. For that reason IRC entries will not be considered valid, especially as my online status may vary.

Hint: pay attention to the punctuation!

Questions

1. D for the R R of U S

2. 3 H: W, S, C

3. V I M P, P, and F

4. D the H-E

5. M-W E C

6. 12 F-S W to C W

7. O, F, G, A, A, K, H

8. S to M, S, G of the H F

9. M I B T

10. A T Y or M A, W I was N S, there L four W of R, W N are S W K

11. N M D, Y B!

12. Y S to B L U the D that I A G to -- W I the P? ‘C Q’.

13. W B M is M G T

14. W W W P D C

15. 1 I for P P is B S

16. L U S I the N and P that F T, A

17. S M H for M M and I

18. G S, D, and the T of B the B

19. F F I C P

20. F in O S C: W, L, and D

 

Here's a handy countdown timer for everyone who's as shit at timezones as me.

 

Questions are now live.

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Question number five (incidentally the most obscure of all the questions) has undergone an emergency replacement after its answer was shared in IRC. Replacement has been made to ensure IRC and forum denizens are on a level playing field.

Incidentally, the original question five was:

S B, L S of the P S G, The H

Spoiler

Stubby Boardman, Lead Singer of the Popular Singing Group, The Hobgoblins

I had considered it ultra-obscure and likely the hardest question, but I failed to account for an expert in all things Sirius Black being present.

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It's still all to play for, for people just arriving. The best I know someone has is 10/20. As I had hoped, it's going to last to tomorrow at least

 

Stalled on 13/20 at this party.

 

Been stuck on 19/20 forever. This quiz is seriously tough, hats off to Taure.

 

TMD has gone to bed and now so am I. Now is everyone's chance to catch up with his 19/20!

 

This is much harder than the Boxing Day one. I can get number 12 and no others. My hat off to TMD

 

So the leaderboard is currently wordhammer and TMD both on 19/20, but stuck on different questions since last night. Can anyone catch up before they get the final one?

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And we have a winner! Congratulations TMD, who is now the victor two quizzes in a row.

Answers were as follows:

Spoiler

1. D for the R R of U S
Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery

2. 3 H: W, S, C
3 Hallows: wand, stone, cloak

3. V I M P, P, and F
Voldemort is my past, present, and future

4. D the H-E
Dobby the House Elf

5. S B, L S of the P S G The H
Stubby Boardman, lead singer of the popular singing group The Hobgoblins

6. 12 F-S W to C W
12 Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches

7. O, F, G, A, A, K, H
Oliver, Fred, George, Angelina, Alicia, Katie, Harry

8. S to M, S, G of the H F
Speak to me, Slytherin, Greatest of the Hogwarts Four

9. M I B T
Mars is bright tonight

10. A T Y or M A, W I was N S, there L four W of R, W N are S W K
A thousand years or more ago, when I was newly sewn, there lived four wizards of renown, whose names are still well known.

11. N M D, Y B!
Not my daughter, you bitch!

12. Y S to B L U the D that I A G to -- W I the P? ‘C Q’.
You seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- what is the phrase? ‘Come quietly.’

13. W B M is M G T
Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure

14. W W W P D C
Weasleys’ Wizarding Wheezes Patented Daydream Charm

15. 1 I for P P is B S
1 ingredient for polyjuice potion is boomslang skin

16. L U S I the N and P that F T, A
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

17. S M H for M M and I
St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

18. G S, D, and the T of B the B
Golden snitch, deluminator, and the Tales of Beedle the Bard

19. F F I C P
Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour

20. F in O S C: W, L, and D
Families in Ottery St Catchpole: Weasleys, Lovegoods, and Diggorys


Emergency replacement question:

5. M-W E C
Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee

I think whoever writes the next quiz (hint: not me) will maybe struggle to find questions of the right difficulty level. The more quizzes we do, the more obscure the questions will have to become.

 

Congrats, TMD. Between the five of us doing this last night, we got 12 (including two half marks for ones where we'd got the right idea, but the wrong words in some points). We'd never have got all of them though. Great fun though, thanks Taure.

 

I'm just glad I did my part, immortalised forever here in abbreviated IRC log form:

The lesson here is not to underestimate the power of seeing "Sorry Australians" in that first post and taking it as a challenge, along with not underestimating me still being drunk from New Year's, and definitely not underestimating the goddamned Blackman. That was also the only question I solved, but after that performance, why even bother?

 

MIBT = Mars is bright tonight

Arrrgh! I knew it would be mortifying once I saw it. The centaurs said it three times in that chapter. If I'd been doing the read-along, it would have been so obvious.

Congratulations TMD and thank you Taure for a challenging (if frustrating) contest.