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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSHarry Potter has spent the first ten years of his life sleeping in a cupboard under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house on Privet Drive, told nothing about his parents except that they died in a car crash. On his eleventh birthday, a giant named Hagrid crashes through the door of a seaside hut and delivers news that changes everything: Harry is a wizard, his parents were murdered by the most feared dark wizard alive, and Harry himself is famous throughout the wizarding world for somehow surviving that attack as a baby. He has a place waiting for him at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a vault full of his parents' gold under a goblin bank in London, and a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead that no one can quite explain.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a boy sleep in a cupboard under the stairs?
✓ Answer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry sleeps in the cupboard under the stairs at the Dursleys' house for nearly ten years. The cupboard is full of spiders, and it is the only space the Dursleys give him until his letters start arriving.
- First half
In what book do first-year students cross a great black lake in a fleet of little boats?
✓ Answer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Hagrid leads the first years down a steep path to the edge of a great black lake. They pile into small boats, no more than four per boat, and glide across the glassy water toward the castle with its sparkling windows and many towers.
- First half
In what book does a glass ball glow scarlet to tell a boy he has forgotten something?
✓ Answer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Neville's grandmother sends him a Remembrall, a glass ball the size of a large marble. It glows red to tell you if you have forgotten something, but the problem is it does not tell you what you forgot. Neville's face falls when it immediately turns scarlet.
- Second half
In what book does a twelve-foot creature smell like old socks and an uncleaned public toilet?
✓ Answer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
When Harry and Ron encounter the mountain troll on Halloween, the book describes its terrible smell as a mixture of old socks and the kind of public toilet no one seems to clean. The troll is twelve feet tall with granite-gray skin and a small bald head like a coconut.
- Second half
In what book does silvery fabric slither to the floor, feeling like water woven into cloth?
✓ Answer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry unwraps his last Christmas present to find an invisibility cloak. The fabric is described as fluid and silvery gray, strange to the touch like water woven into material. A note says it belonged to Harry's father.
- Near the end
In what book does a baby dragon look like a crumpled, black umbrella with bulging orange eyes?
✓ Answer
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
When Hagrid's dragon egg hatches, the baby Norwegian Ridgeback flops onto the table. It has huge spiny wings compared to its skinny jet-black body, a long snout, the stubs of horns, and bulging orange eyes. It sneezes out sparks.
