Who is ready for some Harry Potter Trivia?

Join us on Tuesday, April 19 @ 1 PM for Harry Potter Trivia. 

The Trivia Brothers will challenge players with questions from a variety of categories on Tuesday, April 19 @ 1 PM.Teams can be comprised of one person or multiple players.  Open to kids, tweens, teens, and families!  For more details and to register, visit our website www.bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/events/923

We hope that you are registered for next week’s program- it looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun!  The Trivia Brothers will be coming out to host Harry Potter Trivia.  We have worked with Brett Outchcunis previously (you may remember him from a program here a couple of years ago….aw yeah!) and know that he is always enthusiastic and full of energy! He’s bringing his brother Nik with him, so the excitement level has doubled.

 

Trivia

For this trivia program, teams of 1-6 people will work together to see who is top of their class.  We’ve gone hi-tech and all the answers will be submitted via smartphone, as opposed to having people run little slips of paper to the front of the room.  There is still room in the program, you can register your team online.

 

 

prize for winning team Azkaban bus

 

 

Oh, and did we mention there’s an amazing prize?  The winning team will receive a LEGO Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban Knight Bus.  (shown above)

What is even more exciting about Harry Potter Trivia?  Well, the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was originally published on June 26, 1997- that means it was 25 years ago this year!

 

Books

harry potter book cover

 

Have you read all the Harry Potter books in the series?  Or are you looking to start?  We have all seven titles in hardcover, audiobook, large print or if you prefer, the movie versions.

Here are the titles of the seven books (click on the title for a direct link to the SAILS catalog).  These titles are available in book, audiobook and DVD format:

  1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 

There are a couple of other books including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which has been called book eight.  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child takes place 19 years after book seven and is written as a two part play.  Other stand alone titles Quidditch through the ages and The tales of Beedle the Bard

 

Fun facts

9 3/4 sign

 

Finally, how about a couple of fun trivia facts about Harry Potter?

  • The 5th book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the longest with 257,045 words.
     
  • It would take you 1,169 minutes to watch all the Harry Potter movies.
     
  • The last book of the series sold 8.3 million copies in the first 24 hours
     
  • The plant names in Harry Potter exist in our world. Mugwort, for example, is an invasive species, which has been used for medicinal purposes in its native Europe and Asia.
     
  • The Harry Potter book series has been translated into 80 different languages.

 

Looking for more Harry Potter fun?  Check out https://www.wizardingworld.com/, the home of Harry Potter- some of the site requires you to join and have an account, but some such as https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/potter-puzzles you can access for free.