1. J.K. Rowling Quiz
By Reece Bradley

2. What was J.K. Rowling’s first story?
Joanne Rowling wrote her first story when she was 6 years old about a rabbit called Rabbit, who was visited by friends when he gets the measles.
Most of her stories when she was little were about rabbits! She even has a character in “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” called Babbity Rabbity who is an old lady who has an animagus of a rabbit!

3. What was her first published book?
In 1990, on a crowded train travelling from Manchester (where she was living at the time) to London, Joanne Rowling got the idea that would become the Harry Potter series. She began to write the story as soon as she got home.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was completed in It was rejected twelve times, before Bloomsbury agreed to publish it using the pen name J.K. Rowling.

4. How many Harry Potter books has J.K. Rowling written? A: 7 B: 8 C: 9
J.K. Rowling has written 7 books in the Harry Potter series:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ( published in 1995 ).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 1998 )
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).
There are 4195 pages in the Harry Potter series of books!

5. Who did J.K. Rowling base her characters for Hermione and Dumbledore on?
The character of Albus Dumbledore (the headmaster of Hogwarts) was partly inspired by Alfred Dunn, Rowlin’s headmaster at her own primary school, St Michael’s Primary School in Winterbourne.
Hermione was based on herself when she was eleven years old.

6. What did J.K. Rowling write on when she created the names of the Hogwart houses?
J.K. Rowling has been known to write on all sorts of weird things when she doesn't have her notepad with her. The names of the Hogwarts Houses were created on the back of an empty aeroplane sick bag.

7. What sport did J.K. Rowling invent?
J.K. Rowling invented a sport for wizards called Quidditch.
She had always wanted to see a game where there was more than one ball in play at the same time and had lots of fun making up the rules and creating the names for the balls until she eventually decided on Bludgers, Quaffle and Snitch.

8. What Muggle sport inspired Quidditch?
The Muggle sport that inspired Quidditch is basketball, which is the sport that J.K. Rowling enjoys watching the most.

9. All seven Harry Potter books have been made into movies
All seven Harry Potter books have been made into movies. Who played the characters of Harry, Hermione and Ron?
Daniel Radcliffe
Emma Watson
Rupert Grint

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