How do Slytherins enter their common room?

By saying a password to a stone wall

What must you do to enter Ravenclaw Tower?

Answer a riddle from an eagle door knocker

Where is the Hufflepuff common room entrance?

Behind barrels near the kitchens

Hogwarts Common Rooms Quiz: Towers, Dungeons and Passwords

This Hogwarts common rooms quiz sneaks into the private spaces of the four houses in the Harry Potter books. Play 10 interactive questions on the Fat Lady's portrait, Gryffindor passwords, Slytherin's dungeon under the lake, Ravenclaw's riddling eagle knocker, Hufflepuff's barrels near the kitchens and house colors.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Gryffindor
What guards the entrance to Gryffindor Tower?
Where
Where is Gryffindor's common room?
Slytherin
Where is the Slytherin common room?
Enter
How do Slytherins enter their common room?
Ravenclaw
What must you do to enter Ravenclaw Tower?
Hufflepuff
Where is the Hufflepuff common room entrance?
Trap
What happens if you tap the wrong Hufflepuff barrel?
Colors
What are Gryffindor's house colors?
Slytherin colors
What are Slytherin's house colors?
Neville
Which Gryffindor wrote down passwords, causing trouble?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What guards the entrance to Gryffindor Tower?
Answer: The portrait of the Fat Lady
Students give a password.
Q2: Where is Gryffindor's common room?
Answer: In a tower
It has a cozy fire.
Q3: Where is the Slytherin common room?
Answer: In the dungeons under the lake
Greenish light fills it.
Q4: How do Slytherins enter their common room?
Answer: By saying a password to a stone wall
The wall slides open.
Q5: What must you do to enter Ravenclaw Tower?
Answer: Answer a riddle from an eagle door knocker
Wit is valued there.
Q6: Where is the Hufflepuff common room entrance?
Answer: Behind barrels near the kitchens
You tap a certain barrel.
Q7: What happens if you tap the wrong Hufflepuff barrel?
Answer: You get doused with vinegar
It keeps out intruders.
Q8: What are Gryffindor's house colors?
Answer: Scarlet and gold
Its animal is a lion.
Q9: What are Slytherin's house colors?
Answer: Green and silver
Its animal is a serpent.
Q10: Which Gryffindor wrote down passwords, causing trouble?
Answer: Neville Longbottom
Sirius Black found the list.

Hogwarts Common Rooms Quiz – Towers, Dungeons and Passwords

Each Hogwarts house has a private common room. Gryffindors climb to a tower and give a password to the portrait of the Fat Lady, while Slytherins enter a dungeon beneath the lake by speaking to a stone wall.

Ravenclaw Tower has no password; instead an eagle-shaped door knocker asks a riddle. Hufflepuffs enter by tapping a certain barrel near the kitchens, and tapping the wrong one sprays vinegar.

The houses have their own colors and animals: Gryffindor scarlet and gold with a lion, Slytherin green and silver with a serpent, Ravenclaw blue and bronze with an eagle, and Hufflepuff yellow and black with a badger.

What This Quiz Teaches

Harry Potter fans will enjoy these questions.

Where each room is
How students enter
What guards the doors
Which colors each house uses
Which mishaps happened

Did You Know?

Ravenclaw's colors are blue and silver in the films.
The Sorting Hat decides each student's house.
Common rooms have dormitories attached.
Pottermore later revealed more details of each room.
The Slytherin room has windows into the lake.