Name the Harry Potter Books Quiz

Number one is wrong - it's the Sorcerers stone.

No. It is the Philospher's!

Philosopher's Stone" is the British name of the Book; "Sorcerer's Stone" is the American name. In Real History, Alchemists like Nicholas Flamel tried to discover the PS with all the power defined; in the story, Flamel succeeded. The Marketing Men in suits assume that Americans are dumb and would think "HP and the PS" was a text-book on Philosophy, so they changed the title

You mistyped, you meant to type "know" instead of "assumed"

EXCUSE me?

aha

I assume that means you forgot to rule out people like me who memorized their 600 page philosophy textbook and got a 127% in the college course (and did I mention I'm 14?) So yeah, I'd think before you post next time, "Mr. Americans-are-so-fat-and-uneducated-and-know-nothing-about-anything", because you just got owned.

Average score is 6? I got 1.

Come on, johnnyaitch!

Philosophers is the title that is used in europe. Maybe they thought us American's couldn't handle it. :)

The answers should be accepted without "Harry Pottter and" Would save some time

HAHA, I know my HP! Scoring You scored 7/7 = 100%. This beats or equals 100% of test takers. The average score is 6. Your high score is 7.

the philosopher's stone is the british version

And everywhere else, other than the US.

Everywhere else other than the US, unless people don´t speak English as their native language, which is, believe it or not, in a lot of places.

i would have gotten all of them but i forgot to type the before the 7th book

I am JK Rowling!

best quiz more harry potter please!!!!!! 7/7 :)yay

got all of them!!

ran out of time

horcruxfinder27 and Theshortaiel the philosophers stone is the correct version seeing as the author is....British!!!!!!

gingy ther is no way you are JK Rowling. more potter tests.

agreed

Lol I couldn't spell Azkaban for some reason D:!

After a year and a half, I still can't spell, writing Askerban or Askaban....

The Philospher's stone is the title JK Rowling gave to the books. It was then changed for American's, becuase a survay showed that they were too dumb to read the word philosopher

thats mean...im smart.....kinda :P

Yes, and apparently you're too dumb to spell "survey". And where'd you get those stats?

actually it was changed because the connotation of "philosopher" is different in the different countries. In the UK, philosopher means basically what sorcerer means in the US: basically, wizard. But in America, philosopher means more like scholar. Hence the name change.

Since when did anyone in the UK think philosopher meant wizard...?

Philosopher has never meant wizard. Where did you hear that?

Philosopher doesn't mean sorcerer anywhere, sorcerer means someone who has magic powers such as a Wizard whereas as a philosopher is someone who studies philosophy which is the study of knowledge, reality and existence. In no way shape or form or in any universe is the study of knowledge synonymous with Wizard.

So all this time, I could have ACTUALLY majored in wizardry? Dang!

How is it comments like this get posted but when I correct them with similar comments I'm often censored? Is quizmaster British?

easy

philosophers stone: BRITISH VERSION sorcerers stone: american version if you look it up there are actually book covers with the title "the philosophers stone" on it. really.

i wonder if ilove... was part of the "survay"

Got them all and in order. ;)

Got them in order too. Almost had a minute and a half to spare, if I wasn't such a slow typer. I love Harry Potter!! :)

Easiest thing ever.

Hahaha @ The Gambler

@paulooch116595 i know exactly how you feel! (:

100% with 1:24. MORE HP!

I have never taken an easier one.

They didn't just change the title of the first book. They changed the language throughout all the books for Americans. If you buy the British versions the vocabulary is markely different. So, if you're serious HP fans you'd HAVE to have read both versions if not JUST the British version and therefore you'd KNOW that The Philosopher's Stone was the name of the first book.

The final movie was just released seven hours ago-------- AND I STILL HAVENT SEEN IT YET... stupid work! I CANNOT wait to see it in 3D! i am sooo stoked - its gonna be AWESOME

#3 is The Prisoner of Azcaban, and #1 is the Sorcerers Stone. They are WRONG!

#1 is correct, because that is the British title, and the author is BRITISH. #3 is right, you spelled it wrong.

@cruth i know they are rong but it takes the sorcers stone cuz philosiphers stone is the european way to say it and the prisoner of azcaban is just spelled rong

actually Azkaban is spelled correctly...you obviously are not the genius speller you think you are. It is not spelled "rong" at all.

I couldn't spell that and I used Sorcerers and it still worked... RE Philosophers is the title that is used in europe. Maybe they thought us American's couldn't handle it. :)

omg I almost forgot how to spell "prisoner" 7/7! :)

WOW, the original english books are philsophers stone and Azkaban with a K not C.. so you are WRONG no the quiz :)

I don't know if Azkaban is just spelled with a K for the British books. I live in America and mine is spelt with a K.

more harry potter please!!!!!!!!! 7/7 YAY!!!

Bloody brilliant mate!!!!!!!!!

that was pretty easy. 7/7

i thought azkaban was spelled with an s

I am American, and have only read the American versions of the books, but reading comments from other Americans on here embarrasses me. I know Rowling is British and wrote the books in "British English" therefore I answered book 1 with "Philosopher's Stone." It's people like some of the above commenters that forced the publishers to "translate" the books into "American English." Quite saddening, really.

Too Harry Potter-centric!!

yay!

I'm Canadian and I was only aware of the original versions of the book. Except this one time when my American friend was convinced that the first book was "The Sorcerer's Stone". Why would they change the books for an American audience?!!!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy :)

ha LOVED IT Got em all with 1 and a half mins left :D WOOP WOOP

i love it! More HP quizes PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hugs and dementor kisses, Ravenclaw Poppy Petrelli

7/7 with 1:36 left. I'm a Potterhead.

You're missing "Tales of Beedle the Bard", "Magical Beasts and where to find them" and "Quidditch throughout the ages".. J/S

Too easy

Um, 1:42 left, 100%...get on my level. Harry Potter is my life...it's like I am Dean Thomas...

oh gosh matthew...

way way to easy

seven of seven winning

@Meghan16 They changed a bunch of words to make it easier to read for an American audience. Nothing critical to the story, mostly things like "Jumper" became "Sweater"... "Crisps" became "Chips... Things that would make American children understand better. I'm American and have personally read both versions, they are not much different.

@ilovegeographymuchly UN. FREAKING. TRUE. I'm American and I can read "philosopher" fine. You probably could've worded your comment differently, as not to offend people. -_______________-

7/7 and still 1:18 left. Not to brag, but WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Ah, dear HP, how you've enriched the lives of us all... And insured that at least one of our quizzes has 100%!

got them all with like a minute and twenty seconds left

I love Potter quizzes!!!

These comments make me so, so embarrassed to be American. Brits, please, please, I assure you, not all Americans are this uncouth and under-educated.

i wish I was british. They speak proper english and use metric and celsius and drive on the left side and have cool accent. america's stupid. the only good part of being american is that we learn english as a first language, and it's the second hardest language to learn in the world. Besides Chinese.

Completely agree being american as well... But the british learn american too lol

I believe it is the hardest. Mandarin is second, I think it's because of all the idioms and our language has no obvious patterns like other languages do.

hate when people call it sorcerers stone. the original written by j k rowling is philosophers stone

7/7, and I have read all of the books before I saw the movies, the way a true fan should do it

7/7 with 1:33 left 1st time and I'm 11 :)

LOL americans are rather odd, changing english words to american. ITS A BRITTISH BOOK, IF THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO READ THATS THEIR PROBLEM :P

They did it so children could read it. Little kids typically don't know British idioms unless they're from the UK.

Can Askaban be accepted?

I second this! XD

Couldn't spell "philosopher", put in sorcerer instead. WAY awesome timesaver.

5/7 not bad never read any of the books, almost only got 3/7 as kept puting in chamber of azkaban..........

How can you not get these right?

I've read all of these...about 20 times! Only thing is, I never got why they changed the title to SORCERER'S stone from PHILOSOPHER'S stone b/c a sorcerer and a philosopher are completely different things...

Not in the UK...the British connotation of Philosopher is actually more like sorcerer or wizard, so that's why is was changed.

So all the people studying Philosophy at UK universities are training to become wizards? I think perhaps you should consult a dictionary!

UK universities offer degrees in fields other than wizardry?

7/7 with 1:22 left, I haven't even read all of the books or seen all of the films. I guess that just shows how ingrained it is into British culture.

Gutted I got only 6/7 Grrrr

I don't get why they changed the title for the US. It's Philosopher's stone most other places, not just in Europe. It's the same in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, not sure about other places.

Got all with 20 Seconds left!

Finished in 44 seconds!

Quizmaster,I'm only 10 years old.May you please accept Goblit please.honestly I knew it,but missed it :(

really easy - you should give less time to do it in to make it a bit harder (I still would have got 100% as I had loads of time to spare)

Ok according to wikipedia (take it as you like) "Scholastic Corporation bought the U.S. rights at the Bologna Book Fair in April 1997 for US$105,000, an unusually high sum for a children's book.[14] They thought that a child would not want to read a book with the word "philosopher" in the title and,[32] after some discussion, the American edition was published in October 1998 under the title Rowling suggested, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.[14] Rowling claimed that she regretted this change and would have fought it if she had been in a stronger position at the time.[33] Philip Nel has pointed out that the change lost the connection with alchemy, and the meaning of some other terms changed in translation, for example from UK English "crumpets" to US English "muffin". While Rowling accepted the change from both UK English "mum" and Seamus Finnegan's Irish variant "mam" to "mom" in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, she vetoed this change in the later books. However Nel consid

NEWS FLASH: Typing "Sorcerer's Stone" works as well. Quit complaining. It's just a quiz.

7/7 with 1:39 remaining! Potterhead forever. :)

It would help if you accepted a few more possible misspellings. Especially for "Azkaban" since its not an actual word.

Regardless, the word used is 'Azkaban', not 'Askaban', or 'Azcaban', or 'Ascaban', or 'Assbaccannabaszan'.

Could you accept "overhyped crap" for #s 1-7?

You people are so annoying - if you do't like Harry Potter then don't take the quiz!!!!

Kalbahamut, you dont know what u r talking about. READ IT! Awesome quiz, 7/7 with 1:15 to spare. Thank you quizmaster!

I have read (some of) Harry Potter, and I also suffered through all but one of the movies for one reason or another. @ ilikequizzes: do you have to be a fan of something to take a quiz about it? I don't imagine that the people who took my Countries with the most AIDS quiz are all fans of AIDS...

yay :) 7/7 :P i did it in a minute tho... i think it would be more interesting/difficult if it was a shorter time?

How do people get these wrong! They're so easy!

too easy