Hogwarts Championship 2025 (Final Results + Leaderboard pg 142) - Page 39

1. R1 is an individual round right?

2. R2 may have the Harry Potter round?

For R2 we can discuss tomorrow only as it's already night here. We should get atleast one day n between to discuss.

Just now we got to know the teams 😥.

Originally posted by: nutmeg7

No more 10 points to Gryffindor

Exactly. This time 10 points to Slytherin.

Originally posted by: Minionite

It is now time for the first subject of the championship. Today you're all going to study Astronomy! Below you'll find a crossword and 26 clues divided amongst across and down. You simply have to find the responses and PM them to me. So simple.

But, but, but...this is a subject. So just like in any course you have negative marking for a wrong answer and no hints, that's what will happen here. For every right answer you will get 10 points, but for every wrong answer you will lose 5 points. Blanks are blanks. No points gained or lost.

Now the points you earn will be added to your House points. But you also have a chance to earn some bonus individual points (you know to win in your House). People who submit their responses in the first 24 hours will receive a bonus 40 points towards their own score. Submissions received in hours 24 to 36 (as in the next 12 hours) will receive 20 bonus points. No bonus points for those who submit in the last 12 hours.

An important point to note is that the box with the number is actually supposed to contain a letter. I simply made the numbers large enough to read.

The deadline for this round is 13th April 11:59 PM IST. For the 40 bonus points, I will count any entries received until 13th April 12:01 AM IST. For the 20 bonus points, I will count any entries received until 13th April 12:01 PM IST.

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1) This profession anagrams into the term “moon starer”

2) This place is the coldest in the universe (3 words)

3) The place to go to see projections of the night sky

4) The first female to go to the into the space in 1963 (2 words)

5) The astronomical entity beyond Neptune’s orbit that also has 3 officially recognized dwarf planets (2 words)

9) The least dense planet in the solar system

10) The only planet not named after a God

12) A Danish astronomer who collected the data that was later used to develop the 3 laws of planetary motion (2 words)

14) What are Andromeda and Vulpecula also known as

15) Also the name of a counteroffensive operation carried out in the middle of the Battle of Stalingrad

17) The colour of a sunset on Mars

18) The word used to describe the phenomenon when Earth is farthest from the Sun that it would get for the full year

19) Name the planet reclassified as a dwarf planet

22) This moon that revolves around a planet is one of the few to have an atmosphere of any substance

24) What was the Apollo 13 famously repaired with (2 words)

Across

6) This is the only star closest to us other than the Sun though it cannot be seen by the naked eye (2 words)

7) This city has the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world that was first installed in 1410

8) The first female commander of the ISS (2 words)

11) This planet is the largest in the solar system

13) This planet is the fastest moving in the solar system

16) This dwarf planet was discovered in 2005 and is about the size of Pluto

17) These “failed stars” are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium (2 words)

20) What is the shape of a storm on Saturn

21) The first animal in orbit

23) This planet is the only one that you can’t see from Earth with the naked eye

24) Name the first American to vote from space in 1997 (2 words)

Dekh kar achha laga I still remember some of these answers from my astronomy facts readings

Originally posted by: Rosyme

1. R1 is an individual round right?

2. R2 may have the Harry Potter round?

For R2 we can discuss tomorrow only as it's already night here. We should get atleast one day n between to discuss.

Just now we got to know the teams 😥.

R1 is an individual round.

No I'll make it very clear which round will be the Harry Potter round. You have until 13th Apr 11:59 PM IST to send me your names. There's no rush. You have the same 48 hours to finalize players as you have to play R1.

Originally posted by: ProfMcGonagall

Ooh I like my house! That's okay. Even with 10 people we will win and this time no Dumbledore to make Gryffindor winners.

Prof Fancy name humein iss raah par guide karte rehna😌

Originally posted by: Ragazza_dolce

Dekh kar achha laga I still remember some of these answers from my astronomy facts readings

Abhi toh aur bahut se subjects aane baki hain.

Originally posted by: Ragazza_dolce

Prof Fancy name humein iss raah par guide karte rehna😌

I'll do my best. After all I'm the Head Prof of the Gryffindor House but part of the Slytherin House here.

Originally posted by: Minionite

Abhi toh aur bahut se subjects aane baki hain.

I want to know what you're going to do for Charms. The others I have some ideas, but Charms? What will you do with that??? And are we doing Care of Magical Creatures? I want Buckbeak!

Now a days im keeping track of ISS , who all went there etc...some interest after Sunitha Williams got stuck there.