Hogwarts Championship 2025 (Final Results + Leaderboard pg 142) - Page 40

Originally posted by: ProfMcGonagall

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!

Originally posted by: Minionite

Competitions:

Slytherin vs Hufflepuff - 13th Apr 10 PM EST / 14th Apr 7:30 AM IST

Ravenclaw vs Gryffindor - 13th Apr 10:30 PM EST / 14th Apr 8 AM IST

Gryffindor vs Slytherin - 14th Apr 10:30 AM EST / 14th Apr 8 PM IST

Hufflepuff vs Ravenclaw - 14th Apr 11:30 AM EST / 14th Apr 9 PM IST

Kya timing hai🫠🙂‍↔️

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.

Down

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)

Originally posted by: Ragazza_dolce

Kya timing hai🫠🙂‍↔️

I tried to choose timings that work for a majority of people this time, but no giving options. You have options in your house instead.

Originally posted by: BeingBlunt

Bit confused. Every player in the house has to send this separately ?

Yes this round is an individual round. You play it on your own.

Originally posted by: Ragazza_dolce

Kya timing hai🫠🙂‍↔️

Seriously, i sleep like a log till 10 AM😭

Kya yaar. Pehla paper itna tough aa gaya

Aansoo nikal gaye mere

R 1 individual round sabko answer bhejna hai kya

Ek hi answer abhi tak samaj aaya

Baaki sab bouncer Gaya

Before u vanish Shreya itna bata do

Can I send answer as

1 down xxxxx

2 across. xxxxx

Example I gave

I can't copy grid

Woh chalega

Morning mein if I read u r gone off to ur Dreamland

Isliye abhi jaag ke dekh liya

Ek toh first time I m playing Shreya game and itna tough paper de diya

Now getting rough idea aage ke 6 paper kya hoga 🙎🤦

Originally posted by: RainOfDew

Seriously, i sleep like a log till 10 AM😭

Well get up early then. Ab toh next rounds mein slots aur bhi jaldi rakhongi. Just for you.

Originally posted by: chatterbox

Kya yaar. Pehla paper itna tough aa gaya

Aansoo nikal gaye mere

R 1 individual round sabko answer bhejna hai kya

Ek hi answer abhi tak samaj aaya

Baaki sab bouncer Gaya

Before u vanish Shreya itna bata do

Can I send answer as

1 down xxxxx

2 across. xxxxx

Example I gave

I can't copy grid

Woh chalega

Morning mein if I read u r gone off to ur Dreamland

Isliye abhi jaag ke dekh liya

Ek toh first time I m playing Shreya game and itna tough paper de diya

Now getting rough idea aage ke 6 paper kya hoga 🙎🤦

Lol yes you send me the answers individually.

And yes the format you said is fine. You don't need to send me the completed crossword. As long as you label your answers clearly, that's all that matters.

Originally posted by: Minionite

Well get up early then. Ab toh next rounds mein slots aur bhi jaldi rakhongi. Just for you.

Rakh lena, my team will handle