Two winners in Harry Potter trivia contest

Two Young Saint Louis.com readers answered all the Harry Potter trivia contest questions correctly. Both of them were unique winners.

Twelve-year-old Drew Fendler is a multiple winner in the YSL.com Math Puzzler contest. He sent in his Harry Potter entry at the same time as his Math Puzzler entry. He got all the Harry Potter questions correct but, this month, he missed one of the Puzzler questions.

But, he was a two-time Math Puzzler winner earlier in this year.

Seven-year-old Thomas Van Horn also got all the Harry Potter trivia questions correct. He studied up on Harry Potter in an unusual way.

You'll find Thomas featured in another story of this edition of YSL.com. He's the boy who made special American flag pins and used the proceeds to send care packages to troops in Iraq.

To read about Thomas' Iraq project, just click here.

Making all those flag pins can be repetitive work. And Thomas wanted some way to bring a little variety to that job.

He's a big Harry Potter fan so he decided to get audio tapes of the books. That way, he could listen to the books with earphones while using his hands to make the pins.

In all, he listened to the first three Harry Potter books once each. And he listened twice to the long fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

All that listening served Thomas well since he was able to answer all 10 trivia questions correctly.

Therefore, Drew and Thomas will receive, as prizes, copies of the new book, "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix." The book goes on public sale on June 21.

YSL.com partner, Dick Burnett, will provide a review of the fifth book in the July edition of this website. Professor Burnett is the one who does the four book reviews each month on this website.

He also makes up the regular trivia contests each month. They are featured in the Fun&Games section. He compiled the Harry Potter trivia contest questions.

YSL.com has paid very close attention to Harry Potter. This website likes to encourage kids to read a lot.

And Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has done more to popularize kids books than any other author in history. The four earlier books have been translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of books worldwide.

One of the first stories published on YSL.com was about an elementary school book club that was reviewing the first Harry Potter book.

Also, YSL.com has published special reviews of the first two Harry Potter movies. Those locally-written reviews were published in November, 2001, and November, 2002. To read the November, 2001, review, click here. To read the November, 2002, review, click here.

Now, here are the Harry Potter trivia questions and their answers:

1. What was the special piece of clothing that Harry had inherited from his father?
   
   Answer: An invisibility cloak.
   
   
2. What is special about a Parselmouth?
   
   Answer: It can converse with snakes.
   
   
3. What make was Ron Weasley's family car?
   
   Answer: A Ford Anglia.
   
   
4. Which teacher at Hogwartz always entered class by floating through the chalkboard?
   
   Answer: Professor Binns, the Ghost who taught History of Magic.
   
   
5. What magical device enabled Hermione to study several lessons at once?
   
   Answer: A Time-Turner.
   
   
6. What was Serius Black's connection to Harry Potter?
   
   Answer: Harry's Godfather.
   
   
7. Who was the Bulgarian seeker that Harry and Ron idolized?
   
   Answer: Viktor Krum.
   
   
8. What is unusual about leprechaun gold?
   
   Answer: It disappears by the next morning.
   
   
9. What were the O.W.L.s at Hogwarts?
   
   Answer: Ordinary Wizard Levels, exams taken in the fifth year.
   
   
10. What did Harry buy for Ron, telling him it was a Christmas present "for about 10 years?'
    
    Answer: A pair of Omnioculars.