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1. One concoction they don't teach at Hogwarts is the subject of a song recorded by many artists, including Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, The Clovers, and The Searchers, and several websites claiming to feature a recipe. According to one website on witchcraft, what can you make by combining (among other things) nine small pieces of ginseng root, nine apple seeds, and nine drops of vanilla extract?
2. Shakespeare's "Macbeth" gives us one of the most famous potion recipes of all time, when the witches begin to chant "Double, double, toil and trouble..." The list of ingredients for their mixture seems a bit barbaric, but in magic all is not always as it seems. Which one of these apparently-gruesome additions called for in the recipe actually refers to a botanical fruit?
3. The stars of the television series "Charmed" were always casting one kind of spell or another, but they also got a fair amount of help from other magical creatures and even celebrity guest stars. What "Love is a Battlefield" singer and her husband, Neil Giraldo, appeared in one episode as themselves, prompting a good-luck-granting leprechaun to say, "I already hit you with my best shot"?
4. You, too, can get in on the spell-casting action - virtual spell-casting, that is. What massively popular, multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), released by Blizzard Entertainment, would allow you to play as a shaman, mage, or other magical entity and "cast spells" such as Lava Burst, Thunderstorm, or Polymorph?
5. Although I've never seen Harry Potter sing, plenty other magic-folk have intertwined their spells with song. What movie, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, includes the musical number "I Put a Spell On You," during which the singer puts an actual spell on the audience?
6. It seems that spells, like rules, are made to be broken - at least if you believe the fairy tales. Snow White, for example, is put under a sleeping spell when she bites into a poisoned apple. In the Disney movie, the spell is broken when a handsome prince kisses Snow White, but not all versions of the fairy tale agree on that point. According to some versions, how does the prince break the spell?
7. Speaking of breaking spells, in June 1692, a few girls in Salem, Massachusetts, fell ill and were "diagnosed" as being under a witch's spell. What did a household staff member do that was supposed to help combat the "spell" and allow the girls to reveal the witch's identity?
8. We can't talk witches without mentioning the Wicked Witch of the West. The recent smash musical "Wicked," however, urges us to take a second look at this icon of evil. According to "Wicked," what classic character was transformed into his current form by a spell that the Wicked Witch cast to save his life after another spell shrank his heart?
9. Casting spells is not the exclusive domain of witches. According to Homer's "Iliad," what ancient Greek god of sleep cast his spell on Zeus, the ruler of the gods, in exchange for a beautiful bride?
10. Many of Harry's spells are derived from, or taken directly from, Latin phrases. To wrap up our quiz, which one of the following, meaning roughly, "Let there be light" is the only one of the list that is a spell that Harry Potter doesn't know (assuming that he's up on his studies)?
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