A Christmas Carol (2009 Film)
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40 free A Christmas Carol (2009 Film) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Robert Zemeckis's 2009 A Christmas Carol put Jim Carrey in a motion-capture suit and asked him to carry far more of the story than Ebenezer Scrooge alone. Around him sits one of the starriest casts any Dickens adaptation has had, with several actors doubling up on roles that most viewers never notice are the same performer. This quiz starts with the cast: who plays Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Fred, Fezziwig, Belle and the rest, and what else those actors are known for. It then moves through the story as Disney filmed it, the technology and the people behind the camera, the music, the premiere, and how critics and audiences received the finished picture. It is written for anyone who watches the Jim Carrey version every December and has wondered whose voice is whose, and for hosts looking for a ready-made round on a modern holiday staple.
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Q 01Besides Scrooge, which other characters does Jim Carrey perform in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol?
The three spirits
The three spirits are all Jim Carrey too: he performs the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come as well as Scrooge, so he spends much of the story haunting himself.
Q 02Before voicing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey played which holiday character in a Ron Howard film?
The Grinch
The Grinch, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), was Jim Carrey's earlier holiday misanthrope. The role brought him a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 03Which English actor plays both Bob Cratchit and the ghost of Jacob Marley in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman plays three roles in the film, so Scrooge's meek clerk and his damned former business partner share one actor.
Q 04In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit's adult actor also did the motion capture for which Cratchit child?
Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim was performed by the same man who plays his father, with child actors supplying the boy's voice and some extra motion capture.
Q 05Which Bridget Jones's Diary star plays Scrooge's cheerful nephew Fred in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?
Colin Firth
Colin Firth plays Fred, Scrooge's only living relative. A year later he played King George VI in The King's Speech, the role that won him the Best Actor Oscar.
Q 06Before its 2009 A Christmas Carol, Disney first filmed the story in 1983 with which cartoon star as Bob Cratchit?
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse played the underpaid clerk in Mickey's Christmas Carol, a 1983 featurette that cast Scrooge McDuck, fittingly, as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Q 07Disney's last A Christmas Carol before Jim Carrey's starred Michael Caine as Scrooge in 1992, opposite which troupe?
The Muppets
The Muppets surrounded Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol, with Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit and Gonzo narrating as Charles Dickens.
Q 08Which earlier motion-capture Christmas film did Robert Zemeckis make with Tom Hanks before directing A Christmas Carol?
The Polar Express
The Polar Express came first, in 2004, and left Zemeckis so taken with digital filmmaking that he went looking for another story to tell the same way.
Q 09In which city did Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol hold its world premiere, timed to a Christmas lights switch-on?
London
London hosted the premiere on 3 November 2009, the night the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights were switched on.
Q 10In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does the reformed Scrooge anonymously send to the Cratchit family?
A turkey
A turkey reaches the Cratchits with no sender's name, one of Scrooge's first acts on waking, before he gives to charity and finally turns up at his nephew's dinner.
Q 11In Disney's A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past has a flame for a head and a body like what?
A candle
A candle is the design: the ghost is drawn as an androgynous figure, and Scrooge ends his visions of the past by extinguishing its flame.
Q 12The year before A Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey voiced the lead in which Dr. Seuss animated film?
Horton Hears a Who!
Horton Hears a Who! cast Carrey as Horton the Elephant opposite Steve Carell as the Mayor of Whoville, and it grossed over $290 million worldwide.
Q 13In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what binds the ghost of Jacob Marley as punishment for his sins in life?
Chains
Q 21Which actor plays Dick Wilkins and stood in for Scrooge when Jim Carrey's characters shared scenes in A Christmas Carol?
Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes had a family link to the part he covered: a relative, the 18th-century miser John Elwes, is considered an inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge.
Q 22Which actress plays Mrs. Dilber, the charwoman who sells the dead Scrooge's belongings, in Disney's A Christmas Carol?
Fionnula Flanagan
Fionnula Flanagan plays the charwoman a year after acting in Jim Carrey's comedy Yes Man, and while she was appearing as Eloise Hawking in Lost.
Q 23Which English actress, later Oscar-nominated for Phantom Thread, plays Mrs. Cratchit in Disney's A Christmas Carol?
Lesley Manville
Chains hold Marley, who warns his old partner that the same fate awaits him unless he heeds the visitors due over the next three nights.
Q 14In Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does Scrooge only reluctantly grant his clerk Bob Cratchit for Christmas?
A day off
A day off is all Bob Cratchit gets, and grudgingly; the same evening Scrooge harshly dismisses two gentlemen collecting donations for the poor.
Q 15The day after Christmas in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does Scrooge do for his clerk Bob Cratchit?
Raises his salary
Scrooge raises his salary, pledges his support to the whole family and becomes a father figure to the Cratchits' youngest son.
Q 16The red-haired Ghost of Christmas Present in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol wears an ermine robe of which color?
Green
Green ermine, a full beard and a hearty laugh make him the jolliest of Scrooge's visitors, yet he dies before the night is over.
Q 17Disney promoted its 2009 A Christmas Carol with a 40-city tour of the United States aboard which kind of vehicle?
A special train
A special train carried the exhibition from Los Angeles in May 2009 to New York City in November, in a partnership between Disney and Amtrak.
Q 18Robert Zemeckis has called A Christmas Carol one of his favorite stories dealing with which science-fiction idea?
Time travel
Time travel is a Zemeckis speciality: two decades before sending Scrooge through his own past and future, he directed all three Back to the Future films.
Q 19Which English actor plays both jolly Mr. Fezziwig and the fence Old Joe in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins plays Scrooge's generous old boss and the man who buys the dead miser's belongings. He had starred for the same director in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Q 20Which actress plays Belle, the fiancée young Scrooge neglects for money, in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol?
Robin Wright
Robin Wright, billed here as Robin Wright Penn, was working again with Robert Zemeckis, who had directed her as Jenny in Forrest Gump.
Lesley Manville plays Bob Cratchit's wife, the mother of the family. She is a regular in director Mike Leigh's films, among them Another Year and Mr. Turner.
Q 24Which former child star plays Peter Cratchit and four smaller parts in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol?
Daryl Sabara
Daryl Sabara, known as Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids films, also plays an undertaker's apprentice, a beggar boy and two carolers.
Q 25The flame-headed Ghost of Christmas Past in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol speaks with which accent?
Irish
Irish tones mark the first of Scrooge's ghostly guides, an androgynous figure who arrives at one o'clock to show him his early life.
Q 26The jolly Ghost of Christmas Present in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol has the accent of which English county?
Yorkshire
Yorkshire vowels suit a towering, red-haired giant who is prone to hearty laughter and who shows Scrooge how other people find joy in the holiday.
Q 27In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, the dying Ghost of Christmas Present reveals two wretched children with which names?
Ignorance and Want
Ignorance and Want are shown as children and then again as adults, played by separate actors, as the ghost's last warning before he dies.
Q 28In Jim Carrey's Disney film about Scrooge, the tombstone shown by the last ghost reveals Scrooge will die on which day?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day is the date on the stone, so the grave warns Scrooge not only that he will die unmourned but that it will happen on a coming holiday.
Q 29In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past first shows Scrooge his lonely boyhood days where?
At boarding school
At boarding school the boy Scrooge is left alone, and the same run of visions moves on to his younger sister and his apprenticeship under Fezziwig.
Q 30In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's nephew Fred is the son of which beloved late sister of Scrooge?
Fan
Fan appears as a girl in the visions of Scrooge's childhood, and her death long ago is why Fred is the only relative he has left.