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134 free A Christmas Story trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
85 free A Christmas Story trivia questions with answers. Are you a true fan of the beloved holiday classic A Christmas Story? Challenge yourself with our comprehensive 134-question trivia quiz covering unforgettable scenes, iconic characters, and behind-the-scenes facts. From Ralphie's BB gun obsession to the leg lamp, discover how much you really remember about this timeless 1983 film.
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Q 01A Christmas Story opened in cinemas the week before which 1983 holiday?
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving: it opened on November 18, 1983, and had faded from most cinemas within a few weeks, long before home video and television turned it into a holiday fixture.
Q 02Who directed the iconic film 'A Christmas Story'?
Bob Clark
Bob Clark heard the author tell the flagpole story on his car radio and kept circling the block to hear the end; it took him over a decade, and the box-office clout of Porky's, to get it filmed.
Q 03Several of the stories behind A Christmas Story first appeared in the mid-1960s in which magazine?
Playboy
Playboy published them: founder Hugh Hefner was a fan, and cartoonist Shel Silverstein had long urged the author to write down the tales he had been improvising on late-night radio.
Q 04What is the 'major award' that Ralphie's Old Man wins in a newspaper contest?
A leg lamp
A leg lamp, shaped like a woman's leg in a fishnet stocking: the Old Man calls it 'indescribably beautiful', and Mother's quiet war on it goes down as 'the legendary battle of the lamp'.
Q 05What is the famous warning Ralphie consistently receives about his desired Christmas gift?
"You'll shoot your eye out!"
'You'll shoot your eye out!' is what his mother says, then his teacher, then a department-store Santa; Ralphie decides his mother must have got to the teacher first.
Q 06Which dare gets Flick to press his tongue to the frozen flagpole in A Christmas Story?
A triple dog dare
A triple dog dare: his friend jumps to it straight from the double dog dare, skipping the plain triple dare, which the narrator calls 'a slight breach of etiquette'.
Q 07What kind of dogs do the Parkers' next-door neighbors own, to the Old Man's daily torment?
Hounds
They are hounds, the pack of smelly hound dogs from next door that torment the Old Man and finally devour the Christmas turkey; the narration counts 'at least 785' of them.
Q 08Where does the Parker family go for Christmas dinner after their own turkey is ruined?
A Chinese restaurant
A Chinese restaurant, where the waiters serenade the family with a mangled carol and the roast duck arrives whole and, as the Old Man protests, 'smiling at me'.
Q 09What brand of soap does Ralphie's mother wash his mouth out with?
Lifebuoy
Lifebuoy is the bar in his mouth; the narrator, by then 'quite a connoisseur of soap', says he preferred Lux and found Palmolive had 'a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor'.
Q 10What Christmas gift from Aunt Clara leaves Ralphie mortified?
A pink bunny suit
A pink bunny suit: Aunt Clara, the narrator says, thought him 'perpetually four years old, but also a girl'; the Old Man calls him 'a pink nightmare', and Mother lets him save it for her visits.
Q 11Which cable network launched the '24 Hours of A Christmas Story' marathon in 1997?
TNT
TNT launched the round-the-clock run in 1997; after the channel had turned to drama, a sister network took the marathon over in 2004.
Q 12When Ralphie finally decodes the radio show's secret message, it turns out to be a commercial for what?
Ovaltine
Ovaltine: Ralphie had drunk gallons of it to earn the decoder pin, only for the first secret message to read 'Be sure to drink your Ovaltine', which he writes off as 'a crummy commercial'.
Q 13What is the name of the department store where Ralphie and Randy visit Santa?
Higbee's
Higbee's was a real store on Cleveland's Public Square, in Ohio rather than Indiana; the film kept its glowing sign and shot the window, parade and Santa scenes there.
Q 21What does the Old Man battle in the basement again and again in A Christmas Story?
The furnace
The furnace: the narrator ranks him among 'the most feared furnace-fighters in northern Indiana', and every bout sends up a storm of swearing heard only as gibberish.
Q 22Red Ryder, the cowboy whose name is on Ralphie's dream BB gun, first appeared in which medium?
A newspaper comic strip
A newspaper comic strip: Red Ryder rode into the Sunday funnies in 1938, and within two years his name and picture had been licensed for the air rifle Ralphie dreams of.
Q 23In the name Ralphie recites by heart, his dream Red Ryder is a carbine-action air rifle of how many shots?
200
Q 14Which of these added A Christmas Story to its ranks in December 2012?
The National Film Registry
The National Film Registry, the Library of Congress's roll of films to be preserved, took it in 2012, nearly three decades after it had slipped out of cinemas within weeks of opening.
Q 15What is the name of Ralphie's school teacher?
Miss Shields
Miss Shields, played by Tedde Moore, is Ralphie's teacher; he hopes his Christmas theme will win her over to the Red Ryder cause.
Q 16Which storyteller both narrates A Christmas Story as the adult Ralphie and wrote the tales behind it?
Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd had spun these tales for years as a late-night radio monologist before he wrote them down, and he narrates the film himself as the grown-up Ralphie.
Q 17How does Ralphie finally answer Scut Farkus's bullying?
Punches him repeatedly
Ralphie punches him repeatedly while unleashing a stream of vulgar gibberish like the Old Man's; Mrs. Parker breaks it up and, to his relief, downplays it to the Old Man.
Q 18How does Mrs. Parker steer the Old Man off the subject of Ralphie's trouble with Scut Farkus?
Talking about football
Talking about football: Mother says only that 'you know how boys are', then turns to Sunday's big game; the narrator says things were different between them from then on.
Q 19The fictional town of 'Hohman, Indiana' where the story is set is inspired by what real Indiana city?
Hammond
Hammond, Indiana, the author's boyhood home, is the model for Hohman; the fictional name comes from Hohman Avenue, a main street in downtown Hammond.
Q 20Who has to come and free Flick's tongue from the flagpole?
The fire department
The fire department frees him; back in class nobody will say who dared him, and the teacher trusts guilt to punish them, though the narrator knew 'it was always better not to get caught'.
200 shots: asked what he wants, Ralphie blurts out 'an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle' and, the narrator admits, is horrified to hear himself say it.
Q 24What happens to Ralphie's glasses on Christmas morning?
They break when a BB ricochets
They break when a BB ricochets off his target and knocks them off his face; hunting for them, he treads on them himself.
Q 25What is the name of Scut Farkus's sidekick?
Grover Dill
Grover Dill is, in the narrator's words, 'Farkus' crummy little toady', green teeth and all; the pair corner the boys by the alley on the walk home from school.
Q 26Which radio show sends Ralphie the secret decoder pin he has waited weeks for?
Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie: the pin admits him to Annie's 'Secret Circle', but the first message he decodes turns out to be nothing more than an advert for the show's sponsor.
Q 27Ralphie suspects the Old Man's cloud of profanity is still hanging over which body of water?
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan: the 'tapestry of obscenity' the Old Man wove 'in the heat of battle', having fallen downstairs over a pair of skates, is 'still hanging in space' above it, the narrator says.
Q 28The Parker house exteriors were shot in which neighborhood on Cleveland's West Side?
Tremont
The house stands in Tremont, on Cleveland's near West Side; a fan bought it on eBay in 2004 and restored it as a museum.
Q 29The dogs that devour the Parkers' Christmas turkey belong to which neighbors?
The Bumpuses
The Bumpuses, 'our hillbilly neighbors' to the narrator, own a horde of dogs that, he says, ignored every other human being on earth except the Old Man.
Q 30Which 1994 film brought back the Parkers with Kieran Culkin as Ralphie?
My Summer Story
My Summer Story kept only one face from the original cast, Tedde Moore as the teacher, and sank at the box office, having reached cinemas under a different title.