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40 free Arthur Christmas trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Arthur Christmas answers the question every child asks sooner or later: how does Santa get round the whole world in a single night? The film's reply is a vast high-tech delivery machine run by an army of elves, a family business handed down the generations, and a clan of Clauses who squabble like any other family in December. When one present is missed, it falls to the clumsiest Claus to put things right. This quiz covers the whole adventure: who does what at the North Pole, the chaotic round-the-world dash in Grandsanta's antique sleigh, and the ending. It also goes behind the scenes, to the British studio that made the film, the famous voices behind the characters, the music and the awards season that followed. The questions run from easy openers for anyone who watches the film every December to deeper cuts for fans who stay for the credits. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick something up even when you guess.
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Q 01Which present for Gwen, a girl in Trelew, goes undelivered on Santa's big night in Arthur Christmas?
A bicycle
A bicycle slips off a conveyor belt into the shadows aboard Santa's craft, and nobody notices until the cleaning crew arrives. One gift out of billions sets the whole story moving.
Q 02Which Canadian pop star's festive cover plays over the end credits of Arthur Christmas?
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber recorded Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town for his album Under the Mistletoe, and the music video was shown in cinemas before the film.
Q 03Arthur Christmas came from Aardman, the British studio best known for which clay-animated pair?
Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit made Aardman's name in hand-moulded plasticine, which is why a film made entirely inside computers was still a rarity for the studio.
Q 04Which former Blackadder regular voices Steve, the mission-control chief in Arthur Christmas?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie voiced Steve while he was still playing Dr Gregory House on American television, a run that lasted from 2004 to 2012.
Q 05Grandsanta in Arthur Christmas was grounded after a joyride during which Cold War flashpoint?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis tensions almost boiled over into a world war when the retired Grandsanta took his sleigh out, so the family grounded him and tried to scrap it.
Q 06The old sleigh in Arthur Christmas misses Trelew, England, for a namesake town in which country?
Mexico
Mexico is where the film puts its second Trelew, and the mix-up nearly sets off an international military incident. The real-world namesake city is in Argentina.
Q 07What is the first name of the reigning Santa, father of Steve and Arthur, in Arthur Christmas?
Malcolm
Malcolm is the twentieth Santa in an unbroken family line, and the delivery run that opens the film is his seventieth.
Q 08Mission-control chief Steve in Arthur Christmas wears a goatee trimmed into the shape of what?
A fir tree
A fir tree is the shape of Steve's beard, a festive flourish on an espresso-drinking technocrat who runs the big night like a military operation.
Q 09Which Scottish actor voices Arthur, the clumsy younger son of Santa, in the film Arthur Christmas?
James McAvoy
James McAvoy voiced two animated title characters in the same year: Arthur here and the garden gnome in Gnomeo & Juliet.
Q 10An armed homeowner in Arthur Christmas fires at Arthur and Grandsanta, mistaking them for what?
Aliens
Aliens are what the trio are taken for, and later in the journey the military fires missiles at the antique sleigh until it bursts into flames.
Q 11Which Love Actually star voices Grandsanta, the 136-year-old former Santa in Arthur Christmas?
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy plays him as a stubborn, reckless traditionalist who is baffled by the modern world and keeps his trained reindeer hidden in a secret vault.
Q 12Which actor from the Paddington films voices Santa, the affable figurehead in Arthur Christmas?
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent, Mr Gruber in the Paddington series, plays a Santa who is in charge in name only while his elder son runs the real operation.
Q 13Which Harry Potter actress voices Mrs Claus, mother of Steve and Arthur, in Arthur Christmas?
Imelda Staunton
Q 21In Arthur Christmas, what do Arthur and his mother get the bickering Claus family to play together?
A board game
A board game is meant to help everyone enjoy the day, but it only brings the feud between Steve and Grandsanta over modern methods to the surface.
Q 22Which big cats menace Arthur and Grandsanta during the bungled sleigh ride in Arthur Christmas?
Lions
Lions corner the travellers in one of several mishaps on the trip, which also costs Grandsanta a few of his reindeer.
Q 23Bryony, the stowaway elf in Arthur Christmas, is a specialist in which festive task?
Gift wrapping
Gift wrapping is her obsession, bows included, and it is while cleaning Santa's craft that she comes across the forgotten parcel.
Imelda Staunton, the wizarding films' Dolores Umbridge, plays a Mrs Claus who handles diplomatic relations and keeps the household running while the men bicker.
Q 14Which Scottish actress voices Bryony, the elf who stows away on the sleigh in Arthur Christmas?
Ashley Jensen
Ashley Jensen gives Bryony a broad Scots voice, having made her name on television in Extras and Ugly Betty.
Q 15Which Monty Python member voices Ernie Clicker, an elf called back to duty in Arthur Christmas?
Michael Palin
Michael Palin plays the North Pole's former communications chief, drafted in to help track down Grandsanta's antique sleigh.
Q 16What is the source of the magic dust that lifts Grandsanta's sleigh in Arthur Christmas?
The northern lights
The northern lights provide aurora dust, which gets a wooden sleigh airborne behind the great-great-grandchildren of the original eight reindeer.
Q 17What is the name of the vast high-tech craft that has replaced the sleigh in Arthur Christmas?
S-1
S-1 carries an army of elves who drop gifts with military precision, and a year after the story it is renamed in honour of Grandsanta's sleigh.
Q 18Mrs Claus in Arthur Christmas credits an online course for surviving an attack by which animal?
A polar bear
A polar bear was no match for her survival training, one of many courses she takes while quietly arranging international treaties behind the scenes.
Q 19Which North Pole job does the clumsy younger Claus brother hold at the start of Arthur Christmas?
Answering children's letters
Answering children's letters keeps Arthur in the mailroom, well away from mission control, and he believes every one of those children is special.
Q 20Gwen's home village of Trelew in Arthur Christmas lies in which English county?
Cornwall
Cornwall really does have a hamlet called Trelew, on the shore of Mylor Creek near Falmouth, and the film borrowed the name for a fictional version.
Q 24Which near-disaster in Arthur Christmas distracts the elves just as one gift goes astray?
A child almost sees Santa
A child almost sees Santa on his seventieth run, and while the elves rush to rescue him one parcel drops off the conveyor belt unnoticed.
Q 25From where does the Claus family secretly watch Gwen open her gift at the end of Arthur Christmas?
Inside a closet
Inside a closet is where the family squeezes in to watch, moments after Grandsanta, Santa and Steve had argued over who should place the parcel.
Q 26Once Arthur is Santa in Arthur Christmas, which executive post does his brother Steve take?
Chief operating officer
Chief operating officer suits him: Steve gives up his own claim to the red suit after admitting that Arthur is the worthy one, then runs the operation for his brother.
Q 27Which star of The Truman Show and Mystic River voices the North Pole computer in Arthur Christmas?
Laura Linney
Laura Linney voices the machine at the heart of Steve's control room; on television at the time she was starring in the series The Big C.
Q 28Which Desperate Housewives star voices Chief De Silva, head of UNFITA, in Arthur Christmas?
Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria, then in her final season as Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives, voices the official who scrambles to track the mystery craft circling the Earth.
Q 29Ramona Marquez, the voice of Gwen in Arthur Christmas, played Karen in which BBC sitcom?
Outnumbered
Outnumbered made her a child star as Karen Brockman, and the film role then earned her a Young Artist Award nomination.
Q 30Before making Arthur Christmas with Sony, Aardman had split from which Hollywood studio?
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation and Aardman parted after two of their films underperformed, and in April 2007 Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony instead.