Black Christmas Movie Trivia
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46 free Black Christmas Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free Black Christmas movie trivia questions with answers. Black Christmas (1974) is the Canadian slasher that got there before Halloween: a sorority house, obscene phone calls, an unseen killer in the attic and an ending that refuses to explain itself. This Black Christmas movie trivia quiz covers the original in depth: the plot, the cast (Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea, John Saxon, Andrea Martin), Bob Clark's production, the alternate title Warner Bros. slapped on it, the Ted Bundy connection to its TV premiere and its slow rise to cult classic. It also covers the two remakes: Glen Morgan's gory 2006 version with its yellow-skinned Billy and his sister Agnes, and Sophia Takal's PG-13 2019 film shot in New Zealand. It works for a horror movie night, a December watch party or anyone arguing about which slasher came first. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01Black Christmas (1974) was produced and directed by which filmmaker, who later made A Christmas Story?
Bob Clark
Bob Clark produced and directed Black Christmas in 1974 and went on to make Porky's and A Christmas Story in the early 1980s.
Q 02In which Canadian city was Black Christmas filmed?
Toronto
Black Christmas was shot in Toronto in early 1974; the sorority house was a real home on Clarendon Crescent that the director found while location scouting.
Q 03What was the working title of Roy Moore's screenplay?
Stop Me
Roy Moore's script was titled 'Stop Me'; the director renamed it Black Christmas, liking the irony of something dark happening at a festive time.
Q 04Which urban legend inspired the film?
The babysitter and the man upstairs
The film draws on 'the babysitter and the man upstairs', the legend in which threatening calls turn out to be coming from inside the house, which Black Christmas reveals in its climax.
Q 05What nickname have the sorority sisters given the obscene caller?
The Moaner
The sisters call him 'the Moaner' for his obscene, moaning calls; the caller raves about someone named Billy and later echoes an argument Jess had with her boyfriend.
Q 06Which actress plays the final girl, Jess Bradford?
Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey plays Jess Bradford, the sorority sister who fields the obscene calls and is the only resident of the house to survive the film.
Q 07The film's star signed on after a psychic told her what?
She'd make a lucrative picture in Canada
A psychic told her she would make a lucrative picture in Canada, which is what persuaded the Argentine-born star to accept a low-budget Canadian horror film in 1974.
Q 08Which future Lois Lane plays the boozy sorority sister Barb?
Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder plays the hard-drinking Barb; she went on to play Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the four Superman films from 1978 to 1987.
Q 09With what object is Barb murdered in her bed?
A glass unicorn figurine
Barb is stabbed with a glass unicorn figurine from her bedside while carollers at the front door drown out the sound of the attack.
Q 10How is Clare, the first victim, killed?
Suffocated with a plastic bag
Clare is suffocated with a plastic dry-cleaning bag in a closet; Lynne Griffin said being a strong swimmer helped her hold her breath and stare without blinking for the shot.
Q 11Where does the killer leave Clare's body?
In a rocking chair in the attic
The killer props Clare's body in a rocking chair in the attic, where it sits by the window with the bag over her head; the police never find it, even at the end.
Q 12Which Second City performer replaced Gilda Radner as Phyllis a month before shooting?
Andrea Martin
Martin returned as the housemother in the 2006 remake, the only original cast member to do so.
Q 13Which Hollywood legend turned down the role of housemother Mrs. Mac?
Bette Davis
Bette Davis turned down Mrs. Mac, and the role of the tippling housemother went to Marian Waldman.
Q 21The 1978 TV premiere was disrupted because of murders at a Florida State sorority house committed by whom?
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy killed two Chi Omega sisters at Florida State University on 15 January 1978, two weeks before NBC's broadcast, so some affiliates pulled the film.
Q 22Which carol do the children sing at the front door while Barb is being killed?
O Come, All Ye Faithful
A children's choir sings 'O Come, All Ye Faithful' at the front door while Barb is stabbed upstairs, the carol masking her screams in the film's most famous cross-cut.
Q 23Whom does Jess kill with a fire poker, believing him to be the murderer?
Peter, her boyfriend
Q 14Keir Dullea was cast in the film on the strength of his role in which movie?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Keir Dullea was cast as Jess's boyfriend on the strength of 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which he had played astronaut Dave Bowman; he shot all his scenes in about a week.
Q 15John Saxon replaced which ill actor as Lieutenant Fuller at two days' notice?
Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien had been cast as Lieutenant Fuller but was too ill to continue; John Saxon flew in to replace him and later played another horror cop, Nancy's father in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Q 16How did actor Nick Mancuso make his voice sound more demented while recording the killer's phone calls?
He stood on his head
Nick Mancuso stood on his head while recording so that the blood rushing to his head made the killer's voice more demented; the director also contributed voices to the calls.
Q 17How did composer Carl Zittrer create the film's eerie score?
By tying cutlery and combs to piano strings
He then slowed the recordings down on tape to distort them further.
Q 18How were the killer's point-of-view shots of him climbing the house achieved?
A rig strapped to the operator's head
Camera operator Bert Dunk climbed the trellis with a rig strapped to his head, producing the killer's-eye view that became a slasher staple.
Q 19Under what alternate title did Warner Bros. first release the film in the United States?
Silent Night, Evil Night
Warner Bros. released it in the US as Silent Night, Evil Night, fearing 'Black Christmas' would make audiences expect a blaxploitation film; it later reverted to the original title.
Q 20Under what title was the film scheduled for its 1978 NBC television premiere?
Stranger in the House
NBC retitled it Stranger in the House for its January 1978 network premiere; some affiliates pulled the broadcast after the real sorority-house murders in Florida that month.
Jess beats Peter, her boyfriend, to death with a fire poker in the basement after he breaks in through a window, convinced he is the killer; the police assume the case is closed.
Q 24Which 1978 film grew out of John Carpenter hearing a Black Christmas sequel pitch?
Halloween
Halloween grew from the director's description of a sequel in which the killer is released and returns home on Halloween night; Carpenter took the idea and made his own film.
Q 25Which comedian told the film's star he had seen Black Christmas 27 times?
Steve Martin
Steve Martin told her he had seen Black Christmas 27 times, calling it a favourite; she had assumed he was praising a different film of hers.
Q 26Roughly what was the 1974 film's production budget?
$686,000
The budget was about $686,000, part of it put up by the Canadian Film Development Corporation, and the film went on to gross several million dollars.
Q 27Who plays Sergeant Nash, the dim-witted desk officer at the police station?
Doug McGrath
Doug McGrath plays Sergeant Nash, the desk officer Barb fools into writing down a bogus 'Fellatio' telephone exchange.
Q 28On which date did the 2006 remake open in US cinemas, angering religious groups?
Christmas Day
The remake opened on Christmas Day 2006, a date Dimension chose after Wolf Creek's success on Christmas Day 2005; church groups called a slasher on the holiday offensive.
Q 29Who wrote and directed the 2006 remake?
Glen Morgan
Glen Morgan, the X-Files and Final Destination writer, wrote and directed the 2006 remake, with his longtime partner James Wong among the producers.
Q 30In the 2006 remake, why is Billy Lenz's skin yellow?
He was born with severe jaundice
Billy Lenz was born with severe jaundice from a liver condition, leaving his skin yellow and his mother repulsed; he later kills her and bakes cookies from her flesh.