Christmas Cartoon Trivia
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49 free Christmas Cartoon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
50 free Christmas cartoon trivia questions with answers. This Christmas cartoon trivia quiz is all about the animated specials and films, not the live-action movies. It starts with the classics that still air every December - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a Santa Claus - and asks about the narrators, villains, sidekicks and sponsors behind them. From there it moves through Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Snowman, the very first Simpsons episode, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Polar Express, Klaus, Arthur Christmas, Olive the Other Reindeer, Prep & Landing and the Christmas episodes of SpongeBob, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats and Futurama, plus deep cuts like Nestor the donkey, Jack Frost and the 1948 Rudolph short made for a department store. Roughly a third of the questions are easy enough for kids who know the specials by heart; the rest climb toward the trivia only a Rankin/Bass devotee would get. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01In the 1964 stop-motion special, what does Hermey the elf dream of becoming instead of a toymaker?
A dentist
Hermey wants to be a dentist rather than make toys. He gets his wish at the end, pulling every one of the Abominable Snow Monster's teeth so the beast is harmless.
Q 02Who voiced Sam the Snowman, the narrator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)?
Burl Ives
Burl Ives voiced Sam the Snowman, and the special's song 'We're a Couple of Misfits' was replaced by 'Fame and Fortune' in broadcasts from 1965 until 1998.
Q 03In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, what has prospector Yukon Cornelius spent his life seeking?
Silver and gold
Silver and gold drive Yukon Cornelius, who seems lost when he tumbles off a cliff with the Abominable Snow Monster, then returns with the beast tamed.
Q 04Who rules the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
King Moonracer
King Moonracer, a winged lion, shelters unloved toys on his island and asks Rudolph's group to win Santa's help in finding them homes.
Q 05What does Yukon Cornelius nickname the Abominable Snow Monster in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Bumble
Bumble is Yukon Cornelius's name for the Abominable Snow Monster, which, once tamed, helps trim the Christmas tree.
Q 06The jazz score for A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) was written and performed by which pianist's trio?
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi first worked with the Peanuts team after producer Lee Mendelson heard his hit 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind' on the radio.
Q 07Whom did the producers of A Charlie Brown Christmas hire to voice the Peanuts gang?
Actual child actors
Actual child actors voiced the gang, and Kathy Steinberg, who played Sally, was too young to read, so her lines had to be fed to her.
Q 08When Linus explains what Christmas is all about, which book of the Bible does he recite from?
Luke
Luke 2:8-14 is Linus's reading, kept despite director Bill Melendez's concerns after Schulz reportedly asked, 'If we don't do it, who will?'
Q 09In A Charlie Brown Christmas, what does Lucy tell Charlie Brown to buy for the play?
A pink aluminum tree
A pink aluminum tree is Lucy's order, but Charlie Brown brings back a small sapling, the only real tree on the lot.
Q 10Which horror-film legend narrated and voiced the Grinch in the 1966 special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff never returned as the Grinch: he died in 1969, so Hans Conried voiced the character in the later special Halloween Is Grinch Night.
Q 11The uncredited bass singer of 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch' was better known as which cereal mascot's voice?
Tony the Tiger
Tony the Tiger's booming voice, Thurl Ravenscroft, went uncredited for the song, so Dr. Seuss wrote to columnists nationwide to say who had sung it.
Q 12Which Looney Tunes director co-produced and directed the 1966 Grinch special?
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones directed and co-produced the special after working with Dr. Seuss on the Private Snafu Army training cartoons during World War II.
Q 13Which voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel played Cindy Lou Who in the 1966 special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?
June Foray
Q 21Which Disney regular voiced the Winter Warlock in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town?
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn, a fixture of 1960s Disney comedies, voiced the Winter Warlock, whose icy heart melts when Kris gives him a toy train and who sings 'Put One Foot in Front of the Other'.
Q 22In The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Snow Miser and Heat Miser are the feuding sons of whom?
Mother Nature
Mother Nature is the brothers' mother; she makes Snow Miser and Heat Miser compromise so that it can snow in Southtown, the Southern town where the story is set.
Q 23Which Oscar-winning actress narrated The Year Without a Santa Claus as Mrs. Claus?
Shirley Booth
June Foray also voiced Karen in the first broadcast of Frosty the Snowman, but her dialogue was later re-dubbed by another actress.
Q 14By how many sizes does the Grinch's heart grow at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?
Three
The Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day; with his new strength he saves the sleigh from tumbling off Mount Crumpit and returns everything to Whoville.
Q 15Who narrates the 1969 Rankin/Bass special Frosty the Snowman?
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante narrates, and at the end Santa sends the scheming magician home to write apologies in hope of a new hat.
Q 16What is the name of the magician's rabbit who befriends Frosty in the 1969 special Frosty the Snowman?
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus belongs to Professor Hinkle, whose discarded hat brings Frosty to life, and he rides the train north with Frosty and Karen.
Q 17Which Japanese studio, founded by Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka, animated the 1969 special Frosty the Snowman?
Mushi Production
Mushi Production, which Tezuka founded as a rival to Toei Animation, went bankrupt in 1973, and its staff went on to found studios such as Madhouse.
Q 18Which dancing legend narrates Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970) as the mailman S.D. Kluger?
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire's mailman S.D. Kluger tells the story when his mail truck breaks down, reading children's letters to Santa; Mickey Rooney voices Kris Kringle.
Q 19Which grouchy mayor outlaws all toys in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town?
Burgermeister Meisterburger
Burgermeister Meisterburger bans every toy in Sombertown after tripping over one, and Kris Kringle hands out toys to the children anyway.
Q 20What does young Kris name the lost penguin he befriends in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town?
Topper
Topper is the lost penguin Kris befriends on the road to Sombertown, and he flees into the forest with Kris, straight into the Winter Warlock.
Shirley Booth narrates as Mrs. Claus, and when children around the world send a sick Santa presents for his day off, their generosity changes his mind.
Q 24Which two elves does Mrs. Claus send south for Christmas spirit in The Year Without a Santa Claus?
Jingle and Jangle
Jingle and Jangle fly south on the young reindeer Vixen, but a dog catcher hauls her off to the pound.
Q 25The 1982 film The Snowman is based on a wordless picture book by which British author?
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs's book is wordless, and the 1982 film keeps it that way apart from its one song, while sending the boy off to meet Santa Claus.
Q 26Which song is the only one sung in the otherwise wordless 1982 film The Snowman?
Walking in the Air
Walking in the Air, written by composer Howard Blake, plays as the snowman flies the boy to the North Pole.
Q 27In the first Simpsons episode broadcast, a 1989 Christmas special, what job does Homer take?
Shopping mall Santa
Homer becomes a shopping mall Santa to pay for Christmas after Marge's savings go on removing Bart's tattoo; his tiny paycheck goes on a 99-to-1 greyhound, Santa's Little Helper.
Q 28Why did The Simpsons premiere with its Christmas special instead of the planned opener?
Botched animation
Botched animation sank the planned premiere, 'Some Enchanted Evening', which was pushed back to close the season so the Christmas special aired first.
Q 29Tim Burton produced The Nightmare Before Christmas, but who directed the 1993 stop-motion film?
Henry Selick
Henry Selick directed it from a three-page poem Burton wrote as a Disney animator, and Selick later directed the stop-motion film Coraline.
Q 30Who provided Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman recorded Jack's songs first, and Chris Sarandon was cast afterward because his speaking voice matched Elfman's singing.