Christmas with the Kranks Trivia
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38 free Christmas with the Kranks trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
42 free Christmas with the Kranks trivia questions with answers. Christmas with the Kranks was panned by critics and adopted by families anyway. This Christmas with the Kranks trivia quiz covers the whole film: Luther's $6,000 sums and the Caribbean cruise, Hemlock Street and Vic Frohmeyer's campaign, the iced carolers, Frosty on the roof, Blair's Christmas Eve phone call, Enrique, the borrowed tree, the smoked trout, and the cruise tickets that end up with Walt and Bev Scheel. It also looks behind the scenes: Joe Roth casting Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis in a week, Chris Columbus's script, the sixteen-house set built in a Boeing car park, Steven Van Zandt's soundtrack, the box office and the reviews, plus how John Grisham's Skipping Christmas differs from the movie. About half the questions are for anyone who watches it every December; the rest are for the fan who knows the cruise ship's name in the book. Every answer is checked against a cited source shown under the question.
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Q 01Christmas with the Kranks is based on a novel by which author?
John Grisham
John Grisham, author of The Firm, wrote the 2001 comic novel behind the film, a change of pace from the legal thrillers that made his name.
Q 02What is the title of the 2001 novel adapted as Christmas with the Kranks?
Skipping Christmas
In Skipping Christmas, Luther's plan starts with arithmetic: $6,100 spent on the previous Christmas, with little to show for it.
Q 03Who directed the film?
Joe Roth
Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay and, to Roth's surprise, told him he should direct it himself.
Q 04Who wrote the screenplay for Christmas with the Kranks?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus, director of Home Alone, wrote and produced the film but chose not to direct it himself.
Q 05Who plays Luther Krank in Christmas with the Kranks?
Tim Allen
Tim Allen plays Luther, who has already had his pre-cruise tan when Blair's surprise call sends the Kranks into a mad dash to put Christmas back together.
Q 06Who plays Nora Krank in Christmas with the Kranks?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis plays Nora, who after all the chaos ends the film suggesting they try the no-Christmas plan again next year.
Q 07In Christmas with the Kranks, who plays Vic Frohmeyer, the self-appointed boss of the street?
Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd plays Vic, who organises the street's campaign to force the Kranks to decorate, starting with a delegation to berate them.
Q 08Where is the Kranks' daughter Blair heading when the film opens?
The Peace Corps in Peru
The Peace Corps in Peru: Blair leaves for a year of service, and the empty nest propels her father's plan for the holidays.
Q 09Which group's Christmas tree sale does Luther Krank turn down?
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts: after snubbing their tree, Luther can buy only a small, dried-up one when Christmas Eve comes.
Q 10Who sponsors the decorating contest that the Kranks' street has won so often?
The local newspaper
The local newspaper sponsors it, and the same paper later runs a front-page story on the Kranks' dark, undecorated house, photo and all.
Q 11What is the name of the Kranks' road?
Hemlock Street
Hemlock Street was built from scratch as an outdoor set, five complete homes and eleven facades long, rather than filmed on a real street.
Q 12Which decoration do the neighbourhood children demand the Kranks put up?
A Frosty the Snowman
A Frosty the Snowman: when the Kranks leave theirs in the basement, pickets gather outside chanting 'Free Frosty!'
Q 13How does Luther get rid of the carolers singing outside his house?
He turns his lawn into ice
He turns his lawn into ice, driving off the carolers, and Nora warns him that someone could have broken a leg or a neck.
Q 21Who plays the Kranks' grouchy neighbour Walt Scheel?
M. Emmet Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh plays Walt Scheel, who, like Vic Frohmeyer, voices the neighbourhood's loudest objections to the Kranks' plan.
Q 22Who plays Spike Frohmeyer, Vic's son?
Erik Per Sullivan
Erik Per Sullivan plays Spike, who gets Luther out of trouble by producing a neighbour's house key when the tree 'theft' is reported.
Q 23Austin Pendleton plays Marty, an umbrella salesman who is secretly whom?
Santa Claus
Santa Claus: credited as 'Umbrella Santa', Marty turns up at the Kranks' party, where nobody can say who he is, yet everybody knows him.
Q 14From which airport does Blair call to say she is coming home?
Miami
Miami: Blair is bringing home her new fiancé, who has never celebrated Christmas in America, and she expects the full Krank tradition.
Q 15What is the name of Blair Krank's fiancé, whom she brings home for Christmas?
Enrique
Enrique Decardenal is played by Rene Lavan; he ends up thanking the neighbours for the warm welcome.
Q 16What does a panicked Nora tell Blair about the Kranks' usual party?
It's still on
It's still on: Blair and her fiancé land that night, leaving the Kranks mere hours to produce a tree, food and a party.
Q 17Whose indoor tree does Luther try to borrow?
Wes Trogdon's
Wes Trogdon's tree: Trogdon is away for the week, so neighbours who see Luther hauling it across the street assume he is stealing it.
Q 18What is the only food Nora manages to bring home for the party?
Smoked trout
Smoked trout: Nora nearly gets hit by a truck chasing a runaway can of hickory honey ham, and the ham never makes it home.
Q 19What happens when Luther Krank tries to put up his rooftop display?
Man and decoration both fall off
Man and decoration both fall off, and once the gathered neighbours learn why Luther is decorating, they rally to help.
Q 20What does Luther Krank finally do with his cruise tickets?
Gives them to Walt and Bev Scheel
Gives them to Walt and Bev Scheel. After learning Bev's cancer has returned, Luther hands the neighbors his cruise tickets so the couple can take the trip together.
Q 24Which Desperate Housewives star plays Nora's friend Merry?
Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman plays Merry, one of Nora's friends, who can't see why the Kranks won't just throw their usual party anyway.
Q 25Who plays the priest, Father Zabriskie?
Tom Poston
Tom Poston plays Father Zabriskie; in 2001 he married Suzanne Pleshette, Bob Newhart's TV wife, whom he had first dated back in 1959.
Q 26Where was the neighbourhood set for Christmas with the Kranks built?
A Boeing factory car park in Downey
A Boeing factory car park in Downey: that plant had built spacecraft for the Apollo moon missions, and the site is now a shopping centre.
Q 27Which cosmetic treatment does Luther Krank try before the cruise?
Botox
Botox: the injection leaves Luther's face frozen stiff, a look he insists is only temporary.
Q 28Which E Street Band member was music supervisor for Christmas with the Kranks?
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt had quit the E Street Band in 1984 to lead his own band, yet was a member again by the time he worked on this film.
Q 29When does the Kranks' cruise set sail?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day: the Kranks are a day from sailing when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to say she is coming home after all.
Q 30Christmas with the Kranks opened in U.S. cinemas on the eve of which holiday?
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, fittingly, since the story itself runs from the Sunday after Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve.