Hanukkah Movie Trivia
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50 free Hanukkah Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
There are a thousand Christmas movies and about a dozen Hanukkah ones, which makes the Hanukkah canon easy to love and easy to quiz on. Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, the blaxploitation parody The Hebrew Hammer, Disney Channel's Full-Court Miracle, Nickelodeon's A Rugrats Chanukah, the opening scene of An American Tail and Hallmark's first true Hanukkah film all get their turn here, along with the TV moments that carry the holiday most years: Sandler's Chanukah Song on SNL and Chrismukkah on The O.C. The questions run from the easy (who voices Davey Stone?) to the deep-cut (which Jewish organization does the Jewish Justice League parody?), and every one links to the reference source where the fact was checked. It works as a round for a Hanukkah party or a solo test between latkes. If you want the holiday itself rather than the movies about it, our main Hanukkah quiz covers the Maccabees, the menorah, dreidels and food.
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Q 01Who directed Adam Sandler's animated Hanukkah film Eight Crazy Nights (2002)?
Seth Kearsley
Seth Kearsley directed Eight Crazy Nights, his feature debut; Sandler's usual live-action directors Dennis Dugan and Frank Coraci sat this one out.
Q 02What is the name of the troubled alcoholic Adam Sandler voices in Eight Crazy Nights?
Davey Stone
Davey Stone, a bitter drunk, is sentenced to community service as a youth-basketball referee-in-training after dining-and-dashing and a destructive chase on the first night of Hanukkah.
Q 03Where does the title Eight Crazy Nights come from?
A line in Sandler's 'The Chanukah Song'
The title is A line in Sandler's 'The Chanukah Song': 'Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights!' A new version of the song plays over the closing credits.
Q 04Besides Davey and Whitey Duvall, which third character does Adam Sandler voice in Eight Crazy Nights?
Eleanore, the twin sister
Sandler's third role is Eleanore, the twin sister of Whitey; Rob Schneider narrates and voices Mr. Chang, Kevin Nealon the mayor and Norm Crosby the judge.
Q 05In which state is Dukesberry, the fictional town where Eight Crazy Nights takes place?
New Hampshire
Eight Crazy Nights is set in the fictional town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire, a snowy New England setting for Davey's community service as a youth-basketball referee.
Q 06Who voiced Davey's love interest, Jennifer Friedman, in Eight Crazy Nights?
Jackie Titone, Sandler's future wife
Jackie Titone, Sandler's future wife, voiced Jennifer Friedman; the couple married in 2003, and she has appeared in most of his films since.
Q 07Which bluegrass singer provided the singing voice for Jennifer in Eight Crazy Nights?
Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss, the Grammy-laden bluegrass singer and fiddler who fronts Union Station, supplied Jennifer's singing voice on the film's ballads.
Q 08How did Eight Crazy Nights fare at the box office against its $34M budget?
It grossed about $23.8 million and flopped
It grossed about $23.8 million and flopped, far short of its $34 million budget, and critics panned its crude humour and thin story.
Q 09According to the director, why was the infamous feces-eating deer scene kept in Eight Crazy Nights?
Focus groups liked it
Focus groups liked it, the director said: he had intended to cut the deer eating feces, but test screenings laughed, so the scene stayed.
Q 10Who confronts Davey in his drunken mall hallucination in Eight Crazy Nights?
Real store mascots like the Foot Locker referee and Panda Express panda
Real store mascots like the Foot Locker referee and Panda Express panda sing to Davey in the mall; Tyra Banks voices a Victoria's Secret gown and Carl Weathers a GNC bottle.
Q 11Who wrote and directed The Hebrew Hammer (2003)?
Jonathan Kesselman
Jonathan Kesselman wrote and directed The Hebrew Hammer, a blaxploitation parody that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2003.
Q 12Who plays the title character, Mordechai Jefferson Carver, in The Hebrew Hammer?
Adam Goldberg
Adam Goldberg plays the Hammer, introduced as a 'certified, circumcised dick' whose wardrobe crosses a pimp's with a Hasid's; Goldberg had earlier appeared in Saving Private Ryan and Dazed and Confused.
Q 13Who is the villain of The Hebrew Hammer?
Damian Claus, Santa's evil son
Q 21In Full-Court Miracle, the Philadelphia Hebrew Academy team is nicknamed what?
The Lions
The Lions is the nickname of the Philadelphia Hebrew Academy squad, a struggling yeshiva team whose players recruit a washed-up former college star to coach them.
Q 22How does Full-Court Miracle echo the miracle of the oil in its climactic showdown?
A generator with an hour of fuel keeps the lights on for the whole contest
A generator with an hour of fuel keeps the lights on for the whole contest after a blizzard knocks out the gym's power, mirroring the Temple oil that burned for eight days.
Q 23In Full-Court Miracle, why does Lamont leave the team right before the big tournament?
The villain is Damian Claus, Santa's evil son, who murders his tolerant father and sets out to wipe out Hanukkah and Kwanzaa so December belongs to Christmas alone.
Q 14Which actor plays Damian Claus in The Hebrew Hammer?
Andy Dick
Andy Dick plays Damian Claus; Judy Greer is love interest Esther Bloomenbergensteinenthal and Peter Coyote her father, chief of the Jewish Justice League.
Q 15What is the name of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front leader who allies with the Hebrew Hammer?
Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim
Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, joins the Hammer to save Hanukkah and Kwanzaa; the joke name stitches a heavyweight champion's to a pop star's.
Q 16Which cable channel gave The Hebrew Hammer its television premiere in December 2003?
Comedy Central
Comedy Central aired The Hebrew Hammer in December 2003, eleven months after its Sundance premiere, pitching it as a Hanukkah comedy for the holiday season.
Q 17Which former New York City mayor appears as himself in The Hebrew Hammer?
Ed Koch
Rachel Dratch and Nora Dunn also appear; the final battle takes place at the North Pole after stops in Israel and a K-Mart.
Q 18In the flashback that opens The Hebrew Hammer, what does Santa Claus do to young Mordechai?
Crushes his dreidel and flips him off
Crushes his dreidel and flips him off: that is the mall Santa's greeting to young Mordechai in the opening flashback, planting the grudge that drives the grown-up Hammer.
Q 19Full-Court Miracle (2003) premiered on which network?
Disney Channel
It premiered on Disney Channel on November 21, 2003 as a Disney Channel Original Movie, one of the channel's few holiday films built around Hanukkah rather than Christmas.
Q 20Full-Court Miracle was inspired by which former University of Virginia basketball player?
Lamont Carr
Lamont Carr, a former Virginia player, is portrayed by Richard T. Jones; in the film a Jewish day-school team recruits the struggling ex-player as its 'Judah Maccabee'.
He gets a 10-day contract offer from the Philadelphia 76ers
The Lions win every tournament game without him before the generator-lit final.
Q 24On which network did A Rugrats Chanukah first air, on December 4, 1996?
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon had pitched a Chanukah special back in 1992, but that idea morphed into 1995's 'A Rugrats Passover' first.
Q 25In A Rugrats Chanukah, Grandpa Boris feuds with which old rival over the synagogue's Chanukah play?
Shlomo
Shlomo, Boris's old rival, plays the Greek king opposite Boris's Judah in the synagogue play, so the babies decide Shlomo is the real villain of the holiday.
Q 26What do the babies name the villain they set out to defeat in the Rugrats special?
The Meanie of Chanukah
The Meanie of Chanukah is the babies' name for Grandpa Boris's rival, whom they confuse with the Greek king from the Chanukah story; Tommy's imagination renders that king as 'King Antonica.'
Q 27Why does Angelica break the babies out of the synagogue nursery in A Rugrats Chanukah?
To watch a Christmas special on TV
To watch a Christmas special on TV is Angelica's goal: she leads the babies out of the nursery hunting for a television, which is how they wander onto the stage mid-play.
Q 28In A Rugrats Chanukah, what is the name of Tommy's grandmother, Boris's wife?
Minka
Minka is Boris's wife and Didi Pickles's mother, making the Kropotkins Tommy's maternal grandparents; Melanie Chartoff voices both Didi and Minka.
Q 29Which 1986 animated film opens with a mouse family celebrating Hanukkah in Ukraine?
An American Tail
An American Tail begins in Shostka, in the Russian Empire's Ukraine, in 1885: Papa Mousekewitz gives Fievel his hat as a Hanukkah gift and describes America, where there are no cats.
Q 30Who directed the 1986 Fievel film whose opening scene is set at Hanukkah?
Don Bluth
Don Bluth directed the Fievel film for executive producer Steven Spielberg, their first collaboration; James Horner wrote the score, including 'Somewhere Out There'.