The Santa Clause Trivia
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47 free The Santa Clause trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
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Q 01In The Santa Clause, where is the contract clause that makes Scott the new Santa printed?
On a business card
On a business card found in the previous Santa's suit: its plain message only says to put the suit on, and the binding clause is lettering so tiny that the head elf has to point it out.
Q 02In The Santa Clause, what happens to the previous Santa that leaves Scott with the job?
He falls off the roof
He falls off the roof when Scott shouts up at him, then vanishes and leaves only the red suit behind, which Scott's son talks him into wearing.
Q 03In The Santa Clause, what is the name of Scott's eight-year-old son, who rides along in the sleigh?
Charlie
Charlie grows up wanting the job for himself, but when the 2022 series finally offers it to him he turns it down to stay with his own young family.
Q 04Which head elf, played by David Krumholtz, tells Scott he has eleven months to get his affairs in order?
Bernard
Bernard is missing from the third film, where Curtis is head elf in his place: a scheduling clash was blamed, but Krumholtz later said the script had devalued the part.
Q 05In The Santa Clause, what does the doctor hear when he listens to Scott's heart?
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells is the beat of Scott's heart at his check-up, one more sign of the change that regrows his beard the moment he shaves and whitens his hair through any dye.
Q 06In The Santa Clause, what does Scott crave after wearing the suit?
Milk and cookies
Milk and cookies, though Scott had been lactose intolerant: he puts on weight so fast that his baffled doctor has no explanation for it.
Q 07In The Santa Clause films, what is the profession of Neil, the new husband of Scott's ex-wife?
Psychiatrist
Psychiatrist Neil reads Scott's Santa talk as a delusion that is harming the boy, and that professional worry helps cost Scott the right to visit his own son.
Q 08What magical gift from the head elf lets Scott's son summon his father at any time?
A snow globe
A snow globe is the head elf's parting gift to Scott's son: shake it and his father will come. In the sequel the boy hands the same globe to Principal Newman to prove his father really is Santa.
Q 09In The Santa Clause, where do the police arrest Scott on Christmas Eve?
Inside Laura and Neil's home
Inside Laura and Neil's home the police are waiting, because the couple reported their son kidnapped after Scott vanished with him at Thanksgiving; the elves later spring Scott from jail.
Q 10What does Scott give Laura and Neil at the end of The Santa Clause?
Childhood presents they never got
Childhood presents they never got: a Mystery Date game for Laura and an Oscar Mayer wiener whistle for Neil, the gifts whose absence made each of them stop believing in Santa.
Q 11Which two comedy stars turned down the lead in The Santa Clause before Tim Allen?
Bill Murray and Chevy Chase
Bill Murray and Chevy Chase both passed: Murray wanted no second Christmas film after Scrooged and Chase had a scheduling clash, which left the part to a TV star in his first film lead.
Q 12Which Canadian town stood in for Lakeside, Illinois in The Santa Clause?
Oakville, Ontario
Oakville, Ontario, played Scott's snowy suburb, though the shoot ran through a warm spring and summer, so the crew had to fake its winter.
Q 13Why did child actor Eric Lloyd need fake teeth during The Santa Clause shoot?
Q 21Which Star Trek actor plays the Sandman in The Santa Clause 2?
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn's Sandman dozes through the council's meetings, and in the third film he puts Scott's in-laws to sleep ahead of schedule because he cannot bear to listen to them any longer.
Q 22What does Curtis build so Scott can leave the North Pole to find a wife?
A life-sized animatronic Toy Santa
A life-sized animatronic Toy Santa is Curtis's stand-in; the double reads the handbook too literally, decides the whole world is naughty and plans to deliver coal to everyone.
Q 23Which actress plays Carol Newman, the school principal Scott falls for in The Santa Clause 2?
Elizabeth Mitchell
He knocked out his own teeth
He knocked out his own teeth in an accident on a day off, so false ones were made for the rest of the shoot and his scenes were reshuffled to hide the injury.
Q 14Why was the '1-800-SPANK-ME' joke cut from later releases of The Santa Clause?
Children were dialling the number
Children were dialling the number, which belonged to a real adult phone line, and parents complained about the bills, so the joke was snipped from later home releases.
Q 15Which film opened at number one the same weekend as The Santa Clause, holding it to second place?
Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire won the weekend with about $36 million to the Santa film's $19 million, but the family comedy kept selling and climbed to number one two weeks later, over Thanksgiving.
Q 16In The Santa Clause, where do Scott and his son eat Christmas Eve dinner?
Denny's
Denny's is the only place still open after Scott sets the turkey on fire, and his son makes it plain he would rather be eating anywhere else.
Q 17Which Canadian singer, known for Celtic folk, wrote and performed 'The Bells of Christmas' for The Santa Clause?
Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt learned the Celtic harp and busked in the street to pay for her first recordings; her song sits in the film beside Michael Convertino's score.
Q 18What rule from the Handbook of Christmas drives the plot of The Santa Clause 2?
The Mrs. Clause
The Mrs. Clause requires Santa to marry, and Scott learns he has until Christmas Eve to find a wife or he stops being Santa for good, which sends him home to Lakeside.
Q 19Why is Scott's teenage son on the naughty list in The Santa Clause 2?
He vandalised his school
He vandalised his school to get attention, defacing the walls and lockers, which is how his father first comes face to face with the strict Principal Carol Newman.
Q 20Which of these figures sits on the Council of Legendary Figures in The Santa Clause 2?
The Tooth Fairy
The Tooth Fairy sits beside Mother Nature, Cupid and the Easter Bunny, and saves the day: when Scott's magic runs out, a freshly lost tooth summons him to fly everyone to the North Pole.
Elizabeth Mitchell's Carol starts out as the stern principal hauling Scott's son into her office and ends the film leading elves in a snowball fight against an army of toy soldiers.
Q 24In The Santa Clause 2, which clumsy reindeer-in-training does Scott ride in the final chase?
Chet
Chet, still in training and barely able to steer, is all Scott has left to ride once the impostor has taken off with the sleigh and the real team.
Q 25Which 2003 film did Tim Allen skip so he could make The Santa Clause 2?
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat had cast Tim Allen as the Cat, but its shoot clashed with The Santa Clause 2 and he withdrew; Mike Myers took the role in the 2003 film.
Q 26In which Canadian city was The Santa Clause 2 filmed?
Vancouver
Vancouver and its suburbs hosted the sequel shoot; four years later the third film built its North Pole indoors, on stages at Downey Studios in California.
Q 27Which comedian plays Jack Frost in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause?
Martin Short
Martin Short's Frost is hauled before the council for upstaging Christmas and talks his sentence down to community service at the North Pole, exactly where he wants to be.
Q 28Why does Jack Frost try to steal Christmas in The Santa Clause 3?
He has no holiday of his own
He has no holiday of his own, and jealousy has had him promoting himself all through the Christmas season, which is what gets him summoned before the council.
Q 29In The Santa Clause 3, what job do Carol's parents think Scott has?
Toymaker in Canada
Toymaker in Canada is the cover story, so Jack Frost's punishment is to help the elves deck the whole North Pole in Canadian flags and signs.
Q 30Which two screen veterans play Carol's parents in The Santa Clause 3?
Alan Arkin and Ann-Margret
Alan Arkin and Ann-Margret play the in-laws whose visit forces the whole North Pole to pose as somewhere else; the same year's Little Miss Sunshine won Arkin an Oscar.