Thanksgiving Movies Trivia
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67 free Thanksgiving Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
62 free Thanksgiving Movies trivia questions with answers. Thanksgiving has never had a Christmas-sized film catalogue, but the movies it does own are fiercely loved: John Hughes stranding Steve Martin and John Candy in Wichita, Jodie Foster's messy Baltimore dinner table, Snoopy dealing out toast and jelly beans, and Woody Allen bookending two years of family drama with turkey. This quiz digs into the whole shelf, from Miracle on 34th Street's live-shot 1946 parade to Eli Roth's 2023 slasher and Trey Edward Shults's Kickstarter-funded Krisha. Expect questions on cast, plot turns, production stories, box office and awards across Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Home for the Holidays, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Free Birds, Pieces of April, The Blind Side, Addams Family Values, Hannah and Her Sisters, Scent of a Woman, Rocky, Dutch, The Ice Storm, Grumpy Old Men, Son in Law, You've Got Mail, Funny People and Thanksgiving. Easy warm-ups sit beside genuinely hard production trivia, so it works for a family game or a serious film buff. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, so if you argue about a question at the table, you will win the argument.
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Q 01In Planes, Trains and Automobiles, what does John Candy's character Del Griffith sell for a living?
Shower curtain rings
Shower curtain rings: Del sells them for a living, and when he and Neal run out of money he raises cash by passing his samples off to strangers as exotic jewellery.
Q 02Which actor has a cameo racing Neal Page for a taxi at the start of Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon, billed only as 'Taxi Racer', is briefly on screen in the opening scene; he had already shot the lead in John Hughes's She's Having a Baby, released a few months later.
Q 03In Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Neal and Del's flight to Chicago is diverted to which city?
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas: a snowstorm has shut Chicago's airport, and with only one room left at the motel the two strangers end up sharing a double bed.
Q 04Which comedian plays uptight ad man Neal Page, stranded with John Candy's Del Griffith, in Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
Steve Martin
Steve Martin and Candy improvised so much, on top of John Hughes's constant rewrites, that the first cut ran three hours or more, about twice the length of the film released.
Q 05At the end of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, what does Neal realise about Del's wife, Marie?
She died years earlier
She died years earlier: Del admits Marie has been dead for eight years and that he has no home to go to, so Neal brings him back to share his family's Thanksgiving dinner.
Q 06Whose hit cover of 'Everytime You Go Away' did John Hughes want for the ending of Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
Paul Young
Paul Young's number-one version was refused by his record company, so the film ends on a cover of the song recorded by Blue Room instead.
Q 07Who directed the 1995 Thanksgiving comedy-drama Home for the Holidays?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster had starred in her first film as director, Little Man Tate, but for her second she stayed off screen entirely and spent ten weeks shooting on location in Baltimore.
Q 08Which actress plays Claudia, who flies home for Thanksgiving in Home for the Holidays?
Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter's Claudia is a Chicago art restorer who is fired, kisses her boss and learns her teenage daughter has plans of her own, all before she boards the plane.
Q 09In which superhero film does a Thanksgiving dinner end with the villain working out the hero's secret identity?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man: at the Parkers' Thanksgiving table in the 2002 film, Norman Osborn spots the fresh gash on Peter's arm and realises it is the wound he gave the hero as the Green Goblin.
Q 10Which actor plays Claudia's brother Tommy in Home for the Holidays, largely improvising?
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Tommy sends the turkey flying into the lap of his prim sister Joanne, and in the row that follows she blurts out that he has secretly married his boyfriend.
Q 11What does Snoopy serve the guests in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Toast and popcorn
Toast and popcorn, with pretzel sticks and jelly beans on the side. One guest is outraged and demands to know where the turkey, the mashed potatoes and the pumpkin pie are.
Q 12Which Peanuts character invites herself, Marcie and Franklin to Charlie Brown's house for Thanksgiving?
Peppermint Patty
Peppermint Patty. She then blasts the meal Charlie Brown serves, until Marcie reminds her that nobody actually invited them.
Q 13In 2020, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving moved to streaming exclusively on which service?
Apple TV+
Apple TV+. The special had aired every November on ABC since 2001, though Apple agreed to let PBS show it ad-free in 2020 and 2021.
Q 21Who plays April Burns, the daughter cooking Thanksgiving for her estranged family in Pieces of April?
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes. Her April invites the family she is estranged from because her mother is dying of cancer and this is expected to be her last Thanksgiving.
Q 22In Pieces of April, what breaks down and sends April knocking on her neighbors' doors on Thanksgiving?
Her oven
Her oven. April carries the raw turkey around her apartment building looking for one that works, and the neighbors who help her cook it end up sharing the meal.
Q 23Who earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the dying mother in Pieces of April?
Patricia Clarkson
Q 14Who composed the music for A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi. The jazz pianist also sings on the soundtrack himself, crooning 'Little Birdie' while Snoopy battles a stubborn lawn chair.
Q 15Miracle on 34th Street opens with the Macy's parade Santa in what condition?
Drunk
Drunk. Kris Kringle complains about the tipsy Santa to parade organizer Doris Walker, who talks him into taking the man's place on the float.
Q 16In Miracle on 34th Street, what arrives in court to prove Kris Kringle is Santa Claus?
Sacks of mail
Sacks of mail. The Post Office delivers its undeliverable letters to Santa to Kris at the courthouse, so his lawyer argues that the federal government itself recognizes him.
Q 17Which child star plays Susan, the girl who doubts Santa Claus, in Miracle on 34th Street?
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood. Studio chief Darryl Zanuck had the film released months before the holidays, so its advertising played down that it was a Christmas story at all.
Q 18Which actor won Best Supporting Actor for playing Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street?
Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn. The part was first offered to his cousin Cecil Kellaway, who turned it down and so handed Gwenn both the role and the Oscar.
Q 19In the 2013 animated film Free Birds, what mission do time-travelling Reggie and Jake pursue?
Get turkeys off the Thanksgiving menu
They set out to get turkeys off the Thanksgiving menu by traveling back to 1621, days before the first feast, and end up persuading the Pilgrims to eat pizza instead.
Q 20Which Star Trek actor voices S.T.E.V.E., the egg-shaped time-machine AI in Free Birds?
George Takei
George Takei. The machine, whose name stands for Space Time Exploration Vehicle Envoy, even borrows the actor's 'Oh my' catchphrase when the hero steals a kiss.
Patricia Clarkson. The Oscar attention went to a film shot for only about $300,000, which went on to earn more than ten times that in cinemas.
Q 24In Pieces of April, April's family drives in from the suburbs for Thanksgiving dinner in which city?
New York
New York. April is the black sheep of her suburban family and has never cooked a Thanksgiving dinner before, yet it is her scruffy low-rent apartment that they all drive in to.
Q 25Sean Hayes, who plays April's neighbor Wayne in Pieces of April, was starring in which sitcom at the time?
Will & Grace
Will & Grace. Director Peter Hedges recalled that Hayes rang asking to play April's boyfriend, and was offered the neighbor Wayne on the spot instead.
Q 26The Blind Side is based on a 2006 book by which author?
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis. He came to the story through an old friend: Sean Tuohy, whose family took Michael Oher in, had been his schoolmate in New Orleans.
Q 27In Addams Family Values, Wednesday plays which historical figure in the camp's Thanksgiving play?
Pocahontas
Pocahontas. When Wednesday refuses the part she is sent to the camp's Harmony Hut and made to watch hours of wholesome family films until she fakes a smile.
Q 28Which actress plays Wednesday Addams in the 1993 sequel Addams Family Values?
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci. Her Wednesday is packed off to a relentlessly cheerful summer camp, where she leads the outcasts in setting fire to its Thanksgiving pageant.
Q 29Addams Family Values pokes at a Republican slogan of 1992, the year which politician attacked TV's Murphy Brown?
Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle. His speech on family values scolded a sitcom heroine for having a baby alone, and writer Paul Rudnick wanted the film's title to answer such talk with a loving family of ghouls.
Q 30Who plays Debbie Jellinsky, the serial-killer nanny who marries Uncle Fester in Addams Family Values?
Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack. Her Debbie straps the family into electric chairs and narrates her past murders with a slide show, only for baby Pubert to send the current back at her.