The Christmas Chronicles Trivia
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42 free The Christmas Chronicles trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
43 free The Christmas Chronicles trivia questions with answers. Netflix's The Christmas Chronicles gave the world Kurt Russell as a leather-jacketed Santa who sings the blues in a Chicago jail, and the sequel added Goldie Hawn's Mrs. Claus, a rogue elf called Belsnickel and a time-travel trip to a 1990 airport. This quiz covers both films: the Pierce family of Lowell, the sleigh crash, the lost hat and reindeer, the elves and their names, the yule cat, the Star of Bethlehem and the Saint Nicholas backstory. It also covers the people behind them - the Angry Birds director who made the first film, the Home Alone director who took over the sequel, the casting, the release dates, the viewing figures and the reviews. Most questions are easy enough for the kids who rewatch these every December; a handful of cast and production details are there for the grown-ups. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Who plays Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell plays Santa as a leather-jacketed, rock-and-rolling charmer who insists he is not fat; he reprised the role in the sequel.
Q 02How do Kate and Teddy set out to catch Santa on Christmas Eve in The Christmas Chronicles?
A tripwire and a hidden camera
A tripwire and a hidden camera are the plan, and Teddy only agrees to help in exchange for the video Kate shot of him earlier that day.
Q 03Which filmmaker produced The Christmas Chronicles and then directed its sequel himself?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus, who directed Home Alone, produced the first film through his company 1492 Pictures, then took the director's chair for the sequel when Clay Kaytis stepped aside.
Q 04The Christmas Chronicles premiered on Netflix on which 2018 holiday?
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day, November 22, put it in front of families at the start of the holiday season, and Netflix said it was streamed 20 million times in its first week.
Q 05Who plays Teddy Pierce in The Christmas Chronicles?
Judah Lewis
Judah Lewis plays Teddy, who is pushed into the stakeout by his sister and ends the night at the reins of Santa's sleigh for the final deliveries.
Q 06In The Christmas Chronicles, which title do Santa's elves give Kate's family before agreeing to help her?
True believers
True believers: the elves agree once they learn Kate comes from a long line of them, then follow her back to free Teddy from the thieves holding him.
Q 07Which actress plays Kate Pierce in The Christmas Chronicles?
Darby Camp
Darby Camp's Kate records the whole night on her dad's old camcorder, only for Santa to keep the tape, which he screens for Mrs. Claus in the closing scene.
Q 08Who plays Claire Pierce, the children's widowed mother, in The Christmas Chronicles?
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, the bride in Father of the Bride, plays Claire, a nurse whose call to the hospital on Christmas Eve is what leaves the kids home alone to stake out Santa.
Q 09In The Christmas Chronicles, what was the job of Doug Pierce, the children's late father?
Firefighter
Firefighter Doug Pierce died on duty, and this is the family's first Christmas without him: home videos of his holidays open the film, and his absence is why Teddy has soured on it all.
Q 10Which actor plays Doug Pierce in The Christmas Chronicles?
Oliver Hudson
Oliver Hudson is seen in the family's old Christmas videos, and one of them starts the plot: Kate spots a mystery arm at the fireplace and decides it is Santa's.
Q 11Who makes a cameo as Mrs. Claus at the end of The Christmas Chronicles?
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn, the real-life partner of the film's Santa, appears in the closing scene as Mrs. Claus and returned with a full role in the sequel.
Q 12Which New Girl actor plays Officer Jameson in The Christmas Chronicles?
Lamorne Morris
Lamorne Morris, New Girl's Winston, plays one of the two patrol officers whose car chase through the city ends with Santa under arrest.
Q 13Where does the Pierce family live in The Christmas Chronicles?
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts is the Pierces' hometown, shown in years of home videos that open the film; the sleigh crash later strands Santa and the kids hundreds of miles away.
Q 21In The Christmas Chronicles, what does Santa warn will happen if the presents go undelivered?
Christmas spirit will decline
Christmas spirit will decline, Santa warns, and the night bears him out: as it drains, the officers at the station notice more arrests than any Christmas Eve should bring.
Q 22In The Christmas Chronicles, where does Kate end up after climbing into Santa's bag of presents?
The North Pole
The North Pole is where the bag drops her, among Santa's elves, and she returns with them in time to rescue Teddy from the thieves who grabbed him and the bag.
Q 23What gift does Teddy find under the tree at the end of The Christmas Chronicles?
Q 14In The Christmas Chronicles, what does Kate catch Teddy doing on video?
Stealing a car
Stealing a car with his friends is what Kate's camcorder catches, and she uses the footage to blackmail Teddy into helping her stake out Santa on Christmas Eve.
Q 15In which city does Santa's sleigh crash in The Christmas Chronicles?
Chicago
Chicago is where the sleigh comes down after Santa, startled by the stowaways, loses control mid-teleport; the rest of the night unfolds across the city.
Q 16In The Christmas Chronicles, which three things does Santa need to find after the crash?
Reindeer, hat and presents
Reindeer, hat and presents all scatter across the city. Santa says he cannot work without the hat, yet at the end he hands it to Teddy, showing he never really needed it.
Q 17Which part of his legend does Santa call "fake news" in The Christmas Chronicles?
His ho ho ho
His ho ho ho is 'fake news', this Santa says, and he is just as touchy about his image, grumbling at the billboards and cola adverts that draw him fat.
Q 18Which Elvis song does Santa perform from his jail cell in The Christmas Chronicles?
Santa Claus Is Back in Town
Santa Claus Is Back in Town opened Elvis's 1957 Christmas album, and the film's star sings the lead himself, turning a holding cell of inmates into his backing band.
Q 19Which E Street Band member's group backs Santa's jail-cell song in The Christmas Chronicles?
Little Steven
Little Steven, the E Street Band guitarist, brings his Disciples of Soul to play the cell-block band, with the group's members appearing as fellow prisoners.
Q 20The elves' language in The Christmas Chronicles was built by the linguist behind which other screen language?
Dothraki
Dothraki's creator, David J. Peterson of Game of Thrones fame, built the elves a working language, Yulish, and by the end of the film Kate has picked it up too.
A magic ornament
A magic ornament is Santa's answer to Teddy's wish to speak to his dad once more: when he hangs it on the tree his father appears in it, and each tells the other he is proud.
Q 24Reviewers compared Santa's elves in The Christmas Chronicles to the creatures of which film?
Gremlins
Gremlins came to critics' minds for good reason: the furry, squeaky elves look cuddly, then swarm the thieves holding Teddy with kicks, punches and even a chainsaw.
Q 25Where was The Christmas Chronicles filmed?
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario doubled for both the Pierces' New England hometown and the big city where the sleigh comes down, so every snowy American street in the film is Canadian.
Q 26In The Christmas Chronicles 2, the star on top of the tree in Santa's Village holds the light of what?
The Star of Bethlehem
The Star of Bethlehem's light powers the whole village, so when Belsnickel steals the star and it shatters in the struggle, everything goes dark.
Q 27Where is Kate unhappily spending Christmas at the start of The Christmas Chronicles 2?
Cancun, Mexico
Cancun, Mexico is where Claire has taken the kids for Christmas with her new boyfriend and his son; Kate, a cynical teen by now, wants snow and her old traditions, so she plots to run away.
Q 28Who plays Belsnickel, the villain of The Christmas Chronicles 2?
Julian Dennison
Julian Dennison, of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Deadpool 2, plays Belsnickel, who means to wreck Christmas and then take Santa's place himself.
Q 29Why is Belsnickel human, not an elf, in The Christmas Chronicles 2?
He was cursed for becoming unruly
He was cursed for becoming unruly: adopted by the Clauses, he felt neglected as they grew busier and acted out until he turned human, and that grudge drives his whole scheme.
Q 30In The Christmas Chronicles 2, who is the boy who frees Kate from airport security in 1990?
Her late father
Her late father, Doug, is one of the children in the holding room; he springs the lock with a pocket knife, and only afterwards does Kate realise who he was.