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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
His take on Santa is a leather-jacketed rock-and-roller who insists he is not fat.
Q 02Who directed the first Christmas Chronicles film?
Clay Kaytis
Kaytis had previously directed The Angry Birds Movie; the producer took the chair himself for the sequel.
Q 03Which Home Alone director produced the first film and directed the sequel?
Chris Columbus
He produced through his company 1492 Pictures and co-wrote the sequel with Matt Lieberman.
Q 04On what date did The Christmas Chronicles premiere on Netflix?
November 22, 2018
It landed the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.
Q 05Who plays Teddy Pierce?
Judah Lewis
Lewis had played the boy in The Babysitter for Netflix the year before.
Q 06How old is Kate Pierce in the first film?
11
She is the one who still believes, and the one with the camcorder.
Q 07Which actress plays Kate Pierce?
Darby Camp
Camp had already appeared in Big Little Lies as Chloe.
Q 08Who plays Claire Pierce, the children's widowed mother?
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Best known as the bride in Father of the Bride, she is married to country singer Brad Paisley.
Q 09What was the job of Doug Pierce, the children's late father?
Firefighter
He died in a fire, and his absence is why Teddy has lost his Christmas spirit.
Q 10Which actor plays Doug Pierce?
Oliver Hudson
Hudson is Goldie Hawn's son, which makes the family casting even cosier.
Q 11Who makes a cameo as Mrs. Claus at the end of the first film?
Goldie Hawn
She and Kurt Russell have been a couple since 1983, and she got a full role in the sequel.
Q 12Which New Girl actor plays Officer Mikey Jameson?
Lamorne Morris
His cop spends the night trying to work out how a jailed man in red keeps knowing everything about him.
Q 13Where does the Pierce family live in the first film?
Lowell, Massachusetts
The film opens with years of the family's home videos to set up what Christmas used to feel like.
Q 21Why is it so urgent for Santa to finish deliveries before dawn?
Christmas spirit will decline
The film treats Christmas spirit as a measurable resource that falls whenever presents go undelivered.
Q 22What does Kate get for Christmas at the end of the first film?
A skateboard
Teddy gets a magic ornament, and, in the sequel, a hint of what it can do.
Q 23What present does Teddy receive at the end of the first film?
A magic ornament
It is the same one his father was given as a boy.
Q 14What does Teddy get up to that Kate catches on video?
Stealing a car
She trades the footage for his help staking out Santa on Christmas Eve.
Q 15In which city does Santa's sleigh crash after the kids stow away?
Chicago
The sleigh teleports mid-flight, dumping everyone hundreds of miles from home.
Q 16Which three things does Santa say he lost in the crash?
His reindeer, his hat and his bag of presents
The hat matters most: without it he cannot use his magic.
Q 17What happens after Teddy and the man in red distract the police with a car chase?
He is arrested
Santa spends part of Christmas Eve in a holding cell, which leads to the film's musical number.
Q 18Which Elvis-associated song gets performed in the jail cell?
Santa Claus Is Back in Town
Kurt Russell sings lead over Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul.
Q 19Which E Street Band member's group backs Santa on the jailhouse number?
Little Steven
Steven Van Zandt's Disciples of Soul appear as the cell-block band.
Q 20Which of these is NOT one of Santa's elves named in the first film?
Wolfie
The crew are Lars, Jojo, Hugg, Fleck, Bjorn and Mina, and they speak their own subtitled elf language.
Q 24How many households did Netflix say streamed the first film in its opening week?
20 million
At the time it was one of the streamer's biggest original-film debuts.
Q 25Where was the first film shot?
Toronto, Ontario
Principal photography began in January 2018, so the snow was real.
Q 26What is the first film's approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes?
68%
Critics mostly agreed that Russell's star power carried it.
Q 27When was The Christmas Chronicles 2 released?
November 25, 2020
Like the first film, it dropped for the Thanksgiving weekend.
Q 28Where is Kate unhappily spending Christmas at the start of the sequel?
Cancun, Mexico
A cynical teen by now, she wants snow, not a beach and her mother's new boyfriend.
Q 29Who plays the sequel's villain, Belsnickel?
Julian Dennison
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople star's character is an elf Santa adopted, who went rogue.
Q 30Why is Belsnickel human rather than an elf?
He was cursed for becoming unruly
Santa's growing neglect of him is the emotional wound the whole sequel is built on.