Black Christmas Movie Trivia
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45 free Black Christmas Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free Black Christmas movie trivia questions with answers. Black Christmas (1974) is the Canadian slasher that got there before Halloween: a sorority house, obscene phone calls, an unseen killer in the attic and an ending that refuses to explain itself. This Black Christmas movie trivia quiz covers the original in depth: the plot, the cast (Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea, John Saxon, Andrea Martin), Bob Clark's production, the alternate title Warner Bros. slapped on it, the Ted Bundy connection to its TV premiere and its slow rise to cult classic. It also covers the two remakes: Glen Morgan's gory 2006 version with its yellow-skinned Billy and his sister Agnes, and Sophia Takal's PG-13 2019 film shot in New Zealand. It works for a horror movie night, a December watch party or anyone arguing about which slasher came first. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01Black Christmas (1974) was produced and directed by which filmmaker, who later made A Christmas Story?
Bob Clark
Bob Clark never revealed the killer's identity, and held out when Warner Bros. pressed him for an ending that explained more.
Q 02In which Canadian city was the original 1974 Black Christmas filmed?
Toronto
Toronto saw so little snow during the shoot that the crew had to fake the wintry exteriors with foam.
Q 03Roy Moore's script reached the director of Black Christmas (1974) under which working title?
Stop Me
Stop Me was the title on the script when the director took it on; he then toned down the killings and decided the murderer would never be shown.
Q 04Which urban legend inspired the plot of Black Christmas (1974)?
The babysitter and the man upstairs
The babysitter and the man upstairs gave the film its twist, calls traced to inside the house, five years before When a Stranger Calls, the film it is often credited to.
Q 05In Black Christmas (1974), what nickname do the sorority sisters give their obscene phone caller?
The Moaner
The Moaner is the sisters' name for him, and they crowd round the phone to listen, until one call ends with a threat to kill them.
Q 06Which actress plays the final girl, Jess Bradford, in Black Christmas (1974)?
Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey plays Jess, who is ordered by the police to get out of the house at once and instead climbs the stairs armed with a fire poker.
Q 07The star of Black Christmas (1974) took the role after a psychic predicted what?
A money-making film in Canada
A money-making film in Canada, the psychic said, and so it proved: shot for well under a million dollars, Black Christmas took about $4 million.
Q 08Which future Superman star plays the boozy sorority sister Barb in Black Christmas (1974)?
Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder got the comic relief: the director added Barb's drunken rants so that the students would talk like real adults, four years before her Lois Lane.
Q 09With what object is Barb murdered in her bed in Black Christmas (1974)?
A glass unicorn figurine
Barb is stabbed with a glass unicorn figurine from her bedside while carollers at the front door drown out the sound of the attack.
Q 10How is Clare, the first victim in Black Christmas (1974), killed?
Suffocated with a plastic bag
Suffocated with a plastic bag from the dry cleaner's, Clare was played by Lynne Griffin, who said being a good swimmer let her hold her breath and stare unblinking through long takes.
Q 11Where does the killer in Black Christmas (1974) leave Clare's body?
In a rocking chair in the attic
In a rocking chair in the attic, where it stays for the whole film: the police search a nearby park and never the top of the house, so it is still there at the end.
Q 12Which Second City performer replaced Gilda Radner as Phyl in Black Christmas a month before shooting?
Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin took over as sorority sister Phyl, then came back 32 years later as the housemother in the 2006 remake, the only member of the original cast to return.
Q 13Which Hollywood legend did the makers of Black Christmas (1974) first want as housemother Mrs. Mac?
Bette Davis
Q 21NBC let some stations drop Black Christmas in January 1978 after sorority murders at Florida State by which killer?
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy had killed two Chi Omega sisters in their beds there two weeks earlier, so NBC offered its stations in Florida, Georgia and Alabama a different film to show.
Q 22Which carol are carol singers performing at the door while Barb is killed in Black Christmas (1974)?
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, All Ye Faithful keeps Jess listening on the doorstep while Barb is attacked in her bedroom, and the singing covers every sound of it.
Q 23In Black Christmas (1974), whom does Jess kill with a fire poker, believing him to be the murderer?
Peter, her boyfriend
Bette Davis never took the part, so Marian Waldman played Mrs. Mac, a tippler the director modelled on an aunt of his who hid liquor bottles all over her house.
Q 14Keir Dullea, who plays Jess's boyfriend in Black Christmas (1974), was already famous for which film?
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey had made him famous as astronaut Dave Bowman; here he is a highly strung music student who coldly wrecks the instrument he was playing earlier.
Q 15Which actor, later Nancy's policeman father in A Nightmare on Elm Street, plays Lieutenant Fuller in Black Christmas (1974)?
John Saxon
John Saxon stepped in at the last minute: Edmond O'Brien had been cast, but arrived on set too ill to work, and the producers had to let him go.
Q 16How did Nick Mancuso make his voice more demented as the killer in Black Christmas (1974)?
He stood on his head
He stood on his head for some takes to squeeze his chest and warp the voice; at his audition the director had him face the other way, so that only the sound counted.
Q 17How did Carl Zittrer create the eerie score of Black Christmas (1974)?
By tying cutlery and combs to piano strings
By tying cutlery and combs to piano strings he warped every note, then slowed the tape as it recorded to distort the sound further.
Q 18Whose hands appear as the killer's in the point-of-view shots of Black Christmas (1974)?
The camera operator's
The camera operator's: Bert Dunk built a rig that fixed the camera to his own body, leaving both hands free in shot as he climbed the trellis up the side of the house.
Q 19Under what alternate title did Warner Bros. first release Black Christmas in the United States?
Silent Night, Evil Night
Warner Bros. released it in the US as Silent Night, Evil Night, fearing 'Black Christmas' would make audiences expect a blaxploitation film; it later reverted to the original title.
Q 20Under what title was Black Christmas scheduled for its 1978 NBC television premiere?
Stranger in the House
Stranger in the House was NBC's title for it; after real sorority murders in Florida that month, the state's governor asked the network not to show the film there.
Peter, her boyfriend, breaks into the basement where she is hiding and she kills him in a panic; the police take him for the murderer and leave her asleep, with the real one still inside.
Q 24The director of Black Christmas told John Carpenter that his sequel idea would carry which title?
Halloween
Halloween was his title for a sequel in which the killer escapes an asylum and comes back, yet he insisted that Carpenter's 1978 film was Carpenter's own work and no copy of his idea.
Q 25Which comedian told the film's star he had seen Black Christmas 27 times?
Steve Martin
Steve Martin told her he had seen Black Christmas 27 times, calling it a favourite; she had assumed he was praising a different film of hers.
Q 26What sound is heard over the closing credits of Black Christmas (1974)?
A ringing telephone
A ringing telephone: the police think the case is closed and leave Jess sedated in her room, and as the camera backs away from the house the calls begin again.
Q 27On which day did the 2006 remake of Black Christmas open in US cinemas?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day, which drew protests from American religious groups; the studio replied that horror at the holidays was a long tradition of counter-programming.
Q 28Which X-Files writer wrote and directed the 2006 remake of Black Christmas?
Glen Morgan
Glen Morgan made it with his producing partner James Wong, then found that the studio had shot extra scenes without him for the trailer, none of which are in the film.
Q 29In the 2006 Black Christmas, what does Billy make from his murdered mother's flesh?
Christmas cookies
Christmas cookies: he breaks out of the room where she kept him locked up, kills her, and is sitting eating them when the police arrive.
Q 30Who is revealed as the second killer in the 2006 remake of Black Christmas?
Agnes, Billy's sister
Agnes, Billy's sister, was only a name shouted down the phone in the 1974 film; the remake puts her inside the walls of the house as a second killer.