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110 free Christmas Vacation Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
15 free Christmas Vacation Movie trivia questions with answers. Ready to test your knowledge of the beloved holiday classic? Our Christmas Vacation trivia quiz will challenge even the most devoted fans of the Griswold family's hilarious antics. From iconic scenes to unforgettable quotes, see how much you really remember about this comedy masterpiece!
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Q 01Who played Rusty Griswold in Christmas Vacation?
Johnny Galecki
Johnny Galecki played Rusty; the Griswold kids were recast in every Vacation film, with Anthony Michael Hall, Jason Lively and Ethan Embry taking the role in the 1983, 1985 and 1997 films.
Q 02In Christmas Vacation, which animal leaps out of the replacement Christmas tree and sends the family running?
Squirrel
Squirrel: Aunt Bethany hears it squeaking first, then Eddie's dog chases it through the house and both are unleashed on Margo when Clark opens the front door.
Q 03What does Clark Griswold primarily plan to use his anticipated Christmas bonus for?
A swimming pool
A swimming pool: Clark has already put down a deposit he cannot cover without the bonus, which is why the envelope from work sours his Christmas Eve.
Q 04What is Cousin Eddie's dog called?
Snots
Snots: 'Pretty name,' is all Clark can manage, and Eddie explains that the dog was named for his sinus condition.
Q 05In Christmas Vacation, what has the dotty Aunt Bethany wrapped up as a present, which Clark works out by shaking the box?
Her cat
Her cat: Ellen explains that Bethany has little money, so she wraps up things from around the house, and a second, leaking parcel turns out to be her Jell-O mold.
Q 06In Christmas Vacation, what does Clark's boss send instead of the expected cash bonus?
A Jelly of the Month Club membership
A Jelly of the Month Club membership, which Cousin Eddie calls 'the gift that keeps on giving the whole year'. Clark's response is a rant of more than twenty insults, followed by a kidnapping.
Q 07What is the surname of Clark Griswold's boss in Christmas Vacation, the man who quietly cancels the bonuses and ends up kidnapped?
Mr. Shirley
Mr. Shirley, Frank Shirley, whom Cousin Eddie kidnaps and delivers to the Griswold living room. After a dressing-down he reinstates everyone's bonuses, plus twenty percent for Clark.
Q 08Clark's furious rant about his boss in Christmas Vacation runs through twenty-odd insults and ends with a demand for what?
'The Tylenol!'
'The Tylenol!', as in 'Where's the Tylenol?', after calling his boss everything from four-flushing to worm-headed. The headache is understandable.
Q 09In Christmas Vacation, what is Uncle Lewis lighting when he burns the Griswolds' tree to a crisp?
A cigar
A cigar: Lewis had ordered Clark to fetch his stogies, and when Clark wails over the charred remains, Lewis shrugs that at least the tree is out of its misery.
Q 10What is the surname of Todd and Margo, Clark Griswold's yuppie neighbours?
Chester
Chester: Todd and Margo Chester come home to a broken window, a wrecked stereo and a soaked floor, and can only stare next door at the Griswold house.
Q 11Asked to say grace at the Christmas Eve dinner in Christmas Vacation, what does Aunt Bethany recite while everyone bows their heads?
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance, after first assuming they mean a woman named Grace, who she says died thirty years ago. The family dutifully joins in, hands folded.
Q 12Clark takes a chainsaw to which wobbly part of the house?
The newel post
The newel post, the upright at the foot of the staircase, which he saws clean off and announces, deadpan, 'Fixed the newel post.' It is about the only thing in the house he fixes all movie.
Q 13After the explosion outside, Aunt Bethany launches into which patriotic song?
Q 21How is Cousin Eddie related to the Griswolds in Christmas Vacation?
Ellen's cousin's husband
Ellen's cousin's husband: Eddie is married to Catherine, which is why Clark, pleading for him before the boss, calls Eddie his 'cousin-in-law, whose heart is bigger than his brain'.
Q 22In Christmas Vacation, what ruins the Griswolds' Christmas Eve dinner before the night gets even worse?
The turkey is overcooked
The turkey is overcooked: the bird looks perfect until Clark cuts into it and it deflates with a hiss, and Catherine tearfully apologises for roasting it too long.
Q 23What does Clark gather the family to recite after his father's talk?
'The Star-Spangled Banner'
'The Star-Spangled Banner', as the flaming plastic Santa and sleigh sail overhead like the rockets' red glare. Everyone, including the SWAT team sent for the kidnapping, stands and sings.
Q 14What is Cousin Eddie wearing when he drains his RV's toilet into the Griswolds' storm drain?
A bathrobe
A bathrobe: Clark watches from the window and warns that the drain could fill with gas, pitying whoever lights a match within ten yards of it. On Christmas Eve, somebody does.
Q 15In his tirade about the missing bonus, Clark wants his boss brought to the house with what on his head?
A big ribbon
A big ribbon on his head: Cousin Eddie takes the wish literally and returns with the boss in his pyjamas, a dog chain tied around his wrists and ankles.
Q 16Christmas Vacation grew out of which John Hughes short story, first published in National Lampoon magazine?
"Christmas '59"
"Christmas '59": Hughes said the studio begged him for another sequel and he agreed only because he had this story to build on, just as "Vacation '58" had become the 1983 original.
Q 17Who directed Christmas Vacation after Chris Columbus quit over a clash with Chevy Chase?
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Jeremiah S. Chechik, a director of moody commercials, was sent the script by the studio after another film he was planning there stalled, and made it his first feature.
Q 18Which actor, a campground clerk in Vacation, plays Clark's boss in Christmas Vacation?
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brian Doyle-Murray plays the boss who scraps the Christmas bonuses, then restores them, conceding that a healthy bottom line means little if it hurts the people he depends on.
Q 19How many lights does Clark string on the outside of the house?
25,000
25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights, by Clark's count 250 strands of 100 bulbs each, which stay dark through a drum-roll ceremony until Ellen works out what is wrong.
Q 20What are the names of Cousin Eddie's two children who arrive in the RV?
Ruby Sue and Rocky
Ruby Sue and Rocky arrive unannounced in the RV, which Eddie first claims to have borrowed; he later admits he sold the house and the family now lives in it.
"The Night Before Christmas"
"The Night Before Christmas": calmed by his father's admission that their own holidays were always a mess, Clark starts to recite it, only for Eddie to walk in with the kidnapped boss.
Q 24Whose call brings a SWAT team storming into the Griswold house?
Helen Shirley's
Helen Shirley, Frank's wife, who reported her husband kidnapped; the SWAT team crashes through the windows, and Frank then declines to press charges after reinstating the bonuses.
Q 25What does Uncle Lewis say the distant light really is, correcting Clark's 'Christmas Star'?
A sewage treatment plant
A sewage treatment plant: Lewis scoffs that it 'ain't the frigging Christmas star', then drops a lit match into the storm drain, with explosive results.
Q 26Who plays Cousin Eddie in Christmas Vacation, returning to the role from the original 1983 Vacation?
Randy Quaid
Randy Quaid was one of only four actors to reprise a role, with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and Miriam Flynn; the Griswold children were played by new faces yet again.
Q 27Which actress played Clark's mother Nora despite being less than a decade older than Chevy Chase?
Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd, under eight years Chase's senior, plays Nora, who assures Clark after his lights fail that she can picture them in her mind and it's breathtaking.
Q 28Waiting in the cold for Clark's light display in Christmas Vacation, Ellen's father says he is freezing off his what?
Baguettes
Baguettes: 'I'm freezing my baguettes off,' he grumbles as he tells Clark to hurry, moments before the drum roll that ends with every bulb staying dark.
Q 29Which actress, the best-known voice of Betty Boop, played Aunt Bethany in Christmas Vacation?
Mae Questel
Mae Questel won a Bronx talent contest at 17 by imitating the singer Helen Kane, and that boop-oop-a-doop act got her hired for the cartoons in 1931.
Q 30Christmas Vacation's snowy tree hunt was filmed around which Colorado ski town?
Breckenridge
Breckenridge, in Summit County, supplied the real snow from late March 1989; the production then moved to California, where the Griswolds' street was dressed with fake snow.