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50 free Frosty the Snowman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free Frosty the Snowman trivia questions with answers. Frosty the Snowman trivia for the holiday party, the classroom or a family night in front of the TV special. This quiz covers the whole story: the two songwriters who wrote it after the success of Rudolph, the Singing Cowboy who recorded it first, the town that throws Frosty a parade, and the fact that Christmas is never actually mentioned in the lyrics. It also digs into the 1969 Rankin/Bass special that made Frosty a television fixture: Jimmy Durante's final role, the Mad magazine artist who drew the characters, the Japanese studio that animated it, Professor Hinkle and Hocus Pocus, the CBS premiere that beat every show that week, and the sequels with Andy Griffith, John Goodman and Burt Reynolds. There are a few snowman-record questions for good measure. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Which pair of songwriters wrote 'Frosty the Snowman'?
Rollins and Nelson
The same duo had written 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail' the year before, and Nelson's first hit was 'Bouquet of Roses' for Eddy Arnold.
Q 02Which 'Singing Cowboy' made the first recording of the song in 1950?
Gene Autry
He was chasing another seasonal hit after 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' the year before, and later owned the California Angels.
Q 03In the song, what brings the snowman to life?
A magical silk hat placed on his head
The children find the hat and Frosty begins to dance around.
Q 04Which of these is NOT true of the original 1950 lyrics?
They mention Christmas Day
Christmas is never mentioned in the original lyrics; the Jimmy Durante version and TV special added 'I'll be back on Christmas Day'.
Q 05Which New York town holds an annual parade dedicated to Frosty and is a supposed setting for the song?
Armonk
White Plains is the other candidate for the action's setting.
Q 06Which comedian's 1950 recording of the song later became the basis for the 1969 TV special's narration?
Jimmy Durante
The special was his final film role; he re-recorded the song for it.
Q 07Which girl group's 1963 Phil Spector-produced cover made Rolling Stone's list of greatest rock Christmas songs?
The Ronettes
It appeared on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, released the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
Q 08Besides Durante's, which two other early covers of the song reached the American charts?
Nat King Cole's and Guy Lombardo's
The Jackson 5, the Cocteau Twins and Conway Twitty are among the many later artists to record it.
Q 09Which children's book series published Frosty the Snow Man in 1950, adapted by Annie North Bedford?
Little Golden Books
The series had launched in 1942 at 25 cents a copy and produced the best-selling children's book in US history, The Poky Little Puppy.
Q 10A 1950 UPA Frosty cartoon has been a Christmas tradition on which Chicago station?
WGN-TV
It airs alongside Suzy Snowflake and Hardrock, Coco and Joe, and has run every year since 1955.
Q 11Which production company made the 1969 Frosty the Snowman television special?
Rankin/Bass
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass produced and directed it; it was the first TV special featuring the character.
Q 12The 1969 special first aired on December 7, 1969 on which network?
CBS
It followed the fifth showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas and stayed on the network for 55 years before NBC took over in 2024.
Q 13Which network acquired the special in 2024 after its 55-year run elsewhere?
NBC
NBCUniversal owns the pre-1974 Rankin/Bass catalogue and moved Rudolph over at the same time.
Q 21Which magazine's artist, Paul Coker Jr., designed the characters to look like a Christmas card?
Mad
Coker went on to design most of the studio's later specials, from Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town to The Year Without a Santa Claus.
Q 22The 1969 special was animated in Tokyo by which studio, founded by the creator of Astro Boy?
Mushi Production
Osamu Tezuka's studio pioneered Japanese TV animation; a young Osamu Dezaki worked on Frosty uncredited.
Q 23Which writer, who also expanded Rudolph for TV, adapted the Frosty song into a story?
Romeo Muller
Maury Laws was the musical director and Don Duga the continuity designer.
Q 14Who voiced Frosty in the 1969 special and its first two sequels?
Jackie Vernon
The deadpan comedian kept the role until his death; Bill Fagerbakke, the voice of Patrick Star, took over for the 2005 film.
Q 15What is the name of the inept magician who wants his hat back in the 1969 special?
Professor Hinkle
He blames the hat when his school-party act flops, then realises it is magic and tries to cash in.
Q 16What is the name of the magician's rabbit, who keeps stealing the hat back for the children?
Hocus Pocus
He swaps the hat with a lamppost wreath and later rounds up forest animals to build Karen a campfire.
Q 17What is the name of the little girl who rides north with Frosty in the 1969 special?
Karen
June Foray voiced her in the first airing; Suzanne Davidson took over in later broadcasts.
Q 18How do Frosty, Karen and the rabbit try to reach the North Pole?
Stowing away in a refrigerated freight car
They have no money for tickets, and Hinkle secretly follows them aboard.
Q 19Where does Frosty melt after the magician locks him and Karen inside?
A greenhouse
Santa explains he is made of magical Christmas snow and lets the winter wind rebuild him.
Q 20How does Santa finally get the magician to give up on the hat?
Threatens he will never get another present
Hinkle runs home to write out his apologies, and turns up reformed in the closing parade with a new hat.
Q 24The special's premiere ranked as the No. 1 program for its week with what Nielsen rating?
30.5
That came with a 45 share for the week of December 1-7, 1969.
Q 25Which voice actor played the rabbit, the traffic cop and Santa Claus in the 1969 special?
Paul Frees
June Foray, best known as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, voiced Karen and the teacher.
Q 26TV Guide ranked the 1969 special where on its list of the 10 Best Family Holiday Specials?
Number 9
Reviews at the time were more modest than for its contemporaries; it holds 73 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Q 27Who narrated the 1976 sequel Frosty's Winter Wonderland, replacing a stroke-stricken Durante?
Andy Griffith
The Mayberry star closes by promising that 'that first snowflake will fall' again.
Q 28In Frosty's Winter Wonderland, the children build Frosty a wife. What is her name?
Crystal
Shelley Winters voiced her; a bouquet of frost flowers brings her to life.
Q 29Which jealous character tries to steal Frosty's hat in the 1976 sequel, then is his best man?
Jack Frost
Paul Frees voiced him, and Parson Brown brings a snow parson to life with his Bible to perform the ceremony.
Q 30Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979) was unusual for depicting Frosty in what form?
Stop-motion 'Animagic'
It was the last Rankin/Bass production with Jackie Vernon as Frosty and Billie Mae Richards as Rudolph, and ran only a week in cinemas in Lexington, Kentucky.