Hanukkah Movie Trivia
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47 free Hanukkah Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
There are a thousand Christmas movies and about a dozen Hanukkah ones, which makes the Hanukkah canon easy to love and easy to quiz on. Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, the blaxploitation parody The Hebrew Hammer, Disney Channel's Full-Court Miracle, Nickelodeon's A Rugrats Chanukah, the opening scene of An American Tail and Hallmark's first true Hanukkah film all get their turn here, along with the TV moments that carry the holiday most years: Sandler's Chanukah Song on SNL and Chrismukkah on The O.C. The questions run from the easy (who voices Davey Stone?) to the deep-cut (which Jewish organization does the Jewish Justice League parody?), and every one links to the reference source where the fact was checked. It works as a round for a Hanukkah party or a solo test between latkes. If you want the holiday itself rather than the movies about it, our main Hanukkah quiz covers the Maccabees, the menorah, dreidels and food.
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Q 01Ten years after Eight Crazy Nights, Adam Sandler returned to animation in which 2012 hit?
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania cast Sandler as Dracula, an overprotective father who runs a monsters-only resort and panics when a human wanders in and falls for his daughter; he voiced the count in two sequels.
Q 02In A Rugrats Chanukah, Tommy and his friends imagine themselves as an ancient army with which name?
The Maccababies
The Maccababies are led by Tommy as Judah, who goes to war after a Greek king takes over the Jewish kingdom and forces his own culture on its people.
Q 03In Eight Crazy Nights, what community service is Davey sentenced to instead of jail?
Refereeing youth basketball
Refereeing youth basketball, under the eccentric old referee Whitey, is Davey's last chance: the judge warns that one more crime will send him to prison.
Q 04Besides Davey and Whitey Duvall, which third character does Adam Sandler voice in Eight Crazy Nights?
Eleanore, the twin sister
Eleanore, the twin sister, and Whitey take Davey into their home after his trailer burns down; Sandler is also credited with the noises of the town's deer.
Q 05Who voiced Davey's love interest, Jennifer Friedman, in Eight Crazy Nights?
Jackie Titone, Sandler's future wife
Jackie Titone, Sandler's future wife, voiced Jennifer Friedman; the couple married in 2003, and she has appeared in most of his films since.
Q 06Which bluegrass singer provided the singing voice for Jennifer in Eight Crazy Nights?
Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss sings Jennifer's songs while another actress speaks the part, a split the film repeats for Davey's parents, sung by Heart's Ann Wilson and Mr. Mister's Richard Page.
Q 07How did Eight Crazy Nights fare in theaters in November 2002?
A flop that earned less than it cost
A flop that earned less than it cost: it took about $23.8 million worldwide against a reported $34 million budget, opening fifth on a crowded Thanksgiving weekend.
Q 08In Friends, what does Ross dress up as to teach his son Ben about Hanukkah?
An armadillo
An armadillo: unable to rent a Santa suit so late, Ross invents the Holiday Armadillo, Santa's friend, to get his Christmas-loving son excited about Hanukkah.
Q 09In Eight Crazy Nights, who confronts a drunken Davey inside the closed mall?
The stores' mascots, come to life
The stores' mascots, come to life, include a Panda Express panda and a talking Victoria's Secret gown; they push Davey to grieve for his parents, and he finally opens their card.
Q 10Who plays the title character, Mordechai Jefferson Carver, in The Hebrew Hammer?
Adam Goldberg
Adam Goldberg plays the Hammer, a tough-talking Jewish private eye who is reluctantly recruited to stop a plot against Hanukkah itself.
Q 11Who is the villain of The Hebrew Hammer?
Damian Claus, Santa's evil son
Damian Claus, Santa's evil son, takes over after his tolerant father is murdered and sets out to wipe out Hanukkah and Kwanzaa so that December belongs to Christmas alone.
Q 12Which comedian plays the Christmas-crazed villain of The Hebrew Hammer?
Andy Dick
Andy Dick plays the villain, who schemes to cancel Hanukkah for good; Judy Greer co-stars as Esther, the Hammer's ally and love interest.
Q 13What is the name of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front leader who allies with the Hebrew Hammer?
Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim
Q 21In Full-Court Miracle, why does Lamont leave the team just before the big tournament?
The 76ers offer him a contract
The 76ers offer him a contract, a ten-day deal he accepts, so the boys must play the tournament without their coach until he walks back into the gym during the final.
Q 22On which network did A Rugrats Chanukah first air in December 1996?
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon had pitched a Chanukah special back in 1992, but that idea morphed into 1995's 'A Rugrats Passover' first.
Q 23In A Rugrats Chanukah, Grandpa Boris feuds with which old rival over the synagogue's Chanukah play?
Shlomo
Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, joins the Hammer to save Hanukkah and Kwanzaa; the joke name stitches a heavyweight champion's to a pop star's.
Q 14Which cable channel gave The Hebrew Hammer its television premiere in December 2003?
Comedy Central
Comedy Central aired The Hebrew Hammer in December 2003, eleven months after its Sundance debut and days before a brief run in theaters.
Q 15Which former New York City mayor appears as himself in The Hebrew Hammer?
Ed Koch
Ed Koch, New York's mayor from 1978 to 1989, turns up as himself in a caper that runs through Israel and a K-Mart to a final battle at the North Pole.
Q 16In The Hebrew Hammer's opening flashback, what does a passing Santa do to young Mordechai?
Crushes his dreidel and flips him off
Crushes his dreidel and flips him off: the bullied boy is spinning the toy on the sidewalk to cheer himself up when a Santa walks by and stamps on it.
Q 17Full-Court Miracle (2003) premiered on which network?
Disney Channel
Disney Channel premiered the film in November 2003; in it, a school team's young players pool their allowances to hire a down-on-his-luck former college star as their coach.
Q 18In Full-Court Miracle, what had kept college star Lamont Carr out of the NBA?
A knee injury
A knee injury had sidelined Lamont, who is living out of his van and sending money home to his family when the boys spot him at a playground.
Q 19In Full-Court Miracle, which nickname does the Hebrew Academy team use?
The Lions
The Lions share their animal with the Lion of Judah, the emblem of the biblical tribe; they are a struggling team with no real coach when the film begins, so the players go looking for one themselves.
Q 20How does Full-Court Miracle's final game echo the miracle of the oil?
A near-empty generator keeps running
A near-empty generator keeps running after a storm cuts the gym's power: the teams agree to play only until the fuel runs out, and the generator restarts even after its tank is empty.
Shlomo, Boris's old rival, plays the Greek king opposite Boris's Judah in the synagogue play, so the babies decide Shlomo is the real villain of the holiday.
Q 24In A Rugrats Chanukah, what do the babies call the villain they set out to defeat?
The Meanie of Chanukah
The Meanie of Chanukah is what the babies call Grandpa Boris's rival after mishearing the title of the play, The Meaning of Chanukah; their plan is to put him down for a nap.
Q 25In A Rugrats Chanukah, why does Angelica free the babies from the nursery?
To watch a Christmas special on TV
To watch a Christmas special on TV, Angelica talks the babies into a breakout and makes off with a television, only to smash the set when she runs into Boris's rival backstage.
Q 26In A Rugrats Chanukah, what is the name of Tommy's grandmother, Boris's wife?
Minka
Minka opens the special by reading the babies the story of the first Chanukah, then breaks off to help make latkes; Melanie Chartoff voices both her and her daughter Didi.
Q 27Which 1986 animated film opens with a mouse family celebrating Hanukkah in tsarist Russia?
An American Tail
An American Tail begins with Papa Mousekewitz giving Fievel his own hat as a Hanukkah gift, moments before Cossacks and their cats attack the village and drive the family to emigrate.
Q 28Who directed the 1986 Fievel film whose opening scene is set at Hanukkah?
Don Bluth
Don Bluth, a former Disney animator who had left to start his own studio, directed it for Steven Spielberg's Amblin; it became the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film of its day.
Q 29The 1995 animated film The Real Shlemiel is based on stories by which Nobel laureate?
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote the children's stories behind the film, also released as Aaron's Magic Village; in it, an accident just after Creation leaves Chelm populated entirely by fools.
Q 30Which horror icon starred as serial killer Judah Lazarus in the 2019 slasher Hanukkah?
Sid Haig
Sid Haig plays Judah Lazarus, the original 'Hanukiller', who is shot by police in 1983 before he can sacrifice his own son; Haig died in September 2019, before the film came out.