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This Home Alone movie trivia quiz has 135 free questions with answers and covers the 1990 Christmas classic from every angle, then keeps going into the sequel. The first fifty questions are all the original: the McCallister house and the Paris trip that left Kevin behind, the booby traps, the Wet Bandits, Old Man Marley, Angels with Filthy Souls, John Candy's cameo, the casting stories and the numbers behind one of the biggest comedies ever made. The final eighteen are Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, from the Plaza Hotel and the Talkboy to Duncan's Toy Chest, the pigeon lady and the record-breaking 1992 opening weekend. The set runs from easy fan favourites to genuinely hard production trivia, so it works for a family game on Christmas Eve or a movie round at trivia night. Every answer was checked against the films' credits and the Wikipedia articles on the movies, the cast and the Talkboy, and each question carries its source. No recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01Which city was Kevin's family flying to when they left him behind?
Paris
The McCallisters fly to Paris for Christmas; once Kate realises Kevin was left behind she scrambles for any flight back to Chicago while the others wait it out in the city.
Q 02How much was the film's child star paid for the original, against $4.5 million for the sequel?
$110,000
Macaulay Culkin earned $110,000 for Home Alone; two years later Home Alone 2: Lost in New York paid him $4.5 million, roughly forty times as much.
Q 03Who portrayed the character of Kevin McCallister in the film?
Macaulay Culkin
The director met 200 other boys for the part before agreeing that the writer's suggestion from Uncle Buck was right.
Q 04By what nickname are the two burglars known?
The Wet Bandits
The Wet Bandits earned the name from Marv's habit of stopping up the kitchen sink to flood each house, which lets police identify every home they hit.
Q 05Which relative tells Kevin that he is 'what the French call, les incompétents'?
Linnie
Kevin's sister Linnie delivers the line after Kevin complains that he has never packed a suitcase once in his whole life.
Q 06Who directed the original film?
Chris Columbus
Columbus had just walked off National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation over a clash with Chevy Chase when he was offered the job.
Q 07From which fictional gangster movie does Kevin play a clip to scare the burglars?
Angels with Filthy Souls
Angels with Filthy Souls is a fake black-and-white gangster picture made for the film; its title spoofs the 1938 James Cagney movie Angels with Dirty Faces.
Q 08About how many consecutive weeks was Home Alone number one at the US box office?
12
'Home Alone' was a massive box office success, remaining the number-one film for 12 consecutive weeks.
Q 09In Home Alone, what does Kevin ride down the staircase while revelling in his new freedom?
A sled
Kevin rides a sled down the stairs and out the front door, one of his first-day indulgences alongside ice cream and his brother's forbidden videotapes.
Q 10Which actor plays the elderly neighbour Kevin is afraid of?
Roberts Blossom
Roberts Blossom played Old Man Marley, the neighbour Buzz terrifies Kevin with stories about; Kevin later befriends him in church on Christmas Eve.
Q 11What was the name of the polka band leader who helps Kate McCallister get back to Chicago?
Gus Polinski
Gus Polinski, the 'Polka King of the Midwest', was John Candy's cameo; he offers Kate a ride in the band's van.
Q 12Roughly how much did the film gross worldwide?
$477 million
Home Alone grossed about $477 million worldwide, the second-highest total of any 1990 release, and held the record for a live-action comedy for two decades.
Q 13Who wrote the screenplay for 'Home Alone'?
John Hughes
The idea came from wondering what a child would do if left behind on the family holiday; Hughes wrote eight pages of notes that grew into the script.
Q 21What is the name of the actor who played the taller, less intelligent burglar, Marv?
Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern briefly quit when the schedule grew from six weeks to eight, and was replaced for two days before the director brought him back.
Q 22How long did John Candy's scenes take to shoot in the single day he was available?
23 hours
He was the only actor the writer allowed to go off-script, and all his dialogue was improvised.
Q 23John Hughes promised the original studio he could make the film for under what figure?
$10 million
Hughes promised the original studio he could make Home Alone for under $10 million; when the budget crept to $14.7 million that studio dropped it, and 20th Century Fox finished it for about $18 million.
Q 14Which actor plays Kevin's older brother Buzz?
Devin Ratray
Ratray returned as Buzz in Home Alone 2 and again, three decades later, in Home Sweet Home Alone.
Q 15What kind of pet does Buzz own that Kevin finds in his room?
A tarantula
Buzz keeps a pet tarantula, which Kevin lets loose while rummaging through his brother's room and later turns on the burglars.
Q 16Which actress plays Kevin's mother?
Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara played Kate McCallister, the mother who fights her way home to Kevin; she returned to the role in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in 1992.
Q 17In what U.S. state were the majority of 'Home Alone' scenes filmed?
Illinois
Home Alone was shot on location in Illinois: the McCallister house stands in a suburb north of Chicago, and the interiors were built inside the gym of a former high school nearby.
Q 18Which comedian turned down the role of the shorter burglar before Joe Pesci was cast?
Jon Lovitz
Jon Lovitz passed, and Robert De Niro was also considered before Pesci took Harry.
Q 19What does Kevin ask the local Santa Claus impersonator to bring him for Christmas?
His family back
His family back, in place of any presents, he tells the raggedy Santa; then he hears the choir on his walk home.
Q 20Which Chicago airport doubled as the family's European arrival airport in the film?
O'Hare International
O'Hare International played both itself and Orly, including the family's sprint through the terminal.
Q 24What is Kevin's father's first name?
Peter
John Heard played Peter McCallister, Kevin's father.
Q 25According to Buzz's story, in what year did the old neighbour supposedly murder his family?
1958
Buzz tells Kevin that Old Man Marley murdered his whole family and half the people on his block back in 1958, and that the salt he sprinkles turns the bodies into mummies.
Q 26What does Kevin's father accidentally throw away while cleaning up after the dinner fight?
His plane ticket
That is why nobody notices a ticket left over at the airport the next morning.
Q 27In the gangster clip Kevin watches, what does Johnny say after gunning down Snakes?
'Keep the change, ya filthy animal.'
Johnny's line is 'Keep the change, ya filthy animal'; 'Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal' comes from the sequel's follow-up clip, not this one.
Q 28The role of Kevin's grumpy uncle was written for which actor, who turned out to be unavailable?
Kelsey Grammer
The grumpy uncle was written with Kelsey Grammer in mind, but he was unavailable; Gerry Bamman took the part instead and kept it for Home Alone 2.
Q 29What is the first name of the burglar played by Joe Pesci?
Harry
Pesci deliberately kept his distance from the young star on set to preserve their adversarial dynamic on screen.
Q 30In what year was 'Home Alone' released?
1990
The film 'Home Alone' was released in the United States on November 16, 1990.