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43 free The Christmas Chronicles trivia questions with answers. Netflix's The Christmas Chronicles gave the world Kurt Russell as a leather-jacketed Santa who sings the blues in a Chicago jail, and the sequel added Goldie Hawn's Mrs. Claus, a rogue elf called Belsnickel and a time-travel trip to a 1990 airport. This quiz covers both films: the Pierce family of Lowell, the sleigh crash, the lost hat and reindeer, the elves and their names, the yule cat, the Star of Bethlehem and the Saint Nicholas backstory. It also covers the people behind them - the Angry Birds director who made the first film, the Home Alone director who took over the sequel, the casting, the release dates, the viewing figures and the reviews. Most questions are easy enough for the kids who rewatch these every December; a handful of cast and production details are there for the grown-ups. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Who plays Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell plays Santa as a leather-jacketed, rock-and-rolling charmer who objects to the 'ho ho ho' cliché and insists he is not fat; he reprised the role in the sequel.
Q 02Who directed the first Christmas Chronicles film?
Clay Kaytis
Clay Kaytis, a former Disney animator who co-directed The Angry Birds Movie (2016), made his live-action debut with the film; Matt Lieberman wrote the screenplay.
Q 03Which Home Alone director produced the first film and directed the sequel?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus produced the first film through his company 1492 Pictures, then directed the sequel himself and co-wrote its script with Matt Lieberman.
Q 04On what date did The Christmas Chronicles premiere on Netflix?
November 22, 2018
November 22, 2018 was Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and Netflix released the film that morning, timed to open the holiday season.
Q 05Who plays Teddy Pierce?
Judah Lewis
Judah Lewis plays Teddy, the sullen older brother drifting into trouble; he had starred as Cole in Netflix's horror comedy The Babysitter the year before.
Q 06How old is Kate Pierce in the first film?
11
She is the one who still believes, and the one with the camcorder.
Q 07Which actress plays Kate Pierce?
Darby Camp
Darby Camp plays Kate, the camcorder-wielding believer; she had already played Chloe, Madeline's daughter, in HBO's Big Little Lies.
Q 08Who plays Claire Pierce, the children's widowed mother?
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, best known as the bride in Father of the Bride (1991), plays Claire Pierce, the nurse called to work on Christmas Eve; she is married to country singer Brad Paisley.
Q 09What was the job of Doug Pierce, the children's late father?
Firefighter
Firefighter Doug Pierce died in a fire, and the family's home videos of him open the film; his absence is why Teddy has soured on Christmas.
Q 10Which actor plays Doug Pierce?
Oliver Hudson
Oliver Hudson, seen mostly in the family's home videos as the late Doug, is better known for the sitcom Rules of Engagement and the series Nashville.
Q 11Who makes a cameo as Mrs. Claus at the end of the first film?
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn, the real-life partner of the film's Santa since 1983, appears in the closing scene as Mrs. Claus and returned with a full role in the sequel.
Q 12Which New Girl actor plays Officer Mikey Jameson?
Lamorne Morris
Lamorne Morris, New Girl's Winston Bishop, plays Officer Jameson, the cop who spends Christmas Eve trying to work out how his jailed prisoner in red knows everything about him.
Q 13Where does the Pierce family live in the first film?
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts is the Pierces' hometown, shown in years of home videos that open the film; the sleigh crash later strands Santa and the kids hundreds of miles away.
Q 21Why is it so urgent for Santa to finish deliveries before dawn?
Christmas spirit will decline
Christmas spirit will decline if presents go undelivered, Santa explains, and the film treats that spirit as a measurable resource whose collapse would bring misery around the world.
Q 22Where does Kate end up after she climbs into Santa's magic bag of presents?
Santa's workshop at the North Pole
Santa's workshop at the North Pole is where the bag deposits Kate, and she returns from it with the elves to help rescue Santa.
Q 23What present does Teddy receive at the end of the first film?
Q 14What does Teddy get up to that Kate catches on video?
Stealing a car
Stealing a car with his friends is what Kate's camcorder catches, and she uses the footage to blackmail Teddy into helping her stake out Santa on Christmas Eve.
Q 15In which city does Santa's sleigh crash after the kids stow away?
Chicago
Chicago is where the sleigh comes down after Santa, startled by the stowaways, loses control mid-teleport; the rest of the night unfolds across the city.
Q 16Which three things does Santa say he lost in the crash?
His reindeer, his hat and his bag of presents
His reindeer, his hat and his bag of presents all scatter across the city in the crash, and the hat matters most, since without it Santa cannot use his magic to finish the deliveries.
Q 17What happens after Teddy and the man in red distract the police with a car chase?
He is arrested
He is arrested: the police catch Santa after the chase and put him in a holding cell, where he spends part of Christmas Eve and stages the film's musical number.
Q 18Which Elvis-associated song gets performed in the jail cell?
Santa Claus Is Back in Town
Santa Claus Is Back in Town, written by Leiber and Stoller for Elvis Presley's 1957 Christmas album, is the number Santa belts out with the cell-block band.
Q 19Which E Street Band member's group backs Santa on the jailhouse number?
Little Steven
Little Steven, the E Street Band guitarist, brings his Disciples of Soul to play the cell-block band, with the group's members appearing as fellow prisoners.
Q 20Which of these is NOT one of Santa's elves named in the first film?
Wolfie
The crew are Lars, Jojo, Hugg, Fleck, Bjorn and Mina, and they speak their own subtitled elf language.
A magic ornament
It is the same one his father was given as a boy.
Q 24How many households did Netflix say streamed the first film in its opening week?
20 million
20 million accounts streamed it in its first week, Netflix said, which made it one of the streamer's biggest original-film launches to that point.
Q 25Where was the first film shot?
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario and its suburbs stood in for both the Pierces' hometown and the crash city, so the wintry street scenes were shot in Canada.
Q 26When was The Christmas Chronicles 2 released?
November 25, 2020
November 25, 2020, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, was the Netflix release date; the sequel reunited the original's Santa and the Pierce siblings.
Q 27Where is Kate unhappily spending Christmas at the start of the sequel?
Cancun, Mexico
Cancun, Mexico is where Claire has taken the kids for Christmas with her new boyfriend and his son; Kate, a cynical teen by now, wants snow and her old traditions, so she plots to run away.
Q 28Who plays the sequel's villain, Belsnickel?
Julian Dennison
Julian Dennison, the New Zealand star of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Deadpool 2, plays Belsnickel, whose name comes from a fur-clad Christmas figure of German folklore.
Q 29Why is Belsnickel human rather than an elf?
He was cursed for becoming unruly
He was cursed for becoming unruly: after years of feeling neglected by Santa he rebelled and broke the elves' rules, and the curse turned him human; that resentment is the wound the whole sequel is built on.
Q 30To what year are Kate and Jack sent when Belsnickel's wormhole misfires?
1990
1990 is where the misfiring wormhole drops Kate and Jack, at Boston's Logan Airport on Christmas Eve, with no way home until they can reach Santa.