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70 free The Santa Clause movie trivia questions with answers. The Santa Clause movie trivia for anyone who watches Tim Allen fall off that roof every December. The quiz covers the 1994 original (Scott Calvin's toy-company job, the business card, the E.L.F.S., the phone-number joke Disney later cut), The Santa Clause 2 (the Mrs. Clause, Toy Santa, the Council of Legendary Figures, Chet the reindeer), The Escape Clause (Martin Short's Jack Frost and Frostmas) and the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses. Easy questions any family viewer can answer come first; later ones cover casting near-misses, filming locations, box office and the composer. It works as a Christmas-movie-night round or a solo test of how well you really know Lakeside, Illinois and the North Pole. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and carries its source. This page is about the films only - for Santa folklore, see the separate Santa Claus quiz.
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Q 01Who plays Scott Calvin in The Santa Clause?
Tim Allen
Both Murray and Chase were offered the part first and turned it down; Allen was then the star of TV's Home Improvement.
Q 02What is Scott Calvin's job at the start of The Santa Clause?
Toy-company marketing director
He is 37 and works for a toy firm in Lakeside, Illinois; his boss Mr. Whittle is played by Peter Boyle.
Q 03How does Scott end up in the red suit on Christmas Eve?
He startles Santa, who falls off the roof
Santa's body vanishes, leaving the suit and a business card telling the finder to put it on; the fine print is the 'Santa Clause' of the title.
Q 04What does Santa leave behind for Scott after vanishing?
His suit and a business card
The card instructs the reader to wear the suit should anything unfortunate happen; putting it on is treated as a binding contract.
Q 05Which young actor plays Scott's son Charlie in the 1994 film?
Eric Lloyd
Lloyd returned for both sequels and made a cameo as the grown-up Charlie in the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses.
Q 06What is the profession of Neil, Laura's second husband, played by Judge Reinhold?
Psychiatrist
His scepticism about Santa is a running joke; by the end he gets the childhood gift he always wanted.
Q 07Who plays Bernard, the sarcastic head elf, in the first two Santa Clause films?
David Krumholtz
He skipped the third film over scheduling and a feeling the character had been devalued, then returned for the Disney+ series two decades later.
Q 08Why did the actor who played Bernard sit out The Santa Clause 3?
Scheduling, and he felt the role was devalued
Curtis was promoted into Bernard's job for the third film; Krumholtz was by then the star of the CBS series Numb3rs.
Q 09What physical change does Scott notice as the Clause takes hold?
He gains weight and craves sweets
He balloons to 192 pounds and sprouts a beard that grows back as fast as he shaves it.
Q 10Which telephone-number joke was cut from The Santa Clause on US home video from 1999 onward?
1-800-SPANK-ME
Disney removed the exchange after reports of children calling the number, which turned out to be a real adult line.
Q 11Where was The Santa Clause filmed?
The Greater Toronto Area
Oakville, Ontario stood in for Lakeside, Illinois, and the reindeer came from the Toronto Zoo.
Q 12Roughly how much did The Santa Clause take worldwide on its $22M budget?
$190M
Audiences gave it an A-minus CinemaScore; it opened in second place but became the holiday hit of 1994.
Q 13How is Scott freed after Laura and Neil, thinking he has kidnapped Charlie, have him arrested?
The elves break him out of jail
The elite squad calls itself E.L.F.S.; the escape leads to the finale where Laura tears up the custody papers.
Q 21Which of these is NOT a member of the Council of Legendary Figures in The Santa Clause 2?
The Grinch
The council is Mother Nature, Father Time, Cupid, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman; Peter Boyle plays Father Time.
Q 22Why is Charlie on the naughty list in The Santa Clause 2?
He vandalised his school
He is spraying graffiti to get attention; sorting it out puts Scott in front of Principal Newman.
Q 23What is Chet in The Santa Clause 2?
A reindeer-in-training
Scott flies him to Lakeside because Comet is out of action, with predictably rough landings.
Q 14What gift from Bernard lets Charlie summon his father at the end of the film?
A snow globe
Shaking it brings Santa; Charlie is with the sleigh again when it lifts off for the last deliveries.
Q 15Which studio originally acquired the Santa Clause script in 1992?
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures was a Disney label; the finished film went out under the Walt Disney Pictures banner via Buena Vista.
Q 16Who directed the original 1994 film?
John Pasquin
Pasquin had directed Tim Allen on Home Improvement; Michael Lembeck took over for both sequels.
Q 17In the week The Santa Clause topped the box office in 1994, Tim Allen also had which two other number-ones?
The top TV show and a No. 1 bestselling book
Home Improvement was TV's top show and Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man led the New York Times list; a year later he voiced Buzz Lightyear.
Q 18What new obligation does Scott discover in The Santa Clause 2?
He must marry before Christmas Eve
The 'Mrs. Clause' means he loses the job unless he weds; the search leads him to Charlie's school principal.
Q 19Who plays Carol Newman, the principal who becomes Mrs. Claus?
Elizabeth Mitchell
Mitchell later starred in Lost and returned as Carol in the Disney+ series.
Q 20What does Scott's tech-minded elf build so he can leave the North Pole to find a wife?
An animatronic Toy Santa
The plastic double turns tyrant, declares everyone naughty and builds an army of giant toy soldiers.
Q 24What is happening to Scott physically in The Santa Clause 2 as his contract nears its end?
He is 'de-Santafying' back to his old self
The weight drops and the beard thins; the process reverses once he finds his Mrs. Claus.
Q 25How does Scott liven up the dull faculty Christmas party in The Santa Clause 2?
By handing out everyone's childhood dream gifts
The gifts win over the teachers and, more importantly, Carol.
Q 26Which member of the Council of Legendary Figures is played by Peter Boyle in The Santa Clause 2?
Father Time
Boyle had been Scott's boss Mr. Whittle in the first film; Kevin Pollak is Cupid.
Q 27Who plays Jack Frost, the villain of The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause?
Martin Short
Frost tricks Scott into wishing he had never been Santa; the alternate North Pole becomes a theme park celebrating 'Frostmas'.
Q 28What does the Escape Clause do in the third film?
Undoes his becoming Santa
The holder wishes to have 'never been Santa at all'; Frost grabs the globe and rewrites the past.
Q 29Which veteran actors play Carol's parents, Bud and Sylvia Newman, in The Santa Clause 3?
Alan Arkin and Ann-Margret
They are brought to the North Pole believing it is Canada; Carol goes into labour with baby Buddy on Christmas Eve.
Q 30What does Jack Frost rename Christmas in the alternate timeline of The Santa Clause 3?
Frostmas
He has turned the North Pole into a paying theme park; the film was nominated for a Razzie for Worst Prequel or Sequel.