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96 free Winter Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
10 free winter movie trivia questions with answers. Are you a winter movie enthusiast? Put your knowledge to the test with our engaging Winter Movie trivia quiz featuring questions about classic holiday films, snowy adventures, and beloved seasonal cinema. Whether you're a casual viewer or a dedicated film buff, this quiz will challenge your memory of the best winter movies ever made.
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Q 01In Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer, where do the last remnants of humanity survive a frozen Earth?
A circumnavigating train
A circumnavigating train carries the survivors after a geoengineering compound called CW-7 backfires and freezes the planet, the poor crammed in the tail and the elite up front.
Q 02What kind of place shelters The Hateful Eight's strangers from the blizzard?
A stagecoach stopover
A stagecoach stopover called Minnie's Haberdashery is the refuge; Tarantino dropped the film when its script leaked online in 2014, then changed his mind after staging a live reading of it.
Q 03Which mountain hosts the rescue mission in the 2000 action film Vertical Limit?
K2
K2, the world's second-highest peak, traps a climbing party in a crevasse; the rescuers haul canisters of nitroglycerine up the mountain to blast a way in.
Q 04In which US state is Christopher Nolan's 2002 thriller 'Insomnia' set?
Alaska
Alaska's summer midnight sun, on top of his guilt, keeps Al Pacino's big-city detective awake in Nightmute, a town played on screen mainly by Squamish in British Columbia.
Q 05Which horned figure of Alpine folklore, a dark companion of Saint Nicholas, stalks a family in a 2015 horror-comedy?
Krampus
Krampus comes for those who have lost their festive spirit; in the film the family's grandmother admits she summoned him herself as a child, and he spared her alone as a reminder.
Q 06The 1997 film "Smilla's Sense of Snow" follows a Greenlander investigating a boy's death in which city?
Copenhagen
Copenhagen police call it a fall from the roof, but Smilla reads the boy's footprints in the snow and sees that he ran straight for the edge; Bille August filmed Peter Høeg's bestseller.
Q 07Which actress plays the title role in Carol, Todd Haynes's 2015 romance that begins in a Manhattan department store at Christmas?
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett's Carol leaves her gloves on the toy counter; when shopgirl Therese posts them back, a thank-you lunch begins their affair.
Q 08In Last Christmas (2019), Emilia Clarke's Kate works as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop in which European capital?
London
London's Covent Garden houses the shop; the plot takes the Wham! lyric literally, as Kate learns that the heart transplanted into her a year earlier came from Tom.
Q 09In 'The Snowman' (2017), inspector Harry Hole works for the police of which city?
Oslo
Oslo is Harry Hole's beat in this adaptation of Jo Nesbø's novel; director Tomas Alfredson blamed its muddled plot on a rushed shoot that left 10 to 15 per cent of the script unfilmed.
Q 10In which US city is Die Hard's Nakatomi Plaza?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles's Nakatomi Plaza is really Fox Plaza, the studio's own Century City tower; almost the whole film was shot in and around it.
Q 11Frozen (2013) was loosely inspired by which Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen of Andersen's 1844 tale is a villain who carries off a boy named Kai; Disney's writers struggled with her for years until they made her the heroine's sister.
Q 12Frozen was the highest-grossing animated film until which 2019 release overtook it?
The Lion King remake
The Lion King remake passed Frozen's $1.28 billion in August 2019, though its own director said the photorealistic film was neither animation nor live action.
Q 13In Home Alone, the McCallisters fly to which city, leaving Kevin behind?
Paris
Q 21The Revenant dramatises the 1823 ordeal of which real frontiersman?
Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass, as the story goes, was mauled by a grizzly and left for dead by his companions, then crawled and stumbled some 200 miles to Fort Kiowa.
Q 22Who directed The Revenant, winning a second straight Best Director Oscar?
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Alejandro G. Iñárritu insisted on shooting by natural light alone, and when Canada turned too warm for snow before he had finished, he took the crew to the tip of Argentina to film the ending.
Q 23Cool Runnings is loosely based on the debut of Jamaica's bobsleigh team at which Winter Olympics?
Calgary 1988
Paris is the family's destination: a power cut stops the alarm clocks overnight, and in the scramble for the airport nobody remembers the boy sent to sleep in the attic.
Q 14Who wrote and produced Home Alone, the 1990 Christmas comedy that Chris Columbus directed?
John Hughes
John Hughes got the idea while packing for a family holiday: listing what he must not forget, he wondered what one of his children would do if left at home.
Q 15In Elf, why is the baby found in Santa's workshop named Buddy?
After his diaper's brand label
After his diaper's brand label: the orphan had crawled unseen into Santa's sack, and Papa Elf adopted him, so Buddy grows to adulthood believing he is an elf.
Q 16In Elf, Buddy's father Walter Hobbs publishes children's books from an office in which New York landmark?
The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is where Buddy first walks in on his father, who takes him for a singing Christmas-gram and has him thrown out.
Q 17Die Hard is based on which 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp?
Nothing Lasts Forever
Nothing Lasts Forever, Roderick Thorp's 1979 sequel to his novel The Detective, supplied the plot; its hero Joe Leland became John McClane and the Klaxon Oil tower became Nakatomi Plaza.
Q 18Which star, then in his seventies, was contractually owed first refusal on Die Hard's lead role?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra had starred in The Detective in 1968, and the novel behind Die Hard was that story's sequel, so the studio had to offer him the part before anyone else; he said no.
Q 19In Fargo, police chief Marge Gunderson works in which Minnesota town?
Brainerd
Brainerd's police chief is seven months pregnant when the roadside killings land on her desk; the title city, over the state line in North Dakota, is merely where the kidnap is arranged in a bar.
Q 20Which two Oscars did Fargo win at the 69th Academy Awards?
Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay
Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay went to Frances McDormand and the Coen brothers, whose script opens by claiming to be a true story; Joel Coen has since called it 'completely made up'.
Calgary 1988 ended in a crash for the real Jamaicans too, but where the film's team carries the sled over the line to a standing ovation, they simply walked beside it.
Q 24In Cool Runnings, why was coach Irv Blitzer disqualified from the 1972 Winter Olympics?
Cheating
Cheating ended Irv Blitzer's career as a champion, and Derice tracks the disgraced coach down working as a bookie; it was the last John Candy film released in his lifetime.
Q 25Groundhog Day was shot almost entirely in which Illinois town standing in for Punxsutawney?
Woodstock
Woodstock, Illinois, doubled for Punxsutawney, and plaques there now mark where scenes were shot, among them the pothole Phil keeps stepping into; filming ran from March to June 1992.
Q 26Which song wakes Phil Connors on the clock radio every morning in Groundhog Day?
"I Got You Babe"
"I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher restarts every loop; director Harold Ramis first put Phil's ordeal at about ten years, then decided it had to be more like thirty or forty.
Q 27Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is based on which self-published 1943 short story?
"The Greatest Gift"
'The Greatest Gift' was written by Philip Van Doren Stern, who printed about 200 copies as a 1943 Christmas card after publishers passed; RKO bought the film rights the next year.
Q 28The 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life became a holiday staple only after what happened in 1974?
Its US copyright lapsed
Its US copyright lapsed in 1974 when the owner failed to file a renewal, so stations could air it royalty-free; repeated broadcasts turned a 1946 box-office disappointment into a classic.
Q 29In It's a Wonderful Life, young George Bailey loses the hearing in one ear after saving whom from an icy pond?
His brother Harry
His brother Harry went through the ice, and the cold George caught pulling him out cost him an ear; Harry grows up to win the Medal of Honor for saving a troopship from a kamikaze.
Q 30Which actor plays multiple roles in The Polar Express, including the conductor?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks played six parts by motion capture, the conductor, the hobo and Santa Claus among them, having optioned the book in 1999 in the hope of playing the conductor.