Film Quiz Friday's Christmas Vacation | 30 festive film questions

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It’s that time, Christmas time is here… hip-hip hooray for Film Quiz Friday, back with another 30 movie-related questions make you feel festive. Like Mariah Carey, snowball cocktails, and, apparently, Doctor Who, Festive Film Quiz Fridays only come out at Christmas. Under the quiz-mas tree this year, questions about Christmas movies at home and abroad, ... Film Quiz Friday’s Christmas Vacation | 30 festive film questions

It’s that time, Christmas time is here… hip-hip hooray for Film Quiz Friday, back with another 30 movie-related questions make you feel festive.

Like Mariah Carey, snowball cocktails, and, apparently, Doctor Who, Festive Film Quiz Fridays only come out at Christmas. Under the quiz-mas tree this year, questions about Christmas movies at home and abroad, plus a big fat double-points bonus round with a bow on top. Whether you’re playing solo to get in the Christmassy mood or looking for something to do with family and friends over the next few weeks, there are 40 big points to be won in 2025’s Christmas film quiz challenge.

Here’s how it works – once you’ve completed all 30 questions, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. As always, this is just for fun, and there are no prizes, but please let us know how you did in the comments and give us any other lovely feedback. Or if you don’t enjoy it, let us have it a la Clark Griswold. Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?

ROUND ONE – Home for Christmas

First up, a round all about British Christmas movies, from festive favourites to this year’s cinema and streaming offerings. (10 points)

1. Born this week, who won a BAFTA for playing rock star Billy Mack in Love Actually?

2. Which British film has sequels subtitled Danger In The Manger and Dude, Where’s My Donkey?

3. Out now! Which actor connects 2025’s British Christmas movies Christmas Karma and Tinsel Town?

4. Which animated character headlines the 2021 animated short The Flight Before Christmas?

5. Complete the title of the Scottish Christmas zombie musical: Anna And The… what?

6. 2014’s The Man Who Invented Christmas is a film about which English author?

7. Which not-very-festive fantasy film stars Dev Patel as Sir Gawain?

8. Which Oscar winner plays Santa in both 2011’s Arthur Christmas and 2014’s Get Santa?

9. Which 1982 animated short’s live-action prologue features David Bowie as the grown-up version of the main character?

10. “Donna & Blitzen” is a Christmas song from Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack to which 2002 comedy?

ROUND TWO – Christmas Around The World

Joyeux Noël, Buon Natale, and Feliz Navidad! This round is your passport to foreign-language Christmas movies and some English-language ones with international bits. (10 points)

11. In which country is the animated movie Tokyo Godfathers set?

12. Elf begins with Buddy the elf travelling from the North Pole to which city?

13. In Gremlins, Mr Wing calls the creature “mogwai”, Cantonese for “devil”. What does Billy Peltzer name him instead?

14. Which Christmas-set hitman drama connects Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes?

15. Which James Bond movie sees Blofeld decorating his Christmas tree and handing out deadly gifts to beautiful women in the Swiss Alps?

16. Still playing in cinemas! Who plays Jesus’ step-dad Joseph a.k.a. The Carpenter in the 2025 Biblical thriller The Carpenter’s Son?

17. In Die Hard, what is Hans Gruber’s nationality?

18. Chronicling the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which Christmas-set disaster movie connects Naomi Watts, Tom Holland, and Ewan McGregor?

19. The French film Joyeux Noël is set during which period: World War I or World War II?

20. In a 2015 movie of the same name, where do parents-of-the-year Scott and Karen Mitchell decide to send their kids while they finalise their divorce before Christmas?

ROUND THREE – The Marley And Marley Memorial Round

And finally, like Christmas socks, Lynx Africa sets, and Scrooge’s Muppet business partners, all the answers in this round come in pairs. Two possible answers per question, one point for each. (20 points)

21. “Whooooooaaaa!” What are the first names of Marley and Marley in The Muppet Christmas Carol?

22. Which two actors play single women who swap houses in 2006’s The Holiday?

23. Also in cinemas now! What two words both go before Night in the title of a Christmas horror remake?

24. In which two movies does Bing Crosby sing “White Christmas”?

25. At the beginning of Scrooged, everyone on Frank Cross’ Christmas present list is assigned one of which two gifts?

26. More Muppets! Which Sesame Street duo coincidentally share their names with two cop characters from It’s A Wonderful Life?

27. Tim Burton directed two Christmas-set movies in the 1990s – name them.

28. Per the sequel subtitles, what are the second and third contractual Clauses in Disney’s Santa Clause movies called?

29. Which two actors play an angel called Dudley, in 1947’s The Bishop’s Wife and its 1996 remake The Preacher’s Wife?

30. And finally, in which cities do the McCallister family plan to spend Christmas in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York?

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Ready for the answers?

That’s the end of this week’s film quiz – when you’re ready to check your answers, click here to get them (it’ll take you to another page) and let us know your scores in the comments below. We’ll be back next week with a 2025-themed quiz, but until then, check out Issue 58 of Film Stories Magazine, which features 50 more questions about this year in film!

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