Holiday Movie Trivia Jeopardy
Elf, Home Alone, Love Actually, the black-and-white classics and the newer favorites on one holiday movie board. Copy it free and play with phone buzzers.
6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.
Hosting opens the presenter screen with a join code for everyone's phones. Either way the board is a copy of your own. Free, no account needed.
Every clue on this board
This page is public, so anyone can read the answers — copy the board and swap a few clues before game day.
Buddy the Elf
- $200
Buddy, a human raised by elves at the North Pole, is played by this former Saturday Night Live star.
Who is Will Ferrell?
- $400
Buddy lists the four main elf food groups as candy, candy canes, candy corns and this.
What is syrup?
- $600
Buddy's father, a children's book publisher, has his office in this famous New York skyscraper.
What is the Empire State Building?
- $800
Jovie, the department store elf Buddy falls for, is played by this actress, who sings "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in the shower.
Who is Zooey Deschanel?
- $1,000
Elf was directed by this filmmaker, who went on to direct Iron Man five years later.
Who is Jon Favreau?
Home Alone
- $200
Kevin McCallister, the eight-year-old left behind, is played by this child actor.
Who is Macaulay Culkin?
- $400
The McCallister family flies to this European capital for Christmas, without Kevin.
What is Paris?
- $600
Harry and Marv call themselves this, after Marv's habit of flooding the houses they rob.
Who are the Wet Bandits?
- $800
Kevin scares off a pizza delivery boy by playing this fake black-and-white gangster movie.
What is Angels with Filthy Souls?
- $1,000
Home Alone was written and produced by this filmmaker behind The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Who is John Hughes?
Love Actually
- $200
Hugh Grant's character holds this office and dances his way through 10 Downing Street.
What is prime minister?
- $400
Aging rocker Billy Mack, who records a shameless Christmas single, is played by this actor.
Who is Bill Nighy?
- $600
Emma Thompson's character expects a gold necklace for Christmas and instead unwraps a CD by this singer.
Who is Joni Mitchell?
- $800
The film opens and closes with real footage of people greeting each other at arrivals in this London airport.
What is Heathrow?
- $1,000
Love Actually was the first film directed by this screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill.
Who is Richard Curtis?
Old Hollywood
- $200
"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings" comes from this 1946 Frank Capra film.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
- $400
In this 1947 film, a department store Santa named Kris Kringle goes on trial to prove he's the real thing.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
- $600
Bing Crosby first sang "White Christmas" on screen in this 1942 film, twelve years before the movie named for the song.
What is Holiday Inn?
- $800
The Shop Around the Corner, about feuding coworkers who are secretly pen pals, was remade in 1998 as this Tom Hanks film.
What is You've Got Mail?
- $1,000
Many critics call this actor's Ebenezer in the 1951 British film Scrooge the definitive one.
Who is Alastair Sim?
Animated Holidays
- $200
In a 1966 special narrated by Boris Karloff, this green character's heart grows three sizes in one day.
Who is the Grinch?
- $400
In this 1964 stop-motion special, a misfit reindeer befriends Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist.
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
- $600
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown skips the aluminum ones and picks a scrawny real one of these.
What is a Christmas tree?
- $800
Frosty the Snowman comes to life in the 1969 special when the children put this on his head.
What is a top hat?
- $1,000
This Back to the Future director made The Polar Express with performance capture, letting Tom Hanks play several roles.
Who is Robert Zemeckis?
Newer Favorites
- $200
In Red One, Dwayne Johnson plays the head of security for this kidnapped man, code name Red One.
Who is Santa Claus?
- $400
Klaus, the Oscar-nominated animated film about a postman who helps invent Santa, was released by this streaming service.
What is Netflix?
- $600
In Violent Night, this Stranger Things star plays a Santa who fights off armed robbers.
Who is David Harbour?
- $800
In The Holiday, Kate Winslet's character swaps her English cottage for a Los Angeles mansion owned by this actress's character.
Who is Cameron Diaz?
- $1,000
Da'Vine Joy Randolph won this Academy Award for The Holdovers, set at a boarding school over Christmas break.
What is Best Supporting Actress?
Final Jeopardy — Is It a Christmas Movie?
Die Hard, the 1988 film many people insist is a Christmas movie, takes place during an office Christmas party in this fictional Los Angeles skyscraper.
What is Nakatomi Plaza?
How to run this board
Every group has a holiday movie it watches every December, and most have a fight about which one. This board gives each of the big ones a column: Elf, Home Alone and Love Actually get their own, then the Old Hollywood classics, the animated specials, and the newer films that have joined the rotation, from Klaus to The Holdovers.
It works best before the movie starts, while people are still finding a seat, or as the main event at a holiday party where half the room can quote Buddy the Elf. Players buzz in from their phones, so nobody has to leave the couch.
Hosting tip: the Final Jeopardy settles an argument every group has had at least once, so read it slowly and let people protest before you reveal it.
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