50 Fun Facts About Star Wars Trivia for Kids

The first Star Wars movie has which subtitle?

A New Hope was only added in 1981. The film opened in 1977 as plain Star Wars, and the 'Episode IV' title arrived with a re-release after the first sequel had already come out.

Who created Star Wars and directed the first film?

George Lucas first tried to buy the film rights to Flash Gordon, the space serial he had loved as a boy. When he couldn't get them, he wrote his own space adventure instead.

The small green Jedi Master Yoda dies at what age?

900 years old is his own count: "When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not," he teases Luke, moments before he lies down and fades away into the Force.

On which swampy planet does Yoda live in hiding during the original Star Wars trilogy?

Dagobah is where Luke crash-lands in a swamp looking for a great Jedi Master, and at first he has no idea that the odd little creature pestering him is the teacher he came to find.

Chewbacca belongs to which tall, hairy species?

Wookiee roars like Chewbacca's were never acted: the film's sound designer mixed them from recordings of real animals, mostly bears, with walruses, lions and badgers.

Which traditional weapon of his people does Chewbacca carry?

A bowcaster is a kind of laser crossbow. In The Force Awakens Han Solo borrows Chewbacca's, sends stormtroopers flying and tells him, "I like this thing."

R2-D2 belongs to which class of droid?

Astromech droid R2-D2 is the reason the Rebels can win in the first film: Princess Leia hides the stolen Death Star plans inside him just before she is captured.

C-3PO boasts of being fluent in over how many forms of communication?

Six million forms of communication make him a walking translator: in Return of the Jedi he speaks the Ewoks' language, and they decide the golden droid must be a god.

Who built C-3PO, according to The Phantom Menace?

Anakin Skywalker builds the droid from spare parts as a slave boy on Tatooine, to help his mother with her work. The fussy droid's maker grows up to be Darth Vader.

How did Han Solo get the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian?

He won it in a card game called sabacc. Years later Han lends the ship back to Lando for a great battle, and this time it is Lando who has to promise that it won't get a scratch.

What gives a lightsaber blade its colour?

A kyber crystal in the handle powers the blade and gives it its colour. Kylo Ren's red blade spits and crackles because the crystal inside it is cracked.

Which Jedi Master carries a purple lightsaber, at the request of the actor who played him?

Mace Windu's purple blade exists because Samuel L. Jackson asked for one: purple is his favourite colour, and he wanted to be easy to pick out among all the other Jedi.

Darth Vader is the father of which two twins?

Luke and Leia were split up as babies to hide them from their father: Luke grew up on a desert farm and Leia as a princess far away, and for years neither knew the other existed.

Who provided Darth Vader's deep voice in the films?

James Earl Jones recorded the lines later in a studio. David Prowse, the bodybuilder inside the suit, spoke them on set, but the director wanted a darker voice than his West Country accent.

Princess Leia is a princess of which planet?

Alderaan's rulers adopted Leia as a baby and raised her as their daughter. In the first film the Death Star destroys the whole planet while she is made to watch.

What shape is the Death Star?

A sphere like a moon is exactly what fools the heroes: Luke takes it for a small moon until Obi-Wan says, "That's no moon. It's a space station."

What is unusual about the sky over the desert planet Tatooine?

It has two suns, and so do some real planets: in 2011 NASA's Kepler telescope found one, Kepler-16b, which NASA calls a Tatooine-like planet.

Where was the desert planet Tatooine filmed for the original Star Wars?

Tunisia's desert had a surprise for the crew: a rare rainstorm hit just as filming began. Luke's home was shot in a real underground hotel in the town of Matmata.

The furry little Ewoks live on the forest moon of which planet?

Endor's Ewoks were invented to show a tribe with stone-age weapons bringing down a high-tech Empire: in Return of the Jedi their logs and rocks help defeat its armoured troops.

Where were Return of the Jedi's Ewok scenes filmed?

A redwood forest in California supplied the giant trees. For the speeder bike chase a cameraman simply walked through it, filming about one frame a second, so the playback looks blindingly fast.

What does the crime lord Jabba the Hutt look like?

A big slug with a wide mouth, and a real one: Jabba was a one-ton puppet, among the largest ever built for a film, and it took three puppeteers to bring him to life.

Which Star Wars pilot owns the rolling round droid BB-8?

Poe Dameron's droid looks like a computer effect but was mostly a real puppet on set: puppeteers rolled BB-8 along on rods that were erased from the picture afterwards.

The character everyone calls Baby Yoda has what real name?

Grogu's name stayed a secret for the show's whole first season. It came out only when the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano spoke with him through the Force and learned it.

What is special about Darth Maul's red lightsaber?

It has two blades, one at each end, so Maul can fight two Jedi at once, spinning it like a staff, until Obi-Wan Kenobi slices the weapon in half.

A nine-year-old slave boy wins what race in The Phantom Menace?

A podrace: the boy wins the Boonta Eve Classic, and with it a bet a Jedi had made with his owner, so he leaves Tatooine a free child on his way to Jedi training.

In Attack of the Clones, the Republic's whole clone army is copied from which bounty hunter?

Jango Fett asked for one extra thing in his pay: a clone left unchanged and allowed to grow up at a normal pace, whom he raised as his son, Boba.

Star Wars Day is celebrated on which date, thanks to a pun?

May 4 works because 'May the Fourth' sounds like 'May the Force be with you'. In 1979 Margaret Thatcher's party ran a London newspaper advert telling her, "May the Fourth Be with You."

The porgs in The Last Jedi were invented because of what real animals on the filming location?

Puffins nest all over Skellig Michael, the Irish island used for Luke's hideaway, and the law protects them, so instead of erasing every bird the crew turned them into porgs.

Hoth, home of the Rebels' Echo Base, is covered entirely in what?

Snow and ice were real: the Hoth scenes were filmed on a glacier in Norway during a fierce snowstorm, and some shots were taken just outside the door of the crew's hotel.

What does Darth Vader freeze Han Solo in at the end of The Empire Strikes Back?

Carbonite was really a test: Vader froze Han first to find out whether a person could survive it, because he planned to freeze Luke the same way.

Kylo Ren was born with which name?

Ben Solo is the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa. He calls himself Kylo Ren after turning to the dark side, and at the end of The Rise of Skywalker he throws away his lightsaber and becomes Ben again.

Which starfighter does Luke fly when he destroys the first Death Star?

An X-wing is named for its four wings, which open into an X for battle. Luke makes the winning shot after switching off his targeting computer and trusting the Force.

How many Sith Lords are supposed to exist at the same time?

Two: a master and an apprentice. An ancient Sith Lord called Darth Bane made the rule after power struggles had left the Sith weak enough for the Jedi to nearly destroy them.

Which actor plays Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy?

Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter and had only been hired to read lines with the actors trying out. He read them so well that he won the part himself.

Which actor played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy?

Peter Mayhew was a hospital orderly who stood 7 feet 3 inches tall. He won the part the moment he stood up to greet the director.

What language does Chewbacca speak?

Shyriiwook is a language of roars and growls. In the film Solo, young Han is thrown into a pit with a furious Chewbacca and saves himself by growling a few words of it; they escape together.

Which composer wrote the first Star Wars film's Oscar-winning music?

John Williams had just written the famous music for Jaws, and that film's director recommended him to the makers of Star Wars.

Which droid fixes the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive at the end of The Empire Strikes Back?

R2-D2 had learned from the city's central computer that the hyperdrive was only switched off, so he turns it back on just in time while C-3PO is still scolding him.

Which planet is Chewbacca's home world?

Kashyyyk is covered in giant trees with homes built high in the branches. In Revenge of the Sith, Yoda himself goes there to help defend it from an invading droid army.

Which actor played the little robot R2-D2 from inside the costume in the original films?

Kenny Baker sat inside the droid's shell to make it wobble, turn its head and flash its lights. Other shots used a remote-controlled copy with nobody inside.

Rey, the hero of The Force Awakens, grew up scavenging parts on which desert planet?

Jakku is littered with wrecked Star Destroyers from an old battle. Rey, abandoned there as a child, climbs through the wrecks pulling out parts to trade for food.

Which trooper number did Finn have as a First Order stormtrooper before he ran away?

FN-2187 is where his name comes from: the Resistance pilot he rescues turns the letters FN into 'Finn'. The digits match Princess Leia's cell number in the very first film.

Who moved and voiced the Yoda puppet in The Empire Strikes Back?

Frank Oz got the job because Jim Henson, the Muppets' creator, was too busy to do it himself and recommended his partner, the performer of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear.

What is the real name of the helmeted bounty hunter in The Mandalorian?

Din Djarin's name goes unspoken for almost the whole first season, until the villain Moff Gideon says it aloud in the finale to show how much he knows.

Mandalorian armour is made from which special metal that lightsabers cannot cut through?

Beskar is the hero's payment in The Mandalorian: the Empire seized the metal when it purged his people, so each bar he earns is forged back into armour for him.

Jar Jar Binks, the clumsy friend from The Phantom Menace, belongs to which species?

Gungan leaders had banished Jar Jar for being clumsy, yet he ends the film as a general, leading their army against the invaders' battle droids.

Which fourteen-year-old is the elected queen of Naboo in The Phantom Menace?

Padmé Amidala often swaps places with a look-alike handmaiden, so for much of the film the queen on the throne is a decoy and the real one is hiding among her own servants.

In The Empire Strikes Back, Lando Calrissian is in charge of which place?

Cloud City floats high in the sky of a gas planet, mining the gas below. Lando hands his old friend Han over to Darth Vader there, then changes sides and helps the others escape.

Han Solo brags that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than how many parsecs?

Twelve is the boast, and when Rey says fourteen in The Force Awakens, Han snaps back "Twelve!" A parsec measures distance, not time; the film Solo shows the run as a dangerous shortcut.

In The Mandalorian and her own series, Ahsoka Tano fights with two lightsabers of which unusual colour?

White blades were chosen by the show's makers to mark her as neither Jedi nor Sith: she walked away from the Jedi Order after it wrongly blamed her for a bombing.