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50 free Han Solo trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Han Solo started life in George Lucas's first draft as a green-skinned alien with gills and no nose. Three drafts later he was a James Dean-style star pilot with a streak of Humphrey Bogart, and Harrison Ford, hired only to read lines for other auditioners, talked his way into the part. Nearly fifty years on, the smuggler is still arguing with the bounty hunter who cornered him in the cantina. These 50 questions cover the whole arc: the Alderaan charter, the carbonite, the general on Endor, the son who ends him on Starkiller Base, and the 2018 prequel that lost Disney tens of millions after its directors were fired mid-shoot. Easy questions stick to the films everyone has seen. The middle tier asks about the Special Edition edit, the Kessel Run, the Falcon's Space: 1999 problem and the card game that won the ship. The expert tier reaches for Ureallians, Sana Starros, Darth Caedus and the airliner that gives the Falcon its hyperspace sound. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something on a miss. Play it solo, naturally, or print it for game night.
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Q 01Who plays Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy?
Harrison Ford
Ford was a self-taught carpenter between acting jobs when Lucas cast him; he later reprised Han in the sequel trilogy too.
Q 02Who plays the young Han in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)?
Alden Ehrenreich
More than 3,000 actors were seen for the part; Ford met Ehrenreich to offer advice before filming.
Q 03In Lucas's earliest screenplay, Han was a green-skinned, gilled alien of which race?
Ureallian
He was also a member of the Jedi Bendu; the next draft made him a bearded pirate before he became a James Dean-style pilot.
Q 04Which classic Hollywood star did Lucas use as a reference point for Han?
Humphrey Bogart
Lucas made the character human so his relationships with the other human leads could develop; Chewbacca became the alien sidekick.
Q 05Lucas initially resisted casting Ford because they had already worked together on which film?
American Graffiti
Lucas preferred unknowns, so he asked Ford to read lines with other auditioners, then ended up casting him anyway.
Q 06In Star Wars (1977), Han is hired to fly Luke and Obi-Wan from Tatooine to which planet?
Alderaan
They arrive to find the planet already obliterated by the Death Star, and the Falcon is pulled aboard the station.
Q 07Which bounty hunter corners Han in the Mos Eisley cantina?
Greedo
Paul Blake said the scene exists because an effects-heavy Jabba introduction was cut for budget; the Jabba scene returned in 1997.
Q 08What did the 1997 Special Edition change in the cantina confrontation?
Greedo fires first
Lucas said he wanted Han to be John Wayne, who lets the other man take the first shot; fans were not persuaded.
Q 09Lucas wore a "Han shot first" T-shirt on the set of which of his films?
Revenge of the Sith
He wore it again on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, while insisting the original cut no longer really existed.
Q 10Which word did the bounty hunter shout before firing in the 2019 Disney+ cantina edit?
Maclunkey
Sebulba uses the same Huttese threat in The Phantom Menace; Paul Blake said he could not understand a word of it.
Q 11Asked in a 2014 Reddit AMA who shot first, what did Ford reply?
I don't know and I don't care
Legal scholar John P. Gross argued the same year that Greedo's threat would justify pre-emptive self-defence under US law.
Q 12Who plays Han's criminal mentor Tobias Beckett in Solo?
Woody Harrelson
Bale had been in talks for the role; Harrelson revealed the character's name in March 2017, ending speculation he was Legends figure Garris Shrike.
Q 13Beckett, Han's mentor in Solo, was based on which literary character?
Long John Silver
Q 21Who took over directing Solo for the remaining shoot and five weeks of reshoots?
Ron Howard
Howard had once turned down The Phantom Menace; he ended up reshooting around 70% of the film.
Q 22Under what working title did Solo begin filming at Pinewood in January 2017?
Red Cup
Internally the project had earlier been codenamed "Harry and the Boy" and was meant to follow The Force Awakens.
Q 23Roughly what was Solo's production budget, making it one of the priciest films ever?
$300 million
It needed around $600 million to break even and grossed $393 million, the first Star Wars film to bomb.
Jonathan Kasdan also cited Unforgiven, Heat, The Big Lebowski and Gangster No. 1 as influences on the script.
Q 14In Solo, who gives Han the surname "Solo"?
An Imperial recruiting officer
He gets the name for having no family when he enlists as a flight cadet, three years before being expelled for insubordination.
Q 15On which planet does Solo depict the 19-year-old Han living as an orphan?
Corellia
The comic adaptation adds that he knew his father worked in the planet's shipyards.
Q 16Which Game of Thrones star plays Han's childhood love Qi'ra in Solo?
Emilia Clarke
Tessa Thompson, Zoë Kravitz and Naomi Scott were among those considered before Clarke was cast in late 2016.
Q 17Who plays the young Lando opposite Ehrenreich's Han?
Donald Glover
Billy Dee Williams met Glover to pass on advice; Glover deliberately pronounced the name "Han" the way Lucas does.
Q 18How did Han finally take ownership of the Millennium Falcon from Lando?
He won it at sabacc
Lando cheated to win the first game; Han pocketed the hidden card before the rematch so the same trick could not work twice.
Q 19Which Fleabag creator voices Lando's droid co-pilot in Solo?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
L3-37's consciousness is uploaded into the Falcon, retroactively explaining why C-3PO calls the ship's dialect peculiar in Empire.
Q 20Which directing duo was fired from Solo in June 2017 over "creative differences"?
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Lucasfilm felt they were steering a comedy and encouraging too much improvisation; they kept executive producer credits.
Q 24Which John Williams piece serves as Han's theme in Solo?
The Adventures of Han
John Powell composed the rest of the score and wove Williams' new theme in alongside motifs from the earlier films.
Q 25In the 1978 Holiday Special, Han celebrates Life Day on which planet?
Kashyyyk
Ford played Han in the live-action segments and voiced him in the animated one.
Q 26After freezing Han in carbonite, Vader hands him to which bounty hunter?
Boba Fett
Leia confesses her love just before the freezing; a year later the slab is a decoration in Jabba's palace.
Q 27What rank has Han attained when he leads the shield-generator strike team?
General
He enlists a tribe of Ewoks to help, and the shield comes down in time for Lando to destroy the second Death Star.
Q 28Han's strike team disables the shield generator on which forest moon?
Endor
The reunion there closes the original trilogy with the celebration of the Empire's fall.
Q 29Where is Han betrayed to the Empire in The Empire Strikes Back?
Cloud City
Lucas's early outline had Han meeting a business leader who was like a stepfather; the finished film made it an old friend under duress.
Q 30Who kills Han in The Force Awakens?
Kylo Ren
Abrams cut an early draft in which Han survived and reconciled with Leia, feeling the death gave his son a path to rival Vader.