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50 free The Jedi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
George Lucas called the Jedi warrior-monks and, later, Buddhist monks who happened to be very good at fighting. He nearly named them Jedidiah, borrowed their non-attachment from Zen San Francisco and their story shape from Joseph Campbell, and built them a Temple on Coruscant that sits, pointedly, on top of an old Sith shrine. These 50 questions cover the Order rather than any one Jedi. The easy tier sticks to the Code, the ranks from Initiate to Master, lightsaber colours and Luke's exile on Ahch-To. The middle asks about the twelve-seat High Council, the Gathering on Ilum, the five trials, the Lost Twenty and the Inquisitorius. The expert tier reaches for the Council of First Knowledge, the Shadows, Jocasta Nu, the Trinity College library controversy, the Hagia Sophia minarets and the New Zealanders who made Jedi their country's fastest-growing religion in 2001. Every answer is cited to a page we checked and comes with a short explanation so you learn something on a miss. Play it alone or print it for a Star Wars night.
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Q 01How did George Lucas describe the Jedi in one two-word phrase?
Warrior-monks
Their job, he said, was to keep the governments of all the planets in line so they did not do terrible things.
Q 02The word Jedi may come from jidaigeki, a Japanese term for what kind of film?
Period drama
Other proposed roots include Arabic, Hebrew and the jeds and jeddaks of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom books.
Q 03Which author's Barsoom series, with its jeds and jeddaks, may have inspired the name?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lucas had considered adapting the Mars books to film before making Star Wars.
Q 04In-universe, the word Jedi is said to derive from which kyber-rich planet?
Jedha
The planet, seen in Rogue One, once housed a temple and was a source of the crystals that power lightsabers.
Q 05What name did Lucas originally consider for his knights before settling on Jedi?
Jedidiah
J. W. Rinzler suggests the Buddhist idea of the bodhisattva, an enlightened being who stays to help others, was also in the mix.
Q 06Which Joseph Campbell book directly drove Lucas to build his modern myth?
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Lucas also cited chivalry, bushido, Shaolin, Taoism and Nietzsche among the Jedi's influences.
Q 07How did Lucas label his own religious outlook when explaining Jedi non-attachment?
Buddhist Methodist
He credited growing up in San Francisco, which he called the Zen Buddhism capital of the United States.
Q 08What are Jedi expected not to form, because it leads to the dark side?
Attachments
Lucas insisted Jedi are allowed, even expected, to love; it is the fear of loss that turns to anger and hate.
Q 09The Jedi Code opens "There is no emotion, there is" what?
Peace
It ends with the line that there is no death, there is the Force.
Q 10How many members sit on the Jedi High Council at any one time?
Twelve
Five serve for life, four long-term and three for limited terms; Sifo-Dyas lost his seat for extremist views on a war he foresaw.
Q 11Which body guarded the Temple Archives, the Holocron vaults and the "Shadow program"?
Council of First Knowledge
Reconciliation handled diplomacy with the Senate; Reassignment ran the Service Corps for those who washed out.
Q 12At roughly what age are human Force-sensitive children taken to the Jedi Academy?
5
Yoda turned away both Anakin and Luke as too old for training; parents are usually proud but unlikely to see the child again until adulthood.
Q 13Who destroyed the Archives' records of Force-sensitive children during the Purge?
Yoda
He wiped them before Vader stormed the Temple, so the Sith could not exploit the children.
Q 21Which two characters are named as Grand Masters of the Jedi Order?
Yoda and Luke Skywalker
The Grand Master is voted in unanimously by the High Council and serves as the Order's figurehead.
Q 22Who was Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives around the time of the Clone Wars?
Jocasta Nu
The post ranks second only to the Grand Master in administrative importance.
Q 23Who held the post of Master of the Order, chairing the High Council, during the Clone Wars?
Mace Windu
The role acts as the Council's chief of staff and its spokesperson to the Senate.
Q 14Which is the first of the four stages of Jedi training?
Initiate
Most Initiates are Younglings, and their first decade is deliberately walled off from outside attachments.
Q 15In the tradition called The Gathering, younglings travel to Ilum to harvest what?
Kyber crystals
Each crystal is colourless until attuned, and each child must learn a lesson such as courage, patience or trust to find theirs.
Q 16What did Old Republic Padawans traditionally wear on the right side of their head?
A braid
Species without hair wore a bead string; it was cut with a lightsaber on the day of knighthood.
Q 17What military rank did Padawans hold in the Grand Army during the Clone Wars?
Commander
Their Knight and Master mentors served as Generals, which is how Ahsoka came to lead clone troops as a teenager.
Q 18Which of these is one of the five trials a Padawan must pass to become a Knight?
Trial of the Flesh
The others are Skill, Courage, Spirit and Insight; an extraordinary deed can also earn the rank outright.
Q 19What trial did Yoda set Luke so he could become a full Knight?
Face Vader a second time
By the Skywalker Saga the Republic had not seen war in a thousand years, so Knight was simply a rank again.
Q 20Obi-Wan earned Jedi status through the extraordinary act of defeating whom?
Darth Maul
He later became a Master the usual way, by training Anakin to the point of passing the trials.
Q 24Jedi Guardians, the warrior class, are identified by which lightsaber colour?
Blue
Those who mastered lightsaber combat, like Mace Windu, were dubbed Weapon Masters.
Q 25Which Jedi class were the contemplative scholars, diplomats and healers with green blades?
Consular
The most perceptive, like Yoda, were known as Prophets who foretold the galaxy's future.
Q 26Jedi Sentinels, the pragmatic tech class, carried lightsabers of which colour?
Yellow
The most loyal joined the anonymous Jedi Temple Guard, a role that demanded no identity or emotional ties.
Q 27What were the elite Sentinels who hunted Sith remnants as a secret police called?
Shadows
Seekers were the Sentinels who tracked down Force-sensitive children for assessment instead.
Q 28Kylo Ren's lightsaber has a crossguard because of what?
A cracked kyber crystal
Multi-bladed and whip-like sabers exist too, though mostly among Sith and Inquisitors.
Q 29The Jedi starfighter's triangular shape in Attack of the Clones deliberately echoed which ships?
Star Destroyers
Doug Chiang saw it as one of the first designs bridging the prequels and the original trilogy, foreshadowing the Empire.
Q 30Which ILM designer identified the Jedi starfighter as bridging the two trilogies' aesthetics?
Doug Chiang
Hasbro's toy with expanding wings inspired the opening wings of the Revenge of the Sith interceptor.