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59 free Return of the Jedi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
55 free Return of the Jedi trivia questions with answers. Return of the Jedi closed the original Star Wars trilogy in 1983 with a rancor, a sail barge, a moon full of Ewoks and a father throwing an emperor down a shaft. This quiz sticks strictly to Episode VI: Jabba's palace and Leia's disguise, Boba Fett's fall into the Sarlacc, Yoda's deathbed confession, the Battle of Endor with Ackbar, Lando and Nien Nunb, the Emperor's lightning, and how it was all made: the Blue Harvest cover name, the Revenge of the Jedi posters, the Yuma desert and redwood shoots, the one-ton Jabba puppet, the Steadicam speeder chase and the Special Edition changes fans still argue about. Easy questions ask how Jabba dies and where the shield generator is. The hard ones want the dog breed behind the Ewoks, the language Ewokese is based on, and which future composer orchestrated for John Williams. It suits a May the Fourth party or any fan who thinks the Ewoks get a bad rap. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who directed Return of the Jedi?
Richard Marquand
He joked it was like directing King Lear with Shakespeare in the next room, since Lucas was on set constantly.
Q 02Who was George Lucas's first choice to direct the film?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg was Lucas's first choice, but Lucas had quit the Directors Guild after the Empire Strikes Back credits dispute, and Guild member Spielberg could not direct a non-Guild production.
Q 03What was the film's title on its original teaser trailer and posters?
Revenge of the Jedi
The teaser trailer and advance posters read Revenge of the Jedi; Lucas restored the Return title before release, reasoning that a Jedi does not seek revenge, and leftover posters were sold to fan club members.
Q 04What fake title was used to disguise the production from fans and price-gouging suppliers?
Blue Harvest
The crew worked under the fake title Blue Harvest, a supposed horror film with the tagline 'Horror Beyond Imagination', to keep fans and price-gouging suppliers away from the shoot.
Q 05On which planet does the film open, at Jabba the Hutt's palace?
Tatooine
The film opens on Tatooine, where C-3PO and R2-D2 walk to Jabba the Hutt's palace carrying Luke's holographic message offering the droids as a goodwill gift.
Q 06How does Leia get into Jabba's palace?
Disguised as a bounty hunter with Chewbacca as her 'prisoner'
Leia enters disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh with Chewbacca as her supposed prisoner; she thaws Han from the carbonite that night but is caught and made Jabba's captive.
Q 07What creature does Jabba drop Luke through a trapdoor to face?
A rancor
Luke is dropped into the pit of the rancor, the hulking beast kept beneath Jabba's throne room; he crushes it under the pit's spiked gate, leaving its keeper weeping.
Q 08What is the cackling Kowakian monkey-lizard perched beside Jabba's throne called?
Salacious B. Crumb
Salacious B. Crumb is the Kowakian monkey-lizard who cackles at Jabba's side; aboard the sail barge he tears at C-3PO's eye until R2-D2 zaps him.
Q 09Into what does Jabba plan to throw Luke, Han and Chewbacca?
The Sarlacc pit
Jabba sentences them to the Sarlacc pit in the Great Pit of Carkoon, where C-3PO says victims are digested over a thousand years; Boba Fett tumbles in during the sail-barge fight.
Q 10How does Jabba the Hutt die?
Leia strangles him with her chain
His sail barge is destroyed as the heroes escape.
Q 11Roughly how heavy was the Jabba the Hutt puppet?
One ton
The Jabba puppet weighed about one ton; it took three puppeteers, David Barclay, Toby Philpott and Mike Edmonds, to operate, and Larry Ward supplied the Huttese voice.
Q 12Who confirms to Luke that Darth Vader really is his father?
Yoda, on his deathbed
Lucas added the scene after a child psychologist warned kids might think Vader had lied.
Q 13Who tells Luke that Leia is his twin sister?
Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force spirit
Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force spirit reveals on Dagobah that Leia is Luke's twin, hidden from the Emperor at birth; he adds that Luke must face Vader again.
Q 21Why did Warwick Davis end up playing Wicket the Ewok?
Kenny Baker got food poisoning on the day of the shoot
It was Davis's first film acting job; Baker played another Ewok, Paploo, instead.
Q 22The Ewoks were originally going to be which species?
Wookiees
Wookiees had become too technologically advanced, so Lucas wanted something short and primitive.
Q 23Which dog breed inspired the Ewok design?
Griffon Bruxellois
The Ewok look was modelled on the Griffon Bruxellois, a small flat-faced Belgian toy breed; Stuart Freeborn's makeup team built the masks from Joe Johnston's designs.
Q 14Where is the second Death Star's shield generator located?
The forest moon of Endor
The shield generator protecting the second Death Star sits on the forest moon of Endor, where Han leads a strike team to destroy it.
Q 15Which two rebels lead the fleet assault on the Death Star?
Lando Calrissian and Admiral Ackbar
General Lando Calrissian, flying the Millennium Falcon, and Admiral Ackbar from the Rebel flagship lead the fleet, arriving to find the shield intact and the Imperial fleet waiting.
Q 16Which two pilots fly into the Death Star's core and destroy its reactor?
Lando and Wedge Antilles
Lando in the Millennium Falcon and Wedge Antilles in his X-wing fly into the Death Star's core; Wedge hits the power regulator and Lando the main reactor.
Q 17How does the Emperor die?
Vader throws him down a shaft
Vader is fatally wounded by the Force lightning in the process.
Q 18Which actor plays the unmasked Anakin Skywalker?
Sebastian Shaw
Sebastian Shaw, an English stage veteran in his late seventies, plays the dying, unmasked Anakin Skywalker, who asks Luke to remove his helmet so he can see him with his own eyes.
Q 19Who plays the Emperor?
Ian McDiarmid
Alan Webb was originally cast but fell ill; McDiarmid was in his late 30s under heavy ageing makeup.
Q 20Which actor auditioned for Moff Jerjerrod but lost the part to Michael Pennington?
Alan Rickman
Rickman's film debut came five years later in Die Hard.
Q 24The Ewok language created by Ben Burtt is based on which real language?
Kalmyk
Ben Burtt built Ewokese on Kalmyk, a Mongolic language of Russia's Caspian steppe, after hearing it in a documentary and liking its alien sound.
Q 25What real-world conflict inspired the Ewoks' battle against the Empire?
The Vietnam War
Lucas likened the Ewoks' guerrilla fight to the Vietnam War, a primitive society wearing down a technological superpower; he said their job was to distract the troops, not win.
Q 26Which word is never spoken in the film despite the creatures' fame?
Ewok
The word Ewok is never spoken on screen; the creatures are identified only in the end credits, where individual Ewoks such as Wicket and Paploo are named.
Q 27Which species is Admiral Ackbar?
Mon Calamari
Admiral Ackbar is a Mon Calamari, a salmon-coloured amphibious species with large eyes; puppeteer Tim Rose performed him in a full head mask.
Q 28Who is Lando's co-pilot aboard the Millennium Falcon at the Battle of Endor?
Nien Nunb
Nien Nunb, the Sullustan smuggler, co-pilots the Falcon beside Lando; he was a puppet operated by Mike Quinn in close-ups and a costumed actor in wide shots.
Q 29Where were the Endor forest scenes filmed?
Redwood forests near Smith River, northern California
Vader's funeral pyre was shot at Skywalker Ranch.
Q 30Where were the sail-barge battle exteriors filmed?
Yuma, Arizona
The sail-barge battle was shot in the Buttercup Valley dunes outside Yuma, Arizona, in April 1982, where the crew built the barge and skiff sets on the sand.