Revenge of the Sith Trivia
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98 free Revenge of the Sith trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free Revenge of the Sith trivia questions with answers. Revenge of the Sith is the prequel that fans came round to, and this quiz treats Episode III as the deep subject it has become. Fifty questions cover the plot from the rescue over Coruscant to the twins' separation, the cast and their cameos, the record-breaking effects work, John Williams's score, the deleted Senate subplot, the novelization, the video game and the film's 2025 return to cinemas. It opens with warm-ups any viewer can answer and climbs to production detail only obsessives know: how long Christopher Lee had on set, where the Kashyyyk mountains were really filmed, how many man-hours went into 49 seconds of the Mustafar duel. Use it solo, or run it as a round at your next Star Wars quiz night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its characters, score, novel and game, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01In which year was Revenge of the Sith released in cinemas?
2005
2005: Revenge of the Sith opened in the United States on May 19, 2005, closing the prequel trilogy 28 years after the original Star Wars (1977).
Q 02Who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith?
Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor followed his uncle into Star Wars: Denis Lawson played the X-wing pilot Wedge Antilles in all three films of the original trilogy.
Q 03Which actor plays Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, in Revenge of the Sith?
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid first played the character as an old man in 1983, then came back sixteen years later to play his younger self through all three prequels.
Q 04In Revenge of the Sith, which senator, played by Jimmy Smits, takes baby Leia home to Alderaan?
Bail Organa
Bail Organa raises Leia as his own daughter, while her twin brother is taken to an uncle and aunt on a distant desert world so that the two grow up apart.
Q 05In Revenge of the Sith, which command from Sidious turns the clone troopers against their Jedi generals?
Order 66
Order 66: Palpatine's 'Execute Order 66' triggers the clones' programmed betrayal, killing Jedi across the galaxy; in The Clone Wars canon the trigger is an inhibitor chip implanted in every clone.
Q 06On Mustafar, what does Obi-Wan warn Anakin that he has just before their duel ends?
The high ground
The high ground: Anakin leaps at him anyway, and a single stroke from Obi-Wan takes his remaining limbs and leaves him to burn beside the lava.
Q 07In Revenge of the Sith, which Sith Lord does Anakin execute aboard Grievous's flagship at Palpatine's urging?
Count Dooku
Count Dooku: Anakin cuts off both his hands, then beheads him when Palpatine tells him to, a killing that brings him a step closer to the dark side.
Q 08In Revenge of the Sith, which Jedi Master does Sidious kill with Force lightning after Anakin cuts off his hand?
Mace Windu
Mace Windu has Sidious beaten until Anakin steps in; Samuel L. Jackson had asked Lucas for the Jedi's unique purple lightsaber so he could pick himself out in big battle scenes.
Q 09In Revenge of the Sith, where does Padmé give birth to Luke and Leia?
Polis Massa
Polis Massa, an obscure planetoid in the Outer Rim, is also where Yoda and Obi-Wan agree to separate the newborn twins and hide them from the Sith.
Q 10In Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan tracks General Grievous to which sinkhole planet?
Utapau
Utapau, a world of vast sinkholes, is where Obi-Wan rides the lizard Boga to confront Grievous; Bruce Spence, Mad Max 2's Gyro Captain, plays its administrator Tion Medon.
Q 11In Revenge of the Sith, how does Obi-Wan finally kill General Grievous?
Shoots him with his own blaster
Shoots him with his own blaster: Obi-Wan pulls the general's pistol to his hand with the Force, fires into the organs behind the chestplate, then mutters 'So uncivilized.'
Q 12Why did George Lucas give General Grievous a hacking cough in Revenge of the Sith?
To show his flawed cyborg body
To show his flawed cyborg body: Lucas saw Grievous as a rough early run at the technology behind Darth Vader, and some of the coughs on the soundtrack are his own, recorded while he was ill.
Q 13General Grievous first appeared not in Episode III but in which earlier production?
Q 21How many visual-effects shots does Revenge of the Sith contain, then a world record?
2,151
2,151: Industrial Light & Magic's shot count was then the most for any film, with nearly every frame of the 140-minute picture carrying digital work.
Q 22Roughly how much weight did Hayden Christensen gain to play Anakin in the film?
25 lb
25 lb: three months with a Sydney trainer and six meals a day took Christensen from about 160 to 185 pounds so he could fill out Vader's armour.
Q 23In Revenge of the Sith, through which part of the Darth Vader helmet did Hayden Christensen have to look?
The mouthpiece
The mouthpiece: shoe lifts made Christensen sit so high inside the costume that the eyes were out of reach, and he admitted he 'didn't see much as Vader'.
The 2003 Clone Wars microseries
The 2003 Clone Wars microseries: Grievous debuted in Chapter 20, the second-season finale of Genndy Tartakovsky's Cartoon Network series, aired in 2004 to set him up for the film.
Q 14Which member of the Star Wars voice cast provides General Grievous's voice in Revenge of the Sith?
Matthew Wood
Matthew Wood, the film's supervising sound editor, slipped his own tape in anonymously among the other auditions, and Lucas picked it without knowing whose it was.
Q 15At which festival did Revenge of the Sith have its official premiere, out of competition?
Cannes
Cannes hosted the official premiere, out of competition, although charity screenings in nine American cities had already shown the film a few days earlier.
Q 16In Revenge of the Sith, how does the Senate respond when Palpatine declares the Galactic Empire?
With thunderous applause
With thunderous applause: Padmé, watching the cheers, says this is how liberty dies, a bitter line from the senator whose own vote of no confidence once cleared Palpatine's way to power.
Q 17Where in 2005's worldwide box-office rankings did Revenge of the Sith finish?
Second
Second: it topped the 2005 US box office but worldwide finished behind Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, about $896 million to $848 million.
Q 18Revenge of the Sith's $50 million opening day broke the single-day record held by which film?
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 had held the single-day record at $44.8 million; even the Star Wars film's own distributor admitted he never expected a school-day Thursday to reach $50 million.
Q 19Where were the soundstage scenes of Revenge of the Sith principally filmed?
Fox Studios Australia, Sydney
Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, housed the 2003 shoot, and a camera crew was sent to film Mount Etna erupting for the lava planet's backdrops.
Q 20For Revenge of the Sith, the limestone mountains of Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld, were filmed in which country?
Thailand
Thailand: the limestone peaks around Phuket were filmed as empty background plates, and the Wookiees, with Peter Mayhew back as Chewbacca, were composited in afterwards.
Q 24Which stunt coordinator, who trained the actors for the Revenge of the Sith duel, appears as the Jedi Cin Drallig?
Nick Gillard
Nick Gillard gave the Jedi his own name in reverse: Cin Drallig is 'Nic Gillard' spelled backwards, with the k left off.
Q 25George Lucas makes a cameo in Revenge of the Sith as which blue-faced alien?
Baron Papanoida
Baron Papanoida is Lucas himself, standing outside Palpatine's opera box, and his daughter Katie also appears in the film as the blue-skinned senator Chi Eekway.
Q 26Which famous director was brought in as a 'guest director' to help previsualise the climax of Revenge of the Sith?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg sat in with the animatics team, suggesting ideas for the scenes of clone troopers turning on their Jedi generals and for the final duel.
Q 27Which actress plays Mon Mothma in Revenge of the Sith, though her only speaking scene was cut?
Genevieve O'Reilly
Genevieve O'Reilly lost her lines when Lucas cut the senators' scenes to keep the focus on Anakin, yet she kept the role and returned as Mon Mothma in Rogue One and Andor.
Q 28What did Padmé and fellow senators form in a deleted Revenge of the Sith subplot?
An alliance against Palpatine's powers
An alliance against Palpatine's powers: the cut scenes show Padmé and Mon Mothma rallying worried senators, the first stirrings of the Rebel Alliance, and Lucas dropped them to keep the focus on Anakin.
Q 29Which Jedi Master is killed by General Grievous in a deleted scene on the Revenge of the Sith DVD?
Shaak Ti
Shaak Ti dies in two deleted scenes: Grievous kills her in one and Anakin, in the Jedi Temple, in the other, and neither made the finished film.
Q 30John Williams, busy with Revenge of the Sith and other 2005 scores, passed up which blockbuster that year?
Goblet of Fire
Goblet of Fire: Williams had scored the first three Harry Potter films but could not fit in the fourth, having already committed to four scores for 2005, War of the Worlds and Munich among them.