Rogue One Trivia
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110 free Rogue One trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Rogue One was pitched by an effects supervisor as an episode of a TV show that never got made, was rewritten in five weeks of reshoots, and became the first Star Wars film without an opening crawl. This Rogue One trivia quiz digs into the whole story: the plot from Lah'mu to Scarif, the cast behind Jyn, Cassian, K-2SO, Chirrut, Baze, Bodhi and Krennic, the Icelandic and Maldivian filming locations, the digital Tarkin and Leia, and the four-and-a-half weeks Michael Giacchino had to write the score. Some questions are for anyone who has seen the film once: who says 'I am one with the Force', which planet holds the data vault, why the shuttle is called Rogue One. Others are for people who read the tie-in novels: which senator Jonathan Aris plays, what John Knoll's original treatment was called, and how the movie's title clashed with a Mission: Impossible sequel. Every answer has been checked against a source and each question shows its citation and a short explanation once you answer. Rebellions are built on hope; quiz scores are built on this.
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Q 01Before Rogue One, director Gareth Edwards made which monster blockbuster?
Godzilla
Godzilla was his leap from Monsters, an indie he wrote, shot and did the effects for himself; his Star Wars job was announced the same month it came out.
Q 02Rogue One's final scene leads directly into the opening of which Star Wars film?
A New Hope
A New Hope opens with Vader chasing down the very ship that slips away with the stolen plans in Rogue One's last minutes.
Q 03Rogue One's story was pitched by John Knoll, a veteran supervisor at which Lucasfilm division?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic's John Knoll pitched it to Lucasfilm after the Disney deal, saying he would otherwise always wonder what might have happened.
Q 04On which planet are the Ersos hiding when Orson Krennic arrives in the opening scene?
Lah'mu
Lah'mu is the remote world where Krennic's squad kills Jyn's mother Lyra, and Saw Gerrera later pulls the girl from her hiding place.
Q 05From which Imperial labour camp is Jyn freed by the Rebels?
Wobani
Wobani, an anagram of Obi-Wan, is where Jyn is serving 20 years under a false name until Rebel soldiers free her to help find her father.
Q 06What does the Empire loot from the moon of Jedha to power the Death Star?
Kyber crystals
Kyber crystals also power lightsabers; once the Empire has stripped Jedha of them, Krennic test-fires the Death Star on its Holy City.
Q 07On which planet is Galen Erso's Imperial research facility, the target of a Rebel bombing raid?
Eadu
Eadu is where Galen dies in Jyn's arms after Rebel bombers hit the facility, and the group flees in a stolen Imperial shuttle.
Q 08Cassian Andor is secretly ordered to do what, rather than extract Galen Erso?
Kill him
Kill him: Cassian hesitates when the moment comes at the research facility, and Galen dies in the Rebel bombing run instead.
Q 09Who names the stolen Imperial cargo shuttle 'Rogue One'?
Bodhi Rook
Bodhi Rook improvises it as a call sign; the director said the title also marks the first film to go 'off-piste' from the saga.
Q 10How is the planetary shield generator over Scarif finally disabled?
Two Star Destroyers are rammed into each other
Two Star Destroyers are rammed into each other when a Rebel corvette shoves one into the next, and the wreckage crashes into the shield gate.
Q 11Who plays Jyn Erso in Rogue One?
Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones won the part over Tatiana Maslany and Rooney Mara, who were both reported to be testing for the lead in January 2015.
Q 12Which Mexican actor plays Cassian Andor and later led the prequel series Andor?
Diego Luna
Diego Luna landed the part after Aaron Paul and Édgar Ramírez were reported to be on the studio's interest list for the male lead.
Q 13Which Australian actor plays Imperial weapons director Orson Krennic?
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn's Krennic proves the Death Star works with a test firing, only for Tarkin to seize command of it on the pretext of a security leak.
Q 21Which character is handed the stolen plans in Rogue One's final scene?
Princess Leia
Princess Leia was played on set by Norwegian actress Ingvild Deila, with a young Carrie Fisher's face added digitally and archive audio for her one line.
Q 22Which two Rebel pilots return through unused footage from 1977's original Star Wars?
Gold Leader and Red Leader
Gold Leader and Red Leader came from 1977 offcuts: Angus MacInnes recorded new lines, while the late Drewe Henley's dialogue was pieced together from archive audio.
Q 23Which director cameos as a Death Star technician, a year before his own Star Wars film opened?
Rian Johnson
Q 14Alan Tudyk provides the voice and motion capture for which character?
K-2SO
K-2SO stands about seven feet tall, so Tudyk performed him on stilts in a motion-capture suit and improvised many of the droid's lines.
Q 15Which Hong Kong martial-arts star plays the blind, Force-believing warrior of Jedha?
Donnie Yen
Donnie Yen's warrior is no Jedi: he has no Force powers, only faith in it, yet can beat a stormtrooper squad with a staff.
Q 16The blind warrior and his companion Baze Malbus are former members of which order?
The Guardians of the Whills
The Guardians of the Whills revive a name from the saga's earliest outline, which its creator titled 'Journal of the Whills'.
Q 17Which Danish actor plays Galen Erso, the scientist who builds a secret flaw into the Death Star?
Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen's Galen hides a fatal weakness in the reactor, the very flaw Luke Skywalker's torpedoes exploit in the 1977 film.
Q 18Which actor plays Saw Gerrera, the rebel extremist who rescues the young Jyn?
Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker's Saw, kept alive by a breathing mask, refuses to flee and dies when the Death Star fires on Jedha City.
Q 19Riz Ahmed's character, the defector who carries Galen's message, had been what in the Empire?
A cargo pilot
A cargo pilot who defects at Galen's urging, he dies on Scarif moments after telling the fleet the shield must come down.
Q 20Grand Moff Tarkin was played on set by Guy Henry with whose digital likeness superimposed?
Peter Cushing
Peter Cushing died in 1994, so Lucasfilm sought his estate's permission, and the estate had input down to 'small, subtle adjustments'.
Rian Johnson and his producer Ram Bergman play the masked crewmen in the firing chamber when the superlaser goes off; Rogue One's own director pops up in The Last Jedi in turn.
Q 24Which Star Wars Rebels droid makes a cameo, voiced by Dave Filoni?
Chopper
Chopper rolls through the Rebel base in the background, and a base announcement mentions General Syndulla, his captain from Rebels.
Q 25Which screenwriter earned a shared credit for reworking Rogue One during reshoots?
Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy reportedly earned more than $5 million overseeing reshoots that fixed, among other things, the ending, and later returned to the story as creator of Andor.
Q 26What happened to the heroes in the first version of Rogue One's script?
They survived
They survived because the director assumed Disney would never let him kill them off; the studio approved the darker ending and the survivor version was never filmed.
Q 27Which traditional Star Wars element does Rogue One deliberately omit at the start?
The opening crawl
The opening crawl was dropped because, the director said, the film was 'born out of a crawl' and adding one would only set up another movie.
Q 28At which British studio was Rogue One's principal photography based?
Pinewood
Pinewood housed the huge sets, built to match footage that location units were shooting elsewhere around the world.
Q 29Which country's black-sand beach at Reynisfjara stood in for the Erso homestead?
Iceland
Iceland did double duty: its mountains near Mýrdalssandur also became the storm-lashed planet of Galen's research base.
Q 30Which Middle Eastern desert stood in for the holy moon of Jedha?
Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum in Jordan had already played Mars in The Martian, and the Rogue One shoot won Jordan's film commission a Location Managers Guild award.