Star Wars Legends Trivia
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110 free Star Wars Legends trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Before Disney, before The Force Awakens, there was the Expanded Universe: nearly four decades of novels, comics and games that told what happened after Return of the Jedi and thousands of years before it. In April 2014 Lucasfilm rebranded all of it as Star Wars Legends and started the canon over. This quiz is for the people who read it all: Heir to the Empire and the Thrawn trilogy, Dark Empire's cloned Emperor, the New Jedi Order and the death of Chewbacca, Jacen Solo's fall as Darth Caedus, Knights of the Old Republic and Revan, Kyle Katarn, Starkiller, Cade Skywalker and the Legacy era. Easier questions cover Timothy Zahn, Mara Jade and what the Legends label means. The hard end asks about Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the ysalamiri, the Katana fleet, Delta Squad's designations, the Marvel comic that saved the publisher, and the five-tier Holocron canon system that Leland Chee kept before the reboot. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the books, comics, games and characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Play the whole set for a score, then try the main Star Wars quiz for the films.
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Q 01Why was the Star Wars Expanded Universe made non-canon in 2014?
To give filmmakers a clean slate
To give filmmakers a clean slate: Episodes VII to IX would not follow the old post-film novels, which stayed in print under a new Legends banner.
Q 02Which pre-2014 non-film work stayed in canon when the Expanded Universe became Legends?
The Clone Wars animated series
The Clone Wars animated series was kept alongside the six films because the franchise's creator had developed and produced it himself; a seventh and final season followed on Disney+ in 2020.
Q 03Which 1991 novel is credited with jump-starting the Expanded Universe after four quiet years?
Heir to the Empire
Heir to the Empire topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1991; its trilogy began as a pitch to Lucasfilm from book editor Lou Aronica.
Q 04Who wrote the Thrawn trilogy?
Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn wrote all three books, and returned to write new canon Thrawn novels after the character was revived in Rebels in 2016.
Q 05Which two books complete the Thrawn trilogy?
Dark Force Rising and The Last Command
Dark Force Rising and The Last Command complete the trilogy; the last title is the Emperor's dying order to Mara Jade, which she finally silences by killing a clone of her target instead.
Q 06Thrawn belongs to which blue-skinned species?
Chiss
Chiss are a blue-skinned, red-eyed people of the Unknown Regions; Thrawn rose to Grand Admiral in an Empire notorious for its prejudice against non-humans.
Q 07What Force-repelling creatures does Thrawn use to subdue the mad clone Joruus C'baoth?
Ysalamiri
Ysalamiri, salamander-like creatures of Myrkr, push the Force away in a bubble, a defence thought to have evolved against the vornskrs, local predators that hunt through the Force.
Q 08What is the lost fleet of automated Dreadnaughts, the 'Dark Force', called in Dark Force Rising?
Katana
The Katana fleet's crews were driven mad by a virus, and its slave-rigged Dreadnaughts jumped into hyperspace together and vanished until a smuggler stumbled on them years later.
Q 09Mara Jade was introduced as the second-in-command of which smuggler?
Talon Karrde
Talon Karrde, head of a smuggling organization, employed Mara Jade as his second-in-command when she debuted; she had secretly served the Emperor, whose dying command compelled her to kill the last Jedi.
Q 10What title did Mara Jade hold under Palpatine before his death?
Emperor's Hand
Emperor's Hand was the title of a special agent of the Emperor; on one mission she slipped into Jabba the Hutt's palace as a dancer to assassinate the Rebellion's young Jedi, and missed her chance.
Q 11Whom does Mara Jade marry, becoming the mother of Ben?
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker marries the woman the dying Emperor once ordered to kill him; their wedding fills the Dark Horse comic Union, and son Ben arrives during The New Jedi Order.
Q 12In which Legacy of the Force novel is Mara Jade killed?
Sacrifice
Sacrifice, the fifth Legacy of the Force novel, has her nephew Jacen, by then apprenticed to the dark side, kill her; she later appears to her son as a Force ghost.
Q 13Which 1990s comic brought the Emperor back from the dead decades before The Rise of Skywalker did?
Dark Empire
Dark Empire (1991-92) revealed that the Emperor had cheated death by moving his spirit into clone bodies grown on the Deep Core world Byss; the 2019 film's novelization gave a similar explanation.
Q 21Which three authors wrote the nine Legacy of the Force novels in rotation?
Denning, Allston and Traviss
Denning, Allston and Traviss took the nine books in turn, one hardcover and two paperbacks each; the story turns Han and Leia's son into a Sith villain finally brought down by his own twin sister.
Q 22Kyle Katarn debuted as the player character of which 1995 game?
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Dark Forces, LucasArts' 1995 first-person shooter, introduced Kyle Katarn as a mercenary stealing the Death Star plans in its opening mission.
Q 23In Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Kyle Katarn is replaced as the playable hero by which student?
Q 14In Legends, which bounty hunter does Dengar find near death and nurse back to health?
Boba Fett
Boba Fett survives the Sarlacc that swallowed him in Return of the Jedi, and Dengar finds him; a Dark Horse comic set six years later has him hunting Han Solo again.
Q 15Which Thrawn-trilogy planet first appeared on screen in the Return of the Jedi Special Edition?
Coruscant
Coruscant, first named in the 1991 Thrawn trilogy, appeared on screen in the 1997 Special Edition's celebration montage before becoming the prequels' galactic capital.
Q 16Which extragalactic invaders were the villains of The New Jedi Order series?
The Yuuzhan Vong
The Yuuzhan Vong, invisible to the Force and armed with living ships and weapons instead of machines, drove the 19-novel series, capturing the galactic capital before they were finally beaten.
Q 17Which major film character was killed in Vector Prime, the first New Jedi Order novel?
Chewbacca
Chewbacca dies in Vector Prime saving Han Solo's youngest son when the invaders pull a moon down onto the planet Sernpidal.
Q 18Who wrote Vector Prime, the novel that opened The New Jedi Order?
R. A. Salvatore
R. A. Salvatore, best known for his Drizzt fantasy novels, wrote the 1999 opener, which was promoted with a television commercial starring Mark Hamill in character.
Q 19Which young Jedi dies leading the strike team to Myrkr?
Anakin Solo
Anakin Solo, the youngest of Han and Leia's children, gives his life in The New Jedi Order so his team can destroy the voxyn, beasts the invaders bred to hunt Jedi.
Q 20Under what Sith name does Jacen become the antagonist of Legacy of the Force?
Darth Caedus
Darth Caedus is the name Jacen Solo takes midway through the nine-book series, after Lumiya steers the former hero of the invasion war to the dark side.
Jaden Korr
Jaden Korr earns a place at the Yavin 4 academy by building a lightsaber with no formal training, and studies under Kyle Katarn, now an instructor; players choose the character's species and gender.
Q 24Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first original Star Wars novel, was written by whom?
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster, who had ghostwritten the 1976 film novelisation, wrote the 1978 book as a low-budget sequel in case Star Wars flopped.
Q 25On which swampy planet are Luke and Leia marooned in Splinter of the Mind's Eye?
Mimban
Mimban finally reached the screen forty years after the novel, in Solo: A Star Wars Story, as the muddy battlefield where a young Han serves in the Imperial infantry.
Q 26Which 1996 Star Wars project had a novel, a comic, a game, a soundtrack and toys, but deliberately no film?
Shadows of the Empire
Shadows of the Empire set its story between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and was meant to rebuild interest in the franchise ahead of the 1997 Special Editions.
Q 27Which crime lord in Shadows of the Empire plots to replace Vader at the Emperor's side?
Prince Xizor
Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun syndicate, tries to have Vader's son killed as part of his plot, and dies when Vader's Star Destroyer blasts his skyhook base out of orbit.
Q 28Which studio developed Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003?
BioWare
BioWare was offered a tie-in to Attack of the Clones or a story set thousands of years earlier, and chose the distant past for the creative freedom it gave the team.
Q 29Knights of the Old Republic opens shortly after which war?
Mandalorian Wars
The Mandalorian Wars ended only a few years before the game, set about 4,000 years before the films: the Jedi who defied their Council to win them came back at the head of a Sith fleet.
Q 30In Knights of the Old Republic, the amnesiac player character turns out to be which Sith Lord?
Darth Revan
Darth Revan is the player's hidden identity: presumed dead after an ambush, the Sith Lord was secretly kept alive by the Jedi Council, which wiped all memory of the past.