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Q 01Both Anakin and Luke Skywalker grew up on which twin-sunned desert planet, filmed largely in Tunisia?
Tatooine
Tatooine raised both Skywalkers; the Lars homestead interior was filmed at the Hotel Sidi Driss, a working underground hotel in Matmata, Tunisia.
Q 02Who owned Han Solo's ship before Han won it in a game of sabacc?
Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian owned the Millennium Falcon until Han won it at sabacc, shown at the end of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), set about a decade before the original film.
Q 03Before the black armour and breathing mask, Darth Vader was a Jedi Knight hailed as the Chosen One under what birth name?
Anakin Skywalker
Anakin Skywalker was the Jedi believed to be the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force, and the prequel trilogy charts his fall into Darth Vader.
Q 04Which character famously exclaims, 'It's a trap!' in 'Return of the Jedi'?
Admiral Ackbar
Ackbar, a Mon Calamari commander, realizes the Rebel fleet is flying into an ambush; the line became one of the most-quoted of the trilogy and an internet meme.
Q 05What is the first name of Emperor Palpatine?
Sheev
Sheev is Palpatine's first name; it was revealed not in the films but in James Luceno's 2014 canon novel Tarkin.
Q 06In what year was the first Star Wars film, 'A New Hope', originally released?
1977
The original 'Star Wars' film, later subtitled 'A New Hope', premiered on May 25, 1977. It quickly became a cultural phenomenon and a blockbuster success.
Q 07Who directed 'Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope'?
George Lucas
George Lucas wrote and directed the 1977 original himself, the only Star Wars film he directed until the prequels; his friend Steven Spielberg never directed one.
Q 08In A New Hope, Grand Moff Tarkin tests the Death Star's superlaser on Princess Leia's peaceful home planet; which planet?
Alderaan
Alderaan is destroyed even after Leia gives Tarkin a location for the rebel base, purely to demonstrate what the station can do. Dantooine was the base she named.
Q 09Who directed The Empire Strikes Back (1980)?
Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner, Lucas's former USC film instructor, directed The Empire Strikes Back; Lucas wrote the story and served as executive producer while Gary Kurtz produced.
Q 10In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke finds Yoda living alone on which fog-bound swamp planet to begin his training?
Dagobah
Dagobah is where Luke leaves his training unfinished to rescue his friends at Cloud City, and where he returns in Return of the Jedi to find Yoda dying.
Q 11Which starship famously made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs?
Millennium Falcon
The Millennium Falcon's boast bothers physicists because a parsec measures distance, not time; later stories explain it as a dangerously short route.
Q 12What species is Chewbacca?
Wookiee
A Wookiee is what Chewbacca is: a tall, hairy and highly intelligent species from Kashyyyk. Ewoks are the small forest-moon creatures people confuse them with.
Q 13What does Darth Vader reveal to Luke at Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back?
He is his father
He is his father, one of cinema's most famous twists, and it lands because Luke had been told since the first film that Vader killed his father.
Q 21What secret command turned the clone troopers against their Jedi generals?
Order 66
Order 66 is a chip, not a choice: The Clone Wars revealed every trooper was implanted with one that Palpatine activated by voice, compelling them to kill their Jedi commanders.
Q 22According to the prequel trilogy, who was Sidious's own Sith mentor?
Darth Plagueis
Palpatine tells the tale of 'Darth Plagueis the Wise' at the opera to tempt his future apprentice with the promise of cheating death, then admits the master was murdered in his sleep.
Q 23What is the unique color of Mace Windu's lightsaber?
Purple
Mace Windu's lightsaber is purple; Samuel L. Jackson asked George Lucas for the color so he could pick himself out in the arena battle of Attack of the Clones.
Q 14An Imperial probe droid finds the Rebel base on which ice planet at the start of The Empire Strikes Back?
Hoth
Hoth opens the film with the Battle of Hoth, AT-AT walkers and all; the Rebels evacuate Echo Base after the walkers destroy its shield generator.
Q 15What color is Luke Skywalker's lightsaber in *Return of the Jedi*?
Green
Luke's lightsaber in Return of the Jedi is green; it was blue in an early trailer and on posters, changed so the blade stood out against Tatooine's sky in the sail-barge fight.
Q 16Which bounty hunter flies the carbonite-frozen Han Solo off Cloud City to claim Jabba's reward?
Boba Fett
Boba Fett barely speaks across the original trilogy, yet became by far the most popular of the bounty hunters Vader hired to track the Falcon.
Q 17In Attack of the Clones, on which ocean planet does Obi-Wan discover the clone army being grown?
Kamino
Kamino, a storm-swept ocean world, is where Obi-Wan finds the Kaminoans growing the clone army; the order had been placed in the name of Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas.
Q 18What is Padmé Amidala's home planet?
Naboo
Naboo elected Padmé queen as a teenager, and it is also the home planet of Senator Palpatine, the future Emperor.
Q 19What color is the lightsaber Rey builds for herself at the end of The Rise of Skywalker?
Yellow
She uses part of her old quarterstaff as the hilt, echoing the yellow blades of the Jedi Temple guards seen in The Clone Wars.
Q 20What is Count Dooku's Sith name?
Darth Tyranus
Count Dooku, a former Jedi Master, falls to the dark side and becomes the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, apprentice to Darth Sidious.
Q 24Which actor played Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi master in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace?
Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson played Obi-Wan's master in The Phantom Menace (1999), the Jedi who discovers Anakin on Tatooine and dies duelling Darth Maul.
Q 25In The Phantom Menace, Jar Jar Binks belongs to which amphibious species?
Gungans
Jar Jar Binks is one of the Gungans, the amphibious natives of Naboo ruled by Boss Nass; he later serves as a representative in the Galactic Senate.
Q 26Who directed *Star Wars: The Force Awakens*, the first film of the sequel trilogy?
J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams directed The Force Awakens (2015) and co-wrote it with Lawrence Kasdan; he initially declined the job before Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy persuaded him.
Q 27What is Rey's home planet at the beginning of *The Force Awakens*?
Jakku
Rey is introduced as a scavenger living on the desolate desert planet Jakku, awaiting the return of her family.
Q 28What is the birth name of Kylo Ren?
Ben Solo
Kylo Ren was born Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, and nephew of Luke Skywalker.
Q 29What type of starfighter does Poe Dameron primarily pilot in the sequel trilogy?
X-wing
Poe Dameron is known as a highly skilled X-wing pilot for the Resistance, often flying his black-and-orange T-70 X-wing.
Q 30What was Finn's stormtrooper designation before he defected from the First Order?
FN-2187
Finn's designation was FN-2187; the digits nod to cell 2187, where Leia was held in the 1977 film, itself a reference to Arthur Lipsett's 1963 short 21-87, a Lucas favorite.