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Q 01In A New Hope, which droid does Princess Leia entrust with the stolen Death Star plans?
R2-D2
R2-D2 carries the plans off Leia's captured ship in an escape pod, and the Imperial gunners let it go because their scanners show no life forms aboard.
Q 02Who owned Han Solo's ship before Han won it in a game of sabacc?
Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian beats Han by cheating in their first sabacc game; Han tracks him down for a rematch at the end of Solo (2018) and wins the Millennium Falcon from him.
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
Admiral Ackbar, the Mon Calamari commander of the Rebel fleet, shouts it on realising the Imperial fleet was lying in wait for them; the line later became a popular 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 06When Star Wars opened in 1977, which film did it overtake as the highest-grossing ever?
Jaws
Jaws had held the record for barely two years; Star Wars passed it within months, then lost the crown in turn to another Steven Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
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 had taught at USC's film school, where Lucas knew him; wary of following so big a hit, he refused over lunch and took the job only after his agent urged him to.
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 11Han Solo brags that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than twelve of what?
Parsecs
Parsecs measure distance, not time, so the boast sounds like a slip; later stories explain it as Han cutting the usual route dangerously short.
Q 12What species is Chewbacca?
Wookiee
Wookiee is Chewbacca's species, from the forest planet Kashyyyk; in the prequels he helps a Jedi master escape the clone troopers there, long before he ever flies with Han.
Q 13To protect The Empire Strikes Back's big twist, which actor in Darth Vader's suit was given a fake line on set?
David Prowse
David Prowse had a habit of leaking secrets, so he spoke a decoy line; James Earl Jones dubbed the real 'I am your father' later, and Prowse learned the truth only from the finished film.
Q 21What secret command turned the clone troopers against their Jedi generals?
Order 66
Order 66 was not the clones' choice: The Clone Wars later revealed that every trooper carried an implanted chip, which forced him to obey when Palpatine gave the command.
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 the blue sky in the outdoor desert scenes.
Q 16Which bounty hunter flies the carbonite-frozen Han Solo off Cloud City to claim Jabba's reward?
Boba Fett
Boba Fett alone sees through Han's trick of drifting off with a Star Destroyer's garbage, trails the Falcon to Cloud City and gets Vader there ahead of it.
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 its queen at fourteen; the Trade Federation's blockade of the planet opens The Phantom Menace and helps its senator, Palpatine, become chancellor.
Q 19What color is the lightsaber Rey builds for herself at the end of The Rise of Skywalker?
Yellow
Yellow is the blade Rey ignites in the film's final scene, moments after burying Luke's and Leia's lightsabers in the sand beside Luke's childhood home.
Q 20What is Count Dooku's Sith name?
Darth Tyranus
Darth Tyranus is the name Dooku uses to hire the bounty hunter cloned for the Republic's army, so he secretly helps build the force that fights his own Separatists.
Q 24Which actor played Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi master in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace?
Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson played Qui-Gon Jinn, who finds the boy Anakin and, dying after a lightsaber duel, makes Obi-Wan promise to train him.
Q 25In The Phantom Menace, Jar Jar Binks belongs to which amphibious species?
Gungans
Gungans are the amphibious people ruled by Boss Nass; Jar Jar later sits in the Galactic Senate, where he proposes handing Chancellor Palpatine the emergency powers that raise the clone army.
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 and co-wrote it with Lawrence Kasdan; he came back to finish the trilogy with The Rise of Skywalker after its first director, Colin Trevorrow, left.
Q 27What is Rey's home planet at the beginning of The Force Awakens?
Jakku
Jakku is a desert graveyard of warships from the Empire's final battle with the New Republic; Rey survives by stripping the wrecks and trading the parts for food.
Q 28What is the birth name of Kylo Ren?
Ben Solo
Ben Solo is the name he was born with and the one he takes back in The Rise of Skywalker, throwing away his lightsaber after speaking with a memory of his father.
Q 29What type of starfighter does Poe Dameron primarily pilot in the sequel trilogy?
X-wing
An X-wing is Poe's usual ride, yet his first flight in The Force Awakens is in a stolen TIE fighter, fleeing the First Order with the stormtrooper he then names Finn.
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.