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50 free Star Wars Ships and Vehicles trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Millennium Falcon was redesigned in four weeks as "a hamburger with an olive on the side" after the first version looked too much like Space: 1999. Luke's landspeeder was a Bond Bug three-wheeler with a mirror and a broom underneath, the AT-AT walks to the sound of a punch press, and the Executor model carried 150,000 lights so that an Imperial Star Destroyer would look tiny beside it. Star Wars hardware has always been built from kit parts, found objects and improvisation. This quiz covers starships, starfighters and ground vehicles from every era: who designed the X-wing and the TIE, why the X-wings are red not blue, what the Falcon's hyperspace noise really is, how long the Executor and the Supremacy are, the Bond Bug and the Paraceratherium, the speeder-bike trick of filming at one frame per second, the Death Star's accidental trench, and the ships of the prequels, sequels, Rebels, Rogue One, The Mandalorian and Andor. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01Why did George Lucas order the Falcon redesigned from its original elongated shape?
It resembled the Eagle Transporters of Space: 1999
The original model was rescaled and reused as Leia's ship, the Tantive IV.
Q 02Lucas's only instruction for the Falcon's redesign was to think of what?
A flying saucer
Joe Johnston had about four weeks and later said the shape was roughly a hamburger with an olive-on-the-side cockpit.
Q 03The Falcon's hyperspace sound is built from the engine noise of which airliner?
A McDonnell Douglas DC-9
Two tracks slightly out of sync create the phasing effect, plus the hum of ILM's motion-control rig fans.
Q 04The Falcon's greenhouse-style cockpit was likely inspired by which aircraft?
The B-29 Superfortress
The cockpit set was built separately so it could be rocked when the ship was supposed to shake.
Q 05Under what code name was the full-scale Falcon built for The Empire Strikes Back?
Magic Roundabout
Marcon Fabrications built the 25-ton mock-up in a flying-boat hangar at Pembroke Dock in Wales.
Q 06In which card game did Han Solo win the Falcon from Lando?
Sabacc
The win came several years before A New Hope; Solo dramatises the game.
Q 07Which actress was nearly cast in Rise of Skywalker as the Falcon's original designer?
Judi Dench
Concept artist Phil Saunders revealed the abandoned idea in 2021.
Q 08Who sketched and built the models that became the X-wing?
Colin Cantwell
Lucas also said the final TIE fighter design was "60 percent mine and 40 percent Cantwell's".
Q 09What colour was the X-wing squadron in the script before bluescreen problems changed it?
Blue
Blue markings would have vanished against the bluescreen, so Red Squadron was born.
Q 10What footage did Lucas's editors use as placeholders while ILM finished the X-wing shots?
World War II dogfights
The space battles were always meant to feel like Second World War air combat.
Q 11How deep was the "lake" Luke's X-wing sinks into on Dagobah?
3.5 feet
A hinged rig let the fighter sink or rise on cue when Luke fails to levitate it.
Q 12Which prequel starfighter is the deliberate ancestor of the X-wing?
The ARC-170
Both are Incom designs in-universe; Incom built the X-wing for the Empire before the contract went to Sienar.
Q 13What two sounds were combined to make the TIE fighter's fly-by scream?
An elephant call and a car on wet pavement
The Sounds of Star Wars likens the effect to the sirens on Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers.
Q 21What did a 2016 estimate say it would cost to build an Imperial Star Destroyer?
$636 billion
Launching the parts into orbit would add about $44.4 trillion on top.
Q 22How many individual lights did the six-foot Executor model contain?
Over 150,000
Lucas wanted Vader's flagship so massive that regular Star Destroyers looked tiny beside it.
Q 23What finally destroys Vader's flagship at the Battle of Endor?
An A-wing crashes into its bridge
Out of control, the 19-kilometre dreadnought is pulled into the second Death Star's surface.
Q 14Why were the TIE fighter models grey rather than the blue originally intended?
To film better against bluescreen
The muted blue finally appeared on the TIEs in Empire and Return of the Jedi.
Q 15What nickname did ILM's model makers give the twin-hulled TIE bomber?
Double chili dog
It grew out of an unused "TIE boarding craft" concept from the first film.
Q 16Which Imperial official commissioned the original TIE fighter, according to canon lore?
Grand Moff Tarkin
He wanted it fast, cheap, energy-efficient and able to make a sound that frightened the Empire's enemies.
Q 17Why does the basic TIE fighter lack a hyperdrive, besides weight and cost?
To discourage defection
Most variants also lack shields, which encourages pilots to shoot first and accurately.
Q 18What is the life expectancy of most TIE fighter pilots, according to lore?
Less than a year
They are considered elite all the same, surviving on reflexes and intense psychological conditioning.
Q 19Which camera system spared ILM from building a bigger Star Destroyer for the opening shot?
The Dykstraflex
The 13-second opening shot was the first effects piece ILM completed and a key test of the rig.
Q 20Roughly how many Star Destroyers existed at the Empire's height, per background lore?
Over 25,000
That fleet needed roughly 925 million crew.
Q 24What did the film crew nickname the Mon Calamari cruiser models?
Pickle ships
They disliked the models' unflattering angles; the designs were meant to look as unlike Star Destroyers as possible.
Q 25A Lambda-class Imperial shuttle makes a cameo in the pilot of which other sci-fi series?
Firefly
It appears during the docking of Inara's shuttle in "Serenity".
Q 26Lucas suggested the Rebel medical frigate be based on what everyday object?
An outboard motor
Luke gets his new hand aboard one, the Redemption, at the end of Empire.
Q 27According to its designer, what really inspired the shape of Boba Fett's ship?
A radar dish
Nilo Rodis-Jamero said the street-lamp story started when someone at ILM noticed the resemblance.
Q 28What name does Boba Fett give his ship in The Book of Boba Fett after the 2021 rename?
Firespray
The change surfaced in 2021 with a Lego set called "Boba Fett's Starship" and drew a Change.org petition.
Q 29What real aircraft does Count Dooku's solar sailer somewhat resemble?
An Antonov An-2
The solar sail had first been a concept for the Naboo royal starship before being redesigned for Geonosis.
Q 30Which stealth bomber inspired the Naboo Royal Cruiser blown up at the start of Episode II?
The B-2 Spirit
The cruiser was all CGI, but a full-size landing pad was built for the assassination scene.