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50 free Star Wars: the Force Awakens trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Star Wars: The Force Awakens trivia quiz covers Episode VII, the 2015 film that relaunched the saga under Disney and J. J. Abrams. The plot questions follow the map to Luke Skywalker from Jakku to Takodana and Starkiller Base, and take in Finn's stormtrooper number, Han and Chewie reclaiming the Falcon, Maz Kanata's vault, Kylo Ren's birth name and the final walk up the cliffs of Ahch-To. The harder half is for people who followed the production: the directors considered before Abrams, the screenwriter who left, the working title, the Irish island and Abu Dhabi desert that played alien worlds, Harrison Ford's broken leg, the Broadway composer who wrote the cantina music, the famous faces hidden inside stormtrooper armour, and the box office records that made it the highest-grossing film ever in North America. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test even committed Star Wars fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the rest of the saga, try our Star Wars, A New Hope and Star Wars for kids quizzes.
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Q 01Which general leads the Resistance while searching for her missing twin brother?
Leia Organa
Carrie Fisher agreed to return because she was impressed by the pitch for the new trilogy.
Q 02How many years after Return of the Jedi is The Force Awakens set?
Thirty
The First Order has risen from the ashes of the Empire, and Luke has vanished.
Q 03On which desert planet does the film's story begin?
Jakku
Its wrecked Star Destroyers, where Rey scavenges, were shot in the Liwa Oasis desert of Abu Dhabi.
Q 04What is Finn's stormtrooper designation before Poe gives him a name?
FN-2187
2187 is a long-running Star Wars in-joke: it was the princess's cell number on the Death Star in the original film.
Q 05What kind of vehicle do Finn and Poe steal to escape the First Order?
A TIE fighter
They are shot down over Jakku, and Finn assumes Poe died in the crash after finding only his jacket.
Q 06Which ship do Rey, Finn and BB-8 steal to escape Jakku?
The Millennium Falcon
Rey dismisses it as garbage before they board it; Han and his co-pilot reclaim it minutes later.
Q 07What is Starkiller Base?
A planet converted into a superweapon
It draws power from a star and wipes out the New Republic's capital and its neighbouring worlds in one shot.
Q 08Which planetary group, home to the New Republic capital, does Starkiller Base destroy?
The Hosnian system
Its destruction leaves the Resistance without any government backing for the rest of the trilogy.
Q 09On which forest planet does Maz Kanata keep her castle?
Takodana
Landscape shots for the planet were filmed in England's Lake District, and Puzzlewood in the Forest of Dean stood in for its woods.
Q 10Whose lightsaber does Rey find in Maz Kanata's vault?
Luke's
Touching it triggers her visions, including the memory of being left behind on Jakku as a child.
Q 11Who plays Maz Kanata?
Lupita Nyong'o
She had also met with Abrams about the female lead before landing the motion-capture role of the centuries-old alien.
Q 12What is Kylo Ren's birth name?
Ben Solo
Han uses it when he confronts his son on the bridge inside Starkiller Base.
Q 13Who plays Kylo Ren?
Adam Driver
Eddie Redmayne and Joel Kinnaman also tested for the part; Driver was hesitant about big movies but liked the character's complications.
Q 14Who shoots and wounds Kylo Ren immediately after Han's death?
Q 21Which actor plays Supreme Leader Snoke through motion capture?
Andy Serkis
John Williams gave the character a theme sung by a 24-voice men's chorus.
Q 22Who plays General Hux?
Domhnall Gleeson
Hux commands Starkiller Base and delivers the film's Nuremberg-style rally speech before it fires.
Q 23Which Game of Thrones actress plays Captain Phasma?
Gwendoline Christie
Phasma commands the First Order's stormtroopers and, despite the chrome armour, ends up in a trash compactor.
Chewbacca
The bowcaster wound is why Ren is bleeding and unsteady during the lightsaber duel in the snow.
Q 15What part of Starkiller Base does the Resistance target to destroy it?
The thermal oscillator
Poe's X-wings hit it after explosives planted inside blow a hole in the structure.
Q 16Which droid holds the missing piece of the map to Luke Skywalker?
R2-D2
He wakes from a long dormancy at the end of the film and completes the map that BB-8 has been carrying.
Q 17On which planet does Rey finally find Luke Skywalker?
Ahch-To
The clifftop scenes were shot on Skellig Michael, a rocky island off the coast of County Kerry.
Q 18Who plays Rey?
Daisy Ridley
She was cast by February 2014 after open auditions for a role code-named 'Rachel'; Elizabeth Olsen and Olivia Cooke also auditioned.
Q 19Whose performance in Attack the Block did Tom Cruise show Abrams, leading to a Star Wars casting?
John Boyega's
Boyega dropped out of the Jesse Owens biopic Race to take the role of Finn.
Q 20Who plays Poe Dameron?
Oscar Isaac
The character's surname comes from Abrams' assistant, Morgan Dameron, who also appears in the film as a Resistance officer.
Q 24Which two comedians are credited as 'vocal consultants' for BB-8?
Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz
On set the droid was a real rolling prop developed by Disney Research and puppeteered by Dave Chapman and Brian Herring.
Q 25Which Shaun of the Dead star plays Unkar Plutt, the junk dealer who buys Rey's scavenged parts?
Simon Pegg
He is unrecognisable under the blobby prosthetics; Warwick Davis is also in the film, as a tavern-dweller in Maz's castle.
Q 26Which James Bond actor cameos as a stormtrooper who falls for Rey's mind trick?
Daniel Craig
Composer Michael Giacchino and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich are also under stormtrooper helmets in the film.
Q 27Carrie Fisher's daughter appears in the film as Lieutenant Connix. What is her name?
Billie Lourd
She had first auditioned for the role of Rey; her grandmother Debbie Reynolds let slip that she was in the film.
Q 28Whose voice was used for Obi-Wan Kenobi's new line in Rey's vision?
Ewan McGregor's
Clone Wars voice actor James Arnold Taylor recorded it first, but McGregor replaced him; archival Alec Guinness audio is also in the scene.
Q 29Who wrote the film's first screenplay before leaving the project in October 2013?
Michael Arndt
He had worked eight months and said he needed 18 more; Kasdan and Abrams took over and finished a first draft in six weeks.
Q 30Why did the writers decide Luke Skywalker should not appear until the final scene?
Whenever he entered the story he took it over
Early drafts had him turn up midway through, and Arndt found that audiences would stop caring about the new lead.