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50 free Yoda trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Yoda was a last-minute replacement for Obi-Wan. George Lucas had meant Kenobi to keep training Luke, killed him off instead, and needed a new mentor who was the exact opposite of what audiences expected: a frog-like creature first called Minch Yoda, with a face borrowed partly from Albert Einstein and a voice that Lucas originally wanted someone other than Frank Oz to provide. These 50 questions cover the whole character: Dagobah and the training of Luke, the 'there is another' line, the Dooku and Sidious duels, the hiding of the twins, the Force-ghost lessons in The Last Jedi, and the animated outings in The Clone Wars, Rebels and Tales of the Jedi. There are making-of questions too: the puppet builders, Jim Henson's recommendation, the Seven Samurai inspiration, the switch to CGI and back to a puppet, the other actors who have voiced him, and the Muppets and films of Frank Oz. Grogu and Weird Al's Kinks parody round things off. Easy questions stick to Dagobah and Empire; the expert tier asks about Oakland puppet troupes, Cartoon Network planets and Jedi funerals. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a Star Wars night.
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Q 01In which film did Yoda first appear?
The Empire Strikes Back
He was created to replace Obi-Wan as Luke's mentor after Lucas decided to kill Kenobi off.
Q 02Who puppeteered and voiced Yoda in the original trilogy?
Frank Oz
Oz has now played the part across more than four decades.
Q 03On which swamp planet does Yoda live in exile?
Dagobah
Luke arrives there at the urging of Obi-Wan's Force spirit.
Q 04At what age does Yoda die in Return of the Jedi?
900
His body vanishes as he becomes one with the Force.
Q 05What first name did the frog-like character originally carry before it was dropped?
Minch
Lucas wanted an Eastern-sounding name because he pictured a little Dalai Lama.
Q 06Lucas envisioned Yoda as a little version of which spiritual figure?
The Dalai Lama
That is why he wanted the character to have an Eastern-sounding name.
Q 07Kasdan said Yoda was based on Shimada, the leader in which Kurosawa film?
Seven Samurai
Shimada, the wise leader of the seven, was the model.
Q 08Which visual effects art director sketched hundreds of versions of Yoda?
Joe Johnston
Johnston went on to direct The Rocketeer and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Q 09The final design was described as a leprechaun, a troll and what?
A gnome
Lucas wanted Yoda to be the exact opposite of what audiences expected in a master.
Q 10Which make-up artist built the Yoda puppet with Wendy Froud?
Stuart Freeborn
He had also created Chewbacca and the cantina aliens.
Q 11Whose features, along with Freeborn's own, inspired Yoda's face?
Albert Einstein
Freeborn hoped the scientist's features would make the character look intelligent.
Q 12Which Muppets creator was first asked to perform Yoda but was busy?
Jim Henson
He recommended Frank Oz, who also became a creative consultant on the character.
Q 13In the original 1999 Phantom Menace, how many shots used a CGI Yoda?
Two
The puppet was replaced by a digital Yoda in the 2011 Blu-ray and 2012 3D release.
Q 14Which was the first film in which Yoda is entirely computer-generated?
Q 21Where does Yoda duel Darth Sidious in Revenge of the Sith?
The Senate chamber
Neither can win, and Yoda is forced to retreat and go into hiding.
Q 22Whom does Yoda duel at the climax of Episode II?
Count Dooku
The 78-year-old Christopher Lee needed a stunt double for the acrobatics.
Q 23Before turning to the Sith, what had Dooku been to Yoda?
His former apprentice
Dooku later went on to train Qui-Gon Jinn before leaving the Order.
Q 24In The Last Jedi, what does Yoda's lightning bolt set ablaze?
Attack of the Clones
The digital character could finally do things the puppet could not, like fight with a lightsaber.
Q 15In which year did the Phantom Menace Blu-ray swap the puppet for a digital Yoda?
2011
The 3D theatrical release the following year used the same digital version.
Q 16Which director brought back a puppet Yoda, from the original mould, for The Last Jedi?
Rian Johnson
He felt CGI would not be true to the Yoda that Luke knew on Dagobah.
Q 17Who voices Yoda in The Clone Wars animated film and series?
Tom Kane
Kane also voiced Yoda in the 2003 Cartoon Network Clone Wars.
Q 18Which actor voiced Yoda in the radio dramatizations of Empire and Jedi?
John Lithgow
The radio Empire aired in 1983 and Return of the Jedi followed in 1996.
Q 19When Obi-Wan calls Luke their last hope, Yoda says there is another. Who is it?
Leia
Obi-Wan's spirit later helps Luke work out that the other is his twin sister.
Q 20Yoda flees Kashyyyk during Order 66 with Chewbacca and which other Wookiee?
Tarfful
They get him to Coruscant, where he and Obi-Wan break into the Jedi Temple.
The ancient library tree
He tells Luke the texts held nothing Rey does not already have; she has quietly taken them.
Q 25In The Clone Wars season six, whose voice sets Yoda off on a spirit quest?
Qui-Gon Jinn
He learns he has been chosen to keep his consciousness after death as a Force spirit.
Q 26Which ancient Sith Lord appears to Yoda as an illusion during his spirit trials?
Darth Bane
His final test is resisting a lure to the dark side from Sidious and Dooku.
Q 27In Rebels, Yoda speaks telepathically to Kanan Jarrus and which apprentice?
Ezra Bridger
The episode is called Path of the Jedi; Yoda reappears to him in a vision in season two.
Q 28In Tales of the Jedi, Yoda silently attends the funeral of which Jedi Master?
Katri
He appears in two episodes of the miniseries but has no dialogue.
Q 29Yoda fronted a 2012 UK advertising campaign for which company?
Vodafone
The commercials aired only in the United Kingdom.
Q 30Weird Al Yankovic's song Yoda parodies which Kinks hit?
Lola
It took about five years to get permission from both George Lucas and Ray Davies.