Only A True Jedi Can Pass This Star Wars Quiz
- by Ben Sherlock
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Star Wars is an endless phenomenon whose impact on popular culture knows no bounds. Ever since a weird little space movie that no one besides its creator George Lucas and its star Mark Hamill believed in arrived at theaters in 1977 and became the highest grossing movie of all time, audiences have lined up around the block to see every movie, bought every comic book, novelization, video game, and Lego set, visited all the theme parks, and worn every costume to every convention. Star Wars has legions of fans who just can’t seem to get enough of that galaxy far, far away. It holds the Guinness World Record for the most successful film merchandising franchise ever. But it seemed as though the saga was over and fans would have to make do with the six movies God gave us. Luckily, Disney bought out Lucasfilm a few years ago, because now the Star Wars beast can live on for generations to come. We’ll be enjoying sequels, spin-offs, and anthology movies for years. So, do you think you’re the biggest Star Wars fan in the world? Test your knowledge of a galaxy far, far away by taking this quiz. May the Force be with you...
What command by Emperor Palpatine brought down the Jedi?
The Clone Wars were ended by a protocol that was executed by Emperor Palpatine, by which every single one of the Clone Troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic turned against the Jedi and killed them all, essentially bringing down the Jedi Order. Obi-Wan went into hiding and that’s where we pick up on him in A New Hope. The protocol was implanted in the clones by the Sith Lords and Kaminoan scientists who created them. Which command brought down the Jedi?
Which ice planet is featured in The Empire Strikes Back?
The opening sequence of The Empire Strikes Back gave us some of the most iconic moments in Star Wars history, like Luke being kidnapped by the Wampa and then using the force to save himself or Han cutting open the tauntaun in order to keep Luke warm or the snowspeeders bringing down the AT-ATs by tripping them over with grapple lines during the battle scene. The setting for all of these shenanigans is an ice planet. What planet is it?
What was Darth Vader’s original identity?
Throughout the original trilogy, Darth Vader was just a masked menace who eventually revealed himself to be Luke’s father. That’s when it all came out. He used to be a Jedi, considered to be the chosen one, although Yoda was sceptical of the fear he sensed in him. This all got fleshed out in the prequel trilogy, which some fans found to be distasteful, but others (the younger ones) enjoyed. So, what was Darth Vader’s original identity, back in the days of being a Jedi with good intentions?
Who killed Mace Windu?
Samuel L. Jackson looks weirdly out of place in a big budget space fantasy movie like Star Wars, since we’re used to seeing him in sweary, violent roles in adult oriented movies like Pulp Fiction and Snakes on a Plane. But still, he managed to make a memorable role out of Mace Windu, Yoda’s right hand man. Jackson insists that Mace survived his death scene in Revenge of the Sith and wants to play him again in one of the new movies, but we doubt he’s still alive. But who killed him?
Complete the quote: “The negotiations were...”
This stupid little joke, spoken by Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, was the moment that many costumed Star Wars fans who were sitting in a movie theater after waiting a decade and a half for a new instalment in their favorite franchise realized that The Phantom Menace was going to suck. It would be about boring negotiations over trade deals and the only form of ‘entertainment’ would be painfully corny jokes like this one. A dark time for everyone. Complete the quote: “The negotiations were...”
Who REALLY shot first?
This is one of the most hotly debated topics within the Star Wars fan base. When George Lucas made the CGI-addled prequel trilogy that was mostly despised by fans and lacked the rustic, lived in aesthetic of the original trilogy, a million voices cried out. But what’s worse is that he dived into the original trilogy and fiddled around with that, completely bastardizing his masterpieces with CGI. So, according to the ORIGINAL cut and not the shameless prequels, who shot first: Han or Greedo?
Which of these species is NOT furry?
“Laugh it up, fuzzball.” That’s the classic line delivered by Princess Leia as an insult to Chewbacca in reference to his furry exterior (another classic Leia insult directed at Chewie was the time she called him a “walking carpet.” But Chewbacca isn’t the only furry creature in the Star Wars universe – far from it. His species isn’t even the only furry species in that galaxy far, far away. But they’re not all furry, of course. That would be silly. So, which of these species is NOT furry?
Which of these classic Star Wars characters does NOT appear in Rogue One?
The movies of Star Wars are jam packed with lovable, memorable characters. That’s the enduring quality of the franchise – you get to come back and see the same droids, the same Jedi Knights, the same Sith Lords, the same bounty hunters that you’ve come to know and love. Rogue One, being a spin-off and all, didn’t follow the same cast of characters we’ve been following for 40 years. But it did feature some of them in small cameo roles. Which of these classic Star Wars characters does NOT appear in Rogue One?
Who is this character?
This Gungan character was introduced into The Phantom Menace as the movie’s comic relief, but that didn’t exactly pan out. The fans instantly despised him, with many now regarding him as one of the most hated characters in the history of film. There’s a Reddit theory that he’s really an evil mastermind behind everything evil in the galaxy that will be revealed in an upcoming movie, even though Kathleen Kennedy of Lucasfilm has explicitly stated that this character will not be making an appearance in any of the new movies. Which character is it?
Which movie had Vader telling Luke he’s his father?
The Star Wars saga tells the story, ultimately, of the Skywalker family. It’s about bigger, more epic things than that, with empires dominating galaxies and airborne battles laying waste to hundreds of talented pilots and an order of good fighting an order of evil and all that jazz, but at the end of the day, it’s about the Skywalker family. We first realized this the moment that Darth Vader told Luke that he was his father. In which movie did this happen?
What was Finn’s original name when he was a Stormtrooper?
When the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released, there was a big shock when the main protagonist, played by John Boyega, was revealed to be a Stormtrooper. Until then, they’d been seen as faceless bad guys. But with Finn, we got a Stormtrooper with a conscience. He couldn’t stand to go around shooting innocent people anymore, so he ran away with Poe Dameron, who gave him a snappier name with “Finn.” What was it originally?
Complete the quote: “Never tell me the...”
The Empire Strikes Back has a great story. Like its predecessor, it’s tautly structured, with several plots running side by side. Luke is being trained by Yoda, while Darth Vader is working to bring down his friends, who are being pursued across the galaxy. That last part leaves a lot of room for great banter between Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO – particularly between Han and C-3PO. There are some really great quotes there. Complete this quote: “Never tell me the...”
Who played Lando Calrissian originally?
The actor who played Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is really cool and beloved by the fanboy community. Not only did he play Lando in Star Wars, he also played Harvey Dent in 1989’s Batman and played a small role in Lost, where he played himself and JJ Abrams’ geek fantasy came true. Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) has been cast as young Lando in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story. But who played Lando originally?
Which hand did Luke Skywalker lose?
When Luke left Dagobah in a fit of passion to go and save his friends from the clutch of Darth Vader in Cloud City, Yoda told him he wasn’t ready to fight Vader, but Luke being Luke – young and naive and loving – didn’t listen to his little green master, and went off the Cloud City anyway. During the duel, Vader lops off one of Luke’s hand and tells him he’s his father. But which hand was it? Which hand did Luke Skywalker lose?
Who killed the Emperor?
Throughout A New Hope, it seemed as though Darth Vader was the big bad of the Star Wars original trilogy. He was the main villain who everyone feared and who ordered everyone around. But then in The Empire Strikes Back, we see that Vader actually takes his own orders and guidance from a higher ranking villain: Emperor Palpatine. In Return of the Jedi, the Emperor is finally brought down and killed, ending his reign over the entire saga. Who does it?
Which episode number is Revenge of the Sith?
When the original trilogy was released in theaters, they didn’t have episode numbers in their titles. In fact, the first one didn’t even have an episode title – it was simply titled “Star Wars.” And the Star Wars title wasn’t involved in the other two titles in the original trilogy. Now, the episode numbers are only in the opening crawl, even though fans widely use them as a reference. Anyway, do you remember which episode number is Revenge of the Sith?
How did Luke dispose of Vader’s body?
At the end of Return of the Jedi, Luke and Darth Vader have their big reunion moment as Vader gets his redemption and shares a tender moment with his son as he takes off his mask and then dies. But that left Luke with a chore, to get rid of his father’s body somehow, either with a funeral ceremony or simply just to do it by himself and have a small thing. So, how did Luke dispose of Vader’s body?
Complete the quote: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re...”
The whole story of A New Hope kicks off when Princess Leia records a message onto R2-D2 while the Empire takes over her ship, imploring Obi-Wan Kenobi to come to her aid. Luckily, the farmer who ends up buying Artoo from the Jawas is the legal guardian of Obi-Wan’s young boy companion. Kenobi saves Luke from the Sandpeople and then takes him back to his place, where he watches the message played back. So, complete the quote: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re...”
The Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than how many parsecs?
The Kessel Run is one of the most popular smuggling routes in the galaxy, heavily used by Han Solo and Chewbacca in their Millennium Falcon. Han often brags about having made the Kessel Run in less than a certain number of parsecs. This is considered to be a mistake, since a parsec is a unit of distance, not time, but hey, maybe it is a unit of time in the Star Wars world. So, by Star Wars law, the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than how many parsecs?
Who plays Rey?
Rey emerged in The Force Awakens as one of the most popular and beloved new Star Wars characters. She’s now joined the same breath as Luke and Han and Leia and Yoda and Vader and Boba and Lando and all the rest. The actress who plays her has become a huge star between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, with an appearance most recently in the blockbuster Agatha Christie novel adaptation Murder on the Orient Express. Who is she?
How does Jabba sentence Han and Luke to be killed?
Jabba the Hutt is introduced as a notorious intergalactic gangster in A New Hope. At the beginning of Return of the Jedi, Luke visits Jabba the Hutt at his palace on Tatooine in order to liberate his friend Han, who’s been frozen in carbonite and hung on Jabba’s wall. After some cool action sequences, Jabba manages to capture both the Jedi and the space pirate, and sentences them both to death. How exactly is it that he wants them to be killed, though?
Which character is Boba Fett’s father?
In the original trilogy, Boba Fett is introduced in The Empire Strikes Back as a bounty hunter to be reckoned with. His cool, icy demeanor inspired by Clint Eastwood’s portrayal of the Man with No Name in the Dollars trilogy won over the hearts of fans across the world. And then in Return of the Jedi, he was dealt a very unceremonious death, much to the disappointment of many fans. So, in the prequel trilogy, his father was given a very triumphant and extravagant and theatrical death. Who was Boba’s father?
Complete the quote: “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to...”
Yoda is one of the best remembered and most beloved characters in all of Star Wars. He’s also one of the oldest and wisest characters. Before his death halfway through Return of the Jedi, he’s well over 900 years old. He has so many quotes that are so deep and philosophical and filled with applicable wisdoms. So, complete the Yoda quote: “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to...”
What order does Kylo belong to?
Kylo emerged in The Force Awakens, played by Adam Driver from Girls and the movies of Noah Baumbach, as a very divisive villain among fans. Obviously he doesn’t live up to the immensely menacing stature of his predecessor Darth Vader as an antagonistic tour de force. But still, he has his merits as a character, and as a performance. He’s mentally unstable and is prone to irrational bouts of anger. A lot of us can relate to that. But what order does Kylo belong to?
Who played Han Solo?
Han Solo is not just one of the most beloved and iconic characters in Star Wars history. He’s one of the most beloved and iconic characters in film history. Described by his own creator George Lucas as “a loner who realizes the importance of being part of a group and helping for the common good,” Han was played by one of the most famous actors of all time from his introduction at the Mos Eisley Cantina to his tragic, untimely death by the hand of his own son. Who played Han?
What is Count Dooku’s Sith Lord name?
Like Darth Vader, Count Dooku was a Jedi Knight who went over to the Dark Side and used his grasp of the Force for evil and instead became a Sith Lord. He goes by Count Dooku mainly because he was played by Christopher Lee, whose best known role is that of Count Dracula, so the dark cape and the ‘Count’ title is a reference to that. But Dooku does have a Darth-based Sith Lord name that he chooses not to go by. What is it?
Which of these is NOT a traditional lightsaber color?
The color of each lightsaber depends on what side of the Force you’re on. If you’re a Jedi, then there’s a couple of traditional colors that your lightsaber can be, but you side with the Sith, then your options for lightsaber color are limited to just one. Samuel L. Jackson had to personally request that his character Mace Windu’s lightsaber be made the untraditional color of purple, but that was an oddity. Which of these is NOT a traditional lightsaber color?
What was the original title of Return of the Jedi?
All throughout the production of Return of the Jedi, it had been going by a completely different title. Well, not completely different. It was always “_____ of the Jedi,” but it wasn’t always “Return” filling the blank. It was another word, which was on the title on all of the first posters that 20th Century Fox had designed and sent to the presses, before Lucas decided to change his mind and they had to scrap their whole marketing campaign. What was it?
Complete the quote: “There’s always a bigger...”
This weird little chunk of wisdom comes from Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan’s mentor and friend, in The Phantom Menace. The idea behind it is basically that no matter how big you are or how strong you are or how talented you are, there will always be someone bigger and stronger and more talented, so you have to just learn to be happy with who you are. It’s an odd way of phrasing it, though. So, complete the quote: “There’s always a bigger...”
What is Princess Leia’s home planet?
At the start of A New Hope, Darth Vader and his cronies take Princess Leia Organa captive and take her back to their huge space station, the Death Star, which is a gigantic, spherical ball in outer space with a cannon capable of destroying entire planets. They test it out on Leia’s home planet and make her watch them do it, which is a really cruel thing to do. But hey, what do you expect? It’s the Empire. Which planet is it?
Who is this character?
Ever since this guy blazed the trail, the big bads of the Star Wars movies have always had a snooty right hand man in a grey uniform barking orders at Empire office drones. George Lucas said of the classical actor playing him, Peter Cushing, “He is a very good actor. Adored and idolized by young people and by people who go to see a certain kind of movie. I feel he will be fondly remembered for the next 350 years at least.” Who’s the character?
Who played Princess Leia?
Princess Leia Organa will always stand as one of the most iconic and best remembered characters in the history of film. Her feisty attitude, witty one liners, and sarcastic charm have made her one of the greatest female roles in science fiction, a genre where women are so often marginalized (or not even given roles at all). The actress who played her was a really cool person in real life before her tragic and untimely death last year, as she wrote best-selling novels and took her status as a fanboy icon in her stride. But who was she?
What is this type of Rebel ship called?
These neat little ships show up pretty much every time there’s a dogfight involving the Rebel Alliance (now known as the Resistance and slightly different following circumstances post-Return of the Jedi). Luke flies one in A New Hope when he goes up to the Death Star with the other Rebels, hares it down the trench on top, and uses the Force to blow the whole station up. There are various different types of Rebel ship. What is this type of Rebel ship called?
What kind of farmer are Owen and Beru?
When the prequel trilogy comes to an end, Luke has been orphaned (ish) as his dad has strangled his mother to death and then been slashed down to a stump and put in a black robot suit. So, Obi-Wan separates Luke from his twin sister Leia, who is given to a senator and goes on to become a princess, and gives Luke to his aunt and uncle, a pair of farmers on Tatooine. But what kind of farmer are they?
Which of these directors has NEVER directed a Star Wars movie?
Originally, George Lucas envisioned Star Wars as an endless series, like James Bond, where he could give all of his director friends a chance to tell their own Star Wars story and give their take on the franchise. However, after three movies, he gave them a conclusion and moved on. But then he returned to the series almost two decades later with three prequels, but they reached a conclusion, too. But which of these directors has NEVER directed a Star Wars movie?