Han Solo Trivia
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50 free Han Solo trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Han Solo started life in George Lucas's first draft as a green-skinned alien with gills and no nose. Three drafts later he was a James Dean-style star pilot with a streak of Humphrey Bogart, and Harrison Ford, hired only to read lines for other auditioners, talked his way into the part. Nearly fifty years on, the smuggler is still arguing with the bounty hunter who cornered him in the cantina. These 50 questions cover the whole arc: the Alderaan charter, the carbonite, the general on Endor, the son who ends him on Starkiller Base, and the 2018 prequel that lost Disney tens of millions after its directors were fired mid-shoot. Easy questions stick to the films everyone has seen. The middle tier asks about the Special Edition edit, the Kessel Run, the Falcon's Space: 1999 problem and the card game that won the ship. The expert tier reaches for Ureallians, Sana Starros, Darth Caedus and the airliner that gives the Falcon its hyperspace sound. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something on a miss. Play it solo, naturally, or print it for game night.
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Q 01When Luke and Obi-Wan hire him in Star Wars (1977), how is Han making his living?
As a smuggler
As a smuggler: he takes the charter because he is deep in debt, having dumped a crime lord's illegal cargo at the first sign of an Imperial patrol.
Q 02Who plays the young Han in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)?
Alden Ehrenreich
Alden Ehrenreich: Harrison Ford quietly gave him advice before the shoot and, after seeing the finished film, rang its director to say the younger man had nailed it.
Q 03At the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader has Han frozen in a block of what?
Carbonite
Carbonite: Vader really wants to freeze Luke Skywalker, and uses Han to test the chamber first, so nobody present knows whether he will survive it.
Q 04In his third Star Wars draft, George Lucas described Han as a tough starpilot in the style of which screen idol?
James Dean
James Dean: the 1975 draft called Han 'a tough James Dean style starpilot', a long way from the first draft, in which he was a green-skinned alien with gills.
Q 05Lucas at first resisted casting Ford as Han because they had already worked together on which film?
American Graffiti
American Graffiti: wanting unknown faces, Lucas only brought Ford in to feed lines to the actors who were auditioning, and was won over while he did it.
Q 06In Star Wars (1977), Han is hired to fly Luke and Obi-Wan from Tatooine to which planet?
Alderaan
Alderaan: they drop out of hyperspace into a field of rubble, because the Death Star has already destroyed the planet, and the Falcon is hauled aboard the battle station.
Q 07Which bounty hunter corners Han in the Mos Eisley cantina?
Greedo
Greedo: his alien speech is not pure gibberish but was modelled on Quechua, the language of the Incas, and performed for the film by a linguist.
Q 08What did the 1997 Special Edition change in Han's cantina shoot-out?
The bounty hunter fires first
The bounty hunter fires first: Lucas said he never meant Han to be a cold-blooded killer, but fans objected so loudly that 'Han shot first' became a T-shirt slogan.
Q 09On Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, Han keeps the freezing Luke alive overnight inside the body of which creature?
Tauntaun
Tauntaun: when his own mount dies of cold, Han slices it open and stuffs his friend inside, grumbling that it smells even worse than it did on the outside.
Q 10Which word was the bounty hunter given to shout in the 2019 Disney+ edit of Han's cantina scene?
Maclunkey
Maclunkey: the line appeared without warning when Disney+ launched in 2019, yet it was no Disney invention, since George Lucas had made the edit himself before selling Lucasfilm.
Q 11In The Empire Strikes Back, what does Han reply when Leia finally tells him she loves him?
I know
I know: the script gave Han a longer, softer reply, and the famous two words came from Harrison Ford's own suggestion during filming.
Q 12Who plays Han's criminal mentor Tobias Beckett in Solo?
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson: Christian Bale had been in talks for the part before him, and it was Harrelson himself who let the character's name slip while the studio was still keeping it secret.
Q 13Beckett, Han's mentor in Solo, was based on which literary character?
Long John Silver
Long John Silver: like the pirate of Treasure Island, he takes a young hero under his wing and then betrays him, a model the screenwriters openly acknowledged.
Q 21Who took over as director of Solo midway through filming in 2017?
Ron Howard
Ron Howard: brought in about four months into the shoot, he ended up reshooting some 70 per cent of the film and took the sole directing credit.
Q 22Under what working title did Solo begin filming at Pinewood in January 2017?
Red Cup
Red Cup: the title, first seen on a clapperboard the directors posted on day one, appears to be a joke on Solo, the American brand of red plastic party cup.
Q 23Solo reached cinemas only five months after which other Star Wars film?
The Last Jedi
The Last Jedi: Solo then grossed under $400 million against a budget of at least $250 million, and became the first Star Wars film to lose money for Disney.
Q 14In Solo, who gives Han the surname "Solo"?
An Imperial recruiting officer
An Imperial recruiting officer: Han has no family name to give when he enlists, so the officer makes up 'Solo' on the spot because he is alone.
Q 15On which planet does Solo show the young Han growing up as an orphan?
Corellia
Corellia: he grows up stealing for a gang boss in the back streets of the shipbuilding world, and gets away only by enlisting with the Empire.
Q 16Which Game of Thrones star plays Han's childhood love Qi'ra in Solo?
Emilia Clarke
Emilia Clarke: her Qi'ra kills her own crime boss to save Han, then leaves him behind and flies off to report to the syndicate's true leader.
Q 17Who plays the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Donald Glover
Donald Glover: he copied the way Billy Dee Williams's Lando says 'Han', rhyming it with 'can' while nearly everyone else in the films says 'hon'.
Q 18How did Han finally take ownership of the Millennium Falcon from Lando?
He won it at sabacc
He won it at sabacc: Lando had beaten him earlier with a card hidden up his sleeve, so before the rematch Han quietly lifted it.
Q 19Who plays L3-37, Lando's droid co-pilot, in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: her droid is fatally damaged during the heist, so the crew uploads her navigational data into the Falcon to guide them home.
Q 20Which directing duo was fired from Solo in June 2017 over "creative differences"?
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller: the 21 Jump Street pair's loose, improvising, comic style clashed with a studio and a writer who wanted the script shot as written.
Q 24Which composer wrote Han's new theme for Solo?
John Williams
John Williams: the saga's own composer wrote only the theme, 'The Adventures of Han', and John Powell built the rest of the score around it.
Q 25In the 1978 Holiday Special, Han celebrates Life Day on which planet?
Kashyyyk
Kashyyyk: Han is racing to get his co-pilot home to his family for the Wookiee holiday, and has to outrun two Star Destroyers on the way.
Q 26After having Han frozen, Darth Vader hands him over to which bounty hunter?
Boba Fett
Boba Fett: he flies the frozen Han to Jabba the Hutt to collect the price on his head, and the slab ends up hanging on the crime lord's wall as a trophy.
Q 27What rank does Han hold when he leads the strike team against the second Death Star?
General
General: the mercenary who once took his reward and tried to leave before the first Death Star battle now leads the ground assault that dooms its successor.
Q 28Han's strike team disables the shield generator on which forest moon?
Endor
Endor: the mission looks lost until the moon's small, furry Ewoks join the fight, and their help lets the Rebels bring the shield down in time.
Q 29Where is Han betrayed to the Empire in The Empire Strikes Back?
Cloud City
Cloud City: the old friend who runs the place hands him over under Imperial pressure, then changes sides and frees Leia and the others.
Q 30Who kills Han in The Force Awakens?
Kylo Ren
Kylo Ren: he is Han's own son, and seems ready to come home with him until he ignites his lightsaber and kills his father.