The Jedi Trivia
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99 free The Jedi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
George Lucas called the Jedi warrior-monks and, later, Buddhist monks who happened to be very good at fighting. He nearly named them Jedidiah, borrowed their non-attachment from Zen San Francisco and their story shape from Joseph Campbell, and built them a Temple on Coruscant that sits, pointedly, on top of an old Sith shrine. These 99 questions cover the Order rather than any one Jedi. The easy tier sticks to the Code, the ranks from Initiate to Master, lightsaber colours and Luke's exile on Ahch-To. The middle asks about the twelve-seat High Council, the Gathering on Ilum, the five trials, the Lost Twenty and the Inquisitorius. The expert tier reaches for the Council of First Knowledge, the Shadows, Jocasta Nu, the Trinity College library controversy, the Hagia Sophia minarets and the New Zealanders who made Jedi their country's fastest-growing religion in 2001. Every answer is cited to a page we checked and comes with a short explanation so you learn something on a miss. Play it alone or print it for a Star Wars night.
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Q 01George Lucas summed up the Jedi in which two-word phrase?
Warrior-monks
Warrior-monks: the idea shaped everything from their plain robes to their creed of compassion and self-discipline, with fighting meant only as a last resort.
Q 02The word Jedi may come from jidaigeki, a Japanese term for what kind of film?
Period drama
Period drama: the term covers the samurai films of directors like Akira Kurosawa, whom Lucas names as a major inspiration, and he is said to have picked the word up while in Japan.
Q 03Which author's Barsoom novels, with their jeds and jeddaks, may also have inspired the word Jedi?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan: on his Barsoom, a fictional Mars, lords carry the title jed or jeddak. When Disney finally filmed the first book as John Carter in 2012, it lost the studio some $200 million.
Q 04In Rogue One, the Death Star's first test shot destroys the holy city on which moon?
Jedha
Jedha: one of the first civilisations to study the Force arose on the moon, and the Empire occupied it to strip out the crystals that power lightsabers before erasing its holy city.
Q 05Which Akira Kurosawa film, told through two bickering peasants, is most often named as a model for Star Wars?
The Hidden Fortress
The Hidden Fortress: its two squabbling peasants became the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, and by his daughter's account Lucas offered its star, Toshiro Mifune, the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which he turned down.
Q 06Which Joseph Campbell book directly drove Lucas to build his modern myth?
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Lucas studied it while drafting Star Wars but met its author only in the 1980s, after the original trilogy was finished, and came to call Campbell 'my Yoda'.
Q 07George Lucas, raised a Protestant, sums up his own religious outlook with which label?
Buddhist Methodist
Buddhist Methodist: he was raised a Methodist and, as he once joked of his California home, 'It's Marin County. We're all Buddhists up here.'
Q 08What does the Jedi Order forbid its members to form, warning that it leads to the dark side?
Attachments
Attachments: Lucas insisted that Jedi may love, and are even expected to; what they must not do is cling, because the fear of losing someone curdles into anger and hate.
Q 09The Jedi Code opens "There is no emotion, there is" what?
Peace
Peace: the mantra goes on to set knowledge against ignorance and serenity against passion, and a real-world church of Jediism, founded in 2005, has adopted both its versions as doctrine.
Q 10Which Jedi Master, dropped from the High Council, secretly ordered the Republic's clone army?
Sifo-Dyas
Sifo-Dyas went to the Kaminoan cloners behind the Council's back. The Sith then had him killed and took over his order, so the army the Jedi came to lead was secretly their enemy's.
Q 11Jedi and Sith alike recorded their teachings in which palm-sized crystalline devices, opened only through the Force?
Holocrons
Holocrons: the Jedi Temple kept its most guarded ones locked in a restricted vault, which is why Cad Bane's theft of one during the Clone Wars was such a coup.
Q 12In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon Jinn tests Anakin's blood for which microscopic life forms that signal Force potential?
Midi-chlorians
Midi-chlorians: Lucas called them a loose depiction of mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our own cells, and Anakin's count came back higher than Master Yoda's.
Q 13Ben Burtt built the lightsaber's hum from an old film projector's motor and the buzz of which household object?
A television set
Q 21Which Muppets performer gave Yoda his voice and movements in The Empire Strikes Back?
Frank Oz
Frank Oz: Lucas first approached Jim Henson, who was too busy and put forward his fellow puppeteer, the performer of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear.
Q 22Who was Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives around the time of the Clone Wars?
Jocasta Nu
Jocasta Nu: she was so sure of her records that she told Obi-Wan a planet missing from them could not exist, when in truth someone had erased it.
Q 23Who chaired the Jedi High Council as Master of the Order in the last years before the Clone Wars?
Mace Windu
Mace Windu: he was on the Council both times it turned Anakin Skywalker down, first refusing to have the boy trained and later withholding the rank of Master, which left Anakin furious.
A television set: Burtt was carrying a microphone past one when it picked up a buzz from the picture tube, quite by accident, and he blended that half and half with the projector's hum.
Q 14Which is the first of the four stages of Jedi training?
Initiate
Initiate: these are the younglings, schooled together at the Temple, where Yoda himself taught them, until they pass their tests and a Knight or Master takes each one on as a Padawan.
Q 15In the rite called the Gathering, Jedi younglings travelled to which planet to find the crystals for their first lightsabers?
Ilum
Ilum: in its ice caves each youngling had to trust their instincts and overcome an inner obstacle before the one crystal attuned to them appeared, then build a lightsaber around it under the old droid Huyang.
Q 16What did Old Republic Padawans traditionally wear on the right side of their head?
A braid
A braid: Padawans of hairless species wore a string of beads in its place, and the braid came off for good on the day its wearer was made a Knight.
Q 17What military rank did Padawans hold in the Grand Army during the Clone Wars?
Commander
Commander: with Knights and Masters made generals, their teenage apprentices outranked veteran clone officers, which is how Ahsoka Tano came to give orders to Captain Rex.
Q 18Alongside the Trials of Skill, Courage, Spirit and Insight, which fifth test must a Padawan pass to become a Knight?
Trial of the Flesh
Trial of the Flesh: it tested how a Padawan bore pain and loss, and in the older novels Anakin Skywalker is judged to have passed it when Count Dooku took his arm.
Q 19What trial did Yoda set Luke so he could become a full Knight?
Face Vader a second time
Face Vader a second time: the dying Yoda tells Luke that no more training is needed, only that meeting, and Luke passes it by refusing to strike his father down.
Q 20Obi-Wan earned Jedi status through the extraordinary act of defeating whom?
Darth Maul
Darth Maul: he was the first Sith the Jedi had faced in a thousand years and had just killed Obi-Wan's own master, so the Council counted the victory as the Padawan's trials.
Q 24Which actor asked George Lucas for a purple lightsaber so he could pick himself out in a crowded battle scene?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson: blades until then had been red, blue or green, and he argued that his character, the most formidable Jedi after Yoda, had earned one of his own.
Q 25In Jedi lore, which of the Order's three branches were its contemplative scholars, seers and healers?
Consular
Consular: the least warlike of the Jedi, they drew a lightsaber only as a last resort and were the ones sent to negotiate when a dispute could still be talked down.
Q 26The masked guards of the Jedi Temple carried double-bladed lightsaber pikes of which colour?
Yellow
Yellow: the Temple Guards were Knights who gave up their names and faces for the post, serving anonymously behind identical masks and robes for as long as it lasted.
Q 27Which prequel-trilogy actor returned in The Mandalorian as Kelleran Beq, the Jedi who rescues Grogu from the Temple?
Ahmed Best
Ahmed Best: the performer behind Jar Jar Binks had first played Kelleran Beq as host of a children's game show in 2020, and the series made that Jedi the hero of Grogu's escape.
Q 28Kylo Ren's lightsaber has a crossguard because of what?
A cracked kyber crystal
A cracked kyber crystal: the flawed stone would overload the blade, so two side vents bleed off the excess power, and those jets of plasma are the crossguard.
Q 29The Jedi fighter of Attack of the Clones was shaped to echo which original-trilogy ships?
Star Destroyers
Star Destroyers: the echo was meant to suggest that the Empire seized and twisted the Republic's noble designs, and the next film's Jedi fighter went further by borrowing from the TIE fighter.
Q 30Which prequel design director called the Jedi starfighter a bridge to the original trilogy's look?
Doug Chiang
Doug Chiang: seeing the original Star Wars at 15 sent him down to the family basement to shoot stop-motion films of his own, and he grew up to lead the art department on its prequels.