Princess Leia
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50 free Princess Leia trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Princess Leia was nearly a spoiled teenage princess of Aquilae, nearly Luke's cousin from the Lars farm, and nearly Leia Antilles of Organa Major. George Lucas rewrote her four times before she became the senator from Alderaan who hides the Death Star plans in a droid, talks back to Darth Vader and strangles Jabba the Hutt with her own chain. Carrie Fisher, cast at 19 over Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster, played her for four decades. These 50 questions cover the whole character: the original trilogy plot beats, Polis Massa and the Organas, the Boushh disguise, the metal bikini and who designed it, the cinnamon-bun hairstyle and the Mexican revolutionaries behind it, General Organa in the sequel trilogy, the unused Force Awakens footage, Billie Lourd's stand-in, the Rogue One cameo and the Obi-Wan Kenobi child version. Legends readers get the Noghri, Prince Isolder and the Solo twins; Fisher fans get Debbie Reynolds, Shampoo, Postcards from the Edge, Wishful Drinking and her Walk of Fame star on Star Wars Day. Easy questions stick to the films; the expert tier asks about Denver Art Museum exhibits, 1930s comic queens and animated voice actors. 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 The Empire Strikes Back, the Empire attacks Leia's Rebel base on which planet?
Hoth
Hoth: when the Empire tracks the Alliance to the ice world, Leia stays to direct the evacuation and has to flee at the last minute aboard the Millennium Falcon.
Q 02Of which planet is Leia a princess?
Alderaan
Alderaan is blown up by the Death Star in the first film, and that loss drives everything Leia does next: with no home or family left, all she has is her cause.
Q 03Which senator adopts Leia as a baby?
Bail Organa
Bail Organa is there when the twins are born and offers at once to take the girl, saying he and his wife had always talked of adopting a daughter.
Q 04Who is Leia's birth mother?
Padmé Amidala
Padmé Amidala lives just long enough to name both twins: the medical droid finds nothing physically wrong with her and says she has lost the will to live.
Q 05On which asteroid outpost are Luke and Leia born?
Polis Massa
Polis Massa is the remote medical outpost the newborn twins soon leave, to be split up and hidden where the Sith will never sense them.
Q 06In which droid does Leia hide the stolen Death Star plans?
R2-D2
R2-D2 gets away in an escape pod only because an Imperial gunnery captain orders his crew to hold fire: the scanners show no life forms aboard.
Q 07Which abandoned base does Leia name to Tarkin to try to save her home planet?
Dantooine
Dantooine: Tarkin calls it too remote to make an effective demonstration and fires on her home planet anyway, and his scouts later report the base long deserted.
Q 08Under what bounty-hunter alias does Leia infiltrate Jabba's palace?
Boushh
Boushh: in the disguise she pulls a live thermal detonator while haggling over Chewbacca's bounty, and a delighted Jabba calls the hunter fearless and inventive.
Q 09How does Leia kill Jabba the Hutt?
She strangles him with her chain
She strangles him with her chain, turning the very thing that bound her to his throne into a weapon while his guards are busy fighting Luke outside.
Q 10In the sequel trilogy films, what is the name of Leia's son?
Ben Solo
Ben Solo falls to the dark side as Kylo Ren and kills his own father, yet Leia never stops believing that he can be brought home.
Q 11What rank does Leia hold in the Resistance?
General
General: she founded the Resistance herself, and director J.J. Abrams said that leading it, rather than becoming a Jedi like her brother, was simply a choice she made.
Q 12Asked what the stolen Death Star plans are, what one word does young Leia say to end Rogue One?
Hope
Hope: a digital copy of the young Carrie Fisher's face was laid over a Norwegian actress, Ingvild Deila, and the word itself came from an old recording of Fisher's voice.
Q 13Who stepped in as Leia for the brief flashback in The Rise of Skywalker?
Billie Lourd
Billie Lourd played the young Leia on set, and the effects team then replaced her face with her mother's, taken from Return of the Jedi footage.
Q 21What food is Leia's 1977 hairstyle nicknamed after?
Cinnamon buns
Cinnamon buns: asked why his heroines have such crazy hairdos, George Lucas said he had been working very hard to create something that was not fashion.
Q 22George Lucas said Leia's 1977 hairstyle was modelled on women revolutionaries of which country?
Mexico
Mexico: Lucas described a turn-of-the-century 'Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look', but a Denver Art Museum exhibit on the films pointed to a traditional Hopi hairstyle.
Q 23After Leia's death, Rey buries Leia's lightsaber beside her brother's on which planet?
Tatooine
Tatooine: Rey lays both sabers to rest at the desert farm where Luke grew up, then takes the family's name as her own while the twins' spirits look on.
Q 14Fisher's daughter plays which Resistance officer in the sequel trilogy?
Lieutenant Connix
Lieutenant Connix wears a hairstyle that nods to Leia's own; her actress had first been called in to audition for the lead role of Rey.
Q 15Which co-star, five years Fisher's senior, played Leia's twin?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill was born in 1951 and Fisher in 1956; their characters became twins only in the script of the third film, years after both were cast.
Q 16Which actress was offered Leia but declined because of a Disney contract?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster, barely a teenager at the time, would not pull out of the Disney film she was making; she later joked that as Leia she might have gone with different hair.
Q 17On the Death Star, Leia blasts open a wall grate and leads her rescuers down into what?
A trash compactor
A trash compactor: minutes after being freed she grabs a blaster, shoots out the grate and orders the men into the garbage chute, taking charge of her own rescue.
Q 18An early Star Wars draft made Leia the daughter of Owen and Beru Lars, making her Luke's what?
Cousin
Cousin: Owen and Beru are Luke's uncle and aunt, and George Lucas made Leia his twin sister only years later, while Return of the Jedi was being written.
Q 19Which Ewok finds Leia unconscious in the forest of Endor and becomes her first friend there?
Wicket
Wicket prods her awake with his spear and is won over with a scrap of food, a friendship that ends with his whole tribe fighting beside the Rebels.
Q 20Fisher said a cut scene of Leia hanging upside down, yellow-eyed, echoed which horror film?
The Exorcist
The Exorcist: Fisher said the scene was cut because Leia would have been unconscious, leaving Chewbacca to carry her for the next fifteen minutes of the film.
Q 24Empire magazine traced Leia's hairstyle to Queen Fria, a character in which 1930s comic strip?
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon: George Lucas first tried to buy the film rights to it, and wrote his own space adventure only after the strip's owners turned him away.
Q 25Which fantasy illustrator's work inspired the design of Leia's metal bikini?
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta's fantasy art was the designer's stated inspiration, and her team took a mould of Fisher's torso so that the hard metal pieces would fit exactly.
Q 26Carrie Fisher said George Lucas would not let her wear what under Leia's white dress in the first film?
A bra
A bra: Lucas told her 'there's no underwear in space', which led to her request that her obituary say she 'drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra'.
Q 27About how much did one of Leia's original metal bikini costumes fetch at auction in 2015?
$96,000
$96,000, after bidding opened at $80,000, for a costume that is on screen for only a couple of minutes of Return of the Jedi.
Q 28Which comedian wore a replica of Leia's metal bikini on GQ's cover in August 2015?
Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer followed Jennifer Aniston, whose Rachel put the outfit on in a 1996 episode of Friends to act out Ross's Leia fantasy.
Q 29Carrie Fisher joked that the only reason to go into acting is if you get to do what?
Kill a giant monster
Kill a giant monster: she meant Jabba the Hutt, and when the crew offered her a stunt double for the scene she refused, calling it the best time she ever had as an actor.
Q 30Which Star Wars character did Carrie Fisher say she would rather have played?
Han Solo
Han Solo: on first reading the script she thought his was the part to be, always wry and sardonic, while Leia was mostly worried or angry, which she said was no fun to play.