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 01Who plays Leia in the original and sequel trilogies?
Carrie Fisher
She was 19 when cast and only five years younger than Mark Hamill.
Q 02Of which planet is Leia a princess?
Alderaan
Tarkin destroys it with the Death Star even after she gives up a base location.
Q 03Which senator adopts Leia as a baby?
Bail Organa
His wife is Queen Breha, whom Leia remembers as her mother.
Q 04Who is Leia's birth mother?
Padmé Amidala
She dies shortly after giving birth to the twins.
Q 05On which asteroid outpost are Luke and Leia born?
Polis Massa
Obi-Wan and Yoda then split the twins up to hide them from Vader.
Q 06In which droid does Leia hide the stolen Death Star plans?
R2-D2
She sends him to find Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine.
Q 07Which abandoned base does Leia name to Tarkin to try to save her home planet?
Dantooine
Tarkin fires on her homeworld anyway, calling it a demonstration.
Q 08Under what bounty-hunter alias does Leia infiltrate Jabba's palace?
Boushh
Boushh is an Ubese hunter; the disguise comes with a thermal detonator.
Q 09How does Leia kill Jabba the Hutt?
She strangles him with her chain
Fisher called it the most satisfying moment of her acting career.
Q 10What is the name of Leia and Han's son?
Ben Solo
He leaves Luke's training and becomes Kylo Ren.
Q 11What rank does Leia hold in the Resistance?
General
She founded the organisation to fight the First Order.
Q 12Which actress stood in for a CGI young Leia in Rogue One?
Ingvild Deila
Archival audio of Fisher supplied the single line.
Q 13Who stepped in as Leia for the brief flashback in The Rise of Skywalker?
Billie Lourd
Fisher's face from Return of the Jedi was digitally placed over her daughter's.
Q 14Fisher's daughter plays which Resistance officer in the sequel trilogy?
Q 21What food is Leia's 1977 hairstyle nicknamed after?
Cinnamon buns
Jackie magazine printed step-by-step instructions for it in 1978.
Q 22Lucas said the hairstyle aimed at women revolutionaries of which country?
Mexico
He described a turn-of-the-century Pancho Villa look.
Q 23Which revolutionary did a Denver Art Museum exhibit credit as an inspiration for the buns?
Clara de la Rocha
The museum also cited hairstyles worn by Hopi women.
Q 24Empire suggested the buns came from Queen Fria, a character in which 1930s comic serial?
Lieutenant Connix
The character wears a hairstyle that nods to her mother's buns.
Q 15How old was Fisher when she was cast as Leia?
19
Mark Hamill nonetheless found her older and wiser than him.
Q 16Which actress was offered Leia but declined because of a Disney contract?
Jodie Foster
Streep, Close and Lange were among those considered.
Q 17In an early draft, Leia was the spoiled teenage daughter of the king of which world?
Aquilae
Her parents were King Kayos and Queen Breha; only Breha's name survived.
Q 18Another draft made Leia the daughter of Owen and Beru Lars, which would make her Luke's what?
Cousin
Lucas only decided she was Luke's twin while writing Return of the Jedi.
Q 19What surname did Leia carry in a story synopsis before becoming an Organa?
Antilles
She was the child of Bail Antilles of the peaceful world Organa Major.
Q 20Fisher said the original rescue scene alluded to which 1973 horror film?
The Exorcist
Leia was to be unconscious, yellow-eyed and hanging upside down.
Flash Gordon
Lucas had originally wanted to film Flash Gordon itself.
Q 25Which fantasy illustrator's work inspired the metal bikini's design?
Frank Frazetta
Costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers cited him; a scholar also suggested Earle K. Bergey.
Q 26Who designed the metal bikini with Nilo Rodis-Jamero?
Aggie Guerard Rodgers
A rubber version let Fisher and her stunt double move comfortably.
Q 27How much did an original rubber version of the bikini sell for at auction in 2015?
$96,000
Another version went for $175,000 in 2024.
Q 28Which comedian wore a replica of the bikini on GQ's cover in August 2015?
Amy Schumer
Yvonne Strahovski had worn it in Chuck and topped an IGN sexiest list for it.
Q 29Fisher said the most satisfying moment of her acting career was what?
Killing Jabba the Hutt
She found Leia worried, angry and snarky, which was not fun to play.
Q 30Which character did Fisher say she would rather have played?
Han Solo
She preferred the wry and sardonic smuggler to the angry princess.