Return of the Jedi Trivia
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59 free Return of the Jedi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
55 free Return of the Jedi trivia questions with answers. Return of the Jedi closed the original Star Wars trilogy in 1983 with a rancor, a sail barge, a moon full of Ewoks and a father throwing an emperor down a shaft. This quiz sticks strictly to Episode VI: Jabba's palace and Leia's disguise, Boba Fett's fall into the Sarlacc, Yoda's deathbed confession, the Battle of Endor with Ackbar, Lando and Nien Nunb, the Emperor's lightning, and how it was all made: the Blue Harvest cover name, the Revenge of the Jedi posters, the Yuma desert and redwood shoots, the one-ton Jabba puppet, the Steadicam speeder chase and the Special Edition changes fans still argue about. Easy questions ask how Jabba dies and where the shield generator is. The hard ones want the dog breed behind the Ewoks, the language Ewokese is based on, and which future composer orchestrated for John Williams. It suits a May the Fourth party or any fan who thinks the Ewoks get a bad rap. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who directed Return of the Jedi?
Richard Marquand
Richard Marquand directed it with Lucas often on set, and warned him at the start that he would be 'constantly bugging him with questions.'
Q 02Who was George Lucas's first choice to direct Return of the Jedi?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg was Lucas's first choice, but both men had feuded with the Directors Guild, and the fallout left Spielberg barred from the job.
Q 03What title did Return of the Jedi's teaser trailer and first posters carry?
Revenge of the Jedi
Revenge of the Jedi: Lucas restored the old title before release, and the dropped word resurfaced 22 years later in Revenge of the Sith.
Q 04What fake working title hid Return of the Jedi's shoot from fans and the press?
Blue Harvest
Blue Harvest was on everything from camera slates and hotel reservations to the crew's hats and T-shirts, passed off as a horror film.
Q 05On which planet is Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi?
Tatooine
Tatooine: Luke's message offers the droids to Jabba as a gift, but Jabba keeps them and refuses to bargain for Han.
Q 06How does Leia get into Jabba's palace?
Disguised as a bounty hunter
Disguised as a bounty hunter, Leia leads Chewbacca in as her 'captive' and haggles with Jabba over the reward.
Q 07What creature does Jabba drop Luke through a trapdoor to face?
A rancor
A rancor: Jabba feeds slaves who displease him to it, until Luke kills the beast and leaves the Hutt enraged.
Q 08What is the cackling Kowakian monkey-lizard perched beside Jabba's throne called?
Salacious Crumb
Salacious Crumb is Jabba's court jester, kept around partly because his cackling mimicry of the Hutt's visitors amuses his master.
Q 09Into what does Jabba plan to throw Luke, Han and Chewbacca?
The Sarlacc pit
The Sarlacc pit, in the Great Pit of Carkoon, digests its victims over a thousand years; Boba Fett tumbles in during the fight.
Q 10How does Jabba the Hutt die?
Leia strangles him with her chain
Leia strangles him with her chain, the very chain Jabba had used to keep her captive at his side.
Q 11After a man-in-a-suit test failed, how did ILM bring the beast beneath Jabba's throne room to life?
As a puppet filmed at high speed
As a puppet filmed at high speed: a rod puppet looked like a hand puppet, so ILM shot it fast, slow and even backwards to make it move like a giant.
Q 12Who first confirms to Luke that Darth Vader really is his father?
Yoda, on his deathbed
Yoda, on his deathbed, tells Luke 'Your father he is', and Obi-Wan's ghost then explains how Anakin became Vader.
Q 13Who tells Luke that Leia is his twin sister?
Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force spirit
Q 21Why did Warwick Davis end up playing Wicket the Ewok?
Kenny Baker fell ill
Kenny Baker fell ill, so Lucas moved Davis, an 11-year-old extra whose grandmother had heard a radio casting call, into the role.
Q 22The Ewoks were originally going to be which species?
Wookiees
Wookiees had become too technologically advanced, so Lucas wanted something short and primitive.
Q 23Which dog breed inspired the Ewok design?
Griffon Bruxellois
Griffon Bruxellois: the breed inspired the Ewoks, and the 2011 Blu-ray release digitally gave them blinking eyes.
Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force spirit reveals it on Dagobah, explaining that the twins were hidden from their father at birth to protect them from the Emperor.
Q 14How does Han's strike team slip past the Death Star's shield to reach Endor?
In a stolen Imperial shuttle
In a stolen Imperial shuttle, but the Emperor was expecting them: he had leaked word of the new Death Star to lure the Rebels into a trap.
Q 15How does Luke reach Darth Vader on Endor?
He surrenders to Imperial troops
He surrenders to Imperial troops, sure that there is still good in his father and that he can turn him back.
Q 16Which two pilots fly into the Death Star's core and destroy its reactor?
Lando and Wedge Antilles
Lando in the Millennium Falcon and Wedge Antilles in his X-wing fly into the Death Star's core; Wedge hits the power regulator and Lando the main reactor.
Q 17How does the Emperor die in Return of the Jedi?
Vader throws him down a shaft
Vader throws him down a shaft to save Luke from his Force lightning, turning on the master he had served.
Q 18Which actor plays the unmasked Anakin Skywalker?
Sebastian Shaw
Sebastian Shaw played the dying Anakin, and the 2004 DVD digitally erased his eyebrows to reflect the scarring Anakin suffers on Mustafar.
Q 19Who plays the Emperor in Return of the Jedi?
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid returned sixteen years later to play the younger Palpatine in the prequel films.
Q 20Which actor auditioned for Moff Jerjerrod but lost the part to Michael Pennington?
Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman read Moff Jerjerrod in a 'big, slow, low voice' but lost out, two decades before he played Severus Snape.
Q 24The Ewok language created by Ben Burtt is based on which real language?
Kalmyk
Kalmyk: Ben Burtt recorded an elderly Kalmyk speaker, Kosi Unkov, telling stories, and built the Ewoks' chatter from her voice.
Q 25What real-world conflict inspired the Ewoks' battle against the Empire?
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War: Lucas modelled the Ewoks' fight on the Viet Cong, guerrillas who prevailed against a technologically superior American army.
Q 26What lures Chewbacca into the Ewoks' net trap on Endor?
A dead animal on a stake
A dead animal on a stake: Chewie grabs it, the net springs, and Han groans, 'Always thinkin' with your stomach.'
Q 27Which species is Admiral Ackbar?
Mon Calamari
Mon Calamari: Ackbar leads the Rebel fleet at Endor, and his warning 'It's a trap!' turned a bit part into a fan favourite.
Q 28Who co-pilots the Millennium Falcon in the space battle at Endor?
Nien Nunb
Nien Nunb speaks some real Kikuyu, so Kenyan audiences could understand his lines, which made him a hit when the film opened there.
Q 29Where were the Endor forest scenes filmed?
Redwood forests near Smith River, northern California
Redwood forests near Smith River, northern California became Endor only in spring: January weather ruled the forest out, so shooting began on London stages.
Q 30Where were the sail-barge battle exteriors filmed?
Yuma, Arizona
Yuma, Arizona: its desert set wasn't finished when filming began in January, so the crew reached the desert only in April.