Revenge of the Sith Trivia
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59 free Revenge of the Sith trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
51 free Revenge of the Sith trivia questions with answers. Revenge of the Sith is the prequel that fans came round to, and this quiz treats Episode III as the deep subject it has become. Fifty questions cover the plot from the rescue over Coruscant to the twins' separation, the cast and their cameos, the record-breaking effects work, John Williams's score, the deleted Senate subplot, the novelization, the video game and the film's 2025 return to cinemas. It opens with warm-ups any viewer can answer and climbs to production detail only obsessives know: how long Christopher Lee had on set, where the Kashyyyk mountains were really filmed, how many man-hours went into 49 seconds of the Mustafar duel. Use it solo, or run it as a round at your next Star Wars quiz night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its characters, score, novel and game, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01In which year was Revenge of the Sith released in cinemas?
2005
2005: Revenge of the Sith opened in the United States on May 19, 2005, closing the prequel trilogy 28 years after the original Star Wars (1977).
Q 02Who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith?
Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor played Obi-Wan in all three prequels, taking over the part Alec Guinness originated, and returned to it in the 2022 Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Q 03Which actor plays Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious?
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid first played the Emperor in Return of the Jedi (1983) and returned as the younger Palpatine in all three prequels, then again in The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Q 04In Revenge of the Sith, which senator, played by Jimmy Smits, takes baby Leia home to Alderaan?
Bail Organa
Bail Organa raises Leia as his own daughter; Smits had joined the saga in Attack of the Clones.
Q 05Which command, issued by Sidious, turns the clone troopers against their Jedi generals?
Order 66
Order 66: Palpatine's 'Execute Order 66' triggers the clones' programmed betrayal, killing Jedi across the galaxy; in The Clone Wars canon the trigger is an inhibitor chip implanted in every clone.
Q 06On which volcanic planet do Obi-Wan and Anakin fight their climactic duel?
Mustafar
Mustafar: the lava planet where Obi-Wan leaves Anakin maimed and burning; the DVD documentary Within a Minute traces the work behind under a minute of the duel.
Q 07Which Sith Lord does Anakin execute aboard Grievous's flagship at Palpatine's urging?
Count Dooku
Count Dooku: disarmed by Anakin aboard the Invisible Hand, Christopher Lee's Sith Lord is beheaded with two lightsabers when Palpatine says 'Do it', a killing Anakin immediately regrets.
Q 08Which Jedi Master does Sidious kill with Force lightning after Anakin cuts off his hand?
Mace Windu
Mace Windu, played by Samuel L. Jackson, has Sidious at his mercy until Anakin severs his sword hand; Jackson had asked for a purple lightsaber to spot himself in Attack of the Clones' Geonosis battle.
Q 09Where does Padmé give birth to Luke and Leia?
Polis Massa
Polis Massa, a medical outpost on a remote asteroid, is where Padmé dies after delivering Luke and Leia and where Yoda, Obi-Wan and Bail Organa decide to hide the twins.
Q 10Obi-Wan tracks General Grievous to which sinkhole planet?
Utapau
Utapau, a world of vast sinkholes, is where Obi-Wan rides the lizard Boga to confront Grievous; Bruce Spence, Mad Max 2's Gyro Captain, plays its administrator Tion Medon.
Q 11How does Obi-Wan finally kill General Grievous?
Shoots him with his own blaster
The Jedi pulls the general's DT-57 pistol to himself with the Force and fires into the organs behind the chestplate, then mutters 'So uncivilized.'
Q 12How many lightsabers can General Grievous wield at once?
Four
Four: each mechanical arm splits in two, and the blades were trophies taken from Jedi he had killed.
Q 13Why did George Lucas ask for General Grievous to have a hacking cough?
To emphasise his organic, flawed cyborg nature
Q 21The limestone mountains of Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld, were filmed in which country?
Thailand
Thailand: the Kashyyyk background plates were shot among the limestone karsts around Phuket, with Peter Mayhew returning as Chewbacca in front of them.
Q 22How many visual-effects shots does Revenge of the Sith contain, then a world record?
2,151
2,151: Industrial Light & Magic's shot count was then the most for any film, with nearly every frame of the 140-minute picture carrying digital work.
Q 23Roughly how much weight did Hayden Christensen gain to play Anakin in the film?
25 lb
25 lb: three months with a Sydney trainer and six meals a day took Christensen from about 160 to 185 pounds so he could fill out Vader's armour.
The wheeze was Lucas's idea, and the voice actor gave it an Eastern European accent to match.
Q 14General Grievous first appeared not in Episode III but in which earlier production?
The 2003 Clone Wars microseries
The 2003 Clone Wars microseries: Grievous debuted in Chapter 20, the second-season finale of Genndy Tartakovsky's Cartoon Network series, aired in 2004 to set him up for the film.
Q 15Which member of the Star Wars voice cast provides General Grievous's voice?
Matthew Wood
Wood was Skywalker Sound's supervising sound editor and got the part after submitting an anonymous audition tape.
Q 16At which festival did Revenge of the Sith have its official premiere, out of competition?
Cannes
Cannes: the film screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, four days before its May 19 US release.
Q 17Roughly what was the film's production budget?
$113 million
$113 million: the reported production budget, against a worldwide gross of about $850 million in the original 2005 run.
Q 18Where in 2005's worldwide box-office rankings did Revenge of the Sith finish?
Second
Second: it topped the 2005 US box office but worldwide finished behind Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, about $896 million to $848 million.
Q 19What did Revenge of the Sith take on its record-setting Thursday opening day?
$50 million
$50 million: the May 19, 2005 opening day was then the biggest Thursday gross ever, on the way to a $108 million Friday-to-Sunday weekend.
Q 20Where were the soundstage scenes of Revenge of the Sith principally filmed?
Fox Studios Australia, Sydney
Fox Studios Australia in Sydney hosted principal photography from June 30 to September 17, 2003, with pick-ups at Shepperton and Elstree in England in 2004 and 2005.
Q 24Through which part of the Darth Vader helmet did Hayden Christensen have to look while wearing the suit?
The mouthpiece
The mouthpiece: Christensen said he could see nothing through the helmet's eye lenses and had to peer out through the mouth grille; the suit was built with lifts to push the six-footer toward Vader's height.
Q 25Which stunt coordinator, who trained the actors for the duel, appears on screen as the Jedi Cin Drallig?
Nick Gillard
Nick Gillard, the prequels' stunt coordinator, plays Cin Drallig, whose name is 'Nic Gillard' backwards; the Temple security hologram shows Anakin cutting him down.
Q 26George Lucas makes a cameo in Revenge of the Sith as which blue-faced alien?
Baron Papanoida
Baron Papanoida: Lucas appears blue-faced outside the Coruscant opera house, with his daughter Katie as the Baron's daughter Chi Eekway beside him.
Q 27Which famous director was brought in as a 'guest director' to help previsualise the film's climax?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg worked with the animatics team as an uncredited 'guest director' on previs for the Mustafar duel and the Utapau chase after Grievous.
Q 28Which actress plays Mon Mothma in Revenge of the Sith, though her only speaking scene was cut?
Genevieve O'Reilly
Genevieve O'Reilly's only Mon Mothma scene was cut, leaving her silent in the film; she finally spoke the part in Rogue One (2016) and went on to co-lead Andor (2022).
Q 29A deleted subplot showed Padmé and a group of fellow senators forming which kind of group?
An alliance against Palpatine's emergency powers
An alliance against Palpatine's emergency powers: the deleted 'Delegation of 2,000' scenes show Padmé, Bail Organa and Mon Mothma organising senators against the Chancellor, the seed of the Rebellion; they survive as DVD extras.
Q 30Which Jedi Master is killed by General Grievous in a deleted scene included on the DVD?
Shaak Ti
Shaak Ti: in a scene cut from the film, Grievous kills the Togruta Jedi Master in front of Obi-Wan and Anakin aboard the Invisible Hand; the DVD includes it as a deleted scene.