The Sith Trivia
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100 free The Sith trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
George Lucas first imagined the Sith as a fanatical army serving the Emperor, then boiled them down to one man in a black mask. The Sith of the films are a conspiracy of exactly two, a master and an apprentice who will one day murder him, hiding for a thousand years after a battle that nearly wiped them out. Their code opens by calling peace a lie. These 100 questions cover the order rather than any single Sith. The easy tier covers red blades, Maul, Dooku and Vader's Force choke. The middle asks why a kyber crystal bleeds, what a Sith's yellow eyes mean, who rescued Maul from a junk planet, what species Plagueis was and which Sith sculpted before he murdered. The expert tier reaches for Ruusan, Ajunta Pall, Naga Sadow, the Star Forge, the Doctrine of the Dyad, Xyston-class destroyers and a clone named Luuke. 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. Peace is a lie; there is only trivia.
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Q 01Which actor has played Darth Sidious on screen in all three Star Wars film trilogies?
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid. He was missing from the first cut of The Empire Strikes Back, where the Emperor was a masked actress with Clive Revill's voice, and was only edited into that scene in 2004.
Q 02In the Disney canon, a kyber crystal turns red when the dark side forces it to do what?
Bleed
Bleed. A Sith takes the crystal from a Jedi they have beaten and pours pain and hatred into it until it turns red, and a light-side user can heal such a crystal, which then shines white.
Q 03Who established the Rule of Two?
Darth Bane
Darth Bane. He appears on screen only once, as a towering phantom that confronts Yoda in The Clone Wars, and the voice of that ancient Sith belongs to Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself.
Q 04Under the Rule of Two, the master embodies power and the apprentice does what with it?
Craves it
Craves it. 'One to embody power, the other to crave it': the rule counts on that hunger, expecting every apprentice to murder the master one day and take a pupil of their own.
Q 05Where is Palpatine sitting when he tells Anakin the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
At the opera
At the opera. He tells it in his private box during a performance of Squid Lake, and George Lucas himself turns up at the opera house as a blue-faced patron, Baron Papanoida.
Q 06Which Jedi Master does Anakin Skywalker maim so that Sidious can kill him, sealing Anakin's fall?
Mace Windu
Mace Windu. He had the Sith Lord beaten and at his mercy when Anakin struck, and within minutes Anakin had knelt, sworn himself to the Sith and been given the name Darth Vader.
Q 07In the Code of the Sith, the opening line 'Peace is a lie' is followed by 'There is only' what?
Passion
Passion. The code was written for the 2003 game Knights of the Old Republic by David Gaider, who asked whether the Sith had a creed, was told to write one, and simply reversed the Jedi Code.
Q 08What physical change commonly marks a Sith steeped in the dark side?
Yellow eyes and pale skin
Yellow eyes and pale skin. The Emperor shows both in Return of the Jedi, and Anakin's blue eyes burn yellow in Revenge of the Sith just after he slaughters the Separatist leaders.
Q 09Which telekinetic technique was Vader infamous for using as execution or intimidation?
Force choke
Force choke. On the Death Star he throttles Admiral Motti from across the table for sneering at his 'sad devotion to that ancient religion', remarking, 'I find your lack of faith disturbing.'
Q 10Which martial artist and stuntman first played Darth Maul on screen?
Ray Park
Ray Park. He did the fighting but not the talking: Peter Serafinowicz dubbed Maul's lines in his first film, and Sam Witwer voiced the character in The Clone Wars, Rebels and Solo.
Q 11Which actor played the Sith Lord Count Dooku in the prequel films?
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee. He was playing two fallen sages at once in those years, Dooku for George Lucas and the wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, and came back to voice Dooku in the 2008 Clone Wars film.
Q 12What species is Maul?
Dathomirian Zabrak
Dathomirian Zabrak. The look began when George Lucas asked for 'a figure from your worst nightmare': concept artist Iain McCaig drew his own, then based the face markings on muscle with the skin stripped off.
Q 13Which British bodybuilder wore Darth Vader's suit in the original trilogy while another actor supplied the voice?
David Prowse
Q 21What Sith name did Dooku take?
Darth Tyranus
Darth Tyranus. He used the name when recruiting the clone army's template, so 'a man called Tyranus' is the only lead Obi-Wan gets on Kamino, long before anyone ties it to the Count.
Q 22Which limbs did Vader lose in his duel with Kenobi on Mustafar?
His remaining arm and both legs
His remaining arm and both legs. Dooku had already cut off his right arm on Geonosis, so Kenobi's stroke left him with no natural limbs at all before the lava burned what was left.
Q 23What species was Plagueis, Sidious's master?
Muun
Muun. In the Legends novel that bears his name he hides in plain sight among his people's financiers as Hego Damask, a magnate of the InterGalactic Banking Clan.
David Prowse. He spoke every line on set in his Bristol accent, not knowing that George Lucas would replace them all with the voice of James Earl Jones.
Q 14Who rescued Maul from his exile, more than a decade after Obi-Wan Kenobi cut him in half?
Savage Opress
Savage Opress. He found his brother on a junk world, raving, living on vermin and with no memory of who he was, scuttling about on spider-like legs he had built from scrap.
Q 15Who is Maul's mother and leader of the Nightsisters?
Talzin
Talzin. When her son was brought home a broken madman she used her dark magicks to restore his mind and conjure him a new pair of legs, then loosed him on Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Q 16After seizing Mandalore, Maul kills which woman whom Obi-Wan loved?
Duchess Satine Kryze
Duchess Satine Kryze. Maul kills her purely to hurt Kenobi, but the act sends a ripple through the dark side that brings his old master to Mandalore to crush him as a rival.
Q 17Which underworld syndicate did Maul run from the shadows during the Empire's reign?
Crimson Dawn
Crimson Dawn. The gangster Dryden Vos was its public face, and Maul is unmasked as the hidden boss only in the closing minutes of Solo, his first film appearance since being cut in half.
Q 18On which forbidden Sith world was Maul stranded until Ezra Bridger arrived?
Malachor
Malachor. An ancient battle between Jedi and Sith ended there when the temple's weapon fired and turned every fighter on both sides to stone, and their petrified bodies still cover the ground.
Q 19Dooku was born to the royal family of which planet?
Serenno
Serenno. His father, frightened by the infant's power, abandoned him to the Jedi; decades later Dooku walked out of the Order, went home and took back the title of Count.
Q 20Which bounty hunter did Dooku recruit as the template for the clone army?
Jango Fett
Jango Fett. Part of his price was one clone left completely unaltered for himself, and he raised the boy as his son: the future bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Q 24Who was Plagueis's own master, in the Legends continuity?
Darth Tenebrous
Darth Tenebrous. In public he passed as the celebrated starship designer Rugess Nome; he prided himself on foreseeing the future, his own death included, and was still murdered by his apprentice.
Q 25How did Sidious kill Plagueis?
In his sleep
In his sleep. Palpatine tells Anakin the story himself, savouring the irony that a master who could keep others from dying could not save himself from his own apprentice.
Q 26In the Legends game The Force Unleashed, what is the codename of Darth Vader's secret apprentice?
Starkiller
Starkiller. Vader kills a Jedi, takes the man's son and raises him as a hidden assassin, only for the apprentice to turn on him and help plant the seeds of the Rebel Alliance.
Q 27The Rule of Two is described as a pale imitation of which older Sith concept?
Doctrine of the Dyad
Doctrine of the Dyad. It prized a Force dyad, two beings bonded so closely that they are one in the Force, as Rey and Ben Solo prove to be; master and apprentice were the nearest the Sith could get.
Q 28In Legends, which member of the Solo and Skywalker families becomes the Sith Lord Darth Caedus?
Jacen Solo
Jacen Solo. Timothy Zahn introduced him as one of Han and Leia's infant twins; years of novels later the Sith Lady Lumiya turned him, long before the films gave the couple a fallen son called Ben.
Q 29What first name was Emperor Palpatine finally given in a 2014 novel?
Sheev
Sheev. For decades he was just Palpatine, and the author who finally named him did not invent it: James Luceno was handed the name for his novel Tarkin as George Lucas's own choice.
Q 30Who plays Qimir, the Stranger, in The Acolyte?
Manny Jacinto
Manny Jacinto. Best known as sweet, dim Jason in The Good Place, he spends much of the series posing as a scruffy, harmless smuggler before he is unmasked as the Sith behind it all.