Solo: A Star Wars Story
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50 free Solo: a Star Wars Story trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is the Han Solo origin film that lost its directors halfway through, brought in Ron Howard to reshoot around 70 percent of it, and became the first Star Wars film to lose money at the box office. It is also the film that gave the Millennium Falcon a personality, put Donald Glover in a cape, and ended with a villain nobody expected to see again. These 50 questions cover the whole film: Han and Qi'ra's escape from Corellia, the coaxium train heist on Vandor, Tobias Beckett's crew, Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn, the Kessel Run, L3-37's revolt, and the card game for the Falcon. There are production questions too: the working title, the internal codename, the Dolomites shoot, the Lord-and-Miller firing, the Dryden Vos recast, John Powell's score and John Williams's new Han theme, the Super Bowl trailer and the $393 million gross. Easy questions stick to the cast and the plot; the expert tier asks about cinematographers, voice actors who were replaced after the premiere, and who was nearly Lando. 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 Solo: A Star Wars Story, who is the 'beast' Han is thrown into a pit to fight?
Chewbacca
Chewbacca is the starved 'beast' in the pit, but Han speaks enough of his language to win him over, and the pair fake a fight to bring down a support pillar and escape together.
Q 02Which veteran Star Wars screenwriter co-wrote Solo: A Star Wars Story with his son Jonathan?
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, says he was unsure about doing more Star Wars until he was offered a film about Han, his favourite character.
Q 03Which directing duo was fired from Solo: A Star Wars Story in June 2017?
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller encouraged improvisation, while the film's veteran co-writer wanted the script shot as written. They later took executive producer credits instead.
Q 04Solo opened five months after which other Star Wars film?
The Last Jedi
The Last Jedi came first, and Disney chief Bob Iger later took the blame for the schedule, calling the pace of Star Wars releases a little too much, too fast.
Q 05Who plays Han in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Alden Ehrenreich
Alden Ehrenreich was the very first of about 3,000 actors to audition, and the directors saw the rest of the field around the world before coming back to him.
Q 06Who plays Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Donald Glover
Donald Glover's Lando 'outshone and outswaggered' the title character, USA Today wrote, while TheWrap's critic called him the Cary Grant of outer space.
Q 07Which Game of Thrones star plays Han's childhood friend Qi'ra?
Emilia Clarke
Emilia Clarke, Daenerys in Game of Thrones, plays a Qi'ra who ends the film by killing her gangster boss and flying off in his yacht instead of leaving with Han.
Q 08Who plays Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson, already a screen mentor to Katniss in The Hunger Games, plays a thief who tells Han to assume everyone will betray him, and then proves the point himself.
Q 09Who plays L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge performed on set in a practical droid suit, and she was then digitally erased from every shot, with wiring and machine parts filling the gaps.
Q 10Who plays the crime boss Dryden Vos in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany says he texted the director to ask why he wasn't in Star Wars yet. The reply was 'LOL, give me a week or so', and two weeks later he was flying to London.
Q 11Which actor's Dryden Vos was cut from Solo: A Star Wars Story in reshoots?
Michael K. Williams
Michael K. Williams had played Vos as an alien he described as half mountain lion, half human, but he was filming in Africa when the reshoots came, so the part was recast and redesigned.
Q 12Han and Qi'ra grow up on which planet in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Corellia
Corellia is a faded shipbuilding world where runaways thieve for a gang boss in return for shelter, and Han bribes his way off it with a vial of starship fuel, only for Qi'ra to be caught at the gate.
Q 13In Solo: A Star Wars Story, which starship fuel is the prize in both heists?
Coaxium
Q 21In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Maul summons Qi'ra to which planet?
Dathomir
Dathomir is Maul's homeworld, and the summons is a promotion: having pinned the failed job on Beckett, Qi'ra steps into her dead boss's place and is told she will be working closely with Maul from now on.
Q 22In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Han gets his surname on joining what?
The Imperial Navy
The Imperial Navy recruiting officer needs a surname for the form, and because Han has no family to name, the officer simply enters him as 'Solo'.
Q 23In Solo: A Star Wars Story, where does the battered Falcon land to refine the fuel?
Savareen
Savareen is a desert world with an abandoned refinery on its coast, and it is there that Lando takes off in the Falcon as marauders close in, leaving the rest of the crew stranded.
Coaxium is hyperfuel so unstable that it explodes if jostled or overheated, which is why the raw haul from the second heist has to be raced to a refinery before it blows.
Q 14In Solo: A Star Wars Story, on which muddy battlefield planet does Han first meet Beckett's crew?
Mimban
Mimban is a mud-soaked war zone where Han spots that Beckett's gang are thieves disguised as soldiers, tries to blackmail his way aboard, and is thrown to 'the beast' for his trouble.
Q 15In Solo: A Star Wars Story, what becomes of L3-37's navigational brain once she is fatally shot?
Uploaded into the Falcon
Uploaded into the Falcon, her maps steer the ship out of danger, and the writers meant it to explain C-3PO's complaint in The Empire Strikes Back that the ship speaks a most peculiar dialect.
Q 16Dryden Vos fronts which gang in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Crimson Dawn
Crimson Dawn does its business from Vos's yacht, the First Light, and by the time Han finds Qi'ra aboard she has risen to be the gangster's most trusted lieutenant.
Q 17In Solo: A Star Wars Story, the crew steals fuel from which planet's mines?
Kessel
Kessel is the mining world behind Han's oldest boast, and the film stages the Kessel Run itself, a desperate shortcut through an uncharted storm to slip a blockade.
Q 18In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Han killing Beckett mid-sentence deliberately echoes which moment from the 1977 original?
Han shooting Greedo
Han shooting Greedo first was the point: the script's own stage direction insisted there could be no question that Han shoots first, the writers' answer to a fan row that began with the 1997 re-edit.
Q 19In Solo: A Star Wars Story, which lucky charm does Han hang in his speeder, then give to Qi'ra?
A pair of gold dice
A pair of gold dice goes from Han's speeder to Qi'ra's hand and back again, and the same charm can be glimpsed hanging in the Falcon's cockpit in the 1977 original.
Q 20Who voices Maul in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Sam Witwer
Sam Witwer had voiced Maul for years in the animated series The Clone Wars and Rebels, so his voice was laid over Ray Park, back in the horns almost two decades after first playing the part.
Q 24In Solo: A Star Wars Story, on which snowy planet does the train heist fail?
Vandor
Vandor is where it all goes wrong: rival marauders swoop in for the same cargo, the fuel is destroyed, and Beckett loses both his partner Val and his pilot Rio in the chaos.
Q 25Which literary rogue inspired Solo: A Star Wars Story's Tobias Beckett?
Long John Silver
Long John Silver was the model, the writers say: they reread Treasure Island to shape an old outlaw chasing one last big score who takes a boy under his wing, as Silver does young Jim Hawkins.
Q 26Under which working title did Solo: A Star Wars Story begin filming at Pinewood?
Star Wars: Red Cup
Star Wars: Red Cup was on the clapperboard that one of the directors posted on the first day, a joke on the red Solo cups that are a party staple across the United States.
Q 27Which actor, a fixture of every Skywalker saga film, cameos in Solo: A Star Wars Story as a human slave?
Anthony Daniels
Anthony Daniels plays Tak, one of the slaves freed during the second heist, because C-3PO has no part in the story. It was the first Star Wars film in which he did not play the droid.
Q 28Which Italian mountain range hosted filming for Solo: A Star Wars Story in May 2017?
The Dolomites
The Dolomites stood in for the film's snowy alien mountains during about a week of filming, with the crew based in the ski town of Misurina.
Q 29Which island group also hosted filming in May 2017?
The Canary Islands
Rogue One and The Last Jedi also used Spanish and Atlantic island locations.
Q 30Why did Solo: A Star Wars Story cost over $250 million?
Most of it was filmed twice
Most of it was filmed twice: the original directors were fired months into the shoot and their replacement redid about 70 percent of the film, stretching a schedule due to end in July into October.