60 free Star Wars Legends trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Before Disney, before The Force Awakens, there was the Expanded Universe: nearly four decades of novels, comics and games that told what happened after Return of the Jedi and thousands of years before it. In April 2014 Lucasfilm rebranded all of it as Star Wars Legends and started the canon over. This quiz is for the people who read it all: Heir to the Empire and the Thrawn trilogy, Dark Empire's cloned Emperor, the New Jedi Order and the death of Chewbacca, Jacen Solo's fall as Darth Caedus, Knights of the Old Republic and Revan, Kyle Katarn, Starkiller, Cade Skywalker and the Legacy era. Easier questions cover Timothy Zahn, Mara Jade and what the Legends label means. The hard end asks about Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the ysalamiri, the Katana fleet, Delta Squad's designations, the Marvel comic that saved the publisher, and the five-tier Holocron canon system that Leland Chee kept before the reboot. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the books, comics, games and characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Play the whole set for a score, then try the main Star Wars quiz for the films.
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Q 01On what date did Lucasfilm rebrand the Expanded Universe as Star Wars Legends and declare it non-canon?
April 25, 2014
Disney had bought Lucasfilm in October 2012; the reset freed the planned sequel trilogy from decades of continuity.
Q 02Which pre-2014 non-film work stayed in canon when the Expanded Universe became Legends?
The Clone Wars animated series
The franchise's creator co-created that series, which is why it kept its 'T-canon' status while everything else went to Legends.
Q 03Which 1991 novel is credited with jump-starting the Expanded Universe after four quiet years?
Heir to the Empire
It hit number one on the New York Times list, and the period before it, 1987 to 1991, is nicknamed the 'Dark Times'.
Q 04Who wrote the Thrawn trilogy?
Timothy Zahn
Zahn returned to write new canon Thrawn novels after the character was revived in Rebels in 2016.
Q 05What are the titles of the second and third Thrawn trilogy books?
Dark Force Rising and The Last Command
Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future are Zahn's later Hand of Thrawn duology; the others are Anderson and Allston books.
Q 06Thrawn belongs to which blue-skinned species?
Chiss
His full name is Mitth'raw'nuruodo, and Lars Mikkelsen played him in live action in Ahsoka.
Q 07What Force-repelling creatures does Thrawn use to subdue the mad clone Joruus C'baoth?
Ysalamiri
The salamander-like animals create bubbles where the Force does not exist; the vornskrs of Myrkr hunt by sensing it.
Q 08What is the lost fleet of automated Dreadnaughts, the 'Dark Force', called in Dark Force Rising?
Katana
A virus drove the crews insane before the Clone Wars, and a smuggler found the ships years later.
Q 09Mara Jade was introduced as the second-in-command of which smuggler?
Talon Karrde
She had secretly served Palpatine as a special agent and was compelled by his dying command to kill the last Jedi.
Q 10What title did Mara Jade hold under Palpatine before his death?
Emperor's Hand
Zahn created her because he felt the saga lacked a strong, complex female character.
Q 11Whom does Mara Jade marry, becoming the mother of Ben?
Luke Skywalker
The wedding happens in Michael A. Stackpole's graphic novel Union, and Ben is born during the New Jedi Order series.
Q 12In which Legacy of the Force novel is Mara Jade killed?
Sacrifice
Her nephew Jacen, by then a Sith apprentice, kills her; she returns as a Force ghost to Ben and later to Luke.
Q 13The Dark Horse comic Dark Empire resurrected which villain in a succession of cloned bodies?
Emperor Palpatine
The Thrawn trilogy's author objected that cloning the Emperor undermined the ending of Return of the Jedi.
Q 21Which three authors wrote the nine Legacy of the Force novels in rotation?
Denning, Allston and Traviss
Karen Traviss also wrote the Republic Commando novels; the series ran from 2006 to 2008.
Q 22Kyle Katarn debuted as the player character of which 1995 game?
Star Wars: Dark Forces
LucasArts considered making Luke the hero but invented Katarn so the plot would not be tied to a film character.
Q 23In Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Kyle Katarn is replaced as the playable hero by which student?
Jaden Korr
Q 14Which bounty hunter, seemingly killed in Return of the Jedi, returned in Dark Empire?
Boba Fett
The comic also had Luke briefly turn to the dark side and introduced Han and Leia's youngest son, Anakin Solo.
Q 15Which Zahn-created planet made its film debut in the Return of the Jedi Special Edition?
Coruscant
Lucas then made it the centre of the prequels, one of the biggest Expanded Universe ideas to enter the films.
Q 16Which extragalactic invaders were the villains of The New Jedi Order series?
The Yuuzhan Vong
They were invisible to the Force and worshipped pain; the canon later reworked the idea as the Grysk.
Q 17Which major film character was killed in Vector Prime, the first New Jedi Order novel?
Chewbacca
A moon was pulled onto the planet Sernpidal; editors had sent Lucas a wish list of characters to kill with Luke at the top.
Q 18Who wrote Vector Prime?
R. A. Salvatore
Mark Hamill even voiced Luke in a TV commercial for the book.
Q 19How many novels made up The New Jedi Order, the longest-running Star Wars book series?
19
It ran from 1999 to 2003 and ended with James Luceno's The Unifying Force.
Q 20Under what Sith name does Jacen become the antagonist of Legacy of the Force?
Darth Caedus
Han and Leia's son had been a hero of the Vong war before Lumiya turned him.
Raven felt Katarn was too powerful for a game about slowly learning the Force, so he became the instructor.
Q 24Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first original Star Wars novel, was written by whom?
Alan Dean Foster
Foster had ghostwritten the 1976 film novelisation; the book was designed as a cheap sequel in case Star Wars flopped.
Q 25On which swampy planet are Luke and Leia marooned in Splinter of the Mind's Eye?
Mimban
Mimban finally reached the screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, forty years after the novel.
Q 26Steve Perry's 1996 'movie without a movie' multimedia project is set between which two films?
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
It was a 1996 'movie without a movie': novel, comic, N64 game, soundtrack, toys and trading cards.
Q 27Which crime lord in Shadows of the Empire plots to replace Vader at the Emperor's side?
Prince Xizor
Xizor headed the Black Sun syndicate; smuggler Dash Rendar was the project's Han Solo stand-in.
Q 28Which studio developed Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003?
BioWare
Obsidian made the sequel, The Sith Lords, at LucasArts' request the following year.
Q 29Roughly how many years before the films is Knights of the Old Republic set?
4,000
Dark Horse's Tales of the Jedi comics opened up that era in 1993 and the game grew out of it.
Q 30In Knights of the Old Republic, the amnesiac player character turns out to be which Sith Lord?
Darth Revan
The Jedi wiped Revan's memory after an ambush; the twist is regularly cited among gaming's best.