Star Wars Legends Trivia
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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
April 25, 2014 was the announcement date; Disney had bought Lucasfilm in October 2012, and 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 Clone Wars animated series (2008-14) was kept in canon alongside the six films, and its final seventh season later arrived on Disney+ in 2020.
Q 03Which 1991 novel is credited with jump-starting the Expanded Universe after four quiet years?
Heir to the Empire
Heir to the Empire, published in May 1991, reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list and launched the modern Expanded Universe.
Q 04Who wrote the Thrawn trilogy?
Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn wrote all three Thrawn novels, and returned to write new canon Thrawn books 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
Dark Force Rising and The Last Command complete the trilogy that began in 1991; Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future are the author's later Hand of Thrawn duology.
Q 06Thrawn belongs to which blue-skinned species?
Chiss
Chiss are a blue-skinned, red-eyed species from the Unknown Regions; Thrawn's full name is Mitth'raw'nuruodo, shortened to its core name for Imperial service.
Q 07What Force-repelling creatures does Thrawn use to subdue the mad clone Joruus C'baoth?
Ysalamiri
Ysalamiri, salamander-like creatures from Myrkr, push the Force away in bubbles around themselves; the vornskrs of the same planet hunt by sensing the Force.
Q 08What is the lost fleet of automated Dreadnaughts, the 'Dark Force', called in Dark Force Rising?
Katana
The Katana fleet's crews were driven mad by a hive virus decades earlier, and its 200 slaved Dreadnaughts vanished into hyperspace until a smuggler stumbled on them.
Q 09Mara Jade was introduced as the second-in-command of which smuggler?
Talon Karrde
Talon Karrde, head of a smuggling organization, employed Mara Jade as his second-in-command when she debuted; she had secretly served the Emperor, whose dying command compelled her to kill the last Jedi.
Q 10What title did Mara Jade hold under Palpatine before his death?
Emperor's Hand
Emperor's Hand was the title of the Emperor's personal agent and assassin, who answered only to him and could hear his commands from across the galaxy.
Q 11Whom does Mara Jade marry, becoming the mother of Ben?
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker weds Mara Jade in the 1999-2000 Dark Horse comic Union, and their son Ben is born during the New Jedi Order series.
Q 12In which Legacy of the Force novel is Mara Jade killed?
Sacrifice
Sacrifice, the fifth Legacy of the Force novel, has her nephew Jacen, by then apprenticed to the dark side, kill her; she later appears to her son as a Force ghost.
Q 13The Dark Horse comic Dark Empire resurrected which villain in a succession of cloned bodies?
Emperor Palpatine
Emperor Palpatine returns in Dark Empire (1991-92), his spirit transferred into a series of clone bodies grown on the Deep Core world Byss.
Q 21Which three authors wrote the nine Legacy of the Force novels in rotation?
Denning, Allston and Traviss
Denning, Allston and Traviss rotated through the nine books from 2006 to 2008; Karen Traviss also wrote the Republic Commando novels.
Q 22Kyle Katarn debuted as the player character of which 1995 game?
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Dark Forces, LucasArts' 1995 first-person shooter, introduced Kyle Katarn as a mercenary stealing the Death Star plans in its opening mission.
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
Boba Fett survived the Sarlacc and reappears in Dark Empire hunting Han Solo; the comic also introduced Han and Leia's youngest son, Anakin Solo.
Q 15Which Thrawn-trilogy planet made its film debut in the Return of the Jedi Special Edition?
Coruscant
Coruscant, first named in the 1991 Thrawn trilogy, appeared on screen in the 1997 Special Edition's celebration montage before becoming the prequels' galactic capital.
Q 16Which extragalactic invaders were the villains of The New Jedi Order series?
The Yuuzhan Vong
The Yuuzhan Vong, invaders from beyond the galaxy who could not be sensed through the Force and worshipped pain, drove the series that ran from 1999 to 2003.
Q 17Which major film character was killed in Vector Prime, the first New Jedi Order novel?
Chewbacca
Chewbacca dies in Vector Prime saving Anakin Solo when the invaders pull a moon down onto the planet Sernpidal.
Q 18Who wrote Vector Prime?
R. A. Salvatore
R. A. Salvatore, best known for his Drizzt novels, wrote Vector Prime, the 1999 hardcover that opened The New Jedi Order.
Q 19How many novels made up The New Jedi Order series?
19
19 novels ran from 1999 to 2003, beginning with Vector Prime and ending with James Luceno's The Unifying Force.
Q 20Under what Sith name does Jacen become the antagonist of Legacy of the Force?
Darth Caedus
Darth Caedus is the name Jacen Solo takes midway through the nine-book series, after Lumiya steers the former hero of the invasion war to the dark side.
Jaden Korr, a new student at the Yavin 4 academy, is the playable hero of the 2003 game, with Kyle Katarn demoted to the role of instructor.
Q 24Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first original Star Wars novel, was written by whom?
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster, who had ghostwritten the 1976 film novelisation, wrote the 1978 book as a low-budget 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
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi bracket the 1996 story, which was told through a novel, a Dark Horse comic, a Nintendo 64 game, a soundtrack and toys.
Q 27Which crime lord in Shadows of the Empire plots to replace Vader at the Emperor's side?
Prince Xizor
Prince Xizor headed the Black Sun crime syndicate and schemed to discredit Vader; smuggler Dash Rendar served as the story's Han Solo stand-in.
Q 28Which studio developed Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003?
BioWare
BioWare developed the 2003 role-playing game for Xbox and PC, building its combat on a version of the d20 rules system, before moving on to Mass Effect.
Q 29Roughly how many years before the films is Knights of the Old Republic set?
4,000
4,000 years before the films, roughly 3,956 years before the Battle of Yavin, in an era Dark Horse's Tales of the Jedi comics had opened up years earlier.
Q 30In Knights of the Old Republic, the amnesiac player character turns out to be which Sith Lord?
Darth Revan
Darth Revan is the player's hidden identity; the Jedi wiped Revan's memory after a strike team's ambush, and the reveal is regularly cited among gaming's best twists.