Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
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50 free Star Wars Sequel Trilogy trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Star Wars sequel trilogy brought the saga back to cinemas after a decade away and handed it to a new generation. The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker follow Rey, Finn and Poe as the Resistance fights the First Order, while Kylo Ren wrestles with his family's legacy. Fans still argue about how it all turned out. This quiz covers all three films: the heroes and villains, the planets and battles, the droids and creatures, and the story behind the cameras, from casting and surprise cameos to filming locations and the directors who shaped each chapter. It opens with questions most viewers can answer and builds to details that will test anyone who has seen each film more than once. It is written for fans who grew up with Rey and BB-8, for quiz hosts who need a reliable Star Wars round, and for original trilogy loyalists curious about how much of the newer films stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01Which seabirds, protected on an Irish island set, led to the creation of The Last Jedi's porgs?
Puffins
Puffins could not be disturbed during filming, so the effects team dressed each bird digitally as a new creature instead of painting it out.
Q 02Which James Bond actor makes an uncredited cameo as a stormtrooper in The Force Awakens?
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig wore the white armour without a credit, and composer Michael Giacchino also hid under a stormtrooper helmet in the same film.
Q 03Which actor broke his leg when a hydraulic door fell on The Force Awakens' Millennium Falcon set?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was taken to hospital after the accident, and director J. J. Abrams fractured a vertebra in his back trying to help lift the door.
Q 04Which actress appears in The Rise of Skywalker through unused footage shot for The Force Awakens?
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher died in December 2016, so her scenes as Leia were built around leftover takes instead of a digital recreation.
Q 05Which villain, believed dead since Return of the Jedi, turns out to be Rey's grandfather?
Palpatine
Palpatine had sent an assassin to find the young Rey, so her parents hid her on a desert world and paid for it with their lives.
Q 06What colour is the lightsaber blade Rey builds for herself by the end of The Rise of Skywalker?
Yellow
Yellow is the colour of Rey's new blade, and its hilt is made from part of the staff she carried as a scavenger.
Q 07Finnish basketball player Joonas Suotamo took over which sequel trilogy character from Peter Mayhew?
Chewbacca
Chewbacca passed to Suotamo after he doubled for the ailing Mayhew in The Force Awakens, and Mayhew stayed on as a consultant.
Q 08Which Irish island, known for its Gaelic monastery, played Luke Skywalker's sequel trilogy hideaway?
Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael lies off County Kerry, where monks settled between the 6th and 8th centuries, and the first shoot there lasted just three days.
Q 09Which city, also a Game of Thrones location, doubled as casino city Canto Bight in The Last Jedi?
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik hosted the Last Jedi crew for a week in March 2016, and the Croatian port became the galaxy's gambling capital.
Q 10Which composer of all three sequel trilogy scores cameos as a bartender in The Rise of Skywalker?
John Williams
John Williams appears as Oma Tres, a bartender on the planet Kijimi, in the film he said would be his last Star Wars score.
Q 11Which original trilogy hero is killed by his own son, Kylo Ren, in The Force Awakens?
Han Solo
Han Solo calls his son by his birth name, Ben, and pleads with him to abandon the dark side moments before he is killed.
Q 12On which desert planet does Rey scavenge for a living at the start of The Force Awakens?
Jakku
Jakku is where Rey was abandoned as a child, and where she meets the droid BB-8 as it flees with a map to Luke Skywalker.
Q 13Which actor plays Kylo Ren, the masked grandson of Darth Vader, in all three sequel trilogy films?
Adam Driver
Adam Driver's villain was known to the production only as Jedi Killer until 2014, and one rejected design for him became Captain Phasma.
Q 21Which Looper director wrote and directed The Last Jedi, the middle film of the sequel trilogy?
Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson prepared by having his story group watch old war films and samurai pictures, among them The Bridge on the River Kwai and Three Outlaw Samurai.
Q 22Which actress plays Vice Admiral Holdo, who rams the First Order flagship at lightspeed?
Laura Dern
Laura Dern first played Holdo as a spacey hippie, close to the character in the book, until the director had her eccentricities toned down.
Q 23Which ship does Luke Skywalker's Force spirit give Rey for her last flight in The Rise of Skywalker?
His X-wing
Q 14Which actress plays Rey, the scavenger who trains as a Jedi across all three sequel trilogy films?
Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley's heroine began in George Lucas's early notes as a teenage Padawan named Taryn, with Thea and Winkie as other possible names.
Q 15Which Attack the Block actor plays Finn, the stormtrooper who defects from the First Order?
John Boyega
John Boyega had impressed director J. J. Abrams in his 2011 film debut and was invited to audition for the part.
Q 16Which Guatemalan-born actor plays Resistance pilot Poe Dameron in the sequel trilogy?
Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac was offered a role that died early in The Force Awakens, but Poe survived and ends the trilogy as a general.
Q 17The Force Awakens, the first sequel trilogy film, is which numbered episode of the Skywalker saga?
VII
Episode VII arrived in December 2015, 32 years after Return of the Jedi had closed the original trilogy.
Q 18Which First Order weapon, built into an entire planet, destroys the New Republic's capital?
Starkiller Base
Starkiller Base wipes out the Hosnian star system, and the Resistance brings it down by attacking its thermal oscillator.
Q 19Which Supreme Leader of the First Order does Kylo Ren kill instead of Rey in The Last Jedi?
Snoke
Snoke orders his apprentice to kill Rey and dies instead, and Kylo Ren then declares himself Supreme Leader.
Q 20Which droid has his memory wiped in The Rise of Skywalker so a forbidden Sith text can be read?
C-3PO
C-3PO's programming forbids him to translate the Sith text on a dagger, so a droidsmith digs it out of his memory and R2-D2 later restores it.
His X-wing carries Rey to the Sith stronghold along with a second gift from Luke, the lightsaber that once belonged to Leia.
Q 24How does Luke Skywalker face Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi's final battle without leaving his island?
As a Force projection
As a Force projection, Luke draws the First Order's fire from another planet while the Resistance slips away, and the effort costs him his life.
Q 25Which dark side power does Rey unleash by accident, destroying a transport, in The Rise of Skywalker?
Force lightning
Force lightning bursts out as Rey tries to save a captured friend, and for a while she believes she has killed him.
Q 26Which First Order officer is revealed as the Resistance's spy in The Rise of Skywalker?
General Hux
General Hux leaks secrets to undermine Kylo Ren, not out of sympathy for the rebels, and is shot by a rival once his cover story fails.
Q 27Which Return of the Jedi veteran comes back in The Rise of Skywalker leading a relief fleet?
Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian carries a cane modelled on Cloud City in the film, and arrives over the Sith fleet with ships from across the galaxy.
Q 28Rey duels Kylo Ren on the wreck of the second Death Star, on a moon in which star system?
Endor
Endor is where the station exploded in Return of the Jedi, and Rey searches its ruins for a Sith wayfinder.
Q 29Which Resistance mechanic stops Finn from sacrificing himself in the speeder attack of The Last Jedi?
Rose Tico
Rose Tico is played by Kelly Marie Tran, who had never seen a Star Wars film before she went for the part.
Q 30Which remote planet does the completed map lead Rey to at the end of The Force Awakens?
Ahch-To
Ahch-To is where Rey finds Luke Skywalker on a clifftop and holds out his old lightsaber, the last image of the film.