Star Wars Ships and Vehicles
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50 free Star Wars Ships and Vehicles trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Millennium Falcon was redesigned in four weeks as "a hamburger with an olive on the side" after the first version looked too much like Space: 1999. Luke's landspeeder was a Bond Bug three-wheeler with a mirror and a broom underneath, the AT-AT walks to the sound of a punch press, and the Executor model carried 150,000 lights so that an Imperial Star Destroyer would look tiny beside it. Star Wars hardware has always been built from kit parts, found objects and improvisation. This quiz covers starships, starfighters and ground vehicles from every era: who designed the X-wing and the TIE, why the X-wings are red not blue, what the Falcon's hyperspace noise really is, how long the Executor and the Supremacy are, the Bond Bug and the Paraceratherium, the speeder-bike trick of filming at one frame per second, the Death Star's accidental trench, and the ships of the prequels, sequels, Rebels, Rogue One, The Mandalorian and Andor. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01The Millennium Falcon's first design was scrapped for resembling the Eagle ships of which TV series?
Space: 1999
Space: 1999: its Eagle Transporters looked too much like the long-bodied first Falcon, so Lucas ordered a late redesign and the finished model was reworked into a different ship.
Q 02The Millennium Falcon's round hull is said to have been modelled on which food?
A hamburger
A hamburger: the story goes that its designers wanted something other than a plain flying saucer, so the hull became a burger with a bite taken out and the offset cockpit an olive on the side.
Q 03Han Solo boasts that the Millennium Falcon made which run in less than twelve parsecs?
The Kessel Run
The Kessel Run: a parsec measures distance, not time, so the boast is about surviving a shorter, riskier route, which Solo: A Star Wars Story shows Han flying to slip an Imperial blockade.
Q 04The Millennium Falcon's greenhouse-style cockpit was likely inspired by which aircraft?
The B-29 Superfortress
The B-29 Superfortress: the bomber's dome of windows closely matches the Falcon's cockpit, and the ship's filming model was detailed with parts taken from plastic model kits.
Q 05In The Force Awakens, on which desert planet does Rey steal the Millennium Falcon?
Jakku
Jakku: the freighter had been stolen from Han Solo years earlier and passed from thief to thief before ending up under a tarp in junk dealer Unkar Plutt's yard.
Q 06In which game did Han Solo win the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian?
Sabacc
Sabacc: Lando cheated his way through their first game with a hidden card, so Han lifted it before the rematch and won the ship.
Q 07Which rival podracer does Anakin Skywalker beat to win the Boonta Eve Classic?
Sebulba
Sebulba: the Dug sabotages Anakin's engine before the start, yet it is his own podracer that ends the race wrecked in the sand.
Q 08What do X-wing pilots lock in attack position before a battle?
S-foils
S-foils: the wings split into the X that names the fighter only for combat, spreading the four wingtip laser cannons for a wider field of fire.
Q 09In the first Star Wars script, what colour was Luke's X-wing squadron before it became Red?
Blue
Blue: the blue markings on the models would have vanished against the screen they were filmed in front of, so the squadron turned Red, though the novelisation kept the old name.
Q 10What footage did George Lucas's editors use as placeholders while ILM finished the X-wing shots?
World War II dogfights
World War II dogfights: Lucas taped air battles from war films and cut them into a reel, and ILM then planned its spaceship shots to match the way the planes moved.
Q 11Luke Skywalker's X-wing sinks into a swamp on which planet in The Empire Strikes Back?
Dagobah
Dagobah: Luke gives up trying to lift the fighter with the Force and calls it impossible, so Yoda raises it from the water himself.
Q 12The X-wing's ancestor, the ARC-170, debuts in which film?
Revenge of the Sith
Revenge of the Sith: clone pilots fly the ARC-170s as loyal escorts in the opening battle, then turn their guns on Jedi Master Plo Koon when Order 66 comes.
Q 13Ben Burtt mixed a car on wet pavement with which animal's call to make the TIE fighter's scream?
An elephant
An elephant: the blended shriek became the fighter's signature, and the saga's lore later called it deliberate, a howl the Empire wanted its enemies to fear.
Q 21Whose flagship, the Invisible Hand, do Obi-Wan and Anakin crash-land on Coruscant?
General Grievous
General Grievous: he flees in an escape pod, leaving the two Jedi to bring down what is left of his ship after it breaks in two.
Q 22Which Super Star Destroyer is Darth Vader's flagship in The Empire Strikes Back?
The Executor
The Executor: aboard it Vader strangles Admiral Ozzel for his clumsy attack on Hoth and promotes Captain Piett to admiral on the spot.
Q 23What finally destroys Vader's flagship at the Battle of Endor?
An A-wing crashes into its bridge
Q 14What does TIE stand for in the name of the Empire's TIE fighter?
Twin ion engine
Twin ion engine: the solar-panel wings power the pair of engines, and leaving out shields and life support keeps the little fighter light and nimble.
Q 15In The Empire Strikes Back, which twin-hulled Imperial craft hunt the Millennium Falcon through the asteroid field?
TIE bombers
TIE bombers: the twin-pod design was drawn for the first film as a boarding craft and shelved, and ILM's model makers nicknamed the finished ship the "double chili dog".
Q 16Which Imperial official commissioned the original TIE fighter, according to canon lore?
Grand Moff Tarkin
Grand Moff Tarkin: he told Sienar Fleet Systems to make the fighter fast, cheap and easy to mass-produce, because ships and pilots alike were meant to be expendable.
Q 17Why does the basic TIE fighter lack a hyperdrive, besides weight and cost?
To discourage defection
To discourage defection: a pilot who can't jump to lightspeed stays dependent on the fleet that launched him, which is just what the Empire's planners intended.
Q 18Which TIE variant does Darth Vader fly in the Death Star trench in A New Hope?
The TIE Advanced
The TIE Advanced: unlike the standard fighters he leads, Vader's bent-wing prototype has the shields and hyperdrive that the Empire denied its ordinary pilots.
Q 19In Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt rides his sail barge out to feed his prisoners to which creature?
The Sarlacc
The Sarlacc: the execution backfires when R2-D2 fires Luke his lightsaber, and it is Boba Fett who ends up swallowed while the barge is blown apart.
Q 20Which scavengers roam Tatooine in giant treaded sandcrawlers?
Jawas
Jawas: the sandcrawlers were built as mining vehicles and abandoned on Tatooine when the mines failed, so the little scavengers moved in and made them rolling homes.
An A-wing crashes into its bridge: with the shields down, Arvel Crynyd's stricken fighter ploughs into the command deck, and the leaderless giant drifts into the second Death Star.
Q 24Whose command ship did the Return of the Jedi crew nickname the "pickle ship"?
Admiral Ackbar
Admiral Ackbar: his knobbly cruiser Home One was built as a civilian deep-space explorer and only later armoured for war.
Q 25A Lambda-class Imperial shuttle from Star Wars makes a cameo in the pilot of which other sci-fi series?
Firefly
Firefly: the shuttle from Return of the Jedi can be glimpsed lifting off in a corner of the frame as Inara's own shuttle docks with Serenity.
Q 26The Rebel frigate modelled on an outboard motor serves as what in The Empire Strikes Back?
Hospital ship
Hospital ship: Luke is fitted with a mechanical hand aboard the medical frigate, then watches from its window as the Falcon sets off to find Han.
Q 27Boba Fett's ship was based on which object, according to its designer, despite the popular street-lamp story?
A radar dish
A radar dish: Nilo Rodis-Jamero says the street-lamp tale began only once the model was being built, when someone at ILM spotted the likeness and everyone assumed he had copied it.
Q 28Which bounty hunter flies Slave I against Obi-Wan Kenobi in Attack of the Clones?
Jango Fett
Jango Fett: his son Boba inherits the ship, and in 2021 Lego dropped its name for plain "Boba Fett's Starship", saying Disney no longer wanted it used.
Q 29What pulls Count Dooku's ship along as he flees Geonosis at the end of Attack of the Clones?
A solar sail
A solar sail: the count's Geonosian sloop carries no fuel at all, riding instead on a huge sail that gathers its energy from space.
Q 30Which military aircraft inspired the Naboo Royal Cruiser, blown up at the start of Attack of the Clones?
The B-2 Spirit
The B-2 Spirit: the flying-wing cruiser lands safely on Coruscant, then is blown apart by a bomb meant for Padmé that kills the decoy who had taken her place.