Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trivia
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100 free Star Wars: the Force Awakens trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Star Wars: The Force Awakens trivia quiz covers Episode VII, the 2015 film that relaunched the saga under Disney and J. J. Abrams. The plot questions follow the map to Luke Skywalker from Jakku to Takodana and Starkiller Base, and take in Finn's stormtrooper number, Han and Chewie reclaiming the Falcon, Maz Kanata's vault, Kylo Ren's birth name and the final walk up the cliffs of Ahch-To. The harder half is for people who followed the production: the directors considered before Abrams, the screenwriter who left, the working title, the Irish island and Abu Dhabi desert that played alien worlds, Harrison Ford's broken leg, the Broadway composer who wrote the cantina music, the famous faces hidden inside stormtrooper armour, and the box office records that made it the highest-grossing film ever in North America. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test even committed Star Wars fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the rest of the saga, try our Star Wars, A New Hope and Star Wars for kids quizzes.
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Q 01Which general leads the Resistance while searching for her missing twin brother?
Leia Organa
Leia Organa founded the Resistance herself after the New Republic's leaders dismissed her warnings about the First Order.
Q 02The Force Awakens opens thirty years after which film?
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi ended with the Empire beaten, yet three decades on its remnants have regrouped as the First Order and hunt the vanished Luke Skywalker.
Q 03What keeps Rey waiting on the desert planet Jakku when The Force Awakens begins?
Hope that her family will return
Hope that her family will return keeps Rey on Jakku, and she insists on going back mid-adventure until Maz Kanata tells her that whoever she is waiting for is never coming.
Q 04What does Poe base the name Finn on?
His serial number
His serial number began FN, and Poe turned the letters into a name because the First Order had never given the stormtrooper one.
Q 05What kind of vehicle do Finn and Poe steal to escape the First Order?
A TIE fighter
A TIE fighter was no use to Finn alone: he had no pilot training, which is why he broke Poe out of his cell before deserting.
Q 06Which ship do Rey, Finn and BB-8 steal to escape Jakku?
The Millennium Falcon
The Millennium Falcon is the ship Rey calls garbage, and they take it only because the one she wanted is blown up first; Han and his co-pilot reclaim it minutes later.
Q 07What is Starkiller Base?
A planet converted into a superweapon
A planet converted into a superweapon, it earns its name by draining a star for power, then fires across the galaxy to wipe out several worlds in one shot.
Q 08Which planetary group, home to the New Republic capital, does Starkiller Base destroy?
The Hosnian system
The Hosnian system held the New Republic's Senate and fleet, so its loss in a single shot leaves the Resistance to face the First Order without any government behind it.
Q 09On which forest planet does Maz Kanata keep her castle?
Takodana
Takodana has stayed neutral through centuries of galactic wars, which is why smugglers and spies gather at the castle, until the First Order attacks it hunting for BB-8.
Q 10Which First Order villain do Finn and Han ambush and force to lower Starkiller Base's shields?
Captain Phasma
Captain Phasma lowers the shields at blaster-point, and Finn, the deserter she once commanded, has her dropped into a trash compactor.
Q 11Who plays Maz Kanata?
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o played the goggle-eyed pirate through motion capture, and Abrams modelled Maz on Rose Gilbert, his late high-school English teacher.
Q 12What is Kylo Ren's birth name?
Ben Solo
Ben Solo is the name Han shouts across the bridge inside Starkiller Base; his son seems ready to come home, then runs him through.
Q 13Who plays Kylo Ren?
Adam Driver
Adam Driver had seen big-budget movies trade character for spectacle and was no easy yes; it helped persuade him that Abrams's first words were about character and story.
Q 21Which actor plays Supreme Leader Snoke through motion capture?
Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis began work without knowing what Snoke would look like; the design kept shifting through the shoot and on into post-production.
Q 22Who plays General Hux?
Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson shot the rally speech at several pitches, and Abrams chose the biggest, telling him this was Hux's moment in the film.
Q 23Which Game of Thrones actress plays Captain Phasma?
Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christie took a part first written for a man; Lawrence Kasdan says that once someone suggested a woman, the whole room agreed at once.
Q 14Who shoots and wounds Kylo Ren immediately after Han's death?
Chewbacca
Chewbacca fires his bowcaster in fury, and the wound is why Ren is bleeding, unsteady and pounding his side through the lightsaber duel in the snow.
Q 15What part of Starkiller Base does the Resistance target to destroy it?
The thermal oscillator
The thermal oscillator keeps the star's stolen energy contained, so once Poe's pilots blast it apart the whole base collapses in on itself.
Q 16Which long-dormant droid wakes at the end to supply the rest of the map to Luke Skywalker?
R2-D2
R2-D2 had sat in low-power mode ever since Luke vanished; when he finally stirs, BB-8's fragment slots into the larger chart he projects.
Q 17On which planet does Rey finally find Luke Skywalker?
Ahch-To
Ahch-To holds the first Jedi temple, which is why Luke picked the remote ocean world when he went into exile.
Q 18Who plays Rey in The Force Awakens?
Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley had only small TV parts behind her, which is what Abrams wanted, yet on her first day he told her that her takes were wooden.
Q 19Whose performance in Attack the Block did Tom Cruise urge Abrams to watch, leading to a Star Wars casting?
John Boyega's
John Boyega's own telling is that Cruise, then editing a Mission: Impossible film with Abrams, told the director he had to watch the kid in it.
Q 20Who plays Poe Dameron?
Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac was pitched a Poe who died early in the film; Abrams then reworked the script so the pilot survives to lead the final attack.
Q 24Which two comedians are credited as 'vocal consultants' for BB-8?
Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz
Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz each played a part: Hader's spoken voice sounded too human, so he worked a talk box hooked to a sound-effects app on Abrams's iPad, while Schwartz's readings helped the editors with the cadence.
Q 25Which Shaun of the Dead star plays Unkar Plutt, the junk dealer who buys Rey's scavenged parts?
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg is hidden inside the hulking suit of a junk boss who pays Rey in food rations, then offers sixty portions for BB-8, a deal she refuses.
Q 26Which James Bond actor cameos as a stormtrooper who falls for Rey's mind trick?
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig asked a friend on the crew at Pinewood, where Bond also shoots, to get him into the film, and was handed the stormtrooper scene within days.
Q 27Which daughter of Carrie Fisher appears in The Force Awakens as Lieutenant Connix?
Billie Lourd
Billie Lourd was first called in to read for Rey, because Abrams still hadn't found his lead; he gave her the small Resistance part instead.
Q 28Whose voice delivers Obi-Wan Kenobi's 'these are your first steps' in Rey's vision?
Ewan McGregor's
Ewan McGregor's new recording follows a single word from the late Alec Guinness: editors clipped 'Rey' out of his old reading of 'afraid'.
Q 29Who wrote the first screenplay for The Force Awakens before leaving the project in late 2013?
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt asked for far more time than Disney would give, so Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan stepped in and talked out a new draft on long walks.
Q 30Why is Luke Skywalker absent until The Force Awakens' ending?
Whenever he entered the story he took it over
Whenever he entered the story he took it over: early drafts brought Luke in midway, and the first writer found viewers stopped caring about the new lead.