Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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49 free Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Rise of Skywalker closed a nine-film saga under unusual pressure: its original director left over creative differences, its general had died three years before release and survived only through unused footage, and its script turned up on eBay after a star left it in a hotel room. It cost around $490 million, became the lowest-rated Skywalker film on Rotten Tomatoes, and still crossed a billion dollars. These 49 questions cover the whole of Episode IX: the plot from Exegol to the Lars homestead, the Knights of Ren, Babu Frik and Zorii Bliss, the cast and the cameos (a composer tending bar, a Hamilton creator in a Resistance uniform), Colin Trevorrow's abandoned Duel of the Fates, the Pinewood and Wadi Rum shoot, John Williams's final score, the box office and the reviews. Easy questions stick to Rey, Ren and the big reveals; the expert tier asks about stormtrooper serial numbers, working titles and who recorded dialogue in a closet. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo, send it to a friend, or print it for a Star Wars night.
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Q 01Which Star Wars series debuted weeks before Episode IX?
The Mandalorian
The Mandalorian arrived with Disney+ on November 12, 2019, five weeks before the film, and its hero later got a cinema film of his own, The Mandalorian and Grogu, in 2026.
Q 02Which Oscar-winning writer co-wrote The Rise of Skywalker with J. J. Abrams?
Chris Terrio
Chris Terrio, who won his Academy Award for Argo, also slipped into the cast: he voices Aftab Ackbar, a son invented for the late Admiral Ackbar.
Q 03Which Lost actor plays Resistance trooper Beaumont Kin in The Rise of Skywalker?
Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Monaghan won the part on a bet: Abrams, his old Lost boss, promised him a role if England beat Colombia at the 2018 World Cup, and England did.
Q 04What was the title of Colin Trevorrow's abandoned script for Star Wars Episode IX?
Duel of the Fates
Duel of the Fates took its name from the Phantom Menace lightsaber theme; the script leaked online in 2020, and Trevorrow confirmed it was real.
Q 05Palpatine's broadcast, mentioned in The Rise of Skywalker's opening crawl, was heard only inside which video game?
Fortnite
Fortnite players heard it at a live in-game event on December 14, 2019, six days before the film opened; the film itself never plays the message.
Q 06On which hidden planet does Palpatine reveal himself to Kylo Ren?
Exegol
Exegol appears on no star chart, which let Palpatine's cultists build a fleet of Star Destroyers there unseen; only a Sith wayfinder shows the way in.
Q 07On which desert planet do Rey and her friends find a dagger inscribed with Sith text?
Pasaana
Pasaana is where Lando Calrissian turns up to help: years earlier he had tracked a Sith assassin there and found only the killer's abandoned ship.
Q 08Which tiny droidsmith extracts the wayfinder coordinates from C-3PO's memory?
Babu Frik
Babu Frik's bypass wipes C-3PO's memory as the price of the translation, and R2-D2 later restores it from a backup.
Q 09Zorii Bliss is an old acquaintance of Poe's from which planet?
Kijimi
Kijimi, the thieves' haven where Poe once ran spice with Zorii's crew, is later blown apart by one of Palpatine's new Star Destroyers.
Q 10Which actress plays the helmeted smuggler Zorii Bliss?
Keri Russell
Keri Russell's Zorii gives Poe the First Order pass she had saved up for her own escape from the planet, which gets the heroes aboard Kylo Ren's Star Destroyer.
Q 11Who is revealed as the First Order spy in The Rise of Skywalker?
General Hux
General Hux admits he doesn't care whether the Resistance wins: he only needs Kylo Ren to lose.
Q 12Who shoots the First Order's spy in The Rise of Skywalker?
Allegiant General Pryde
Allegiant General Pryde isn't fooled by the staged leg wound the spy shows him as proof of a struggle, and shoots him dead on the spot.
Q 13Which actor plays the Imperial veteran who commands Palpatine's fleet in The Rise of Skywalker?
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant's general pledges himself to the returned Emperor, saying he will serve him now as he served him in the old wars.
Q 21What does Rey bury in the sand at the Lars homestead?
Luke and Leia's lightsabers
Luke and Leia's lightsabers are buried at the farm where the saga began, and Rey walks away carrying a new one she has built for herself.
Q 22Which Killing Eve star briefly appears as Rey's mother?
Jodie Comer
Jodie Comer's character and her husband chose to live as nobodies so that Palpatine could never find his granddaughter, and died rather than give her up.
Q 23In The Rise of Skywalker, who is finally handed a medal, 42 years after missing out in the original film?
Chewbacca
Chewbacca gets his medal from Maz Kanata during the victory celebration; at the 1977 film's ceremony only his two human shipmates were given one.
Q 14Who plays Jannah, the former stormtrooper living on Kef Bir?
Naomi Ackie
Naomi Ackie's Jannah says deserting with her whole company felt less like a choice than an instinct, and Finn tells her that instinct was the Force.
Q 15Which actor returns as Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker?
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid had not played Palpatine on screen since 2005, and his return stayed secret through the whole shoot until the first teaser trailer revealed it in April 2019.
Q 16In the wreckage of what does Rey locate the Sith wayfinder?
The second Death Star
The second Death Star's wreck juts from the sea of an Endor moon; Rey finds the wayfinder in a chamber off the Emperor's old throne room, and Kylo Ren crushes it minutes later.
Q 17Whose Force spirit catches the lightsaber Rey throws into a fire on Ahch-To?
Luke
Luke catches it and tells her a Jedi's weapon deserves more respect, though he had tossed the same lightsaber aside himself in The Last Jedi.
Q 18On which desert planet does The Rise of Skywalker end, at the old Lars homestead?
Tatooine
Tatooine closes the nine-film saga where it began in 1977: at the moisture farm from the original film, Rey takes the Skywalker name as her own.
Q 19A memory of whom persuades Kylo Ren to throw away his lightsaber?
Han Solo
Han Solo, played once more by Harrison Ford, is a memory rather than a ghost, and after their talk his son gives up the name Kylo Ren and becomes Ben Solo again.
Q 20What term does Palpatine use for Rey and Ben's shared Force connection?
A dyad
A dyad in the Force, he calls it, a bond unseen for generations, and he drains the pair's shared life force to rebuild his own decaying body.
Q 24On which planet did Rey's parents hide her from Palpatine?
Jakku
Jakku is where her parents left her with a junk dealer, and Palpatine's assassin killed them when they would not say where she was.
Q 25Which Harry Potter actress voices the droidsmith who probes C-3PO's memory?
Shirley Henderson
Shirley Henderson, the films' Moaning Myrtle, learned to work the puppet's mouth herself and made up the droidsmith's babbling language as she performed.
Q 26Director J. J. Abrams provides the voice of which Star Wars droid?
D-O
D-O had Abrams's voice only as a placeholder until his co-writer argued that no actor could match its anxious politeness, so it stayed in the film.
Q 27Which composer cameos as the bartender Oma Tres?
John Williams
The name is an anagram of Maestro, a nod to his final Star Wars score.
Q 28Which Marvel film composer cameos as a Sith Trooper in The Rise of Skywalker?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino, Abrams's regular composer, was repeating a trick: he had already hidden under a stormtrooper helmet as FN-3181 in the director's first Star Wars film.
Q 29Which actor returned to play Lando Calrissian on screen for the first time since 1983?
Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams came back to the part after 36 years, and it is his Lando who brings a fleet of volunteers from across the galaxy to turn the final battle.
Q 30Denis Lawson briefly reprises which Rebel veteran?
Wedge Antilles
Wedge Antilles turns up as a gunner aboard the Millennium Falcon in the last battle; Lawson, who is Ewan McGregor's uncle, had passed on a return earlier in the trilogy.