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48 free Yoda trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Yoda was a last-minute replacement for Obi-Wan. George Lucas had meant Kenobi to keep training Luke, killed him off instead, and needed a new mentor who was the exact opposite of what audiences expected: a frog-like creature first called Minch Yoda, with a face borrowed partly from Albert Einstein and a voice that Lucas originally wanted someone other than Frank Oz to provide. These 48 questions cover the whole character: Dagobah and the training of Luke, the 'there is another' line, the Dooku and Sidious duels, the hiding of the twins, the Force-ghost lessons in The Last Jedi, and the animated outings in The Clone Wars, Rebels and Tales of the Jedi. There are making-of questions too: the puppet builders, Jim Henson's recommendation, the Seven Samurai inspiration, the switch to CGI and back to a puppet, the other actors who have voiced him, and the Muppets and films of Frank Oz. Grogu and Weird Al's Kinks parody round things off. Easy questions stick to Dagobah and Empire; the expert tier asks about Oakland puppet troupes, Cartoon Network planets and Jedi funerals. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a Star Wars night.
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Q 01In which film did Yoda first appear?
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back needed a new teacher for Luke because George Lucas had killed off Obi-Wan in the first film, so he invented Yoda to take over the training.
Q 02Who puppeteered and voiced Yoda in the original trilogy?
Frank Oz
Frank Oz worked the mouth and brow with his hand inside the puppet's head, held above him, while assistant puppeteers moved the eyes and ears by cable.
Q 03On which swamp planet does Yoda live in exile?
Dagobah
Dagobah hid Yoda after he failed to defeat the Emperor. He was still there when Luke arrived, sent by Obi-Wan's spirit, and Luke at first took the little creature for a pest, not the Jedi Master he was seeking.
Q 04At what age does Yoda die in Return of the Jedi?
900
900 is the age Yoda gives Luke from his sickbed, joking that Luke won't look as good when he gets there. Moments later his body fades away as he becomes one with the Force.
Q 05Yoda tells Luke to do or do not, because there is no what?
Try
Try is what Luke promises to give it, and Yoda pounces on the word. Minutes later Luke says he doesn't believe what he has just watched, and Yoda tells him that is why he fails.
Q 06George Lucas pictured Yoda as a 'little' version of which spiritual leader?
The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama was the picture in Lucas's head, which is why he wanted an Eastern-sounding name and called the little mentor Minch Yoda before trimming it to one word.
Q 07Which 1980s film features a trick-or-treater dressed as Yoda?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has its alien come across the costume while out on Halloween night. George Lucas returned the favour years later by slipping E.T.'s species into the background of a Star Wars prequel.
Q 08What colour is the blade of Yoda's lightsaber?
Green
Green, on a hilt and blade built smaller than standard to suit his size. On film he only draws it in the prequels: the puppet Yoda of the original trilogy never picks up a weapon.
Q 09What does Yoda lift out of the swamp with the Force after Luke gives up?
An X-wing fighter
An X-wing fighter, Luke's own, had sunk into the bog, and Luke insisted it was too big to move. Yoda answered that size matters not, then set it down on dry land himself.
Q 10Whose features did make-up artist Stuart Freeborn blend with his own for Yoda?
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's features were borrowed in the hope they would make the puppet look intelligent. Freeborn, who had already built Chewbacca, put the rest of his own face into the design.
Q 11Whom did George Lucas first ask to perform Yoda, only to hear he was too busy?
Jim Henson
Jim Henson told Lucas he was busy making a film of his own, so he put forward a trusted Muppets colleague instead and stayed on hand to advise on how the puppet was built.
Q 12Yoda warns young Anakin that fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to what?
Suffering
Suffering ends the chain Yoda recites when the Jedi Council tests Anakin. He senses so much fear in the boy that the Council at first refuses to have him trained.
Q 13Which film was the first released with an entirely computer-generated Yoda?
Attack of the Clones
Q 21Whom does Yoda duel at the climax of Episode II?
Count Dooku
Count Dooku has just wounded Obi-Wan and cut off Anakin's arm when Yoda arrives, absorbs the Sith's Force lightning and fights him with a lightsaber until the Count flees.
Q 22Before turning to the Sith, what had Dooku been to Yoda?
His former apprentice
His former apprentice: Yoda trained Dooku as a Jedi, and the Count walked away from the Order only later, disillusioned with it and hungry for greater power.
Q 23In The Last Jedi, what does Yoda's lightning bolt set ablaze?
The ancient library tree
The ancient library tree burns as Yoda tells Luke its sacred texts held nothing Rey does not already possess, and he is more right than Luke knows: she has already taken them with her.
Attack of the Clones was meant to keep the puppet and use a digital Yoda only for his lightsaber fight, until the animation director argued that matching the two would be harder than going digital in every scene.
Q 14Which film's puppet Yoda was later digitally replaced?
The Phantom Menace
The Phantom Menace was filmed with a new, younger-looking puppet, but its 2011 Blu-ray swapped in a computer-generated Yoda, so all three prequels now show a digital one.
Q 15Which director insisted on bringing Yoda back as a puppet, cast from the original moulds, instead of CGI?
Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson had the puppet rebuilt from the 1980 moulds for The Last Jedi, even tracing the woman who painted the original eyes, so that Luke would meet the Yoda he remembered.
Q 16Which voice actor plays both Yoda and the newsreel-style narrator in The Clone Wars film and series?
Tom Kane
Tom Kane first imitated Yoda for video games, won George Lucas's approval, and went on to voice him in both Clone Wars cartoons until a stroke in 2020 forced him to retire.
Q 17Which actor voiced Yoda in the radio dramatizations of Empire and Jedi?
John Lithgow
John Lithgow says he won the part on the spot: director John Madden, then staging a play with him, complained he couldn't find a Yoda, and Lithgow answered in the voice.
Q 18When Obi-Wan calls Luke their last hope, Yoda replies that there is another, meaning whom?
Leia
Leia is the other hope. On his deathbed Yoda tells Luke there is another Skywalker, and Obi-Wan's spirit then helps Luke work out that she is his twin sister.
Q 19On which planet is Yoda commanding clone troopers when Order 66 turns them against him?
Kashyyyk
Kashyyyk is the Wookiee homeworld, and after Yoda cuts down the clones sent to kill him it is two Wookiees, Tarfful and Chewbacca, who get him off the planet.
Q 20Where does Yoda duel Darth Sidious in Revenge of the Sith?
The Senate chamber
The Senate chamber turns into a battlefield as Sidious hurls its floating pods at Yoda. Neither can finish the other, so Yoda retreats and goes into hiding.
Q 24In The Clone Wars season six, whose voice sets Yoda off on a spirit quest?
Qui-Gon Jinn
Qui-Gon Jinn had been dead for years, so hearing him proved that a Jedi could outlast death, and the quest that follows teaches Yoda to return as a Force spirit himself.
Q 25Which Star Wars film actor voices Darth Bane, whose illusion faces Yoda in The Clone Wars?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill, the screen's Luke Skywalker, voiced the long-dead Sith Lord, whose illusion is one of the trials Yoda must pass to learn how to survive death.
Q 26In Rebels, Yoda speaks telepathically to Kanan Jarrus and which apprentice?
Ezra Bridger
Ezra Bridger hears Yoda's voice inside a hidden Jedi temple, where the old Master asks whether he is ready for what is to come and guides him to the kyber crystal for his first lightsaber.
Q 27Which Jedi Council member of the prequel era belongs to the same mysterious species as Yoda?
Yaddle
Yaddle sat on the Council beside Yoda as a quiet background figure, then gained a speaking role, voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard, in Tales of the Jedi, where trying to reason with a fallen Jedi costs her life.
Q 28George Lucas says he gave Yoda his back-to-front speech for which reason?
So audiences would listen closely
So audiences would listen closely: Lucas said people tune out plain English but focus when a line takes effort to follow, and Yoda was the film's philosopher.
Q 29Weird Al Yankovic's song Yoda parodies which Kinks hit?
Lola
Lola became 'Yoda' in 1980 as an accordion demo, but no album carried the parody for five years, and it never got a video: by then, Yankovic said, film and tune were both old news.
Q 30In The Last Jedi, what does Yoda tell Luke is the greatest teacher?
Failure
Failure, most of all, is what Yoda says a master must pass on, along with strength and mastery. He adds that teachers are what their pupils grow beyond.