Q 01/05

George Lucas summed up the Jedi in which two-word phrase?

A) Space wizards

B) Royal bodyguards

C) Warrior-monks

D) Star samurai

Answer · why

C) Warrior-monks

Warrior-monks: the idea shaped everything from their plain robes to their creed of compassion and self-discipline, with fighting meant only as a last ...

Q 02/05

The word Jedi may come from jidaigeki, a Japanese term for what kind of film?

A) Ghost story

B) War epic

C) Monster movie

D) Period drama

Answer · why

D) Period drama

Period drama: the term covers the samurai films of directors like Akira Kurosawa, whom Lucas names as a major inspiration, and he is said to have pick...

Q 03/05

Which author's Barsoom novels, with their jeds and jeddaks, may also have inspired the word Jedi?

A) Edgar Rice Burroughs

B) H. G. Wells

C) Robert E. Howard

D) E. E. 'Doc' Smith

Answer · why

A) Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan: on his Barsoom, a fictional Mars, lords carry the title jed or jeddak. When Disney finally filmed the fir...

Q 04/05

In Rogue One, the Death Star's first test shot destroys the holy city on which moon?

A) Jedha

B) Scarif

C) Eadu

D) Lah'mu

Answer · why

A) Jedha

Jedha: one of the first civilisations to study the Force arose on the moon, and the Empire occupied it to strip out the crystals that power lightsaber...

Q 05/05

Which Akira Kurosawa film, told through two bickering peasants, is most often named as a model for Star Wars?

A) Rashomon

B) The Hidden Fortress

C) Throne of Blood

D) The Bad Sleep Well

Answer · why

B) The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress: its two squabbling peasants became the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, and by his daughter's account Lucas offered its star, Toshiro Mifu...