Star Wars: Original Trilogy

Question: What is the name of the giant four-legged walkers used by the Empire during the Battle of Hoth?

Answer: AT-ATs (All Terrain Armored Transports) are towering quadrupedal tanks built as much to be physically imposing as for troop transportation. AT-STs (All Terrain Scout Transports) are smaller bipedal vehicles that are used mainly for reconnaissance. TIE (Twin Ion Engines) fighters were the Empire’s starfighters. And AT-TEs (All Terrain Tactical Enforcers) were predecessors to the AT-ATs, used by the Galactic Republic before the rise of the Empire.

Question: How many times did characters utter some form of the phrase “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” during A New Hope?

Answer: Luke Skywalker was the first to voice his uneasy feeling while the Millennium Falcon approached the Death Star. Han Solo later used the phrase while trapped in a Death Star trash compactor. The Rebels used the phrase five times throughout Episodes IV–VI.

Question: What was Luke Skywalker’s call sign during the Battle of Yavin?

Answer: Garven Dreis led the Red Squadron, a group of 22 X-wing starfighters, during the battle, while Wedge Antilles flew as Red Two. Gold Squadron, comprising eight Y-wings, was led by Jon (“Dutch”) Vander.

Question: Who does Luke see in his vision while in the cave during his Jedi training with Yoda on Dagobah?

Answer: Before Luke enters the cave, Yoda tells him that it is strong with the Dark Side of the Force and that inside he will find “only what you take with you.” When Luke ignores Yoda’s advice to leave his weapons behind, he sees a vision of Darth Vader approaching him. Luke defeats the vision only to reveal his own face behind Vader’s mask.

Question: Which ship did Han Solo and his crew of Rebels use to infiltrate the Forest Moon of Endor in order to destroy the Empire’s shield generator?

Answer: Tydirium was an Imperial shuttle stolen by the Rebel Alliance. The Imperial ship, along with stolen clearance codes, allowed Han, Chewbacca, Leia, Luke, C-3P0, and R2-D2 to slip past the Empire’s security on their way to the surface of the Forest Moon, where a shield generator station protected the incomplete second Death Star.

Question: How many Imperial officers did Darth Vader “discipline” with a Force choke during The Empire Strikes Back?

Answer: Admiral Kendal Ozzel and Captain Lorth Needa each made a crucial mistake in the Empire’s pursuit of the Rebel Alliance on or near Hoth.

Question: What planet does the Empire choose to destroy first, in order to demonstrate the destructive capability of the Death Star?

Answer: Imperial Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin threatens to destroy Princess Leia Organa’s home world of Alderaan if she doesn’t disclose the location of a Rebel base. She lies, hoping to spare the planet while not selling out the Rebel Alliance, and tells him the base is on Dantooine. Though Tarkin believes her, he gives the order to destroy Alderaan anyway, as it would be a much more-visible example of the terrible power of the Empire’s ultimate weapon.

Question: Cloud City, the mining colony run by Lando Calrissian, specialized in what resource?

Answer: Tibanna is a gas found in the Life Zone, the upper part of the atmosphere of the planet Bespin, a gas giant on which the Cloud City floated.

Question: What was the name of the Ewok who found Leia unconscious on the Forest Moon of Endor after she was thrown off her speeder bike?

Answer: Wicket found Leia and brought her before the chief of his tribe, Chirpa. Later Leia, with the help of the other Rebels, convinced the tribe to join the fight against the Empire and destroy the shield generator for the second Death Star.

Question: Who is Jabba the Hutt’s right-hand man?

Answer: The Twi’lek served as majordomo—the head of staff—at Jabba’s palace for years before the Hutt was killed in the Tatooine desert at the Great Pit of Carkoon.

Question: What people found R2-D2 and C-3P0 roaming the Tatooine desert before selling them to Luke Skywalker’s uncle Owen Lars?

Answer: Jawas are small scavengers native to Tatooine whose livelihood depends on salvaging and trading technology.

Question: During his confrontation with Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader on the second Death Star, what does Luke try to conceal?

Answer: Though Darth Vader eventually senses Luke’s feelings for his sister, Leia, Luke desperately tries to keep her existence a secret. Luke and Leia were separated at birth and hidden from Vader, their father, to prevent the Dark Side of the Force from influencing them.