When Did It Happen Again? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Episode IV - A New Hope

When the Millennium Falcon came out of hyperspace to find no Alderaan, they followed a lone TIE Fighter to what they realized, too late, was no moon. They were pulled onboard the Death Star, and commandeered some disguises in order to move about freely while looking for a solution to their problems.

After Obi-Wan left to deactivate the tractor beam, Luke learned that Princess Leia had been captured and was scheduled to be executed. He then enlisted the help of Han and Chewie to stage a rescue. The trio made their way to the detention block and quickly took control of it. Luke found and freed the princess, but didn't have any escape plan, which resulted in the cell-block shootout, before the group bailed into the garbage chute.

They were almost crushed by the masher, but R2-D2 was able to shut it down just in time.

The gang then made their way through the Death Star back to the Falcon, where they were eventually able to leave, but only with the sacrifice of Obi-Wan Kenobi at the hands of Darth Vader. Once clear of the Death Star, Han and Luke still had to fend off four pursuing TIE Fighters.

However, it had been Vader's plan for the Falcon to escape with a tracking beacon that would lead the Imperials straight to the hidden Rebel Base on Yavin IV.

Answer: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi

In "Episode VI", before the main assault on the second Death Star could commence, the shield had to be removed. The shield generator for the second Death Star was on the surface of the Forest Moon of Endor (sometimes just called "Endor"). A small Rebel team, led by Han Solo, snuck onto the moon in the stolen Imperial shuttle, Tyderium.

When making their way to the generator, the team spotted an Imperial patrol, and Han moved in to quietly neutralize the Scout Troopers. He accidentally stepped on a branch that snapped, alerting the troopers to his presence. Luke and Leia rushed down to help, and spotted two more troops already on speeder bikes. Luke and Leia jumped on the last remaining bike, and a chase through the trees ensued. During the chase, Luke commandeered another bike, and he and Leia split up to take on different targets. Luke eventually had to bail off his bike when struggling with his adversary, but managed to finish off the biker with his lightsaber. Leia continued on forward and was eventually thrown from her bike, and she passed out, only to be woken later by Wicket, the Ewok.

Answer: "Episode II -Attack of the Clones" and "Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back"

The two movies to feature chase scenes through an asteroid field were "Episode II", and "Episode V". There were asteroids in "Episode IV", when the Millennium Falcon reverted out of hyperspace to find Alderaan blown to bits, and they did chase a TIE Fighter to the Death Star. This chase was not through the asteroids, however, and it was not nearly as dramatic as the other chases in the "Star Wars" series.

The chase in "Episode II" was in the asteroid ring orbiting Geonosis. Obi-Wan Kenobi had tracked Jango Fett to Geonosis, and Jango decided to try to lose Obi-Wan, before continuing on. Jango first deployed two sonic charges to deter Obi-Wan, but the Jedi maintained pursuit. Jango then flew trough a cave in an asteroid, and hid. When Obi-Wan had also gone through, Jango appeared behind him, and the hunter became the hunted. Jango then used his laser cannons liberally to try to blast Obi-Wan, and tried to finish him off with a missile. Obi-Wan jettisoned his spare parts to destroy the missile, and then hid on the surface on one of the slightly larger asteroids. After Jango was gone, Obi-Wan made his way to the surface of Geonosis, to continue his investigation.

In "Episode V", Han Solo had to evacuate Echo Base on the Falcon, which had a broken hyperdrive. Unable to run, Han decided to navigate trough an asteroid field, despite the odds of successfully doing so. The pursuing TIE pilots were not as good as Han, and they crashed into the asteroids. Han then hid in a 'cave' to make repairs. The asteroids were deadly for the Star Destroyers that had been tasked with finding the Falcon, but Vader did not mind; he wanted the Falcon and its occupants found.

Answer: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, in "Episode I", were charged with protecting Queen Amidala. Because of the sluggishness of the Galactic Senate, she returned to her planet to remove the Trade Federation herself. While the Gungan Grand Army fought the Trade Federation Battle Droid Army, at the Battle of the Grassy Planes, the Queen infiltrated the palace at Theed to confront the Viceroy, while also taking control of the hangar in order to send starfighters to destroy the orbiting Droid Control Ship.

While making their way out of the hangar, the Queen's party was stopped by Darth Maul. The Queen elected to take the long way to the throne room, while the Jedi fought Maul. The Jedi and Sith engaged in battle, and moved into the power generator room of Theed.

The two Jedi were separated by energy fields, and Obi-Wan Kenobi was unable to aid his master in fighting the Sith. It was then that the young, agile and vicious Maul was able to defeat the aged and slow Jedi Master. Obi-Wan then had his turn to fight Maul, and cut the Sith in half. Fighting Maul was the Jedi's first real indication that the Sith were still present in the galaxy.

Answer: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith

Palpatine was a Sith Lord, and his single goal in his life was to create a Sith-run galaxy. He joined politics, first seen in "Episode I", as the senator from Naboo. He was then elected as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, and was in office when the Clone Wars broke out.

The Senate chose to keep him in office until the war's end. At the same time, it was Dath Sidious, the same man, who was secretly manipulating galactic events, including the leaders of the Trade Federation, and later, the Separatist Alliance. Thus, the entire Clone Wars were engineered by a single man in order to gain Sith dominance over the galaxy.

In "Episode III", the Clone Wars ended with the death of General Grievous, and surrender of the Separatist Leaders. The Jedi learned from Anakin that Palpatine was a Sith Lord, and moved to arrest him, but the Sith Lord was able to defeat the Jedi (with the help of Anakin Skywalker at the last minute). Palpatine then issued Order 66 to the Grand Army of the Republic, ordering the clones to kill all Jedi.

He also fabricated a story about the Jedi's attempts to take over the Republic, branding the Jedi as evil. Thus, Palpatine had the power of the Grand Army of the Republic behind him. His enemies, the Jedi, were all but destroyed, and the Senate allowed him to reform the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire with the promise of peace and stability.

Answer: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Zam Wessel was a bounty hunter, and associate of Jango Fett. She was hired to kill senator Amidala, which she tried to do at the beginning of "Episode II", when she detonated the senator's ship. Fortunately, Padme had been switched with a decoy, and was unharmed. The second attempt was when Zam sent two kouhuns, via assassin droid, to the Padme's apartment. The poisonous bugs were almost able to end Padme's life, but Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker jumped in, and saved the day. Obi-Wan noticed the assassin droid hovering outside the window, and jumped out the window to grab onto it. Anakin then commandeered a speeder to go after his master. When Zam saw Obi-Wan coming at her, she used a sniper rifle to take down the droid, letting Obi-Wan plummet through the Coruscant traffic. Anakin caught his master, while Zam jumped into her own speeder, and a chase ensued. Anakin eventually jumped onto Zam's speeder, and made her crash on a pedestrian walkway. When on the ground, Anakin and Obi-Wan followed Zam into a cantina, where she attempted to kill Obi-Wan. But the Jedi was too fast for her, and she was disarmed. She was taken outside for interrogation, but was killed by Jango Fett's saberdart before she could reveal his identity.

Zam Wessel was a Clawdite, which allowed her to could change her appearance. While her normal form was reptilian and green, she tended to be seen as an attractive human female, instead, in order to manipulate her targets better.

Answer: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

In "Episode V", the Millennium Falcon was chock-full of problems, most notably, the hyperdrive wasn't working. When the Empire found the hidden Rebel base on Hoth, the Rebels had to make a hasty evacuation. Han, Chewie, Leia, and C-3PO made their escape on the Falcon, but were unable to jump to hyperspace.

They had to outrun and out-fly Imperial forces through an asteroid field. Han dodged and weaved, and the pursuing TIE Fighters were destroyed by hurtling rocks. Then Han hid the Falcon in a cave, in a larger asteroid, where they could hide and make further repairs. Han soon realized that they weren't hiding in a cave, and quickly powered up the Falcon to make yet another escape, this time from being eaten by a giant Space Slug. Once again, out in open space, Han was pursued by the Imperials and unable to jump to hyperspace.

His only option was to pull a daring manoeuvre, and hide on the back of a Star Destroyer. When the Star Destroyer ejected its garbage before jumping to hyperspace, Han detached his ship and floated away with it (it did look like a piece of junk).

After the Imperials were gone, Han made his way for Bespin, to visit his old friend Lando Calrissian, to get the Falcon in working order. Unfortunately for Han, Boba Fett knew this trick, courtesy of Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Episode II", in the asteroids circling Geonosis, and tracked Han, allowing the Imperials to set up an ambush.

Answer: False

Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Emperor did not die in the same movie. Obi-Wan became one with The Force in "Episode IV", when he sacrificed himself to allow Luke, Han, and Liea to escape the Death Star, on the Millennium Falcon. Obi-Wan still appeared in the subsequent movies, as a Force apparition, in order to guide Luke in the ways of the Jedi.

The Emperor was killed at the end of "Episode VI", when Anakin Skywalker saw his son being tortured by Sidious' Force Lightning. Anakin finally threw his old Sith Master, screaming, into the reactor core of the second Death Star. The death of the Emperor, at Endor, was a major turning point in the Galactic Civil War, tossing the Empire into chaos, with various individuals attempting to fill the vacant throne. It wouldn't be until two years after Endor that the Rebel Alliance would finally recapture Coruscant, and become the New Republic.

Answer: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

It seems that the Jedi practiced the art of 'disarming' quite a bit when training. There were quite a few arms lost through the "Star Wars" series, due to lightsabers.

"Episode I" was the only movie to not feature someone's arm being sliced off.

In "Episode II", Zam Wessel, the bounty hunter, lost her arm when she tried to sneak up on Obi-Wan Kenobi with a blaster, in the cantina on Coruscant. Second was Anakin Skywalker, when he was fighting Count Dooku. When Dooku was trying to escape Geonosis, Obi-Wan and Anakin followed him to his private hangar. Anakin brashly tried to attack Dooku, but the Count used Force Lightning to send Anakin flying. Obi-Wan was then forced to take on Dooku alone, but was defeated. However, Before Dooku could deliver the final blow, Anakin jumped back into the fight, and rescued Obi-Wan. Anakin then fought Dooku properly, and even used two lightsabers at one point, but was still bested by Dooku, and Anakin lost his right arm in the process.

"Episode III" first disarming comes when Anakin Skywalker cuts off Count Dooku's hands, at the beginning of the movie, during their lightsaber fight, onboard the Invisible Hand. Also in "Episode III", Mace Windu was about to end Darth Sidious' life, to prevent the Sith from taking over the galaxy, when Anakin jumped in and cut off Mace's right hand. Sidious was then able to use Force Lightning to send Mace off into Coruscanti traffic, where he fell to his death.

In "Episode IV", Obi-Wan cut off the arm of the Aqualish, Ponda Baba, after he and Evazan tried to bully Luke into a fight, in the Mos Eisley Cantina.

"Episode V" has one of the more memorable de-armings in the series. Luke Skywalker lost his hand to Darth Vader's lightsaber, during their duel on Cloud City. Vader then revealed that he was Luke's father, and tried to get his son to join him in ruling the galaxy. Luke declined the offer by, instead, jumping down the airshaft. Also in this movie, Luke cut off the Wampa's arm when he was escaping from its lair, on Hoth.

The final disarming event in "Star Wars" was in "Episode VI", when Luke cut off Darth Vader's hand during their duel, in the throne room, on the second Death Star. Luke refused to end Vader's life, though, choosing the path of the Jedi instead. The Emperor shocked Luke with lightning until Vader became Anakin once again, and threw his master down into the reactor core of the Death Star.

Answer: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Five of the six "Star Wars" movies featured the planet Tatooine, the planet where both Anakin and Luke Skywalker grew up, despite being the planet "farthest from the bright center of the universe".

In "Episode I", the Queen of Naboo escaped her planet, which was occupied and blockaded by the Trade Federation. During the escape, the royal starship was damaged, and the heroes (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Jar Jar Binks, and Padme Amidala) made their way to Tatooine to effect repairs, outside of Trade Federation controlled space. On Tatooine the heroes needed parts to repair their ship, in particular, a hyperdrive. To do this they had to wager on a nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker to win a podrace. When Skywalker won the podrace, he also won his freedom from slavery to Watto, as well as the parts needed to repair the royal starship. This allowed the Queen to continue to Coruscant to plead her case to the Galactic Senate.

In "Episode II", Anakin experienced a vision of his dying mother, while protecting Padme on Naboo. He and Padme made their way back to Anakin's homeworld, Tatooine, to find and rescue his endangered mother. After being sold by Watto, and freed by Cliegg Lars, Shimi Skywalker had taken to living on a moisture farm, and had been abducted by Tusken Raiders when out picking mushrooms in the morning, one day. Anakin took a speeder bike to search the desert for his missing mother, and eventually found her hanging in a tent, in a Tusken camp. He untied her, but she died in his arms moments afterward. In his anger, Skywalker killed all the inhabitants of the camp.

In "Episode III", Tatooine was seen at the very end of the film, when Obi-Wan Kenobi brought a young Luke Skywalker to his aunt and uncle. The movie ended with Beru, holding Luke, and Owen looking into the famous Tatooine sunset.

In "Episode IV", the movie started off in space above the planet, and approximately half the movie took place on Tatooine. Princess Leia's ship, the Tantive IV, was pursued and captured by the Star Destroyer, Devastator. Leia gave the Death Star plans to R2-D2, and he, along with C-3PO, were jettisoned in an escape pod down to the desert planet. On Tatooine, they were picked up by Jawas and sold to Owen Lars, who was the caretaker of Luke Skywalker. Later, R2-D2 would run away looking for his old master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, which eventually lead to a small scuffle with some Sand People and Luke. Ben (Obi-Wan) stepped in, and Luke was taken to the safety of Ben's house where he was given his first lightsaber, which used to belong to his father. Meanwhile, Imperial Stormtroopers had landed, and were searching for the droids, which led to the deaths of Owen and Beru Lars, and Luke's resolve to become a Jedi, and stop the Empire. When looking for passage off Tatooine, Luke and Ben visited the infamous Mos Eisley Cantina. There, they met fellow heroes of the "Original Trilogy", Han Solo and Chewbacca. The group then made a hasty escape from the planet while being shot at by Imperial forces.

Again, in "Episode V", Tatooine was not seen. The Planets seen in "The Empire Strikes Back" were Hoth, Dagobah, and Bespin.

In "Episode VI", Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, Lando, and the droids made their way back to Tatooine to free Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt. Originally trying to use bribes and stealth to free their friend, the heroes had to resort to "aggressive negotiations" in which Luke killed Jabba's pet Rancor. The troupe was then taken out on Jabba's Sail Barge to the Pit of Carkoon, to be thrown into the Sarlacc. Jabba's plan backfired, however, and he was killed during the fight, along with many of his minions who were tossed in the Sarlacc, slashed by Luke's lightsaber, or perished when the Sail Barge exploded.