Use the Force to Answer These ‘Star Wars’ Trivia Questions

Ewoks, whose faces bore more than a passing resemblance to Brussels griffon dogs, were a native species on the forest moon of Endor, the site of a major battle between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. Since the Empire had occupied their land and used it to protect the Death Star, the Ewoks aided the Alliance in hopes of liberating their home. But while Star Wars creator George Lucas, 80, portrayed the Ewoks as savvy guerrilla warriors, cynical adult Star Wars fans saw the goofy creatures as a shameless ploy to attract little kids. As Hurley (Jorge Garcia, 52) put it once in the Lost episode “Some Like It Hoth”: “Ewoks suck, dude.”

Though she took the surname Skywalker, Rey is actually a descendant of Emperor Palpatine. Her father, Dathan Sidious, was the genetically engineered son of Palpatine, a.k.a. Sith Lord Darth Sidious; however, he was not Force-sensitive and thus deemed a failed experiment. A resentful Dathan renounced the Sith and moved to Jakku, where he and his wife hid out and posed as junk traders to protect their daughter, who was strong with the Force, from her grandfather’s followers. After stashing Rey with their boss they tried to flee the planet, but they were captured and killed before they could escape.

Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) was born Ben Solo, the son of Princess Leia and Han Solo. He’s named for Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who went by the alias Ben while watching over the young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. Leia sensed while she was pregnant that her unborn child had both the Light and Dark Side in him. This makes total sense, given that his maternal grandfather was Anakin Skywalker, a.k.a. Darth Vader. But his parents kept this information from him. Unbeknownst to them, members of the Sith could communicate with Ben telepathically, and eventually drew him down the path to the Dark Side. Although his Uncle Luke was preparing him to become a Jedi, Ben pulled a Vader and destroyed the training temple.

Grogu, a Force-sensitive youngster who is the same species as Yoda, was raised at the Jedi temple on Coruscant and survived the massacre carried out by Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He was rescued by a Mandalorian bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal, 50), who was supposed to eliminate him but objected after seeing how young Grogu was. The Mandalorian later handed him over to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker to resume his Jedi training. However, when Skywalker asked him to choose between life as a Jedi and returning to the Mandalorian, Grogu chose his friend in the helmet.

“This is the way” refers to the right way of doing things, according to the Mandalorian moral code. The expression was quickly adopted into pop culture, and if you visit any random advice forum on Reddit, odds are you’ll see someone quoting it as a way of saying “do what this other user suggested.”