50 Fun Facts About Insurgent

Who secretly swaps the death serum for a paralytic so that Tris survives her execution in Insurgent?

Peter fakes her death to clear a debt: Tris had shoved him out of a bullet's path at Amity, and he could not stand owing her anything.

Who kills Jeanine Matthews in the novel Insurgent, avenging a brother believed murdered for being Divergent?

Tori stabs Jeanine even as Tris begs her to wait, because only Jeanine could find the stolen Abnegation file. The film hands the killing to someone else.

Whom is Tris shocked to find working for Jeanine when she is locked up at Erudite in Insurgent?

Caleb never truly left Erudite: he had been advising Jeanine on how best to manipulate his own sister, and had passed on her aptitude test results.

Which secret does Tris confess at her Candor trial in Insurgent, devastating her friend Christina?

She shot Will, Christina's boyfriend, while a simulation controlled him during the attack on Abnegation. Tris had hidden it from everyone, Tobias included.

Which woman, long believed dead by Abnegation, turns out to be leading the factionless in Insurgent?

Evelyn is Tobias's mother, whose death had been faked after she left Abnegation. She wants her son to bring the Dauntless into an alliance against Erudite.

How does a grieving Tris change her appearance while sheltering at Amity early in Insurgent?

She cuts her hair because, with her mother dead and everything changed, Tris feels she can no longer look the same.

What do the Amity inject into Tris after she fights in Insurgent, leaving her giddy and euphoric?

Peace serum is how Amity keeps the calm, and Tris is given too much of it. Later she wonders why she could not fight it off as she does the other serums.

Insurgent is set in the fenced-off ruins of which American city, where a great lake has become a marsh?

Chicago survives in pieces: the Dauntless zip-line from the Hancock building, and Candor has taken over the old Merchandise Mart.

Which captured traitor asks Tobias to be his executioner in Insurgent, hoping to burden him with guilt?

Eric had led the raid on Candor and killed a Divergent child there. Tobias tells him he feels no guilt at all, then pulls the trigger.

Which author, who began the series as a student at Northwestern University, wrote the novel Insurgent?

Veronica Roth drafted the first book over a winter break in her senior year, and its rights sold before she graduated. Insurgent followed a year later.

What do the Candor use on Tris and Tobias in Insurgent to make their trial testimony impossible to fake?

Truth serum drags out what each most wants to hide: Tobias admits he regrets ever joining Dauntless and had planned to leave and live factionless.

What reason does Tobias give at his Candor trial in Insurgent for having left Abnegation for Dauntless?

To escape his father is the confession that costs him: some Dauntless mock it as cowardice, and Tobias later beats Marcus in front of them to prove otherwise.

Which Dauntless-born friend proves to be Divergent by staying awake through the raid on Candor in Insurgent?

Uriah had told nobody, and afterwards he asks Tris to keep his secret. The raid's smoke knocks out everyone except the Divergent, so the two find each other out.

How do Tris and Tobias get away when Dauntless traitors chase them through Amity's fields in Insurgent?

By jumping a train, the Dauntless way to travel, they land in a car full of factionless who nearly throw them off until Tobias gives his real name.

What does Tris smash at Amity in Insurgent so that Erudite can never recover the simulation data?

A hard drive from the Dauntless control room held the attack's data, and also the only footage Tris has left of her parents. She destroys it anyway.

Which former initiate, who lost an eye to a butter knife, reappears among the factionless in Insurgent?

Edward left Dauntless after the attack that cost him an eye. Among the factionless he has grown so violent that his girlfriend, Myra, ended things with him.

Which virtue is prized above all by the faction that dresses in black and white in Insurgent?

Honesty is Candor's creed: black and white stand for the belief that a thing is either so or it is not. Their headquarters is nicknamed the Merciless Mart.

Which friend of Tris walks off a rooftop under simulation in Insurgent, delivering Jeanine's ultimatum?

Marlene recites the threat first: more deaths every two days until a Divergent is handed over. Tris and Christina pull two others back from the edge but cannot reach her.

What must the refugees give up in Insurgent before the Amity vote lets them stay at the compound?

Their weapons have to go, and all conflict with them. Tris keeps a gun hidden under her mattress anyway, sure that she is no good at staying out of fights.

Which detail, glimpsed by a traitor at Amity, starts the fight that forces Tobias to flee in Insurgent?

His tattoo ends the disguise: Tobias had dressed as Amity, but he stood too proudly to pass for anything but Dauntless and was already being questioned.

Which traitor relays Jeanine's words through an earpiece at a meeting with Candor's leader in Insurgent?

Max tells the Candor leader that his faction is expendable, in phrases Tris recognizes as Jeanine's own. Moments later one of the eavesdropping Dauntless shoots him in the chest.

Which Dauntless fighter who distrusts the Divergent is paralyzed by a gunshot in Insurgent?

Shauna is hit in the back and may never walk again. Tris insists that a Dauntless in a wheelchair is a Dauntless all the same.

Which Erudite woman changes sides to warn the loyal Dauntless during the Candor raid in Insurgent?

Cara slips upstairs past her own side to evacuate the loyal Dauntless, who then ambush the traitors in the lobby. Later she nudges Christina towards forgiving Tris.

What do the needle-tipped discs fired at Candor headquarters in Insurgent turn out to plant under the skin?

Simulation transmitters are Tris's theory, and she is right: anyone hit stays open to one simulation after another. She spends the night pulling the needles out of arms.

What do the loyal Dauntless use against the hidden cameras when they retake their own headquarters in Insurgent?

Paintball guns, handed out by an older Dauntless named Bud, blind most of Erudite's surveillance. The lenses they miss prove deadly.

What does Jeanine force Tobias to reveal about the factionless by tormenting Tris in Insurgent?

Their safe houses go onto Jeanine's map once Tobias can no longer bear to watch. He had walked into Erudite on purpose, to scout its two central control rooms.

Jeanine's brain scans in Insurgent link Tris's adaptable personality to an abundance of which cells?

Mirror neurons, Jeanine concludes, let a mind mimic whoever the moment calls for. The scans also show that Tris is driven by her goals, not by rewards.

Which Candor leader agrees to hand the Divergent to Jeanine in Insurgent, prompting a Dauntless walkout?

Jack Kang hopes to buy his faction safety, having been told to his face that Candor is expendable. The Dauntless answer by electing new leaders and going home.

How do Tris and Tobias get out of Erudite headquarters after her staged execution in Insurgent?

Down a trash chute they go, and then they hide in the nearest building, reasoning that staying put is the last move Erudite logic would predict.

What does Tris carry into Erudite headquarters in Insurgent because she cannot bring herself to hold a gun?

A stunner built by an Erudite defector lets its user drop an opponent without shooting. Since the attack on Abnegation, Tris has shrunk from carrying a gun.

According to Marcus in Insurgent, what is the secret information that Jeanine stole from Abnegation about?

The world outside the fence was about to be revealed to every faction: Abnegation had just decided to go public when Jeanine struck to keep the secret buried.

Which scarred Amity spokeswoman defies her faction's vote in Insurgent and leads volunteers into the city?

Johanna Reyes says she would sooner leave Amity than stand by. Her volunteers place themselves between the factionless and the Erudite, and prevent a number of deaths.

What do Tris and her companions lay between two windows to cross into Erudite headquarters in Insurgent?

A ladder spans the gap while mind-controlled Candor fire from the street below. The last to cross, an Erudite defector, is hit and has to be left behind.

Whom must Tris fight in the simulation that guards the door to Jeanine's laboratory in Insurgent?

A copy of herself matches every move, so Tris looks for the one difference between them: she is the desperate one, and that lets her do what the double cannot.

Which Dauntless friend who shaved her head to look tougher dies after Insurgent's battle at Erudite?

Lynn had shaved her head so that the Dauntless boys would take her seriously in initiation. Dying, she admits she had long been in love with a friend.

How do the factionless seize control from their allies once Erudite has fallen in Insurgent?

They disarm the Dauntless first: by the time the new order is announced, every gun in the lobby is in factionless hands and their allies have none.

What does the factionless leader announce in Insurgent as soon as Erudite has been defeated?

The factions are abolished on the spot, which appalls a Dauntless leader who fought beside her and never knew that this was the plan.

In the video that ends Insurgent, what are the city's people told to do once the Divergent become numerous?

Unlock the gates for good and end the city's isolation: the speaker says it was sealed off in the hope that its people would rediscover their morals.

Which novel, told partly from Tobias's point of view, follows Insurgent to complete the trilogy?

Allegiant splits the narration between Tris and Tobias for the first time. Its film version was planned as two parts, but the second part was never made.

Which actress plays Tris Prior in the Insurgent film, as she does throughout The Divergent Series?

Shailene Woodley leads all three films in the series, and here shares scenes with Ashley Judd, who returns as Tris's dead mother inside a simulation.

Which Oscar-winning actress returns as the Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews in the Insurgent film?

Kate Winslet's Jeanine meets a different end on screen: she is taken prisoner first and killed in her cell, not in her laboratory as in the novel.

Which English actor plays Tobias, the Dauntless instructor known as Four, in the Insurgent film?

Theo James plays Four across all three films. The character's nickname comes from having just four fears, the fewest any Dauntless initiate had shown.

In which American city, far from the story's setting, was most of the Insurgent film made?

Atlanta doubled for the ruined city, with the Amity compound built at a community south of town. Only one July weekend was spent filming in the story's real setting.

Which Erudite defector gives Tris's group its rebel label in Insurgent, then falls during the break-in?

Fernando defines the label as people who act in opposition to authority. Crossing last, he drops his glasses, and gunmen who react to movement hit him.

What do the factionless insist on doing with all of Erudite's data once the faction falls in Insurgent?

Destroying it is a condition of the alliance Tobias agrees to, along with an equal place in the next government. Tris comes to fear what else would be lost.

What color armband marks the Dauntless traitors who have sided with Erudite in Insurgent?

Blue is Erudite's own color, so the traitors wear it on their arms. Tris takes an armband from a dead traitor to pass unnoticed during the raid on Candor.

Insurgent won which prize for young adult fantasy and science fiction, as did both other books of the trilogy?

Goodreads Choice Award wins went to all three novels in successive years, and Insurgent's also came with the site's author-of-the-year title.

Edith Prior, the woman in the video that ends Insurgent, says she is giving up which birth name?

Amanda Ritter explains that she is about to enter the city herself, accepting false memories and a new name. Tris shares the surname she chose.

After Tobias re-runs his fear landscape in Insurgent, which new fear has replaced shooting an innocent woman?

Watching Tris die now sits where the old fear did, though the total stays at four. His bloodied knuckles tell her that he has just been through it again.

Which distinction does the Insurgent film hold among the three films of The Divergent Series?

Highest worldwide gross, at about $297 million, even though it earned less than the first film in North America and opened slightly lower.