50 Fun Facts About The Scorch Trials

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what are the Flare victims who besiege the Gladers' dormitory called?

Cranks were ordinary citizens before the Flare took hold, and the Gladers later strike a bargain with a band of them inside a ruined city.

Which American author wrote The Scorch Trials as the second novel in his Maze Runner series?

James Dashner published it in October 2010, a year after The Maze Runner, and the film version reached cinemas in September 2015.

Which actor, first known as Stiles in Teen Wolf, plays Thomas in the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Dylan O'Brien was seriously hurt in an accident on the set of the following sequel, which pushed that shoot back by about a year.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, how does a frightened Teresa wake Thomas shortly before the dormitory is attacked?

Teresa reaches Thomas by telepathy, an ability the pair turn out to share with Aris, the stranger found in her room soon afterwards.

Which novel follows The Scorch Trials and completes the original Maze Runner trilogy?

The Death Cure reveals that most of the Gladers were immune to the Flare all along, and that no remedy for it exists.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what kills several Gladers as they cross open desert toward a ruined city?

A lightning storm catches the group on open ground, and the survivors take shelter in the building where they first meet Jorge.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, Aris says he escaped a second Maze whose other subjects were all what?

Teenage girls made up Group B, a mirror image of the Gladers, who had been all boys until Teresa was sent up to join them.

Which actor, famous as Gus Fring in Breaking Bad, plays Jorge in the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Giancarlo Esposito signed on in early October 2014, less than a month before the cameras started rolling.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what nickname do the Gladers give the WICKED official who announces their next test?

Rat Man earns the name from his looks, and only the next book reveals him to be Assistant Director Janson.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, the Flare, the plague every Glader is told he carries, attacks which organ?

The brain is where the Flare does its damage, slowly stripping away a victim's reason until nothing recognisably human is left.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, which Glader attacks Jorge and is nearly executed before Thomas talks Jorge round?

Minho had insulted Jorge first and been kicked for it, and Thomas saves his friend's life by offering Jorge a deal.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what portal, open for only five minutes, carries the Gladers into the Scorch?

A Flat Trans is so costly in the Maze Runner world that nobody later believes the Gladers' story of how they reached the desert.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what kills two Gladers in the pitch-dark tunnel on the way into the desert?

Blobs of liquid metal drop onto the boys' heads in the dark and close around them, and a third victim survives only because Thomas claws one off.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, the tattoo found on Newt's neck gives him which role within the group?

The Glue is WICKED's label for Newt because he holds the others together, one of several tattoos that assign each subject a part to play.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, the sign outside Teresa's empty bedroom gives her which title?

The Betrayer is the title WICKED hangs on Teresa, and after an alarm sounds the same sign changes to name Aris instead.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what keeps the starving Gladers from reaching the WICKED official at a desk?

An invisible forcefield surrounds the man while he calmly sits reading, so the boys can do nothing but wait for him to speak.

At the start of the novel The Scorch Trials, whose bodies do the Gladers find in the common area before they vanish?

Their rescuers from the end of The Maze Runner lie dead, yet every body is gone without a trace when the boys look again.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, how do scraps of Thomas's life before the Maze start coming back to him?

Thomas pieces the past together from his dreams, reliving moments with Teresa such as the two of them eavesdropping on WICKED staff.

Which British actress, first known as Effy Stonem in Skins, plays Teresa in the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Kaya Scodelario grew up in a Portuguese-speaking home in London, years before she joined the franchise as its female lead.

Which director, who made his feature debut with The Maze Runner, returned for the sequel The Scorch Trials?

Wes Ball went on to direct the whole trilogy, having won the first job on the strength of an animated short called Ruin.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what do strangers force on Thomas and Brenda at a party before both pass out?

A drugged drink leaves both of them reeling, and Thomas's sharp rejection of Brenda while under its influence sours things between them.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what does Thomas call the short, handsome stranger who shoots him with a rusty bullet?

Blondie fires as the Gladers burst in to free their friends, and he takes a beating from one of them moments later.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, where on his body does a gunshot leave Thomas with a dangerous infection?

The shoulder wound turns so septic that WICKED flies in to operate, proof to the Gladers that Thomas matters to its plans.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what name is given to the WICKED flying craft that lifts the wounded Thomas away?

A Berg returns at the end of the book to pluck the survivors out of a battle with WICKED's monsters.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, messages written all over the ruined city tell Thomas that he is what?

The real leader is what the signs call Thomas, even though WICKED's tattoos had handed that job to another Glader.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, Brenda guides Thomas through tunnels linking the city's buildings known as what?

The Underneath is crawling with the infected, and the pair have to fight off several of them before climbing back to street level.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, Brenda, the second-in-command of Jorge's group, comes from which country?

Canada is where Brenda grew up, a very long way north of the scorched city in which the Gladers find her alongside Jorge.

In the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which resistance group in the mountains do the Gladers set out to find?

The Right Arm is led in the film by Vince, who almost shoots Brenda on sight when he notices that she has been bitten.

Which Irish actor, Littlefinger in Game of Thrones, plays the WCKD official Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Aidan Gillen was the first new face announced for the sequel, cast in September 2014 as the man who runs the facility sheltering the Gladers.

Which US state hosted the shoot for the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials from October 2014?

New Mexico supplied the desert locations around Albuquerque, a switch from the first film, which had been shot in Louisiana.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, which weapon does Teresa strike Thomas with when Group B takes him prisoner?

A spear butt knocks Thomas to the ground, after which Group B bundle him into a bag and drag him across the desert for hours.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, which best friend of Aris was killed as Group B escaped its Maze?

Rachel shared with Aris the same silent link that joins Thomas and Teresa, and her killing mirrors the loss of Chuck in the first book.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, Teresa and Aris force Thomas through a glowing green door in a cave into what?

A gas chamber knocks Thomas out, and Teresa later insists the whole ordeal was staged on WICKED's orders to keep him alive.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what do the Gladers find at the spot where the safe haven should be?

A flag on a stick is all that marks the spot after a 100-mile trek, and the true way out only arrives once a final fight is under way.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, how can the faceless creatures that attack near the safe haven be killed?

By smashing their bulbs, the lights that stud each body, the Gladers and Group B bring the monsters down one at a time.

At the end of the novel The Scorch Trials, Thomas wakes up cut off from his friends in what kind of place?

A plain white room holds Thomas in isolation while, he is told, his friends hear that the Flare has claimed him.

The epilogue of the novel The Scorch Trials takes the form of an email written by which WICKED chancellor?

Ava Paige writes that WICKED will soon tell the subjects which of them are immune to the Flare, after letting every one of them fear the worst.

Which actress, later the star of Alita: Battle Angel, plays Brenda in the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Rosa Salazar pulled off a dystopian double in 2015, also appearing in The Divergent Series: Insurgent that same year.

Which studio bought the Maze Runner novels for the screen and released The Scorch Trials in cinemas?

20th Century Fox began work on the sequel almost a year before the first film had even opened, a sign of its faith in the series.

In the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, what is the infected Winston left with when the Gladers move on without him?

A loaded gun lets Winston end his life on his own terms, the morning after a scratch from one of the infected sealed his fate.

In the Maze Runner novels such as The Scorch Trials, what does the letter K in WICKED stand for?

Killzone is the organisation's own word for the part of the body the Flare attacks, the thing its trials exist to study.

The author of The Scorch Trials earned a master's degree in which subject at Brigham Young University?

Accounting came first: he took the degree in Provo, Utah, and did not publish his first novel until 2003.

Which fantasy series did the author of The Scorch Trials launch in 2008 with The Journal of Curious Letters?

The 13th Reality won him the 2008 Whitney Award for youth fiction, before The Maze Runner reached bookshops in 2009.

In the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, where are the escaped Gladers hiding when the infected first attack them?

A shopping mall, long abandoned, becomes the scene of a frantic chase, and one Glader leaves it with a fatal scratch.

Which Game of Thrones actress plays Harriet of Group B in the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Nathalie Emmanuel had a busy 2015, playing the hacker Ramsey in Furious 7 in the same year as her Maze Runner debut.

Which Johnny Depp crime film did Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials beat to top the US box office on opening weekend?

Black Mass opened the same weekend but finished behind the sequel, which took in just over $30 million.

Which actor, later the voice of K-2SO in Rogue One, plays the double-dealing Marcus in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?

Alan Tudyk's character poses as a rebel while quietly working for WCKD, until Jorge beats the truth out of him.

In the flashback that opens the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, who hands the young Thomas over to WCKD?

His mother gives him up so that he will survive, and the boy grows up inside the very organisation that later puts him in the Maze.

Which film had every US IMAX screen booked in September 2015, keeping Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials off them?

Everest had taken the IMAX screens for a week-long preview run, so the sequel went out on other large-format screens instead.

In the novel The Scorch Trials, what does Teresa do when Thomas finds her alone in a desert building?

She kisses him and then begs him to get away from her, after artificial screams had drawn the Gladers to the building.