Divergent Trivia
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This Divergent trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and covers the whole series, from Beatrice Prior's aptitude test to the last pages of Allegiant and the film that never got made. There are questions about the five factions and their virtues, Dauntless initiation, Four's fear landscape, Jeanine Matthews and the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, plus the short-story collection told from Tobias's point of view. The movies get equal time: Shailene Woodley and Theo James, the supporting cast, the directors, budgets, box office and why Ascendant was scrapped. There is also some Veronica Roth backstory, including how a debut novel written over winter break became a 35-million-copy franchise. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer was verified against the source material, so this is safe territory for book club and movie night arguments alike.
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Q 01Who wrote the Divergent trilogy?
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth wrote Divergent on a college winter break, and a publisher quickly bought it along with two sequels.
Q 02In which post-apocalyptic city is Divergent set?
Chicago
Chicago, and the first film was shot almost entirely in the city, though the sequel moved its production to Atlanta.
Q 03In Divergent, at which annual event do most sixteen-year-olds end up staying in the faction they were born into?
The Choosing Ceremony
The Choosing Ceremony: the aptitude test only advises, so anyone may still pick a different faction from the one it suggests.
Q 04In Allegiant, which friend is left brain-damaged by a bomb set off by the rebels Four has joined?
Uriah
Uriah never wakes from his coma, and his brother Zeke and their mother are at his side when his life support is switched off.
Q 05In Divergent, who administers Beatrice's aptitude test and warns her never to tell anyone her results?
Tori
Tori: Beatrice's results pointed to three factions at once, the mark of a Divergent, and those in power hunt Divergents down.
Q 06Which faction does Beatrice's brother Caleb choose, shocking his family?
Erudite
Erudite, and that faction then pointed to children leaving the ruling faction, Caleb among them, as proof its leaders were corrupt.
Q 07In Divergent, what waits at the bottom of the dark hole new initiates must jump into from a rooftop?
A net
A net, and the first to jump is Beatrice, who gives her new name when the instructor Four helps her out of it.
Q 08In Divergent, what does the initiation instructor's numeric nickname refer to?
The number of his fears
The number of his fears: no other Dauntless initiate had so few, so his own instructor started calling him by the number.
Q 09What is Four's real first name?
Tobias
Tobias Eaton, who switched factions at sixteen to escape his abusive father, Marcus.
Q 10Which faction leader masterminds the simulation attack on Abnegation?
Jeanine Matthews
Jeanine Matthews injects Four with a serum that makes him see friends as enemies, then sets him to run the attack from the control room.
Q 11In the Insurgent film, what found in the wreckage of Abnegation can only be opened by a Divergent?
A box
A box, and Tris gets it open only by making it through the simulations it puts her in.
Q 12Which friend is Tris forced to kill in self-defense during the attack?
Will
He is under the simulation and does not know her. Christina, his girlfriend, learns the truth in Insurgent under truth serum.
Q 13In Divergent, what is the final test of Dauntless initiation?
The fear landscape
The fear landscape: Four even lets Tris walk through his own, which is where she learns his real name.
Q 21In Divergent, what is the city's motto about lifetime allegiance?
Faction before blood
Faction before blood: a faction is meant to outrank family for life, which is why Tris and Caleb both leaving shocks their parents.
Q 22Who plays Marcus Eaton, the council leader accused of abusing his son, in the Divergent films?
Ray Stevenson
Ray Stevenson; the reports that Marcus abused his son, first dismissed as smears, turn out to be true.
Q 23What organization do Tris and her friends discover beyond the city's fence in Allegiant?
The Bureau of Genetic Welfare
Q 14What is the fate of the initiates who fail Dauntless initiation?
They become Factionless
They become Factionless and live as outcasts doing menial work, yet by Allegiant the Factionless rule the city.
Q 15Which publisher released Divergent in 2011?
HarperCollins
HarperCollins, which kept the author on after the trilogy ended and in 2018 announced it would publish two more of her books.
Q 16At which school was the author studying creative writing when she wrote Divergent?
Northwestern
She spent a year at Carleton College before transferring. Publishing rights sold before she graduated in 2010.
Q 17In Allegiant, which city does Tris learn her mother Natalie originally came from, outside the fence?
Milwaukee
Milwaukee: Natalie's journal reveals she was a refugee there before volunteering to live inside the walled city as part of the experiment.
Q 18Who plays Eric, the ruthless leader who trains the initiates, in the Divergent films?
Jai Courtney
Jai Courtney; in the novel Insurgent, the Dauntless condemn Eric to death and Four carries out the sentence.
Q 19Who plays Jack Kang, the leader who tests Tris and Four with truth serum, in the Insurgent film?
Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel Dae Kim; the serum clears the pair, but what Tris confesses under it strains her friendship with Christina.
Q 20Who plays Evelyn, Four's mother, in the Insurgent and Allegiant films?
Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts, whose Evelyn had faked her own death years earlier and left her son behind with his abusive father.
The Bureau of Genetic Welfare, whose leader David reveals the city is an experiment to breed out the genetic damage behind the Purity War.
Q 24In Allegiant, Tris takes over what suicide mission from her brother Caleb?
Exposing the memory serum
Exposing the memory serum: Tris survives the death serum guarding the lab, but David shoots her, and she dies of her wounds.
Q 25Who plays Tris in the Divergent films?
Shailene Woodley
Shailene Woodley, who trained in fighting and gun handling with the film's stunt coordinator to play the role.
Q 26Which British actor plays Four?
Theo James
Theo James landed the role after Jeremy Irvine, Lucas Till and Alex Pettyfer were reportedly in the running for it.
Q 27Which Oscar winner plays the villain behind the attack in the Divergent films?
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet was five months pregnant during the shoot, so she was framed holding a file or briefcase to hide the bump.
Q 28Who directed the first Divergent film?
Neil Burger
Neil Burger, who dropped out of the Uncharted adaptation to make Divergent and then missed the sequel because he was still finishing the first film.
Q 29Who plays the initiate suspected of stabbing Edward in the eye in the Divergent films?
Miles Teller
Miles Teller; the attack on Edward was about grabbing the top spot in the initiation rankings, which his character then takes.
Q 30Which actress plays Christina in the Divergent films?
Zoë Kravitz
Zoë Kravitz; her Christina at first cannot forgive Tris for killing her boyfriend.