Under The Dome Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chester's Mill

Chester's Mill abutted the town of Tarker's Mills, but the folks on the Tarker's Mills side were the luckier ones. There were many accidents involving the transparent Dome, as it was to be called, on that first day. A plane crashed into it and a truck ran into it, and some folks were trapped and killed by being right in the middle of the wall.

It was later explained by the military that it was more than just a dome. It appeared to them to be a force field capsule of sorts that rose thousands of feet high and extended about two miles below ground.

The people in town that day were not getting out easily, if at all. Tarker's Mills was the setting of the 1985 film "Silver Bullet", as well as Stephen King's story "Cycle of the Werewolf".

Answer: Dale 'Barbie' Barbara

Dale was former military and current short time cook in town. He'd been there for about six months when he was part of disturbance with the son of Second Selectman Big Jim Rennie. Junior Rennie was a devolving sociopath that had recently begun to experience agonizing headaches.

While most folks liked Dale 'Barbie' Barbara well enough, it never paid to be on the wrong side of Big Jim. Big Jim was the ruler of the town, though he laid most of his dirtiest deeds at the feet of his First Selectman Andy Sanders.

It was best that Barbie, as most folks called him, be on his way after being involved in an attempt to stop Junior from causing harm. He never made it out of town on that fateful October day, and much more was in store for him. He almost got a ride from a blonde woman he'd continue to be haunted by, as she had almost stopped for him. I described the Dome as arriving, as it was invisible and could not have actually appeared. Ben Mears was the protagonist in "Salem's Lot" (book and movie) and Lester Lowe was the werewolf in both movie and book by Stephen King- "Silver Bullet/Cycle of the Werewolf".

Answer: True

Julia was the reporter, editor and publisher of the town's local newspaper "Democrat". Although she was an admitted Republican, Barbie once mentioned she didn't exactly think like some Republicans he knew. Julia was as eager to help save the town as was needed in the situation.

She was bright, very aware, and knew that the Dome was not the only threat in town. She knew Big Jim was the town's most immediate danger. She managed to unite Barbie with Col. Cox on the outside. It was not long before Dale was forcibly re-enlisted and given an upgrade in rank. Though it was ordered so by President Obama, Big Jim could care less about the government's desire to have Col. Barbara now in command under the Dome. Though not completely specific on when this took place, it was after the 2012 reelection of Obama, as described by a local bumper sticker. Also mentioned were comparisons between 2011 and 2012 automobiles in a magazine read by Carter Thibodeau. Wikipedia lists Carter's death as Oct. 28, 2012, so one could assume this all took place in the final week of October 2012.

Answer: missiles

They sent two missiles at the Dome, and both failed. They created a huge fire in Tarker's Mill and a smaller one inside the Dome. Most everyone watched the missile attempt via a laptop computer feed set up by thirteen year old Joe McClutchy. Morale was low in town after that failed attempt.

It wasn't long after that the town had its first suicide. The man had lost his wife on Dome Day, and knew he couldn't live under the Dome without her. The second attempt to open the Dome was a corrosive agent, that not only did not work, but was absorbed by the Dome! A scheduled riot at Food City took place soon afterward, as did the suicide of Sammy Bushey. Big Jim scheduled and organized a riot to serve his purpose by putting key figures into place and ordering that the store be closed for the forseeable future.

Answer: murder

Junior Rennie killed Dodee Sanders and Angela McCain and afterward spent several days visiting the women inside the McCain pantry, whom he came to think of as his 'girlfriends'. The murders were brutal and the criminal treatment of their corpses that followed showed a man who appeared to be slipping into insanity. Big Jim, Second Selectman and father to Junior, committed two murders after Junior.

His were not crimes of passion, but of convenience. He killed Reverend Lester Coggins and Brenda Perkins to keep them quiet about his dirty dealings. Junior helped Big Jim cover up the murders and they convinced much of the town that Dale Barbara was the murderer.

They even planted Barbie's dog tags in the hands of one of the women. It did not take long for the people who knew Barbie closely to realize Big Jim had likely framed Barbie for the crimes.

Answer: The Chef

Phil Bushey was, indeed, the chef. He was the one cooking up all the crystal methamphetamine for Big Jim and his cohorts. He was holed up at the local bible thumping radio station (WCIK), leaving many townies believing he'd skipped town or even died. His wife, Sammy Bushey, hadn't seen him in six months, but his meth dealing cronies knew he was out there.

In his time out there, Phil 'The Chef' Bushey had begun to lose touch with reality. After the arrival of the Dome, many young people experienced what appeared to be Petit Mal seizures and mumbled about Halloween and pink stars. Phil Bushey, busy smoking his own product and being exposed to Dome related radiation, also talked of Halloween and Jesus coming back around that time frame.

When First Selectman Andy Sanders went out to the radio station to tell Phil about Sammy Bushey's suicide, he half expected/hoped Phil would kill him and he could go to Heaven and be with his wife and daughter. Sammy had murdered newly appointed law enforcement agents Frank DeLesseps and Georgia Roux, who'd been a part of the brutal attack on her at her home.

After she killed them, she took her own life. Phil seemed to calm in Andy's presence and came back to town to retrieve and bury his wife. While in town, he warned that he was dressing up as Jesus for Halloween and he was angry. Andy and The Chef bonded afterward, getting high on crystal (or glass as they also called it) and defending the supply on behalf of Christian soldiers everywhere. I think it's safe to say they both teetered on the edge of sanity.

Answer: Jackie Wettington

It was guessed by Eric "Rusty" Everett that Junior was suffering from a brain tumor, causing him to become psychotic/delusional. During Junior's brief hospital stay he decided he needed to kill his father and Dale Barbara. In the meantime, Jackie, Rusty and Linda Everett, Rose Twitchell, and Ernie Calvert organized a plan to break both Barbie and Rusty out of jail. Junior decided he'd kill Barbie first, and like the escape plan, he'd also take advantage of the big town hall meeting his father had scheduled for Thursday evening. Blame it on Junior's condition, or hand it to fate, both Rusty and Barbie escaped that night. Junior did kill several people in the police station, but not those two. Jackie descended into the lower level just as Barbie was most likely going to be killed, and she was able to get two bullets into Junior. One entered his lung and the other his heart.

The whole lot got out and headed to the McCoy farm to hide behind the radiation belt imposed by the aliens. Meanwhile, in the town hall...

Answer: Big Jim Rennie

Third Selectman Andrea Grinnell came to that meeting with the express intention of killing Big Jim. She'd spent the last several days going through a cold turkey style drug rehabilitation of her own doing. She'd agreed with Big Jim to assure her drugs would be handed out to her for the last time.

She'd become addicted to pain killers after a back injury, mostly because they dulled her unhappiness. She wanted the men of the town's government to hold no more leverage over her, so she rehabbed herself.

She found Duke Perkins' VADAR file on Big Jim in her house, with the help of Julia Shumway's dog Horace, and read it. Instead of handing it over to Julia as Brenda Perkins had instructed before her death, Andrea read it and decided fate had handed her the job of ridding Chester's Mill of the plague of Big Jim Rennie.

Unfortunately, she did not survive the night. Carolyn Sturges also died that night, October 26th, as she protected the lives of young Alice and Aidan Appleton. Her lover, Thurston Marshall, was devastated when he heard the news.

He joined the escapees out on the McCoy farm afterward.

Answer: No

He and Carter Thibodeau did make it inside the town's fall out shelter before the meth lab explosion got to them. Andy Sanders and Chef Bushey lived long enough to set off an extinction level explosion under the Dome. Between the meth making chemicals and the massive stores of propane, an inferno emerged and swept through the town.

A portion of the town was safe from the fire, but not from the poison air trapped within the Dome. Less than fifty people were alive 24 hours after the explosion. Carter began to see Big Jim for what he really was, while down in that fall out shelter.

He decided that their air supply may keep one person alive long enough for air to begin to clear outside, so he decided to execute Big Jim. Sadly, Big Jim was smarter than Carter and turned the tables on the younger man.

He killed Carter, and then died himself of what was most likely a heart attack.

Answer: Julia

The small group of heroes that had sought refuge out at the McCoy farm were forced to head to the very edges of the Dome after the fire. Col. Cox had taken the advice of Barbie and set up a line of massive fans outside the Dome. The fans, which would normally blow a person clear off of their feet, forced tiny amounts of fresh air in through the Dome.

The survivors, including the last remaining Dinsmore, huddled to the sides to try and inhale even the tiniest amounts. The air was fatally poisonous at this point and people were still dying. Julia knew they had no choice but to try and beg for their lives.

She took a hold of the unmovable box and her consciousness was swept inside the world of the bodiless alien beings. Only one of these aliens was present when she went in, and she was able to convince this creature that she and the citizens of Chester's Mill were real.

It took a moment to make the lone alien believe her, but she was finally able to do so. The Dome was lifted and the survivors walked into fresh air and freedom at last. Julia told Barbie that this would happen again someday, maybe not on Earth, but somewhere.