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How Much Do You Know About the Show ‘Yellowstone’?

Take our quiz to test your knowledge of the Dutton dynasty

Jayme Deerwester,

AARP

Published November 11, 2022

10 Questions

Scheming rancher-turned-politician John Dutton (played by Kevin Costner) and his Yellowstone clan return to Paramount on Nov. 13 for Season 5, and you can catch up on past seasons on Peacock. Test your knowledge of Dutton family drama, but don’t worry if you don’t get a high score — nobody’s being taken to the train station over this quiz!

How Much Do You Know About the Show ‘Yellowstone’?

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 "question" : "Which Yellowstone ranch ritual is roughly equivalent to becoming a made man in the mafia?\n",
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 "answer" : "Having to ride an unbroken stallion during the first year of service",
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 "answer" : "Having to personally slaughter a steer and cook it for the rest of the ranch hands",
 "correctAnswer" : false
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 "answer" : "Getting branded with the Yellowstone Y",
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 "answer" : "Having to spend the night in the field with the buffalo wearing only underwear",
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 "explanation" : "Being branded means the ranch hand has taken a vow of absolute loyalty to the ranch, kind of like the mob’s omertà. Many of the brand’s bearers had a criminal or troubled past and were given a second chance at life at the ranch. Early in the first season, Jimmy (played by Jefferson White), who comes from a criminal family, is offered a choice between the brand or being turned in to the cops for his latest transgression.\n",
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 "question" : "You might wind up here if you cross the Dutton family:\n",
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 "answer" : "Pine Barrens",
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 "answer" : "Belize",
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 "answer" : "Going to the Sun Road",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "The train station",
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 "explanation" : "When there are enemies to shoot and bodies to get rid of, there’s only one place to go: the “train station,” a cliff overlooking a steep ravine in a remote area just over the Wyoming border. The Dutton family has done away with its foes in this area for the past century. The plot point is believed to be a reference to the Zone of Death, an unoccupied 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park within Idaho where someone could theoretically get away with murder because of a constitutional and jurisdictional loophole.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "How did John Dutton’s wife die?\n",
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 "answer" : "Car accident",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "She was shot",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Horseback riding accident ",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Suicide",
 "correctAnswer" : false
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 "explanation" : "We learn in flashback scenes in Season 1 that John’s wife Evelyn died when she was thrown from a horse while out riding with two of her children, Beth and Kayce.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Kayce (played by Luke Grimes) is a former member of what elite military unit?\n",
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 "answer" : "Recon Marines",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Green Berets",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Navy SEALs",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Delta Force",
 "correctAnswer" : false
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 "explanation" : "Kayce is a decorated Navy SEAL, though he isn’t willing to disclose much of what he did to get some of those medals.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "True or false: Ranch hand Rip Wheeler (played by Cole Hauser) is John’s illegitimate son.\n",
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 "answer" : "True",
 "correctAnswer" : false
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 "answer" : "False",
 "correctAnswer" : true
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 "explanation" : "Rip was an adolescent when he came to the ranch after killing his abusive father, and eventually got branded. He does become John’s son-in-law, however, when he marries Beth at the end of Season 4.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Throughout the show’s run, other characters have been scheming to take over the Dutton's land. What do they plan to do with it?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Build a resort on it",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Return it to the Broken Rock reservation",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Turn it into an airport",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "All of the above",
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 "explanation" : "Land developers have been sniffing around the ranch since the pilot, when we met Dan Jenkins (played by Danny Huston), who was trying to expand his Paradise Valley housing development. After he was killed, a real estate investment firm and hospitality company bought Jenkins’ land and attempted to build a resort and put an airport on the Yellowstone ranch site. Meanwhile, Chief Rainwater (played by Gil Birmingham), head of the Confederate Tribes of Broken Rock, intends to buy back former tribal land using proceeds from the reservation's casino.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Josh Holloway’s character, Sawyer, survived all six seasons on the show “Lost” but he was killed off on “Yellowstone” during the Season 4 premiere. How did his character, Roarke Morris, die?\n",
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 "answer" : "Beth shot him",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "He was bitten by a rattlesnake",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "He was held underwater and drowned while fly fishing",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "He was taken to the train station",
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 "explanation" : "Roarke, who could often be found fly fishing on Dutton property when he wasn’t trying to buy up land, was bitten by a rattlesnake in the Season 4 premiere. And it didn’t just swim up and bite him, by the way. Rip carried it up to Roarke’s favorite fishing spot in a cooler and threw it at him. Even Sawyer, Holloway’s reformed con man character on “Lost,” would find that cold!\n",
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 "question" : "Which one of these characters is played by a British actor?\n",
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 "answer" : "Beth",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Kayce",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Jamie",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Rip",
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 "explanation" : "Kelly Reilly, who plays the ferocious Beth, is from the London suburb of Chessington.\n",
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 "question" : "True or false: We’ve never seen a woman get branded on the show.\n",
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 "answer" : "True",
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 "answer" : "False",
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 "explanation" : "Teeter (played by Jen Landon) received her brand in Season 3.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "This country music star plays James Dillard Dutton, John’s great-great-great-grandfather and the founder of the ranch in flashbacks and in the “Yellowstone” prequel “1883.”\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Dwight Yoakam",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Tim McGraw",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Luke Bryan",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Billy Ray Cyrus",
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 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Tim McGraw plays Dutton, and his real-life wife, Faith Hill, plays his spouse, Margaret.\n",
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Jayme Deerwester is an editor and writer with two decades of experience at USA TODAY, where she covered entertainment, travel, personal finance and technology. When not in front of a computer, she can be found rowing, kayaking or playing with her dog.

How Much Do You Know About the Show ‘Yellowstone’?

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