James Corey Trivia

1. Instead of cell/mobile phones, people in "The Expanse" used what?

From Quiz "The Expanse" Series Trivia [3]

Answer: Hand terminals

A hand terminal is the same as a modern smartphone, but with a more appropriate name. People use them as small computers more frequently than as communications devices.

From Quiz "The Expanse" Series Trivia [2]

Answer: With hand gestures

Belters lived close to vacuum, either in spaceships or space stations. They developed a way to communicate using obvious hand gestures because head movements could not be seen when wearing a spacesuit. Even outside of the suits, Belters would nod and shake their fists instead of their heads.

From Quiz The Expanse 9.5: The Sins of Our Fathers

Answer: The town was in the monsters' migration path

The monsters were as tall as buildings and could flatten the town's walls made from ship hulls. They were not violent, but would trample. The goal of the defence team was to deflect the rampaging monsters around the town, not to stop or kill any of them. The defenders used torches to scare the monsters.

From Quiz The Expanse 9: Leviathan Falls [2]

Answer: The Lighthouse and the Keeper

The lighthouse was the Ring Station, and Duarte finally took control of it, becoming the keeper. He would keep the dark entities at bay, stopping their attacks and Dutchman events.

From Quiz The Expanse 9: Leviathan Falls [1]

Answer: She had secret transgressions

Laconia had harsh punishments (the death penalty was applied more widely than on other colonies). Tanaka figured the two ways to survive in such a society were to either buy in completely, or to allow some hidden transgressions. Tanaka went with the second option, taking great pride in her ability to appear like an ideal Laconian officer. Her personal transgressions were affairs with junior officers.

From Quiz The Expanse 8.5: Auberon

Answer: Soil Science

Auberon could support outdoor farming of Earth crops, which was rare among the colony worlds. Life from the two biospheres seemed to just ignore each other when they came into contact. Scientists on Auberon were studying farming on Auberon to see if it could be replicated on other colony worlds. This is why Mona, who had a PhD in soil science, was sent to Auberon.

From Quiz The Expanse 8: Tiamat's Wrath [2]

Answer: A dancing bear

Holden explained to Theresa that old kings would have tamed dangerous animals to display at parties as a way to show power. There would be an obvious danger, but the king would not be afraid, implying just how powerful he was. Usually, though, the dancing bear was the least dangerous thing at the court. It was everyone else the kings had to watch out for.

From Quiz The Expanse 8: Tiamat's Wrath [1]

Answer: Chrisjen Avasarala, former leader of the U.N.

Chrisjen Avasarala was an important character in "The Expanse". She became the head of the U.N. during the worst disaster Earth had ever seen, and saw through the crisis with aplomb. She died of old age at her home on Luna. So of course Laconia would not let an opportunity slide to co-opt her legacy. Avasarala had a state funeral and a mausoleum built on Laconia (even though it was the Laconians who were responsible for the calamity that defined Avasarala's reign). Holden, as an unwilling guest on Laconia, got to catch up with old friends at the funeral, who had been invited now that the war was over.

From Quiz The Expanse 7: Persepolis Rising [1]

Answer: Three decades

The time skip between "Babylon's Ashes" and "Persepolis Rising" was the largest in the series, at about three decades. Humanity experienced mostly peace between the two books, letting Earth rebuild itself after Marco's attacks, and letting the new colonies develop. The Rocinante's pilot, Alex Kamal, got married, had a child, and got divorced in those thirty years. His son, Kit, was 20 years old, entering upper university, and was looking to make Alex a father-in-law. More than any other colony, Laconia built its technology and its military, but they did so in secret. They were finally ready to rejoin the rest of humanity as its new leader.

From Quiz The Expanse 6.5: Strange Dogs

Answer: 10 years old

Cara was ten-and-a-half Earth years old. She had been born in a spaceship just before her parents landed on Laconia. But she had only experienced three summers because Laconia's year was different from Earth's. Her younger brother Xan was born on Laconia.

From Quiz The Expanse 6: Babylon's Ashes [2]

Answer: His white whale

The white whale is a reference to the 1851 novel "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, in which Captain Ahab relentlessly pursues the titular white whale. When Marco called Fred Johnson his white whale, Rosenfeld said that Marco had obviously not finished the book. In "Moby-Dick", Captain Ahab got himself and most of his crew killed in his pursuit of his white whale.

From Quiz The Expanse 6: Babylon's Ashes [1]

Answer: Sam Rosenburg, chief engineer

Sam was the Tycho Station mechanic who would fix the Rocinante between jobs. In "Abaddon's Gate," she was brought on to the OPA battleship Behemoth, along with Pa. She and Pa began a secret relationship that was not revealed to the reader until "Babylon's Ashes," after Sam had been executed by Captain Ashford.

From Quiz The Expanse 5.5: The Vital Abyss

Answer: Basic

Basic Assistance (often called "basic") was the UN's welfare program for people who did not want to work, or who could not find work. Minimal housing, sustenance, and medical care were provided, and people on basic filled their time with entertainment feeds and games. If a UN citizen wanted to pursue higher education, they needed at least one year of work credits to prove their work ethic and ambition so educational resources would not be "wasted" on people who would not use them. Even though the technology existed to automate most jobs, human servers, chefs, and bartenders were still prevalent because young people were getting their work credits.

From Quiz The Expanse 5: Nemesis Games [1]

Answer: To steal stealth technology

Marco Inaros, Filip's father, was preparing to reveal his new Free Navy. He was going to do so after making attacks on the UN, the Martian Congressional Republic, and Fred Johnson's faction of the Outer Planets Alliance. To pull off his ambush, he needed the latest stealth technology from the Martian labs. After stealing the technology, rocks struck the base on Callisto to cover their tracks, so no one outside of the Free Navy knew that anything had been stolen.

From Quiz The Expanse 4: Cibola Burn [2]

Answer: They had both worked with Detective Miller.

In "Leviathan Wakes", the first novel of "The Expanse", Detective Miller's partner at Star Helix Security was Havelock. Havelock quit Star Helix when Ceres Station became unsafe for non-Belters. Later in the book, Miller met up with the Rocinante crew to find Julie Mao, and then her killers. Havelock helped the group by providing the location of the secret Thoth Station.

From Quiz The Expanse 4: Cibola Burn [1]

Answer: Ilus

In Greek mythology, Ilus was the brother of Ganymede. The original colonists on Ilus were refugees from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede. By the end of "Cibola Burn", Ilus would be the name that stuck, and New Terra would fall out of use. Krypton was Superman's home planet from "Superman" media. Gallifrey was the Doctor's home planet in the "Doctor Who" series. Dune was the planet on which most of the plot of Frank Herbert's "Dune" took place.

From Quiz The Expanse 3.5: The Churn

Answer: Baltimore

Baltimore was in the same location as the current Baltimore, but with a changed coastline due to rising ocean levels. In "Abaddon's Gate", the third novel in "The Expanse" series, Clarissa picked up her fake ID in Baltimore.

From Quiz The Expanse 3: Abaddon's Gate [2]

Answer: Sam had been the Rocinante's mechanic on Tycho.

The crew of the Rocinante had worked more than a year for Fred Johnson's OPA based out of Tycho Station. Whenever they needed repairs, Sam was the one who fixed the ship. The crew was quite fond of Sam, with Holden once joking to Alex, "You and Amos just trade this crush back and forth?" In "Caliban's War", when Holden and Naomi paused their relationship, Naomi stayed with Sam on Tycho.

From Quiz The Expanse 3: Abaddon's Gate [1]

Answer: When Holden was alone

The protomolecule still had a link to Holden, and would try to alter his perception to make Miller appear to him. The protomolecule was struggling just to get its version of Miller to be coherent to Holden, and its program would "crash" once someone else was in the room. It could not map on to two people, or accommodate the added input from another human. The result was that the protomolecule would only try to make Miller appear when Holden was alone, and if someone else showed up, Miller would immediately vanish. Holden was spooked by the visits and tried to spend time near other people as often as possible to prevent them.

From Quiz The Expanse 2: Caliban's War [2]

Answer: Prax lured it out with bait.

The cargo bay doors hadn't been able to close because the monster was in the way, so the bay was already in vacuum when Holden and Amos went to get rid of the monster. Protomolecule fed on radiation. When the protomolecule hybrids were not being directed, the acted predictably. The one in the Rocinante's cargo hold saw Amos and Holden, but only lashed out in response to Amos trying to shoot it with his auto-shotgun. It then went back to scratching its way through the Rocinante towards the reactor core. Prax realized it was trying to move up a radiation gradient. The crew rigged up a fuel pellet in a canister, and sent Prax out onto the hull to release it. Prax threw it by the cargo airlock, and the monster leaped out after it. The Rocinante then burned up the monster in its drive plume.

From Quiz The Expanse 1.5: The Butcher of Anderson Station

Answer: In a bar on Ceres Station

Fred was recognized throughout the Belt. Hanging out alone in a bar on Ceres was just asking for trouble, and in fact, that was what Fred was looking for. He got excited when he saw some tough looking Belters who looked like they might start a fight. He was caught off guard when, instead, they put a bag over his head and dragged him away.

From Quiz The Expanse 1: Leviathan Wakes [1]

Answer: Havelock was an Earther.

People who grew up in low gravity were often taller and slimmer than those who grew up "down the well". When a shorter, stockier Earther went to a place like Ceres station, they stood out, and often suffered both quiet and overt racism. A lot of Earthers were also racist towards Belters, but Belters could not easily travel down to Earth's surface. Havelock was from Earth, but his boss, partner, and the people he was charged to protect were all Belters. Shaddid did not care for anyone from the inner planets, and it did not help that Star Helix was an Earth-owned company. She gave Havelock the worst assignments, did not offer any opportunity for career advancement, and partnered him with the detective who nobody else wanted to work with. Havelock was a good, hard-working detective, but had never been systemically disenfranchised before.

From Quiz The Expanse 2.5: Gods of Risk

Answer: Bobbie was David's aunt.

Bobby Draper was staying with her brother, who was David's father. She spent her days at the apartment lifting weights, and watching the news about the negotiations between Earth and Mars. David's parents worked away from the apartment, so it had been easy for him to smuggle things through without questions. With his aunt Bobbie there, he had to be a lot more discreet.

From Quiz "The Expanse" Series Trivia [3]

Answer: Going Dutchman

Naomi Nagata figured out that the ring gates would make ships disappear if there was too much energy in the system. Ships moving faster or with more mass had more energy. If a threshold was exceeded, then the transiting ship would disappear. The system needed time to "cool down" between transits. The Transport Union was set up to regulate traffic through Ring Space.

From Quiz "The Expanse" Series Trivia [2]

Answer: The Mars Congressional Republic

Solomon Epstein was a Martian engineer who bought a small used yacht to tinker with. He created a new drive so good that the unexpected acceleration crushed him and he wasn't able to reach the safety cutoffs. Luckily he'd left plans on his home computer for other people to find. His story was told in the short story "Drive".

From Quiz "The Expanse" Series Trivia [1]

Answer: Tachi

A tachi is a Japanese sword. Fred Johnson gave James Holden a code so the ship could be renamed, and Holden chose "Rocinante," referring to the old horse from "Don Quixote." Even years after acquiring the Rocinante, the crew still had jumpsuits and mugs with "Tachi" stenciled on them.

From Quiz The Expanse 9.5: The Sins of Our Fathers

Answer: Jumping atop and riding a monster

The goal was to keep the monsters out of the town, but if any got in, a magnetic cannon was supposed to fire. One monster did get through, but there was no cannon fire, so Jandro chased down the monster, got atop it, and steered it into the town's plaza where it would do the least damage until the cannon was fixed and able to kill the monster.

From Quiz The Expanse 9: Leviathan Falls [2]

Answer: Kit Kamal, Alex's son

Kit was traveling to the Nieuwestad system with his wife, Rohi, and son, Bakari. They were going to start a new life in the colony. As they moved through the gate from the Sol system, the dark entities started moving through the matter of the ship, cutting holes and scattering it. When Duarte undid the event, it was likened to stirring the cream back out of coffee.

From Quiz The Expanse 9: Leviathan Falls [1]

Answer: Find High Consul Duarte

In the previous novel, Winston Duarte was reduced to simpleton during an attack by the dark beings that had destroyed the ring gate builders. In the prologue of "Leviathan Falls", Duarte put himself back together, then left the Laconia state building (just walked off the grounds). Trejo tasked Tanaka with finding the High Consul. She was given Omega Status, which gave her access to all information and let her enlist the aid of any ships or resources she wanted. She had the largest blank cheque possible. She tried following Duarte's trail on Laconia, but it disappeared. Tanaka decided to track down Theresa Duarte, his daughter, to use as bait instead.

From Quiz The Expanse 8.5: Auberon

Answer: Major Overstreet from "Perseoplis Rising" (book 7)

"Auberon" took place shortly after "Persepolis Rising", the seventh novel in the series. Major Overstreet was the former head of security for Santiago Singh, the Laconian governor assigned to Medina Station. When Singh wanted to pursue particularly harsh measures against the population of Medina for resisting, Overstreet shot the governor. Biryar knew Overstreet's history, which made him uneasy.

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