📚 Three-Body Reading Challenge for Advanced Fans

📚 Advanced Three-Body Challenge

Think you know everything about Three-Body? Try these advanced questions.

1. What was the original title of the Three-Body trilogy that Liu Cixin considered?

2. How many times did Liu Cixin rewrite Chapter 1?

3. What is Ding Yi's research field?

4. Which real historical figure appears in the Three-Body game?

5. What is the name of the ship that escaped the Doomsday Battle first?

6. What was the "Staircase Program" originally supposed to send besides a human brain?

7. Why did Luo Ji choose the specific star he broadcast as his "curse"?

8. What was the name of the QY member who first received the Trisolaran message?

9. How many Wallfacers had Wallbreakers assigned to them?

10. What was the "Great Ravine" and how long did it last?

11. Some fans believe the Returners are actually the Trisolarans. Why?

12. Is Zhang Beihai technically a Wallfacer? Why or why not?

13. If the Dark Forest theory is wrong, what's the alternative explanation for the "Great Silence"?

14. Was Cheng Xin's choice at the end of the deterrence era inevitable?

15. What happened to the Trisolaran fleet after their homeworld was destroyed?

Check the bottom of this post for the answer key. But don't cheat — try to answer from memory first!

1. "Earth's Past" or "Cosmic Sociology"

2. Seven times

3. Theoretical physics

4. Qin Shi Huang (Emperor), Von Neumann, Newton, etc.

5. Natural Selection, under Captain John Grant

6. A complete human body (but the technology couldn't keep the body alive, so only the brain was sent)

7. A star visible from Earth that he could verify was destroyed

8. QY was founded by Evans, but the first human to receive the signal was Ye Wenjie

9. Three — Luo Ji was the only Wallfacer without a Wallbreaker

10. A period of societal collapse after the Doomsday Battle

11. The theory is that the Trisolarans, having suffered from chaos for billions of years, would be the most motivated to "reset" the universe

12. He acted like one — hiding his true intent for twenty years — but was never officially appointed

13. The "Zoo Hypothesis" — advanced civilizations are watching us without interacting

14. The novel strongly suggests yes — her character was the only choice that would lead to deterrence failure

15. The fleet became homeless, wandering the universe, and is mentioned as having been destroyed or scattered