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The Infinite Improbability Drive | The Starship Heart of Gold is powered by what fantastic device? |
Space. | What is "Big. Really big. You can’t begin to imagine how big (this) is" |
Forty-Two | What is the answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and Everything? |
So long and thanks for all the fish | What was the last message from the dolphins before they left Earth? |
Trisha MacMillan | What was Trillian’s full name? |
Mostly harmless | After its revision by Ford Prefect, what was Earth described as being in the Guide? |
The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal | The Vogans wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own mothers from what creature? |
Don’t Panic | What is written on the Guide’s cover, in large, friendly letters? |
false | True or false: In Mostly Harmless, Ford uses an Infinidim Card for his purchases. |
In all the diodes down his left side. | Marvin has a chronic pain located where? |
Eddie | What was the name of the computer on board the Starship Heart of Gold? |
A Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster | Drinking what is like “having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.” |
Agrajag | What creature is doomed to be killed over and over by Arthur Dent? |
Zarquon | What prophet appears in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe? |
Fenchurch | Who is Arthur Dent’s soulmate? |
They ride off on Perfectly Normal Beasts | How do Arthur and Ford escape Lamuella? |
Bistromathics | What computational force was a major step up from the Infinite Improbability Drive? |
Oolon Colluphid. It should be noted that leading theologians have called his work “a load of dingo’s kidneys.” | What philosopher uses the existence of the Babel Fish as proof of the non-existence of God? |
Random Frequent Flyer Dent | What was the full name of Arthur Dent’s daughter? |
Throwing yourself at the ground and missing. | According to the Guide, what is the key to flying? |
Private brain care specialist | What was the occupation of Gag Halfront? |
A cat. It is named, The Lord | The Ruler of the Universe keeps what as a pet? |
The Campaign for Real Time | After leaving Magrathea, who does Slartibartfast work for? |
Wowbagger, the infinitely prolonged | Who makes it his mission to insult every being in the universe, in alphabetical order? |
The Almighty Bob | What deity is worshipped by the people of Lamuella? |
Go stick your head in a pig | When the three mile high illuminated letters spelling out the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Department Company Motto ("Share and Enjoy") sunk nearly halfway into the ground on the planet Eadrax, what did the protruding upper halves of the letters appear to spell out in the local language? |
They can see into the future | What unusual power are Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporters equipped with? |
He was dead. | What was the extrapolative heart of the Total Perspective Vortex? |
The Great Prophet Zarquon | Who made a surprise, last-minute appearance at Milliway's? |
Gray | What color are Frogstar Fighters in the real universe? |
Lemon-soaked paper napkins | When he was on Frogstar world B, Zaphod Beeblebrox found a Transtellar Cruise ship that had been keeping its passengers in suspended animation for nine hundred years, while it awaited restocking of a certain type of supplies. What supplies was it waiting for? |
The starship Heart of Gold | When he was brought to Ursa Minor Beta, Zaphod discovered a heavy, metal object in his pocket. What did this object turn out to be? |
Disaster Area | What was the name of Hotblack Desiato's rock band? |
The Old Pink Dog | When he first appears in the book, Ford Prefect is recklessly causing trouble in a bar on the lower south side of Han Dold City. What was this bar called? |
Commies! | The first familiar face Arthur saw when he got back to Earth was No-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, named for the President of the United States. What word was used to drive this dog into a frenzy? |
Inexplicably yellow | In his Guide entry for Earth, how did Ford Prefect describe the air in Los Angeles? |
Feet | What part of Fenchurch's body is very unusual? |
They brought tape players. | Arthur and Fenchurch spent their first night together flying over London in various states of undress and ...erm... linkage. The next night, they did the same thing, but with what difference? |
Nachos | Wonko the Sane claimed that angels were in the habit of visiting him; what food product, that they couldn't get where they were from, did the angels like to eat? |
Our Lizard | Ford returns to Earth by stowing away on a flying saucer. Soon after it lands, a huge robot emerges. What does it ask to be taken to? |
Casablanca | When our heroes were on the huge robot's ship, heading away from Earth, Ford Prefect finally got to finish a movie that he thought had been forever lost with the destruction of Earth. This movie was the reason that he had returned to Earth; what was it? |
We apologize for the inconvenience | What was God's final message to his creation? |
False | True or false?: During his long life (he ended up 37 times older than the Universe itself), every part of Marvin's body was replaced at least fifty times. |
The Cathedral of Chalesm | Which religious place was irreversibly removed from existence through careless time travel? |
Punching sacks of potatoes | The Silastic Armorfiends of Stritterax used to work off excess aggression by doing what? |
Hurling Frootmig | According to most surviving accounts, who founded the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? |
That it's dull | While at the flying party, Slartibartfast made a profound observation about space. What was this observation? |
Giraffe | Ford Prefect spent some time in prehistoric Africa, where he took up cruelty to animals as a hobby. He claims to be single-handedly responsible for the evolved shape of which animal? |
An irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch and a pair of rubber bands | The unfortunate accident that was responsible for Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged's immortality involved which three items? |
Sandwich maker | What was Arthur Dent's job on Lamuella? |
Prak | What was the name of the man who literally told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? |