Following on from the Hitchhiker’s Guide Trivia Quizzes I did for Towel Day 2020 and 2021, here’s another to celebrate Towel Day, 25May2022!
The answers will be published later on today (at 22:10:10 UTC) in a password-protected post (here). You can find clues to the password by reading the four posts in the 2020 quiz.
Q1: How long did it take for the ‘B’ ark to make the journey from Golgafrincham to Earth?
Q2: What family relationship is Zaphod to Ford?
Q3: For what serious offense do they tend to lock you away in some planet’s stone age and tell you to evolve into a more responsible lifeform?
Q4: What, according to a poll in Playbeing Magazine, is the hippest place in the galaxy?
Q5: What is Lintilla’s profession?
Q6: When Zaphod slips in the cold and mysterious cave, what expression does he use?
Q7: How many of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging when Grunthos the Flatulent recited his poem “Ode to a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning”?
Q8: From which planet did Zaphod Beebrox originate?
Q9: How do Ford and Arthur cope with being stranded on prehistoric Earth?
Q10: How late was the Trans-stellar Spacelines ship that Ford and Zaphod find in the derelict spaceport?
Q11: When thinking of ways to describe what Zaphod is making of his life, what phrase tends to spring to the mind of Zaphod’s great grandfather?
Q12: What can you stick in your ear to instantly understand anything in any form of language?
Q13: Who writes poetry to throw his mean, callous, heartless exterior into sharp relief?
Q14: What degrees does Trillian hold?
Q15: What, in the local language, do the protruding upper halves of the motto of the Syrius Cybernetics Complaints Division read?
Q16: Through what three phases does every major galactic civilization pass?
Q17: Which three words are given as examples of those now acceptable in common usage?
Q18: Where was Arthur Dent’s house?
Q19: Which Shakespearean play did the infinite number of monkeys come up with?
Q20: How many small black ships come to visit The Man in the Shack?
Q21: The Haggunenons of Vicissitus III will quite frequently evolve several times over lunch. Why might one evolve into something with long arms that’s incapable of drinking coffee?
Q22: In which sector of open space did the Heart of Gold pick up Arthur and Ford?
Q23: What two names does the captain of the Arcturan megafreighter use to acknowledge the messages from traffic control on the approach to Ursa Minor Beta?
Q24: What is Zaphod’s solution to the situation in which the Vogons attack the Heart of Gold?
Q25: What colour are Lintilla’s little Evening Class pills?
Q26: How long was Ford Prefect on the Earth (the first time around)?
Q27: Who came up with the theory that somewhere there was a planet entirely given over to biro life forms?
Q28: What is the title of the compendious tome by Werdle Sneng, which is far too large to carry but sits magnificently on fashionable coffee tables?
Q29: What is small, yellow, leech-like and probably the oddest thing in the universe?
Q30: What, according to Zaphod, are the chances of falling onto a swutting big bird?
Q31: According to an ancient Arcturan proverb, at what speed does the soul travel?
Q32: Use of what device causes Lintilla to run even though nobody is pursuing?
Q33: Did Arthur Dent’s dog get brushed on the Thursday the Earth was demolished?
Q34: Where did Trillian learn the technique of ‘splitting the flight path tangentially across the summit vector of 9GX78 with a five degree inertial correction’?
Q35: How does Deep Thought describe the Milliard Gargantubrain at Maximegalon?
Q36: What was the fate of the Golgafrinchans who weren’t on the ‘B’ ark?
Q37: When Arthur and Ford find themselves back on Earth before it was destroyed, how far in the past are they?
Q38: How many tourists visit Bethselamin every year?
Q39: How does the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation define a robot?
Q40: What caused Arthur Dent’s words to spark a war between the Vl’hurgs and the G’Gugvuntts?
Q41: What has experience shown to be the most effective way of dealing with any Haggunenon you may meet?
Q42: The computer known as the Earth was destroyed before it was able to determine the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. How long before?
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