Happy Towel Day 2021!

Following on from the Hitchhiker’s Guide Trivia Quiz I did for Towel Day 2020, here’s another to celebrate Towel Day, 25May2021!

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: Who invented the pan-galactic gargle blaster?

Q2: In which year was fit the second repeated through a time warp on the Home Service?

Q3: How did Trin Tragula’s wife berate him, 38 times a day?

Q4: What alias did Zaphod Beeblebrox adopt when he went to a party in Islington?

Q5: What are the names of the Golgafrinchan-descendants who escape the destruction of Planet Earth?

Q6: What has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation?

Q7: Which division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the only part to show a consistent profit in recent years?

Q8: How long did Ford Prefect originally intend to stay on the Earth?

Q9: What dessert does Arthur leave unfinished when they leave Milliways?

Q10: How many suns does Magrathea have?

Q11: Who was Marvin’s first and only true friend?

Q12: What are the names of the mice who make a deal with Zaphod Beeblebrox?

Q13: How many legs does an Arcturan Megadonkey have?

Q14: What does the skipper of the Golgafrincham ‘B’ ark believe that one is never alone with?

Q15: Who is the custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex?

Q16: What three things are said, by most of the people engaged in such matters, to be the basis of the attitude that a disproportionate obsession with purely academic or abstract matters indicates a retreat from the problems of real life?

Q17: Marvin works out that he can electrocute himself. How?

Q18: In the rankings of intelligent beings on the Earth, where does the human race place?

Q19: The history of warfare is divided into three phases. What are they?

Q20: What can be harmful if swallowed in large quantities?

Q21: How often are coffee and biscuits served aboard the Trans-stellar Spacelines ship that Ford and Zaphod find in the derelict spaceport?

Q22: What are the initials of the author of the very worst poetry of all?

Q23: What was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’?

Q24: What is the name of the Heart of Gold’s shipboard computer?

Q25: Who tells 41% of the stories of Zaphod Beeblebrox’s journey to the Frogstar?

Q26: What is the designation of the leader of the ‘avian perverts’?

Q27: How do Ford and Arthur flag down a logically non-existent spaceship?

Q28: How does Arthur save the Heart of Gold from the Magrathean missiles?

Q29: How long would Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz be able to survive with no ill effects at sea depths of up to 1000 feet?

Q30: What is one of the most important statements of Trillian’s life?

Q31: How many arms does Zaphod have?

Q32: How long has Slartibartfast been asleep?

Q33: What is the favourite pastime of the hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings known as ‘mice’?

Q34: What is the most totally evil place in the galaxy?

Q35: When Trillian, Zaphod and Marvin are eaten by the Haggunenon Admiral in the form of a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, how did they escape?

Q36: Who accuses Arthur of having as much grasp of multi-temporal causality as a concussed bee?

Q37: Dentrassi cooks always welcome hitchhikers; partly because they like the company, but mostly because… what?

Q38: The only accurate account of Zaphod’s journey to the Frogstar is locked in a trunk in the attic of Zaphod’s favourite mother, whose name is…?

Q39: On what planet did two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fall the first time the Heart of Gold crossed the galaxy?

Q40: How does the Hitchhiker’s Guide characterise the mere idea of someone falling from a cold and mysterious cave 13 miles above ground level onto, say, the back of an extremely large passing bird?

Q41: Which race invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel?

Q42: What does Ford offer the barman as payment for six pints of beer?

Post your score in the comments :)

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Postscript: A friend mentioned the text adventure game. On a hunch, I went looking and found it online. I died in 26 turns with a paltry score of 10/400. Can you do better? :)