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What race blows up the Earth?

Vogons. The Vogons are a very unpleasant race. Vogon poetry ranks as the third worst poetry in the galaxy. They destroyed the Earth to make way for an interstellar bypass.

What is the name of the Paranoid Android?

Marvin. 'Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to get the door.'

Who said this: 'Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so'?

Ford Prefect. "'Very deep', said Arthur, 'you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.'"

What world manufactures planets?

Magrathea. The Earth was created by Magratheans to compute the Ultimate Question for the Ultimate Answer (which was already figured out). The Earth was destroyed before it could deduce the Ultimate Question.

What planet's night sky is the most uninteresting sight in the universe?

Krikkit. A cloud of dust envelopes the planet, making the sky completely black.

What two people first hear the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?

Loonquawl and Phouchg. Vroomfondel and Majikthise are philosophers, and Lunkwill and Fook first ask what the answer is, only to be told that it will take seven and a half million years.

What is the name of the computer that computes the Ultimate Answer?

Deep Thought. The second most powerful one that was ever or will ever be created... The Earth is the most powerful.

What is the knack to flying?

Throw yourself at the ground and miss. Something has to distract you enough so that you miss the ground and remain hovering.

What is the official name of the restaurant at the end of the Universe?

Milliways. 'Am I dead?' 'If sir were dead, I would not be trying to serve sir.'

Who said this: 'Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off'?

Zaphod Beeblebrox. He said this to a waiter at Milliways who was not very bright.

Who is the author of such philosophical blockbusters as 'Where God went Wrong' 'Some more of God's greatest Mistakes' 'Who is this God Person anyway?' and 'Well that about wraps it up for God'?

Oolon Colluphid.

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