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Dirk Gently's Holistic Quiz

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Dirk Gentlys Holistic Quiz game quiz
"This quiz is about 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' and 'The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul', the two Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Trilogy. Enjoy!"

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1. What color did the Electric Monk believe everything to be?
    orange
    pink
    purple
    turquoise


2. What did Reg find in his bathroom?
    a rabbit
    a leopard
    a horse
    a burglar


3. What is Dirk Gently's real name?
    Svlad Cjelli
    Zaphod Beeblebrox
    Regis Chronotis
    Sven Petersen


4. What monarch instituted the Regius Professorship of Chronology?
    Prince Albert
    Richard III
    George III
    Elizabeth I


5. For what band did Richard play keyboards?
    The Reasonably Good Band
    The Not Terribly Good Band
    The Beatles
    The Very Good Band


6. What was the name of the researcher's cat?
    Erwin
    Bernice
    Pookie
    Tiger


7. Why did the researcher's cat run away?
    It wasn't getting fed often enough
    It was tired of being locked in a box and occasionally gassed
    It didn't want to be turned into a bowl of petunias
    The scientists were chasing her with a molecular rearranger


8. What was the name of Gordon's company?
    Gordon Way Enterprises
    Anthem Software
    WayForward Technologies II
    Reason Technologies


9. What did Richard have stuck halfway up the stairs to his flat?
    a horse
    a chair
    a sofa
    a grandfather clock


10. Whose flat does Richard break into?
    his own
    Gordon Way's
    Dirk Gently's
    Susan Way's


11. Gordon wanted to get an 'Armed Response' sign made up at the right height for who to see?
    raccoons
    burglars
    rabbits
    snakes


12. What was the name of Michael Wenton-Weakes' magazine?
    Reason
    Anthem
    Fathom
    Computing Today


13. For how many issues was Michael to be retained as editor of the magazine after his mother sold it to Gordon Way for a pound?
    one
    four
    three
    zero


14. Who replaced Michael as the editor of the magazine?
    Richard MacDuff
    A. K. Ross
    Coleridge
    Gordon Way


15. What is the address of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
    33 Peacock Street
    33a Peckender Street
    33 Pritchard Street
    33a Paladina Street


16. What was the title of the magazine article Richard wrote?
    'Modern Interpretations of Schrodinger's Cat'
    'Music and Fractal Landscapes'
    'The Stock Market and You'
    'The Symphony of Weather Patterns'


17. All of the pages between which two words were torn out of Dirk's dictionary?
    'cheese' and 'jukebox'
    'apricot' and 'xylophone'
    'herring' and 'marmalade'
    'armadillo' and 'herring'


18. What was the name of Dirk's secretary?
    Janice Pearce
    Jane Peterson
    Janie Pearson
    Kate Schechter


19. How many questions did George the Third ask?
    four
    one
    three
    two


20. What is a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae?
    Answer: (one word)


21. What would the I Ching calculator display if you typed in '2 x 1.5 '?
    'A Suffusion of Yellow'
    3
    xx1.5
    x3E x3E


22. Who writes the newspaper horoscopes?
    The Great Zapoodle
    The Great Zaboda
    The Great Zaganza
    The Great Zambezi


23. What is Kate's main complaint about London pizza parlors?
    There are too many of them
    Their pizza is stale
    They don't deliver
    There aren't enough of them


24. Whose head is found revolving on top of the record 'Hot Potato'?
    Mr. Alstein
    Mr. Ainsley
    Mr. Anstey
    Mr. Andrews


25. What does ARRGH! stand for?
    Aries Rising Record Group Holdings
    Albert Reiser Record Group Holdings
    Aquarius Rising Record Group Holdings
    It doesn't stand for anything

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