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Quiz about Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Quiz

This is a quiz on the trilogy in five parts, but it only covers the first four books. This is because I did not like the fifth book in the trilogy (it depressed me for days after reading it) and I refuse to read it again. Good luck, and have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by pele. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
pele

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
59,258

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
17 / 25

Plays
4826

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 84 (25/25), malama (17/25), Guest 86 (16/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. Who wrote 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 2 of 25

2. If you encountered the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, why would you wrap a towel around your head? Hint

So you won't have to watch it eat you

Because the Bugblatter Beast will see it as a sign of respect

Because if you look it directly in the eye, you will turn to stone

Because it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you

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Question 3 of 25

3. What was the official reason for the demolition of the planet Earth? Hint

It was the wrong colour

It was a boring planet

It had served its purpose and was superfluous

To make way for a hyperspatial express route

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Question 4 of 25

4. What colour is the traditional sash of the President of the Galaxy?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 5 of 25

5. Where did The Heart of Gold go after rescuing Arthur and Ford when they were thrown into space by the Vogons? Hint

Ursa Minor Beta

Squornshellous Zeta

Viltvodle VI

Magrathea

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Question 6 of 25

6. What did Slartibartfast receive an award for designing? Hint

Fake dinosaur fossils

Equatorial Rainforests

Fjords

Tundra

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Question 7 of 25

7. What is the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question? Hint

Yes

Forty - two

Infinity

It's for me to know and you to find out

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Question 8 of 25

8. What is (was) the third most intelligent form of life on the planet called 'Earth'? Hint

Frogs

Mice

Humans

Dolphins

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Question 9 of 25

9. Who did Zaphod tell himself to go and see at 'Megadodo Publications'? Hint

Zarniwoop

Marvin

Roosta

Gargravarr

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Question 10 of 25

10. What does the entire intelligent population of Oglaroon live in? Hint

A petri dish

The clouds

A fissure in a cave

A crowded nut tree

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Question 11 of 25

11. According to the book, what did Zaphod THINK he saw when he went into the Total Perspective Vortex? Hint

His own future

Arthur Dent, who had been selected to replace Zaphod as President of the Galaxy

That he was a really terrific and great guy

All of his ancestors, who didn't want to see him, and so sent him back

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Question 12 of 25

12. What job did Marvin have at Milliways? Hint

Attendant Flunkey

Chef

Parking spaceships

Waiter

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Question 13 of 25

13. Whose ship did Zaphod steal out of the Milliways parking lot? Hint

Hotblack Desiato's

Reg Nullify's

Max Quordlepleen's

Gag Halfrunt's

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Question 14 of 25

14. What did two thirds of the population of Golgafrincham die of? Hint

Their planet was knocked into a black hole during a game of ultra - billiards

They were eaten by a mutant star goat

A virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone

They were stung by a swarm of twelve foot piranha bees

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Question 15 of 25

15. According to scrabble letters pulled randomly out of a bag by Ford and Arthur, what is apparently the Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer? Hint

How many roads must a man walk down?

What is the number of the wind?

What is the measure of a man?

What do you get when you multiply six by nine?

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Question 16 of 25

16. Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged's purpose was to '________' the Universe.

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 17 of 25

17. Agrajag accused Arthur of the crime of multiple '________'.

Answer: (One Word - the name of a crime)

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Question 18 of 25

18. What did Slartibartfast, Ford and Arthur have to present at the longest and most destructive party in history to be let in? Hint

A bottle of retsina

Avocado dip

A cheese ball

A music tape

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Question 19 of 25

19. What was the best way to deal with a Silastic Armorfiend of Sriterax? Hint

Make him punch a sack pf potatoes for forty five minutes a day

Pulverize his spaceborne computer

Make him fight a war in the Gamma Caves of Carfax

Put him in a room on his own, because sooner or later he would simply beat himself up

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Question 20 of 25

20. Who was manipulating the people of Krikkit? Hint

Deep Thought

Hactar

The Milliard Gargantubrain

Gag Halfrunt

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Question 21 of 25

21. What Recreational Impossibility did Arthur master? Hint

Flying

Getting the Brantisvogan Civil Service to acknowledge a change of address card

Walking through mountains

Writing a poem worse than those of the Vogons

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Question 22 of 25

22. How many times did Marvin save Zaphod's life? Hint

Five

None

Four

Sixteen

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Question 23 of 25

23. What was physically odd about Fenchurch? Hint

She had gills

She had naturally blue hair

Her feet didn't touch the ground

She had two heads

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Question 24 of 25

24. How many times older than the Universe did Marvin claim to be at the end of 'So Long and Thanks for All the Fish'? Hint

Four

Twenty - three

Ten

Thirty - seven

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Question 25 of 25

25. What was God's final message to his creation? Hint

We apologise for the inconvenience

Be nice, clear your ice

Well, that was waste of time. Go home.

Hey, what were you expecting? A rose garden?

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who wrote 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?

Answer: Douglas Adams

2. If you encountered the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, why would you wrap a towel around your head?

Answer: Because it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you

'A mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very very ravenous'.

3. What was the official reason for the demolition of the planet Earth?

Answer: To make way for a hyperspatial express route

That of course was just an excuse. . .

4. What colour is the traditional sash of the President of the Galaxy?

Answer: Orange

5. Where did The Heart of Gold go after rescuing Arthur and Ford when they were thrown into space by the Vogons?

Answer: Magrathea

6. What did Slartibartfast receive an award for designing?

Answer: Fjords

The fjords of Norway, to be exact. Lovely crinkly edges.

7. What is the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question?

Answer: Forty - two

8. What is (was) the third most intelligent form of life on the planet called 'Earth'?

Answer: Humans

The most intelligent is (was) mice, who arranged for the Earth to be built as a giant computer designed to tell them the Ultimate Question, and as part of the matrix, ran sophisticated experiments on humans, who thought they were experimenting on the mice. Second most intelligent is (were) dolphins, who left the Earth by their own means shortly before its destruction.

9. Who did Zaphod tell himself to go and see at 'Megadodo Publications'?

Answer: Zarniwoop

Zarniwoop was on an intergalactic cruise in his office at the time. Zaphod met Roosta instead, and traveled with him to Frogstar World B, where Zaphod encountered Gargravarr, a disembodied mind in charge of the Total Perspective Vortex.

10. What does the entire intelligent population of Oglaroon live in?

Answer: A crowded nut tree

The only Oglaroonians who ever leave their tree are those who are hurled out of it for the heinous crime of wondering whether the other trees might be capable of sustaining life.

11. According to the book, what did Zaphod THINK he saw when he went into the Total Perspective Vortex?

Answer: That he was a really terrific and great guy

He was in an artificial universe at the time.

12. What job did Marvin have at Milliways?

Answer: Parking spaceships

13. Whose ship did Zaphod steal out of the Milliways parking lot?

Answer: Hotblack Desiato's

Of Disaster Area - the biggest, loudest, richest rock band in the history of history itself. The ship turned out to be his stunt ship, whose only purpose was to perform a Sun Dive during a concert. Zaphod also wrote Hotblack's name on their Milliways bill.

14. What did two thirds of the population of Golgafrincham die of?

Answer: A virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone

This was because they tricked the other third of the population, including the telephone sanitisers, into leaving the planet.

15. According to scrabble letters pulled randomly out of a bag by Ford and Arthur, what is apparently the Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer?

Answer: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?

I know that six times nine is NOT 42. Please don't write to tell me it doesn't make sense - I'm going by what the book says.

16. Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged's purpose was to '________' the Universe.

Answer: insult

Individually, personally, one by one and in alphabetical order.

17. Agrajag accused Arthur of the crime of multiple '________'.

Answer: Murder

Through some cosmic accident Arthur managed to kill poor Agrajag in whatever life he entered into, throughout time and no matter what planet he was born on. Agrajag gradually became aware of this through many incarnations, and got really annoyed abut it, eventually deciding to build his Cathedral of Hate in which he would kill Arthur, whom he called 'you multiple me murderer'!

18. What did Slartibartfast, Ford and Arthur have to present at the longest and most destructive party in history to be let in?

Answer: A bottle of retsina

Which Arthur had bought, and lost, on a trip back from Athens in his personal past timeline.

19. What was the best way to deal with a Silastic Armorfiend of Sriterax?

Answer: Put him in a room on his own, because sooner or later he would simply beat himself up

20. Who was manipulating the people of Krikkit?

Answer: Hactar

He was trying to make up for not destroying the universe for the Silastic Armorfiends of Sriterax.

21. What Recreational Impossibility did Arthur master?

Answer: Flying

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

22. How many times did Marvin save Zaphod's life?

Answer: Four

The first time was when Marvin accidentally caused the cops' support ship to commit suicide on Magrathea, the second when the Frogstar robots were looking for Zaphod, the third when the Krikkit robots invaded The Heart of Gold, but kept knocking Zaphod out instead of killing him, and the forth was when he prevented another robot from killing him in the Krikkit War Computer hookup room.

23. What was physically odd about Fenchurch?

Answer: Her feet didn't touch the ground

She could fly too - but didn't realize it until she met Arthur.

24. How many times older than the Universe did Marvin claim to be at the end of 'So Long and Thanks for All the Fish'?

Answer: Thirty - seven

'Because of the silly little missions you organic life forms keep sending me on . . .'

25. What was God's final message to his creation?

Answer: We apologise for the inconvenience

Source: Author pele

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