Quotes From "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Quiz

Answer: Vogon Captain

He says this just after giving the order to "energize the demolition beams," in response to humans being too lazy to visit Alpha Centauri to see the planning charts and demolition orders. After all, it's only four light-years away.

Answer: Marvin the Paranoid Android

When they are aboard the Haggunenon command ship, Ford suggests that the Haggunenons are very clever and are trying the confuse them to death. Marvin, of course, had to reply to this suggestion.

Answer: Zaphod Beeblbrox

This is one of Zaphod's funniest lines, in my opinion. He says this to get Eddie the shipboard computer to open the exit hatch after landing on the planet Magrathea.

Answer: Vroomfondel

Vroomfondel and Majikthise were the philosophers who didn't want Deep Thought to give the ultimate answer, because they thought it would put them out of a job. Instead, they argued about the answer for the rest of their lives and became the most famous philosophers ever.

Answer: Slartibartfast

When explaining to Arthur about the Earth, namely that it was just a giant computer to calculate the Ultimate Question, Slartibartfast mentions that it was destroyed five minutes too early. He replies with this comment when Arthur asks about that.

Answer: Gag Halfrunt

Gag Halfrunt was Zaphod's private brain care specialist, and says this about Zaphod a couple of times. Yooden Vranx was the previous President before Zaphod and Ford was of course his semi-cousin (who shares three of the same mothers as Zaphod). Veet Voojagig was a student who was obsessed with missing ballpoint pens, and there is a Guide entry about him.

Answer: Ford Prefect

He says this when Arthur questions drinking three pints of beer at lunchtime. Arthur then suggests that Ford should send that statement to Reader's Digest, because "they've got a page for people like you."

Answer: Arthur Dent

This is Arthur's line during the discussion between Ford and Zaphod as to whether or not the planet they are approaching really is Magrathea. This leads into a narrator speech where it is revealed in advance that the planet is in fact Magrathea and that the characters will survive the upcoming missile attack.

Answer: Trillian

When Ford and Arthur are waiting in the number 2 entry bay, Trillian is counting down the current improbability levels. She says this line after the improbability level reaches 1 to 1, meaning normality.

Answer: Arthur Dent

Arthur says this line after discovering the question in his brainwave patterns was, in fact, the wrong question. The answer was forty-two, but the question in his brain was "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" which in fact equals fifty-four.