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Quiz about The Hitchhikers Trilogy Books 1 through 3

The Hitchhiker's Trilogy -- Books 1 through 3 Quiz

This quiz is on the first three books of the Hitchhiker's Trilogy. (There are five books total.) Have fun and good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by LordBehemoth. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
LordBehemoth

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
65,191

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

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2627

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What race blows up the Earth? Hint

Vogons

Earthlings

Krikkiters

Brikneligans

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the name of the Paranoid Android?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 3 of 10

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

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Ford Prefect

Arthur Dent

Some guy at a party

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Question 4 of 10

4. What world manufactures planets? Hint

Magrathea

Krikkit

Earth

Vogsphere

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Question 5 of 10

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

Magrathea

Vogsphere

Earth

Krikkit

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Question 6 of 10

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

Loonquawl and Phouchg

Lunkwill and Fook

Vroomfondel and Majikthise

Arthur and Zaphod

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the name of the computer that computes the Ultimate Answer? Hint

ENIAC

Milliard Gargantubrain

Pondermatic

Deep Thought

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Question 8 of 10

8. What is the knack to flying? Hint

Throw yourself at the ground and miss

There is none

Jump really high and grab a passing cloud

Swing from a star, and then let go

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Question 9 of 10

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

Answer: (One Word (begins with M - no apostrophe))

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Question 10 of 10

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

Ford Prefect

Trillian

Marvin

Zaphod Beeblebrox

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What race blows up the Earth?

Answer: 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.

2. What is the name of the Paranoid Android?

Answer: Marvin

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

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

Answer: 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.'"

4. What world manufactures planets?

Answer: 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.

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

Answer: Krikkit

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

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

Answer: 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.

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

Answer: Deep Thought

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

8. What is the knack to flying?

Answer: Throw yourself at the ground and miss

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

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

Answer: Milliways

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

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

Answer: Zaphod Beeblebrox

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

Source: Author LordBehemoth

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