The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trivia

1. Where was Arthur Dent's friend, Ford Prefect, from?

From Quiz How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down?

Answer: A small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse

From when he had first arrived on Earth fifteen years before, the non-ape descendant had tried hard to fit in. He claimed to be an out-of-work actor which worked well but he had made one mistake. His research had shown that 'Ford Prefect' would be a suitably inconspicuous name. He did have a habit of gatecrashing university parties, getting drunk and making fun of astrophysicists, but he was generally regarded as a harmless eccentric.

From Quiz The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Answer: Arthur Dent

Arthur Dent is a 6-foot-tall ape descendant from the planet Earth. The parallel between Arthur's situation and that of Earth seems lost on this carbon based life form.

From Quiz Are You a Real Hitchhiker?

Answer: Thursday

At the beginning of the book, Arthur wakes up and sees bulldozers trying to knock his house down. Then, his friend Ford tells him that the Earth is about to be demolished, which leads him to say "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

From Quiz The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Answer: Fifteen Years

Ford had originally only intended to stay for a week, but got stranded for fifteen years. Although he does explain how he got to Earth, it isn't made entirely clear exactly how he got stranded.

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

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.

From Quiz Life, the Universe, and Everything

Answer: Go mad

Arthur found that life in prehistoric Earth was getting unbearable so he would go mad to give himself a break.

From Quiz So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!

Answer: The Old Pink Dog

Ford was attempting unsuccessfully to pay for a vast drinks bill with an American Express Card. He was nearly beaten to death by a disembodied arm while having his throat torn out by a savage bird, but at the last moment he saved the day by offering to do a write-up for the bar in the Guide.

From Quiz Life, the Universe and Everything

Answer: An irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch and a pair of rubber bands

"The precise details of the accident are not important because no one has ever managed to duplicate the exact circumstances under which it happened, and many people have ended up looking very silly, or dead, or both, trying."

From Quiz Hitchhiker's Guide: Don't Panic

Answer: Peanuts

He had had the three pints of beer beforehand to cushion his system. Matter Transference Beams can be rough.

From Quiz Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhiker' Series, Part I

Answer: "That's the most thoughtful or intelligible thing anyone's said to me all day."

"'I like the cover. "Don't Panic." That's the most thoughtful or intelligible things anyone's said to me all day."-"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Actually, in the Hitchhiker's Guide Adventure Game, the commands "panic" and "don't panic" are recognized- along with several other apparently useless but perfectly hysterical commands.

From Quiz The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Answer: President of the Imperial Galactic Government

"The President in particular is very much a figurehead-he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to desplay are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controverial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but draw attention away from it."

From Quiz Hitchhiker's Guide

Answer: tulips

He tried to think of the proportion of the Earth's tulips that grow round windmills.

From Quiz Brushing Up On the Hitchhiker's Guide

Answer: Don't Panic!

Until Ford Prefect took Arthur Dent off of his home planet, no Earthman had ever heard of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The book is highly successful and is basically surpassing another popular title, "Encyclopedia Galactica".

From Quiz Hitchhiker Time: A Guide to the Galaxy, Part 6

Answer: Trillian

Zaphod disguised his two heads by placing a birdcage over one, told Trillian he was from a different planet and asked her to come with him.

From Quiz Hitchhiker Time: Who Am I?

Answer: Marvin

Marvin the paranoid android. He has a brain the size of a planet, but is always told to do menial things.

From Quiz Hitchhiker Time: A Guide to the Galaxy Part 4

Answer: five

Ford and Arthur try to talk him out of taking them to the airlock, but don't succeed.

From Quiz Hitchhiker Time: A Guide to the Galaxy Part 3

Answer: It means there is trouble on the ship which he can get angry about.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz is always looking for something to get angry about.

From Quiz Hitchhiker Time: A Guide to the Galaxy Part 2

Answer: President

Zaphod is the President of the Imperial Galactic Government, he steals the "Heart of Gold."

From Quiz Hitchhiker Time: A Guide to the Galaxy Intro

Answer: Far out in the uncharted backwaters...

The introduction talks about the little insignificant world called earth, and the inhabitants' obsession with digital watches.

From Quiz "Hitchhiker's Guide" Quote Quiz

Answer: Arthur Dent

Personally, I can't get the hang of Mondays. But having the world actually come to an end is bound to ruin anyone's day.

From Quiz Hitchhiker's Guide

Answer: Tea

In the second book, Arthur gets frustrated and teaches the Nutrimatic how to make tea, thus tying up all the ship's circuits so it won't respond to any other commands.

From Quiz Hitchhiker's Trilogy: Books 1, 2, and 3 II

Answer: 11

This is stated on the cricket grounds after Slartibartfast appears.

From Quiz Ultimate 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Quiz

Answer: The Lord & Lord & 'The Lord' & 'Lord'

'My cat,' said the man benignly, picking it up and stroking it. 'I call him The Lord. I am kind to him.'

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

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.

From Quiz 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Answer: Douglas Adams & Adams & Doug Adams

From Quiz 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Quiz

Answer: Thursday

From Quiz Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Answer: Betelgeuse 5

Ford's father was from Betelgeuse 7, but Ford himself was actually born on Betelgeuse 5.

From Quiz Death to All Humans!

Answer: The ability to understand every language in the universe

The Babel Fish is a little yellow fish that automatically translates any language that the user hears, by means of a telepathic matrix which it feeds into the user's mind. The Guide states that, like the tower after which it was named, it has caused much chaos. Ford has one of his own, and has to shove the Babel Fish into Arthur's ear so that Arthur can understand the announcement the Vogons are making over their tannoy system. (Incidentally, there is a web translator named after the fish, and a fun game to play is to use it to translate song lyrics into various languages and back again.)

From Quiz How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down?

Answer: Ford Prefect

Ford Prefect had, in the satchel that he carried about his neck, a Sub-Etha Sens-o-matic which advised him that the Vogon fleet was about to visit Earth. Ford was a roving researcher for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and he had been stranded on the Earth for fifteen years, waiting for a spaceship to come and take him off.

From Quiz The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Answer: Ford Prefect

Ford is in fact a researcher for the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" who came for a week, but was stranded for fifteen years. His guise as an out of work actor meant nobody thought it odd that he never worked for a living.

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