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# Record Name Category Subcategory 1 According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to t... Trivia Questions According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what is the best drink in existence? Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Betelgeusian Slammer Slippery Nipple 2 Algolian Suntiger Living Things Animals Algolian Suntiger Animal mentioned in the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipe. "Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink. Sprinkle Zamphuor. Add an olive." 3 Altairan Dollar Money Currency Altairan Dollar Currency. "Ford wished that a flying saucer would arrive soon because he knew how to flag flying saucers down and get lifts from them. He knew how to see the Marvels of the Universe for less than thirty Altairan dollars a day." 4 Antarean Parakeet Living Things Animals Antarean Parakeet Bird whose glands are sought after for cocktail delicacies. 5 Arcturan Megadonkey Living Things Animals Arcturan Megadonkey Deep Thought: "The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler could talk all four legs off an Arcturan MegaDonkey - but only I could persuade it to go for awalk afterwards." 6 Arthur Quotes Quotes Arthur Arthur: Ford! There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. 7 Arthur Quotes Quotes Arthur Arthur: This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. 8 Arthur & Ford Quotes Quotes Arthur & Ford Arthur: Ford. Ford: Yeah. Arthur: What's this fish doing in my ear? 9 Arthur & Ford Quotes Quotes Arthur & Ford Arthur: If you're a researcher on this book thing and you were on Earth, you must have been gathering material on it. Ford: Well, I was able to extend the original entry a bit, yes. Arthur: Let me see what it says in this edition then, I've got to see it. Ford: Yeah, okay. Arthur: It doesn't have an entry! Ford: Yes it does, down there, see at the bottom of the screen, just above Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6. Arthur: What? Harmless? Is that all it's got to say? Harmless! One word! 10 Arthur & Ford Quotes Quotes Arthur & Ford Arthur: What was that voice? Ford: I don't know. It sounded like a measurement of improbability. 11 Arthur & Ford Quotes Quotes Arthur & Ford Arthur: Who was that? Ford: Who- the man with the five heads and the elderberry bush full of kippers? Arthur: Yes. Ford: I don't know. Just someone. Arthur: Ah. 12 Babel Fish Living Things Fish Babel Fish A small, yellow and leech-like fish that if you stick it in your ear, allows you to instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. 13 Brockian Ultra Cricket Sports Sports Brockian Ultra Cricket Sport played many many millions of years ago a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings whose physical manifestation in their own pan-dimensional universe is not dissimilar to our own. 14 Damogran Frond Crested Eagle Living Things Birds Damogran Frond Crested Eagle Animal from the planet Damogran. "A government spider sidled up to him and attempted to press a copy of his prepared speech into his hands. Pages three to seven of the original version were at the moment floating soggily on the Damogran sea some five miles out from the bay. Pages one and two had been salvaged by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had already become incorporated into an extraordinary new form of nest which the eagle had invented. It was constructed largely of Papier-mache and it was virtually impossible for a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it." 15 Ford Quotes Quotes Ford Ford: It's a sort of electronic book. It tells you everything you need to know about anything. That's it's job. 16 Ford Quotes Quotes Ford Ford: Listen to me- I've got to tell you the most important thing you've ever heard. I've got to tell you now, and I've got to tell you in the saloon bar of the Horse and Groom. 17 Ford Quotes Quotes Ford Ford: Six pints of bitter, and quickly please, the world's about to end. 18 Ford Quotes Quotes Ford Ford: Teasers are rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them. 19 Ford Quotes Quotes Ford Ford: Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them. 20 Ford Quotes Quotes Ford Ford: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. 21 Ford & Arthur Quotes Quotes Ford & Arthur Ford: Keep looking at the book! Arthur: What? Ford: Don't Panic. Arthur: I'm not panicking! Ford: Yes, you are. Arthur: All right, so I'm panicking, what else is there to do? 22 Ford & Arthur Quotes Quotes Ford & Arthur Ford: Listen! Arthur: But I can't speak Vogon! Ford: You don't need to. Just put this fish in your ear. 23 From what planet did Zaphod steal the He... Trivia Questions From what planet did Zaphod steal the Heart of Gold? Milliways Damogran Magrathea 24 God & Man Quotes Quotes God & Man God: I refuse to prove that I exist, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. Man: But, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. God: Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that. 25 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar traveler can have. 26 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Buzz - v. When teasers find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really. See also: Teaser. 27 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Don't Panic! 28 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Frood. Really, amazingly together guy. Used in a sentence: Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is. 29 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy- not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. 30 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colorless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. 31 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Hoopy - really together guy. Used in a sentence: "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." 32 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Sass. v. know, be aware of, meet, have sex with. Used in a sentence: "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." 33 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Strag - slang, for non-hitchhiker. 34 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Quotes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: The Babel Fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oldest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from it's own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious though frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel Fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel Fish. 35 Hooloovoo Matter Colors Hooloovoo Superintelligent shade of the color blue. 36 How do Ford and Arthur avoid being oblit... Trivia Questions How do Ford and Arthur avoid being obliterated along with the rest of the Earth? Curl themselves into fetal balls and chant the official inter galactic transport prayer Slipstream super-sideways into a salamandering sow-craft Hitch a ride on a Vogon Constructor ship 37 How does the Vogon poet interpret Ford a... Trivia Questions How does the Vogon poet interpret Ford and Arthur's comments about his poetry? He|s feeling very depressed right now, moreso than normal,, he|s really very, very depressed. He writes poetry because underneath his mean callous heartless exterior he really just wants to be loved. He doesn|t panic. 38 How does Zaphod steal the Heart of Gold? Trivia Questions How does Zaphod steal the Heart of Gold? Very carefully He bitch slaps the guard. He uses a paralyso-matic bomb. 39 How much time was left in the program wh... Trivia Numbers Game How much time was left in the program when the Vogons blew up the earth? Five minutes One day, two hours, seven minutes, and sixteen seconds 2000 years 40 Many believe that the very existence of ... Trivia Questions Many believe that the very existence of the Babel Fish proves what? The non-existence of God The existence of the Babel Fish The existence of God 41 Marvin Quotes Quotes Marvin Marvin: And then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side. 42 Marvin Quotes Quotes Marvin Marvin: I was told to take you to the bridge. Probably the highest demand that will be made on my intellectual capacities today, I shouldn't wonder. 43 Marvin Quotes Quotes Marvin Marvin: Life - loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. 44 Mattress Living Things Animals Mattress Creature from Squornshellous Zeta. "Arthur prodded the mattress nervously and then sat on it himself: in fact he had very little to be nervous about, because all mattresses grown in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta are very thoroughly killed and dried before being put to service. Very few have ever come to life again." 45 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: At that moment the bottom fell out of Arthur's mind. His eyes turned inside out. His feet began to leak out of the top of his head. The room folded flat around him, spun around, shifted out of existence and left him sliding out of his own navel. They were passing through hyperspace. 46 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: Hooloovoo is a superintelligent shade of the color blue. 47 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: If human beings don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. 48 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: Ix - boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven. 49 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: The Dentrassis are an unruly tribe of gourmands, a wild but pleasant bunch whom the Vogons had recently taken to employing as catering staff on their long-haul fleets, on the strict understanding that they keep themselves very much to themselves. 50 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. The Guide also tells you on which planets the best Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are mixed, how much you can expect to pay for one and what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterward. The Guide even tells you how you can mix one yourself. 51 Narrator Quotes Quotes Narrator Narrator: The infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace. 52 Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz Quotes Quotes Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz: Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all. 53 The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal Living Things Animals The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal Creature mentioned in the entry for towel in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "You can wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal - a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous." 54 Sass Language Sexual Jargon Sass To know, be aware of, meet, have sex with. 55 Sign Quotes Quotes Sign Sign on the door of disused lavatory in the local planning office where the plans for the bypass were stored in a locked filing cabinet: Beware of the Leopard. 56 Ski-boxing Sports Sports Ski-boxing Sport that Zaphod plays so much that he had himself fitted with an extra arm. 57 Slartibartfast Quotes Quotes Slartibartfast Slartibartfast: I'd far rather be happy than right any day. 58 Slartibartfast is from what planet? Trivia Questions Slartibartfast is from what planet? Earth Magrathea Betelguese 6 59 Slartibartfast's ship is powered by what... Trivia Questions Slartibartfast's ship is powered by what? Bistromatics Improbability Drive The Heart of Gold 60 Untitled Themes Diff|rent Strokes #2840a2 #777777 #828bb8 61 Untitled Themes Wolf #cc3610 #067713 #1767a9 62 Untitled Themes Shield, The #198926 #c6300d #000000 63 Vogon Guard Quotes Quotes Vogon Guard Vogon Guard: Resistance is useless! 64 Vogon Jewelled Scuttling Crabs Living Things Animals Vogon Jewelled Scuttling Crabs Crabs from the planet Vogsphere. "Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet Vogsphere had been working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought forth scintillating jewelled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets, tall aspiring trees with breathtaking slenderness and colour which the Vogons cut down and burned the crab meat with, elegant gazelle-like creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyway." 65 What are the three titles of Oolon Collu... Trivia Questions What are the three titles of Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters? "Is There Really a God?", "I Don|t Think There is Really a God", and "I|ve Just Decided That There Is No God" "God Schmod", "One God, Two Gods, Red God, Blue God" and "Oh My God, God Again?" "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God|s Greatest Mistakes", and "Who is this God Person Anyway?" 66 What did Slartibartfast win an award for... Trivia Questions What did Slartibartfast win an award for designing? Magrathea Norway Earth 67 What does GPP stand for? Trivia Questions What does GPP stand for? Gigantic Prison Place Genuine People Personalities Good Production Principles 68 What does the Hitchhiker's Guide to the ... Trivia Questions What does the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy say about Earth? It|s mostly harmless. It|s gone. It|s a stupid planet. 69 What initials are burned into Zaphod's b... Trivia Questions What initials are burned into Zaphod's brain? F.U. Z.B. M.D. 70 What is Ford Prefect's original name? Trivia Name Game What is Ford Prefect's original name? Zander Banderfander It|s only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect. Rick Sanchez 71 What is Slartibartfast is in charge of d... Trivia Questions What is Slartibartfast is in charge of designing in the new Earth? Iceland Afghanistan Africa 72 What is Slartibartfast's favorite design... Trivia Questions What is Slartibartfast's favorite design feature? Fjords Pebbles Small hills 73 What is the name of the computer that ca... Trivia Name Game What is the name of the computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer? Marvin Deep Thought Earth 74 What was the dolphins' last message for ... Trivia Questions What was the dolphins' last message for humanity? Don|t panic. So long, and thanks for all the fish. Run! 75 What's the answer to the Great Question ... Trivia Questions What's the answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything? Blue Forty-Two Sburjlerbigglety 76 When Arthur saw Slartibartfast first wal... Trivia Questions When Arthur saw Slartibartfast first walk into his ship, who did Arthur think he looked like? God Slartibartfast|s twin brother Moses 77 Where do you put your Babel Fish? Trivia Questions Where do you put your Babel Fish? In your ear On top of your head In your mouth 78 Who's Marvin? Trivia Questions Who's Marvin? A dolphin A mouse An android 79 The Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the ... Recognition Awards The Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe Award Zaphod receives 7 years in a row. 80 Zaphod Beeblebrox & Eddie Quotes Quotes Zaphod Beeblebrox & Eddie Zaphod Beeblebrox: Computer, tell us what our present trajectory is. Eddie: A real pleasure, feller, we are currently in orbit at an altitude of three hundred miles around the legendary planet of Magrathea.

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