Hitchhiker’s Quiz (H2G2) #1

By: Ankit Baraskar

1. Which particular group would Ford Prefect make fun of when he gatecrashed university parties on earth?

2. In Ford Prefect’s opinion, what did _________, Slartibartfast’s spaceship, make the Heart Of Gold look like? The blank and    the object used as a metaphor, both.

3. What would the Disaster Area speaker silo have reminded Arthur Dent of, had he been say, approximately five miles in    front of it?

4. Who, according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide, has created the worst poetry in the galaxy?

5. Marvin encountered a Frogstar Battle Machine while trying to save Zaphod. What weapon system did it have that was new to    Marvin? And what did it think Marvin had as the last option?

6. Who introduced Zaphod to the delights of the nutrition/antidepressant soaked towel?

7. “It says I only inhibit it. I pointed out that in fact I was meant to inhibit it, and it said that that was exactly the sort of smart alec remark that got right up a body’s left nostril, and so we left it. It will probably get custody of my    forename.” Name the entity. And it’s “job title”.

8. Ford Prefect likes this device to no small extent, since it helps him know if there are any ships approaching the planet he’s currently on. Earth mostly gives him “total silence” though. Name the device.

9. The most notorious/difficult/slightly absurd of them all. What, according to Arthur, is the only one word prehistoric Earthmen know, but not spell correctly?