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42
42 (or forty-two) is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of -
Babel Fish
The Babel fish is a small, bright yellow fish, which can be placed in someone's ear in order for them to be able to hear any language translated into their first language. Ford Prefect -
Towel
A towel is the most important item a Hitchhiker can carry. Ford Prefect and his fellow hitchhiker and friend Roosta both emphasise the importance of towels throughout Hitchhiker's and are both known to carry -
Ultimate Question
The Ultimate Question is the actual inquiry behind the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. The Ultimate Question was sought after the supercomputer Deep Thought revealed the Ultimate Answer to be 42. When -
Marvin
Marvin, more fully known as Marvin the Paranoid Android, is an incredibly brilliant but overwhelmingly depressed robot manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and unwilling servant to the crew of the Heart of Gold. In -
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is an alcoholic beverage invented by ex-President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, considered by the Guide to be the "Best Drink in Existence." Its effects are similar to "having -
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Vogon poetry
Vogon poetry is a variety of poetry, often considered to be one of the worst. It is sometimes used by the Vogons as a torture method, as it causes physical pain to the hearer. A -
Infinite Improbability Drive
The Infinite Improbability Drive was a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without "tedious mucking about in hyperspace." It was discovered by lucky chance and then developed -
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)
“We have normality, I repeat we have normality.” This article covers a subject that is part of the real world, and thus should not be taken as a part of the Hitchhiker's universe -
Arthur Dent
Arthur Philip Dent was the hapless ape-descended human man from Earth who found himself thrown upon wild adventures around the Universe. With Ford Prefect, his friend of several years, Dent barely escaped the Earth -
Heart of Gold
The starship Heart of Gold was the first spacecraft to make use of the Infinite Improbability Drive. The craft was stolen by then-President Zaphod Beeblebrox at the official launch of the ship, as he -
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox, or the Big Z, was a former President of the Galaxy. At the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Zaphod steals the starship Heart of Gold, which Arthur Dent and -
Total Perspective Vortex
The Total Perspective Vortex was a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture. It first appeared in the Secondary Phase of The -
Deep Thought
Deep Thought was a supernatural-computer programmed to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. It designed the other supercomputer Earth, which was built by the Magratheans. Two programmers -
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B
The Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet of Golgafrincham. The ship was led by the captain, with Number One -
Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast was a Magrathean designer of planets. During the planet's societal height, he constructed the coastlines of continents on planets manufactured by Magrathea; in particular, he specialised in fjords. He won an award for -
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings was a poet who wrote the worst poetry in the universe. In fact, her poetry is still considered to be the worst in the Galaxy, closely followed by that of the -
Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect (a.k.a. Ix) was a friend of Arthur Dent, and the semi-cousin of The President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox. While on Earth, he posed as an out-of-work actor -
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (travel guide)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also known simply as the Guide or the book, was a guidebook for hitch-hikers throughout the Universe which featured heavily in the sci-fi series of the -
Trillian
Tricia McMillan, usually known as Trillian and sometimes Trillian Astra, was a human astrophysicist and mathematician whom Arthur Dent completely failed to chat up at a party at a flat in Islington. Trillian eventually left -
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book series by Douglas Adams. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe begins just -
Vogon
The Vogons are an alien race from the planet Vogsphere who are employed as the galactic government's bureaucrats. At the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the Vogons destroyed the Earth -
Milliways
Milliways, better known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is a five star restaurant situated at the end of time and matter. Its main attraction is allowing diners to view a Gnab -
Earth
Earth was a giant supercomputer designed to find the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Designed by Deep Thought and built by the Magratheans, it was commonly mistaken for a planet, especially by
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