the search for the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, to which the answer is known to be forty-two
- Known Questions to Which the Answer Almost Always is Forty-Two
- What do you get when you multiply seven by six?
- If you wake up on Thursday at 4:00 am and don't fall
asleep again until 10:00 pm on Friday, how many hours
were you conscious?
- If a train leaves Snoqualmie, Washington at 2:19 am on
Thursday, travelling 69 miles per hour, and travels
30,576 miles to arrive in New Paltz, New York at 9:12 pm
on the next Thursday, stopping only once every 728
miles, how many stops will it make?
- How many flavors of Snapple were there in August 1995?
- Other Things that Might, Under Unusual Circumstances, Equal Forty-Two
- The circumference of a circle with a radius of q.
- The square root of -1.
- Eleven.
- Known Questions to Which the Answer is Most Probably Not Forty-Two
- What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
- How many questions are on this list?
- What does the color blue taste like?
- How many light bulbs does it take to screw in a blonde?
- If a train leaves Florida, New York at 10:34 am,
travelling North-Northwest at 1,023 furlongs per
fortnight, how many aeons will it take Waldo to find all
the batteries that are not included?
- How many Presidents did Forrest Gump meet?
- Things That are Known to Definitely Have Absolutely No
Relationship to Forty-Two
- The number of "e"s in the word potato. (sorry Dan)
- The number of licks it takes to get to the Tootsie-Roll
center of a Tootsie-Pop.
Do you know of any other questions that have a significant (if vague)
relationship (or lack thereof) to the number 42? Your help with the
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