WorksheetsAlways know where your towel is!
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 7mins
The two central characters at the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are:
Arthur Dent and Ford Focus
Arnold Dent and Ford Escort
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect
Albert Dent and Ford Sierra
What is happening to Arthur at the beginning of Hitchhiker's?
His house is about to be demolished
He's going on holiday
It's his wedding day
He's moving house
None of what happens in Q2 matters, because the Earth is about to be destroyed to make way for a bypass by...
Vogons
Galifreyans
Martians
Venusians
Where is Ford Prefect really from?
One of the smaller satellites of Jupiter
A small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse
An outlying suburb of Ursa Major
A planetoid orbiting Alderbaran
What is the name of the ship that rescues Ford and Arthur when they are thrown into space?
Heart of Silver
Diamond Heart
Golden Heart
Heart of Gold
What feature of the ship that allows it to be at any point in the galaxy in no time at all causes a pair of guided missiles to turn into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias?
Improbable Scenario Drive
Infinite Probability Drive
Probable Infinity Drive
Infinite Improbability Drive
What's the name of the hibernating planet that built Earth where we meet Slartibartfast?
Bethselamin
Magrathea
Traal
Damogran
What did the engineers of the planet in Q7 build Earth to be?
A zoo
A holiday resort
A prison
A computer
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is 42. What is the question?
Nobody knows, it was written in a lost language
Nobody knows, you can't read the handwriting
Nobody knows, it was written in poem form by Vogons and nobody can bear to listen to it
Nobody knows, Earth was destroyed just as it was about to tell us
How is astrophysicist Tricia McMillan better known?
Morticia
Trillian
Timmy
Tricky
The most intelligent lifeform on Earth commissioned its building. Who are they?
Dolphins
Humans
Birds
Mice
Why should you always know where your towel is?
It's the most massively useful thing a hitchhiker can have
In case you fall into a pool
To use as a cape
In case someone else needs it
the Earth entry in The Guide used to just read 'Harmless'. After years of research by Ford Prefect, what does it now read?
A disaster area
OK I suppose
Worth a visit
Mostly harmless
In which order did Hitchhiker's appear in different media?
Books, TV, film, radio
TV, radio, film, books
Radio, books, TV, film
Books, radio, film, TV
Towel Day celebrates the author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who died 20 years ago this year. Who was he?
Ray Bradbury
Richard Adams
Douglas Adams
Alan Moore
The writer of Hitchhiker's had also written for another BBC TV series. What was it?
Casualty
Doctor Who
The Young Ones
Have I Got News For You
This writer also wrote a series of books he described as 'a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics'. what was the name of the main character?
Drake Gently
Derek Gently
Dirk Gently
Dave Gently
