> I've come up with a short list of things that the Earth might have calculated as the question of Life, the Universe and Everything if it hadn't been blown up five minutes earlier:

The interesting thing is, before Douglas Adams died, I'd only seen one reference to it (which I poorly remembered) and now I see references to it at least once a week.

> 1) How old is Andy Fox from FoxTrot?
> 2) What is zero divided by zero?
> 3) What is Silon's hard drive capacity
> (in gigabytes?)
> 4) How many DIFFERENT presidents of the USA have there been?
> 5) How old was the youngest president of the USA?
> 6) Why doesn't the answer to this question fit the question?
> 7) How many questions would I have given if I posted six times as many of them?
>
> Anyone got any others?

8) What is the (approximate) latitude of the capital of Macedonia?

9) Beginning numbering from the beginning of the year, on what day of the year was the Yalta agreement signed?

10) All the Peterson Field Guides have been numbered. What number was given to the Freshwater Fishes guide?

11) Let n be the number of Platonic solids. What, then, is the nth Catalan number?

12) I bring 100 grams of water from just above freezing to just below boiling. How much energy (in kilojoules, two significant figures) was used?

13) What number did Jackie Robinson wear?

14) How many protons are in a molybdenum atom?

15) Some of you have heard of the Orion Nebula. What number did Messier assign this nebula when he created his list of cometlike objects?

> Silon

Lucky "Has not read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but plans to start by the end of the year" Wizard