h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You have one hour to complete the sub application along with a psychoactive beverage of your choice.


1) If you'd like to be a sub-editor but aren't familiar with the menu at the Restaurant at the Dnd of the galaxy, you should immediately:

a) don't panic
b) Order a #43
c) ask your date to order for you
d) scream that you saw a white mouse scamper underneath the table

2) If, when dining at said restaurant, your bill doesn't come out even in the same ballpark as you expected you should:

a) Leave a smaller tip
b) Use this to develop a theory for interstellar propulsion
c) Order off the menu next time
d) Ask Zaphod, he knows everything.

3) The Guide is a lot like the Internet because of

a) poor editing
b) incorrect or out-of-date informaion
c) 404
d) a lack of qualified subs

4) Sub editors are primarily

a) people who lack the creativity to be field researchers
b) people out to make a buck off advanced access to information on
galaxy's undergoing finacial modifications
c) lower life forms
d) retired English teachers (same as c)

5) The right way to apply to be a sub is

a) follow the instructions above
b) look it up in the Guide itself
c) distinguish yourself first as a researcher
d) Fill out form 172, tear it up, then figure it out on your own

6) The recent appearance of H2G2 on the Internet is:

a) doomed by planned condemnations for an interstellar expressway
b) nothing but A. Dent in the old Guide
c) nothing to panic over
d) kind of like a Norwegian fijord, a nice touch

7) If Neil Young were to check out the guide, he'd probably first seek the location of the:

1) Journal of Applied Bistromath
2) Southern Man
3) Heart of Gold
4) Southern Cross

8) If you've gotten all the answers right and emailed your completed application in but no one seems to have noticed, or care, then

a) Don't Panic
b) Don't Panic
c) Get a life
d) Don't Panic


9) Essay Question

While avoiding the use (and paradoxes induced) by time travel, how could stuff "lost in translation" of the guide ever be recovered and how should future editions prevent further losses and/or compensate for prior losses.


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