If the answer is 42, What is the question? 10 points for the best answer.?

Answer 1

That is the question. If you knew all the answers there wouldn't be the question to answer. Good Question.

Answer 2

There are 42 principles of Ma'at, the Ancient Egyptian personification of physical and moral law, order, and truth. In the judgement scene described in the Egyptian and the Book of the Coming/Going Forth by Day (the Book of the Dead (which evolved from the Coffin Texts and the Pyramid Texts)), there are 42 Gods and Goddesses of Egypt, personifying the principles of Ma'at, who ask questions of the departed, while Thoth records the answers, and the deceased's heart is weighed against the feather of Truth (Ma'at). These 42 correspond to the 42 Nomes (Governmental Units) of Egypt (Nome (Egypt)). If the departed successfully answers all 42, s/he becomes an Osiris.


The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything has a numeric solution in Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the story, a "simple answer" to The Ultimate Question is requested from the computer Deep Thought - specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer which turns out to be 42. When asked to provide The Ultimate Question, the computer says that it can't, but can help design an even more powerful computer (the Earth) which can. The programmers then embark on a further, ultimately futile, ten million year program to discover The Ultimate Question, hindered by Golgafrinchans after 8 million years, and in the last five minutes by the Vogons.

The author was presented with many readers' theories about The Ultimate Question and The Ultimate Answer in his lifetime, all of which he rebutted with his own somewhat apocryphal explanations.

42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabalistic tradition.

Answer 3

"what comes b4 the number?" is surely the question. Id have to say its "level". Level 42 geddit! a great band from the 80s! im not old by the way only 22. I just like 80s music.

Answer 4

What is 21 plus 21. Equal 42.

Answer 5

The question is: "What question has the answer 42?".

BTW, the modern scientific view, backed up by careful and expensive experiments, is that the answer is 43.

Answer 6

The question is: "What is the answer to Life, Universe, and Everything?"

42 is the answer to Life, Universe, and Everything.

Answer 7

I remember it was a multiplication question and 42 was the wrong answer. I don't remember what numbers were actually used .

Answer 8

Where is Bailet'i, Georgia? (Latitude 42 and Longitude 42)

Answer 9

The question is: If the answer is 42, What is the question?

Answer 10

Every question in the world that you could think of = 42.

Answer 11

What is the answer for 10*5/2+5-15+(5*5)+2