42 is the answer

The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42 according to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


In Japanese, 4 (shi) and 2 (ni) are together pronounced like "going to death" (死に). Because of that, in Japan, 42 is considered as a disastrous number
The number of teeth wolves and dogs (canines) have.
42° is the critical angle of refraction by water - it is the angle between a rainbow and the antisolar point (the angle light has to hit water to make a rainbow).
The number of minutes it would take a theoretical "gravity train" to travel to any point on earth.
In the ancient Chinese text the Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu, chapter 42 is an explanation of the universe.
Using some versions of a word processor known as an AlphaSmart, when one types in an equation whose solution is 42, the sentence "The answer to life, the universe and everything" appears before displaying 42.
In the game of Risk, there are 42 territories to be conquered.
There are 42 laws of cricket.
The approximate length of a Marathon race in kilometers.
The code number for the Microsoft .NET platform is 42, since it is their answer to "The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything". It also happens to be the building number that the Microsoft .NET CLR is built in.
The age at which Elvis Presley died.
Jerusalem covers 42 square miles.
Fox Mulder lives in appartment number 42.
The Wonderbra consists of 42 individual parts.
The right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
The number of dots on a pair of dice is 42.
In Catcher in the Rye Holden Caufield says he is 32, but he lies.
There are 42 cookies in a 1 pound package of Oreo's.
There are 42 decks on the Star Shit Enterprise (Next Generation).
The natural vibration frequency of a human DNA is 42.
The minimum age one had to have been to be elected a consul in the Roman Republic.
The number of hours that the potion caused Juliet to sleep for (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 1, line 105)
At the end of the 2nd book, the question is to the answer is revealed : "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?""Six by nine. Forty two.""That's it. That's all there is.""I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"