2 - Introduction
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But for those of you who might have bought this book by mistake or who are being forced to listen to it against your will, perhaps it would be helpful to include a primer or crib sheet.
Here, in the format of the British game show Mastermind, we present 60 Seconds on the special subject of Douglas Adams.
And your name is? Fred Flank.
Your occupation? IT project manager.
A
British writer best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Here we go.
Adams was born and later attended university in which English city? Cambridge.
What were Douglas
Adams' religious beliefs? Radical atheist.
Yes.
As a boy, Adams earned ten shillings when his letter to a comic was published in January 1965.
Which comic?
The Eagle.
Who bought the second?
How old was Adams when he died, and in what year? 49 in 2001.
What type of detective is he? Holistic.
Which refers to?
His belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
Very good.
But for those of you who might have bought this book by mistake or who are being forced to listen to it against your will, perhaps it would be helpful to include a primer or crib sheet.
Here, in the format of the British game show Mastermind, we present 60 Seconds on the special subject of Douglas Adams.
And your name is? Fred Flank.
Your occupation? IT project manager.
A
British writer best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Here we go.
Adams was born and later attended university in which English city? Cambridge.
What were Douglas
Adams' religious beliefs? Radical atheist.
Yes.
As a boy, Adams earned ten shillings when his letter to a comic was published in January 1965.
Which comic?
The Eagle.
Who bought the second?
How old was Adams when he died, and in what year? 49 in 2001.
What type of detective is he? Holistic.
Which refers to?
His belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
Very good.
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