The phrase is so vague that it winds up meaning either whatever you want it to mean or nothing at all.
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42. (see the related question)
The question, as it appeared in the Douglas Adams book Life, the Universe, and Everything is "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"Having discovered that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of life, the universe, and everything is "42," the search continues to discover what the actual question was. The answer to this question is of course wrong because 6 x 9 = 54 in our base 10 math. However, 6 x 9 does equal 42 in base 13, a fact disclaimed by author Adams as completely serendipitous.(see related question)
If you mean the scene in book 3 (Life, The Universe and Everything) where Arthur and Ford are on prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchans and Arthur tries to find the Ultimate Question by pulling Scrabble tiles at random from a bag, it's because Arthur is actually descended from the Golgafrinchans rather than the early humans, who eventually die out, taking the real question with them. This means that the question 'What do you get if you multiply six by nine?' is, as Ford says, "either the wrong one or a distortion of the right one."
In the 'Hitchikers Guide', the major conflict is the aliens destroying the earth to make room for a space highway. This is significant because many years ago, (millions) an intelligent race of mice built a super computer to make the ultimate answer: 42. This launched they quest to build another super computer to find the ultimate question to the ultimate answer. The Earth was that second super-computer.
The ultimate question is: What is the answer to the ultimate question? The answer is: 42
The ultimate question is: What is the answer to the ultimate question? The answer is: 42
I think that the ultimate question would be how did god and life and nature start? It didn't just appear one morning, was it particles in space?The 'fake' ultimate question is "How many roads must a man walk to live life fully?" (by man I mean man or woman) *In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this is accepted as the ultimate question, BUT, they know it really isn't the ultimate question. This is a fake.*The ultimate question is the one that makes you think the hardest :)The ultimate question is "WHY?"The ultimate question is "Am I really bored enough with life to ask such questions?"No one knows the question but the answer is forty-two.To calculate the question the earth was built.As the last man (or woman) sees the sun set for the final time and asks "Is that it then, what was the point of that?"
ultimate in spanish is ultimo
The best love question is "Do you love me?"
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answer is 27
At the end of chapter 28. Deep Thought provides the answer, but not the question.