The Ultimate Answer: 42
The definitive Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Computed by Deep Thought over 7.5 million years.
Item Specification: The Number 42
Forty-two. The grand, definitive, unambiguous answer computed by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of continuous processing.
The Dilemma
While the answer is known with complete mathematical certainty to be 42, nobody has the faintest idea what the Ultimate Question actually was. Until the Question is calculated by a greater organic computer (namely, Earth), carrying this artifact simply radiates a profound sense of cosmic reassurance.
Massively Useful Towel
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Essential for wrapping round for warmth, sleeping under, or hand-to-hand combat.
Vogon Poetry Scroll
Fetid verse penned by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz ('Oh freddled gruntbuggly...'). Certified as the third worst poetry in the Universe, surpassed only by the Azgoths of Kria and Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex.