THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE Literature 1980. Written by Douglas Adams.

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Total Records: 67 - Medium: LITERATURE / Group: BBB

#	Record Name	Category	Subcategory
1	Arcturan Megafreighter	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	Arcturan Megafreighter Star ship model. "You would also have seen a couple of rather dishevelled looking hitch-hikers from Algol who had recently arrived on an Arcturan Megafreighter aboard which they had been roughing it for a few days. They were angry and bewildered to discover that here, within sight of the Hitchhiker's Guide building itself, a simple glass of fruit juice cost the equivalent of over sixty Altairan dollars."
2	Bass Detonator	Goods	Musical Instruments
	Bass Detonator Musical instrument employed by the rock band Disaster Area. "Buried deep in concrete bunkers beneath the city of speakers lay the instruments that the musicians would control from their ship, the massive photonajuitar, the bass detonator and the Megabang drum complex."
3	Big Bang Burger Bar	Dining	Restaurants
	Big Bang Burger Bar Restaurant situated at the beginning of time, where Milliways host Max Quordlepleen had been hosting another show..
4	The Big Bang Theory - a Personal View by...	Literature	Books
	The Big Bang Theory - a Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits Best selling book, but not as best selling as The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
5	The Bistro Illegal	Nightlife	Nightclubs
	The Bistro Illegal Bar that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.
6	Boobiloo Baby Foods	Food Industries	Food Companies
	Boobiloo Baby Foods Food company. "If you enjoy your ride, which will be swift and pleasurable, then you may care to experience some of the other elevators which have recently been installed in the offices of the Galactic tax department, Boobiloo Baby Foods and the Sirian State Mental Hospital, where many ex-Sirius Cybernetics Corporation executives will be delighted to welcome your visits, sympathy, and happy tales of the outside world."
7	Cafe Lou	Dining	Cafes and Delis
	Cafe Lou Cafe in Gretchen Town, New Betel that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.
8	Chinanto/mnigs	Menu	Mixed Drinks
	Chinanto/mnigs Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
9	The Church of the Second Coming of the G...	Religion	Churches
	The Church of the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon A party of believers, very devout believers, appearing at Milliways.
10	The Commercial Council of Magrathea	Organizations	Professional Organizations
	The Commercial Council of Magrathea Message the crew receives upon finally arriving at Magrathea, shortly before thermonuclear missiles are launched at them: "The Commercial Council of Magrathea thanks you for your visit, but regrets that the entire planetis temporarily closed. If you'd like to leave your name and a planet where you can be contacted, kindly do so at the tone."
11	The Daedalus Club	Nightlife	Clubs
	The Daedalus Club Nightclub. "Flare-riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford it are amongst the most lionized men in the Galaxy. It is also of course stupefyingly dangerous - those who don't die riding invariably die of sexual exhaustion at one of the Daedalus Club's Apres-Flare parties."
12	Deep Thought	Computers	Supercomputers
	Deep Thought A gigantic supercomputer created to calculate once and for all the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
13	Definit-Kil Photrazon Cannon	Weapons	Miscellaneous Weapons
	Definit-Kil Photrazon Cannon Vogon weapon. "As if to relieve the tension, the Vogons chose that moment to start firing. The ship shook, the ship thundered. Outside, the inch thick force-shield around it blistered, crackled and spat under the barrage of a dozen 30-Megahurt Definit-Kil Photrazon Cannon, and looked as if it wouldn't be around for long."
14	Disaster Area	Music	Rock Bands
	Disaster Area A plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones - The biggest, loudest rock band in the history of history itself.
15	Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller'...	Literature	Books
	Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. The main work to consult when dealing with the major problem of time travel grammar.
16	The Earth	Computers	Supercomputers
	The Earth The even bigger computer that had to be built to find out the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
17	Eddie	Computers	A.I.
	Eddie The Heart of Gold's shipboard computer.
18	Everything You Never Wanted to Know Abou...	Literature	Books
	Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex But Have Been Forced to Find Out Oolon Colluphid's latest blockbusting title.
19	The Evildrome Boozarama	Nightlife	Nightclubs
	The Evildrome Boozarama Bar that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.
20	Flare-riding	Sports	Sports
	Flare-riding Dangerous sport. "Flare-riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford it are amongst the most lionized men in the Galaxy."
21	Frogstar Scout Robot Class A	Technology Products	Robot Models
	Frogstar Scout Robot Class A A small black spider-like object.
22	Frogstar Scout Robot Class B	Technology Products	Robot Models
	Frogstar Scout Robot Class B A larger black spider-like object.
23	Frogstar Scout Robot Class C	Technology Products	Robot Models
	Frogstar Scout Robot Class C Another larger black spider-like object.
24	Frogstar Scout Robot Class D	Technology Products	Robot Models
	Frogstar Scout Robot Class D A gigantic black tank-shaped object.
25	Gag Halfrunt	Healthcare	Therapy
	Gag Halfrunt One of the Galaxy's most prominent and successful psychiatrists prepared to spend an awful lot of money when it seemed that the entire future of psychiatry might be at stake.
26	Gee-N'N-T'N-ix	Menu	Mixed Drinks
	Gee-N'N-T'N-ix Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
27	The Heart of Gold	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	The Heart of Gold The most beautiful and revolutionary starship ever built, powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.
28	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Literature	Books
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Guide book / travel book. "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
29	Hypermathematics	Education	Academic Fields
	Hypermathematics Field of study whose boundaries have been pushed back by the earnings of the rock band Disaster Area.
30	Infinite Improbability Drive	Technology Products	Power Supplies
	Infinite Improbability Drive A new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without tedious mucking about in hyperspace.
31	Jinond-o-nicks	Menu	Mixed Drinks
	Jinond-o-nicks Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
32	Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sens...	Apparel	Clothing Products
	Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses Sunglasses specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
33	Jynnan Tonnyx	Menu	Mixed Drinks
	Jynnan Tonnyx Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
34	Kill-O-Zap Gun	Weapons	Guns
	Kill-O-Zap Gun The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. "Make it evil," he'd been told. "Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with."
35	Lalamatine District	Retail	Shopping Centers
	Lalamatine District Shopping district near the Hitchhiker's Guide offices.
36	Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty	Literature	Books
	Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty Popular book, but not quite as popular as The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
37	The Maximegalon Museum of Diseased Imagi...	Entertainment	Museums
	The Maximegalon Museum of Diseased Imaginings Museum. "The bath stood on a six foot pedestal of rough hewn blue water crystal and was of a baroque monstrosity not often seen outside the Maximegalon Museum of Diseased Imaginings."
38	Megabang Drum Complex	Goods	Musical Instruments
	Megabang Drum Complex Musical instrument employed by the rock band Disaster Area. "Buried deep in concrete bunkers beneath the city of speakers lay the instruments that the musicians would control from their ship, the massive photonajuitar, the bass detonator and the Megabang drum complex."
39	Milliways	Dining	Restaurants
	Milliways Restaurant at the end of the universe that can only be visited via time travel. "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."
40	Mr. Reg Nullify and His Cataclysmic Comb...	Music	Musicians
	Mr. Reg Nullify and His Cataclysmic Combo Band appearing at Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe.
41	Multi-cluster Quark Drive	Technology Products	Power Supplies
	Multi-cluster Quark Drive Star ship drive. Zaphod: "Just look at it, multi-cluster quark drive, perspulex running boards. Got to be a Lazlar Lyricon custom job."
42	Neomathematics	Education	Academic Fields
	Neomathematics Field of study at the the University of Maximegalon.
43	Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer	Home Furnishing	Kitchen Appliances
	Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer Appliance on the Heart of Gold starship that claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared to use it. When put to the test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
44	Old Janx Spirit	Beverage Products	Alcohol
	Old Janx Spirit Alcohol brand that Zaphod mentions.
45	Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster	Menu	Mixed Drinks
	Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Zaphod compares the Total Perspective Vortex to drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
46	Photon Drive	Technology Products	Power Supplies
	Photon Drive In addition to the wonderful new Infinite Improbability Drive, the Heart of Gold starship came equipped with a conventional photon drive.
47	Photonajuitar	Goods	Musical Instruments
	Photonajuitar Musical instrument employed by the rock band Disaster Area. "Buried deep in concrete bunkers beneath the city of speakers lay the instruments that the musicians would control from their ship, the massive photonajuitar, the bass detonator and the Megabang drum complex."
48	Planet Hopper	Vehicles	Aircrafts
	Planet Hopper Vehicle. "The star buggy was a small ship - a totally misnamed one in fact, because the one thing it couldn't manage was interstellar distances. Basically it was a sporty planet hopper dolled up to something it wasn't."
49	Playbeing Magazine	Periodicals	Adult Magazines
	Playbeing Magazine Although it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of Playbeing magazine headlined an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate quadrupled overnight.
50	Sirian State Mental Hospital	Healthcare	Hospitals-Mental Health
	Sirian State Mental Hospital Mental hospital. "If you enjoy your ride, which will be swift and pleasurable, then you may care to experience some of the other elevators which have recently been installed in the offices of the Galactic tax department, Boobiloo Baby Foods and the Sirian State Mental Hospital, where many ex-Sirius Cybernetics Corporation executives will be delighted to welcome your visits, sympathy, and happy tales of the outside world."
51	Sirius Cybernetics Corporation	Corporations	Robotics Companies
	Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Makers of Heart of Gold starship, and Infinite Improbability Drive.
52	Slim's Throat Emporium	Nightlife	Nightclubs
	Slim's Throat Emporium Bar that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.
53	Song Cycles of Vassilian	Music	Songs
	Song Cycles of Vassilian Songs sung by the Great Circling Poets of Arium on the planet Golgafrincham.
54	Star Buggy	Vehicles	Motor Vehicles
	Star Buggy Vehicle. "The star buggy was a small ship - a totally misnamed one in fact, because the one thing it couldn't manage was interstellar distances. Basically it was a sporty planet hopper dolled up to something it wasn't."
55	Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-iTron	Weapons	Miscellaneous Weapons
	Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-iTron Vogon weapon. "Aboard the Vogon ship, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was puzzled. He had expected a chase, he had expected an exciting grapple with tractor beams, he had expected to have to use the specially installed Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-iTron to counter the Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive, but the Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-i-Tron lay idle as the Heart of Gold just sat there and took it."
56	Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic	Goods	Miscellaneous Products
	Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic Device that alerts hitchhikers to passing spacecraft, by monitoring ships sub-etha signals.
57	Take Me Apart	Music	Songs
	Take Me Apart Song chanted by huge crowds outside the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Teleport Systems factory on Happi-Werld III.
58	Temporal Relastatics	Transportation	Time Travel
	Temporal Relastatics Technology that enables Milliways to exist outside of time. "The Restaurant continued existing, but everything else had stopped. Temporal relastatics held it and protected it in a nothingness that wasn't merely a vacuum, it was simply nothing - there was nothing in which a vacuum could be said to exist."
59	Time Turbines	Transportation	Time Travel
	Time Turbines Technology that enables Milliways to exist, "Seen from the outside, which it never is, the Restaurant resembles a giant glittering starfish beached on a forgotten rock. Each of its arms houses the bars, the kitchens, the forcefield generators which protect the entire structure and the decayed planet on which it sits, and the Time Turbines which slowly rock the whole affair backwards and forwards across the crucial moment."
60	The Total Perspective Vortex	Technology Products	Electronics
	The Total Perspective Vortex Machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture.
61	Tzjin-anthony-ks	Menu	Mixed Drinks
	Tzjin-anthony-ks Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
62	Ultragolf	Sports	Sports
	Ultragolf Galactic sport.
63	The University of Maximegalon	Education	Universities
	The University of Maximegalon Home of the professor and writer of the General and Special Theories of rock band's Disaster Area Tax Returns.
64	Unprobability Field	Technology Products	Electronics
	Unprobability Field Technology that protects the world of the man who rules the universe.
65	Vertical People Transporters	Transportation	Transportation Technology
	Vertical People Transporters Modern elevator built by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
66	Xanthic Re-Structron Destabilized Zenon ...	Weapons	Miscellaneous Weapons
	Xanthic Re-Structron Destabilized Zenon Emitters Weapon that the Frogstar battle machine mentions to Marvin.
67	Zansellquasure Flamarion Bridge Club	Sports	Sports Associations
	Zansellquasure Flamarion Bridge Club Bridge club from beyond the Vortvoid of Qvarne.

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