42 (answer)

Quality:

42 - "Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Article “42 (answer)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is German.

Since the creation of article “42 (answer)”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1731 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 408 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #228 in October 2018
• Global: #3499 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #40 in November 2019
• Global: #4944 in September 2011

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		45.1272
2	Hungarian (hu) 42 (Galaxis útikalauz stopposoknak)		34.9856
3	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		32.356
4	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		28.2524
5	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		26.4651
6	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		25.9938
7	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		25.6519
8	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		21.3831
9	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		20.0624
10	Hebrew (he) התשובה לחיים, היקום וכל השאר		17.7816

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		5 682 967
2	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		3 039 746
3	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		2 804 514
4	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		2 688 699
5	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		2 326 639
6	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		1 340 972
7	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		611 879
8	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		584 249
9	Dutch (nl) Het antwoord op de ultieme vraag over het Leven, het Universum, en Alles		432 304
10	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		410 938

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		9 179
2	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		7 059
3	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		5 911
4	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		5 907
5	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		4 198
6	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		1 921
7	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		1 695
8	Chinese (zh) 生命、宇宙以及任何事情的終極答案		1 610
9	Dutch (nl) Het antwoord op de ultieme vraag over het Leven, het Universum, en Alles		1 030
10	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		725

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		435
2	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		309
3	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		174
4	Hebrew (he) התשובה לחיים, היקום וכל השאר		146
5	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		129
6	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		97
7	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		95
8	Dutch (nl) Het antwoord op de ultieme vraag over het Leven, het Universum, en Alles		77
9	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		56
10	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		52

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) התשובה לחיים, היקום וכל השאר		2
2	Hungarian (hu) 42 (Galaxis útikalauz stopposoknak)		1
3	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		1
4	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		1
5	Catalan (ca) La Resposta a la Pregunta Definitiva sobre la Vida, l'Univers i Tot Plegat		0
6	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		0
7	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		0
8	Esperanto (eo) La respondo pri la vivo, la universo kaj ĉio		0
9	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		0
10	Finnish (fi) Vastaus elämään, maailmankaikkeuteen ja kaikkeen muuhun sellaiseen		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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