42 Explained

42 may refer to:

• 42 (number)
• one of the years 42 BC, AD 42, 1942, 2042

Arts, entertainment, and media

• 42 (dominoes), a game
• 42 (film), a 2013 biopic about American baseball player Jackie Robinson
• 42, a 2021 album by Sech
• 42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, from Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Named after or in honor of this:
  • "42" (Doctor Who), a 2007 television episode
  • "42" (2001), the final episode of the television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
  • "42" (Coldplay song), 2008
  • 42, the 2012 debut album of Cthulhu Rise
  • 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, 2023 book by Kevin Jon Davies
• 42 Entertainment, an alternate reality games company founded in 2003
• 42 (Aya Nakamura song), 2024
• "42", a song by Mumford & Sons from Delta, 2018
• "Forty Two", a song by Karma to Burn from the album Appalachian Incantation, 2010

Other uses

• 42 (school), a French computer programming school
• The 42 (Kolkata), a residential skyscraper in India
• Tower 42 a skyscraper in London, England
• 42.zip, a zip bomb
• 42, Jackie Robinson’s jersey number, since retired by all of Major League Baseball
• 42, the atomic number of Molybdenum
• 42 Isis, a main-belt asteroid

See also

• 42V, a former project to convert motor vehicle electrical power to 42 volts