Hell, I think that I can beat him. Because I got an in-game god to speak to me.
Here's a few guidelines:
1. Asking gods about their family/other "personal stuff" will make a random body part (usually a finger) fall off. They DON'T want to speak about it. However, if it's a god of marriage, you may get a response if you're lucky. When the body part falls off, the convo window closes and you rather suddenly start bleeding. Yet you supposedly can ask for healing, I have no idea how, but the ear that fell off in my example suddenly regrew itself and I was a possessor of a vintage adventurer ear. Asking a god about the surroundings won't get you anything else than name of the lands and what wanders there - not the directions - and will reveal them on the travel map, even if normally inaccessable. The range of this is fixed to 5x5 from your current travel tile.
You can also trade with God, and when I found and managed to talk with the god of death, corpses were VERY valuable. God also sells adamantine and slade for really, really low prices, hell I think I remember buying a slade warhammer for ~25k dwarfbucks and getting 20k more for 40 or so corpses. Gods of trade and wealth can give you large star rubies for a dwarfbuck each, with some minor gems being free, and you can buy coins of civs (even ones from the past and future, however those cost way more) there. Gods of gems should be able to give you gems for free too, but I didn't have time to test. Gods of warfare should give you weapons and armor, so should (and has been tested to do) god of death, since that's in his interest to see people die... such stuff.
2. To get a response from god, you need to open up the talk window and "send him a message" about 200k times. Works best on the part when you ask about his/her family, because if it works you get a message about a random body part detaching. But beware, I've seen heads fall off randomly, and even inner organs teleporting out of your body.
Currently I'm the only one that reported this working, are you guys too lazy to do it for SCIENCE or what? It gives you so many perks. Seriously. You can even get artifacts from your fortresses using them, a flute worth a million dwarfbucks to you is worth a hundred to them.