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Quiz about The Galaxy Song
Quiz about The Galaxy Song

The Galaxy Song! Trivia Quiz


The 'Galaxy Song' from the 1983 Monty Python movie, 'The Meaning of Life', contains some huge numbers. Can you match up all the distances?

by ozzz2002. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
ozzz2002
Time
4 mins
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Quiz #
415,914
Updated
Mar 25 24
# Qns
12
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
10 / 12
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Last 3 plays: IggyPop12 (3/12), camhammer (12/12), Jane57 (12/12).
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at .
It's orbiting at , so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a ,
In the outer spiral arm, at ,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a ;
It's a side to side;
It bulges in the middle ,
But out by us it's just .
We're from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every ;
And our galaxy itself is one of ,
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Your Options
[hundred billion stars] [thirty thousand light-years] [hundred thousand light-years] [million miles a day] [900 miles an hour] [19 miles a second] [Twelve million miles a minute] [40,000 miles an hour] [two hundred million years] [three thousand light-years wide] [millions of billions] [sixteen thousand light-years thick]

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
Answer:

This amazing song was sung by Eric Idle, explaining to Mrs Brown (played by Terry Jones) how utterly insignificant she is, and that she should willingly donate her liver. (She did!) Her husband did too, but NOT willingly! The sketch, from 'The Meaning of Life' is called 'Live Organ Transplants'.

Most of the numbers used in the song are quite close to the actual scientific measurements.

The earth spins at 900 miles per hour, at the equator, and orbits the sun at 18.1 miles per second, very close to the song lyrics.

But Idle was not even close with the speed of the sun. He quoted 40,000 miles a hour, when in actuality it is about 515 million mph, however, his figure of 200,000,000 years for our Solar System to rotate around the centre of the galaxy is only about 10% out, Poetic license seems to have come into play.

The size of the Milky Way, sung as 100,000 across by 16,000 light years thick is quite close to the real figures, and the numbers have been confirmed a leading astronomer.

The movie is really a collection of loosely-related skits, all tenuously relating to 'life'. We see a group of fish watching their friend being eaten, a medical machine that goes 'PING', a Zulu War officer who has his leg bitten off by a tiger (in Africa!), a very messy scene where a diner explodes from overeating, tree leaves committing suicide, and a Heaven that looks like it belongs in Las Vegas. All quite normal for the Python team.
Source: Author ozzz2002

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