How many planets are there in the solar system?
Nine.
[The klaxon goes off.]
Oh, sorry. Not again. [He holds up the ‘nine’ card.] Nine. Not the right answer, another forfeit of 10, I’m afraid. I’m afraid the answer is actually eight.
I’m gonna write them down. You carry on.
Alright. Okay.
Mars.
Yes, Mars is one.
Pluto.
No.
[Alan stops writing and looks up at Stephen.]
Here we go again.
Pluto is a planet! It was discovered in the 1930s. It was the most recent planet to be discovered.
It was discovered by Clive Tombaugh in 1930 exactly, yes.
It’s a collection of gasses, it’s not actually...
It’s not a planet. By no criterion by which planets are judged could Pluto be said...
It’s really, really big and it goes around the sun!
Yes, but it’s not really that big at all. It’s tiny.
Well, that’s why it took so long to find! Don’t be hard on it cos it’s small!
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