Cuomo Avoids Daughter's Monty Python Question March 2, 2012, 1:56 pm The question that the governor dared not address. Breaking! The New York Times has learned more about the mysterious questioner who asked Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" To recap, on Thursday The Times reported on the many questions left on the cutting room floor during an online chat the governor hosted last September. One of those was the unladen swallow question, a chestnut from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." The questioner identified him or herself only as Boots from England, according to public records turned over to The Times following a Freedom of Information Law request. But a senior administration official said Friday morning that the questioner was actually one of the governor's three teenage daughters, who complained to Mr. Cuomo after the chat session that her question didn't get answered. The Cuomo administration asked that the specific daughter's name not be released, saying she preferred not to be identified. How would a teenage girl know about Monty Python? The movie, which was released in 1974, is still readily available, including on Netflix. The unladen swallow line is also referenced in the Python Broadway show, "Spamalot." For the record, the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen (European) swallow has been calculated as 24 miles an hour.