FACTUAL RIDDLES IV

1. How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth? How long does it take the light to reach the next nearest star?

2. What's a yellow-dog contract?

3. What is a GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILE?

4. A man is 200 miles off shore and dips a bucket into the ocean. The water is fresh enough to drink. Where is he?

Answers:

1. Sunlight covers the 93,000,000 miles to Earth in 8 minutes 20 seconds. To reach the next nearest star, Proxima Centauri in the Alpha Centauri System, it would take the light 4.2 years to cover the 25 trillion miles.

2. A contract, now illegal, in which a worker promises he will not join a union, as a condition of his employment

3. A person who likes to nibble on a woman's earlobe

4. In the Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles east of the mouth of the Amazon River