Mental Floss.

1. As I get closer, my tail grows longer, as I leave, my tail leads the way.  What am I? (Alert: science.)
2. A boy was in detention from talking too much when the teacher was talking. The detention teacher said, "You have to produce a 1000 word essay in 30 seconds...GO!!"   The boy actually did it. How?   (Note: he did not just write "A 1000 word essay" on his paper. You'll have to be a little more clever than that.)
3. What was the largest, single, man-made object visible with the naked eye to Neil Armstrong when he first stepped onto the moon's surface?
4. You have just fallen 5 meters out of a window, completely naked!

Directly beneath you is an enormous, spiky cactus.
You haven't hurt yourself!
How come?
5. What two words contain the most letters?
6. Which Olympic champions do not receive medals?
7. What North American state is round on both sides and high in the middle?
8. Fill in the blanks with four words, such that the first and the fourth are the same, while the second and the third are homonyms.
   A jailer ______  ______, and a jeweler ______  ______.