Nice. I didn't actually expect someone to work out the distance--saying "1 mile north of the circle near the South Pole that has a circumference of 1 mile" would have been sufficient. (For those who like geometry and don't like rounding, the exact answer would be 1 + R*arcsin(1/(2*pi*R)) where R is the radius of the Earth in miles, and the arcsin function should return its answer in radians rather than degrees.
Edit: this is assuming the Earth is a perfect sphere, which of course it is not.)
The other answer is obviously the North Pole, for those who missed it.
A man lives on the top floor of a tall apartment building. Each day he takes the elevator down to the ground floor, goes to work across town, then returns. When he goes back up to his apartment at the end of the day, however, he gets off half way to the top, then walks up the stairs the rest of the way. He would prefer to ride the elevator all the way up. Why does he get off half way?
