I keep thinking of a science fiction scenario of being abducted by aliens and then being rescued by alien cops.

“Where are you from?”

“What’s the chemistry of your required sustenance?”

“How long is your sleep cycle as measured with physical time constants?”

And similar basic questions could not be answered by 99.9% of the human population.

Fundamentally, almost none of us can give an accurate answer to what were made of, where we’re from, or what we need to survive.

Those are interesting questions!

Where are you from is difficult given that we don't know how the alien cop's map is drawn. Third planet from a star shining at 5700K that is 8 kiloparsecs from the galactic center is only slightly more useful than lost kid and saying that their mom's name is mommy.

Chemistry of sustenance. We're carbon based and everything comes from that, but constructing a description of edible food from raw elements is going to take a lot more than drawing some hexagons with C H N and O, along with other required elements. Before we get to food and H₂O though, we'd need an atmosphere to breathe, I wouldn't presume the alien cops know to have an oxygen/nitrogen mix for humans, and not something that's poisonous for humans, like CO.

Time is something that's possible to express though. SI defined the second as a number of vibrations of a Cesium-133 atom, 8 hours of sleep is just multiplication.

Don't think anybody could describe what/where/what to an alien cop that doesn't even speak English to get themselves home or even to not die in an alien atmosphere.

I'll eat my hat if you can answer any of those with enough specificity that "random alien cop"s could produce something useful.