By BJ Austin
Dallas, TX – The Dallas area is home to the biggest geography whiz.
13 year old Eric Yang of The Colony won the National Geographic Bee in Washington on Wednesday.
Eric didn't' miss a single question in the finals, and gets a $25,000 college scholarship.
How smart are you?
National Geography Bee TIEBREAKER QUESTIONS:
- 1. Located northwest of Qatar, Sitrah is a port city in what
oil-exporting island country?
- 2. Akimiski Island is the largest island in a bay that also
marks the southernmost extent of the territory of Nunavut. Name
this bay.
- 3. Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube
and is located in the western part of which European country?
OTHER QUESTIONS FROM FINAL ROUNDS:
- 4. Name this eastern African city, the largest in its country,
where a flight from the north would approach the city immediately
after flying over the island of Zanzibar.
- 5. The tomb of Herod the Great, king of Judaea in the second
half of the last century B.C., was discovered in the Herodium
complex, a hill located approximately 15 miles northeast of the
largest city in the West Bank. Name this city.
- 6. Name the 150-mile wide strait that separates the island of
Tasmania from the Australian mainland.
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Answers: 1. Bahrain. 2. James Bay. 3. Romania. 4. Dar es Salaam.
5. Hebron. 6. Bass Strait.