A team of three Indian-American students defeated teams from 17 other
regions to win top honours at the 11th National Geographic World
Championship in Russia's St. Petersburg city. The team included Captain
Gopi Ramanathan, 15, from Sartell, Minnesota, Asha Jain, 13, from
Minocqua, Wisconsin, and Neelam Kaur Sandhu, 14, from Bedford, New
Hampshire.
In the biennial competition, teams of the students were asked
questions on physical, cultural and economic geography. The
Indian-American trio won by correctly identifying a country’s flag which
had six small stars representing the mainland and its five offshore
islands. The answer was Equatorial Guinea.
Ramanathan, already has won his state geography bee twice. He had
finished seventh in the 2012 National Bee in Washington, DC. Students
around the world earned the chance to be part of the World Championship
competition by winning or being a top finisher in the national
competitions of their home regions.
The 15 other teams competing were from Australia, Bulgaria, China,
Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Mexico,
Mongolia, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Britain. Indonesia and
Mongolia participated for the first time this year.
The competition
was sponsored by Google, and presented by the US National Geographic
Society in partnership with the Russian Geographical Society.
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