An 11 yr old boy from Nebraska won the National Geographic Bee earlier this week. The winning question: Cochabamba is the third-largest conurbation in what country?
Um, yeah. I won’t even pretend that I know the answer to that question. Or what the question means.
Want to see how you stack up? National Geographic has questions from the GeoBee Challenge online. Every day ten questions are posted from the actual bee. Go on and quiz yourself. And if you are like me, be humbled.
I knew I was in trouble since I don’t even know what “conurbation” means . and then not all the answers are even multiple choice! I only got half right.
Comment by Brigitte — May 26, 2008 @ 7:01 am
You can’t put this entry up yet not tell us the answer Chris!! Such a tease….
Conurbation I can do – at least two geography-related degrees are useful SOMETIMES! The location I am not so good at. The best piece of geo-trivia I remember is that the capital of Uruguay is Monte Video. Very useful for Trivial Pursuit….
From Wikipedia: A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities, large towns and larger urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrial built up area.
And it’s Bolivia…. of course
Comment by Jen — May 26, 2008 @ 9:48 am