13-Year-Old Knows More Than You Ever Will

For a brief intermission during Hooker Appreciation Day, we bring you… Geography Knowledge Appreciation Post.  On Wednesday, Texan seventh grader Eric Yang crushed the National Geographic Bee – the hardest ever held – with a perfect score.  The spoils?  $25K, a lifetime membership in the Nat Geo Society, and a trip to the Galapagos with Alex Trebek.  Just the two of them?  Kind of uncomfortable, maybe.  Here’s the winning question:

“Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country?”

Answer…

Romania!

Yang said this year’s questions were “challenging,” but that he didn’t change his strategy. “I just built on what I already knew.”

The man knew his Romania.  Meanwhile…

Oregon’s Arjun Kandaswamy, 14, an eighth grader at Meadow Park Middle School in Beaverton, won second place and a $15,000 college scholarship. 

As well as two months of his parents refusing to speak to him.  You can tell in the picture above.

Source: National Geographic.