Russian teens win world geography bee
By Glenn Chapman | China Daily | Updated: 2011-07-29 07:50
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California - They had to identify countries and regions of the world by economies, politics, latitudes - even by a type of tortoise.
On Wednesday, the National Geographic world championship between teenagers from Canada, Russia and China's Taiwan region hinged on knowing which island has a population of about 57,000 people, with most settlements on its West coast.
US game show host Alex Trebek, who presided over the "brain Olympics" at Google's campus in the California city of Mountain View, added that little of the large island is fit for farming.
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