Winners and Winning Question from Geography Bee

Seventh-grader Eric Yang from Texas is this year’s National Geographic Bee winner. The winning question was: 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 won a $25,000 college scholarship, lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society and a trip to the Galápagos Islands with National Geographic Bee moderator and “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek.

Second-place winner and recipient of a $15,000 college scholarship was Oregon’s Arjun Kandaswamy, 14, an eighth-grader at Meadow Park Middle School in Beaverton. Third place and a $10,000 college scholarship went to North Carolina’s Shantan Krovvidi, 13, a seventh-grader at Ligon Middle School in Raleigh.

Nearly 5 million students take part in the National Geographic Bee each year.

- video of winning moment
- Sarah Clark
Director, Media Relations, Education and International
Communications Division
National Geographic Society