Sixth-grader really knows his places in the world.Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard Do you know what country Yalta is in? Eleven-year-old Sam Brandt of Eugene didn't. But that's one of the few world geography questions the Roosevelt Middle School student didn't know Friday during the Oregon Geographic Bee at Western Oregon University History Originally established in 1856 by Oregon pioneers as "Monmouth University", a private college, and later merged with another private institution (Bethel College near Rickreall) to become "Christian College. in Monmouth. He did miss a couple of other questions, but when all was said and done, Brandt returned to Eugene as the state geography bee champion. That won him a May 20-21 trip to Washington, D.C., to compete against winners from other states for a $25,000 grand prize. "I've been studying a lot," the modest sixth-grader said. One hundred students in the fourth through eighth grades qualified for the state tournament, and of the 10 students who made the finals, four were from Eugene. Besides Brandt, fourth-grader Max Reed of Fox Hollow French Immersion French immersion is a form of bilingual education in which a child who does not speak French as his or her first language receives instruction in school in French. Jurisdictions offering it Canada School, homeschooler Landon Hawes and Lewis Gilmore, a student at Spencer Butte Spencer Butte is a prominent landmark in Lane County, Oregon, United States, south of Eugene. The peak has an elevation of 2055 feet[1] (626 m). Spencer Butte is accessible from Spencer Butte Park and has several hiking trails to the summit. Middle School, also made the finals. The final 10 students were whittled down to three through double elimination, Brandt said. And then there were two, Brandt and eighth-grader Trevor Cox of Medford. Each was asked the same question until a champion emerged. Both correctly answered the first question and then missed the second question: "Name the geologic age the world is currently in?" Answer: Cenozoic. It came right after the Ice Age, you know. Third question: "What South American country replaced the sucre with the U.S. dollar as its official currency after a late 1990s economic crash?" Cox said Venezuela. "Once he said Venezuela, I was just really happy," Brandt said. Of course he was because he knew the correct answer: Ecuador. How? "Because I happened to be reviewing currencies about a week before the contest," Brandt said. Of course you were. What else would a sixth-grader be doing these days? Having a strong knowledge of geography is important, especially with a war going on halfway around the world, said Sheri Ruegsegger, the bee's state coordinator. ``International tensions have really brought home to us the importance of having a good ground in geography,'' Ruegsegger reminded the crowd before the competition began. Bee contestant Sujung Lim, who is in seventh grade at French Prairie French Prairie is a prairie located in Marion County, Oregon, United States, in the Willamette Valley between the Willamette River and the Pudding River, north of Salem. It was named for some of the earliest settlers of that part of the Oregon Country, French Canadian/Métis Middle School in Woodburn, said she was saddened by the general public's lack of geography knowledge. ``One in three Americans do not know where the Pacific Ocean is, and that's not good,'' Lim said. This was the third state geography bee in a row for Brandt, who placed fourth in the state last year. The first year Brandt went to the state tournament, as a fourth-grader, he befriended Alex King Alexander King (born 17 January 1975 He scored a try on his England debut in 1997 and made his first Test appearance at Twickenham as a replacement against South Africa in 1998. King was left out of the World Cup squad in 1999, but bounced back to regain his spot. , an eighth-grader from Eugene who won the state championship two years ago. Now a sophomore at Sheldon High School Sheldon High School may refer to:
Reed finished in a tie for fourth in the tournament. Not bad for a kid who just wanted to be the last man standing from the 10 Fox Hollow students who made it to state. Asked if he can name all 50 state capitals, Reed said: "I can name more than my mom." What's the capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant. of Kentucky? "Frankfort." Nice. "We've got a little thing going here," Sara Brandt said of the mentoring relationship between her son and the other two Eugene boys. Can you say dynasty An application development system for enterprise client/server environments from Dynasty Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (www.dynasty.com). Introduced in 1993, it is a repository-driven system that supports Windows, Mac and Motif clients and NT, OS/2 and major Unix servers and databases. ? Oh, in case you don't have an atlas and it was driving you mad, Yalta is in Ukraine. Duh duh interj. Used to express disdain for something deemed stupid or obvious, especially a self-evident remark. [Imitative of an utterance attributed to slow-witted people.] . The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. contributed to this report. |
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