<p>Ashgabat, Turkmenistan</p>
<p>Athens, Greece</p>
<p>Beijing, China</p>
<p>another one:
Washington DC, US</p>
<p>and another one:
Vatican City, Vatican City</p>
<p>Manama, Bahrain</p>
<p>Canberra, Australia</p>
<p>Mexico D.F., Mexico.</p>
<p>Khartoum, Sudan</p>
<p>Reykjavik, Iceland</p>
<p>Brasilia, Brazil</p>
<p>Paris, France</p>
<p>Funny story:</p>
<p>I was in the New Jersey/National Geographic State Geography Bee in eighth grade. To qualify, I set the school record by being the first to answer every question correctly at the schoolwide level. My ego got inflated and I didn't brush up on my geographic knowledge until the night before the state bee, when I found a list online of all the countries and their capitals. I printed it out and memorized it in the car on the way to Rutgers, where it was being held.</p>
<p>There was no way I was going to memorize all the capitals in a twenty-minute car ride. However, one thing that stood out was that Bolivia had two capitals: Sucre and La Paz.</p>
<p>The way the bee works, is there are 101 state finalists who get broken up into groups of, like, 25 or so. In these groups, they proceed very much like a spelling bee, going through all 25 students with one question each for eight rounds. The top ten scores (from all groups combined) then face off in the finals in front of the ninety left behind. </p>
<p>By the sixth round, myself and maybe three or four others in my group of 25 had answered all correctly. Then they asked me to identify a country with two capitals. I answered Bolivia, and everyone gasped...it was easily one of the hardest questions they asked in the first stage. </p>
<p>My seventh question I got wrong (I stupidly identified the Aquitaine region as part of Spain, not France), and with a score of 7/8, I finished one spot out of the ten finalists.</p>
<p>Anyways, ctmomof3: tell your kid to brush up on capitals, top exports and industries, current leaders, famous leaders, current events, famous wars, and, oddly enough, the flora and fauna found in the country. They ask a bunch of obscure things about flora and fauna in the final stage (in which I would have been easily eliminated).</p>
<p>Oh, and...</p>
<p>SUCRE and LA PAZ, BOLIVIA</p>
<p>I was in the Virginia state bee in eighth grade. I got 7/8 questions right in my group. Out the the 100 finalists Only 9 had gotten all eight right. 8 kids (including me) were vying for the final spot and we were taken into a seperate room. One kid got out the first question and then me along with others got out with the nxt question. I remember it was like "what is the second tallest mountain in the karakoran mountain region" (part of the himilayans). I said Gasherbrum II and it was freaking Gasherbrum I!! I was to punch that guy in the face. I was mad, but I got like 17th in a state bee so im pretty proud of myself</p>
<p>Moscow, Russia</p>
<p>Phenom Phenh, Cambodia</p>
<p>N'Djamena, Chad</p>
<p>Manila, Philippines</p>
<p>Kampala, Uganda</p>
<p>Andorra la Vella, Andorra</p>