Way to go, kid:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Quick: Cochabamba is the third-largest conurbation in what country?
Your answer might be, "Huh?" But 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal answered "Bolivia" to clinch the 20th annual National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.
A conurbation is a large, densely populated urban area — and Cochabamba is the third-largest one in the South American country.
Akshay's correct answer capped a two-day event in which he got every question right. A sixth-grader at Lux Middle School in Lincoln, Neb., he won a $25,000 scholarship.
This impresses the heck out of me. I have trouble getting from my back yard to my front door, even with a map, so geography isn't one of my favorite categories on "Jeopardy!" With my luck, it would be the Final Jeopardy category if I ever got on the show.
