25-05-2016 17:53 via salon.com

Florida 6th-grader wins National Geographic Bee

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida sixth-grader has won the 2016 National Geographic Bee.
Twelve-year-old Rishi Nair of Seffner, Florida, won the top honors Wednesday at the 28th annual Bee in Washington.
Nair clinched the win by correctly answering “Galapagos Islands” to the question: “A new marine sanctuary will protect sharks and other wildlife around Isla Wolf in which archipelago in the Pacific Ocean?”
Nair gets a $50,000 scholarship, a trip to Alaska and Glacier Bay
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