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| 2002 and 2003 GEOGRAPHIC BEE | California State Finals First Place |
Fountains of ash rained down on the town of Catania when Mount Etna erupted in October 2002. Name the island where Mount Etna is located. (Sicily) *Ice sheets covered part of what is now the United States during the Pleistocene Epoch, which took place during the Earth's current geologic era. Name the current geologic era. (Cenozoic)
After an economic collapse in the lab 1990s, what South American country declared the U.S. dollar to be its official currency, replacing the Sucre? (Ecuador)
In fact, 14-year-old Henry Yin knew the answer to every question but one at the 15th annual National Geographic Bee California State Finals held on April 4 at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. The National Geographic Society will now provide an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for Yin and a teacher-escort to participate in the National Geographic Bee national championship on May 20 and 21, 2003. The first-place national winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship and a lifetime membership in the Society.
"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek will moderate the national finals on May 21. The program will air on the National Geographic Channel, and afterward on PBS stations, produced by Maryland Public Television. Check local listings for dates and times.
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| 2003 GEOGRAPHIC BEE | California State Finals Top Ten |
Second-place winner
Riley Lewis, Foothill Country Day School, Claremont
Third-place winner
NKolby Hanson, Egan Junior High, Los Altos
Fourth-place winner
Jackson Perry, Polytechnic School, Pasadena
Fifth-place winner (two-way tie)
Akhil Rangaraj, LaPaz Intermediate, Mission Viejo
Fifth-place winner
Jonathan Ambarian, El Tejon, Lebec
Seventh-place winner (three way tie)
Diego Nunez, South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena
Seventh-place winner
Eli Wald, Brandeis Hillel Day School, San Francisco
Seventh-place winner
Charles Chen, Kennedy Middle School, Cupertino
Tenth-place winner
John Ryan, Pleasanton Middle School, Pleasanton
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| 2003 GEOGRAPHIC BEE | California State Finals - 102 Winners |
Nayoung Ahn, San Diego
Robert Alnsworth, Davis
Jonathon Ambarian, Lebec
Alek Arrowsmith, Red Bluff
Tim Bare, Berkeley
Jeffrey Bauer, Solana Beach
Nathan Braunfeld, San Rafael
Stuart Brownlee, Atascadero
Boris Burkov, Los Altos
Elizabeth Burnett, Bonsall
Emma Buschmann, Eureka
Nathan Calixto, San Francisco
Parijat Chakrabarti, Sunnyvale
Stephanie Chang, Sunnyvale
Charles Chen, Cupertino
Raja Chundu, Anaheim
Henry Clock, Mill Valley
Jacob Cohn, Oakland
Jacob Combs, Calabasas
Vladimir Debabov, Burlingame
James DeWitt, Monterey
Kenneth Dowling, Burlingame
Michael Driscoll, Auburn
Katherine Duh, San Francisco
Robbie Eaton, Menlo Park
Asali Echols, San Luis Obispo
Casey Edmondson, Santa Rosa
Aaron Flores, San Jose
Jared Fujii, Los Alamitos
Patrick Gallagher, San Diego
Thomas Gomez, Chula Vista
Joey Goodknight, Grass Valley
Sean Gordon, Danville
David Halperin, Los Angeles
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Robert Hammett, Sonoma
Kolby Hanson, Los Altos
Alex Harder, Oceanside
Garrett Harmsen, Laguna Niguel
Hayden Higgins, Danville
Alexander Hirsch, Elk Grove
Mark Hirschboeck, Rn. St. Margarita
Alex Hopkins, Atherton
Henry Houskeeper, Encinitas
Matthew Jackson, Pleasant Hill
Peter Jarzomb, Long Beach
Sameer Kabir, Granada Hills
Alexander Kwok, Belmont
Jacky Kwong, San Anselmo
Charles La Costa, San Diego
Riley Lewis, Claremont
Michael Ma, Oak Park
Albert Magyar, Los Angeles
Alec Mar, San Francisco
Timothy Marrs, Moraga
Robert Martin, Bakersfield
Hampig Mazian, Canoga Park
Nathan McCurley, Orangevale
Joe McKenna, Walnut Creek
Jack Merwin, Ridgecrest
Jeffrey Mihalik, San Diego
Jeremy Miles, Orange
Deis Molly, Forestville
Timofey Morgun, Sacramento
David Muench, Los Gatos
Olivia Natan, Los Altos
Jesse Ng, Freemont
Stephen Nnodim, Antelope
Diego Nunez, South Pasadena
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Conor O’Sullivan, Bakersfield
Nicholas Olson, Tuolumne
Zakary Ostertag, Weimar
Jeremy Patashnik, San Diego
Jackson Perry, Pasadena
Steven Pestana, Tehachapi
Adam Peterson, Los Altos
Marzhel Pinto, San Ysidro
Laura Poindexter, Hanford
Jeffrey Poon, San Jose
Vijay Prabhakar, Palo Alto
Carrick Puckett, Bakersfield
Christina Pushaw, Malibu
Akhil Rangaraj, Mission Viejo
Nicole Rosenbaum, Garden Grove
John Ryan, Pleasanton
Ayushi Samaddar, Cupertino
Richard Shen, Hercules
Christopher Shinn, San Francisco
Daniel Singh, Downey
Thomas Smerik, Poway
Daniel Soto, San Diego
Eric Spoelstra, Escondido
Daniel Stevens, North Hills
Ryan Tesluk, Modesto
Eric Varney, Palo Alto
Julia Wagner, Sierra Madre
Eli Wald, San Francisco
Jack Weller, Rancho Sante Fe
Austin Whitney, San Juan Capistrano
Elliot Wolfe, San Diego
Raymond Yan, Cerritos
Henry Yin, Fremont
Michael Zumwalt, Paradise
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