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Final Question | National Geographic Bee 2007


00:00:00it’s time now for the championship round

00:00:02a possible five questions whoever comes

00:00:05up with the most correct responses will

00:00:07be the 2007 National Geographic Bee

00:00:10champion I point out girl all right good

00:00:16luck

00:00:17what is the Arabic term for a valley in

00:00:21the hot desert areas of northern Africa

00:00:23and the Middle East that carries a

00:00:24stream occasionally Arabic term put your

00:00:37cards up each of you came up with the

00:00:39same response of Wadi you are each

00:00:42correct put your cards down here’s your

00:00:44next question

00:00:45in late March 2007 Protestant and

00:00:49Catholic political leaders from Northern

00:00:51Ireland agreed to form a power-sharing

00:00:53government that took effect in early May

00:00:55of 2007 the leaders met in what city

00:00:59that lies at the mouth of the login’

00:01:01River put your cards up Belfast is

00:01:12correct two points for each of you

00:01:16question three the second largest oil

00:01:19producer in sub-saharan Africa is also

00:01:22the richest Portuguese speaking country

00:01:25in Africa named this country

00:01:33put your cards up you are both correct

00:01:39with Angola three three the score

00:01:43Lampedusa an island whose geographical

00:01:47location has made it a target for

00:01:49illegal immigrants seeking to enter the

00:01:51European Union from Africa is

00:01:54administered by which country Lampedusa

00:02:03put your cards up Sunil has responded

00:02:08with Spain Caitlyn has responded Italy

00:02:12the country that administers Lampedusa

00:02:15is Italy Kaitlyn leads four to three

00:02:21which means that as we go to our fifth

00:02:23question if she gets it right she wins

00:02:27if Sunil makes a mistake even if Kaitlyn

00:02:32makes a mistake also

00:02:33she wins here’s question five a city

00:02:37that is divided by a river of the same

00:02:39name was the imperial capital of Vietnam

00:02:42for more than a century name this city

00:02:46which is still an important cultural

00:02:49center

00:02:59put your cards up one of you is correct

00:03:06Sunil you wrote down Ho Chi Minh City

00:03:09and that is wrong way is right and that

00:03:13means that Caitlyn staring

00:03:19here at ten Sunil well done man

00:03:25great