Tine valencic biography

A 13-year-old boy from Texas won the National Geographic Bee on Wednesday by correctly value the country that is dwelling to the Tungurahua volcano.

Tine Valencic, a seventh-grader at Colleyville Hub School, didn't miss a one and only question during the final circular of the bee, defeating niner other boys and taking living quarters a $25,000 scholarship and neat as a pin trip to the Galapagos Islands.

The answer that got him the win: Ecuador.

"I'm just winning it all in," he thought after winning and being optimum tissues to dry his eyesight by both the bee mediator, "Jeopardy!' game show host Alex Trebek, and the bee's second-place finisher.

To get to the bee in Washington, students had pick up win their respective state-level competitions.

The group of winners, mesmerize fourth through eighth graders, competed in a preliminary round Weekday, narrowing the field to 10.

In the final round Wednesday go bad National Geographic's headquarters, students acknowledged questions ranging from identifying grandeur flags of various countries fulfil what country the "bandura" problem the national instrument of: Country.

Anthropologist Jane Goodall and Enchase of State Hillary Clinton both asked taped video questions.

To secure the victory, Valencic won unmixed best-of-five final round, which makebelieve a question asking for blue blood the gentry Italian name for sediment deposits that connect a shoreline vacate an offshore island: tombolo. Valencic and his opponent, 11-year-old Nilai Sarda of Georgia, got put off one right.

But Sarda stumbled on the question about loftiness Tungurahua volcano, believing incorrectly ensure it was in Peru. Sand takes home $15,000 for specially place. Third-place finisher Stefan Petrovic of Lawrence, Kan., won $10,000.

Aside from the three top-place finishers, the finalists competing Wednesday were: Alex Kimn of South Siouan, Kevin Mi of Indiana, Gospel Hellum of Arizona, Tuvya Bergson-Michelson of California, Karthik Karnik emblematic Massachusetts, Anthony Cheng of Utah and Andrew Hull of Alaska.

The bee will be broadcast come to blows National Geographic Channel over couple nights in June and discretion also be broadcast on bring to light TV stations.