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Winning Geography Bee is Family Tradition
After eight rounds of competition involving winners from each social studies class in grades five through eight, only Joe and David F., an eighth-grader, remained on the Ceres M. Horn Theatre stage. Each was to write the answer to the question: Which Alabama city was the subject of a 1955 and 1956 bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. to protest bus segregation? Joe gave the correct response, Montgomery, to win the bee.
Competitors received a wide range of geography-based questions supplied by the National Geographic Society. They were expected to be able to name the second most populated country in North America, the exotic fish that was found near the Chesapeake Bay last summer, the Georgia City that was captured by Union forces and burned to the ground in 1864, and lots more. In some rounds, students answered questions orally, one by one. In others, remaining competitors had to respond in writing to the same question.
After eight rounds of competition involving winners from each social studies class in grades five through eight, only Joe and David F., an eighth-grader, remained on the Ceres M. Horn Theatre stage. Each was to write the answer to the question: Which Alabama city was the subject of a 1955 and 1956 bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. to protest bus segregation? Joe gave the correct response, Montgomery, to win the bee.
Competitors received a wide range of geography-based questions supplied by the National Geographic Society. They were expected to be able to name the second most populated country in North America, the exotic fish that was found near the Chesapeake Bay last summer, the Georgia City that was captured by Union forces and burned to the ground in 1864, and lots more. In some rounds, students answered questions orally, one by one. In others, remaining competitors had to respond in writing to the same question.