If you thought you spied Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek around town this week, you weren’t mistaken. The formerly moustachioed game show personality was back again this year to host the annual National Geographic Bee, which finished up today by crowning Eric Yang, 13, a seventh-grader at Griffin Middle School in The Colony, TX, with the first place title.
The winning question was: Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country? Do you know the answer? The final series of questions (and their answers) are in the video above.
Yang takes home an impressive $25,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society and, new this year, a trip to the Galápagos Islands with Alex Trebek. No joke. Sounds like a hoot.
Second-place winner and recipient of a $15,000 college scholarship was Arjun Kandaswamy, 14, an eighth-grader at Meadow Park Middle School in Beaverton, OR. Third place and a $10,000 college scholarship went to Shantan Krovvidi, 13, a seventh-grader at Ligon Middle School in Raleigh, NC.