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TWELVE YEAR OLD BONNY JAIN WINS THE 2006 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEE AND A $25,000 SCHOLARSHIP

Bonny Jain, who has won the 2006 National Geographic Bee and a $25,000 scholarship prize, would travel to Greece, a place he really wants to go in order to study the ruins and learn about Greece's classical tradition. Preparing for the Geographic Bee means much more than knowing world capitals, names of various tribes and historic landmarks and crucial dates, Bonny feels. For over the years the questions have also been involving analogies. This year for instance, there was this question: "Urdu is to Pakistan as Sinhalese is to what?" "I have a lot of fun," he says chuckling. "I play tennis, and I love to travel." "And in preparing for this competition, while there was a lot of hard work and tension, there was also a lot of fun." Courtesy : Pankaz Chandmal Hingarh, Mumbai.