Here's a geography question for you:
What point on earth is the farthest from the center of the earth?
The answer is actually not "the top of Mount Everest"--which was the answer that sprung into the mind of this 47-year old simpleton. I assumed that answer was too obvious to be correct, but I didn't have a better one.
The good news is, if you had been competing in the National Geographic Bee like the 12-year old who just won it, the question would have been phrased in a way that made it clear that the answer wasn't Mount Everest:
Because Earth bulges at the equator, the point that is farthest from Earth's center is the summit of a peak in Ecuador. Name this peak.
Can you name that peak?
Me, neither.
But 12-year old Sathwik Karnik could.
The answer is "Chimborazo."
By getting that and many other questions right, Sathwik won the Bee, a $25,000 scholarship, a trip to the Galapagos, and a lifetime subscription to National Geographic.
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