Year

1989

Winner's
Name

Jack
Staddon

State

Grade

David
Stillman

Lawson
1992
Fite

1993

Noel
Erinjeri

Answer

Notes

Name the flat

intermontane
area located at
an elevation of
Altiplano
about 10,000
feet (3,050 m) in
the central
Andes.

First
Champion

Mount Erebus is
a volcano on
Antarctica
which
continent?

First female
champion

Eighth

What type of
landform is
commonly
Mountain
associated with
orographic
precipitation?

Had a perfect
score in the
finals

Washingt
Eighth
on

Many coastal
countries have
established socalled
EEZsareas
extending 200
nautical miles
(370 km) from Exclusive
shore over
Economic
which countries Zone
have sovereign
rights for
resource
exploration.
What do the
initials EEZ stand
for?

Had a perfect
score in the
finals

Michigan Eighth

Tagalog is one of
the three main
The
native languages
Philippines
of which island
country in Asia?

Was in the
finals in 1992

Kansas

Eighth

Susannah
Pennsylva
1990 BatkoSixth
nia
Yovino

1991

Final Question

Idaho

1994

1995

1996

1997

Anders
Knospe

Chris
Galeczka

Seyi
Fayanju

Montana Eighth

The Tagus River

roughly divides
which European
Portugal
country into two
agricultural
regions?

Michigan Eighth

Pashtu and Dari

are the official
languages of
which
mountainous,
Afghanistan
landlocked
country in
southwestern
Asia?

Was in the
finals in 1994

Name the
European coprincipality
whose heads of
Andorra
state are the
President of
France and the
Bishop of Urgell.

Had a perfect
score in the
finals;
presented an
object in the
1994 finals,
when he was
the New
Jersey state
champion;
was a
contestant on
the kids game
show Figure It
Out

Asia's most
densely
populated
country has
about three
million people Singapore
and an area of
less than 250
square miles
(402 km). Name
this country.

Was in the
finals in 1996

New
Jersey

Seventh

Alex
Washingt
Seventh
Kerchner on

1998

1999

Petko
Peev

David
Beihl

2000 Felix Peng

Kyle
2001 HaddadFonda

Michigan Eighth

South
Carolina

More than 80
million people
live in the
European
Union's most
populous
member
country. Name
this country.

Germany

The condition
characterized by
unusually cold
ocean
Eighth
temperature in
(homesch the equatorial
La Nia
ooled)
region of the
eastern Pacific
Ocean is known
by what Spanish
name?

First homeschooled
champion;
competed in
1999 Scripps
National
Spelling Bee
championship
later in the
same month

Connectic
Eighth
ut

Name two of the

three largest
Won after 7
sections of
tiebreaker
Denmark, which Jutland,
questions in
include its
Sjaelland and the
mainland
Fyn
Championship
peninsula and
Round, the alltwo largest
time record.
islands.

Washingt
Eighth
on

Below the
equilibrium line
of glaciers there
is a region of
Zone of
melting,
ablation
evaporation, and
sublimation.
Name this zone.

Rhodes
Scholar,
Harvard
graduate; Was
in the finals in
1999

2002

2003

2004

Calvin
McCarter

James
Williams

Andrew
Wojtanik

Lop Nur, a
marshy
depression at
Fifth
China
the east end of
Michigan (homesch
(People's
the Tarim Basin,
ooled)
Republic)
is a nuclear test
site for which
country?

Youngest
champion

Goa, a state in
southwestern
Eighth
Washingt
India, was a
(homesch
on
possession of
ooled)
which country
until 1961?

Also a
competitor in
the National
Middle School
Science Bowl
and National
Science
Olympiad.

Kansas

Eighth

Portugal

Peshawar, a city
in the NorthWest Frontier
Province of
Pakistan, has
had strategic
Khyber Pass
importance for
centuries
because of its
location near
what historic
pass?

Lake Gatn, an
artificial lake
that constitutes
Seventh part of the
Nathan
Minnesot
2005
(homesch Panama Canal
Chagres River
Cornelius a
ooled)
system, was
created by
damming which
river?

Wrote
Afghanistan
to Zimbabwe
guide with
important
information
for each
country.

2006 Bonny Jain Illinois

2007

2008

Caitlin
Snaring

Eighth

Name the
mountains that
extend across
Cambrian
much of Wales,
Mountains
from the Irish
Sea to the Bristol
Channel.

A city that is
divided by a
river of the same
name was the
imperial capital
Eighth
Washingt
of Vietnam for
(homesch
Hu
on
more than a
ooled)
century. Name
this city, which is
still an
important
cultural center.

Akshay
Nebraska Sixth
Rajagopal

The urban area

of Cochabamba
has been in the
news recently
due to protests
over the
privatization of
the municipal
Bolivia
water supply
and regional
autonomy
issues.
Cochabamba is
the third-largest
conurbation in
what country?

Placed 13th in
2006 Scripps
National
Spelling Bee;
was in the
finals in 2005

Had a perfect
score in the
finals; second
female
champion

Had a perfect
score in the
finals.

autonomy
issues.
Cochabamba is
the third-largest
conurbation in
what country?

2009 Eric Yang

2010

Aadith
Moorthy

Texas

Florida

Seventh

Eighth

Won the Bee

on his first
attempt at the
school, state,
and national
level.

Timis County
shares its name
with a tributary
of the Danube
and is located in Romania
the western part
of which
European
country?

Had a perfect
score in the
finals

The largest city

in northern Haiti
was renamed
following Haitis
independence
Cap-Hatien
from France.
What is the
present-day
name of this
city?

Won the bee

the first year
he came to
the National
Level; became
the first
person to win
the bee after
missing his
first question
in the finals.
Achieved a
perfect SAT
score in 2013.

2011

2012

2013

Tine
Valencic

Rahul
Nagvekar

Sathwik
Karnik

Texas

Texas

Seventh

Thousands of
mountain
climbers and
trekkers rely on
Sherpas to aid
their ascent of
Had a perfect
Sagarmatha
Mount Everest.
score in the
National Park
The southern
finals
part of Mount
Everest is
located in which
Nepalese
national park?

Eighth

Name the
Bavarian city
situated on the
Danube River
that was a
legislative seat
of the Holy
Roman Empire
from 1663 to
1806?

Massachu
Seventh
setts

Regensburg

Because Earth
bulges at the
equator, the
point that is
farthest from
Chimborazo
Earth's center is
the summit of a
peak in Ecuador.
Name this peak.

First time
contender at
the NationalLevel Bee;
finished
second in the
2011 Texas
Geographic
Bee, behind
Tine Valencic

First time
contender at
the NationalLevel Bee,
Brother
Karthik Karnik
finished 5th in
National Finals
in 2011, 6th in
National Finals
in 2012

Akhil
2014 Rekulapell Virginia
i

Eighth

The discovery of
a major shale oil
deposit in the
Vaca Muerta
formation in
2010 has led to Argentina
an expansion of
oil drilling in the
Neuquen
province in what
country?

Akhil finished
fourth in 2013