Watch National Geographic Staff Answer Nearly Impossible Geography Questions | National Geographic

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·Nov 11, 2024

From the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC, welcome to the 29th National Geographic Bee. What are we doing here?

The 4th grade! I was a participant of the GOP, so I might be pretty good at it. So let's go!

Friday, more than 40 species of cacti can be found in the Guadalupe Mountains, located in a desert that extends from Mexico into Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Name this desert.

Skip that. We get to pass. It's for Wallman desert. That is correct.

Beta! Alaska's Koontz new wilderness area, located on Admiralty Island, has one of the highest concentrations of brown bears in the world. This wilderness area lies 50 miles south of what important city?

Fairbanks! I didn't study; I should have studied more! People actually get these—kids get these.

Juno! Juno! The correct answer! That is right! Did you know? Yeah, do you know? No, Fairbanks! Do you know Juno? Juno!

I'il on the glacial forces that created the waterways and rocky outcrops that define the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness also created a large lake near its eastern border. Name this lake.

Repeat the question. Repeat the question, please!

Which is the next question? Is it one of the five?

Greatly! Who is supposed to get these? Superior?

Yeah! Lake Superior! It makes an appear— that is the superior answer.

Yes! The Oder River flows through a lagoon into what sea?

The sea—the flowing nature—Baltic Sea!

The Baltic Sea! You are the Black Sea!

Baltic! That's what I said!

Isla de la Juventud is part of which country, dealer?

What? I'm going to say Brazil. That's right!

Scientists are planning to reintroduce tigers to Central Asia fifty years after they became extinct in the region. One potential site for reintroduction is the Almaty region in which country?

I was not paying attention. What do you have?

Kazakhstan! The correct answer is Kazakhstan! Ready? Kazakhstan!

Let me know when they do the general accepted accounting principle quiz. Then I'll come back down.

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