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March 30, 2007

Geography bee winner tops spelling bee champ

PROVIDENCE -- We can tell you who won the statewide Geography Bee today -- but we can't tell you the winning answer.

Samuel Curry of Broad Rock Middle School in Wakefield, in South Kingstown, took first place in the annual contest held at Rhode Island College and organized by the National Geographic Society.

But he and his fellow contestants were among many participating in geography bees across the country today -- all the way to Hawaii.

The same question is being asked at all of them -- and because of that, contest organizers have embargoed its publication until tomorrow, after the contests are over.

We can also tell you who came in second and third in the Rhode Island competition.

Runner-up to Samuel is Rosa Nguyen, of John Deering Middle School in West Warwick.

And if her name sounds a bit familiar, that's because she won the statewide spelling bee last weekend.

Third place went to Timothy Carr, of St. Margaret School in Rumford, in East Providence.

-- With reports from Journal staff photographer Glenn Osmundson

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