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Get your thinking cap

By TIMES STAFF
Published June 4, 2007


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Caitlin Snaring of Redmond, Wash., did something recently that only one girl had done before - she won the National Geographic Bee in Washington. Caitlin, 14, a homeschooled eighth-grader, didn't miss a question in two days of competition in late May. She was the only girl among this year's 10 finalists and only the second female winner of the 19-year-old contest. The question that won her the $25, 000 scholarship: Name the city that is divided by a river of the same name and that was the imperial capital of Vietnam for more than a century. (Answer: Hue, pronounced Hway).

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