26th National Geographic Bee

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The 26th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2014, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Soledad O'Brien hosted this event for the first time, replacing Alex Trebek.

Eighth-grader Akhil Rekulapelli, from Loudoun County, Virginia won the competition, beating out 52 other competitors representing the 50 U.S. states, Pacific territories, and Department of Defense dependent schools.^[1]

In 2014, a record number of 9 perfect scores in the national preliminary competition was recorded. As a result, a sudden-death tiebreaker took place between 8 state representatives including contestants from Alabama, Utah, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois and Washington.^{[citation needed]}

Akhil Rekulapelli, the 2014 National Geographic Bee Champion, received a $50,000 scholarship, a lifetime membership to the National Geographic Society, and a trip for 2 to the Galapagos Islands. Ameya Mujumdar, the second-place finisher received $25,000. Tuvya Bergson-Michelson, the third-place finisher received $10,000, and Pranit Nanda, the fourth-place finisher, received $1,000. Other top ten finishers received $500.^{[citation needed]}

2014 state representatives[]

State	Name	School	City/Town	Grade	Place
Alabama	Christian Gonzalez		Harvest	8th
Alaska	J. Gray Harver		Kodiak	8th
Arizona	Ari Mehta		Phoenix	6th
Arkansas	Christian Boekhout	Hot Springs Intermediate School	Hot Springs	8th
Atlantic Territories	Jael King			6th
California	Tuvya Bergson-Michelson	The Nueva School	San Carlos	7th	3rd Place
Colorado	Pranit Nanda	Aurora Quest K-8	Aurora	8th	4th Place
Connecticut	Jimena Phipps	Middlesex Middle School	Darien	6th
Delaware	Sohan Shah		Newark	8th
Department of Defense	Patrick Lewallen		Japan	8th
District of Columbia	Quentin Powers		District of Columbia	8th
Florida	Ameya Mujumdar		Tampa	5th	2nd Place
Georgia	Ansel Ahabue		Lilburn	8th	8th Place (tie)
Hawaii	Mika Ishii		Honolulu	6th
Idaho	Amrit Singh		Grangeville	8th
Illinois	Mantra Dave		Normal	6th
Indiana	Sean Ives		Crown Point	8th
Iowa	Shirlin Kingston		Ames	5th
Kansas	Chinmay Patil	California Trail Middle School	Olathe	6th
Kentucky	Nikhil Krishna		Corbin	8th
Louisiana	Benjamin Link		New Orleans	8th
Maine	Vincent Falardeau		Saco	8th
Maryland	Abhinav Karthikeyan		Damascus	5th
Massachusetts	Nicholas Rommel	Diamond Middle School	Lexington	7th	8th Place (tie)
Michigan	Philip Huang		Ann Arbor	8th
Minnesota	Lucas Eggers		Eden Prairie	6th
Mississippi	Victoria Gong	St. Aloysius	Vicksburg	7th
Missouri	Evan Hensel		Wentzville	8th
Montana	Jesse Zhang		Missoula	8th
Nebraska	Brendan Pennington	Prairie Lane Elementary School	Omaha	5th
Nevada	Benjamin Hand		Las Vegas	8th
New Hampshire	Kevin Owens		Bedford	7th
New Jersey	Charles Mills	Trinity Christian School	Montville	7th
New Mexico	Gabriel Cuneo		Albuquerque	8th
New York	Gabriel Straus		Manhattan	8th
North Carolina	Sravya Kuchibhotla		Cary	7th
North Dakota	Erik Johnson		Bismarck	8th
Ohio	Kyle Yu		Westlake	8th	6th Place
Oklahoma	Aniket Dehardrai		Norman	8th
Oregon	Tor Parsons	Roosevelt Middle School	Eugene	7th
Pacific Territories	Alex Eagan		Pago Pago	6th
Pennsylvania	Ramya Muthukrishnan		West Chester	8th
Rhode Island	Maxwell Levine	Wheeler School	Providence	8th	8th Place (tie)
South Carolina	Krish Patel	Pinewood Preparatory School	Summerville	8th	5th Place
South Dakota	Bridger Gordon		Sturgis	8th
Tennessee	Christopher Damon		Nashville	8th
Texas	Benjamin Benjadol	Central Junior High School	Euless	7th
Utah	Gauri Garg		Logan	7th
Vermont	Nicholas Norton	Essex Middle School	Essex Junction	8th
Virginia	Akhil Rekulapelli	Stone Hill Middle School	Ashburn	8th	2014 National Champion
Washington	Andrew Ma	The Evergreen School	Shoreline	8th
West Virginia	Andrew Christy		Morgantown	8th
Wisconsin	Asha Jain		Minocqua	8th	7th Place
Wyoming	Degory Day		Evanston	5th

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