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Learning from a beauty queen's YouTube flub

The questions asked on Miss Teen USA may be significantly easier than any found on "Are you smarter than a 5th grader," but that doesn't mean there's no room for error. Just consider Miss Teen South Carolina's 30 second sound-bite, which was so mystifyingly incoherent, it seemed to bend the rules of time and space.

On being asked why 1/5 of Americans could not locate the United States on...

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