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WASHINGTON -- Fourteen-year-old Andrew Wojtanik had a thick study guide his competitors didn't have as he prepared for the 16th annual National Geographic Bee: a 432-page world almanac that he made himself.
"It's got everything you need to know about all the countries -- its currency, its ethnic groups, its mountains, rivers, all that stuff," said Andrew, an eighth-grader from Lakewood Middle School in Overland Park, Kan. He beat 55 other semifinalists, ages...