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" When Miss Teen South Carolina botched her answer to a question about the American education system during the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant, her embarrassing slip-up became an immediate YouTube sensation. But she is far from the only beauty contestant to give a less-than-brilliant answer during her Q&amp;amp;amp;A. WD rounded up the funniest pageant answers to be found on the Internet. While some make no sense and others just make you cringe, they&amp;#039;re all sure to make you laugh. One-State Wonder      Miss Hawaii Nadine Tanega&amp;#039;s strategy at the 1992 Miss World America pageant must&amp;#039;ve been &amp;quot;when in doubt, mention Hawaii&amp;quot; because that&amp;#039;s the only state she could think of when asked why she&amp;#039;s proud to be an American. &amp;quot;We are truly the land of the great. From the rocky shores of\u2026Hawaii\u2026to the beautiful sandy beaches of\u2026Hawaii\u2026America is our home.&amp;quot; While it&amp;#039;s possible she was enlisted by the Hawaii tourism bureau to drum up visitors, we think Tanega (who came in as third runner-up) just needs to travel more.  Just a Pretty Face      Who wouldn&amp;#039;t be nervous answering a question onstage in a bikini? But you&amp;#039;d still think Miss Philippines 2001 contestant Jeanie Anderson would know better than to admit she prefers beauty over brains. Asked &amp;quot;If you could be beautiful and not so smart, or brilliant and not so beautiful, what would you be and why?&amp;quot; Anderson responded, &amp;quot;Well, I&amp;#039;d rather choose to be beautiful, um because, to be beautiful it&amp;#039;s natural. But being smart you can learn...you can learn, um a lot of things...a lot of things from the experience...you can learn from a lot of things being smart.&amp;quot; Clearly, she&amp;#039;s in the right business. She Is What She Is      At the 2003 Miss Universe pageant, Miss Serbia and Montenegro, Sanja Papic, was asked, &amp;quot;If you could be either water or fire, which would you be and why?&amp;quot; Either she didn&amp;#039;t know how to answer or didn&amp;#039;t like the question, because instead of choosing, she said: &amp;quot;Well, I&amp;#039;m a human being and I don&amp;#039;t know how is it to be a fire or a water, and from that reason I really don&amp;#039;t have answer on this question because I&amp;#039;m a human being, I&amp;#039;m a girl, which has an emotion, and fire and water doesn&amp;#039;t have.&amp;quot; She still came in as third runner-up, but clearly folks in Serbia and Montenegro are not big on metaphor.  Say Wha?      When asked why she thinks one-fifth of Americans can&amp;#039;t locate the United States on a map at the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant, Miss Teen South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton, just strung a bunch of nonsensical words together. &amp;quot;I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don&amp;#039;t have maps and uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, in South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.&amp;quot; Despite her gallant effort, Upton came in as the third runner-up. But we think host Mario Lopez should get his own award for (sort of) keeping a straight face during her answer. Accentuate the Positive      During the 2007 Miss Alabama pageant, when contestant Jen Gilbert was asked, &amp;quot;Who should be held accountable for the prison abuse scandal in Iraq,&amp;quot; she mustered the most innocuous answer possible, saying: &amp;quot;I believe that um\u2026 that our President and the people of our country are doing all we can to help Iraq and I just believe that the prisoners that were held in Iraq should\u2026 I just believe that we should do our best to help\u2026 to help reach our goal in that country.&amp;quot; While she didn&amp;#039;t end up placing, at least she didn&amp;#039;t point any fingers. The Folly of Youth      Despite mumbling a series of apologies for not being able to answer the question, &amp;quot;What role did your family play for you as candidate in Miss Binibining Pilipinas?&amp;quot; contestant Janina San Miguel was still crowned Miss Philippines 2008. Perhaps it was her explanation of why she couldn&amp;#039;t answer\u2014&amp;quot;This was really my first pageant ever because I am 17 years old. I did not expect that I came from one of the top 10&amp;quot;\u2014that won the judges over in the end. Miss Evasion  During the 2009 Miss USA competition, Miss Arizona, Alicia-Monique Blanco, was asked whether the United States should have universal healthcare as a right of citizenship. &amp;quot;I think this is an issue of integrity regardless of which end of the political spectrum that I stand on. I was raised in a family to know right from wrong and politics, whether or not you fall in the middle, the left or the right, it&amp;#039;s an issue of integrity, no matter what your opinion is, and I say that with the utmost conviction.&amp;quot; A very noble attempt at staying bipartisan, but, unfortunately for Miss Blanco, few were fooled and she came in as second runner-up. Don&amp;#039;t Know Much About History      We don&amp;#039;t know when or where this Junior Miss pageant occurred, but all we know is this contestant needs to brush up on her American history. When asked, &amp;quot;What is the most important event in our nation&amp;#039;s history?&amp;quot; she responded, &amp;quot;In my opinion, Pearl Harbor, which occurred on December 7, 1941, is the most significant event in our nation&amp;#039;s history because\u2026because it ended the Great Depression and it forced them into the World War II\u2026and\u2026our country experienced patriotism and unity.&amp;quot; At least she got the date right. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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