We all know beauty pageant contestants don’t enter for their brains. After all, if they were intellectually gifted, they’d enter science fairs and debating competitions instead.

And most of the time, it doesn’t really matter. So long as the girls are smart enough to smile and put one foot in front of the other they can zoom right through the competition. That is, until the infamous question round.

This is where sweet-natured Miss Teen South Carolina stumbles. To be fair, the question about educating American students about local geography is challenging. But I don’t think anyone expected her monologue about helping South Africans and Iraqis.

At least she’s hot, right?