Not really the right coherent answer by Miss South Carolina Teen USA

Lauren Caitlin Upton represented Miss South Carolina Teen USA. She graduated with a 3.5 GPA from Lexington High School, and was a varsity athlete and student leader.

She actually participated in pageants to help improve her communication skills.

Unfortunately, that was not the case when host Mario Lopez asked a "thought-provoking final question" selected at random.

The question was: "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think that is?"

Lauren Caitlin answered: "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children."

Mario Lopez couldn't stop her because of pageant rules, but I think he should have just to save her and the rest of the tv viewers.

"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno joked, "People in South Carolina [are] filing out now."

Fox News Channel's Andrew Levy sarcastically noted, "Whitney Houston says she no longer believe the children are our future."

One person, Pete Garbacki, commented that "the only intelligent thing she did was to specify 'U.S. Americans.' Canadians and Mexicans are also 'Americans' technically. We are of the United States. That is actually an intelligent thing that many of your readers are too dense to understand."

Caitlin said she "completely misunderstood" the geography question posed to her. "I didn't do anything wrong. I wasn't expecting [the question]. I lost my train of thought."

Here's the video

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I wonder if they are going to start "dumbing" down next year's questions.