Top 10 Awkward Moments

#9. Elocutionary Beauty

Granted, the question itself was a bit appalling: Why are one-fifth of Americans not able to locate the United States on a map? But Miss Teen South Carolina mangled her answer so badly in the Miss Teen U.S.A. beauty pageant that she became the butt of many a late-night-show joke and for days was one of the most-searched-for people on the Internet. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps," her answer began and spiraled downward from there. She later claimed she "completely misunderstood" the question.

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