<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The show's host, Mario Lopez, tells PEOPLE he wanted to help her, but was told that he couldn't talk to the contestants while they were answering questions. "It was a very intense moment. It's live TV. You don't know what the question is until you get up there. And I believe that she misunderstood it. She went down the wrong road and couldn't figure out how to get back to the right one," he says. "I felt really badly for her." The beauty contestant's video on YouTube has received more than 2 million hits thanks to her amazingly off-the-mark answer at Friday night's pageant, when she was queried about why Americans are so bad at geography. Specifically, she was asked why one-fifth of Americans can't find the United States on a map. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps," she ventured. During her meandering response, she also tossed in out-of-the-blue references to "the Iraq" and "Asian countries" and their need for the support of the American educational system in identifying the United States on the map. Upton is described as a varsity athlete and student leader at Lexington High School, where she graduated in June with a 3.5 GPA. Despite the on-camera gaffe, Upton finished as third runner-up.</div></p> I wonder how she pulled a 3.5. Actually I don't really wonder.</p> -Petey</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ToddMacCulloch11)</div><div class='quotemain'>The video was painful to watch</div></p> Haha... I enjoyed it very much sir!</p> -Petey</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti)</div><div class='quotemain'>I think I'm in love.</div> With Ralph? That's a cartoon ghoti! Hope you never claim that I haven't looked out for you!</p> -Petey</p>
Though on another note, ghoti is on to something. My granny always told me to date dumb girls, smart ones would leave me. This applies for everyone!</p> -Petey</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Petey)</div><div class='quotemain'> Though on another note, ghoti is on to something. My granny always told me to date dumb girls, smart ones would leave me. This applies for everyone!</p> -Petey </p> </div></p> </p> That girl will believe anything you tell her.</p> Unfortunately, you can't marry her unless you want dumb kids.</p> </p>
