Bonny Jain (born June 22, 1993) is an academic competitor. He was a 2-time qualifer for the National Geographic Bee national finals, placing fourth in the 2005 event and winning the 2006 National Geographic Bee. He is also a 3-time national qualifier for the Scripps National Spelling Bee national finals, finishing 31st in 2003, 28th in 2005 and 14th in 2006. Jain lives in Moline, Illinois, and is a freshman at Moline High School and was selected to the 2007 Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association All-State 1st Team. This year, he returned to keep score at the 2007 Illinois state Geography Bee.

Bonny Jain has said that he is very interested in John Deere machines in his interview on the 2006 National Geographic Bee DVD. His parents say that he is self-motivated and teaches them new thing's quite often, especially the "69". He is of Bahamian-African/Indian/Bosnian/Hergozovinian/Croatian/Sri Lankan/Burmese descent, but considers himself a "nigger" and wears bright pink turtle shell glasses. He is known to have a large nose with a large diamond stud that his parents purchased him after his success at the 2006 National Geographic Bee and a protruding jaw.

References

http://www.ihssbca.org/awards/2007aa_allstate.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060524-geographic-bee.html

http://www.spellingbee.com/06bee/rounds/Round07.htm

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r109:27:./temp/~r109Zou0dG::a