Some Interesting fact about Miss America Pageant

4Talent Segment

This segment has always drawn people's attention. The talent segment is majorly responsible for winning the competition. The contestants who added to the fun element was Miss Pennsylvania who played the song 'Listen' on her saxophone and wore a sequined pantsuit which was backless. Though it didn't work for her, she became a highlight of this pageant. Miss Louisiana Laryssa Bonacquisti came out as a self-taught ventriloquist who charmed everyone yodeling with her two dummies, Lucky and Lucy, adding to the fun element. This past week she won both for talent and the swimsuit competition. Miss Florida, Sara Zeng sauntered down the pageant's runaway as the first contestant and later won the swimsuit award and $1000 scholarship. In the preliminaries she gave a delightful piano performance and expressed her love for modeling:"I love modeling. It's always been a hobby of mine." 

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5Pageant Winner 2018

This year in Miss America 2018 Cara Mund of North Dakota won the title and was crowned by the former crown bearer Savvy Shields. Mund is a trained National Dance Champion. At the pageant she gave a self-choreographed performance in Jazz style, on Michael Jackson's song 'The Way You Make Me Feel". She proclaimed that her mother is her role model as she had fought cancer thrice in her life. Already an Ivy League Honors Graduate she dreams of becoming the first female elected Governor of North Dakota. Now having won the pageant she is set to carry out her duties for a year as Miss America 2018. Later, she plans to attend law school at the University of Notre Dame and hopes to achieve a Doctorate. 

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