That "DOES.NOT.COM.PUTE." gag earlier in the thread had it right on actually.
You can see from her body language and where she looks with her eyes (a person's eye movements correlate to access of brain and memory functions) that she had been coached, or programmed, for this part of the competition (poorly) by having been told that should a question of world politics or global community come up, she should try to impress the crowd by making sure to correctly identify the three general news-making locations of the time -- Iraq, South Africa (because something like Darfur would be too hard for her to remember), and Asia (because something like Pakistan or North Korea would be too hard for her to remember). The problem was that she took a U.S.-centric question and tried to incorporate her coach's instructions into the equation, resulting in the brain bomb you just saw.
EDIT: Oh dear God, tell me this was from some broadcast yet today. I checked to see how far out this loony got booted in the competition, only to find out she made the group of five finalists. WHY GOD -- WHY?!