Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez, who was crowned Miss USA on June 9, couldn't identify the capital of her home state during an interview with The Todd Show on Monday, June 16. According to a well-placed source, Sanchez, who was crowned Miss Nevada on January 12, 2014, competed for the Miss California crown in 2010, 2011 and 2012, failing to win each time. A source claimed to FOX411 that the beauty queen "never actually moved to Nevada, but continued to work at Disney and live in California, setting up some minimum paper trail to appear like she was in Nevada and allow her to compete." “[Las Vegas] is my home,” she fold FOX411 Thursday. “I have a house there with a friend.” 
 
 "I actually had an agent that was working me in Nevada a lot so I figured why not work in that state, and then I looked into the pageant program because I had done pageants before," she explained.
– Congratulations, America: You have crowned a Miss USA who doesn't know the capital of her own state. Nia Sanchez, Miss Nevada as well as Miss USA, went on The Todd Show Monday and, during a quiz on the radio show, was asked to name Nevada's capital. Her response, according to Us: "Oh, um, ah, oh my gosh." The host helpfully provided the answer: Carson City. "Thank you, I was going to say that!" Sanchez responded. "I was like, that one DJ host on MTV, back in the day, his name, that's how I always remembered it. Carson Daly, that guy!" Last week, Sanchez defended herself against claims that she actually lives in California, not Nevada, and simply set up a "paper trail" to make it look like she was a Nevada resident. Sanchez insisted to Fox News that there is "no truth" to those claims, and that she lived in the state almost a year and a half (apparently not quite long enough to memorize the capital) before being crowned Miss Nevada.