Trivia for Tickets: Explorer: 25 Years

The longest running docu-series in the history of cable TV is feting its silver anniversary this week. 

To celebrate those 25 years of teaching discovery through imagery and exploration, National Geographic, in collaboration with Capitol File magazine, will host a premiere screening and reception for the channel’s “Explorer 25 Years” program this Tuesday evening — and K Street Kate has a way that you can be there to meet and greet with National Geographic Correspondent Lisa Ling at the National Geographic Society headquarters.

Here’s how to win:

Photographer Steve McCurry immortalized the haunted eyes of a 12-year-old refugee in a camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on this magazine cover – arguably the most famous National Geographic cover to date.  The first response to kate@kstreetkate.net with subject: Nat Geo to answer the following question correctly will win two tickets to Tuesday’s event.
 

This photo became a National Geographic icon after it was published on the cover in what month and year?

 
*Congratulations to Katherine Tobin who correctly identified June, 1985  as the month the image ran on the cover of National Geographic.*


“Explorer: 25 Years”, will provide an overview of how the series has covered our changing world, including such curiosities as the very first look at the undersea wreckage of the legendary Titanic liner in 1987 and the 2003 rediscovery in Pakistan of the grown Afghan woman whose haunting green eyes once captivated the world on the cover of National Geographic magazine.