SPELLING BEE VIDEO CAVALCADE!
Just to review: Here is champion Sameer Mishra's "numbnut" moment. Stay tuned for the post-numbnut/numb nut/numnah interview!
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For old time's sake, here's Rebecca Sealfon's E-U-O-N-Y-M moment from 1997.
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And here's a performance from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee—with special guest speller Al Sharpton. Enjoy!
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND
Scroll down in this post for video of numb nuts/numbnuts/numnah—plus a link to video of EUONYM. Congrats, Sameer—and all the rest of you spellers!
Tia Thomas walked off with oxylophytic. (People are criticizing her, but she's well-prepared...and she's also dealing with having the number 13. So cut her some slack.)
Sameer Mishra sailed through sinicize.
Sidharth Chand spat out aptyalism.
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Tia Thomas flubbed opificer. Trouble for Tia!
Sameer Mishra spells blood. He's got hyphaeresis. Tia's out!
First-timer Sidharth Chand gets Kulturkampf. This could be a big break for the Chandster. It is!
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Sameer Mishra has a cheesy word: taleggio. Mmmmm...risotto in the sentence! He gets it!
Sidharth Chand gets introuvable—and finds his way through it!
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Round 15
Sameer (we're on a first-name basis now) gets esclandre and SCORES!
Sidharth fails to find his way through prosopopoeia.
So this could be it for Sameer, who gets guerdon—and carries the burden. He's the winner on his fourth attempt! Way to go, Sameer—who scored the top prize despite his Round Two mispelling of sudation. Crazy!!
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Here's Sameer's "numb nuts" moment, destined to compete with EUONYM in its virality.
Source (1:36)
Scroll down in this post for video of numb nuts/numbnuts/numnah—plus a link to video of EUONYM. Congrats, Sameer—and all the rest of you spellers!
Tia Thomas walked off with oxylophytic. (People are criticizing her, but she's well-prepared...and she's also dealing with having the number 13. So cut her some slack.)
Sameer Mishra sailed through sinicize.
Sidharth Chand spat out aptyalism.
* * *
Tia Thomas flubbed opificer. Trouble for Tia!
Sameer Mishra spells blood. He's got hyphaeresis. Tia's out!
First-timer Sidharth Chand gets Kulturkampf. This could be a big break for the Chandster. It is!
* * *
Sameer Mishra has a cheesy word: taleggio. Mmmmm...risotto in the sentence! He gets it!
Sidharth Chand gets introuvable—and finds his way through it!
* * *
Round 15
Sameer (we're on a first-name basis now) gets esclandre and SCORES!
Sidharth fails to find his way through prosopopoeia.
So this could be it for Sameer, who gets guerdon—and carries the burden. He's the winner on his fourth attempt! Way to go, Sameer—who scored the top prize despite his Round Two mispelling of sudation. Crazy!!
* * *
Here's Sameer's "numb nuts" moment, destined to compete with EUONYM in its virality.
Source (1:36)
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 ROUND 11
Samia Nawaz tripped up on huapango. She's out.
Tia Thomas totally triumphed with rhyton.
Rose Sloan might've confused sheitel with shtetl. My Mom thinks Bailly misprounced sheitel. Anyway, this Rose is plucked.
Sameer Mishra showed his true colors with nacarat.
Kavya Shivashankar was crushed by écrasé. Dang! Gonna miss ya, Kavya!
Four.
Sidharth Chand didn't blow posaune—a word I know very well!
Scott Remer thimply thcrewed up thymele.
Three remain. And things are looking good for Tia Thomas.
Samia Nawaz tripped up on huapango. She's out.
Tia Thomas totally triumphed with rhyton.
Rose Sloan might've confused sheitel with shtetl. My Mom thinks Bailly misprounced sheitel. Anyway, this Rose is plucked.
Sameer Mishra showed his true colors with nacarat.
Kavya Shivashankar was crushed by écrasé. Dang! Gonna miss ya, Kavya!
Four.
Sidharth Chand didn't blow posaune—a word I know very well!
Scott Remer thimply thcrewed up thymele.
Three remain. And things are looking good for Tia Thomas.
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 ROUND TEN
Samia Nawaz cooked on escabeche.
Tia Thomas went right through propylaeum.
Justin Song shattered like glass when contemplating satyagraha. Bailly had real trouble pronouncing it, too! Doesn't look like a challenge opportunity.
And then there were ten. And one Californian.
And then Kyle Mou didn't get into the groove on lapies.
Nine.
Rose Sloan had the cure for fumagillin.
Sameer Mishra avoided the agony of da fetus with chorion.
Kavya Shivashankar didn't get strung out on martellato.
Sidharth Chand enshrined ziarat.
Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru made a heroic effort only to be defeated by bogatyr.
Eight.
Scott Remer totally nailed lemel.
Jahnavi Iyer was skinned alive by parfleche.
And now there are seven.
Samia Nawaz cooked on escabeche.
Tia Thomas went right through propylaeum.
Justin Song shattered like glass when contemplating satyagraha. Bailly had real trouble pronouncing it, too! Doesn't look like a challenge opportunity.
And then there were ten. And one Californian.
And then Kyle Mou didn't get into the groove on lapies.
Nine.
Rose Sloan had the cure for fumagillin.
Sameer Mishra avoided the agony of da fetus with chorion.
Kavya Shivashankar didn't get strung out on martellato.
Sidharth Chand enshrined ziarat.
Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru made a heroic effort only to be defeated by bogatyr.
Eight.
Scott Remer totally nailed lemel.
Jahnavi Iyer was skinned alive by parfleche.
And now there are seven.
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 ROUND 9
Will Ferrell + Steve Carell = Funny!
Samia Nawaz had one shot at monogoneutic...and made the most of it!
Tia Thomas, five-time returnee, didn't need to leave after getting monster word brankursine.
Justin Song left no room for interpretation when it came to spelling Rorschach, which
Kyle Mou flew through trochiline—impressive!
Rose Sloan used hyperventilation technique to bottle up alcarraza and make it into the next round.
INSTANT CLASSIC!!!! Sameer Mishra got the word numnah. Heh. Hey, Beavis—Bailly said numnah. Sameer spelled it right. And understood why everyone was laughing.
(I think this will go straight to host Tom Bergeron's show.)
Kavya Shivashankar qualified for the academic pantheon with epideictic.
Sidharth Chand saw his way through ommateal.
Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru really cooked on boulangére (without specifying the accent).
Scott Remer didn't have to leave after spelling his way through ranunculaceous.
Jahnavi Iyer spake and thrusted her way through the consonant cluster in Nietzschean.
Everyone makes it into the next round!
Will Ferrell + Steve Carell = Funny!
Samia Nawaz had one shot at monogoneutic...and made the most of it!
Tia Thomas, five-time returnee, didn't need to leave after getting monster word brankursine.
Justin Song left no room for interpretation when it came to spelling Rorschach, which
Kyle Mou flew through trochiline—impressive!
Rose Sloan used hyperventilation technique to bottle up alcarraza and make it into the next round.
INSTANT CLASSIC!!!! Sameer Mishra got the word numnah. Heh. Hey, Beavis—Bailly said numnah. Sameer spelled it right. And understood why everyone was laughing.
(I think this will go straight to host Tom Bergeron's show.)
Kavya Shivashankar qualified for the academic pantheon with epideictic.
Sidharth Chand saw his way through ommateal.
Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru really cooked on boulangére (without specifying the accent).
Scott Remer didn't have to leave after spelling his way through ranunculaceous.
Jahnavi Iyer spake and thrusted her way through the consonant cluster in Nietzschean.
Everyone makes it into the next round!
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 ROUND 8
Samia Nawaz respected every single letter in bowdlerize
Tia Thomas tackled shamateurism like a true pro.
The hair-twirling of Austin Pineda failed him on tralatitious. So that's one Californian down.
But Justin Song surfed through aurelian, dude.
Kyle Mou obviously had the key to cryptarithm.
Rose Sloan saw her way through hemeralopia.
Sameer Mishra made basenji roll over and beg.
Kavya Shivashankar burned up empyrean.
Sidharth Chand's spelling of tautological needed no repetition.
(Host Jacques Bailly sounds like John Malkovich.)
Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru was tres bon on Huguenot
Scott Remer spelled digerati like he was some sort of computer expert.
Jahnavi Iyer needed no medical advice to spell caduceus.
One down, eleven left!
Samia Nawaz respected every single letter in bowdlerize
Tia Thomas tackled shamateurism like a true pro.
The hair-twirling of Austin Pineda failed him on tralatitious. So that's one Californian down.
But Justin Song surfed through aurelian, dude.
Kyle Mou obviously had the key to cryptarithm.
Rose Sloan saw her way through hemeralopia.
Sameer Mishra made basenji roll over and beg.
Kavya Shivashankar burned up empyrean.
Sidharth Chand's spelling of tautological needed no repetition.
(Host Jacques Bailly sounds like John Malkovich.)
Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru was tres bon on Huguenot
Scott Remer spelled digerati like he was some sort of computer expert.
Jahnavi Iyer needed no medical advice to spell caduceus.
One down, eleven left!
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE ROUNDS 6 AND 7
Oh, nice try, Zachary Zagorski! Congrats on making it to Round 6—but next time don't spell chrystocrene c-r-y-s-t-a-c-r-e-n-e.
Still in the game after 7 rounds: the formidable Kavya Shivashankar (pholidosis, allotriophagy) and Tia Thomas (ptarmic, canicular).
Tia is one of three spellers remaining from the strong California delegation, which also includes Austin Pineda (zeppelin, dispendious, Zanzibari, tombolo, oleocellosis, torii) and Justin Song (perlustrate, oppugn, bariolage, crenitic, duroc, trophallactic), who speaks a lot like a character on King of the Hill. No other state has had as many spellers go this far in this year's bee. (This California domination makes me think of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.)
See 'em all duke it out during primetime tonight!
Oh, nice try, Zachary Zagorski! Congrats on making it to Round 6—but next time don't spell chrystocrene c-r-y-s-t-a-c-r-e-n-e.
Still in the game after 7 rounds: the formidable Kavya Shivashankar (pholidosis, allotriophagy) and Tia Thomas (ptarmic, canicular).
Tia is one of three spellers remaining from the strong California delegation, which also includes Austin Pineda (zeppelin, dispendious, Zanzibari, tombolo, oleocellosis, torii) and Justin Song (perlustrate, oppugn, bariolage, crenitic, duroc, trophallactic), who speaks a lot like a character on King of the Hill. No other state has had as many spellers go this far in this year's bee. (This California domination makes me think of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.)
See 'em all duke it out during primetime tonight!
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008: ROUND FIVE
The Canadians fell en masse. When the dust settles you will see that they took Neil Michael Alacha with them. The word cholent got him stewed.
That leaves Zachary Zagorski as New York's last hope. I'm too busy to do the vast research that would reveal the meaning of his word, schnecke. Is it snail? Anyone want to help me with this one?
Also still in the running: Kavya Shivashankar (Krummholz) and fellow returnee Tia Thomas (mcleod). No time to look 'em up right now...though Krummholz looks awfully familiar...from last year?
The Canadians fell en masse. When the dust settles you will see that they took Neil Michael Alacha with them. The word cholent got him stewed.
That leaves Zachary Zagorski as New York's last hope. I'm too busy to do the vast research that would reveal the meaning of his word, schnecke. Is it snail? Anyone want to help me with this one?
Also still in the running: Kavya Shivashankar (Krummholz) and fellow returnee Tia Thomas (mcleod). No time to look 'em up right now...though Krummholz looks awfully familiar...from last year?
Thursday, May 31, 2007
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2007: ROUND 7
This is when it gets absolutely brutal. We're talking tears as well as cheers.
Heavily favored Andrew Horton cheesed out--painfully--on girolle.
Tia Thomas got weeded out with zacate
Newbie Cody Wang of Calgary found apozem to be bad medicine.
Anqi Dong of Saskatchewan blew it on bouleuterion.
Claire Zhang--who came all the way from Jupiter--took her urgrund with a fatal T.
Kansan Kavya Shivashankar lost her shirt with cilice.
Michigan newbie Nithya Vijayakumar lost her way with pelorus.
And Dallas speller Amy Chyao lost her battled with grognard.
However, Evan O'Dorney swam into Round 8 with rascacio.
Newbie Nate Gartke of Alberta--a student musician--scored with partitur.
Newbie and New Havenite Joseph Henares--perhaps the funniest finalist--exterminated punaise by pulling it apart bit-by-bit.
Missouri's Connor Spencer got lucky and gobbled up helzel--a relatively easy word that even I guessed correctly.
Four-time vet (at 12) Matthew Evans of Albuquerque found success in genizah
Long Island's Prateek Kohli sparkled with rigaree.
Heavily braceletted Wisconsin cheesehead Isabel Jacobson didn't get stuck on helodes--becoming the lone girl to proceed to the next round.
This is when it gets absolutely brutal. We're talking tears as well as cheers.
Heavily favored Andrew Horton cheesed out--painfully--on girolle.
Tia Thomas got weeded out with zacate
Newbie Cody Wang of Calgary found apozem to be bad medicine.
Anqi Dong of Saskatchewan blew it on bouleuterion.
Claire Zhang--who came all the way from Jupiter--took her urgrund with a fatal T.
Kansan Kavya Shivashankar lost her shirt with cilice.
Michigan newbie Nithya Vijayakumar lost her way with pelorus.
And Dallas speller Amy Chyao lost her battled with grognard.
However, Evan O'Dorney swam into Round 8 with rascacio.
Newbie Nate Gartke of Alberta--a student musician--scored with partitur.
Newbie and New Havenite Joseph Henares--perhaps the funniest finalist--exterminated punaise by pulling it apart bit-by-bit.
Missouri's Connor Spencer got lucky and gobbled up helzel--a relatively easy word that even I guessed correctly.
Four-time vet (at 12) Matthew Evans of Albuquerque found success in genizah
Long Island's Prateek Kohli sparkled with rigaree.
Heavily braceletted Wisconsin cheesehead Isabel Jacobson didn't get stuck on helodes--becoming the lone girl to proceed to the next round.
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