Anyone who is in eighth grade or below and is under 16 years old is eligible for this contest.
To participate in the national competition, a speller must be sponsored. Scripps has 288 sponsors (mostly newspapers) from the U.S., Canada, The Bahamas, New Zealand, Asia and Europe covering a certain area and conducting their own regional spelling bees to send spellers to the national level
State winners must be regional spelling-bee winners as well.
It is run on a Not-for-profit basis by The E W Scripps Company and is held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Hotel in Oxon Hill,Maryland in Washington DC during the Week following 'Memorial Day Weeekend'
Prize money
The winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee receives a $30,000 cash prize and an engraved loving cup trophy from Scripps, a $2,500 savings bond, a reference library from Merriam-Webster, $2,600 in reference works and a lifetime membership to Britannica Online Premium from Encyclopaedia Britannica , $5,000 cash prize from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation and an online course and a Nook eReader from K 12 Inc.
Competition Format
The Preliminaries consists of a test (Preliminaries Test) delivered by computer on Tuesday, May 28 and two rounds of oral spelling onstage on Wednesday, May 29.
Spellers may earn up to 36 points during the Preliminaries: up to 30 points on the Preliminaries Test, 3 points for correctly spelling in Round Two and 3 points for correctly spelling in Round Three
Round Four was recently changed in 2013. It is a computerized Semifinals Test which has 4 sections.After this test is taken, all of the semifinalists will participate in Round Five
After the Semifinals test, all semifinalists participate in Round Five which is an oral round,spellers who misspell will be eliminated from the competition
All remaining semifinalists will spell one word each in Round Six
After Round Six,the judges will tally up all the remaining semifinalists' scores. They will start from 72 and work their way down, ending up with no more than 12 and no less than 9 championship finalists. All spellers who did not qualify for Round Seven will all tie for the same place
Regulations of Oral Rounds
A speller is given two minutes and thirty seconds from when a word is first pronounced to spell it completely. The first two minutes are Regular Time; the final thirty seconds are Finish Time. During this time limit, a speller is allowed to ask the pronouncer for the word's:- Definition
- Part of speech
- Use in a sentence
- Language(s) of origin (the complete etymology of the word is not provided)
- Alternate pronunciations
- Root (A speller may ask whether a word comes from a particular root word or word element, but the competitor must specify that root's language of origin and definition.)
Arvind Mahankali wins 2013National Spelling Bee
11 finalists who competed for the spelling bee title and $30,000 in cash and prizes
Arvind Mahankali from New York has scripted history by winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the year 2013, becoming the sixth Indian-American to win the title in a row
Runnerup was 13-year-old Pranav Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, who was eliminated on the word 'cyanophycean,'
Sriram Hathwar, of Painted Post, New York, finished third and
Amber Born, 14, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, finished fourth
A grade eight student, Arvind, 13, loves maths and science and plans to pursue a career as a physicist.
Arvind had finished ninth in 2010 and third place in both 2011 and 2012
1.
What is anacoluthon?
2.
A dilettante is a person who:
3.
A person described as enigmatic is:
4.
What does glossalgia refer
to?
5.
Something described as hyalescent
resembles:
6.
What does keratectomy refer
to?
7.
What does it mean to lionize a
person?
8.
What does sangfroid refer to?
9.
Which of these is an example of sedulous
behavior?
10. Something described as tellurian relates to:
11. What is a vitrine?
12. Something described as xylophagous:
Answers
1. a syntactical inconsistency within a
sentence 2. superficially dabbles in an art or a branch of knowledge 3.
mysterious or puzzling 4. plain in the tongue 5. glass 6. surgical
removal of part of the cornea 7. treat him as a celebrity 8.
cold-blooded imperturbability 9. diligently preparing for an exam 10.
earth 11. a glass display case 12. feeds on wood
Answers
1. a syntactical inconsistency within a sentence 2. superficially dabbles in an art or a branch of knowledge 3. mysterious or puzzling 4. plain in the tongue 5. glass 6. surgical removal of part of the cornea 7. treat him as a celebrity 8. cold-blooded imperturbability 9. diligently preparing for an exam 10. earth 11. a glass display case 12. feeds on wood
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