'Laodicean' and Other Spelling Bee Winning Words
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar won the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, correctly spelling laodicean. Can you spell these winning words from previous years?
Definition: a hypothetical parent language
Winner: 13-year-old Kerry Close of Asbury Park, N.J., who beat 274 other kids, including Akshay Buddiga — who fainted onstage while spelling alopecoid (foxlike) before getting right back up to finish the word. Buddiga was the 2004 runner-up. His brother Pratyush won the competition in 2002.
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