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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS |
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In this poem, Coleridge wrote, "and a good south wind sprung up behind; the albatross did follow" |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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One of Morocco's 4 imperial cities, it's located on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the wadi Bou Regreg |
Rabat
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He's a bad mother--shut your mouth! But I'm talkin' about Richard Price, who co-wrote this 2000 action reboot |
Shaft
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Erik the Red established the first Viking colony on this island around 985 & gave it an enticing name |
Greenland
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A hard reboot of your computer can be accomplished with this simple pair of steps |
(Mallory: What is control-alt-delete?) ... (Alex: What is [*]? [**]--that's how I solve all of my problems.)
turning it off, turning it on (or unplugging it, plugging it back in)
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1984: A French-named sled with its own Olympic events |
L-U-G-E
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Anne Sexton's elegy for this fellow doomed poet recalls the time "we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston" |
Sylvia Plath
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This country is partly on the Balkan Peninsula |
Romania
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"Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand", this actor rapped on "Thriller" |
Vincent Price
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In 1407 the Casa di San Giorgio was founded with the crazy idea of being a public one of these for Genoese to bring ducats |
a bank
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Turn your Conair one of these on an empty printer cartridge to loosen up the last bits of ink |
a hair dryer
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1956: An apartment that's owned, not rented |
C-O-N-D-O-M-I-N-I-U-M
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Beloved Aussie Banjo Paterson called one poem "A Singer of" this, another term for the Outback |
the Bush
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It flows through Lake Constance on its way to the North Sea |
the Rhine
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In 2013 this decades-old TV show had its biggest winner; she earned a $160k sports car |
The Price Is Right
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Around 1169 Arab philosopher Ibn Rushd began writing his commentaries on the works of these 2 ancient Greeks |
Aristotle & Plato
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A salad spinner can help diagnose anemia by acting as this device to separate red blood cells from plasma |
a centrifuge
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1993: A World War II suicide pilot |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E
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In this Longfellow poem, the little village of Grand-Pre lay "in the Acadian land on the shores of the Basin of Minas" |
Evangeline
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In 1895 Oscar Wilde went to gaol in this town |
(John: Oh. [Shakes head] Sorry.)
Reading
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Megyn Price & Patrick Warburton played the long-married Audrey & Jeff Bingham on this CBS sitcom |
Rules of Engagement
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Beginning in 1378, the Great Schism saw rival popes in Rome & this French city |
Avignon
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In 2013 NASA added a snorkel to astronauts' helmets in case of water buildup during this activity |
a spacewalk
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The longest poem in "Leaves of Grass", called this since 1881, consists of 52 sections |
(Julia: What...is...[*]?) (Alex: Ah. That was a guess, right? Wasn't it?) [Julia nods] (Alex: It's right.) (Julia: All right!)
"Song of Myself"
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This island, the birthplace of Virginia Dare, is part of Dare County |
Roanoke
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African-American soprano Mary Price is better known by this name |
(Alex: That's it, with a minute to go.)
Leontyne Price
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In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered a survey of his English lands & people, called this book |
the Doomsday Book (or Domesday Book)
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Keeping a computer secure by disconnecting it from a network is using this type of 3-letter "gap" |
(Alex: It's called using an [*] gap.)
air
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