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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS |
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THE "KID" STAYS IN THE PICTURE |
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The bus boycott protesting segregation in this Alabama city lasted for more than a year |
Montgomery
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Her father, Rodrigo Borgia, arranged her marriage at age 13 to further his own ambitions |
Lucrezia Borgia
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Mariner (the non-baseball playing variety) |
a sailor
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According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth |
the Ganges
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After 1516 this royal family had 2 branches: a Spanish line & an Austrian line |
the Habsburgs
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In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness |
(Colin: What is P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y?)
P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y
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Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden |
the Jordan (River)
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This 1989 title is Rick Moranis' explanation of why his children are 1/4" tall |
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
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Abbreviated the CBC, it was formed by 13 African Americans elected to the U.S. House in 1970 |
the Congressional Black Caucus
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In the painting of five Renaissance masters, Uccello is to the left of this artist, whose name rhymes with his |
Donatello
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Collier |
(Jim: What is a shirt maker?)
a coal miner
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In 1981 Paige Pipkin buried the competition with this word for an ancient stone coffin |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S
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This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface |
Baikal
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2 memorable lines from this 1984 Ralph Macchio movie: "Sweep the leg" & "Get him a body bag!" |
The Karate Kid
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This NYC venue where Ella Fitzgerald was discovered opened in 1914 as Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater |
(Austin: What is the Cotton Club?)
the Apollo
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In 1516 this Dutch humanist produced a new Greek edition of the New Testament |
Erasmus
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No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
A-L-B-U-M-E-N
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In 2010 China gained direct access to this sea for the first time in 100 years when it leased a pier in N. Korea's Rajin port |
(Colin: What is the Bering Sea?)
the Sea of Japan
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In this 2010 movie whose title is also a song by The Who, Mark Ruffalo learns he's the father of a boy named Laser |
The Kids Are All Right
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In 1985 this state elected Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder as its first African-American statewide officeholder |
Virginia
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The period from 1378 to 1417, when there were 2 & then 3 popes, was known as the "Great" this |
schism
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Flueologist |
[Austin drums his fingers on the podium before responding.] (Austin: What is [*]?) (Alex: You figured it out correctly.) [Applause] (Alex: Those fingers were doing the job for you. Yeah, they were working.) (Austin: [With accent] It’s from my father.)
a chimney sweep
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In 1994 it was this 12-letter word meaning before the Biblical flood |
A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N
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In the southeast corner of Iraq, this main port of the country is on a waterway called the Shatt Al-Arab |
(Jim: What is Mosul?)
Basra
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Ben Stiller gets married but then meets the girl of his dreams in this 2007 remake |
The Heartbreak Kid
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