What winning speller has a relationship to the annual spelling bee held in the United States?
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8th South Asian Spelling Bee The 8th Annual Metlife South Asian Spelling Bee was held at Rutgers University on August 14, 2015. The bee visited 12 regional centers, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, New York City, and Washington D.C. Both the champion and runner-up from each center were invited to the National Finals. 24 spellers participated in the finals. 6th grader Shourav Dasari was the champion, while 12 year old Jairam Hathwar was the National runner-up. Both spellers have relations to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Dasari's sister, Shobha, had been in the annual bee's semifinals and tied for 22nd place, while Hathwar's brother, Sriram, was the champion of the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Jairam himself tied for 22nd place at the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee. He would go on to win the 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee, tying with 5th grade Texan Nihar Janga. This was the third time consecutive time that co-champions were declared.
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Scripps National Spelling Bee The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States. The bee is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in Washington, D.C. during the week following Memorial Day weekend. Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C. It was previously held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. from 1996 to 2010.
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Noah Webster Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as "An American Dictionary of the English Language".
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16th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 16th National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 28, 1940. Scripps-Howard would not sponsor the Bee until 1941.
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Alabama Miss Basketball Each year the Alabama Miss Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school girls basketball player in the U.S. state of Alabama. The award winner is selected by members of the Alabama Sports Writers Association.
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Septimus Winner Septimus Winner (11 May 1827 – 22 November 1902) was an American songwriter of the 19th century. He used his own name, and also the pseudonyms Alice Hawthorne, Percy Guyer, Mark Mason, Apsley Street, and Paul Stenton. He was also a teacher, performer, and music publisher.
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Shauntay Hinton Shauntay Renae Hinton (born February 26, 1979) is an American actress and beauty queen who won the Miss USA 2002.
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13th National Geographic Bee The 13th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 23, 2001, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The final competition was moderated by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. The winner was Kyle Haddad-Fonda of Shoreline, Washington, who won a $25,000 college scholarship and lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. The 2nd-place winner, Nick Jachowski of Makawao, Hawaii, won a $15,000 scholarship. The 3rd-place winner, Jason Ferguson of Dallas, Texas, won a $10,000 scholarship.
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Evan O'Dorney Evan Michael O'Dorney (born September 4, 1993) is an American mathematics student. As a home-schooled high school student and college student, he won many contests in mathematics and other subjects, including the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, four International Math Olympiad medals, and three Putnam Fellowships. A 2013 report by the National Research Council called him "as famous for academic excellence as any student can be".
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Whit Haydn Whit "Pop" Haydn (born July 19, 1949 as Whitney Wesley Hadden in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American magician, the winner of seven "Magician of the Year" performing awards (for performances in showrooms at the Magic Castle) from the Magic Castle, the Hollywood clubhouse of the Academy of Magical Arts. He has been nominated by his fellow members for "Magician of the Year" in Close-Up, Parlor and Stage, Bar and Lecturer more than thirty times. In February 2006, he also became Vice-President of that organization, and served for four years in that capacity.
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Jason Bishop Jason Bishop (born Jasane Castro; January 23 ) is an American illusionist and magician, and performs one of the largest touring magic and illusion shows in the United States. Bishop has won a number of awards in magic, including the Jack Gwynne award for Excellence in Presentation and was the 2006 Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA) Best Performing Artist of the Year. Bishop performs an average of 150 shows a year, including luxury cruise ships, performing arts centers, theaters, and corporate events. He has done performances throughout the United States and Europe and has been called "one of the greatest modern illusionists of our time".
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Bobby Borchers Robert Jerome "Bobby" Borchers (born June 19, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American country music singer.
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88th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland from May 24–28, 2015. Students competed for a prize valued at $38,600 coming from various companies.
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United States Geography Olympiad The United States Geography Olympiad (USGO) is a nationwide academic geography competition for primary and secondary school students in the United States. It was introduced during the 2012-2013 school year. It currently consist of approximately 105 National Qualifying Exam sites held around the United States and its territories, along with a certain number of international schools, and a National Championships held in Arlington, VA at the end of April. The National Qualifying Exam sites are held in conjunction with the high school-level regional and state tournaments of The National History Bee and The National History Bowl.
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List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a competition held annually in the Washington, D.C. area in the United States over a two-day period at the end of May or beginning of June. Since 2011 it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.
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World Scrabble Championship 2001 The World Scrabble Championship 2001 was the sixth World Scrabble Championship. The winner was Brian Cappelletto of the United States.
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Times Spelling Bee The "Times" Spelling Bee is a spelling bee contested throughout the United Kingdom. The contest, run by the British newspaper "The Times", consists of local, regional, and national segments. The winner of each round continues to the next level. Each part consists of two rounds: a knockout round and a quick-fire round.
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13th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 13th National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the National Museum on May 25, 1937, and sponsored by the Louisville, Kentucky "Courer-Journal". Scripps-Howard would not sponsor the Bee until 1941.
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Pumpkin queen A pumpkin queen may be either a fictional character or a real person associated with a variety of beauty contests held in North America.
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Kris Jenner Kristen Mary Jenner ("née" Houghton, , formerly Kardashian; born November 5, 1955) is an American television personality who rose to fame for starring in the reality television series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", together with her family.
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84th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held from May 31 - June 2, 2011 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland near Washington, D.C.. The champion was 14-year-old Sukanya Roy, who was the ninth Indian-American champion in the past thirteen competitions.
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33rd Scripps National Spelling Bee The 33rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, District of Columbia on June 8-9, 1960, by the E.W. Scripps Company.