| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $200: Someone who's taken with you may say they like the cut of your this triangular sail J-I-B |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $400: Here & there, it's hither's proverbial partner Y-O-N |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $600: Popular today, it's the greeting seen here that was developed by Black service members in Vietnam D-A-P |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $800: Before, in palindromic form E-R-E |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1000: It's placed in parentheses after a misspelled word to show it was meant to be printed that way (but spell this word correctly!) S-I-C |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $600: Lovely Rita of Liverpool knows this unit of measure is 39.37 inches M-E-T-R-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: With no pence on hand, you might ask the curry restaurant, "Will you take" a personal one of these? C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS $10,018 (Daily Double): It means excessive talkativeness, it's from the Greek for "word" & it wins Nupur Lala The National Spelling Bee in a classic doc logorrhea |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SOUNDS LIKE A BUG $200: In a 2006 film title youngster Akeelah competes in one of these a spelling bee |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $400: Negative reply N-O |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $800: Chopping tool A-X |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1200: Domesticated bovine O-X |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1600: Jewish "So? Come on!" N-U |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $2000: Mystic mantra O-M |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: South-of-the-border dog breed (1967) Chihuahua |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: Narrow-edged cutter at the front of the jaw (1975) incisor |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: It's a system of sending messages using flags (1946) semaphore |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: French word for cherry that's also a shade of red (1926) cerise |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: "Sweet melody" music maker struck with handheld hammers (1949) dulcimer |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | NEWSPAPERS $2000: This family with its name on a spelling bee & an oceanographic institution got into publishing with the Cleveland Penny Press Scripps |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $400: The name of this large sea comes from words for "middle of the land" M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N-E-A-N |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $800: This 19,340-foot African peak is said to be the highest "walkable" mountain in the world K-I-L-I-M-A-N-J-A-R-O |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1200: It's Paraguay's largest city A-S-U-N-C-I-O-N |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1600: The Dole Pineapple Company once owned 98% of this 5-letter Hawaiian island L-A-N-A-I |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $2000: The dodo once made its home on this island about 500 miles east of Madagascar M-A-U-R-I-T-I-U-S |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | PLAYWRONGS $600: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Quilting Bee" The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: In 1981 Paige Pipkin buried the competition with this word for an ancient stone coffin S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: 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 |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPELLING "BEE" $400: A towering hairdo, or an insect nest a beehive |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPELLING "BEE" $800: A B&T is this brand of gin (& tonic) Beefeater |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPELLING "BEE" $1200: Bluecorn Naturals makes candles of 100% this beeswax |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPELLING "BEE" $1600: 400 revelers can imbibe in the shade of the chestnut trees in this part of Munich's Hofbrauhaus the beer garden |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPELLING "BEE" $2000: Luke 11:15 calls him "the chief of the devils" Beelzebub |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $400: ABBA sang, "Nothing else can save me" then this distress signal S.O.S. |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $800: Gwen Stefani spells "bananas" while singing about this girl "Hollaback Girl" |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $1200: Tammy Wynette spelled out this title word that she doesn't want her 4-year-old "to understand" divorce ("D-I-V-O-R-C-E") |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $1600: When this Canadian punk-popper spells her first name in "The Best Damn Thing", "A" means "always give me what I want" Avril Lavigne |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $2000: This duo started their '80s hit "Method Of Modern Love" by spelling everything but the "Modern" Hall & Oates |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | COME TOGETHER $200: "Entomological" term for a gathering with a specific purpose, like a spelling competition a bee |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $1200: Jesse Tyler Ferguson went back to school as one of the original classmates in "The 25th Annual Putnam County" this spelling bee |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $200: Adjective for lines that are the same distance apart at every point along their whole length P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $400: You get one of these as a record for paying a bill; don't forget the silent letter R-E-C-E-I-P-T |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $600: A chest of drawers, or a government agency within a cabinet department B-U-R-E-A-U |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $800: It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $1000: Tagalog is a principal language of this country made up of more than 7,000 islands P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $400: You'd be a wise old owl if you knew that the Scripps spelling bee has one of these creatures on its logo a bee |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $600: A spelling contest, a poplar & a pope's bailiwick bee, tree, see |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: This table has the days of the month & year C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: Joyous or cheerful, like Noel Coward's title "Spirit" B-L-I-T-H-E |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: The "boogie woogie flu" has been known to accompany the "rockin'" type of this ailment P-N-E-U-M-O-N-I-A |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: A scary New Testament quartet is known as the Four Horsemen of it A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: French word for a phase of the moon or a buttery pastry C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $200: A spelling competition a bee |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: 1984:
A French-named sled with its own Olympic events L-U-G-E |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1956:
An apartment that's owned, not rented C-O-N-D-O-M-I-N-I-U-M |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: 1993:
A World War II suicide pilot K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $200: Romeo's family name M-O-N-T-A-G-U-E |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $600: In the Cambridge Shakespeare text, title word between "Love's" & "Lost" (don't forget the apostrophe) L-A-B-O-U-R-'-S |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $800: Monologue-inducing deceased court jester of "Hamlet" Y-O-R-I-C-K |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $1,000 (Daily Double): Lear's virtuous daughter C-O-R-D-E-L-I-A |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $1000: Queen of the Fairies, wife of Oberon T-I-T-A-N-I-A |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: Round 2 included this French-derived word for the supporting frame of a car the chassis |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: A young man lost after placing an "H" in the middle of this Italian bacon pancetta |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: From its etymology you can figure out that "sangsue", from Round 15, is a name for this worm leech |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: Early in Round 3 was this Spanish word for cowboy vaquero |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: Round 8 served up this 10-letter Japanese word for meat & vegetables cooked tableside on a griddle teppanyaki |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $200: Trademark name for a plastic concave throwing disk; "plastic concave throwing disk", not as catchy a name a Frisbee |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $400: A popular 1960s hairdo, or habitation for an insect a beehive |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $600: This paging device was invented around 1950 with doctors in mind a beeper |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $800: Someone no longer popular or useful; it's better than a never-was a has-been |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $1000: It's the 700-square-mile lake highlighted here Lake Okeechobee |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | DRAMA CLUB TRYOUTS $1200: Looking for over-achievers to play Chip, Schwarzy, Coneybear & Barfee in "the 25th Annual Putnam County" this Spelling Bee |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1200: The Times found audience participation having a heyday in shows like "The 25th Annual Putnam County" this Spelling Bee |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | AARON SPELLING BEE $200: "____ Hills, 90210" B-E-V-E-R-L-Y |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | AARON SPELLING BEE $400: "____ Place" M-E-L-R-O-S-E |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | AARON SPELLING BEE $600: "____ and Hutch" S-T-A-R-S-K-Y |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: Luckily a competitor didn't have one spelling this word that means "pertaining to the heart" C-O-R-O-N-A-R-Y |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800 (Daily Double): It was on to the next round after a correct spelling of this name that's associated with the inkblot test R-O-R-S-C-H-A-C-H |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: In round 2 a boy got axed after he misspelled the name of this native American people, AKA the Dakota S-I-O-U-X |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: The pressure was on in round 3 when one girl had to spell this Japanese massage technique S-H-I-A-T-S-U |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: His bark is worse than his bite except in the case of this barkless African dog B-A-S-E-N-J-I |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | SPELLING "BE" $400: Any insect of the order Coleoptera B-E-E-T-L-E |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | FROM THE FRENCH $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew inspects a jewel.) Once a French term for an imperfect gem, it's now the name of the magnifying glass jewelers use to find flaws in gems a loupe |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: Your largest one is the gluteus maximus M-U-S-C-L-E |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: It's French for butterfly P-A-P-I-L-L-O-N |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: It's an Italian appetizer of toasted bread, garlic & olive oil, often topped with chopped tomatoes B-R-U-S-C-H-E-T-T-A |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: The first Grand Inquisitor of Spain was the notorious Tomas de... T-O-R-Q-U-E-M-A-D-A |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: With this word, we assume they meant a shutout in gin rummy & not the super on "One Day at a Time" S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | QUIZILLA $200: In 2006 ABC aired the finals in primetime for this C-O-N-T-E-S-T, the "longest-running educational promotion" the Spelling Bee |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | ON BROADWAY $400: Quirky kids like William Morris Barfee compete in "The 25th Annual Putnam County" one of these contests a spelling bee |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: 1928:
No yolk, just this white part of the egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1954:
This architectural term for the part of a church that crosses the nave at right angles T-R-A-N-S-E-P-T |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: 1982:
Psoriasis was the winning word;
1965:
This itchy skin condition E-C-Z-E-M-A |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | BROADWAY GEOGRAPHY $1000: Come & sit for a spell at "The 25th Annual" spelling bee in this title county Putnam |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: A book-like listing of a business' goods for sale; Sears & Roebuck used to put out a famous one C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: Use this farm implement that breaks up soil to plant your leeks P-L-O-U-G-H |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $600: Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: At the pub, it's beer from a keg, not a bottle D-R-A-U-G-H-T |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | DOCUMENTARIES $800: A 1945 Hitchcock film shares its name with this 2002 documentary about the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition Spellbound |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $200: 1946:
This system of flag & arm position signals S-E-M-A-P-H-O-R-E |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: 1983:
This festival commemorating the rescue of Persia's Jews P-U-R-I-M |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $600: 1976:
This condition, characterized by frequent & uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1985:
This 6-letter French word meaning setting or environment M-I-L-I-E-U |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1000: 1994:
Pertaining to the period before the flood, it also means out of date A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: In the British version of Monopoly, you might draw a card saying "Go directly to" this lockup G-A-O-L |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: The equivalent of our own Donald Rumsfeld, the UK's Geoffrey Hoon is the minister of this D-E-F-E-N-C-E |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $600: Lovely Rita of Liverpool knows this unit of measure is 39.37 inches M-E-T-R-E |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: With no pence on hand, you might ask the curry restaurant, "Will you take" a personal one of these? C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: Bury yourself (& an ancient Egyptian) in this 1981 winner from the greek for "flesh-eating" S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: This Athenian school founded by Aristotle in 335 B.C. was the last word of the 1992 competition L-Y-C-E-U-M |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | I DID IT! $400: 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won it in 1997 by knowing euonym,
E-U-O-N-Y-M the National Spelling Bee |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $200: This small racing sled has the distinction of being the National Spelling Bee's shortest winning word L-U-G-E |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $400: Now that you've got the hang of it, 1932's word was this, like the group that sang "My Sharona" K-N-A-C-K |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $600: Put the bite on this word from 1975, any one of the front cutting teeth I-N-C-I-S-O-R |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $800: 1970's winning word was this French crescent-shaped roll C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $1000: A suicide pilot during WWII, it was 1993's winning word K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | COME WHAT MAY $400: On May 31, 1938 viewers saw what may have been TV's first game show when the BBC broadcast this type of "bee" a spelling bee |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $200: This long river flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $400: Last name of the only California Governor to become U.S. President R-E-A-G-A-N |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $600: It's the country formerly known as Rhodesia Z-I-M-B-A-B-W-E |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $800: The name of this Philistine warrior to the Bible is now applied to any large object or person G-O-L-I-A-T-H |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $1000: The name of the Greek goddess of vengeance, it now means an opponent or rival who can't be overcome N-E-M-E-S-I-S |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | CLASS ACTIONS $600: Competition in which you'd hear, "Asparagus, A-S-P-A-R-A-G-U-S, asparagus" a spelling bee |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | 2000 $200: In June 2000 the top 3 finishers in this Scripps Howard-sponsored competition were home-schooled kids the (National) Spelling Bee |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | YOU SAY POTATO $200: At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end Dan Quayle |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: 12-year-old George Abraham Thampy won this contest in 2000; his final word was "demarche" the National Spelling Bee |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: A telly that isn't black & white must be this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: It's the British version of the word we spell C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N C-O-N-N-E-X-I-O-N |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $600: When parked facing down Notting Hill, turn your tyres into this pavement edge K-E-R-B |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: A game of tic-tac-toe is a game of these & crosses N-O-U-G-H-T-S |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $200: 1984:
Champ Daniel Greenblatt correctly spelled... L-U-G-E |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $400: 1982:
The champ was Molly Dieveney, & the final word was... P-S-O-R-I-A-S-I-S |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $600: 1989:
Scott Isaacs became the champ with... S-P-O-L-I-A-T-O-R |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $800: 1994:
Ned Andrews said a mouthful with... A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE $1000: 1987:
Stephanie Petit really earned her win with... S-T-A-P-H-Y-L-O-C-O-C-C-I |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | CONTESTS $300: 12-year-old Wendy Guey of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida won this contest with "vivisepulture" the National Spelling Bee |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | 1987 $200: "Staphylococci" was the word that won Stephanie Petit this national contest the National Spelling Bee |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | ODD WORDS $1000: This long word meaning "before Noah's flood" was the last word in the 1994 Scripps Howard Nat'l Spelling Bee antediluvian |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | IN THE DICTIONARY $100: This kind of contest is also called a spelldown; we won't make you spell it a spelling bee |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | IN THE NEWS $100: 13-year-old Amanda Goad of Virginia was the winner of this national C‑O‑M‑P‑E‑T‑I‑T‑I‑O‑N the Spelling Bee |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | PEOPLE $300: Rageshree Ramachandran, age 13, won the 61st edition of this competition; we hope we got her name right National Spelling Bee |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | CONTESTS $300: In 1987, "dyscalculia" eliminated Rachel Nussbaum in round 9 of these national championships the National Spelling Bee |
