88th Scripps National Spelling Bee
| 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee | |
|---|---|
| Date | May 24–28, 2015 |
| Location | Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland |
| Winner |
Gokul Venkatachalam Vanya Shivashankar (co-winners) |
| Residence |
Chesterfield, Missouri (Venkatachalam) Olathe, Kansas (Shivashankar) |
| Sponsor |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Venkatachalam) The Olathe News (Shivashankar) |
| Winning word | nunatak /scherenschnitte |
| Preceded by | 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee |
| Followed by | 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee |
The 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland[1] from May 24–28, 2015.[2] Students competed for a prize valued at $38,600 coming from various companies.[3]
For the second year in a row the outcome was a tie, with Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar ending up as co-winners once the Bee's dictionary was emptied once again. Vanya was the first sibling of a previous winner to win; her sister Kavya won in 2009. Vanya Shivashankar from Olathe, Kansas and Gokul Venkatachalam from Chesterfield, Missouri won the bee, making the 88th Bee the thirteenth in the past seventeen bees to have an Indian-American champion.[4]
Forty-nine spellers from the original field made it to the final day of competition.[5]
Word list championship round
- bouillabaisse
- cerastes
- haček
- cytopoiesis
- crannog
- bacchius
- cocozelle
- samadhi
- Albumblatt
- billiken
- Hippocrene
- backfisch
- poikilitic
- gnathostome
- población
- commissurotomy
- réclame
- tartarean
- oflag
- bayadere
- iridocyclitis
- Canossa
- tortillon
- minhag
- cibarial
- zygoneure
- acritarch
- bouquetière
- caudillismo
- thamakau
- scytale
- tantième
- cypseline
- urgrund
- filicite
- myrmotherine
- sprachgefühl
- zimocca
- nixtamal
- hippocrepiform
- paroemiology
- scacchite
- pipsissewa
- Bruxellois
- pyrrhuloxia
- scherenschnitte
- nunatak
References
- ↑ "Can I purchase tickets to the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee?". Scripps National Spelling Bee. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
- ↑ "When is the Scripps National Spelling Bee?". Scripps National Spelling Bee. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
- ↑ Eric Gorski. ""Sympatric" is music to Colorado State Spelling Bee champion". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
- ↑ "National Spelling Bee ends in a tie for second year in a row". Fox News. 2006-10-01. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
- ↑ Finalists (2015), spellingbee.com, Retrieved 26 May 2016