Sunday, January 24, 2010

1st Durham Spelling Bee Results!

 
Winner Collin Lee (right) and Spelling G

Congratulations to Collin Lee, the winner of the 1st Durham Spelling Bee! Collin went 5 rounds, winning the Bee with the word, infundibuliform (shaped like a funnel).  Second place honors went to Stephanie (CogSciLibrarian) who was neck and neck with Collin until going out on the word, huhu (a New Zealand beetle larva).

We all had a great time.  There were 22 spellers from a total of about 70 people in attendance.  A few of the spellers even came with their own cheering sections.  Team Funk had especially creative signs.  Words ranged from the fun and easy (welcome, friendly, spunky) to the face-squinching (gobemouche, eleemosynary, deipnosophist).  See below for the complete list of words used in the Bee.

Many thanks to Tracy and Joe Van Gogh for sponsoring the Bee and providing the prizes (travel mugs, coffee beans and a $25 gift certificate!).  Thanks also to Mike F. and Russ G. for providing audio equipment and to Mark D. for all the running around and troubleshooting.  Special thanks go to Liz for saving the day with her technical and social expertise.  She rocks so hard.
 


Here is a complete list of words used at the Bee:
welcome
friendly
greeting
salutation
leisure
pleasant
gratifying
agreeable
amiable
chummy
companionship
affectionate
amusement
harmony
entertainment
interesting
exciting
muffin
fearless
courage
valiant
spunky
abyss
access
anthem
cocoon
dillydally
enchilada
fictitious
fiery
gibberish
hubbub
jackal
juggernaut
lemonade
leotard
lozenge
macaroon
ointment
oxygen
posse
preen
quantum
sausage
accordionist
adjacent
aerial
affability
ambitious
barbarous
bellicose
billionaire
correspondent
cosmopolitan
dashiki
eloquent
exquisite
foofaraw
generalissimo
homonym
iniquity
jackanapes
poltroon
pompous
porcine
camaraderie
carillon
dirndl
echolalia
epitome
eschew
estuarine
flaneur
frigorific
gnocchi
inimitable
inveigle
juxtaposition
katzenjammer
legerdemain
otiose
pellagra
polloi
antimacassar
bouillabaisse
deipnosophist
dickcissel
ditokous
eleemosynary
galactorrhea
gobemouche
hohe
mansuetude
huhu
infundibuliform

More photos here:

Thanks to everyone for participating.  
You all made it a fun event!

1 comment:

  1. Major fun. Thanks for putting it together. I seriously couldn't remember whether 'billionaire' had a second N. I got lucky.

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