Spelling Bee History
What are four real movies listed below that are about Spelling Bees?
a.) Spellers, Word Masters, The Scramblers, The Bees Cheese
b.)Bee Movie, Bees are us , Dream Spellers, Words to the Top
C.) Spellbound, Akeelah and the Bee, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Spelling the Dream
d.) Cool Spellers, Top Spellers, Scripps Top Dawgs, Number 1 Spellers
C.) Spellbound, Akeelah and the Bee, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Spelling the Dream
The annual United States Spelling Bee established by The Courier Journal in 1925 and later had its name changed to the ____________. It is the longest Running Spelling Bee which has run every year except for during certain war years and the 2020 because of the Covid-19 Pandemic and
a.) Sips National Spelling Bee
b.) Scripps National Spelling Bee
c.) Sripps National Spelling Bee
d.)Trips National Spelling
b.) Scripps National Spelling Bee
True or False?
The First nationwide Spelling Bee organized by the National Education Association was held on June 29, 1908 at the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, Ohio.
True
In ______, the annual United States National Spelling Bee changed its name to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company.
a.) 1945
b.) 1950
c.) 1942
d.) 1941
d.) 1941
A _____, thirteen year old girl named named Marie C. Bolden was the only person to spell every word correctly out of 15 participants.
In ______, Frank Neuhauser, an eleven year boy won the first National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C.
a.) 1910, 1924
b.) 1908 , 1925
c.) 1911, 1926
d.) 1912, 1927
b.) 1908 , 1925