Nupur Lala

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Nupur Lala (born 1985) was the champion of the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee (as speller # 165), spelling logorrhea to win. She won against David Lewandowski, a speller from Indiana who misspelled opsimath. Her participation in the 1999 bee was portrayed on the 2002 film Spellbound.

All of the words she spelled were:

• ailanthus
• extraordinaire
• corollary (with which she asked the judges whether it related to a Corolla)
• palimpsest
• balbriggan
• akropodion
• cabotinage
• trianon
• bouchon
• poimenics
• nociceptor
• logorrhea (the winning word)

Contents 1 Life before the Bee 2 Life after the Bee 3 Notes 4 See also

[edit] Life before the Bee

Nupur was born in Syracuse, New York^[1]. She attended Greensboro Day School (Elementary School) in North Carolina where the students would refer to her as the "Human Dictionary."

[edit] Life after the Bee

She enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2003 to study brain and cognitive sciences, and graduated in 2007. She was once offered a chance to appear on an MTV reality show, but she decided against it as "too invasive."^[2]

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions

Preceded by Jody-Anne Maxwell

Scripps National Spelling Bee winner 1999

Succeeded by George Abraham Thampy