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)
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[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]
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Preceded by Jody-Anne Maxwell |
Scripps National Spelling Bee winner 1999 |
Succeeded by George Abraham Thampy |