Impossible US Spelling Bee 2005

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. How do you spell the word that means "something that serves as a reminder"? souveneer suvenir souvenir suveneer

2. How do you spell the word meaning "preferring a culture other than one's own"? zenocentric xenocentric xenosentric zenosentric

3. How do you spell the word meaning "a manner of arranging or styling the hair"? coiffure quaffure quafure quoffure

4. How do you spell the word meaning "to skip with a glancing rebound or series of rebounds"? ricoshay ricochet richochet richachet

5. How do you spell the word meaning "springing apart; bursting open"? desilient dessilient disilient dissilient

6. How do you spell the word meaning "photographs produced on silver plates or silver-colored copper plates"? daguerriotypes deguerriotypes deguerreotypes daguerreotypes

7. How do you spell the word meaning "an instrument for measuring arterial blood pressure"? sphigmomanometer sphygmomanometer sphygmomonometer sphigmomonometer

8. How do you spell the word meaning "dry-cured spiced ham"? prosciutto proscutto prociutto proscuto

9. How do you spell the word meaning "shaped like a fern or fern frond"? feliciform filiciform phylliciform phyllisciform

10. How do you spell the word meaning a wine steward? saumelier sommelier somalyay sommalier

11. How do you spell the word meaning "relating to vertebrae having saddle-shaped articular surfaces"? heteroselous heterocoelous heterocelous heterosoelous

12. How do you spell the word meaning in music, "having the theme" or "subject repeated backwards note for note"? cancrizans cancrizanz cancrazans cancrazanz

13. How do you spell the word meaning "a lucky find; windfall"? trouvail trouvais trouvai trouvaille

14. How do you spell the word meaning "skilled in acting"? Rossian Roscian Rauscian Raussian

15. How do you spell the word meaning "an accessory embellishing note or tone"? apoggiatura appogiatura apogiatura appoggiatura