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"? suvenir souvenir suveneer souveneer

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"? dissilient disilient desilient dessilient

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 sphigmomonometer sphygmomonometer sphygmomanometer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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