<p>Did anyone else compete in this?</p>
<p>I ended up placing third in my region because of a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid mistake.</p>
<p>Is that like a spelling bee?</p>
<p>Yes, sort of.</p>
<p>LMFAO National vocabulary contest? I should've known...</p>
<p>Ah, well, congratulations for winning.</p>
<p>What level vocabulary? Like SAT words?</p>
<p>Quick, glance through the following words, and tell us how many you know!</p>
<p>Ouch mood.</p>
<p>Entrance, they're a bit above SAT level. It's not hard at the regional level, but it gets much more difficult at nationals.</p>
<p>I know one of the winners, lmao.</p>
<p>^^^ Wow, I knew like one. Defrenestate.</p>
<p>Wow@ those words...seriously memorizing vocab? Who does that?</p>
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ROFL dude you seriously know like every single competition winner personally...lmfao.</p>
<p>^^ Lolololol piccolo only associates himself with winners :P</p>
<p>I did this for my area and ended up with 4th. Made a terrible mistake - ended up passing a word I 80% knew only to get to one that I didn't know at all.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'll probably do it again in hopes of getting some quick cash for colleges.</p>
<p>We don't have it where I live. Kind of dissappointed me. I guess I could have done it online.</p>
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<p>That's just the tip of the iceberg...hit me up on AIM.</p>
<p>I haven't heard of this but I did see the National Geography Bee. After watching parts of that and reading that list, I feel like a moron.</p>
<p>"I haven't heard of this but I did see the National Geography Bee. After watching parts of that and reading that list, I feel like a moron."</p>
<p>Join the club. I felt the same way. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>NGB is baller (crimea is in what country? patagonia spans what two countries?). At the risk of sounding like myself, I know the NYS 2004 winner and the national winner from '03 (and the 2004 FL winner...and several others). I bowed out with a 4th place finish but it was fun.</p>
<p>They wanted you to know the globe by heart as well as use some intuition to figure stuff out, like: </p>
<p>In 2003, what country in the indian ocean suffered massive flooding problems? (I'm not sure if it was flooding, but something like that)</p>
<p>If you answer correctly then you're a baller yourself.</p>
<p>I only knew 8 words on that site. :(</p>
<p>I thought the qualifying quiz online was pretty hard though.</p>
<p>My son was a finalist and I didn't know a single word that they gave them at the finals. These kids are all huge readers and many said they spent a lot of time on free rice and princeton review word a day. It's free so take the online test it is usually in November with a regional one in January I think. They are a great group that puts it together and last year there were 100,000 participants. The group that runs it is a very class act.</p>