Benjamin Evans attends Twin Peaks Middle School, where he is in the eighth grade
An eighth-grader from Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway was eliminated in the sixth round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday when he misspelled"ravison," a rapeseed of an inferior quality.
Benjamin Evans was among 45 spellers from the original field of 245, the largest since 2019, to advance to the semifinals when he correctly answered his fifth-round multiple-choice vocabulary question earlier Wednesday,"Something described as sectarian is?" selecting"confined to the limits of one group."Benjamin began Wednesday's quarterfinals by correctly spelling"torchére," a tall ornamental stand for a candlestick or candelabra.
Benjamin began the bee by correctly spelling"Gondwana," the great southern landmass that formed as a result of the division of a much larger supercontinent known as Pangea about 250 million years ago. He also chose the correct answer to the vocabulary question,"What is a symposium?" by selecting,"a conference in which people give speeches.
Benjamin correctly spelled"epihippus" — an extinct genus of the modern horse family that lived in the Eocene era, 38 million to 46 million years ago -- as the winning word. The bee is limited to students in eighth grade or below and who were born on Sept. 1, 2008, or later. Contestants for the 96th edition of the national bee range in age from 8 to 15.
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