Spelling Showdown: Answers and Winners! by PW Fun & Learning

Great job on the Spelling Showdown, everyone! To make up for posting the quiz earlier than scheduled, we’ll award an additional first prize to a randomly selected winner from the first 50 perfect scores after 9:00PM EST/6:00PM PST. We also adjusted the time range for the second prize to include all those who aced the quiz before 10:00PM EST/7:00PM PST. (And finally, we also made a mental note not to do that again. Ha.)

Here are the stats, answers, and winners.

 
STATS

6,359 people took the quiz.
999 people scored 100%!
The word most people (99%) got right was…elementary!
The word most people missed (only 58% got it right) was…idiosyncrasy.

 
ANSWERS

Here are the correct words:

adolescent
playwright
kernel
allegiance
heifer
superfluous
politicking
voyeuristic
abominable
fiery
cantaloupe
orthopedic
elementary
sieve
apparently
Caribbean
propaganda
gist
harass
idiosyncrasy

 
WINNERS

The first place winners are…Mary H. from Georgia and Brad S. from Iowa!
The second place winner is…Marjorie G. from Michigan!
The third place winner is…Mike D. from Florida!

Congratulations, winners! Contact prizes@thepioneerwoman.com to claim your prizes!