The opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday had a rare bit of controversy. He could still be thinking, thinking, thinking. Max ended up hearing the bell twice on Tuesday, and there was no reprieve the second time, when he got "pseudologist" wrong. Wild-card spellers are required to have won only at the school level. When the light turned yellow, he turned around and looked at it with apparent satisfaction before spelling the word correctly.

Source: Fox News May 28, 2019 22:30 UTC