You obviously have to be pretty bright and extremely dedicated to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
But does that lead to future success?
For the most part, yes. Among the winners, there are lots of graduates of top schools, and plenty of successes.
Unsurprisingly, many of them go into brainy professions, becoming doctors and lawyers. But there are some pretty unusual choices too, from a Web entrepreneur, to a voice-over actor, and a professional poker player.
One became a prominent journalist and was part of a newspaper team that won a Pulitzer prize.
1992 winner Amanda Goad went to Harvard Law School and now works as a staff lawyer on the ACLU's LGBT and AIDS rights project.
1981 winner Paige Pipkin Kimble, right, was runner up in 1980 to Jacques Bailly, left. She couldn't shake the spelling bee; she currently serves as its executive director.
Bailly, the 1980 winner, is an associate professor of Classics at the University of Vermont and the bee's official pronouncer.
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