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Admittedly, this is much more blackout than freak out, but thirteen-year-old Akshay Buddiga’s fainting spell during the 2004 Spelling Bee finals is no less deserving of a spot. While Buddiga was only the Bee’s runner up that year, he’s a champion for hopping right back up to the microphone: “A-L-O-P-E-C-O-I-D. Alopecoid.”*
*\alop-e-coid\ adj., like a fox