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When 12-year-old Andrew Lay’s infamous turn at the microphone to spell “negus”* during the 1997 National Spelling Bee Championship first hit the Web, it was for the “excuse me?” pronunciation of a questionable spelling word. But it’s his look of absolute shock at getting the word right that scores him a place on this list.
*\ne-gus\ noun, used as a title of the sovereign of Ethiopia