Here’s an undated video of an earlier Scripps National Spelling Bee where this confused youngster is being asked to spell “negus,” the term used for an Ethiopian monarch, and you can just see the kid looking around, perhaps waiting for a cadre of young toughs to pummel him through the stage at the first sign of anything potentially inappropriate. And then I can’t tell if he’s acting surprised at the end because he actually spelled the word correctly or because that group of angry gentleman made a charge at the stage to get him. Via The Smoking Section.